(Clearwisdom.net)

1. Practitioner Mr. Wu Rongyao, age 44, was once a worker at the Chongqing Railroad Branch Locomotive Dispatch. After beginning the practice of Falun Gong in 1997, Mr. Wu firmly committed himself to Dafa and continued practicing even after the persecution began on July 20, 1999. He journeyed to Beijing several times to appeal for Falun Gong and to clarify the truth. Because of this, Mr. Wu was illegally fired from his job and expelled from the Party. In July 2000, he was unduly sentenced to two years of forced labor. After serving the two-year sentence, Mr. Wu once again began clarifying the truth about Falun Dafa. He was then illegally arrested in September 2002, and his house was ransacked by the police. In October, Mr. Wu was sent again to Sichuan Mianyang Xinhua Forced Labor Camp for another 2-year term. En-route to the camp, Mr. Wu jumped out of the police car. Because his hands were handcuffed, Mr. Wu's face was injured, and his wound looked terrible. However, the police cared nothing about his well being, and they still forced him to work at the labor camp.

Earlier, Mr. Wu's sister (also a Falun Dafa practitioner) was illegally taken to Shapingba Mental Hospital. She continues to suffer through tremendous physical and psychological tortures. Mr. Wu's elderly parents have been alone without any care after both of their children became victims of the persecution.

2. Practitioner Mr. Zeng Weicheng, age 35, was illegally sentenced to a 2-year forced labor term in February 2001. Mr. Zeng nearly died from the torture he endured at the camp. Fearful of responsibility for Mr. Zeng's death, camp officials asked Mr. Zeng's relatives to take him home for medical treatment on a medical parole. However, when the police saw that Mr. Zeng was recovering, they immediately re-arrested him and took him back to the forced labor camp. Even after his release in March 2003, Mr. Zeng and his mother were forced into a brainwashing center. With righteous thoughts and actions, both of them escaped from the brainwashing center, and they have since had to leave home to avoid further persecution. Their current whereabouts are unknown. Mr. Zeng's wife, also a practitioner, is currently detained at the Sichuan Female Forced Labor Camp, where she is subjected to inhuman torture every day. Because both Mr. and Mrs. Zeng are no longer able to reside at home, their young child is now entirely without parental care.

3. 39-year-old practitioner Mr. Yao Rongxuan, a resident of Yongchuan City, was once a financial officer holding the rank of captain in a Chengdu military regiment. Because of his unyielding belief in Falun Dafa, Mr. Yao was viciously persecuted. First he was expelled from the Party and unceremoniously dismissed from the army. Mr. Yao had no choice but to leave home after he appealed for Dafa in Beijing. Later, Mr. Yao was illegally arrested for clarifying the facts of Falun Dafa and the persecution. The police brutally beat him and sent him to Sichuan Xinhua Forced Labor Camp, where he was held until September 2002, for a total of one year and nine months.

Early one morning in March 2003, several policemen suddenly broke into Mr. Yao's home, ransacked his personal property and took him away for a 30-day detention in the Yongchuan Jail. However, Mr. Yao protested with a hunger strike, and so the police released him after only 9 days of detention. Later in June 2003, the police abducted him again, and Mr. Yao is currently detained in Jiulongpo Jail Cell No. 29. His family has not heard from him since his arrest. They are very concerned about his safety as well as the safety of his wife and daughter.

4. Practitioner Mr. Lu Zhiyong, age 38, was once employed at Sichuan Heishui County's Forestry Station. In June 2001, Mr. Lu was illegally sentenced to a 16-month term of forced labor. He nevertheless continued practicing Falun Dafa in spite of the risk of being indefinitely detained. Because the police could not hold Mr. Lu longer than his sentence dictated, they released him on January 22, 2003. However, immediately after he walked out through the forced labor camp's front doors, a police car chased after him, and Mr. Lu was forced inside the vehicle. He is currently missing and his whereabouts are unknown.

Posting date: 2/12/2004
Original article date: 2/11/2004
Category: Eye Witness Accounts
Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2004/1/27/65926.html

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