EMH2004-5-27

(Clearwisdom.net) On May 27, 2004, the U.S. Federal Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago will be the site for the court debate regarding the lawsuit against Jiang Zemin. This lawsuit against the head perpetrator of the persecution of Falun Gong and former Chinese president Jiang Zemin is receiving more and more attention from the international community and the general public.

Minghui correspondent Gu Anru interviewed Mr. Yang Sen, a representative for the U.S. Falun Dafa Association, Ms. Han Shuhui, a representative for the plaintiff attorney's team and Mr. He Haiying, a representative for the Global Coalition to Bring Jiang to Justice.

Correspondent: At the beginning, people had doubts about this lawsuit. Why? Over a year ago, when answering reporter's question, the plaintiffs' attorney Terri Marsh had said, "The goal of this lawsuit is to stop Jiang Zemin group's persecution of Falun Gong, to remind the world through the U.S. legal system that the crime of genocide is taking place in China, and at the same time encourage more people to help end this persecution through non-legal channels." [Paraphrase]

With Falun Gong practitioners' efforts in truth clarification over the past year, people's doubts have been gradually replaced by concerns and attention. They want to know the nature and progress of the lawsuit, the court discussions as well as the impact of this lawsuit. Should we first introduce the background information pertaining to this lawsuit?

Yang Sen: Of course. In October 2002, Jiang paid a private visit to Chicago, U.S.A. On October 18, Falun Gong practitioners filed a class-action lawsuit with U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois in Chicago, charging Jiang with torture, crimes against humanity and genocide.

Around 4:00 p.m. on October 22, the complaint was filed under seal and the defendants were served by alternate service by security agents designated by the courts as appropriate substitutes for personal service. In the subsequent several months, Court Summons were mailed via registered letter several times to Zhongnanhai. Jiang Zemin's office had repeatedly given their signatures and received the legal documents.

On January 13, 2003, the court held the first meeting for the lawsuit. The attoney and the judge determined the time for the next hearing in this case.

Around 2 p.m. April 14, 2003, plaintiffs' attorney Terri Marsh responded to the issues posed at the preliminary hearing on January 13, 2003, in order to assure that the statements conform to standards required by the state of Illinois. Because Jiang stepped down as president of China on March 15, 2003, he was no longer a head of state by the time the filing of documents with court was officially completed.

On June 10, 2003, a brief co-signed by 39 members from the U.S. Congress as a friend of the court, known as amicus curiae, was submitted to the Federal Court for the Northern District of Illinois to express the congressional members' support for the lawsuit against Jiang. Regarding whether the defendant enjoys immunity as the head of a country, the documents stressed that the basic principle to establish the immunity for Heads of State is that such an immunity appeal should not again be solved through diplomatic approach under the strong political pressure, instead, it should be solved by the court based on the legal standards.

On September 12, 2003, based on a technicality, the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois dismissed the lawsuit, citing immunity for heads of state. At that time, Jiang was no longer a head of state. The judge, though, acknowledged some of the plaintiff's arguments as being valid.

Correspondent: according to my understanding, the judge's dismissal is only a technicality and does not exonerate the defendant, right?

Yang Sen: That is correct. Regarding the conclusion from the court, on September 15, 2003, the plaintiffs' lawyer Terri Marsh and a group of Falun Gong practitioners held a press conference at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., stating that they are planning to file a Motion for Reconsideration with the District Court and an Appeal with the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals.

On January 19, 2004, plaintiffs filed an appellate brief with the U.S. 7^th Circuit Court, arguing that anyone, whether they are a current or former head of state, must abide by the rule of law and cannot be above the law. The brief pointed out that if the plaintiffs' complaints are verified; the defendant violated the basic principles of international law and committed genocide and torture. In addition, the brief also pointed out that according to the spirit of the genocide and torture treaties that the U.S. has signed, Jiang Zemin, who left the position of the Chinese President on March 15, 2003, no longer enjoys any immunity.

On March 5, 2004, in consideration of the complicated mutual interests between countries, the U.S. Department of Justice filed an amicus brief to reply to the brief filed by plaintiffs' attorney on January 19, and presented arguments about the immunity and the process of service.

On March 19, 2004, the plaintiffs filed a reply to the Department of Justice brief. In addition to the points raised in the January 19 brief, a summary about the validity of the legal process was also added.

Until now, the collection of materials have been finished by both sides, on May 27, 2004, oral arguments will be heard in the 7^th Circuit Court.

