(Clearwisdom.net) At approximately 11:00 a.m. on August 2, 2008, eight police officers from Laishui County Police Department, Hebei Province, and Loucun Township Police Station broke into the home of Ms. Wang Xiulan, 42, a Falun Gong practitioner since 2007, of Huguozhuang Village, Loucun Township, Laishui County. They searched her home without showing any identification and confiscated Falun Dafa books, a color TV, and DVDs. They pushed Ms. Wang into the police car and took her to the Loucun Township Police Station, where she was interrogated and tortured and is currently detained.

Six police officers severely beat Ms. Wang and forced her to reveal the source of her Falun Dafa books and truth clarification materials. Police officer Guo Haining from Loucun Township used rubber batons and plastic batons to beat Ms. Wang. He slapped her face, causing extreme swelling. She was unrecognizable when she arrived at the detention center. The police officers attempted to force her to sign the interrogation notes. When she refused, a group of police officers rushed over, slapped her face, and beat her with rubber batons and wooden clubs. They also struck her back with Coca-Cola bottles full of water. As a result of the beatings, she was covered in bloody bruises. She was handcuffed, which caused her hands to swell. Food was withheld for 24 hours.

Recently, CCP officials in Laishui County held a meeting about the persecution of Falun Gong. They used the Olympics as an excuse to escalate the persecution of practitioners in Laishui County. They continued carrying out large scale arrests of practitioners. They set the arrest quota to no fewer than 300 and assigned this quota to each township, town, and district. In this new round of persecution, the Laishui County government involved the 610 Office, Public Security, the Procuratorate, the court, the judiciary system, and the radio station for the purpose of inciting the whole county to monitor practitioners and report them to police as well as carry out large scale arrests. Since June 6, dozens of practitioners have been illegally detained. Approximately 80 practitioners' homes were illegally searched and ransacked and the practitioners harassed.

Loucun Township Police Station: 86-312-4681065
Wang Jinshi, Deputy Chief of Loucun Township Police Station: 86-13931247368 (Cell)
Loucun Township government: 86-312-4683199
Wang Fucai: 86-312-4532190 (Office)