1. [Jiamusi City, Heilongjiang Province] Wang Yufang Is in Critical Condition Owing to Torture at Qianjin Police Station

Ms. Wang Yufang of Jiamusi was arrested on December 19, 2003 by policemen from the Qianjin Police Station after being reported. Today, she is in very critical condition at a forced labor camp.

The forced labor camp informed Ms. Wang's family before the Chinese Lunar New Year that they had already notified the higher authorities about Ms. Wang's deteriorating conditions. However, the police bureau refused to release Ms. Wang. Tens of thousands of Yuan [Chinese currency, the monthly salary for an average Chinese urban worker is about 500 Yuan] had already been extorted from her family in the past. Now the police station intends to extort even more money from the family. Also, the dying Ms. Wang Yufang has a 10-year-old child who is presently looked after by relatives.

2. [Xingtai City and Shahe City, Hebei Province] The "610 Office" Stages a Wanton Revenge after Falun Dafa Practitioners Successfully Broadcast Truth Clarification Programs on Television

After Falun Dafa practitioners from Xingtai City and Shahe City, in Hebei Province, successfully broadcast truth clarification programs, the "610 Office" [A bureau specifically created by the Chinese government to persecute Falun Gong. It has absolute power over each level of administration in the Party, as well as over the political and judiciary branches] became terrified. The "610 Office" immediately began to tail practitioners, and they frantically , and theeyset up secret sentry posts to track down the practitioners involved in the broadcast in Handan. The Handan "610 Office" as well as the city police bureau, police sub bureaus, and police stations began a new round of harassment and persecution of Falun Gong practitioners, and they arrested some practitioners without going through proper procedures (names of the arrested under investigation). When the "610 Office" failed to find a Dafa practitioner, they would detain the practitioner's son or daughter.

3. [Qidong County, Hunan Province] Falun Dafa Practitioner Shi Jinhua Has Been Arrested for Broadcasting Truth Clarification Video Programs from Home

At the end of November, 2003 Ms. Shi Jinhua broadcast truth clarification video programs from her home, which happened to be under a TV transmitting tower. Many residents in the surrounding areas watched these programs. On the second day, when Ms. Shi planned to broadcast for the second time, she was discovered by the police. They broke into her house, grabbed her and slapped her face vehemently. Ms. Shi Jinhua then repeatedly shouted at the top of her lungs, "Falun Dafa is good!" until she lost her voice. She is now being held at the Qidong Detention Center.

4. [Xinyu Prefecture, Jiangxi Province] Falun Dafa Practitioner Fu Jian and Others Sentenced to Imprisonment

In November 2003 Falun Dafa practitioner Fu Jian of Xinyu Prefecture, Jiangxi Province was sentenced to ten years imprisonment. Practitioners Yang Shiqian and Fu Jianfeng were each sentenced to eight years, and the sentences of three other practitioners ranged from one year to four years. In early December, more practitioners were arrested in Jiangxi Province for sentencing.

5. [Yantai City, Shandong Province] Falun Dafa Practitioner Song Jing Is Beaten Until Her Body Turned Black and Blue at Wangcun Women's Forced Labor Camp

26-year-old Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Song Jing of Yantai City, Shandong Province was beaten by police at the Wangcun Forced Labor Camp for not renouncing her belief in Falun Dafa. The policemen there used wooden batons to continuously beat her every day, and her body became black and blue everywhere.

6. [Baoding City, Hebei Province] Falun Dafa Practitioner Niu Dengfeng has Been Abducted

Dafa practitioner Mr. Niu Dengfeng of Baoding City, Hebei Province was abducted by the Shijiazhuang National Security Bureau of Hebei Province in mid-December, 2003. Mr. Niu then went on a hunger strike to protest the persecution. There have been no reports of his situation since.

7. [Jingzhou City, Liaoning Province] Falun Dafa Practitioners Detained at the Second Jingzhou Forced Labor Camp Division Resist the Persecution

Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Chen Baozhong is from Linghe Village, Jianye Township, Linghai City, Liaoning Province. On November 26, 2003 Mr. Chen Baozhong announced publicly the start of his hunger strike, which he used to protest against the persecution. At the same time, Mr. Zhang Baoshi from Jincheng Paper Mill in Linghai City also went on a hunger strike for three days. These protests carried the voice of all the detained Falun Dafa practitioners in the Jingzhou Forced Labor Camp, and the duo won everyone's encouragement and acclaim. Later, when the policemen found that they could not shake Chen Baozhong's steadfast righteous thoughts, they had no other choice but to release him.

