Illegal Detention and Imprisonment

• Charles Li Has Been Forbidden to Practice the Falun Gong Exercises in Nanjing Prison, American Consular Protests in Written Form

  2003-07-06
  A Journalist from the Epoch Times phone interviewed Mr. Stuart Patt, a spokesperson for the Consular Affairs Bureau of the U.S. State Department. He said, "On June 25, U.S. Consulate Officials met with Mr. Charles Li." This is the first direct meeting between U.S. Consulate Officials and Charles Li since the severe outbreak of SARS on April 23, 2003.
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• Innocent Mudanjiang City Practitioner Once Again Sentenced to Forced Labour

  2003-07-02
  One day, there was a "reform meeting." Li Qiliang firmly refused to go there, so he was carried to the site by force. When he was resisting the persecution and shouting, "Dafa is good," the inhuman guards choked his throat and covered his mouth, and carried him out of the meeting place to beat him further. Just because he refused to give up his belief and did not compromise, the guards claimed that he had a mental disease and sent him to a mental hospital
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• Shanghai Dafa Practitioners Fall Victim to a New Round of Persecution

  2003-06-26
  Mr. Ma usually looked after his wife, who suffers from hemiplegia. After his illegal arrest, his 7 year old grandchild and his 80 year old mother were left at home with his wife. Even though other practitioners volunteered to look after them the police refused to allow it, without giving any reason. The police also refused to allow Ma's family members to visit him in the detention centre. Mr. Ma is a retiree of almost 60 years of age.
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• Dafa Practitioners Father and Son Subjected to Unwarranted Persecution in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region

  2003-06-22
  During the brainwash sessions, the police forced them to read literature that slandered Dafa and forced them to practise another type of Qigong. They also compelled them to follow the orders "from above" to slander Falun Gong, and put them under duress to get the practitioners to write the "Guarantee Letter," "Letter of Regret," saying that they will give up practising Falun Gong. Since the two men refused to co-operate with the evildoers, they, together with several other practitioners, were sent to a detention centre and imprisoned with common criminal offenders.
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• University Lecturers in Heilongjiang Province Are Subjected to Scandalous Ill-Treatment for Practising Falun Gong

  2003-06-21
  On April 27, 2002, he was arrested again by people from Jixi's "610 Office" for solely downloading articles from the Minghui net (a Chinese Falun Dafa website). Currently, he is being incarcerated at the Jixi Forced Labour Camp without a trial. According to inside sources, Wei Xiaodong suffers from TB brought on by the severe persecution. He is extremely thin and weak, and has also lost almost all his hair. The labour camp did not allow proper treatment, and the university callously fired him.
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• Shahekou District Court Secretly Deciding On Sentences for Dafa Practitioners Before Sham Trial

  2003-06-21
  We hear that the Shahekou District Court of Dalian City is secretly planning an illegal trial for Qu Bin and Wang Dawei. We have heard that their sentences have already been decided. Although their family members can hire lawyers, the lawyer is only allowed to enter a guilty plea. All the evidence is fabricated, and the police have forced the practitioners to sign confessions under the cruelest torture. The court will hand down a decision of "guilty" based upon these coerced confessions.
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• Sentenced to 10 Years In Prison For Being An Honest and Upright Official

  2003-06-19
  After Shang's situation was revealed, police in the Shijiazhuang City Police Station were very upset. They teamed up with the Zhengding County Police Station and other area police, making use of large quantities of material, money, and human resources to find him. They went to Beijing, Tianjing, Taiyuan, Handan, Xingtai, Shijiazhuang, and over 10 other counties, spent over 100,000 Yuan, (it is has been said by some people that a million Yuan was spent) and used all means, devious and otherwise, to locate Shang.
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• Rampant Torture in Hate Filled Environment of Hewan Forced Labour Camp

