(Clearwisdom.net)

On March 6, 2003, the Huadian City Police Department arrested Jia Shimin at her home. Ms. Jia was held at the Huadian City Detention Center. Because she went on a hunger strike to protest her illegal arrest, she was force-fed several times. On April 1, 2003, she was transferred to the Heizuizi Forced Labor Camp. She has suffered severe weight loss and appears very emaciated.

On February 18, 2003, the Huadian City Police Station arrested Song Guifang as she was walking down the street. Ms. Song has been unlawfully sentenced to two years of forced labor reeducation and is being held in the Heizuizi Forced Labor Camp in Changchun City, Jilin Province.

Cao Guifang, female, 52, is a worker at the Metallurgy General Mechanical Repair Factory in Qinhuangdao City, Hebei Province. Prior to practicing Falun Gong, she suffered from thyroid gland cancer, coronary disease and other illnesses. After practicing Falun Gong, all her illnesses were cured. The Qinhuangdao City "610 Office" [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] and the police department, however, repeatedly issued warrants for her arrest, and sentenced her to forced labor reeducation. Although she failed to pass a physical examination, authorities forcibly sent her into the Kaiping Forced Labor Camp in Hebei Province. She was released on medical parole due to her extremely weak physical condition. Before the 16^th Party's Congress last November, when she and her husband were at the port authorities' No. 8 construction site having their bicycle repaired, members of the "610 Office," officers from the Hedong Police Station in Haigang District and cadres from the factory security section arrested her again. The crowd who witnessed the police violence thought it resembled the acts of gang members. The officers themselves shouted to the crowd that they were indeed gangsters. Half a month later, after her family inquired many times, they were told that Ms. Cao was again taken to the Kaiping Forced Labor Camp in Hebei Province.

Between 5:00 and 6:00 p.m. on March 19, 2003, many fully armed police officers and plain-clothed officers arrived in police vehicles and surrounded the Hanhua Garden in Qiaokou District in Wuhan City, Hubei Province. They told the crowd that there was a Falun Gong material site located on the twelfth floor. Over a dozen people were arrested. The neighbors commented that the police don't dare arrest robbers, but instead harass honest people. They thought the Falun Gong practitioners were really remarkable, because they had the courage to produce materials showing the truth about Falun Gong in such a dangerous environment.

The brainwashing center secretly operated by the "610 Office" in Zhanjiang area is located in a private building owned by Liang at Chenwu Village, Chikan District, Zhanjiang City.

Head of Chikan District "610 Office": Huang Zuhua
Head of Zhanjiang City "610 Office": Chen Jun

On the afternoon of March 4, 2003, the local police unlawfully arrested Yuan Zhongquan and Wu Yan. Their current whereabouts are unknown.

Li Yuling and her husband Zheng Wensheng from Qixing Village, Changshan Township left their home to avoid the persecution and arrived at Weihe Town, Shangzhi City, Heilongjiang Province. On April 19, 2002, the police unlawfully took Zheng away, and he has remained in custody ever since. He is being held at the No. 2 Detention Center in Harbin City.

On the afternoon of March 4, 2003, the police arrested Li Yuling when she was on her way to a fellow practitioner's home. Her whereabouts are unknown. Their 13-year-old daughter has been left at home alone, waiting for her parents' return.

On the afternoon of March 4, 2003, Liu Bo participated in the arrests of Falun Dafa practitioners Yuan Zhongquan, Wu Yansheng, and Li Yuling. Zhang Tieli, a police officer from the Weihe Forestry Bureau in Shangzhi City, is responsible for the persecution of Falun Dafa practitioner Li Xuhui. Zhang was awarded 5,000 Yuan for his active participation in persecuting Falun Dafa practitioners. [500 Yuan is the average monthly income for an urban worker in China.]

Prior to the Lunar Chinese New Year's Day, at the end of January, over seventy female Falun Dafa practitioners were secretly transferred from prisons in Beijing to the Wuhan City Women's Prison. Authorities of the Wuhan City Women's Prison issued orders that two criminal inmates would be assigned to each Falun Dafa practitioner, to monitor them closely and prevent them from communicating with each other.

April 7, 2003