(Clearwisdom.net) Today's report relates persecution incidents that took place in 21 cities or counties in eight provinces. Seventy-one Falun Gong practitioners were subjected to brutal mistreatment during detention, and at least 16 practitioners were arrested.

  1. [Chifeng City, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region] A 50-Year-Old Practitioner Has Been on a Hunger Strike in the Jidong Prison's No. 4 Division Hospital in Tangshan City for Two Years
  2. [Shuangyashan City, Heilongjiang Province] Baoqing County Court Agents Plan to Sentence Practitioners
  3. [Qingdao City, Shandong Province] Ms. Ran Ling Has Been on a Hunger Strike for a Month in the Jinan City No. 1 Women's Prison
  4. [Ya'an City, Sichuan Province] The Persecution of Five Practitioners
  5. [Chongqing] Mr. Hong Liu on Trial, But the Defense Lawyer Did Not Do His Job
  6. [Ya'an City, Sichuan Province] Ms. Gan Yulian and Ms. Zhang Niang Arrested
  7. [Shandong Province] Ms. Kong Qian Held at the Changle Detention Center
  8. [Ningcheng County, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region] Ms. Bai Lijie and Ms Liu Yulan Sentenced to Forced Labor
  9. [Liaozhong City, Liaoning Province] The Persecution of Several Practitioners
  10. [Chongqing] Ms. Lei Changrong Arrested
  11. [Jining City, Shandong Province] Ms. Li Fengyun and Ms. Xu Binhai Arrested
  12. [Heilongjiang Province] Hongxinglong Nongken Court Agents Plan to Sentence Seven Practitioners
  13. [Wuhan City, Hubei Province] Two Women Practitioners Arrested and Taken to the Erdaopeng Brainwashing Center on November 8, 2008, for Distributing Falun Gong Flyers
  14. [Qingdao City, Shandong Province] Laixi City Court Planned to Sentence Ms. Sheng Meiqin
  15. [Shiyan City, Hubei Province] Several Practitioners Arrested
  16. [Heilongjiang Province] Ms. Wang Zhi and Ms. Wang Xiuzhen Will Be on Trial in the Jidong Court in Jidong County on November 19, 2008
  17. [Tangshan City, Hebei Province] Ms. Zhao Yabin Arrested
  18. [Chongqing] Ms. Mu Zelian Arrested
  19. [Anlu City, Hubei Province] The Police Arrest Mr. Pan Qizhao
  20. [Shandong Province] Ms. Zhang Baoyun Sentenced to Three Years in Prison
  21. [Jining City, Shandong Province] Ms. Yan Jinlan Arrested
  22. [Qinhuangdao City, Hebei Province] Ms. Jing Dechun Is Being Held in the Changli County Detention Center
  23. [Tianjin] A Woman Practitioner Arrested
  24. [Linqu County, Shandong Province] Falun Gong Practitioners Ms. Cong Mengyan, Ms. Wu Chunxia, Mr. Jing Guanghua, and Mr. Liu Xinghua Taken to a Forced Labor Camp
  25. [Hunan Province] Longhui County Court Planning to Sentence Mr. Huang Qihua and Ms. Huang Junyu to Prison on November 18
  26. [Wuchang City, Hubei Province] Ms. Mao Fengxiu Arrested
  27. [Xinji City, Hebei Province] Ms. Wang Xiangfen Sentenced to One Year in Prison
  28. [Xinji City, Hebei Province] Mr. Lu Cha from East Langyue Village, Tiangongying Township, Sentenced to 15 Months of Forced Labor
  29. [Xinji City, Hebei Province] Ms. Zheng Shurong and Several Other Practitioners Sentenced to One Year of Forced Labor
  30. [Yutai County, Shandong Province] Ms. Chen Xiuying Held at the Yutai County Custody Center
  31. [Tianjin] Ms. Chen Yumei and Ms. Yuan Hua Arrested
  32. [Chongqing] The Persecution of Ms. Xie Jin, Lecturer at the Chongqing Telecommunications University
  33. [Guangdong Province] Meizhou City Intermediate Court Plans a Covert Trial of Mr. Zhu Xiansheng
  34. [Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province] Mr. Liu Hua Disappeared 23 Days Ago
  35. [Jinzhou City, Liaoning Province] Ms. Wang Wenjuan Transferred from Kangning Mental Hospital to Masanjia Forced Labor Camp
  36. [Liaoning Province] Practitioners Who Have Been Held at the Lingyuan No. 1 Prison in Liaoning Province Since 2000

