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News from China

Today, over 136 people published solemn declarations stating that all their previous words and actions that did not conform to Dafa were invalid. Cultivation is serious and coercion cannot change people's hearts. In their announcement, these individuals also stated that they would work harder to compensate for losses they brought to Dafa, catch up with Teacher's Fa rectification process and be qualified practitioners.

In Xiangfan City, Hubei Province, two lawless thugs, Li Shuiping, the vice director of the Technology and Information Administration Bureau and Nie Xiaowu, the director of Political Security Department of the City Police Department, cruelly persecuted 44-year-old female practitioner Jing Yuhong. On July 20 2001, the thugs tricked her into leaving her house, detained her in No.1 detention center, and as of now have not allowed her family to visit. Jing Yuhong has gone on several hunger strikes to protest the illegal detention, but was cruelly force-fed. At this time, she is in critical condition.

There is evidence of crimes being committed in Shijiazhuang Forced Labor Camp in Hebei Province:

The police guards force practitioners to work for long hours and use many cruel methods to torture them, such as tying practitioners up tightly, shocking them with electric batons, depriving them of sleep, forcing them to hold the "flying airplane" position for long periods, keeping them under strict close monitoring, and instructing criminal inmates to beat them. In November 2001, several criminal inmates beat a practitioner to death with steel water pipes.

Evidence of crimes in Xinxiang City, Henan Province:

The authorities in Xinxiang City have illegally arrested, detained, subjected to force labor, extorted money from, and tortured many practitioners. One 58 year-old woman practitioner was illegally detained past her one year term. The guards shackled her for two months and because of this, she is still unable to walk on her own.

Exposing the truth about the police's beating of Falun Gong practitioners in Tonghua City Forced Labor Camp in Hubei Province: On December 2, 2001, practitioner Wang Dianren wrote a report exposing policeman Mao Deshun's crime of beating practitioners. As a result, he faced retaliation by Mao Deshun, Huang Shanwen, and others. Huang Shanwen violently kicked Wang's throat and chest area for almost an hour. Wang's head kept bleeding from the beating, so he was sent to a hospital for emergency treatment.

Starting on October 1, 2001, hundreds of practitioners illegally detained at Henan Province Female Forced Labor Camp resisted the evil persecution by refusing to answer roll calls, do forced labor, or wear prison uniforms. They insisted on doing the exercises and held hunger strikes. In early January of this year, the police brutally tortured all determined practitioners, from a 62-year-old elderly practitioner to a 17-year-old girl, by tying their arms behind their backs with ropes and forcing them to half squat, stoop and lower their heads. The police then pulled up the ropes behind the practitioners' back as high as they could as they beat and kicked them. Many practitioners were beaten until they were bruised all over and passed out.

At Dalian City Forced Labor Camp, hard labor extends to as long as 15 hours a day. On March 12, 2001, the vicious police tied practitioners' hands behind their backs, pinned them to the ground, put a chair on them so they couldn't move, then they poured water on them and shocked them with five to six high-voltage electric batons at the same time. When the practitioners lost consciousness, they would again be shocked by electric batons when they woke up. Practitioners Chen Jiafu and Liu Yonglai were tortured to death.

Minghui News Briefing

The authorities of Hebei Province rampantly persecuted practitioners during the period around the New Year. On December 12, 2001, in Najia Village of Jiachun Township, Wangdu County, Baoding City Hebei Province, the lawless officials abducted practitioner Tai Yurong. Seven days later, Tai Yurong died in custody from the brutal torture. The crimes of the lawless officials have brought disaster to the local people. A coalmine in Hebei exploded two times, causing 27 deaths and one missing person.

An appeal letter from an engineer in Chengdu City Sichuan Province:

The authority's framing and slandering of Falun Gong is illegal. Dafa has helped millions of people raise their moral standards. They have greatly benefited from Dafa both physically and mentally. I haven't violated any law or done a single thing that disturbed social peace. I haven't any motivation to break the law. I shall not accept being sentenced to forced labor "re-education."

An appeal from a high school student from China:

My mother learned the Falun Gong exercise and now her diseases are all gone. Beginning on July 22, 1999, our home has been ransacked and our family has been continuously fined. The police have beaten us up many times, and my father and mother have been frequently detained. My father was twice beaten to a state close to death. I call on kind people to find justice for me.

Fa-Rectification Cultivation Stories

A 70-year-old lady's Fa-rectification story: On December 20, 1999, I was arrested while validating Dafa in Tiananmen Square. As a result, I was illegally detained for 15 days. In July 2000, I practiced Dafa exercises in Tiananmen and later returned home safely. When I distributed truth-clarifying materials in my hometown, I always attached a few words of mine, "Do not suppress good people as if they are bad people. It is a heavenly law that good will be rewarded with good, and evil met with evil." Later my home was ransacked and I was arrested and sent to a labor camp. Now I rely on kindhearted people's help to make a living.

In remembrance of Dafa practitioner Fu Chunsheng: the last time I saw you, you came to pick up some truth-clarifying materials. You told me that you had talked to all the relatives, friends, classmates and neighbors that you knew, clarifying the truth to them in person. You said clarifying the truth from your own experiences achieved a very good result. You even sent the material to the community office leaders and local police station.

News from Overseas

Taiwan practitioners introduced Dafa to veterans, the servicemen who came from Mainland China to Taiwan in the late 40s. Some of them had been deeply fooled by the false propaganda that the Chinese government has fabricated; however, practitioners' kindness and compassion has helped them change their bad notions about Dafa.

At the Winter Carnival in St. Paul City, Minnesota, a Falun Gong float presented a beautiful and pure sight to the people. People kept applauding practitioners. Many raised their hands and made a V gesture with their fingers to show encouragement and kind wishes. Many of them told practitioners, "I've heard of Falun Gong!"