(Clearwisdom.net)

Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Zhao Shuying from Wei County, Zhangjiakou City, Hebei Province, has suffered from persecution in the Baoding City's Gaoyang Forced Labor Camp for over a year. She has been unable to take care of herself for a long time, but is still detained.

[Xuchang City, Henan Province] Practitioner Wang Hongchang Arrested

On January 17, 2006, practitioner Wang Hongchang and others from Yanling were arrested in Yuzhou. Large quantities of materials were confiscated from the truth-clarification materials production site.

On January 17, 2006, personnel from the local Communist regime's 610 Office illegally arrested several practitioners from Zhuanghanmiao Village, Mihe Town, Qingzhou City, Shandong Province.

During the evening of January 17, 2006, personnel from the Sujiadian Town Police Department in Huachuan County arrested four practitioners from that county. At 8:00 p.m. on January 16, 2006, practitioner Liu Lijuan, her husband Ai Rong (a non-practitioner) and their 14-year-old child Hu Huili were arrested for distributing copies of the Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party in the village.

Ms. Zhou Zhi is a retired employee of Chengdu City's Hongming Electronic and Machinery Factory. On November 30, 2005, she and other practitioners were taken to a police station when distributing truth-clarifying materials. It was verified that she was recently put into the Peng County Brainwashing Class in Chengdu City.

Practitioner Mr. Zhang Guisheng from Benxi City has been sentenced to twelve years of imprisonment because of his belief in Falun Dafa. Currently he is being held at the No. 2 Ward of the Jinzhou City Prison and is suffering brutal torture. He is forced to squat for long periods of time, deprived of sleep and tortured with a method called the "big stretch." Zhang Guisheng suffered insomnia for over 20 days because of the persecution. A formerly healthy and kind man now cannot raise his right arm and has difficulty walking. Three people with major responsibility for complicity in the persecution are Cui Jian, Jin Wei and Zhang Huaidong.

Practitioner Mr. Yuan Peng, 38 years old, lives at Shangjiahe, Fushun City, Liaoning Province. In October 2004, police from the City's Lishi Development District arrested him and put him into the Nangou Detention Center for a while. His mother went to visit him last fall, but the detention center authorities told her that her son had already been transferred to Shenyang City. For the past 12 months, Mr. Yuan's family has been unable to see him.

[Zhangjiakou City, Hebei Province] Officials in the Xuanhua Natural Gas Company Persecute Practitioner Ms. Zheng Yumei

Ms. Zheng Yumei, a cashier from the Xuanhua Natural Gas Company in Zhangjiakou City, Hebei Province was reported to the company manager for clarifying the truth about Falun Gong at work. Personnel from the company's Security Section ransacked Ms. Zheng's home and confiscated a copy of "Zhuan Falun." Company management talked with Zheng Yumei every day for a whole week and tried to force her to sign a so-called "guarantee statement." They threatened her, saying that if she refused to sign the statement they would send her to the 610 Office. Zheng refused to give in. They are still persecuting her today.

Zhao Yanjun, the company's Party Secretary, is most responsible for the persecution of Zheng Yumei: 86-13603136688 (cell), 86-313-3013631 Ext 5002 (office), 86-313-3013631 Ext 5056 (home)

Recently, police authorities from the Shijiazhuang City Forced Labor Camp came up with a new scheme. They forced the family members to slander Dafa and Master when they arrived for a visit with practitioners; otherwise, they're not allowed to see their loved ones.

The No. 9 Ward of Heilongjiang Province Women's Prison is designated as a "transformation" ward. Practitioners are forced to watch videos slandering Falun Dafa, they are deprived of sleep and tied up with their heads and feet together. The guards beat and kick practitioners, threaten them and force practitioners to "reform." They send anyone who "reforms" upstairs so as to keep them away from the practitioners who remain firm in their belief. When they have room, they accept practitioners from other wards, and continue the "reforming" work on them. People who have participated in these acts of persecution include:

Liu Zhiqiang, prison head
Xiao Lin, Detection Section chief
Yan Yuhua, head of the No. 9 Ward
Jia Wenjun, a policeman
Xu Zhen, a criminal inmate

On April 11, 2005, security personnel arrested 43-year-old practitioner Ms. Liu Chunhua when she was distributing truth-clarifying materials in Gaoxinyuan District, Dalian City residential area. Ms. Liu was taken to the Hekou Bianfang Police Station and subsequently sentenced to three years of imprisonment by the Ganjinzi District Court. She is currently on hunger strike at Liaoning Province Women's Prison.