1. [Chifeng City, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region] A 50-Year-Old Practitioner Has Been on a Hunger Strike in the Jidong Prison's No. 4 Division Hospital in Tangshan City for Two Years

2. [Shuangyashan City, Heilongjiang Province] Baoqing County Court Agents Plan to Sentence Practitioners

Baoqing County Court agents changed the trial date for nine practitioners to November 18, 2008. They are Ms. Wang Junhong, Mr. Tian Xiaoxuan, Mr. Jiang Jie, Mr. Wang Yarong, Mr. Yu Zhanhong, Mr. Jiang Guifu, Mr. Meng Xianguo, Mr. Tian Chengjun, and Mr. Liu Junzhong.

3. [Qingdao City, Shandong Province] Ms. Ran Ling Has Been on a Hunger Strike for a Month in the Jinan City No. 1 Women's Prison

Ms. Ran Ling was arrested in Licun Nanzhuang Village on August 1, 2008. She was put in Wangcun Women's Forced Labor Camp on September 2, 2008, and then transferred to the Jinan City No.1 Women's Prison a month later. She has been on a hunger strike for a month. Her family went to the prison to request her release, but prison officers denied the visit and tried to extort money from the family.

4. [Ya'an City, Sichuan Province] The Persecution of Five Practitioners

Ms. Li Xia, Ms. Qing Mingzhen, and Ms. Lan Zhenhuan from Chengdu City and Mr. Li Wenfu from Mingshan City drove to Tianquan City on the afternoon of March 10, 2008. Police arrested them and two women practitioners as soon as they arrived in Tianquan City. Ms. Lan's car was confiscated. The police also confiscated a laptop computer, two sets of satellite dishes, and several sets of CDs recordings of the Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party. Officer Gou Yongqiong from the city Domestic Security Division beat Ms. Li and Ms. Qing. Their legs were covered with bruises, and some of Ms. Qing's hair was yanked out.

That night the police ransacked Ms. Yang Zhaoxia's home. Ms. Qing was held in the Ya'an City Detention Center for a month and then transferred to Nanmusi Forced Labor Camp in Zizhong City. She was sentenced to two and a half years of forced labor; Ms. Li Xia to one and a half years; and Ms. Yang to two years. Ms. Lan and Mr. Li were taken to Xinhua Forced Labor Camp in Mianyang City.

5. [Chongqing] Mr. Hong Liu on Trial, But the Defense Lawyer Did Not Do His Job

Nan'an District Court officials put Mr. Hong Liu on trial at 2:30 p.m. on October 16, 2008. Mr. Hong's family spent 50,000 yuan to hire lawyer Luo Wenming from the Donghe Law Firm in Chongqing. Luo asked Mu Xiaojia to attend the trial, but he did not defend Mr. Hong Liu.

Personnel from the Nan'an District and Jiangbei District's 610 Offices arrested Mr. Hong from his workplace in the Guanyinqiao Shopping Mall on the afternoon of June 3, 2008. They ransacked his home and confiscated items worth over 10,000 yuan. The police put him in the Haitang Xiaoyue Detention Center in the Nan'an District. When his family went home on June 8, 2008, they discovered mess and found bloodstains. They learned that Mr. Hong had already been arrested. His parents went to ask for the return of the confiscated house key, but the police refused to hand it over and also did not let the parents visit.

