Details of At Least 60 Practitioners in the Shijiazhuang Area Arrested Over the Past Six Months

Since the beginning of 2004, persecutors in Shijiazhuang City, Hebei province, have escalated their persecution of Dafa practitioners. The persecutors include the "610 Office" of Shijiazhuang City and surrounding counties and towns, Political and Security Subsections, all police sub-departments within Shijiazhuang City and public security bureaus, procuratorial bureaus and people's courts of the nearby towns and counties. They trail practitioners, appoint people to keep practitioners' homes under surveillance and arrest them. Using the above methods, the perpetrators of the persecution have destroyed some [truth-clarifying] material production sites. According to the available information, more than 30 arrests occurred in the Shijiazhuang area. Those arrested included elderly people and very young girls. Those arrested were either tortured to death, disabled, viciously maligned and sentenced to jail and forced labour terms. Family members, by association, are also implicated. The persecution did great harm to Dafa practitioners and their family members. Over 60 Dafa practitioners were arrested, of which 2 were sentenced to jail terms, and several others were sent to forced labour camps.

Shijiazhuang City Forced Labour Camp brutally tortured practitioner Wang Shengbiao

Beginning of August 20003, based on reliable information, Wang Shengbiao, a Shijiazhuang City Dafa practitioner was secretly arrested. In January 2004, he was sentenced to three years' forced labour in secret. He is being detained in the Second Brigade of the Shijiazhuang City Forced Labour Camp, which is located in the northwest corner of the intersection between the northern part of the belt highway and the Southern Gaoji Road in Shijiazhuang City. Currently, one of Wang's legs became numb, making him unable to walk. He is very weak. The guards do not allow his family to visit him. As soon as Wang Shengbiao arrived at the camp, he was not allowed to sleep for five days and five nights. If he closed his eyes, the vicious people would beat him. When they saw he did not cooperate, they forced him to squat for more than 20 hours (i.e. one is neither allowed to sit down nor stand up, thus one suffers greatly). The chief of the guards realized that he would not sign the so-called "four letters" and thus ordered the prisoners to again brutally beat Wang Shengbiao.

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