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[Jidong County, Heilongjiang Province] Dafa Practitioners Wish Esteemed Master a Happy New Year
Great Master: you have been working hard.
All Dafa practitioners in Jidong County, Heilongjiang Province present respectful greetings.
February 6, 2003
[Guantao County, Hebei Province] Dafa Practitioners Wish Master a Happy New Year
Happy New Year, Master! You have been working hard!
All Dafa practitioners in Guantao County, Hebei Province present respectful greetings.
February 6, 2003
[Laishui County, Hebei Province] Dafa Practitioners Extend Their New Year's Greetingsto Master
All Dafa practitioners in Laishui County, Hebei Province present respectful greetings.
February 9, 2003
[Hebei Province] Dafa Practitioners in the Huabei Oil Field Wish Master a Happy New Year
All Dafa practitioners in the Huabei Oil Field present respectful greetings.
February 9, 2003
[Heze City, Shandong Province] Dafa Practitioners in Heze City, Dongming County and Cao County Wish Master a Happy New Year
Master, we will firmly follow you and try our best to do the current three-things you request of us -- study the Fa, explain the facts to people and send righteous thoughts. We will not let you down. Please rest assured!
[Xinxiang City, Henan Province] Dafa Practitioners Wish Master a Happy New Year
Dafa practitioners in central China will use the reason, wisdom, and compassion cultivated from Dafa to do what Fa-rectification Dafa practitioners should do well, in order to repay Master's compassionate salvation.
On February 9, 2003
[Jiaonan City, Shandong Province] Arrest of Thirteen Practitioners
At the end of October 2002, some practitioners from Jiaonan City of Shandong Province went to a small town to validate the Fa. Among them, thirteen practitioners were illegally arrested. Practitioner Mr. Wang Famao, from Butou Village, Taolin Town that is located in the mountain area in southern Zhucheng City, was arrested at home. The arrest happened during the daytime. Dozens of policemen seized Wang Famao, knocked him onto the wall and beat him badly. They also took away Wang Famao's personal property, including cell phone, motorcycle, VCD machine and recorder, etc. Wang's family went to the police office four times and did not get a chance to see him in person.
Among the thirteen practitioners who were detained, four of them have already been sentenced to forced labor; one of them was sent to Qingdao City, Shandong Province. The whereabouts of rest of them are unknown.
[Shenzhen City, Guangdong Province] More Information Surrounding the Illegal Sentence of 12 Years' Imprisonment to Practitioner Yu Lian
Practitioner Yu Lian was arrested in November 2000. Several policemen arrested him from his office in Shenzhen City's Xiongying Hall Construction Preparation Office. His office was ransacked. At his house, the policemen confiscated Dafa related materials and 80,000 Yuan [500 Yuan is the average monthly income in urban areas of China; in rural areas it is 200], which was gathered from fellow practitioners to make truth-clarifying materials. In April 2002, he was sentenced to 12 years of imprisonment in Futian District's Court. After Yu Lian was detained at Futian District's Detention Center over two years, he was sent to Guangdong Province's Sihui Forced Labor Prison for further persecution. Recently, Yu Lian has been tortured to the point of being skin and bones.
[Jiaozuo City, Henan Province] Dafa Practitioners Li Honglin and Li Xiaojun are Illegally Detained
Prior to the 16th National Party Congress last year, police in Jiaozuo City arrested Dafa practitioners Li Honglin and Mr. Li Xiaojun. Another practitioner, Ms. Wang Juan, was sentenced to two years and two month of forced labor.
[Wei County, Hebei Province] Current Situation of Dafa Practitioners being Persecuted in Yali Town
Prior to the 16th National Party Congress, practitioners Mr. Chen Yanbin, Mr. Pang Yinjing and Mr. Liu Dongyue from Yali Town were illegally sentenced to forced labor. They are now held at Handan City's Forced Labor Camp. Practitioner Chang Shu'ai is detained at Shijiazhuang City's Forced Labor Camp. Practitioners Ms. Wang Meilan, She Xiang and Lu Jun, a couple, have been secretly detained for over nine months. Their family members don't know their whereabouts. Practitioner Mr. Guo Degui has been held secretly for over three months.
[Harbin City, Heilongjiang Province] Harbin City's Women Prison is Now Holding Nearly 400 Falun Gong Practitioners and the Authorities Brutally Torture Them
Currently, Harbin City's Women Prison is holding nearly 400 Falun Gong practitioners. The practitioners are forced to do very heavy labor everyday but are only allowed four hours' sleep per day. There is no exception for weak practitioners. Everyday the Education Section forces Falun Gong practitioners to watch and listen to Dafa-slandering videos and audios. They even circulate fabricated articles allegedly written by Mr. Li Hongzhi, founder of Falun Gong, in order to mislead practitioners. Practitioners who refused to give up their beliefs were punished physically and tortured with excruciating means.
[Nanyang City, Henan Province] Evil Deeds of Collaborators
In 2002, after Wang Guangzhong, a teacher from Nanyang City's No.9 Middle School, was brainwashed at the Xuchang City's Forced Labor Camp, he couldn't tell right from wrong. He helped corrupt personnel to do evil and collaborated with the "610 Office" [An agency specifically created to persecute Falun Gong, with absolute power over each level of administration in the Party and all other political and judiciary systems] to set up a brainwashing class in the No.9 Middle School. He also searched everywhere for Dafa material centers.
* Collaborators are former Falun Gong practitioners who have embraced the evil path and are aiding and abetting the authorities that persecute Falun Gong and its practitioners.