Luo Wenming: 86-13808395318
Mu Xiaojia: 86-23-62604233, 86-23-62604136

6. [Ya'an City, Sichuan Province] Ms. Gan Yulian and Ms. Zhang Niang Arrested

Personnel from the Dongcheng Police Station in the Yucheng District arrested Ms. Gan Yulian from Shangba Street and Ms. Zhang Niang from the Central Garden Community on November 8, 2008.

Wang Chunlei, Dongcheng Police Station chief: 86-835-2222091, 86-13608260106

7. [Shandong Province] Ms. Kong Qian Held at the Changle Detention Center

Changle County Detention Center: 86-536-6299562

8. [Ningcheng County, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region] Ms. Bai Lijie and Ms Liu Yulan Sentenced to Forced Labor

Ms. Bai Lijie from Ningcheng County was sentenced to one year of forced labor for explaining the Falun Gong facts to her students. She and Ms. Liu Yulan were put in the Huhehaote City Women's Forced Labor Camp on November 1, 2008.

9. [Liaozhong City, Liaoning Province] The Persecution of Several Practitioners

Ms. Zhang Qinghua, 52, was arrested in August 2008 and put in the Shenyang City Detention Center. Dadong District Court officials will put Ms. Zhang, Mr. Cong Liang, and Ms. Wu Naiying on trial on November 29, 2008.

The court agents also sentenced Ms. Liu Tingxiu from Shenyang City that same August day, but the verdict is unknown.

10. [Chongqing] Ms. Lei Changrong Arrested

Ms. Lei Changrong went to the Haitangxi Detention Center guards' residential building to distribute flyers at 2:00 p.m. on November 12, 2008. She was reported and taken to the Haitangxi Police Station at 3:00 p.m. Police officers then ransacked her home and her daughter's store and confiscated two copies of Zhuan Falun. Her daughter got Ms. Lei's cell phone and home key back from the police. After the home search, the police put Ms. Lei in the district's Haitangxi Detention Center.

Li Jing, Nan'an District 610 Office: 86-23-62806757
Nan'an District Tushan Police Station: 86-23-62511331
Tan Jiarong, a policeman: 86-23-66976018

11. [Jining City, Shandong Province] Ms. Li Fengyun and Ms. Xu Binhai Arrested

Ms. Xu Binhai, 60 years old, lives in the Jining City Medical School residential complex. She and her friend, Ms. Li Fengyun, were arrested in Feng County, Jiangsu Province, and are being held in the county detention center.

Ms. Li lives in the city's No.2 Professional High School's residential complex. She is from Feng County, Jiangsu Province. She was arrested on September 25, 2008, when she explained the facts about Falun Gong during a visit to her hometown. She was later put in the county's detention center, followed by incarceration in the Pei County Detention Center in Jiangsu Province. Police from Feng County colluded with police in Jining City to ransack Ms. Li's home in Jining City.

12. [Heilongjiang Province] Hongxinglong Nongken Court Agents Plan to Sentence Seven Practitioners

Officials from the Hongxinglong Nongken Court planned to sentence seven practitioners at 8:00 a.m. on November 21, 2008. They are Mr. Qi Shuangyuan, Ms. Cai Guifang, Ms. Cai Guirong, Ms. Cai Guiqin, Ms. Liu Jingyan, Ms. Wu Feng, and Ms. Yang Li.

Except for Mr. Qi, all are elderly women. The oldest is 70 years old. They were arrested on the Jiangchuan Farm on July 19, 2008, and have been held in the detention center for four months.

Xu Lianbin, Hongxinglong Nongken Police Station deputy chief: 86-469-5861279 (Office), 86-13555106999, 86-13796393999
Tian Shizhong, Jiangchuan Farm 610 Office head: 86-469-8196960

13. [Wuhan City, Hubei Province] Two Women Practitioners Arrested and Taken to the Erdaopeng Brainwashing Center on November 8, 2008, for Distributing Falun Gong Flyers

14. [Qingdao City, Shandong Province] Laixi City Court Planned to Sentence Ms. Sheng Meiqin

Police officers arrested Ms. Sheng Meiqin from her home in Laixi City at 10:00 a.m. on August 21, 2008. She was taken to Dashan Detention Center in Qingdao City, but the officials there refused to admit her. Ms. Sheng was then released as "bailed out for future trial."