8. [Liaoyang City, Liaoning Province] Falun Dafa Practitioners Liu Jinhui and Zhang Yanqiu Have Been Arrested by Policeman Yu Hongchang and His Men

From the end of 2001 to September, 2002, policeman Yu Hongchang and his men from Baita Police Sub-bureau went to Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Liu Jinhui's home many times to harass her. Ms. Liu Jinhui's husband, parents, brothers, and sisters were all very frightened by the police. Later, Ms. Liu Jinhui was forced to flee home with her daughter and wander about in an unfamiliar land to avoid arrest. In September 2002 Liu Jinhui and her daughter returned back home to visit Ms. Liu's aging parents, and she was reported by someone who was assigned to keep surveillance on her home. She was then tailed. Ms. Liu Jinhui phoned another practitioner, Ms. Zhang Yanqiu, telling her that she would visit her. Because Ms. Liu's telephone was tapped, when Ms. Liu Jinhui arrived at Ms Zhang Yanqiu' home, policemen from Baita Police Sub-bureau swarmed out and arrested both practitioners. At the time, policeman Yu Hongchang was laughing and looking triumphant.

Before the arrest, Yu Hongchang phoned Dafa practitioner Ms Zhang Yanqiu many times to have heart-to-heart talks with her. He used impolite language in his calls, and he threatened to take Ms Zhang Yanqiu to the police bureau. Ms Zhang Yanqiu resolutely ignored the threat. Thus, Yu Hongchang was waiting for an opportunity for revenge, and he warned Zhang Yanqiu, "I will find an excuse to send you to jail. Just wait and see."

9. [Liaoning Province] Policemen Li Songtao and Li Houyu of the Jingzhou Forced Labor Camp Go to Masanjia Forced Labor Camp to Torture Falun Dafa Practitioners There

On December 5, 2003 Deputy Head of the Education Section of the Jingzhou Forced Labor Camp policeman Li Houyu, Deputy Head of the Second Division of the camp Li Songtao and three other policemen (Zhang Chunfeng, Zhou Jinyue, and Han Jianjun), as well as the policemen from the Special Education Division of the Fuxin Forced Labor Camp, carried with them the instruments (handcuffs, electric batons, and safety head covers) that they used to persecute Dafa practitioners in their respective camps, and traveled to the notorious Masanjia Forced Labor Camp in Shenyang to torture more than 70 steadfast Dafa practitioners for 21 days. They finally returned to their respective camps on December 26. The policemen from the Jingzhou Forced Labor Camp then received bonuses of 300 Yuan each on top of their salaries from the Justice Ministry. Furthermore, Policeman Li Songtao was promoted to political commissar of the Second Division.

On January 7 and 8, 2004 policemen of the Jingzhou Forced Labor Camp forced the Falun Dafa practitioners to write letters to their families and pressed them to include in their letters testimonies on how the Clearwisdom.net website was fabricating lies, how the forced labor camp had never beaten or cursed anyone, and how good the policemen were. The police also required the Falun Dafa practitioners to tell their families that they could eat anything they wanted to eat in the labor camp and that when they became ill, the police would pay for their medication. In addition to sending the bogus letters to the families, the police also published these letters that were written against the practitioners' will in the camp newspaper to deceive and poison the non-practitioners who are also subject to forced labor.

