(Clearwisdom.net)

Case 1

My name is Li Wencai. I live in Anqiu City, Shandong Province. I was illegally detained many times after July 20, 1999. With fellow practitioners from the same village I went to Beijing on December 28, 1999 [of the Chinese lunar calendar], to validate Dafa. When we arrived at the train station, police arrested us. Song Shuling, the former secretary of the Political and Judiciary Committee, savagely beat me and forced me to squat in the snow. He struck me in the head several times. They sent me to the police department, where Zhang Hongtao beat me for a while. Some villagers cried when they saw the police beat me so severely.

The officers held me in a small room, the Birth Planning Office. My lower back hurt so much the next day that I could not move. I spent the 2000 Chinese New Year at the police department. Then, in January 2001, I went to northeast China to visit my sister and I shared my experiences with local practitioners. I brought my sister some truth clarification materials, but her in-laws reported me to the police, who arrested me and took me to the police department. The police extorted money from my sister's family but did not release me. They sent me to Xinbin County Detention Center in Liaoning Province, where they held me for more than ten days. I went on a hunger strike to protest the persecution. The detention center authorities demanded 10,000 yuan from my sister's family. The extended family handed over more than 7,000 yuan before they were allowed to take me home.

In October 2001, other practitioners and I distributed truth clarification materials and we were reported. The police ransacked my home several times and took Dafa books and a recently purchased recorder. I was sentenced to three years of forced labor. After my release, the police harassed me at my home.

Case 2

My name is Wu Lanmei. I am 61 years old, and I live in Yuanshang Village, Linwu Town, Anqiu City. I was very sick before I practiced Dafa, and medical treatment didn't help me. Fortunately, I started practicing Dafa in September 1998, and I started to study the Fa and do the exercises. All of my illnesses disappeared. I realized that Dafa has miraculous powers. The Communist regime banned Falun Gong on July 20, 1999, and people were no longer allowed to study the Fa or do the exercises. I knew that Dafa was good and I wanted to go to Beijing to defend Falun Dafa, but nowhere were our voices heard. Officers from Qutou Police Department arrested me and sent me to Anqiu Police Department and held me there for 15 days. After I got out, I was detained at a fertilizer factory for 45 days because my husband worked at the factory

After I got home, I felt terrible. Such a wonderful practice was being slanderously attacked. Dafa was being framed and Teacher attacked. I again went to Beijing to appeal and was once again arrested and detained by Beijing police. They sent me back to the Anqiu Detention Center. I held a hunger strike for six days to protest the persecution and was released. Officials from the Anqiu Police Department arrested many practitioners as a money making venture by extorting money from the victims' families. I went to visit a friend in January 2002, but because police had arrested a Falun Gong practitioner who was living at his home, the police were already waiting outside the home. When I knocked on the door, the police arrested me and took me to a detention center. I went on a hunger strike, and the guards brutally force-fed me. I almost died from torture. During this period, the guards extorted 4,000 yuan from my family and held me for 15 days before I went home. Afterwards, the police frequently harassed me at home and we could not live a normal life.

Case 3

My name is Xia Xihan. I am a 67-year-old worker employed at the Anqiu City Chemical Factory. I started practicing Dafa in October 1999. All of my illnesses disappeared through practice. I have not taken a single pill since. Such a wonderful practice was banned in1999. Since I had benefited physically and mentally from Dafa, I wanted to tell people the facts about it, yet the government arrested everyone who went to appeal. Officers from Qutou Police Department arrested and held me at the Anqiu Police Department Detention Center for 15 days, after which Wang Fudu, head of the factory where I worked, detained me for 45 days. They released me after extorting 3,000 yuan from me. The factory superiors deducted six months of my salary and paid me only 206 yuan a month from that point forward.

I had no choice but to secretly practice at home. The police arrested many practitioners in order to make money. One day in July 2002, officers from the Anqiu Police Department including Jia Zaijun and Ge Jiang again arrested me while I was walking down the street. They took me to a detention center and put me in handcuffs and shackles, connecting them together. I could not take care of myself because my arms and legs were locked in place.

