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(Clearwisdom.net) Mr. Pang Xuehai, 53, a researcher at the Chinese Academy of Administration, his wife Kong Daiyou and mother-in-law Xu Bingmei (78 years old) are all practitioners of Falun Dafa. On January 4, 2001, the authorities forced the couple to attend a brainwashing class. Kong was sentenced to a labor camp later, and Pang is still being held in a detention center. The 78-year-old mother, who was partially disabled, was left alone and uncared for at home. Pang's workplace bought the elderly lady a carton of instant noodles as her daily food; still, she passed away in July 2001.

Three years ago, the elderly lady was diagnosed with cancer and given six months to live. After she practiced Falun Gong, however, she survived without care and aid until six months after her children were arrested. According to regulations, both children were eligible for a 15-day leave to deal with funeral affairs, but because of their determination in their belief, only Kong was allowed to take a two-day leave.

When Pang and his wife were kidnapped by Nanhu Police Station on January 4 last year, the policemen did not follow any legal procedures. Pang pointed out this fact in all seriousness, but the policemen refused to answer. Pang once won a prize for one of his inventions in the 80's, and he made new discoveries about his previous invention during the detention period. He applied to go back to his former post to carry out the research several times to the authorities concerned, but the detention center withheld his letters. When he asked the authorities of the detention center, he got this reply: "We don't intend to keep you here, but the matter is decided by the politics & law committee." Up until now the detention center is still holding 8 practitioners. It is said that the northern city politics & law committee is primarily in charge of the case, and they plan to send these practitioners to a brainwashing class. But so far, these officials have not dared to talk directly with the detained practitioners.

Below are the names of some other practitioners who are illegally detained:

He Lingling, female, arrested at the railway station on her way to appeal in Beijing. She was sentenced to 2 years in a labor camp, and the sentence expires in 2002. Now she has been transferred from labor camp to detention center, but there has been no sign that she will be released.

Yan Yule, high school student, taken away without any legal procedures from her classroom last January. Her mother was sentenced to a labor camp too.

Lin meilian, Su Ren, and Huang Yingxian, have been detained for more than one year, and not attended to by any officials in the detention center. No one knows how long they will be imprisoned.

Xu Yuhe, a graduate student, was arrested for practicing Falun Gong at home. He has been in detention for more than one year too.

A female student of a business school (name unclear).

Lu Lihua, released by the labor camp but re-arrested after going back to teach in her former school. It took her father, a Party member and general secretary of a unit, four months to find out that his daughter had been unreasonably imprisoned in detention center.

All these practitioners have been imprisoned for a long time. They don't know how long they will continue to be detained and they are still required by the detention center to pay a 25 Yuan food bill every day. When some of their families came to ask for their release, they were ordered to pay 1,000-2,000 Yuan fee without a receipt. The families without the money have to see their loved ones stay in the detention center indefinitely.

Posting date: 2/2/2002
Original article date: 1/22/2002
Category: Eye Witness Accounts
Translated on 1/25/2002
Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2002/1/22/23596.html

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