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Today’s Articles — October 18, 2004

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Fifty-Nine Falun Gong Practitioners Are Wrongfully Sentenced in Anqiu City, Shandong Province

(Clearwisdom.net) Since July 20, 1999, individuals who violate the law in Anqiu City, Shandong Province, have been helping Jiang's regime to brutally persecute Falun Gong practitioners, who believe in "Truth, Compassion, Tolerance" and try to eliminate them. Many practitioners have been persecuted to death. These gangs illegally confiscate practitioners' household property; kidnap practitioners; imprison and brainwash them; blackmail them; fire them from government positions; stop their pay and retirement funds; illegally detain, torture, and sentence them; and put them in forced labor camps. In Anqiu City, eight practitioners received felony sentences, the longest being 12 years. 59 practitioners have been sent to illegal forced labor reform. There are five members in practitioner Li Huanwu's family. His wife, oldest son and he were sent to a forced labor camp. This left the younger son and daughter with no financial support. They are in a miserable situation. Wrongfully accused and sentenced, the family's mental, physical and financial sufferings are unimaginable.

Twenty-Six Additional Cases of Practitioners Who Died as a Result of Torture in China are Verified in September

(Clearwisdom.net) (Complied by Clearwisdom.net reporter Fang Hong) According to information reported on Minghui Net [the Chinese version of Clearwisdom.net], another twenty-six cases of innocent Falun Gong practitioners dying as a result of torture in China were verified in September 2004. These death cases were verified through civilian channels and increased the total number of Falun Gong practitioners who have been tortured to death or died as a result of torture in China to 1,060.

Yang Chunyuan from Chongqing City Is Detained at the Maojiashan Women's Labor Camp

(Clearwisdom.net)

Ms. Yang Chunyuan, 42 years old, lives at Apt 7-2, Unit 8, No. 1 Liming Village, Huangjiayakou, Jiangbei District in Chongqing City. She has a son named Yang Shun. In 2001, Ms. Yang Chunyuan was illegally sentenced to three years of forced labor education because she practices Falun Gong. Every day for the past 3 years, Yang Shun has been looking forward to his mother's return, but instead he received news that his mother's sentence has been extended again.