Yang Lihua, Party Secretary of Dayangshu Town, and several other officials have acted as hired thugs for Jiang to ruthlessly oppress Falun Dafa practitioners during the past few years. These officials include Li Shuliang, deputy head of the police department, Li Benxue, chief of the security section, and Jiang Enwu, party secretary of the town's political and disciplinary committee and director of the prefecture's "610 Office." ["610 Office" is 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.] These persecutors have unlawfully thrown all those who refuse to give up their beliefs into prison. They have ordered their subordinates to viciously beat Falun Dafa practitioners with high-voltage electric batons, wooden clubs, and to tie up practitioners' hands, then hang them up off the ground for extended periods of time. Some practitioners have been slapped until their faces were swollen beyond recognition. Ms. Yu Xiulan, who was in her sixties and lived on Zhongyang Street under the No. 6 Residential Committee in Dayangshu Town, died from torture because she remained true to her beliefs.

Relevant telephone numbers are as follows:

Li Shuliang: 86-470-5712154 (home).
Li Benxue: 86-470-5714759 (home).
Jiang Enwu, directory of the "610 Office": 86-13804707488 (cellular), 86-470-5628437 (office).
Wang Xiaoshuang: 86-13947036138 (cellular), 86-470-5621946 (office).
Bao Yong, head of the state security brigade: 86-13947036394 (cellular).
Yan Lihua: 86-470-5712211 (cellular).
Yin Liansheng, head of the Dayangshu Detention Center: 86-13847023399 (cellular), 86-470-5725034 (home).
Detention Center of Elunchun Prefecture: 86-470-5630729.

On January 14, 2004, two Falun Dafa practitioners went to their local "610 Office" to ask for the return of money that had been extorted from them, when the staff transferred responsibility to the police department. The practitioners went to the political security department on the fourth floor of the police station where they found Falun Dafa books and portraits of their Teacher stored in the corridor. They decided that the proper course of action would be to carry the books and portraits to their own homes with great respect, which they did around noon the same day. On January 16, three other practitioners also went to the police department in an attempt to bring back more of the books and framed portraits. Liu Changzhong, deputy head of the political security section spotted them and although one of the practitioners managed to escape, two others were unlawfully arrested. Liu Changzhong's telephone number is: 86-451-53723865 (home).

Zhao Yong is a retired teacher at the Baotou Railroad Workers School. He and his wife have been detained unlawfully since May 2003. This is the third time they have been placed in custody. The responsible organizations are the State Security Brigade of the Donghe District Branch of Baotou City Police Department and the Bayantala Police Station in Donghe District in Baotou City, Inner Mongolia.

Grandma Gan is a retired employee of the Hubei Construction and Machinery Company Ltd. On December 13, 2003, officers from the Shuiguohu No. 1 Police Station and members of the local residential committee forced her into the Yujiatou Brainwashing Center.

Relevant telephone numbers are as follows:

Li Yamei, officer at the Shuiguohu Police Station, on duty Monday through Thursday: 86-27-87121692 (office).
Hubei Construction and Machinery Company Ltd.: Zhongbei Road, Wuhan City, Hubei Province, ZIP 430070.

Chen Shunjie, general manager: 86-27-87825996 (office).
Chen Jiefeng: 86-27-87309389 (office).
Xiong Guoqing, Party secretary: 86-27-87308145 (office).

At the end of 2003, the Political and Judiciary Committee, instigated by the Chengdu City "610 Office", secretly transferred four Falun Dafa practitioners from the Chongzhou City Detention Center to the Lushan Forced Labor Camp for further abuse. The four practitioners include Elder Sister Ji and Gou Zhongxiu. They had been unlawfully taken from their homes and brought to the detention center during the Chinese lunar spring festival last year.

Relevant telephone numbers are as follows:

Chengdu City Political and Judiciary Committee: 86-28-86632832.
Chongzhou City Political and Judiciary Committee: 86-28-82272300.

Ms. Kang Sulan, who is in her sixties, lives in the family quarters of the astronaut administration.bureau on South Renmin Road in Chengdu City. On January 15, 2004, she was arrested by officials from the South Renmin Road Police Station. She is currently incarcerated at the Pi County Detention Center in Chengdu City.

Both Ms. Kang and her husband are Falun Dafa practitioners. They had been placed under surveillance after they returned from Beijing where they appealed for the rights of Falun Gong. Their pension payments of over 1,000 yuan each have been unjustly terminated. Instead, each of them now receives a monthly support payment of only 200 yuan and even this minimal support is being suspended from time to time. [The average monthly income of an urban worker in China is about 500 yuan.]

Falun Dafa practitioner Wang Shaofu from Tumen City, Jilin Province, is currently being unlawfully held at the Railroad Police Department. The telephone number there is: 86-433-3622294. Mr. Wang, a section chief there can be reached at: 86-433-3627131.