(Clearwisdom.net) Mr. Yu Qingyuan is a Falun Gong practitioner from Liaonan Street, Zhangjia Village, Shuangliao City, Jilin Province. He has left home to avoid persecution from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). On the evening of April 23, 2008, the 610 Office of Shuangliao City, Shuangliao Public Security Bureau, Liaonan Police Station and Liaonan Street Committee officers illegally arrested Mr. Yu's wife Yuan Shujun. Later, Ms. Yuan Shujun escaped from the Shuanliao Detention facility and then abandoned her home to avoid further persecution.

Unfortunately, Mr. Yu Qingyuan was arrested by the police on the train to Tongliao in May 2008. Mr. Yu's daughter has been traumatized by this series of events. Presently, Mr. Yu's father-in-law takes care of Mr. Yu's daughter and their life is very difficult.

Mr. Yu Qingyuan went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong in October 2000. He was arrested and sent to a forced labor camp for one year by the Shuangliao Public Security Bureau. He was subjected to brutal torture which resulted in inguinal hernia. After he returned home, the police officers often harassed Mr. Yu's family. Later, the police came to arrest him, and he left home to avoid further persecution in March 2002.

In January 2001, Mr. Yu's wife Yuan Shujun and her nephew Li Xingguo also went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong. They were arrested and sentenced to one year and three years, respectively. Ms. Yuan's 6-year-old child was left alone at home. Mr. Li Xingguo was released, but in 2004, due to clarifying the truth about Falun Gong, he was reported by the director of the Liaonan Street Committee Zu Shujun. He was arrested and sent to a forced labor camp for 3 years by the Shuanliao Domestic Security Division and Legal Section of the Public Security Bureau. In 2006, due to brutal torture in the Chaoyanggou Forced Labor Camp in Changchun City, he developed schizophrenia, and only then was temporarily released for medical treatment.