(Clearwisdom.net)
1. [Beijing] Several Dafa Practitioners in Yanging Detention Center Go on a Hunger Strike to Protest the Persecution.
Mr. Zhang Yansong, a teacher from an occupational School (previously Agricultural Tech School) in Yanging County, Beijing was arrested on April 22, 2004. He is now detained in the Yanging Detention Center. There are also several other Dafa practitioners who were arrested about the same time. They all went on a hunger strike. Among them, Cheng Chunma has been on a hunger strike for over one month and his condition is very serious.
Relevant phone numbers:
Yanging Detention Center in Beijing: 86-10-81197991
National Security Brigade: 86-10-81198121
County Security Bureau: 86-10-81198020
County Detective Section: 86-10-69101821
County Security Center: 86-10-81198016
2. [Liaoling Province] Dafa Practitioner He Fujian Is Arrested and Sent to a Brainwashing Facility
Mr. He Fujian is a worker from the technical department of Shuguang Oil Company in Liaohe Oil Field, Panjin City, Liaoning Province. He was sent to a brainwashing center on May 10, 2004. This is the sixth time that officers from the Liaohe Oil Field have sent their workers to brainwashing centers.
3. [Donggang City, Liaolin Province] Liu Yanjiun Is Re-arrested and Sent to Dabei Jail
In July 2001, the court of Donggang City sentenced Liu Yanjiun to a six-year prison term. He was sent to the Chenyang Dabei Jail where he was tortured and persecuted until November 2002. His life was in grave danger and Dabei Jail was afraid of taking the responsibility should he die, so they called his family to take him home. On May 13, 2004 around 11 a.m., Liu Yanjiun was abducted by four males and two females from home and sent to Dabei Jail again. The details are currently under investigation.
4. [Kunming City, Yunnan Province] Ms. Zheng Cuilan Is Detained in the Bailongsi Detention Center Because She Clarified the Truth About Falun Gong
On April 23, 2004, Ms. Zheng Cuilan, a Dafa practitioner from Kunming City, was reported by the patrol when she was clarifying the truth about Dafa while grocery shopping. The Guandu Public Security Branch Bureau sent a dozen policemen to arrest her. They confiscated her personal belongings in her home and did not issue a receipt. She is now being detained in the Bailongsi Detention Center.
A physician from Haigong Training Base, City of Kunming went to Yiliang County to distribute Dafa truth-clarification materials during the Chinese New Year. He was arrested by police and detained in the Tangchi Village Detention Center. His present condition is not known.
5. [Yunnan Province] Dafa Practitioner Ms. Kuang Deying Is Detained Beyond Her Term by the Yunnan Provincial Women Detention Center
On January 6, 2002, Ms. Kuang Deying, a Yunnan Dafa practitioner was arrested because of her handing out Dafa truth-clarification materials. Police confiscated her personal property in her home and when she tried to get her belongings returned, she learned the police had no record and the items have disappeared. Later, Kuang Deying was sentenced to two years of hard labor. She is now detained in the Fist Brigade, Yunnan Provincial Women Detention Center, leaving her two daughters, ages ten years old and one year and three months old, together with her 67-year-old mother at home. The situation is very difficult for the family. Someone else is now caring for her younger daughter.
On January 5, 2004, Kuang Deying finished her term, but the detention center refused to release her. According her family, the first Brigade captain Ma had beaten Kuang Deying badly and threatened her not to tell anyone about it. They forced her to deny being beaten and claimed if she did so she would be released. After signing the false statement, she discovered it was a trick and she was not released but instead transferred to another brigade.
Relevant officers and phone numbers:
Yunnan Provincial Women Detention Center: Dabanqiao, Kunming City, Yunnan Province, 650211
The first Brigade Captain: Li Ying: 86-871-7337277, 86-13648809883 (Mobile)
6. [Tangshan City, Hebei Province] Twelve Dafa Practitioners Are Cruelly Tortured in the Hehuakeng Forced Labor Camp
On March 18, 2004, twelve Dafa practitioners were cruelly beaten with electric batons in the Hehuakeng Forced Labor Camp in Tangshan City. One practitioner, whose name is being verified, became disabled from the beating.
