[The Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region] Falun Dafa Practitioners Are Illegally Sentenced to Prison and Sent to a Mental Hospital

Li Tong'an was detained by the "610 Office" right after he made a solemn declaration that all the so-called "statements of guarantee" he had written under pressure were null and void. Then he was sentenced to four years in prison. He is still being detained in the Shihezi Forced Labor Farm.

Ning Xianghua was tortured in the brainwashing center for cultivating Falun Dafa. Guo Tianqiang, an officer from the "610 Office," grabbed this practitioner's hair and smashed his (her) face against the window, breaking the glass. Ning was then punished by being forced to stand and deprived of sleep. After two sessions in a brainwashing class, he (she) was sent to the Shihezi Mental Hospital in November 2002 and subjected to inhumane treatment.

[The Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region] Falun Dafa Practitioners Are Sent to Brainwashing Class after Completion of Terms in Forced Labor Camp

Xinjiang practitioners are not only subjected to extreme torture in forced labor camps but are also sent to a brainwashing class after completion of their labor camp terms by the local "610 Office." In the brainwashing class, they are instilled with fabrications, threatened, and beaten. If they do not yield to the evils, they will be sent to detention centers. However, such brainwashing classes are publicized as "Legal Study Classes."

[Jiaozhou City, Shandong Province] Pang Fang Is Persecuted in "610 Office"

In March 2003, practitioner Pang Fang, a female employee from the Jiaozhou Radio & Television Bureau, and another practitioner were reported for distributing truth-clarifying materials in Jiaonan City. The local police illegally arrested them, and officers from Jiaozhou City detained them for 15 days. Currently Pang Fang is being detained in the Zhangjiatun "610 Office" in Jiaozhou City. She is being brainwashed and tortured, both physically and mentally.

[Tangshan City, Hebei Province] The No.1 Section of Fengrun Public Security Bureau Tortures Falun Dafa Practitioners

On December 21, 2002, over 20 policemen from the Tangshan and Fengrun Public Security Bureaus, led by their directors, broke into a Falun Dafa material site. They tied up practitioner Feng Haijuan (female) and Han Xueyu (male) with ropes and beat them up. In order to coerce the two practitioners into revealing other practitioners' names, the police almost totally stripped off Han Xueyu's trousers in public. The chaos of the beatings and abuse shocked the neighbors. Then the two practitioners were brought to the Tangshan Iron & Steel Plant, where the policemen kept shocking Han Xueyu using wires hooked up to a rotary telephone. In the evening, the police sent them to the Fengrun District. Feng Haijuan was then transferred to the Tuanjielu Police Substation where police from the No.1 Section of the Fengrun Public Security Bureau cuffed her to a metal chair and shocked her with a device attached to a rotary telephone until her heart started to beat irregularly. Feng Haijuan is currently being detained in the No.1 Detention Center in Tangshan City, still in poor health.

Zeng Xianghai, Vice Director of the Politics & Security Section in Fengrun District, is one of the policemen who is directly involved in the persecution.

[Shenyang City, Liaoning Province] Practitioner Liu Runlin Is Illegally Arrested

Several policemen from the Wulihe Police Substation illegally arrested Liu Runlin, age 47, at noon on April 6, 2003, after shadowing him for several months. Police from the Shenyang Public Security Bureau brutally tortured him with inhumane instruments of torture and imposed a tight blockade on news of his condition. Even though Liu's righteous thoughts and righteous behavior greatly shocked the evils, he continues to be persecuted.

Phone numbers of those involved in the persecution:

Li Feng, Director of the Shenyang Public Security Department, 86-24-86992001 Ext. 2277

Jing Rong, Office Director of the Shenyang Public Security Department, 86-24-86992011 (office), 86-24-86219023 (home), 86-13909837467 (cell)

The Shenyang Public Security Bureau: 86-24-23832677

The Shenhequ Public Security Branch: 86-24-24859308

The Wulihe Police Substation: 86-24-23893754

[Baoding City, Hebei Province] The Mancheng Public Security Bureau Force-Feeds Falun Dafa Practitioners with Excrement and Urine

During the middle of the night on February 26, 2003, the Mancheng Public Security Bureau arrested Yin Fengqin and six other Falun Dafa practitioners from the Dakanxia Village of Mancheng County without any legal procedures. These practitioners were forcibly taken away from home without even being allowed to put on their jackets. One of the practitioners is a young woman whose one-year-old nursing baby had to be left at home. The seven practitioners never yielded to the evils, even in the face of inhumane persecution. They went on a hunger strike to protest the illegal detention. The police then force-fed them with excrement and urine. They are in a very difficult situation.

[Tang County, Hebei Province] Falun Dafa Practitioners Detained

Practitioners Ren Shuqin (female) and Shi Jie from Xijianyang Village, Tang County, have been illegally detained in a county detention facility.

[Jilin City, Jilin Province] Senior Practitioner Sun Yuxiang Becomes Destitute

and Homeless

Sun Yuiang is over 63 years old. In 2000, she went to Beijing to validate Dafa and was arrested at Tiananmen Square. She had 1000 Yuan extorted from her as a fine and was illegally sentenced to two years in forced labor camp. In the Heizuizi Forced Labor Camp in Changchun City, she was not allowed to sleep for three consecutive days and nights. She became extremely weak from the persecution. Later she was sent home to complete her sentence under "house arrest." To keep from having to write the so-called "statement of guarantee" and to avoid further persecution, she had to leave her home and became destitute and homeless.

[Jinan City, Shandong Province] Practitioner Li Guixiang Is Illegally Detained in The No.2 Female Forced Labor Camp in Jinan City

Practitioner Li Guixiang from Nunan County was illegally sentenced to two years in a forced labor camp. She is currently being detained in the No.2 Female Forced Labor Camp in Jinan City.

[Dalian City, Liaoning Province] Two Practitioners Detained

While distributing truth-clarifying materials in April 2002, Song Shuwu, a male over 30-years-old, was illegally arrested by police from the Harbin Road Police Substation. He was then illegally sentenced to two years in a forced labor camp. Currently he is being detained in the Dalian Forced Labor Camp.

Liu Fengying, female, 65 years old, is from the Hanjia Village of Ershilibao Town in Dalian City. She was illegally detained on April 23, 2002. Currently she is being detained in the Mashanjia Forced Labor Camp in Shenyang City.

[Dalian City, Liaoning Province] Village Cadres Deprive Falun Dafa Practitioners and Their Family Members of Income

Cadres from Youyi Street in Daoxinming Village deprived Falun Dafa practitioners who refused to write so-called "statements of guarantee" and their family members of their right to work and rescinded their retirement pensions and all other benefits. These cadres are praised for doing this by their superiors.

Cadres from Daoxinming Village involved in persecution include:

Hua Shubin, 48 years old;

Wang Chunming, 49 years old;

Cui Xuehai, Governor of the Village, 54 years old;

Ji Yongqian, Director of the Security Department, 38 years old

[Mengyang City, Sichuan Province] Practitioner Tang Fengfeng Illegally Sentenced to Forced Labor Camp

Practitioner Tang Fengfeng from Mengyang City in Sichuan Province was illegally sentenced to forced labor camp recently. She has been escorted to the Chengdu Terminal Station.