Issued by Clearwisdom Net

On March 2, 2006, Jilin City Falun Gong practitioners Mr. Wang Jianguo and his wife Ms. Zhao Qiumei were arrested by police officer Tan Xinqiang and others from the Nanjing Police Station in the Chuanying District. Subsequently, Ms. Zhao was sentenced to one year of forced labor. Mr. Wang was tortured during interrogation at the Nanjing Station and was later sent to the Jilin City Detention Center. When he protested the illegal detention by means of a hunger strike, the police began force-feeding him. On April 10, 2006, Mr. Wang Jianguo died as a result of this persecution. He was 30. On April 13, the family set up a memorial pavilion to commemorate him.

Wang Jianguo lived in Team 4 of Hongyuan Village, Hongyuan Economic Development Area in Jilin City. His father was deputy chairman of the Jilin City Martial Arts Association, as well as head master of the Baji Martial Arts Hall. Mr. Wang Jianguo and his wife ran a small restaurant and had a happy family. Because they practiced Falun Gong and followed the principles of "Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance," the family was severely persecuted.

On the morning of April 24, 2006, four people were looking at the bulletins posted outside of Mr. Wang's house. They were spying on Wang Jianguo's family. After family members approached them, these four people left the scene in a black car. According to an eyewitness, these people were agents from the national security police. One of them had previously participated in an illegal house search at the Wang residence. At 6 p.m., Hongyuan Economic Region director Jiang Huiyou and two other persons came to the Wang family house to harass the family members. Their car license plate number was "Jilin- B05035."

At 10:30 a.m. on April 25, 2006, Fu Bin and four other police officers from the Hadawan Police Station came to the Wang household. Two wore uniforms and the other three were in plainclothes. They saw a student of Mr. Wang Shusen (Mr. Wang's father) and demanded his home and work address. The student said, "My teacher's family is having to endure such a tragedy, I had to come and see." The police warned him, "You'd better stay away." The police also asked who had visited lately. The student said they were all Wang family members and martial arts students. When the police asked where the students came from, the students said they came from all over the country. Then the police asked about Mr. Wang Jianguo parents' whereabouts and also searched the house.

At 1 p.m., police officer Fu Bin from Hadawan Police Station and a driver came to the house again. Fu Bin asked the family members, "Where are Wang Jianguo's parents? This lawsuit is serious and needs to be settled with Wang's parents face-to-face." He also threatened them not to sue anymore, "It has already been publicized enough; the whole country has heard about it. Now you have built this mourning pavilion. It brings a bad image to our city. About Wang Jianguo's death case, you should try to resolve it quickly. Otherwise, the authorities have the right to cremate his body without your consent." Family members said, "If this issue is not resolved to our satisfaction, we will not stop our lawsuit. We will even bring it all the way to the central government."

At 8 a.m. on April 20, Mr. Wang's family came to the investigation section at the Chuanying District Police Department to make some requests. Wang Shouyi, the person in charge of Wang Jianguo's case, met with them. Family members said, "Wang Jianguo was killed by your persecution and we want you to release his wife so she can attend her husband's memorial service." Wang Shouyi said that they should talk to the forced labor camp. When the family asked about the cause of Wang Jianguo's death, Wang Shouyi brought out the death report and showed it to the family. Under "cause of death" it stated: " Wang died after all medical treatments failed." The family members said, "He was dead upon arrival. Why would they still perform emergency medical treatment?" When the family asked the police to return Wang Jianguo's body, Wang Shouyi said, "You have the right to ask for the body; let me ask my superior." The family also asked that the family properties and money confiscated be returned to them. Wang Shouyi said, "We won't return any belongings. As for the 3500 yuan in cash, we did not receive this money from the Nanjing Police Station, so we have no idea where it is."

On the morning of April 24, two members of Wang Jianguo's family went to the Heizuizi Forced Labor Camp to see Wang Jianguo's wife, Ms. Zhao Qiumei. They saw her at 11 a.m., but prison guard Xiao Aiqiu was with them the whole time. Family members told Ms. Zhao about some family issues. The guard interrupted, "You should persuade her. Since she has refused to write a document to denounce Falun Gong, her sentence will be extended." That same day, three other family members visited Jilin City Forced Labor Camp, where Mr. Wang was tortured to death. Family members demanded an explanation from guard Cong Maohua on Wang Jianguo's death. Cong said, "All we can do is to pay 3,000 yuan as compensation to the family, including cremation costs. You can keep the ashes. All other damages were Wang Jianguo's personal responsibility; we are not responsible." Cong Maohua also provided an activity list detailing Wang Jianguo's detention.