10. [Anshan, Liaoning Province] Falun Dafa Practitioner Zhang Zhiyi Is Transferred from Jingzhou Forced Labor Camp to Fuxin Forced Labor Camp

Policemen from the Second Division of the Jingzhou Forced Labor Camp brutally tortured practitioners Mr. Zhang Zhiyi and Hu Yude after they were transferred from Anshan Forced Labor Camp, forced them to watch video tapes that slandered Falun Dafa, and asked collaborators [Former Falun Gong practitioners who have renounced the practice after brainwashing and torture and now assist in persecuting Dafa practitioners] to try to persuade them into betraying their beliefs in Falun Dafa. The two Dafa practitioners feared neither persecution nor death in validating Dafa. Mr. Zhang Zhiyi once said, "It's impossible for me to give up the cultivation of Falun Dafa!" When the police finally realized that they could not sway Mr. Zhang into abandoning his beliefs in Falun Dafa, they transferred him to Fuxin Forced Labor Camp.

11. [Yanshan County, Hebei Province] Seventy-Year Old Liu Guoxiang Arrested for Reading a Book Entitled "Zhuan Falun"

In autumn 2001, when a tax collectors and policemen from the Hanji Township in Yanshan County of Hebei Province went to Xuetang Village to collect the vehicle and vessel use tax, they found Mr. Liu Guoxiang, who is around seventy years old, reading Zhuan Falun [the main book of Falun Dafa]. They then immediately arrested the old man without listening to his explanations. These people from the local government also forced Mr. Liu to pay a fine of 5,000 Yuan.

12. [Nanchang City, Jiangxi Province] Falun Dafa Practitioner Zeng Rong Sentenced to Three Years of Forced Labor

Dafa practitioner Ms. Zeng Rong (retired) from Nanchang City, Jiangxi Province was detained and locked up at the Nanchang City Number Two Detention Center by the Dinanzhan police and her work unit in December 2000. In March 2001 she was sent to a brainwashing session run by the Nanchang police academy. Because she refused to give up her beliefs in Falun Dafa, she was sentenced to three years of forced labor. She is now held at the Jiangxi Provincial Women's Prison of Drug Rehabilitation.

13. [Hengyang City, Hunan Province] Facts of the Persecution of Falun Dafa Practitioner Zhang Xuanshou

Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Zhang Xuanshou, 66, of Qidong County, Hengyang City was an outstanding Communist Party member in his factory and a pacesetter for all workers in the area before his retirement. On July 20, 1999, when Jiang's clique began to fabricate charges against and frame Falun Gong, Mr. Zhang Xuanshou determinedly journeyed to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong. He was arrested by local policemen and locked up in the Qidong County Detention Center. He was also fined 2,500 Yuan. In 2000 he again went to Beijing to appeal, and he was once again sent to the county detention center. He was fined 4,000 Yuan as well. Mr. Zhang was then sentenced to one and a half years of forced labor and sent to Xinkaipu Forced Labor Camp in Changsha City. In May 2002 Mr. Wang wandered about far from home to avoid arrest after being chased by the Qidong County "610 Office" and the police. The Qidong "610 Office" and the police first forced Mr. Zhang's third daughter-in-law into unemployment and told her if she wanted to get her job back, she would have to find her father-in-law. They then detained Mr. Zhang's elder son, daughter-in-law, and son-in-law, and forced them to disclose their knowledge of the whereabouts of Mr. Zhang. On learning of this news, a friend of Mr. Zhang's son phoned Mr. Zhang Xuanshou. However, his telephone was tapped by the "610 Office." As a result, this friend of Mr. Zhang's son was arrested, and his mobile phone and necklace were confiscated. He was also fined 2,000 Yuan. Not long afterwards, Zhang Shanshou was once again arrested, and he has been held for over a year now. Mr. Zhang was sentenced to three years imprisonment, and he suffered many beatings in jail. Now he is in very poor health, he is unable to see clearly and he can not hear anything. However, the prison officials still refuse to allow him to see a doctor.

14. [Anhui Province] Anhui Women's Forced Labor Camp Brutally Tortures Falun Dafa Practitioners

The Anhui Women's Forced Labor Camp has been using various methods of torture to torment Falun Dafa practitioners. These include solitary confinement, "Personal cangues" [Cangue, the name of an instrument of torture that is now used to refer to the many people who are designated to supervise the behavior of each practitioner], extended working hours and sleep deprivation. One time when practitioner Ms. Shao Bixia refused to yield to the torture, policemen forced her to stand in front of a wall for a lengthy amount of time. She eventually fell and hit her head on the wall. As a result, she now has a very large lump on her head.