Jiang's regime has issued quotas for the numbers of Falun Dafa practitioners to be arrested across the country. This action comes just prior to the "Two Sessions" [the sessions of the National People's Congress and the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference]. It has been learned that so far over a thousand people have been arrested in Liaoyang City, Liaoning Province, alone. Two others have been arrested in Jinzhou City.

Fushun City's "610 Office" [an agency specifically created to persecute Falun Gong, with absolute power over each level of administration in the Party and all other political and judiciary systems] in Liaoning Province is planning a new round of persecution of Falun Dafa practitioners. "610 Office" officials have summoned a group of collaborators to prepare for the brainwashing classes. The targeted practitioners are those in forced labor camps who have all along been resisting persecution with righteous thoughts. Also targeted are practitioners in various districts across the city who have been registered by local police stations.

On February 17, 2003, Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Zou Lijun of the Drilling Technology Company in Daqing City, Heilongjiang Province was arrested by police officers from the Babaixiang Police Station. Falun Dafa practitioner Xu Pujun from Hongwei Village in Daqing City was arrested at the same time. It has been learned that Zou Lijun has been on a hunger strike since the moment she was sent to the brainwashing class.

Mr. Xi Ge, 28 years old, is currently being held in Beijing Women's Forced Labor Camp. After more than a year's torture his body has been seriously damaged. Nevertheless he has maintained an extended hunger strike to publicize the innocence of Falun Dafa and its founder. Recently, word has spread throughout the Camp that Mr. Xie has experienced a miracle. When the police shackled and handcuffed him with custom-made cuffs, he lost consciousness and his entire body was paralyzed. When he was released, however, he could practice the Falun Gong exercises, and then he was able to run! Everyone in the forced labor camp has been shocked by this phenomenon.

When a 60-year-old Falun Dafa practitioner learned that his over 80-year-old father living overseas was in serious condition, the son tried to apply for a passport to visit him. The local police station held on to his residential ID for a long time. Even though he went to the station several times, the police refused to return his residential ID, without which he can't apply for a passport. He has been denied the opportunity to pay his father a visit simply for practicing "Truthfulness-Benevolence-Forbearance."

Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Li Zhifen went to Tiananmen Square to validate Falun Dafa in July 2001 and was taken to the Tiananmen Police Station. She was unconditionally released when she refused to provide her name and address. At the end of December she went to Beijing again to uphold the Fa and was arrested for a second time. This time she was tricked into revealing her address and was sent back to be detained in her local detention center. In January 2002 she was sentenced to the Women's Forced Labor Camp in Henan Province for a 2-year term. The camp refused to accept her because of her age, so she was taken back to the detention center and held in custody for another six months before being sent to a brainwashing class for persecution. During her unlawful detention, her husband suffered such mental anguish and physical deprivation without her care that he died in pain with a broken heart.

Falun Dafa practitioner Pei Chuanjie is an employee of the Hole Punching Bullets Factory in Daqing City, Heilongjiang Province. On February 17, 2003, Pei was abducted to a brainwashing class for persecution. Also abducted at the same time were Liu Hanxue from another company and other practitioners.

People responsible for the persecution:

Liu Xinhe, party secretary of the Hole Punching Bullets Factory, telephone number: 86-459-4698456
Zhang Yueqin, president of the Hole Punching Bullets Factory, telephone number: 86-459-4698043
Liu Nianjun, chairperson of the labor union of the Hole Punching Bullets Factory, telephone number: 86-459-4698601
Kan Deping, director of the "610 Office" of the Hole Punching Bullets Factory, telephone number: 86-459-4698418, fax number: 86-459-4698169
Yu Zhujun, party secretary, the Hole Punching Bullets Branch Factory, telephone number: 86-459-4690147
Zhang Liancheng, head of economic security brigade, the Hole Punching Bullets Factory, telephone number: 86-459-4697046

On January 27, 2003, Jiang Yang and a group of a dozen or so police officers from Dongji Police Station in Liaoyuan City, Jilin Province, laid siege to the home of Li Yan's mother. No one opened the door when the officers knocked, so they climbed to the second floor and broke in through the windows to gain entry. Li Yan was forcibly dragged into a police vehicle. It is not clear what Li Yan's current situation is.

Zhang Wei and his wife Hu Huifang are Falun Dafa practitioners in Wuhan City, Hubei Province. On February 21, an officer from the police department in Wuhan City abducted them and their 3-year-old daughter along with another female fellow practitioner.

Before the Chinese lunar New Year's Day, Falun Dafa practitioner Liu Huimin was transferred to a mental hospital for escalated persecution. Before that, Ms. Liu had been unlawfully held in the Yangyuan Brainwashing Center in Wuchang District.

Police officers Li Guiping, Liu Fuxing, Wang Yulin, Gao Yongjing, Li Xiaodong, Zhang Xiaofeng and others in Tangshan City Forced Labor Camp have been actively engaged in the brutal torture of Falun Dafa practitioners. They have deprived practitioners of sleep, conducted forced-feedings, physically penalized practitioners by forcing them to stand for extended hours, beaten them with electric batons, tied them up tightly with ropes, and deployed many other inhumane methods of torture.