Rong Wei has practiced Falun Dafa (Falun Buddha Law) since 1994. He devotes himself to spreading Dafa by traveling to many places to promote it. Through his efforts, many people obtained Falun Dafa.
One day after July 22, 1999, Rong Wei was fired by his job because he refused to write a pledge to give up practicing Falun Dafa. On October 28, 1999, Dafa was labeled a [slanderous phrase] by the Chinese government. He and some other practitioners from Beijing went to Tiananmen Square to tell people the truth of Falun Dafa. Because of that, he was illegally detained at Haidian Detention Center, Haidian District, Beijing for 30 days. In February 2000, the officers of Beijing University found that he practiced the Dafa exercises outside of his on-campus dwelling and illegally sent him to Haidian Detention Center for 30 days. In April 2000, police found that he and a few other practitioners studied Dafa together at his home. Rong Wei and his wife Ms. Gao were arrested and illegally detained at Haidian Detention Center another 30 days.
On June 19, 2000, Rong Wei and some other practitioners went outdoors to practice the Dafa exercises. They were arrested by police from Haidian District Police Station and put into custody. To protest the persecution of Dafa practitioners by Jiang Zemin and his followers, Rong Wei held a hunger strike. He was force-fed by police at the Detention Center but refused to cooperate. The brutal force-feeding caused him to bleed from the nose for 9 hours. For fear of his death, police sent him to the police hospital (a hospital that is administrated by police) for an infusion of blood. In the hospital, he was cuffed to a bed as he refused to cooperate with the persecution of Dafa practitioners by police. The ambient temperature was as high as 40oC (104 oF) in Beijing in June 2000. He could not move because he was cuffed to the bed everyday. The infusion was not enough to compensate for his body's consumption and evaporation. A few days later, he felt pain in his heart. Nearly fainting, he thought to defend Dafa with his life. At that very moment, with a big sound of "Bang", the handcuff on his right hand was suddenly unlocked. This is just as what Master said: "If a cultivator can let go of the thought of life and death under any circumstances, evil is bound to be afraid of him. If every practitioner is able to do this, evil will of itself no longer exist." (From Master Li's article "Eliminate your last attachment(s)". http://www.falundafa.org/book/eng/jw_19.htm). A few days later, he was directly released from the hospital.
In July 2000, in order to have more people learn the truth of Falun Dafa and to not cooperate with police in order to persecute Dafa practitioners, he left home and stayed away. His wife Ms. Gao was sentenced to Tuanhe Labor Camp for forced labor education on July 21, 2000.
In early November 2000, Rong Wei and Dafa practitioner Yao Wei were arrested while they were distributing flyers that tell the truth about Dafa. They are now imprisoned at Haidian District Detention Center. Rong Wei has held a hunger strike (no food, no water) for one and half months and is in critical condition. We sincerely appeal to all kind-hearted people for assistance to the release of Rong Wei.