During this time, about eight guards ransacked my home and took all of my Dafa books, a computer that my daughter later retrieved, ten boxes of incense, and adhesive paper. They also demanded 15,000 yuan from my family and said they would send me to a labor camp if they didn't pay. My family didn't want me to suffer, so they paid the money, and I went home. After I returned home, I kept up with Teacher's Fa rectification and opposition to the persecution. I went to the factory to clarify the truth and ask for my salary. I learned that factory head Wang Fudu had sent two people to look for me in 1999 when I went to Beijing, but in fact they did not bother to look for me. They spent five days traveling and demanded 1,700 yuan from me when they returned. I asked for receipts but they didn't have any. They deducted the 1,700 yuan from my salary. During the past six years, more than 10,000 yuan was deducted from my salary. Right now they still have 3,000 yuan of my salary.

Many practitioners have been brutally persecuted over the past seven years, their families broken up and they themselves unable to return home. The Communist regime is responsible for the practitioners' tribulations.

Head of the Anqiu City Chemical Factory Wang Fudu and his wife have been responsible for the persecution against me. Wang Fudu's cell phone number is 86-13706461992

Case 4

My name is Cao Hongguang, and I started practicing Falun Dafa on June 9, 1999. I used to suffer from heart disease, hepatitis, stomach ulcer, and many other conditions. I also had severe, chronic insomnia and had lost the will to live. I went to a hospital and was told that I needed a second open-heart surgery. Luckily I met a Falun Gong practitioner who introduced Dafa to me and lent me a copy of Zhuan Falun. I was so happy to obtain this precious book and wished that I had gotten it earlier. I knew then that this was a book that had high xinxing standards for those who wished to follow the principles of Truthfulness-Compassion-Tolerance. After that I whole-heartedly devoted myself to reading the book twice. It was the sixth day after I first got the book when I was suddenly hit by violent bouts of diarrhea, but I didn't feel uncomfortable at all. Strangely, I felt truly relieved afterwards and my temperament improved greatly. My whole family was very happy and said that Dafa was good. My 80-year-old mother also learned Falun Gong, and she became healthy, too.

Jiang Zemin's group started persecuting Falun Gong on July 20, 1999, and slandered Dafa and Teacher. Falun Gong practitioners from all over the country appealed for justice. I went to Beijing on October 13, 1999, to tell people the facts about Teacher and Dafa.

I saw appealing Falun Gong practitioners everywhere in Beijing. I also saw plainclothes police officers arresting practitioners all over the place. Around October 20, dozens of practitioners from Anqiu City, including me, who had gone to Beijing to appeal, were arrested at the same time. We were beaten and kicked and put in a vehicle. We were driven back to Anqiu City overnight. After we were taken into the Anqiu Police Department, we were first videotaped and then interrogated, one by one. Between 6:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. for two days, the sounds of curses and beatings was constantly heard at the police department. Some practitioners were hung up with their hands handcuffed behind their backs. After about two days of interrogation, we were sent to custody centers and detention centers. I was sent to a custody center.

The custody center authorities refused to let us do the exercises. The guards barbarically beat us when they saw us doing the exercises. Some of them shocked us with electric batons, some of them handcuffed us behind our backs, and, worst of all, they tried to coerce us to give up Dafa. Then the guards took me home and forced my family and friends to try to talk me into giving up my belief. I refused to cooperate with them. My family and friends cried and cursed me. They didn't even spare my parents, who were 90 and 85 years old. After 15 days they saw that I refused to give up Dafa, so they sent me back to the Birth Planning Office to further persecute me.

