(Clearwisdom.net)

Falun Dafa practitioner Chen Gang has been under severe persecution at Ping'antai Forced Labor Camp. According to reliable sources, Chen was taken to a hospital on April 26, 2003 as a result of inhumane treatment. When Chen's family went to visit, Chen could not move the hands, legs, or feet. The right side of Chen's face was injured, and Chen was emaciated. After the Spring Festival in January 2004, Chen remained in the hospital when Chen's father went there for a visit. In September 2004, Chen's parents went to the labor camp together but the authorities would not allow them to see Chen.

Falun Dafa practitioner Gao Jingju, over 70 years old, lives in the Dongli District of Harbin City, Heilongjiang Province. On December 10, 2003, Gao and daughter Ms. Gao Hongling were arrested for raising public awareness about the persecution of Falun Gong at Manhattan Shopping Plaza. After being held for ten months at Daoli Detention Center, Gao was sentenced to eight years in prison. At present, Gao cannot walk as a result of torture received in custody. Ms. Gao Hongling has been unlawfully sentenced to three years in prison.

Ms. Guo Yulan is a Falun Gong student in Beijing. She is a retired teacher from Beijing Normal University. From 2001 to 2002, she served an unlawful term of forced labor for one year and a half at Xin'an Forced Labor Camp and Beijing Women's Prison. On September 30, 2004, she was again placed under arrest by Huayuan Road Police Station in Haidian District.

Ms. Xia Guiqin, 67, was a Falun Dafa practitioner in the Chuanying District of Jilin City, Jilin Province. She lived under the jurisdiction of Xida Police Station, a subsidiary of Chuanying District Branch Police Department. Ms. Xia had been to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong. She witnessed severe beatings and inhumane treatment of her son by the police, the neighborhood administration officials, and the guards at the Huanxiling Forced Labor Camp. At present, her son must rely on others to care for his daily needs. In addition she herself had been under constant harassment from the police. On September 4, 2004, Ms. Xia died as a result of persecution.

Falun Dafa practitioner Zhao Yupu, 71, is from Bei'an City, Heilongjiang Province. Zhao retired from a store in Regiment No. 7 of Zhaoguang Farm in Bei'an City. Zhao started practicing Falun Dafa in 1997 and got rid of all his illnesses after that.

In May 2001, Gong Xiaodong and others from the farm's police department ransacked Zhao's home and confiscated all the Falun Dafa books. Zhao was also arrested and unlawfully sentenced to two years in prison by the police department. The police also extorted 2,000 yuan in cash. Zhao served the term out of prison because of his advanced age. Under tremendous pressure, and saddened and angered by the unjust treatment, Zhao died on June 10, 2004.

Ms. Li Cuilan is an employee of an electric factory in Datong City, Shanxi Province. She lives at the factory's family quarters on Xiaoxi Street.

Prior to her practicing Falun Dafa, she suffered severe osteophytosis. She could not raise her arms or lift her legs. She had to lie in bed when it turned serious and use a catheter. After starting practicing Falun Dafa, her condition improved so much that she could do some household chores. She also benefited mentally.

It was July 20, 1999 when Jiang Zemin started persecuting Falun Gong. On July 24, under coercion and threat from the Pingwang Police Station and the security section of the electric factory, her husband, out of fear, destroyed her audio cassettes of Falun Gong exercises. She was desperate and cried out loudly. A week later, she felt sick and became bedridden. She was never able to get out of bed after that and died a year later at the age of 44.

Mr. Liu Zhenwu, 63, and his wife Ms. Wang Jinlian, 61, are residents of Group No. 4 at Baotahu Village in Nanzhou Town, Nan County in the Yiyang area of Hunan Province. The couple started practicing Falun Dafa in 1997 and benefited greatly mentally and physically.

In December 1999, they went to Beijing to validate Falun Dafa and were taken back by Nan County police and unlawfully held at the detention center for fifteen days.

In April 2000, Mr. Liu was unlawfully detained for fifteen days by the local police simply for visiting a local practitioner's home. On the third day of his release, over twenty fellow practitioners came visiting him, all of whom were arrested. Mr. Liu was detained for thirty days and the rest of the practitioners fifteen days. Three months later, the police deceived and arrested Mr. Liu and subsequently sentenced him to eighteen months of forced labor without going through any legal process.

In March 2003, Mr. Liu was turned in to the police for raising public awareness about the persecution against Falun Gong. On the early morning of March 28, the police ransacked his home and again arrested him. After six months of custody, he was living under surveillance (not at his home) for seven more months. At the end of the seventh month, he was not released. Instead, on January 15, 2004, he was suddenly notified that he had been sentenced to two years of forced labor. He is currently being unlawfully held at Xinkaipu Forced Labor Camp in Changsha City, Hunan Province.

Mr. Liu Zhenwu's wife Wang Jinlian went to Beijing to validate Falun Dafa for a second time in December 2000. She was arrested by Beijing police and sent to Shunli County for four days of custody. She was then detained in Nan County for over twenty days before being sent to the forced labor camp for eighteen months.

In March 2003, Ms. Wang was unlawfully detained for six months by the Nan County Police Department for raising public awareness about the persecution of Falun Gong. She was then living under surveillance (not at her home) for seven more months. She was not released until fifty days after the end of the unlawful term.

From February to April 2004, Falun Dafa practitioners Liu Kaihua, Gui Maixiang, Wang Zhilan and Wang Jinlian went to raise awareness of the persecution of Falun Gong among police officers, state security officers and members of the "610 Office." In June all the practitioners were arrested by the police. At present, the practitioners are being held at Baimalong in Zhuzhou City.

On April 27, 2002, fully armed police officers led by Yang Rongyi, of the Jieyang City "610 Office," Huang Wanbiao, head of the city's State Security Unit, and Wang and Pan Junyang, of the police department, arrived in eight vehicles. They carried guns and arrested Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Sun Jiefeng and another woman practitioner whose name is unknown. While the practitioners were handcuffed with their arms behind their backs and being thrown into the police vehicle, they shouted "Falun Dafa Is Good." Officers immediately took transparent duct tape out of the vehicle and sealed the practitioners' mouths.

Ms. Sun's 1,400 yuan in cash as well as her cellular phone were taken into possession by the police officers. After she was arrested, she was taken to Jieyang City No. 1 Detention Center. In the first two days and nights, she was beaten numerous times by a group of officers. A month later, she was sent to Sanshui Forced Labor Camp in Guangdong Province for an unlawful term of three years of forced labor. When the leaders of her work unit went to visit her in the labor camp, her whole body was swollen and she looked terrible.

Relevant telephone number:

Yang Rongyi, of Jieyang City "610 Office": 86-13902763878 (cellular)

October 4, 2004