After Wang Jianguo suffered from brutal torture in Nanjing Police Station, he was transferred to the Jilin City Detention Center, where he was tortured by force-feeding. He died on April 10, 2006. On April 13, Wang's family built a mourning pavilion in the family courtyard. At the entrance they put up some truth clarification display boards. These boards showed two conflicting death reports. They also posted some questions concerning Wang Jianguo's death. On that day, many family members and relatives gathered. A family member, not a Falun Gong practitioner, wrote an account of the events.

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The account said: "Wang Jianguo, 30 years old, and his wife ran a small restaurant on Chaoyang Street. On March 2, 2006, the Nanjing Police arrested them and confiscated belongings and cash worth more than 30,000 yuan without giving any receipts. Even after family members requested that the items and cash to be returned, the police refused to answer. Wang Jianguo was sent to Jilin City First Detention Center. On April 11, 2006, Wang Jianguo's family was informed of his death. We write this account in hopes that his soul in heaven feels some comfort." They posted this account at the entrance so that everyone could read it and learn the facts about his death.

Since that day, many of Wang family's friends and neighbors have come to pay tribute to Wang Jianguo. Many people have even burned incense for him. Some migrant workers also came to see the boards. Despite the remote location of Wang's family, many people stopped by and saw these things. Many villagers said with tears in their eyes, "He died so tragically. Why did they kill such a good boy? The CCP is finished."

Names and numbers of the responsible parties:

Cong Maohua, Jilin City Detention Center: 86-432-4819029 (Office), 86-432-4819130 (operator)
Investigation Section of Chuanying District Police Department: 86-432-2406405
Chuanying District Police Department: 86-432-6962999
Jilin City Police: 86-432-2455848

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Xu Yin, Associate Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at Tsinghua University, was illegally arrested at his home by Hai Ding District Police Department on March 14, 2006. The police also confiscated Xu Yin's Falun Gong materials. On April 13, 2006, Xu was sentenced to two years in forced labor camp by the "Re-education" Committee of the People's Government in Beijing.

Professor Xu earned many awards for his outstanding performance at work. He earned the titles of "Advanced Worker" and "Outstanding Young Teacher" several times. His contributions to the advancement of civil engineering won several academic awards at the city and national levels. Many students and professors at Tsinghua University greatly respect Professor Xu.

Simply for possessing Falun Gong books and pamphlets Xu Yin was stripped of his freedom and rights. Xu Yin's wife is believed to be working abroad now. After the arrest, Xu Yin's fourteen-year-old son was left at home alone. The grandparents, in their seventies, had to rush to Beijing all the way from southern China to look after the child. Xu Yin's father has serious eye disease, which was exacerbated when he learned of Xu Yin's arrest and he had to have surgery. Xu Yin's family is under immense pressure and lives in agony. Xu Yin's elderly parents asked the Department of Civil Engineering at Tsinghua for help but received none. They then sought help from the Legal Support Center and the police department with faith in justice and the law, but this attempt was also fruitless.

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Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Zheng Dejun was illegally imprisoned and persecuted in Shayang Labor Camp in Hubei Province. Since July 2005, he has been brutally tortured. The camp did not allow his family to visit him, and his parents have not heard anything from him for almost a year.

Zheng Dejun, 29, was an employee of Gezhouba Foundation Company in Yichang City, Hubei Province. When the persecution began on July 20, 1999, he was one of the first practitioners who went to Beijing to appeal. In the second half of 1999 he was sentenced to a forced labor camp for three years. In the second half of 2002 when he was released, he was sent to the hospital for emergency care as a result of the severe persecution . He could not walk and his family members had to carry him home on their backs.

In late 2002, Xibeidaqiao Police Station, a Gezhouba Pinghu Police sub-Station Security Branch of Yichang City, and the security department of Foundation Company arrested Zheng Dejun at his new workplace. When Zheng Dejun was illegally detained, he was mercilessly beaten by director Zhang and the inmates in the detention center. Later he was illegally sentenced to the forced labor camp for three years.

