Mr. Liu Yong, about 30, is an employee of Shaoyang City Highway Bureau. In 2003, Mr. Liu was illegally arrested and brutally tortured by some police from the Public Security Bureau. On April 5, 2004, the authorities in Shaoyang City gave Mr. Liu an illegal three-year sentence. Presently, he is still imprisoned in Changde jail.

Ms. Che Xiangyang is a staff member of Zijiang Pesticide Factory in Shaoyang City, Hunan Province. On December 31, 2004, some authorities from Shuangqing District, Shaoyang City illegally arrested Ms. Che for the second time and sentenced her to Baimalong Forced Labor Camp in Zhuzhou City, Hunan Province. Ms. Che was supposed to be released in December 2005, but she was sentenced to an additional one year in the forced labor camp. Currently she is still held there.

Ms. Guo Mingqing, 41, is an employee of Zijiang Pesticide Factory in Shaoyang City, Hunan Province. On June 13, 2005, when she and her fellow Dafa practitioners, Huang Duzhen and Luo Lanying, were handing out truth-clarifying material, they were illegally arrested and all of their family property was confiscated. Ms. Guo Mingqing was sentenced to a forced labor camp for two years. Presently, she is still imprisoned in Baimalong Forced Labor Camp in Zhuzhou City, Hunan Province. This is her second time in a forced labor camp.

Ms. Wang Xinguo, from Shaoyang County, Shaoyang City, Hunan Province, was sentenced to a forced labor camp in December 2005. She is currently still imprisoned in Baimalong Forced Camp in Zhuzhou City, Hunan Province.

Mr. Luo Jiabing and his wife Ms. Jiang Yulian: Mr. Luo was once imprisoned in a newly built jail in Hunan Province where he was tortured. His wife Ms. Jiang was given a forced labor camp sentence for clarifying the facts about Falun Gong publicly. On September 15, 2005, this couple, Mr. Luo and Jiang, were both illegally arrested. On the next day, Jiang was given a two-year sentence in a forced labor camp, and her husband, Mr. Luo, was detained in a detention center for fifteen days. Because Mr. Luo kept clarifying the truth to people in the detention center, he was sentenced to two years in a forced labor camp by the Shandong 610 Office. Their young daughter has been left at home with no parents to care for her.