Laixi Court agents issued a subpoena for Ms. Sheng on November 11, 2008, and planned to sentence her on November 24, 2008.

Wang Guangjin, Laixi City Court chief: 86-532-66899678 (Office), 86-13808978908 (Cell)
Ge Changwen, a judge: 532-88489326 (Home), 86-15953281878 (Cell)

15. [Shiyan City, Hubei Province] Several Practitioners Arrested

Personnel from the Yun County 610 Office and from the Police Department in Shiyan City arrested Mr. Zhu Feng, Mr. Xuan Yuanping, and Mr. Han Baohua on November 8 and 9, 2008. The police also arrested Mr. Luo Qihua, ransacked his home, and confiscated some Falun Gong truth-clarifying materials and CD burners.

16. [Heilongjiang Province] Ms. Wang Zhi and Ms. Wang Xiuzhen Will Be on Trial in the Jidong Court in Jidong County on November 19, 2008

Wang Dongguang, Jidong Court chief: 86-467-5569977 (Office), 86-13303677271 (Cell)
Wang Chengtao, deputy chief: 86-467-5591656, 86-13089795678 (Cell)

17. [Tangshan City, Hebei Province] Ms. Zhao Yabin Arrested

Personnel from the Wenbei Police Station arrested Ms. Zhao Yabin and stole her house key on the afternoon of July 8, 2008. They used the key to open her home and ransacked the place. Ms. Zhao's family heard that she would be tried on November 3, 2008.

18. [Chongqing] Ms. Mu Zelian Arrested

Ms. Mu Zelian, 60, is a retired teacher from the Jiangbei District Continuing Education Institute. Personnel from the district's Domestic Security Division headed by Liang Shibin ransacked her home and confiscated some personal items. They then put her in the Wangxiangtai Brainwashing Center in Lushan Village in the Yubei District. She was recently released.

19. [Anlu City, Hubei Province] The Police Arrest Mr. Pan Qizhao

Mr. Pan Qizhao, 43 years old, was reported to police for explaining the truth about Falun Gong at 5:00 p.m. on November 12, 2008. Personnel from the Yandian Police Station arrested him and put him in the Anlu City Domestic Security Division. He is being held in a detention center.

20. [Shandong Province] Ms. Zhang Baoyun Sentenced to Three Years in Prison

Personnel from the Hainanlu Police Station in the Huangdao District arrested 39-year-old Ms. Zhang Baoyun and put her in the Dashan Detention Center on September 22, 2007. Huangdao Court officials sentenced her to three years in prison in July 2008. Ms. Zhang appealed, but the officials refused to let her hire a lawyer. They also denied her family's visits.

Han, Hainanlu Police Station chief: 86-13963942016
Wang, a section chief: 86-532-86581163

21. [Jining City, Shandong Province] Ms. Yan Jinlan Arrested

Ms. Yan Jinlan, in her 50s, lives in the Hetaoyuan Market area in Jining City. Police arrested her from her home on the morning of November 15, 2008.

22. [Qinhuangdao City, Hebei Province] Ms. Jing Dechun Is Being Held in the Changli County Detention Center

23. [Tianjin] A Woman Practitioner Arrested

Ms. Hu from the Xiqing District, Tianjin, explained the facts about Falun Gong in a construction area in the district on the morning of November 14, 2008, but was reported. Two officers from the Zhongbei Town Police Station arrested her, ransacked her home, and confiscated many Dafa books. Ms. Hu was held in the police station for 24 hours and then transferred in the Dabianzhuang Detention Center in the district.

