(Clearwisdom.net) In October 2003, the Xinye County Court in Henan Province sentenced 10 Dafa practitioners to between one and nine years in prison. The court did not even notify their families of the date and time of their loved ones' illegal trials. The ten practitioners protested to the court for putting them on trial for exercising their constitutional freedom of personal belief by exclaiming, "Falun Dafa is good!" Their righteous spirits caused the judge to close the trial in a panic.

At the time of writing, the ten practitioners are still detained in Xinye County Detention Center. The local police are planning to transfer them to Mi County Male Prison and Xinxiang City Women's Prison in Henan Province respectively. They are currently protesting their detention via various approaches, including going on a hunger strike.

The aforementioned ten Dafa practitioners are:

63-year-old Mr. Li Wan'e was sentenced to six years in prison. He was a cadre at the Agriculture Bureau in Xinye County, Henan Province, and a local resident in Xindianpu Town, Xinye County. Mr. Li Wan'e went to Beijing in October 1999 to clarify the truth about Falun Dafa, but was arrested and transferred back to Xinye County where the elderly cadre suffered from atrocious tortures for several months while in detention in a local unknown prison. As a determined Dafa practitioner who refused to renounce Falun Dafa, Mr. Li Wan'e was sentenced to three years in the 2nd Forced Labor Camp in Ruzhou City, Henan Province in March 2000. In the same year, Mr. Li was transferred to the 3rd Forced Labor Camp in Xuchang City. In October 2000, Mr. Li Wan'e was released on bail from the 3rd Forced Labor Camp to receive medical treatment because his blood pressure skyrocketed to a deadly level. On November 1, 2002 (prior to the 16th National People's Congress), police officer Mr. Tan Junmin and two of his colleagues from the 3rd Forced Labor Camp in Xuchang City abducted Mr. Li Wan'e to the forced labor camp again. Although Mr. Li was released unconditionally 22 days later on November 23, police officers from Xinye County Public Security Bureau, including Mr. Li Yanpu, Mr. Li Bin, Mr. Peng Zenglan, Mr. Qi Jingjie, took him away again five days later on November 28. Facts about the persecution against Mr. Li Wan'e were once published at Clearwisdom.net on July 1, 2003: http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2003/7/1/37572.html

Mr. Ma was sentenced to five years in prison. He was a cadre at the Agriculture Machinery Company in Xinye County. He was arrested in Beijing for clarifying the truth about Falun Dafa in October 1999, and transferred back to Xinye County, where he was detained for several months. In December 1999, he was illegally sentenced to three years in the 2nd Forced Labor Camp in Ruzhou City where he suffered from the forced brainwashing efforts of the depraved staff and succumbed to their tortures. He was released earlier than scheduled in the summer of 2000. Later Mr. Ma realized that it was wrong of him to compromise his personal belief, so he resumed his efforts of clarifying the truth about Falun Dafa. In the summer of 2002, the local police took him again to the detention center. Because he was impervious to the police officers' persecution, the police tried to transfer him, along with several other Dafa practitioners, to the 3rd Forced Labor Camp in Xuchang City. Due to these practitioners' powerful righteous thoughts, the forced labor camp refused to take them in and returned them to the detention center in Xinye County. They were soon released unconditionally. On November 1, 2002 (prior to the 16th National People's Congress), police officers from Xinye County Public Security Bureau, including Mr. Li Yanpu, Mr. Li Bin, Mr. Peng Zenglan, Mr. Qi Jingjie, arrested him again. Facts about the persecution against Mr. Ma Dexing were published on Clearwidom.net on July 1, 2003: http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2003/7/1/37572.html

Illegally sentenced to five years in prison. Ms. Zhao was an employee at Xinye County Textile Group.

Sentenced to four years in prison.

Sentenced to one year in prison.

Sentenced to three and a half years in prison.

Sentenced to eight years in prison.

Sentenced to nine years in prison.

No available information.

No available information.

During the detention period (and prior to the transfer to the respective prisons), police officers from the Xinye County Public Security Bureau, such as Mr. Li Yanpu, Mr. Li Bin and Mr. Peng Zenglan, ordered police officers on the criminal investigation team, (who were hired for coercion, attack and underhanded or unscrupulous tasks), to savagely beat up and torture these Dafa practitioners. According to an eyewitness, Mr. Li Yanpu, Mr. Li Bin and Mr. Peng Zenglan each held a baton to pummel one Dafa practitioner. After the three of them knocked him to the floor, they violently kicked him on the head with their hard tipped leather shoes while exclaiming stoutly, "We will beat you to death if you don't renounce Falun Gong! We've got an order from the top that 'death of Falun Gong practitioners from beating is nothing and shall be counted as suicide.' Try complaining to Jiang Zemin!" It is Jiang Zemin's thuggish political group that has been goading the Chinese police to persecute Falun Dafa practitioners. Yet none of these morally depraved police officers had the backbone to sign their names on the "interrogation records."

For those Dafa practitioners who are capable of clarifying the truth via phone or mail, please be sure to clarify the truth to the following work units and/or individuals.

Individuals in the following list may now have a different job title, but their home and cellular numbers remain the same. The telephone number of each office also remains the same.

Country code of China: 86
Area code of Xinye County: 377

Dialing Instruction:

For the cellular number, dial 011 + country code + number (without the beginning zero). For instance, to call 86-013703455788, you must dial 86-13703455788.

The Composite Administration Office (the local "610 Office"): 86-377-6269853
Second telephone number of the Office: 86-377-6269859
Group Inspection Section: 86-377-6222434

The Political and Legal Committee in Xinye County shares an office with the local "610 Office" and is one of the government organizations most actively persecuting Falun Dafa practitioners in Xinye County. ["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 and judiciary systems. Due to pressure from the international community, the Chinese Communist government has renamed the "610 Office" on October 15, 2003, and lied to the world, stating that the "610 Office" has been "disbanded."] The Composite Administration Office is a subordinate organization under the Political and Legal Committee.

It is alleged that there is a "610 Office" directly associated with the Political and Legal Committee or its subordinate Composite Administration Office.

This is one of the government organizations in Xinye County most actively persecuting Dafa practitioners.

Duty Room: 86-377-6269911; 86-377-6222250
Fax Room: 86-377-6269992

This is another government organization most actively persecuting Dafa practitioners.

Reception: 86-377-6222160
Main Office: 86-377-6222664

This is another government organization most actively persecuting Dafa practitioners. Ask to be transferred to its Political Security Office or Political Security Section. They are most active in persecuting Dafa practitioners.

Switchboard: 86-377-6222611; 86-377-6222612; 86-377-6222613; 86-377-6221724
Main Staff

* Location of the police officers hired for coercion, attack and underhanded or unscrupulous tasks, to savagely beat up and torture these Dafa practitioners.

This is another government organization most actively persecuting Dafa practitioners.

Reception: 86-377-6222541
Main Office: 86-377-6222050; 86-377-6222541
Case Filing Office: 86-377-6217016
Court Bailiff Team: 86-377-6272159

This is another government organization most actively persecuting Dafa practitioners.

These two law firms are associated with the Judiciary Bureau.