This barbaric act was led by Yang Shufeng, Tangshan City Judicial Bureau; Wang Yong, Camp chief; Gao Yongjiang, the "610 Office" (1) chief; Li Weiping and Ai Zhenguo, from Brigade Six. The convoy guards and police had been ordered to participate in the beating. These Dafa practitioners were tortured in a strictly guarded section. They were ordered to sit on narrow benches from five thirty in the morning until eight at night. If they moved slightly, the prisoners were ordered to beat them.
7. [Kunming City, Yunnan Province] Dafa Practitioner Ms. Zhang Jingyan Is Sent to a Mental Hospital to Be Tortured
Ms. Zhang Jiangyan, about 30 years old, was an employee in the Fee Collection Station, Kunming City Highway Administration. During the Chinese New Year in 2002, she was arrested and sent to a labor camp because of she distributed Falun Dafa truth-clarification materials. She was released on Chinese New Year 2003. Because of she persisted in her belief in Falun Dafa, she was severely tortured by being beaten and shocked with electric batons on her chest. She was then sent to be persecuted in the Yunnan Provincial Mental Hospital where she was tortured for over a month and injected with a drug for suppressing the central nervous system.
Relevant officers and phone numbers:
Yunnan Provicial Mental Hospital, 733 Chuanjin Rd, Kunming, Yunnan, 650224.
Switchboard: 86-871-5631570, 86-871-5619732 (Office)
8. [Shandong Province] Laizhou Public Security Police Arrest Seventeen Dafa Practitioners During the Central Committee Meetings
During the Central Committee meetings in 2004, the "610 Office" in Laizhou City compiled a blacklist containing the names of 32 Dafa practitioners. They started to make arrests on April 2, 2004. Yang Xiandi, Vice Director of the Laizhou Public Security, and policemen Yuan Lu, Zhang Lianrui (from Liazhou), Jiang Xizhou and Han Guoxing (from Wenchang Public Security) were responsible for making the arrests. They told these practitioners that their station leader wanted to talk to them and it wouldn't take long. As soon as they arrived, they locked the front iron gate to prevent them from leaving. Seventeen practitioners were arrested (fourteen of the practitioners had been unlawfully sent to forced labor camps before). Some of the practitioners were forced to leave their homes to avoid being unlawfully arrested. The seventeen arrested practitioners were sent to the Dianzi brainwashing program. These practitioners were forced to pay 500 yuan (2). Their work units were also ordered to pay 500 yuan to pay for their room and board while in the brainwashing program..
9. [Yunnan Province] Ms. Li Zhuaifeng and Ms. Ma Huiling Are Sentenced to Three Years of Forced Labor Because They Told the Truth About Dafa
On August 27 and 28, 2003, Ms. Li Zhuaifeng was reported to have distributed two pamphlets of truth clarifying materials to security personnel. Because of this, part of her retirement pension, cost-of-living allowance, and job seniority subsidy were stopped for one year. On November 6, 2003, she was sentenced to three years of hard labor because she was discovered explaining the facts of the persecution against Falun Dafa to the people riding on a bus. Her pension was stopped.
In July 2003, Ms. Ma Huiling was reported to the authorities for explaining the facts of the persecution against Falun Dafa and was detained for 24 hours. On November 6, 2003, she was sentenced to three years of hard labor because she was found to have explained the facts of the persecution to people riding on a bus.
10. [Chengdu City, Sichuan Province] Dafa Practitioner Huang Xiangling Is Detained in the Xindu Detention Center Because of Distributing Truth-clarification Materials.
On the morning of April 17, 2004, Dafa practitioner Ms. Huang Xiangling from Xiandu Section, Chengdu City, Sichuan Province was arrested by police and detained in the Xindu Detention Center because she distributed Falun Dafa truth-clarification materials.
11. [Changchun City] Dafa Practitioner Mr. Xin Shiwen Is Arrested Because of He Explained the Facts of the Persecution to the Public
Dafa practitioner Xin shiwen was arrested because he explained the facts of the persecution of Falun Dafa during a wedding in Jiaohe.
12. [Weifang City, Shandong Province] Dafa Practitioner Guo Shumei Is Arrested and Sent to the Wangcun Brainwashing Center.
On March 12, 2004, Dafa practitioner, Mr. Guo Shumei, a 63-year-old retired accountant from Weifang Vehicular Section, in Kuiwenyingyuanxiao, Weifang, was arrested and sent to Wangcun brainwashing session in Shandong Province.