(Clearwisdom.net)

On December 16, 2003, police from the Political Security Office in Bazhou City, Hebei Province arrested Falun Gong practitioners on a large scale in Shengfang Township. Police arrested more than thirty practitioners gathered in Guo Zhenying's home. Police searched the whole house and took away more than ten thousand Yuan [Chinese currency, the monthly salary for an average Chinese urban worker is about 500 yuan]. Fellow practitioners requested that the local police station investigate. They refused initially, but agreed to it later due to the practitioners' persistence. This incident is still under investigation.

Mr. Ma Baosheng is a Falun Gong practitioner from Daqing City, Zhaozhou County, Heilongjiang Province. He was arrested and detained in a detention center when he went to Beijing twice to appeal in 2000. The barbaric torture he received included severe beatings, freezing conditions, sleep deprivation, and lashings on the back. Police also extorted 5000 Yuan from his family, took away their motorcycle, and looted their household. In 2001, he was sentenced to one year of forced labor and was detained in Daqing Forced Labor Camp. The freezing conditions and rope torture caused total lack of feeling in his upper body, and it took three months for him to recover.

More than thirty Dafa practitioners, including Quan Zhaoqi, Jiang Nianxiang, Dai Zhizhong, Zhang Zhong, Zhou Guochen, Jia shenghui, and Zhang Xingye (all male) are still being illegally jailed in Daqing Jail. They are being persecuted simply because they believe in "Truthfulness, Compassion, and Forbearance." Daqing Labor Camp applies various means of cruel torture to those persistent practitioners who are not willing to give up their belief. They are also deprived of the right to receive visits from their family and friends.

Dafa practitioner Ms. Zhang Fen is 50 years old and lives on Erzhi Road, in the Yubei Section of Zhongqing City. On January 2, 2004, she went to Beijing to appeal to the government. She was arrested and severely beaten by the police. With the lights turned off, they used a cloth strip to gag her and used an iron bar to hit her on the right side of her head and thigh. They then wrapped her head with cloth and banged her head against the wall until she lost consciousness and could not move.

Mr. Huang Lei is a fifth year student at in the Architectural Department of Guizhou Industrial University. Because of his belief in Falun Dafa, he was persecuted for more than four years. In November 2001, personnel from 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] intruded into a classroom and abducted him from the class. On the way to Zhongba Brainwashing Center in Guizhou, he was able to escape into a wooded area by the university and stayed in the forest for that night. He was then expelled from the university and was forced to abandon his home and travel from place to place. His mother, a newsroom editor for a TV broadcast department, was also forced to leave their home because she practices Falun Gong. In October 2002, while taking computer courses, Huang Lei was arrested again. He was imprisoned in an investigation brigade in Guiyang and inhumanly tortured both mentally and physically. After going through six days and nights of torture, such as lashing with a leather whip and being hung up with rope, he managed to escape. On February 2, 2003, he again was arrested and tortured. He is still being imprisoned.

Mr. Tian Fujin is from Tongyuan, Inner Mongolia and his whole family practices Falun Gong. Their practice helped them to become better persons and enjoy good health. Because they persisted in practicing Falun Gong, all six family members were persecuted and have been sent to forced labor camps many times. Over the past few years, the family was separated, Mr. Tian's business went bankrupt, and they lost everything they owned. The "610 Office" police, Political and Judiciary Committee, Community office, and Resident Judiciary Committee were constantly harassing this family. His eldest daughter, Tian Fang, was abducted and brought to a brainwashing unit once, detained four times, and was in a forced labor camp for two years. She is now released. The second daughter, Tian Xin, was jailed twice, and was in a forced labor camp for two years. The third daughter, Tian Miao, was sent to a brainwashing unit once, and was detained four times. She was given a six-year prison term; she was first sent to Baoanzhao, and then to Hushi Women Prison. His youngest son, Tian Shuangjiang, was imprisoned twice, and was given a three-year prison term. He is now imprisoned in Tongliao Prison. His wife, Liu Xiurong, was detained twice, and has finished her two years of forced labor. Mr. Tian himself was detained three times, and was in a forced labor camp for three years. In July this year, he went to Baoanzhao to visit his daughter, Tian Miao, and was detained for carrying a Falun Dafa article. He has been imprisoned in Tongliao Hexi Detention Center for almost six months. Recently, the "610 Office" fabricated an excuse and sentenced him to three years of forced labor.

Chu Xinyuan is a Dafa practitioner from Daqing City, Zhaozhou County. She is 31 years old and works for Zhaozhou Chinese Medicine Hospital. In December 1999, she and her husband went to Beijing to appeal and were detained. They were released after 1000 Yuan had been extorted from them. On June 20, 2000, she went to Beijing to appeal again and was arrested and sent back to Zhaozhou police station. She was beaten, forced to undergo brainwashing, insulted and harassed, among other things. On December 20, 2000, she went to Beijing to appeal again and was abducted, and brought to Beijing Xicheng Detention Center. She went on hunger strike to protest and was force-fed while they slapped, beat, and poured ice-cold water on her. She was eventually released. On January 17, 2001, a Zhaozhou Hospital leader, Hu Shuhua, went to her mother's home and found out that Chu Xinyuan was still practicing Falun Gong. Hu and Public Security police arrested her. At the Public Security Office, they slapped her viciously and pulled her hair while slamming her head against the wall. She went on hunger strike and was force-fed. In March 2001, Zhaozhou Public Security Office sent her to the Drug Rehabilitation Center in Harbin to continue persecuting her.

Dafa practitioner Hu Shuhua, 50 years old, was imprisoned in the Fourth Brigade, Beijing Women's Forced Labor Camp in 2002. Police forcefully tried to brainwash her, and allowed her only 2-3 hours of sleep, if any. She was able to maintain righteous thoughts and endured tremendous suffering. One night, she fell from her upper bunk bed and was knocked unconscious. The forced labor camp used this incident as an excuse to frame her for attempting to commit suicide and then illegally extended her term by an additional six months. Later, when a related department came to investigate, she was secretly sent to the Seventh Brigade.

Date translated: 1/17/04