According to a reliable news source from Dabei, Shenyang City, Dafa practitioners Liu Yantao and Peng Geng in Shenyang City are currently at the brink of death. Practitioner Liu Yantao has received notice from the hospital that he is dying. The hospital and the Tiexi Detention Center both deny responsibility and refuse to release him. We hope fellow practitioners will spread the news and notify his family, so they can go to the hospital and ask for him. It was also learned that these two practitioners would be transferred to the Masanjia Forced Labor Camp on November 20, 2003.

Jia Weijun, the head of Group Four in the Fuyu Labor Camp in Qiqihar City frantically persecutes Dafa practitioners. He starves the practitioners, does not allow them to sleep or use the restroom at night, and shocks practitioners with electric batons whenever he desires. He also orders inmates to beat the practitioners. On June 19, 2001, Dafa practitioners Zhang Xiaochun, Wang Baoxian, Ma Yong, and Pan Benyu in Heilongjiang Province were transferred from Fuyu Labor Camp to Fuyu Detention Center, where they were illegally held for one year. In 2002 Zhang Xiaochun died from force-feeding, and Wang Baoxian died from severe beatings.

On October 24, Dafa practitioner Jin Xuezhe from Changchun City was secretly sentenced to 10 years in prison at the Changchun City Intermediate People's Court for delivering truth clarifying flyers. The court didn't notify any of Jin Xuezhe's family members. Jin Xuezhe has appealed to the Changchun City High People's Court.

Cao Zhixia is the Party Secretary of the Handan City Political and Judiciary Committee and an official of the "610 Office."* She has acted viciously after taking these two positions and has exhausted all means and methods to persecute Dafa practitioners. She held continuous brainwashing classes. Cao ordered her subordinates to abduct Dafa practitioners and send them to brainwashing classes to be persecuted. Some practitioners used powerful righteous thoughts to break out of the detention center. Cao Zhixia was exasperated and spouted loud verbal abuses. She ordered the guards to put up security brackets over all doors and windows and threatened, "Whoever refuses to reform, don't think about walking out of here."

The perpetrators at Zhangshi Labor Camp in Shenyang City ruthlessly torture Dafa practitioners. They force the practitioners to squat for long periods of time, don't allow the practitioners to sleep, and force them to cross their legs for very long periods of time. If the practitioners don't cooperate, they tie up the practitioners' hands and feet and they shove the book Zhuan Falun into the practitioners' underpants. Dafa practitioner Yu Jiangxing from Shenyang City was illegally sentenced to two years of forced labor for posting truth clarification materials, and was detained at the Zhangshi Labor Camp. He was not released two years later; his term was illegally extended by half a year, and six months later he was still not released. Yu Jiangxing firmly protested the illegal detention, and the perpetrators sent him to a "help reform group" for one month in an attempt to brainwash him, but the plan failed because Yu Jiangxing firmly resisted. In spring 2003, Yu Jiangxing was unconditionally released. Dafa practitioner Li Manxin was detained at Zhangshi Labor Camp. His detention was illegally extended after his term expired in September 2003.

Dafa practitioner Li Xiumin from Shijiazhuang City was illegally sent to forced labor for persisting in Dafa practice. After three years of torture at the Shijiazhuang Labor Camp, she still firmly believed in Truth-Compassion-Tolerance. Half a year after Li Xiumin was released from the labor camp, on November 14, 2003, police officers from Shijiazhuang City Police Department abducted her once again. She escaped from police custody on the same day but was forced to leave home to avoid illegal arrest.

Jin Shuyuan, head of the 304 Institute of Beijing Aerospace Administration, and Party Secretary Cao Yingjie went along with all orders from Jiang's evildoing cohorts to persecute Dafa practitioners. In late December 1999 they sent several Dafa practitioners, employees of the Institute, to a detention center and detained them there for 25 days because they had gone to Beijing to appeal for Dafa. They also illegally cancelled retired Dafa practitioners' pensions and allotted them only 200 Yuan** per month. They fired all Dafa practitioners working there. In 2001, they conspired with the "610 Office" to abduct several retired Dafa practitioners and sent them to a brainwashing class. One retired practitioner persisted in cultivation and left home to avoid illegal arrest. The perpetrators not only cancelled his entire pension, they also harassed and intimidated his family.

On November 17, 2003, five Dafa practitioners, Zhu Mingchun, Zhu Zhaojie, Que Faxiu, Liu Kunwu (Liu Longyun), and Guo Guangxiu, who had been illegally detained at Miyi Detention Center for more than one year, were illegally tried in court. The practitioners attempted to speak the truth, but the judge forbade it. Local practitioners went to the court to send forth righteous thoughts.

Recently, three journalists have been committing fraud in Hebei and Shandong Provinces. They falsely claimed they were investigating the local situation of Falun Gong according to orders from their superiors, and that they had evidence against the local government. They extorted more than one million Yuan from the local governments. These journalists have been arrested and sent to Ningjin County Detention Center in Shandong Province. It was learned that these three suspects are indeed journalists working for a newspaper in Beijing, but the newspaper agency did not give them an assignment to investigate the persecution of Falun Gong. Every time they arrived at a county or city, they looked for banners that read, "Falun Dafa is good," and "Truth-Compassion-Tolerance is good." Then they took pictures of the banners and used them to extort money from the local "610 Office." After they left, the "610 Office" criminals vented their anger on practitioners by frantically persecuting them. The large-scale arrest that took place recently in Wuqiao and Cangzhou in Hebei Province is related to these journalists' activities.

* The "610 Office" is an agency specifically established to persecute Falun Gong, with absolute power over each level of administration in the Party and all other political and judiciary systems.

** Yuan is the Chinese currency. The average monthly salary of an urban worker in China is 500 Yuan.