Correspondent: I heard the May 27 oral argument is an opportunity to state and defend our cause after the legal procedure has begun. What do you think will happen during the court arguments?

Attorney Han Shuhui: This lawsuit is very important in U.S. legal circles. It is also very important in the international field of law, for lawyers and human rights. It has special historic significance. On May 20, the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin published a headline report on the pending court arguments, which shows the interest this case has generated.

It is predicted that three judges, the plaintiffs' lawyer and a lawyer representing the U.S. Department of Justice will be present. The plaintiffs' lawyer will state the legal cause and procedural issues; the U.S. Department of Justice lawyer will give his opinions on the legal procedures. During the approximately 40-minute argument, the three judges will ask questions of lawyers of both sides, who will respond to these specific questions.

Han Shuhui: since the lawsuit has officially begun, this court argument will mainly revolve around the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois' dismissal of the lawsuit due to immunity for heads of state; that part of the discussion will be an important part of the arguments.

The plaintiffs' lawyer will point out statutes pertaining to related international treaties and U.S. laws, that first, immunity for a head of state is temporary, limited and restricted in its range of application, and immunity does not mean the perpetrator will never receive just punishment. The U.S. government has signed a torture pact and genocide pact, both of which state the two crimes --torture and genocide - ought to be punished. If a head of state commits genocide and torture during his term in office, he must take full responsibility for his crimes after he steps down. Therefore, since Jiang left the position of Chinese president on March 15, 2003, he no longer qualifies for immunity granted to heads of state.

Second, Jiang single-handedly directed the persecution against Falun Gong and its practitioners and manipulated the whole government with his power. All that he did during the persecution was a violation of international laws and a violation of Chinese laws. They were Jiang's personal actions and decisions, which do not represent the government. Therefore Jiang is not protected by immunity for non-official and non-governmental acts.

Third, to the U.S. courts, Jiang does not represent a head of state, nor a U.S. president. He will not enjoy privileges not even granted to former U.S. presidents, who were sued, nor is he allowed to be placed above the law.

Han Shuhui: It will get better and better. The beginning is the most difficult. The lawsuit has already begun, what else can be so difficult? Up until now, the procedures themselves have produced a great reaction in certain segments of U.S. society as well as in the legal community. It has provoked public concern and awakened a sense of justice in many people. People in all corners of the world will be able to gain a better understanding of the persecution of Falun Gong through this lawsuit, and of the significance of this lawsuit, how it affects mankind. We will have more people learn of the truth as we move forward, and more people will take the side of justice. Will Jiang then be able to escape justice?

Yang Sen: In fact, the basic principles of law are Truth, Fairness and Justice. In other words, good people should be protected and bad people should be punished. These principles are universally accepted worldwide. Lawsuits are based on upholding justice and morals. People have the right to escape slavery, torture, illegal detention and genocide.

Freedom of belief is one of the founding principles of the U.S. The early immigrants arrived in what is now America in order to escape religious persecution, poverty and conscription. Some regional courts in the U.S. have already reached verdicts favorable for Falun Gong.

For instance, San Francisco Judge Edward M. Chen recently denied sovereign immunity for Liu Qi, former Beijing Mayor and current Beijing Party Secretary, and Xia Deren, Deputy Governor of Liaoning Province. With his verdict he affirmed that government officials could still receive punishment regardless of their rank if they have committed crimes against humanity. In a report Judge Chen submitted to the court, both Chinese officials were found guilty of overseeing the torture of Falun Gong practitioners.

Correspondent: After the lawsuit was filed in Chicago, other lawsuits against Jiang were filed in several other parts of the world, which may establish that Falun Gong is widely known around the world.

Yang Sen: in the past five years there have been 25 lawsuits against Jiang and his followers, who were charged with torture, crimes against humanity, genocide, and other crimes. Jiang himself was served with lawsuits in the U.S., Germany, Belgium, Spain, Korea, and Taiwan.

Since this persecution in China has lasted nearly five years, resulting in the deaths of nearly 1,000 people and the incarceration of hundreds of thousands of people, such a lawsuit is crucial.

He Haiying: That's right! It is highly significant that this lawsuit is it is the first such case of atrocities filed by victims who are still suffering torture and genocide right now!

