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  • The Persecution of Dafa Practitioner Ms. Yuan Ling from Jiangsu Province at the Hands of the Local Authorities

    Dafa practitioners incarcerated in the psychiatric hospital were forcibly given harmful drugs affecting the central nervous system on a long-term basis. Their legs were shaky, their arms were weak, and their eyes looked forward but couldn't focus on anything. Their necks and tongues were stiff, and they drooled and needed support even to use the toilet. The authorities took away family visiting rights, and the practitioners were completely isolated.
  • Exposing the Slave Labour of Falun Gong Practitioners in Shandong Province's 1st Forced Labour Camp

    Practitioners in the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd divisions of the labour camp must stick the "Shuanghe" label on the packages of "Beijing's Pressure Lowering No. 0." The big box contains 2,000 medicine boxes, which are placed in two layers. Everyone has to put labels on 6,000-8,000 medicine boxes; sometimes, even over 20,000 boxes. Approximate working hours are 7:30 to 11:30 a.m., 12 to 6 p.m., and 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. and even 9 or 10 p.m. Practitioners have to do 12 to13 hours of high-intensity labour everyday. Long hours of labour causes extreme pain in the back, shoulders, and hands, and particularly in the neck area. The neck becomes so numb it cannot move.
  • Persecution Perpetrated by Police in Chaoyang District, Beijing

    Police broke into Dafa practitioner Ms. Chen Shuying's home and arrested her. Chen, who is over 60 years old, was once sent to prison in 2004. Throughout that period of time in the Beijing Women's Forced Labour Camp, she continually told people, who had been misled by the government propaganda, the facts about Falun Dafa, exposed the persecution and refused to succumb to pressure to renounce Falun Dafa. She was freed in July 2006. Before her health recovered, the police came again. The policemen harassed her several times at her home before they finally took her away again the fourth time.
  • Ms. Wang Bo - On Hunger Strike for Two Weeks - Now Facing Intensified Persecution

    Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Wang Bo and her family had to leave their home to avoid being arrested because they exposed the facts of the persecution. On the evening of July 27th, 2006, Ms. Wang Bo and her parents were secretly arrested by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The Hebei Province 610 Office conducted brainwashing on them but they failed, and Wang's family has been detained to this day. Ms. Wang Bo started a hunger strike on October 19th, 2006, in the Shijiazhuang City Second Detention Centre, and she requested to be released unconditionally. Under strong condemnation from international society, the Hebei Province 610 Office was ordered to secretly sentence Ms. Wang Bo without an open trial.
  • Persecution of Falun Dafa Practitioners by CCP Officials of Chengdu City, Sichuan Province

    Six practitioners were detained for 30 days and forced to do slave labour. They each had to peel approximately 5 kilogrammes of very thin copper wires. They were given rice mixed with rat droppings and vegetables tainted with human waste. The officers also forced the practitioners to recite the prison regulations. The practitioners refused to cooperate. An official from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Organization Department of the township attempted to force her to give up cultivation. After 30 days of detainment, Ms. Yang was forced to stand in the courtyard for several hours under the hot sun before being released.
  • Dafa Practitioner Mr. Zhao Xifa is in Critical Condition Due to Persecution in Jinan Prison

    Falun Dafa practitioner Zhao Xifa is in critical condition due to persecution at Jinan Prison. Around October 1st, 2006, officers from the Wubei Town Police Station called a village official and asked him to inform Zhao Xifa's family that Mr. Zhao was critically ill and they could take him home a couple of days later. When the October 1st long weekend had passed, Mr. Zhao's family members went to the Wubei Town Police Station and asked to take him home. However, the officers denied that they had made that call. When Mr. Zhao's family questioned the official, he said that he did not know who made that call and the phone number had been deleted.
  • Shandong Province Authorities Arrest a Woman and Torture Her to Obtain Information about a Falun Gong Practitioner

    A Falun Dafa practitioner is a frequent customer of a beauty shop in Zaozhuang City, Shandong Province. Not long ago, this practitioner, who had taken leaflets exposing the persecution to the beauty shop, left the bag of the leaflets at the shop. Because the practitioner was out of town for a few days, an employee, Ms. Wang took the bag home. When the practitioner came back to the beauty shop to get the bag, she found out that Ms. Wang had been arrested. Police tried to get information from Ms. Wang by torturing her, and they asked her if she practises Falun Gong. Currently, Ms. Wang has been detained for many days.
  • Ms. Liu Yumei of Liaoning Province Suffers Inhuman Persecution for Several Years

