July 29, 2003

Ms. Li Xiaoying is around forty-three years old. She is from Xiajie Division of Xinping Team in Chengping Village, Anren County in Chenzhou City, Hunan Province. On New Year's Day of 2001, together with practitioners Li Yunhua, Li Sanfa and Wang Yeqing, she went to Beijing to appeal. She was later arrested by the police in Beijing. At that time, the "610 Office"* in Anren County and the Chengping Village local government were responsible for going to Beijing to pick up the arrested practitioners. On her way back, Li Xiaoying was handcuffed together with Li Yunhua. Later Li Yunhua recalled: "We were both sleeping. When I woke up, I did not find Li Xiaoying and the other handcuff was empty. I did not know what happened to her. Other people on the same train did not tell me anything. I have not seen her since and do not know whether she is still alive."

Li Sanfa and Wang Yeqing are still being detained at Xinkaipu Labor Camp in Changsha City, Hunan Province. The environment there is very bad. However, they remain very determined.

Before practicing Falun Gong, Li Xiaoying suffered from many kinds of diseases. Since obtaining the Fa, she has been following the principles of "Truthfulness, Compassion, Tolerance" and she has completely changed physically and spiritually. She is very enthusiastic about studying and promoting the Fa. People often talk about her, "She is such a nice person. Now no one knows why she disappeared. Her child has been desperately waiting for her to come back. Her family members dare not to tell others or request her whereabouts from the '610 Office'."

All these remind me of another even sadder story. Practitioner Guo Hongying from Yongzhou City, Human Province once told me her experience in prison. While she was detained in Beijing, the Beijing police transported practitioners who peacefully appealed to remote mountains and valleys late at night. Some of them were beaten until they were bleeding all over or near death. The police then dug a pit to bury them alive (the purpose was to force them to tell their address). The mud already went up to her neck. The police abandoned those who still refused to tell their address. There are many people who were abandoned in remote mountains like that.

There are too many cases of practitioners being cruelly persecuted over the past several years, which have remained untold. Kind-hearted people, please judge for yourselves and give us your moral support! Let justice prevail!

*The 610 Office is an agency specifically created to persecute Falun Gong, with absolute power over each level of administration in the Party and all other political or judicial systems.