On December 29, 2001, around 7:00 p.m., policemen from Yilan County Police Department broke into the homes of practitioners without any legal procedure. They broke the windows or locks to gain entry and ransacked the houses. They also arrested ten practitioners and detained them at Yilan County No.2 Detention Centre.
This is an action [ ] to retaliate against the practitioners of Yilan County for exposing the crimes of the police. Early in December, the practitioners exposed the crime that police brutally tortured ten practitioners and murdered another, Zhang Min. After the crime was exposed, the thugs were terrified and arranged this retaliation.
Now, two of the ten practitioners who were detained have been sentenced to a forced labour camp. The remaining eight practitioners were still detained in Yilan County No. 2 Detention Centre. The practitioners began a hunger and water strike to protest the persecution [...]
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