  2003-06-18
  They chose a group of hired men to keep watch, at the on-duty room, while they carefully selected criminals to supervise every move of Dafa practitioners. Two to four criminals supervised each Dafa practitioner. And the criminals were rotated regularly. If the criminals did not act "tough" enough, they were quickly replaced. Police frequently held meetings to teach the criminals "tricks and techniques" on how to "hurt people." They coerced criminals to hurt Dafa practitioners by using reduction or extension of terms as a reward or punishment.
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• Canadian Citizen Exposes the Persecution of Her Family Members by the Shanghai Police

  2003-06-17
  Because Xiao Hua did the Dafa exercises there, she was hung up and tortured for three days and nights with both her hands behind her back. With her swollen hands, blue face, and black eyes, the prisoners could not tolerate it; some of them helped to massage her hands. Some of the prisoners felt so sad they could not sleep after seeing Xiao Hua's condition.
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• Beijing Husband and Wife Illegally Detained: Two-Year-Old Son Has Never Seen His Father

  2003-06-14
  Guo Wei and Zhou Jing got married on April 11, 2000 and lived in the lodging quarters of the Workers' Daily in Liupukang of Dongcheng District, Beijing. Their child Jingjing is just 2 years old and has never seen his father, because his father was arrested before his birth. His mother has also been arrested, and he has not seen her for a year. Isn' this a great tragedy that has been caused by the Jiang regime' senseless persecution?
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• 708 Female Practitioners Are Being Tortured in the Balizhuang Forced Labour Camp

  2003-06-12
  They are responsible for directing inmates to torture practitioners using various vicious means. Practitioners imprisoned at Balizhuang Forced Labour Camp are not released unless they give up their belief, even though they complete their term. Instead they will be transferred to the "610 Office" [an agency specifically created to persecute Falun Gong, with absolute power over each level of administration in the Party and all other political and judiciary systems] to be tortured further until they renounce their belief.
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• Police in the Jiutai Forced Labour Camp: "It is useless for you to sue us because you cannot get any evidence."

  2003-06-08
  "Who saw it?" has become a tag for the police in Jiutai Forced Labour Camp. With this kind of mentality, they appear shameless and contemptible. When the practitioner asked police officer Zhang Baochun about the beatings, the next day he beat the practitioner, then said, "Did I beat you yesterday? Who saw it?" The first time policeman Zhang Ming talked to practitioners, he said, "It is useless for you to sue us. You can not get any evidence." The deputy chief of the police department Meng Xianglin once ordered seven policemen to beat one practitioner who refused to watch the video slandering Dafa. He even said shamelessly, "Did I beat you? I did not, did I?"
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• The Icy Grip of Terror Extends to Practitioners Far and Wide in Henan Province

  2003-06-07
  In late May 2002 he was abducted by the town police and detained in Xuchang Detention Centre. Because he refused to give up his cultivation and cooperate with the evil people in any way, he remains in detention. His family is poor and depends on the income he earns as an employee of a brick manufacturer. After he was abducted, his son could not afford to pay his tuition fee. Only with the help of relatives was he able to continue to go to school. Recently there was news that the police wanted to sentence his son, a young boy, to jail as well!
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• Elderly and Young Practitioners "Disappeared" from Shijiazhuang Forced Labour Camp Without Trace

  2003-06-01
  Falun Dafa practitioner, Ms Lu Suzhen from Shijiazhuang was 70 years old. She was illegally sentenced to forced labour by the Yudong Police Substation of Shijiazhuang City. Because she firmly believed in Falun Dafa, she was detained in the No. 5 Division of the labour camp. She has recently disappeared without a trace.
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• Jiang's Genocide Continues Unabated-Over Seventy Practitioners From Heilongjiang Province Who Provided Information to Support the Lawsuit Against Jiang Are Illegally Arrested

  2003-05-25
  According to reports, after Jiang was sued abroad, he secretly organised a series of systematic mass persecution in China while at the same time "working on" the United States through diplomatic means. He ordered China's National Security Department to set up a special task force to deal with the lawsuit.
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