(Clearwisdom.net) As the traditional Chinese New Year festival approached, everyone was hurrying home to get together with their families. In the meantime, several Falun Gong practitioners from the Shengli Oil Field were arrested and are being brutally persecuted simply for their beliefs, because they wish to be morally righteous, and because they wish to expose the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) persecution of Falun Gong.

Mr. Zheng Ruihuan and Ms. Liu Yinglan are senior electrical engineers in the Jidong Oil Field in Tangshan City, Hebei Province. As a result of their practicing Falun Gong, the Jidong Oil Field officials in Tangshan City threatened them and extorted money from them. They were forced into exile in 2002 and moved to the Shengli Oil Field. On the afternoon of July 8, 2005, the Zibo City National Security Bureau in Shandong Province and the Binhai Police Department of Shengli Oil Field arrested them. Mr. Zheng and Ms. Liu were taken to the Binhai Detention Center of the Shengli Oil Field, where they suffered long-term torture and persecution. Thereafter, on November 30, 2005, the Dongying District CCP Court in Dongying City, Shandong Province put them on trial. To date, they are still imprisoned in the Binhai Detention Center of the Shengli Oil Field.

The Dongying District CCP Court That Tried Mr. Zheng Ruihuan and Ms. Liu Yinglan

In May 2005, CCP officials once again arrested Falun Gong practitioners Mr. Zhang Aiquan, Ms. Wang Mingyun and Mr. Yu Desheng. They are currently imprisoned in the Huantai County Detention Center. Policemen from the Shandong Province Public Security Department have directly participated in persecuting these three Falun Gong practitioners, while the Zibo City Court has also tried to bring these three practitioners to trial.

Mr. Zhang Aiquan, a former traffic policeman from the Binhai Public Security Bureau of the Shengli Oil Field, works at the Dongxin Oil Extraction Factory of the Shengli Oil Field. He was arrested in July 2000 for practicing Falun Gong and was sent to the Wangcun Labor Camp of Shandong Province, where he suffered three years of persecution. Ms. Wang Mingyun, an employee at the Dongxin Oil Extraction Factory of the Shengli Oil Field, was also arrested several times for practicing Falun Gong. Thereafter, she was fired from her job and forced to stay at home. In November 2000, after appealing to the government about Falun Gong, Mr. Yu Desheng, an employee at the Resources Company of the Shengli Oil Field, was also sentenced to the Wangcun Labor Camp and persecuted for three years.

On March 2, 2005, policemen from the Public Security Section of the Petroleum University arrested Ms. Qiu Hongmei, an employee at the Xinda Labor Movement Service Company affiliated with the Shengli Oil Field's Dongxin Oil Extraction Factory, while she was distributing truth-clarification materials at the Petroleum University. In June 2005, she was sentenced to two years in the Wangcun Labor Camp. Qiu has a four-year-old daughter.

The Dongxin Oil Extraction Factory of the Shengli Oil Field

Mr. Li Xiaodong, an employee at the Xianhe Oil Extraction Factory of the Shengli Oil Field, was sent to the psychiatric unit at the No. 8 Hospital of the Shengli Oil Field, where he was given harmful drugs and subjected to mental torment. Thereafter, he was forced to be "bought out" of his retirement benefits (accept a small lump sum payment in exchange for the benefits) and he lost his job. In November 2005, he was arrested and in January 2006, he was sentenced to three years at the Wang Village Labor Camp.

The CCP arrested and imprisoned Yang Jianjun, a former senior engineer at the Shengli Oil Field Computer Center, several times due to his practicing Falun Gong. He was later forced to be "bought out." In July 2005, he was once again arrested and sent to a forced labor camp.

Other practitioners imprisoned within the Wangcun Labor Camp include Tang Zhanchen, imprisoned for three years, Shen Xiaoyuan, imprisoned for two years, Yang Chenghan, imprisoned for one year, and Yang Jian, imprisoned for three years.