In Shayang Labor Camp, Zheng Dejun did not cooperate with the evildoers. He was inhumanely tortured by the wardens and inmates, and was beaten in a small room, deprived of sleep, etc. His older parents traveled a long distance to visit him, but the guards would not allow them to see him. The guards even threatened to detain his parents in the camp.

In July 2005, Shayang Labor Camp added six months to his term because Zheng Dejun did not announce his name, did not report his number, and did not sing the CCP anthem. Since July 2005, Zheng Dejun has been illegally confined in a small room and deprived of sleep in Shayang Labor Camp. He was often brutally beaten by Warden Yu Bangqing. Zheng Dejun's parents were not allowed to visit him for nearly one year and have not heard anything about him.

Falun Data practitioners who are being persecuted include Zheng Dejun, Wang Yunhong, Zhang Long, Zou Yuantao, Zhu Zhengzhong, and Cen Xuedong.

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April 17, 2006 was the day Zhang Xiuling and Li Yongjun's jail terms ended, but they were not released on that day. Their family members waited outside the labor camp with relief and happiness that the two kind-hearted people, who remained steadfast in their beliefs, for which they suffered from illegal persecution for 21 months, were finally going to be released. However, the family members were told that their jail terms were extended to June 30 and June 2 respectively simply because Xiuling and Yongjun refused to give up their beliefs and refused to be "reformed" through forced labor.

During the one year and nine months of forced labor in the Jilin Provincial Women's Forced Labor Camp, Xiuling and Yongjun were beaten, otherwise tortured and verbally abused. They have suffered mental and physical collapses. However, such torture is still continuing.

Let's take a look at the whole process:

The family members called the labor camp and asked for a reason why Xiuling and Yongjun were not released. They were then told that Xiuling and Yongjun's terms were extended, but were not told for how long and why their terms were extended.

The family members then met by chance two prosecutors, a man and a woman, from the Changchun Municipal People's Procurator stationed in the camp and asked them the reasons. The female prosecutor said the reason for Xiuling's term extension to June 30th was her refusal to be "reformed", for holding a hunger strike, for continuing to do the Falun Gong exercises and refusing to perform the forced labor. Yongjun's term was extended to June 2 because she refused to be "reformed" and did not go to work. Further inquiries from the family members revealed that the terms were based on "the Methods of Incentives and Disincentives" used against Falun Gong practitioners initiated and implemented on April 1, 2005 by the Provincial Justice Department's Reeducation Through Hard Labor Bureau, which says, "If not reformed after one year of forced labor, depending on the circumstances, (the practitioners) may get 30 days to 180 days extended terms."

The family members challenged the legitimacy of the "Methods of Incentives and Disincentives," and once again went to talk with the women's labor camp's high-level officials and the Provincial Justice Department's Reeducation Through Forced Labor Bureau. The managing director Bai Guang admitted that they did have this policy.

Afterwards, the family members called the overall director of the Reeducation Through Forced Labor Bureau Wang Yanjun, who told them to contact the labor camp. Then the family members called the director of the labor camp Tian, who told them that because Xiuling and Yongjun were "well known" for refusing to be reformed, according to the "Methods of Incentives and Disincentives" of the Reeducation Through Forced Labor Bureau, the current extended terms were only a mild punishment ...

In addition to Zhang Xiuling and Li Yongjun, many other Falun Gong practitioners' terms were extended after suffering from illegal forced labor. From a legal perspective, forced labor is unlawful, and the extension of terms is even more unlawful. They violate the Constitution, which gives the citizens the right to freedom of belief. From the perspective of law enforcement procedures, the extended terms were never written down on legal documents and made known to the families or to Xiuling and Yongjun themselves until after the families' requests.

They set up a procurator system and have prosecutors in the labor camp. The Falun Gong practitioners and the staff in the labor camp know that the prosecutors do not handle Falun Gong practitioners' appeals. Their only job is to make sure that the practitioners cooperate with the labor camp officials and become "reformed." No matter how the practitioners appeal, the result is always the same.

Zhangxiuling held a hunger strike to protest the unfair treatment. On December 27, 2005, prison guard Liu Zhiwei in Group 4 pushed her from sixth floor to the fifth, and then kicked her from the fifth floor to the fourth, resulting in injury to Xiuling's legs and feet. Xiuling complained to the prosecutor at the labor camp and got no answer. Both the labor camp and the stationed prosecutors do their best to cover up the facts of the persecution. When the family members complained, the relevant departments and offices refused accountability. This type of persecution is being repeatedly utilized.

Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2006/5/2/126678.html

Falun Gong practitoner Ms. Sun Li has been on a hunger strike for about 20 days and is very weak. Her family has called urgently for her release on medical bail.

Ms. Sun Li is 50 years old. She was once a worker in the Jingang Group. She lives in the Agriculture Research Department Dormitory on Huaibei Road. On September 6, 2005, she was arrested by the Yuhua Branch of the Police Station. Because they found the Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party and other Falun Gong "truth clarification" materials, she was sentenced to prison for five years and six months by the Yuhua District Court at the beginning of March 2006. Ms. Sun was detained in Room 136 of the Second Detention Center in Shijiazhuang City. The police in the detention center constrained her in handcuffs and leg shackles. Ms. Sun believes herself to be innocent and has filed a lawsuit at the Intermediate Court in Shijiazhuang City.

After she was arrested on September 6, 2005, Ms. Sun was detained in the Honglou Hotel to be persecuted. The policemen once forced her to sit in the iron chair for 10 days and nights, not allowing her to sleep. When she was half-conscious, they forced a false confession out of her.

At the end of December 2005, the Yuhua District Court carried out a secret court investigation. Sun Li declared many times in front of the judge and the police that the affidavit she made in her half-conscious state was null and void, and that she did not harm society or anybody else at all. Ms. Sun was already very thin by then and also very weak. She demanded adamantly that she be released immediately.

Sun Li was once detained in Room 137 in the Second Detention Center, and has been detained in Room 136 since the middle of April 2006. She has already been on a hunger strike for about 20 days. She is very weak, but the police still shackled her with linked-shackles, in which handcuffs and leg shackles are linked together so that the victim cannot stand up, but only half-squat or completely squat.

Sun Li has been detained for more than 200 days. Her 80-year-old mother was very anxious for her daughter. Learning that her daughter went on a hunger strike for more than 20 days and was constrained in handcuffs and leg shackles, she became very anxious. The old woman called loudly, "No matter in which dynasty in history, victims have always been released on medical bail. I hope the officials concerned will conduct a careful investigation soon for the sake of an old white-haired woman, and rescue my daughter!"

To everyone with a sense of justice in China and overseas, please help to call for the rescue of Sun Li as soon as possible. We recommend that local Falun Gong practitioners who are able to actively participate in rescuing our fellow practitioner and help in clarifying the truth.

Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2006/4/29/126422.html

The brainwashing center in Linyi City, Shandong Province, publicly known as the "Law System Education Center," has been viciously persecuting Falun Gong practitioners. Practitioners held there have been tortured with brutal methods including sleep deprivation, severe beatings, force-feeding with salt water (applied to those who went on hunger strikes to resist the persecution), and constant torture by several people at the same time. All of the practitioners were illegally arrested and their families were fined anywhere between three thousand to five thousand yuan.

All this collected extortion money, as told, has been divided between the Irrigation Technical School and the 610 Office in Linyi City. The brainwashing center is located inside the school. The school has long been suffering financial difficulties and is currently unable to pay the faculty members, due to low student registrations. In the brainwashing center, there have been 7 or 8 teachers "hired" as persecutors. Money is a great temptation. The teachers were compiling a list of practitioners, and they kept calling the employers or managers of the practitioners' respective work places and threatened to force those Falun Gong practitioners to come to the brainwashing center. Starting at the end of 2001 and continuing to today, there have been more than three hundred practitioners illegally detained and persecuted in this brainwashing center.

In March of 2004, in the Linyi City brainwashing center, several security officers and others viciously beat Wu Jianguo with clubs. Wu Jianguo is a Falun Gong practitioner from Yishui County. He was covered in blood, and blood splashed onto the wall. They only stopped beating him when their clubs were broken and Wu Jianguo had lost consciousness.

Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2006/5/6/127009.html

1. [Liaoning Province] 16 Falun Gong Practitioners Imprisoned in the Tieling Labor Camp Were Transferred Elsewhere

The Tieling City Labor Camp in the Lingdong District of Tieling City has imprisoned sixteen Falun Gong practitioners for a long time. When a few family members of these Falun Gong practitioners went to visit them, they were told that all sixteen practitioners had already been transferred to Benxi on April 8. They were also told that they would be further transferred to Jinzhou to be imprisoned. (The exact location of imprisonment in Benxi and Jinzhou is as yet unknown)

2. [Shanghai City] Falun Gong Practitioner Shao Hongzhen's Life in Peril

Shanghai Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Shao Hongzhen was illegally arrested on January 23, 2006 while distributing truth clarification CDs in the Xuhui District Rihuiliu Village by the district security team. She was illegally detained and transferred into Xuhui District Police Station on March 1. Currently, the police department is trying to sentence Shao to a lengthy term.

3. [Fengman District, Jilin Province] Seventy Year-Old Falun Gong Practitioner Jiang Shufang Illegally Arrested

Ms. Jiang Shufang, approximately 70 years old, is a Falun Gong practitioner from the Maxiang Village, Erdao Village, Fengman District in Jilin City. On the night of April 27, 2006, she was reported to the authorities by Village Party Secretary Sun Zhanjiang while clarifying the truth and was arrested by several policemen from the Erdao Village Police Station. She is currently imprisoned in the Jilin Police Station.

4. [Heilongjiang Province] Falun Gong Practitioner Ba Lijiang Suffers Persecution in the Harbin Women's Prison

Falun Gong Practitioner Ms. Ba Lijiang was illegally arrested after being followed by police and is currently imprisoned in the Seventh District in the Harbin City Female Prison. She has held hunger strikes during her illegal imprisonment but was given force feedings.

A fellow practitioner who was recently released from the same prison revealed that Ba Lijiang has been once again persecuted for refusing to wear prison clothes and has been on a hunger strike since early March. She used to have four personal cangues, (1) but the prison staff has added one more. She has also been transferred to the Fourth District from the original Seventh District.

Note:

(1) Personal cangues - "Cangue," the name of an instrument of torture, is now used to indicate the person who was designated to supervise the behavior of practitioners.

5. [Donggang City, Liaoning Province] Several Falun Gong Practitioners Including Zhao Fuqin Arrested

On the night of April 27, Donggang City Police Department illegally arrested Ms. Zhao Fuqin and Ms. Ge Hongyou in Hejiagang Village, Helong Town, Donggang City. On the night of April 27, they also arrested Ms. E Tingchun and Ms. Shi Hongmei from Mamulinzi Village, as well as Zhang Xiaoping and his wife Sun Yongqin from Donggang Town. On the night of May 8, Falun Gong practitioner Yu Lingwen was also arrested.

6. [Chenxi City, Hunan Province] Falun Gong Practitioners Hu Chougai and Ning Tieqiao Illegally Imprisoned

Mr. Hu Chougai was illegally imprisoned in September 2004 for distributing truth-clarification materials. Hu Chougai is a Falun Gong practitioner from Longquanya Village, Chenxi City. He previously had internal bleeding in his stomach and could not afford the medical expenses, but fully recovered after practicing Falun Gong. In order to let his friends and relatives know the truth of the persecution, he began distributing truth-clarification materials. He was illegally detained and his current whereabouts is unknown.

Hu Chougai has two 80 year-old parents and two children. His wife has also been illegally imprisoned for three years. His family has been totally destroyed, and his elderly mother is also in very bad health.

Chenxi Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Ning Tieqiao, 26, became very compassionate and hardworking after practicing Falun Gong. His current whereabouts is also unknown after having been arrested in September 2004.

7. [Liaoning Province] Gu Yanqing Has Been Illegally Imprisoned Since May 2004

Mr. Gu Yanqing was reported to the authorities and arrested on May 4, 2004 in Zhenggou Village, Chengzitan Town, Pulandian City while distributing truth-clarification materials. He was thereafter illegally detained for 19 months in the Pulandian Detention Center. On December 9, 2005, he was transferred to the Anshan Prison where he has been imprisoned until today. His 94 year-old father and his son are still waiting at home for his return.

8. [Liaoning Province] Three Falun Gong Practitioner Illegally Arrested by Spying Policemen While Distributing Truth Clarification Materials in Longshou Mountain, Tieling City Before May 1 Labor Day

9. [Weihai City, Shandong Province] Falun Gong Practitioner He Shuxia Arrested

Ms. He Shuxia, a Falun Gong practitioner from Weihai City, was reported to the authorities simply because she gave out changes having writings of "Falun Dafa is Good" to customers in her self-owned cake shop.  Before the May 1 Labor Day she was arrested by policemen from Xilaotai Border Police Station and moved to Gao District Police Department. She is currently imprisoned in Weihai Detention Center.