I was held at the Birth Planning Office for about eight days. In the end I was the only one left in the office. Zhang Wenrong, assistant to the mayor, talked to me, but I still refused to give up Dafa. My employers, however, were pressured by their superiors. They took me home after imposing a 50,000 yuan fine on my family. They also organized my relatives to form a group to watch me. Each member of the group was made to sign a document and provide their fingerprint. They gave my employers a copy and another copy to me.

I recovered one month later. One person named Cui and another person from the same town started to try to "reform" me for about three days. Officials from my place of work said to me, "You must write a paper that says you will not practice Falun Gong in public, since you are not allowed to practice outside anyway." I wrote, "[I] will not practice [Falun Gong] at public places from now on." My family had to borrow almost all of the money for this "fine." I compromised and let down Teacher and Dafa. Later I wrote a solemn announcement in which I renounced all of the wrong things I did under the Communist Party's persecution. My work place returned the "fines" to my family in increments.

Before the Qingming Festival between April 4 and 6 in 2000, two officials from the police department's Criminal Police Division tricked me to come to the police department, saying they wanted to talk to me. They suspected that I had organized Falun Gong practitioners to appeal. They interrogated me for two days but didn't get any "evidence," but still detained me for another 15 days without any due process. They also extorted 200 yuan from me. I held a hunger strike for six days and was released on medical parole.

I went to Beijing again to appeal in August 2000. My family and people from my place of work brought me back from the train depot. Then they watched me at home. About one hour later, three officials from the town government came to my home and tried to take me to the Birth Planning Office. One official was Du and the other two officers I had never seen before. I sat on the couch and said in a calm but serious tone, "What's wrong with me practicing Falun Gong and Truthfulness-Compassion- Tolerance? I won't let you guys take me away today, even if I have just one breath left." They said they were going to take me to the village Party Committee and came up to me and started to drag me. I immediately ran my head into the windowsill. They were shocked and left without saying anything. I had not studied the "Fa" well enough at the time and I didn't think whether or not my actions would adversely affect Dafa's reputation. I only thought that I would not be detained, even if I had to die.

Officers from the Chengbei Police Department arrested me on the evening of September 7, 2000, when I was distributing truth clarification flyers in Chengbei. Li Shenghua sent me to a detention center, to be held for one month. I refused to give up Dafa. Li Shenghua sent me to a Party school brainwashing center on October 8, 2000.

I remained determined in my belief in Dafa. More than ten collaborators attacked me. At noon on the sixth day my whole body suddenly turned cold and I could not speak. I was rushed to the emergency room. The right half of my body was paralyzed and I also had difficulty swallowing. I was hospitalized for nine days. Officials from the brainwashing center told my family to take me home so they wouldn't have to pay the medical expenses. On the sixth day, the officials refused to pay the medical bill. The hospital stopped giving me medications. After my family went to the officials, the officials paid for another three days of hospital expenses. They extorted a 1,500 yuan brainwashing fee from my family.

Pan Xiaolu, Wang Ziqing and Hu Shaoqun all work at the 610 Office.

Song from Chengbei reported me to the Beiguan Police Department on the evening of April 2, 2003, when I was distributing flyers. Li Shenghua fabricated charges against me and tried to sentence me to three years of forced labor. Because people from various sides opposed the labor camp sentence, I was sent back to the detention center to be released after the May 1 holiday. During this period, Li Shenghua lied and claimed that my labor camp sentence has been reported to Weifang City. He demanded 10,000 yuan from my family before he would release me. My family didn't know the truth and gave Li Shenghua 8,000 yuan, the amount having been lowered after intervention from my work place officials.

My practitioner mother was so frightened after my latest arrest that she fell ill and was hospitalized. Although she underwent emergency care, her health declined by the day. She used to be perfectly healthy through practicing Falun Gong. She passed away from illness one year after my arrest, due to fear and anguish from the persecution.

My home was ransacked at least three times between July 20, 1999 and April 2003. Li Shenghua, Jia Zaijun, and other lawless officials ransacked it. They took all of my Dafa books, exercise items, and Teacher's pictures, among other things.