24. [Linqu County, Shandong Province] Falun Gong Practitioners Ms. Cong Mengyan, Ms. Wu Chunxia, Mr. Jing Guanghua, and Mr. Liu Xinghua Taken to a Forced Labor Camp

Police officers from Linqu County arrested Ms. Cong Mengyan, Ms. Wu Chunxia, Mr. Jing Guanghua, and Mr. Liu Xinghua before the Olympics and sent them to a forced labor camp. They also extorted 20,000 yuan cash from Cong Mengyan's family.

25. [Hunan Province] Longhui County Court Planning to Sentence Mr. Huang Qihua and Ms. Huang Junyu to Prison on November 18

26. [Wuchang City, Hubei Province] Ms. Mao Fengxiu Arrested

Police arrested Ms. Mao Fengxiu near the Red Building in Yuemachang Square at around 4:00 p.m. on November 16, 2008, as he explained the persecution of Falun Gong. They took her away in a police car. Her whereabouts are currently unknown.

27. [Xinji City, Hebei Province] Ms. Wang Xiangfen Sentenced to One Year in Prison

Officers from the Mayu Town Police Station in Jinzhou City arrested Ms. Wang Xiangfen, a resident of Jiuleitou Village, Xinji City, on July 7, 2008, when she exposed the Communist Party's crimes to fellow citizens and advised them to quit the Party. Seven police officers ransacked her home on the morning of July 10, 2008, and later claimed they found several copies of the "Minghui Weekly". They used this as a pretext to sentence Wang Xiangfen to one year in prison and sent her to Shuishang Park Prison in Shijiazhuang City.

28. [Xinji City, Hebei Province] Mr. Lu Cha from East Langyue Village, Tiangongying Township, Sentenced to 15 Months of Forced Labor

29. [Xinji City, Hebei Province] Ms. Zheng Shurong and Several Other Practitioners Sentenced to One Year of Forced Labor

30. [Yutai County, Shandong Province] Ms. Chen Xiuying Held at the Yutai County Custody Center

Two patrol police officers from the Chengguan Police Department followed and arrested Ms. Chen Xiuying on November 13, 2008, as she spoke with people at the Yutai County Hospital about Falun Gong. They took her to the police department. Officers from the Yutai County Police Department and Chengguan Police Department held her for five days under criminal detention. She is currently locked up at the Yutai County Custody Center.

Liu Lihua, Yutai County Police Department deputy head: 86-13705374739
Ma Jiayan, Domestic Security Division deputy head at the Yutai County Police Department: 86-13705374817

31. [Tianjin] Ms. Chen Yumei and Ms. Yuan Hua Arrested

Someone reported Ms. Chen Yumei and Ms. Yuan Hua to the police when the two practitioners from the Dagang District explained Falun Gong to people in public near Liujiagou, Shuangzha Township, the Jinnan District, on November 14, 2008. Later in the evening, officers from the Dagang Police Department ransacked their homes. They let Ms. Yuan go home because of her age, 72, but put her under police surveillance. They held 50-year-old Ms. Chen at the Dagang Detention Center.

32. [Chongqing] The Persecution of Ms. Xie Jin, Lecturer at the Chongqing Telecommunications University

Ms. Xie Jin was held in Xishanping for two or three months and lost feeling in her legs and became disabled as a result of the tortures she suffered there. She was taken to a hospital for treatment in early November 2008 and diagnosed with high blood pressure and a "fatty liver." Ms. Xie is a lecturer at the Chongqing Telecommunications University, but her employers have refused to grant her medical parole.

33. [Guangdong Province] Meizhou City Intermediate Court Plans a Covert Trial of Mr. Zhu Xiansheng

Mr. Zhu Xiansheng has appealed her groundless sentence the court officials issued against him, but Meizhou City Intermediate Court officials are planning to uphold the original sentence without openly announcing their reasons.

34. [Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province] Mr. Liu Hua Disappeared 23 Days Ago

Mr. Liu Hua, 37, rented a room in the Huangpu District of Guangzhou City and worked at the tea factory in Baishou Village, Tianhe District, Guangzhou City. He ate dinner with his wife on the afternoon of October 25, 2008, after which his wife went back to work. They worked far apart, so they could see each other only once a week.

