Some Practitioners Arrested during the "Xiaoquan Big Search" in January 2002, are Still in Detention

We, that is a few Falun Dafa practitioners from Guangan County of Sichuan Province, were illegally arrested for no reason during the New Year's holiday season this year at Xiaoquan, located on the south side of Chongqing City. The police illegally interrogated us for over a month and intended to extort a confession with torture. We were then detained in the Drug Addiction Treatment Center in the Dadukou Area. On February 25, the police said that they were going to give us a "certificate of release" and asked us to sign a document. In the document, there was a sentence saying, "forced labor re-education approved". We didn't cooperate with them. Therefore, two policemen shouted abuses, saying that they were going to detain us forever. Currently, we are all still being illegally detained in the Drug Addiction Treatment Center and suffer from inhumane treatment. We are provided with two liang (a Chinese weight unit, equal to 100g) of rice per meal together with clear vegetable soup. We are deprived of all our basic human rights and freedoms. There's no way for us to get in touch with our family members.

On July 5, the police in the Drug Addiction Treatment Center told us that we were going to be summoned for a discussion on the 8th, and on the 10th we were sent to the Maojiashan Female Forced Labor Camp with a two-year sentence. Practitioner Liu Shiying used to be detained together with us. On June 26, the police sent her to a detention center. It was said that she would be sentenced to five years in jail (she hasn't received the court's verdict yet). She is in the process of appealing.