    From July 20th, 1999, when the persecution began, Ms. Liu Yumei continuously spoke of the benefits she derived from practising Falun Dafa to staff in governmental offices. Instead of listening to her she has been arrested seven times, detained in detention centres five times and taken to Fushun Forced Labour Camp twice. Police officers and three criminal prisoners pushed her down, held her head, stepped on her four limbs, sat on her body, pried her teeth open with a toothbrush, poured salt water from plastic bottles into her mouth, pinched her nose and almost suffocated her. In February 2002, she became disabled from the persecution. She could no longer take care of herself.
  • Five Elderly Falun Dafa Practitioners from Liaoning and Shandong Provinces Persecuted to Death

    69-year-old Mr. Yu Guoju went to Beijing, was arrested and taken to the Jinzhou First Detention Centre where he was cruelly persecuted. In the cold of winter they forced him to sit in the urinal pit where they poured cold water over him. Later he was taken to a labour camp, which refused to take him because of his deteriorating health condition. Mr. Yu did not recover, suffered oedema and could hardly walk. The local Chinese Communist Party (CCP) staff continued harassing and monitoring him. Due to such pressure, his health and mental condition worsened. Mr. Yu died on September 24th, 2006.
  • Four Dafa Practitioners from Henan, Heilongjiang, and Hubei Provinces Pass Away Due to Persecution

    In March 2003 Ou Xueyuan was sentenced to three years in prison for appealing against the persecution. During the four years of detention at the notorious Changlinzi Labour Camp in Harbin City, he held firm to his belief in Dafa and never yielded to pressure to renounce Falun Dafa. He suffered various tortures at the hands of Zhao Shuang including electric shock, beatings, and being forced to sit on an iron chair in a fixed position. He was forced to do intense labour overtime, which devastated him both mentally and physically. Due to the torture, his inner organs were severely injured. He passed away on October 17th, 2006.
  • Older Practitioner Ms. Lai Xiuyun from Sichuan Province Dies from the Persecution

    58-year-old Falun Dafa practitioner Lai Xiuyun was forced to leave home when some people attempted to kidnap her in compliance with the persecution against Falun Gong on April 24th, 2006. She was later forced to return home due to the frequent threats to her family members posed by the police. She was severely persecuted mentally and physically, and died on August 30th, 2006.
  • Mr. Wang Xiaosheng from Jilin Province Has Been Missing for Four Years

    Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Wang Xiaosheng, 35, lived in Jilin City, Jilin Province. He was arrested at his home in 2002, because he was printing leaflets telling the facts about Falun Dafa and exposing the persecution. Police interrogated him in the State Security Division, but Mr. Wang escaped custody the next day. He has not been heard from since.
  • Further Exposing the Crimes in Guizhou Province Lannigou Brainwashing Centre

    Since July 20th, 1999, encouraged by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), the Guizhou Province Lannigou Brainwashing Centre has held several dozen brainwashing sessions. Personnel closely monitor Falun Dafa practitioners: there are three monitors for each practitioner. Of the three monitors, two watch the practitioners 24 hours a day, and the third one is in charge of the brainwashing materials. The CCP officials use all sorts of inhuman means to reach their brainwashing goals. They have even deceived practitioners into taking drugs that damage the nerves.
  • Hebei Province: Plainclothes Police Break into Practitioner Cui Fengluan's Home and Take Her Husband Away

    On October 11th, 2006, four plainclothes policemen broke into the home of Falun Gong practitioner Cui Fengluan. They did not identify themselves and rummaged through the rooms like criminals. Li Zengxiang, Cui Fengluan's husband,who is not a practitioner, thought they were robbers and tried to stop them. But two of them beat Li Zengxiang and then pushed him into a waiting vehicle. When asked by several people, they just said they were police searching for Falun Gong materials. However, they did not show any identification. They also beat the residents. Cui Fengluan escaped when they were not looking. Li Zengxiang was detained until midnight.
  • Sichuan Province Authorities Relentlessly Persecute 62-year-old Mr. Zhu Yajun

    Dafa practitioner Mr. Zhu Yajun from Chongzhou City, Sichuan Province is 62 years old. Over the past seven years, Mr. Zhu's family has been constantly harassed and monitored by Chongzhou municipal government officials of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The huge mental pressure Mr. Zhu suffered has harmed his health. Mr. Zhu and his wife have also been refused retirement pension. The director of the residents' committee told Mr. Zhu that only when he signed a guarantee statement to renounce Falun Dafa would they give him the basic living expenses. Mr. Zhu firmly refused.