10. [Shandong Province] Falun Gong Practitioner Wang Housheng Suffers Persecution in the Shandong Province Second Labor Camp

After Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Wang Housheng was illegally taken away from work by Yucheng Police Department on December 30, 2005, he was sent to forced labor for a year and a half and then imprisoned in the Second Labor Camp of Shandong Province . His family members are still prohibited from visiting him.

Other Falun Gong practitioners from the same labor camp have revealed that Wang has been persecuted badly and his heart is failing. Even so, the labor camp staff refuses to release him.

11. [Nanjing City, Jiangsu Province] Falun Gong Practitioner Pan Xiaoqin Again Imprisoned in the Nantong Prison

Nanjing City Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Pan Xiaoqin is an employee at the Provincial Senior Officials Rehabilitation Center. In 2001, she was arrested by the Nanjing Baixia District Police Department and 610 Office for posting banners that said, "Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance is Good!" and similar truth-clarification materials. She was illegally sentenced to three years of imprisonment at the Nantong Prison.

In the summer of 2005, she was released from prison six months before the end of her term but was a target of surveillance by the police. On June 11, 2005, Pan Xiaoqin was once again arrested by the Baixia District Police Department and 610 Office while meeting a fellow practitioner in the Meiling Palace in Nanjing. Once again she was imprisoned in the Nantong Prison and has been there ever since.

12. [Beijing City] Falun Gong Practitioners Zhang Xueqin, Chen Ping and Others Arrested

After the arrest of Beijing Falun Gong practitioners Ms. Zhang Xueqin and Ms. Chen Ping by policemen from the Shangdi and Qinghe Police Station on the morning of March 14, 2006 in their homes, they were brought to Haidian District Police Department. Their family members were prohibited from visiting them until May 8, including Chen Ping's very young child.

Another practitioner who lives in Shangdi and is only known as "Old Mr. Sun" has also been arrested and his current whereabouts is unknown.

13. [Chengdu City, Sichuan Province] Falun Gong Practitioners Wang Xiaosong and Wife Arrested

In late April 2006, Falun Gong practitioners Mr. Wang Xiaosong and wife Mrs. Yu Shaoping from Dayi County, Chengdu City were illegally arrested by policemen while distributing truth clarification materials. They are currently imprisoned in the Dayi County Detention Center. This is immediately following Wang Xiaosong's eight-month long imprisonment and persecution suffered at the Xinjin County Brainwashing Center.

14. [Wuhan City, Hubei Province] Zhang Chunmei Continues to Suffer Persecution While Imprisoned in the Wuhan Yangyuan Brainwashing Center

On March 24, 2006, four Falun Gong practitioners from Yangyuan were arrested. Among them was Mrs. Zhang Chunmei, who's husband Mr. Li Qinzhou was persecuted to death in 2003. Zhang had come to Wuhan to help bring up her daughter. After Zhang's arrest, the police tried to blackmail 5,000 yuan from her former workplace (in Shaanxi Province) and sent her to the Shaanxi 610 Office for persecution. Zhang Chunmei is currently imprisoned in the Yangyuan Brainwashing Center.

15. [Wuhan City, Hubei Province] Falun Gong Practitioner Xie Yuanxie Arrested by the Xinan Police Station

At around 11:00 a.m. on May 8, Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Xie Yuanxia, a worker at the Hanzheng Street Central Mall, was forcibly taken away by policemen from the Xinan Police Station. Eight or nine plainclothes policemen and two uniformed policemen were involved in the arrest. The policemen identification numbers are 028720, 028402, and 028513. Among them is a policemen surnamed Yang who is a residence registry policeman from this police station. The police claim to have been following Xie for four days. Xie is currently illegally imprisoned in a brainwashing center in Duoluokou, Jiaokou District.

Furthermore, several Falun Gong practitioners working in the Jinchang Textile Company directly opposite the Hanzheng Street Central Mall have been arrested.

16. [Hebei Province] Li County Culture Exhibition Displays Falun Gong Defaming Programs

On April 30, 2006, the Hebei Li County Culture Bureau (formerly Li County Culture Education Ministry) organized a culture display program on a public square in Li County defaming Falun Gong.