At around 4:00 p.m. on December 21, 2005, practitioner Li Jianming was arrested.

In early December 2005, police arrested practitioner Ms. Wang Yufang, who is from Zhaochuan Town, Xuanhua County, Zhangjiakou City, Hebei Province, when she was clarifying the truth of Falun Gong in Liuliqiao, the Fengtai District, in Beijing.

On January 6, 2006, police arrested practitioner Zhou Fengying.

On January 11, 2006, practitioner Ms. Song Pingxiu from Xichang City was arrested for clarifying the truth of Falun Gong at a vegetable market. Currently she is being held in the City Drug Rehabilitation Center. The case has been transferred to the City National Security Brigade. Policemen Luo Yi and Wang Yongrong are in charge of this case.

The methods policemen in the Shenyang City Women's Prison (also called Masanjia Forced Labor Camp) use to torture Falun Dafa practitioners include: sleep deprivation, forcing practitioners to squat, holding a certain posture for an extended time and beating. They even forbid practitioners from using the toilet (for as long as a month at a time), hang practitioners from heating pipes, shock them with electric batons, tie their four limbs together, tie them to a death bed, monitor them around the clock and force them to work extremely long hours. What is listed above is only part of the torture methods.

The police arrested four practitioners when they were shopping in the downstairs area at Zhongguancun's Science & Trade Building. The captors sent them to the fourth floor of the Huadu Hotel, Gaobeidian City. Many Gaobeidian City Police Department agents were temporarily transferred to torture the practitioners: they deprived the practitioners of sleep for three days in a row, beat, cursed and threatened them. A practitioner named Li Gang was shocked to the point of incontinence and went into a coma for several hours. Later the practitioners were separately sent to Zhuozhou City Detention Center. (This incident is part of a retaliation plot on the part of the police after the recent rape of two female Falun Dafa practitioners in Hebei Province was publicized worldwide.)

To resist the persecution, several practitioners staged a hunger strike. They have stopped drinking water and eating for over ten days and have become extremely weak. Yang Yugang and other personnel from the National Security Team send the practitioners to the Emergency Section of Erkang Hospital daily for force-feeding. One practitioner's life is in peril now. Detention center warden Yang Yugang and other personnel said, "If he dies, just send him to the crematory." One practitioner managed to escape from the hospital. His whereabouts is unknown. Another practitioner is being severely tortured and his face is badly disfigured from torture.

At around 1:00 p.m. on January 16, 2006, plainclothes police arrested two Falun Dafa practitioners while they were distributing Falun Dafa truth-clarifying material to people in Laodong Park. The practitioners' names are unknown. The female practitioner is in her 40's, and the male practitioner is in his 30's.

According to inside sources, Haiyang City's 610 Office agents arrested more than ten practitioners from Xujiadian Town in 2005. They also arrested two practitioners from Zhanchangbo Village and sentenced practitioner Gong Zaisheng from Songshukuang, Guocheng Town to forced labor.

Telephone number for the 610 Office in Dayanjia, Haiyang City: 86-535-3322610.

Practitioner Mr. Li Wen from Gaojiazhuang Village, Wutu Town, Changle County is 34 years old. In October 2000, he was sentenced to three years of forced labor. During this period of time he was subjected to all kinds of inhumane torture. He was released in October 2003. On January 10, 2006, Mr. Li was arrested again for distributing truth-clarifying materials and is now held at the Changle County Detention Center.

Practitioner Mr. Liu Bingyou, 46 years old, is an employee of the Changle County Hotel. The night of January 9, 2006, he was arrested while distributing truth-clarifying materials and is now held at the Changle County Detention Center.

January 17, 2006