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Falun Dafa practitioner Hu Xiaobo is 62 years old and lives in Jiamusi City, Heilongjiang Province. He began practicing Falun Dafa in 1998. He went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong in late July 1999, and was arrested on Tiananmen Square and taken to Zhanqian Police Station. From there he was taken to Fengtai Stadium, where he held a hunger strike to protest the illegal detention. In the evening, Hu Xiaobo was taken back to Jiamusi City, and officers from the Jiamusi City Police Department directly sent him to Jiamusi City Detention Center, where he was held for fifteen days. Li Yunyang, head of the city police department and other officers extorted more than 10,000 yuan before releasing Mr. Hu.

Hu Xiaobo went to Beijing again to appeal for justice for Falun Gong on October 20, 2000. He was arrested at Tiananmen Square and taken to Jiamusi City Liaison Office in Beijing, where he was held for seven days. The Jiamusi City police took him to a local detention center and held him there for 27 days. Hu Xiaobo was made to pay for the expenses incurred when people from his work unit and the police department picked him up in Beijing. His work unit deducted 3,000 yuan from his salary, and officers from the Xiangyang Police Department in Jiamusi City extorted 4,000 yuan from his family before he was released.

Four officers from the Xiangyang Police Department ransacked Hu Xiaobo’s home in May 2003 without following any due legal procedure. They took away Mr. Hu's Dafa books and audio cassettes, and tried to take him away as well. Hu Xiaobo escaped, but had to leave his home to avoid further persecution.