Officials at the tea factory called Mr. Liu's parents in their hometown on October 28 and told them he had not reported to work for the last three days. They called his landlord and the local police, who went to his rented room but found no one there. His wife speculates that he disappeared on the afternoon of October 25. It has been nearly a month, and nothing has been heard from him.

Liu Hua was arrested in July 2000 when he appealed in Beijing. Officers from Section 1 of the county police department took him back and held him at the county detention center for 11 days, then his parents took him home.

35. [Jinzhou City, Liaoning Province] Ms. Wang Wenjuan Transferred from Kangning Mental Hospital to Masanjia Forced Labor Camp

Officers from Nuerhe Police Station and officials from the street Party Committee went to Kangning Mental Hospital in Jinzhou City one week ago. They transferred Ms. Wang Wenjuan, who had been held there for three months, to Masanjia Forced Labor Camp.

36. [Liaoning Province] Falun Gong Practitioners Who Have Been Held at the Lingyuan No. 1 Prison in Liaoning Province Since 2000

Mr. Peng Lizhong, a peasant from Shuishou Village, Muqi Town, Xinbin County, Fushun City, Liaoning Province was sentenced to four years in prison.
Mr. Li Guiyou, a peasant from Shangjiahe Town (Village), Xinbin County, Fushun City, Liaoning Province was sentenced to three-and-half years in prison.
Mr. Liang Deren, a peasant from Dongmen Village, Guangning Township, Beining City, Liaoning Province was sentenced to three-and-half years in prison.
Mr. Sui Yinghua, resident of Group 10 on Hunhe Street, Qingyuan County, Fushun City, Liaoning Province was sentenced to three-and-half years in prison.
Mr. Zhou Bo, who lived at No 503, Unit 1, No 41 Building on Suihua Road in Dongzhou District, Fushun City, Liaoning Province was sentenced to four years in prison.
Mr. Wang Yingli, a worker at Douling Forest Farm in Xinbin County, Fushun City, Liaoning Province was sentenced to three years in prison.
Mr. Ma Fuyue, resident of Xinjingzi Village, Yangquanzi Town, Panshan County, Panjin City, Liaoning Province was sentenced to three years in prison.
Mr. Zhou Shaotang, resident of Yitun Village, Dongguo Town, Panshan County, Panjin City, Liaoning Province was sentenced to four years in prison.
Mr. Wang Bo lived in Room 58-1-1-501, No 3 Jiangjun Street, Shuncheng District, Fushun City, Liaoning Province was sentenced to four years in prison.
Mr. Lang Xinhua, resident of Group 9, Heping Street, Xinbin County, Fushun City, Liaoning Province was sentenced to three years in prison.
Mr. Li Dexiang, resident of Xialongwanzi Village, Dasiping Town, Xinbin County, Fushun City, Liaoning Province was sentenced to four years in prison.
Mr. Zhang Baogui, an instructor at Shenyang City Party School was sentenced to four years in prison.
Mr. Li Feng, a professor at Jinzhou Medical College in Liaoning Province was sentenced to three years in prison.
Mr. Wang Hongjun, resident of Fushun City was sentenced to 15 years in prison.
Mr. Zhang Baoguo, a resident of Hubei Province was arrested in Yingkou City and was sentenced to four years in prison.
Mr. Ma Fuyue from Shenyang City was sentenced to three years in prison.
Mr. Xu Dawei from Chuanzigou Village, Yingemen Town, Qingyuan County, Liaoning Province was sentenced to eight years in prison.
Mr. Yang Dawei lived in Beizhen City, Liaoning Province and he was sentenced to four years in prison.

No. 1 Lingyuan Prison in Liaoning Province
Yang Baoluan, Deputy prison head: 86-421-6922306 (Work), 86-421-6881166 (Home), 13904213018 (cell)
Wang Hongbo, Prison head: 86-421-6922369 (Work), 86-421-6922391 (Home), 13019939666 (Cell)

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