A civil servant privately and mildly disagrees with anti-Falun Gong comments by a regional Communist Party Secretary. When it was realized she was a practitioner, she was arrested and sentenced to prison. Her husband has also been arrested and imprisoned.

An account of the rapid decline since October , 2007 of Mr. Jiang  with details of his experience.

Ms. Shi Xiangdong Her Husband Mr. Liu Xin Imprisoned for Practicing Falun Gong

On April 29, 2007, Ms. Shi Xiangdong, a 37-year-old civil servant from the Shijiazhuang Religious Affairs Bureau, attended a work meeting at the No. 1 Guest House that was hosted by Wu Xianguo, CCP Secretary of the Shijiazhuang Party Committee. After the meeting, Shi Xiangdong kindly reminded Wu Xianguo that what he said about Falun Gong was wrong and would damage his reputation. As soon as Wu discovered that Ms. Shi was a Falun Gong practitioner, a few plainclothes officers emerged, and pushed Shi Xiangdong to the ground, then forcibly took her to a detention center. The police also later arrested her husband, Mr. Liu Xin, when he went to visit her. Their home was also ransacked.

A case was filed in Qiaoxi District Court, Shijiazhuang City, and no one knew when the trial took place. On November 9, the family was notified of the illegal judgment and learned that Ms. Shi Xiangdong had been sentenced to three years of imprisonment, and her husband was sentenced to five years in prison. Both have appealed the verdicts. Mr. Liu has been on a hunger strike since the day he received notification of the sentence.

Currently, the family consists of only Mr. Liu Xin's mother, who is in her seventies with poor health, and the couple's six-year-old daughter. Mr. Liu's mother is very worried about her son's health condition. She is often in tears all day long, while struggling to take care of her young granddaughter.

The Brutal Abuse of Mr. Jiang Lide in Dehui City Detention Center in Jilin Province

On September 20, 2007, police officers Guo Fengjun, Wang Li and several others from Wutai Township Police Station broke into practitioner Mr. Jiang Lide's home in Wutai Township, Dehui City, Jilin Province, and arrested him. They detained Mr. Jiang in Dehui City Detention Center.

Mr. Jiang was held in Room 206. His roommates, criminal inmates Liu and Yu, watched him around the clock. He started a hunger strike to protest his detention and persecution and to petition for his release. Ordered by the detention center director, guards, and doctors, Liu and Yu brutally force-fed Mr. Jiang. A large quantity of salt was added to the forced-feeding solution and Mr. Jiang's mouth and cheeks were injured while being forced-fed. One of his upper front teeth was knocked out.

On October 8, 2007, Mr. Jiang was transferred to Room 210. Death row inmates restrained in 40 pounds shackles, murderers, and rapists were also detained there. Zhang Zhenfeng, the guard overseeing this room, was very cruel. Because Mr. Jiang continued his hunger strike, Zhang instigated the inmates to force-feed him. During one incident, Mr. Jiang was almost tortured to death. The inmates would often beat or verbally abuse him.

On October 10, 2007, Chen Shusan, the director of the detention center, and Zhang Zhenfeng told Mr. Jiang that he would not be allowed to sleep for three days and nights if he continued to refuse to eat. He was told that if he continued his hunger strike, there would be even more brutal torture. The same day, four inmates were instructed to carry Mr. Jiang and put him in the middle of a bed frame, where he had to sit on the wooden boards.

Mr. Jiang was very weak and he suffered from leg injuries incurred during a previous beating. It was very difficult for him to sit on the boards. Four inmates surrounded him as one pulled his ears and one kicked him in the stomach to force him to eat. Suddenly, Feng Bao, a criminal from Jiutai City, kicked him in the lower back very hard. Mr. Jiang almost passed out. He was in so much pain that he cried out in pain. Then they stuffed a shoe in his mouth and tied a rope around his head to hold the shoe in place. Later director Chen Shusan, Dong Deli, guard Zhang Zhenfeng, and doctor Li Yazhou went to Mr. Jiang's room. Mr. Jiang requested an x-ray of his injury, but he was ignored.

Because of his lower back injury, Mr. Jiang needed two people to help him go to the restroom. Others had to assist him in his daily life. At times he experienced so much pain that he cried out. Even though he was exhibiting this degree of pain, the officials of the detention center refused to have him examined and the perpetrator, Feng Bao, was not punished.

By the morning of October 25, 2007, Mr. Jiang was skin and bones and barely recognizable. Wang from the Law Enforcement Section and Chen Endai from the State Security Office of Dehui City Police Department drove Mr. Jiang to Yinmahe Forced Labor Camp in Jiutai City, Jilin Province. During the pre-admittance physical, Jiutai Hospital diagnosed Mr. Jiang with a fractured lower back and concluded that he was no longer able to take care of himself and therefore was certainly unable to do hard labor. The labor camp refused to admit him. The police had to no other choice but to tell his family to come and take him home.

Mr. Jiang is currently in a very weak condition and is bedridden from fractures to his legs. There is pus oozing from one of his legs, and his condition is precarious.