(Clearwisdom.net) Today's News from China includes incidents of persecution that took place in 25 cities or counties in 11 provinces. In this report, 28 practitioners were subjected to mistreatment during their detention and at least 36 practitioners were illegally arrested.

Last year, the Chinese Communist Party instigated a crackdown on Falun Gong practitioners in our local area. Over one hundred police officers were mobilized to make arrests. The environment was terrible, as the police were searching everywhere. However, we remained calm. Practitioners who were arrested also had their money confiscated. The practitioners had been taken away by late afternoon. The incident was exposed on the Clearwisdom website a few hours later.

Local practitioners along with others both inside and outside China sent righteous thoughts. No matter whether our practitioners have loopholes or not, they should not be persecuted. We are students of Master Li Hongzhi. Our Master takes care of us. If we have done something wrong, the Fa will correct us. Those who torture practitioners are disturbing Master's Fa-rectification and will be held responsible for their actions. We continued to send forth righteous thoughts to support the practitioners who were were arrested.

We did not become emotional when we heard news, either good or bad, concerning the practitioners.

"Under trying circumstances of any type, you must all keep steady in thought. Just by staying unaffected you will be able to handle all situations." ("Teaching the Fa at the Conference in the Midwest-U.S.")

The police told us that if the Domestic Security Bureau did not do anything, the practitioners would be released within half a month. In such a righteous environment bad deeds or actions cannot take place, so when we heard this news we all remained very calm. Then we were informed that the practitioners were transferred to a detention center on the fourteenth day after their arrest. Again, we were not moved, and most of us kept sending righteous thoughts every hour, and exposed the incident everywhere we could. These righteous actions helped tremendously, as the authorities feared being exposed. All the practitioners were eventually released.

As a result of all this we became more mature in the Fa, and later held the first major experience sharing conference in our area, allowing us to learn from one another and helping us all to look inward to find our attachments and loopholes. The conference benefited us tremendously to improve as cultivators.

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