Jiang went way off base against millions of good, innocent people who believe in Truth- Compassion-Tolerance. He used the entire government machinery to involve the whole nation in this persecution. He used policies to force every single Chinese citizen to declare their stand on the persecution, which is historically unprecedented. As globalization spreads, the persecution of the conscience based on Truth-Compassion-Tolerance is impacting the whole human race. Jiang forces people to give up their basic morals as human, which has a detrimental effect on the human race. By filing a lawsuit against a human's public enemy, Falun Gong is accomplishing a magnificent feat that is benefiting the whole human race!

Falun Gong practitioners' courage and conscience have inspired the forces of kindness and justice around the world. In September 2003, groups and individuals who believe in justice and care about China's future and those who have suffered persecution under Jiang's dictatorship have organized the Global Coalition for Bringing Jiang to Justice. The coalition's mission is to engage all righteous people, expose every crime committed by Jiang, and bring Jiang to a court of law, as well as to the court of human morals and justice. The Coalition has held gatherings and discussion forums in over 20 major cities around the world, condemning Jiang's crimes against China and the Chinese people.

Up until now, nearly 100 well-known human rights groups inside and outside of China as well as hundreds of individuals have joined the Coalition. On May 14, 2004, the Coalition announced a resolution, stating, "the Global Coalition To Bring Jiang Zemin To Justice will fully support valid lawsuits or legal complaints filed against Jiang Zemin, the "610 Office" and their accomplices, in any region or country around the world; that the Coalition will dedicate itself to help the filing and hearing of such cases, and will assist in collecting and organizing the criminal evidence as needed."

On May 19, the Coalition formulated a public appeal letter asking to "abolish Jiang's immunity as a head of state." Within three days, many people had signed their names in support.

Yang Sen: Obviously, the publicity of this lawsuit against Jiang has taken on great significance and great impact and has far exceeded the importance of the actual lawsuit itself. It is one step in Falun Gong practitioners' peaceful protest, and it records the noble victory of compassion over atrocity, justice over evil, under the guidance of Truth- Compassion-Tolerance. The conscience, courage and dignity Falun Gong practitioners display will remain as magnificent examples in human history. The final grand trial will come.

A public exhibition of torture techniques used daily under Jiang Zemin's regime in China aims to expose the ongoing atrocities against Falun Gong practitioners. The exhibition concludes on Wednesday in Chicago's Federal Plaza.

CHICAGO (FDI) -- A groundbreaking public exhibition in the streets of Chicago is re-creating the conditions of Chinese labor camps and torture chambers.

As part of events to build public understanding of the extensive persecution against Falun Gong in China that lead to the lawsuit in Chicago federal court against former Chinese president Jiang Zemin, Falun Gong practitioners are enacting methods of torture in the exhibition "Persecution Meets Principle."

Participants explain that by depicting actual scenes of torture carried out daily in China's labor camps, the public will learn of the scale of the suffering under Jiang's crimes. According to a survey taken in the late nineties, there were 70 - 100 million practitioners of Falun Gong in China.

Actors pose as sunglasses-wearing policemen administering beatings, injections, and rope tortures to detainees. Props replicate actual torture devices, such as cages spiked with nails, bamboo under fingernails, and tubing for force-feeding. The scenarios elicit murmurs of shock and shaking heads from passersby. Actual survivors of such tortures in China are on hand to explain the multiple-scene exhibition.

The exhibition will run the final time on Chicago's Federal Plaza all day Wednesday.

Other events so far included a Sunday conference of about 2,500 Falun Gong practitioners from all over the world at the Rosemont Convention Center. The gathering focused on the actual practice of Falun Gong: improving oneself according to Truthfulness, Compassion, Tolerance. Papers were delivered in Chinese or English by several practitioners. A highlight was a 45-minute lecture by the founder of Falun Gong, Mr. Li Hongzhi.

On Saturday, a parade of more than 1,000 flowed through the heart of Chicago's Chinatown. The beauty of traditional Chinese culture showed in dances of ladies in Tang and Song Dynasty dress. The current concerns of Falun Gong practitioners were seen in the peaceful carrying of signs seeking the end of the persecution of Falun Gong in China and bringing Jiang Zemin to justice. Chicago's Chinese community witnessed a demonstration of bright colors, uplifting music, and peaceful determination.

Falun Gong, also known as Falun Dafa (about), is a practice of meditation and exercises with teachings based on the universal principle of "Truthfulness-Compassion-Tolerance." Practiced in over 50 countries world-wide, Falun Gong has roots in traditional Chinese culture. With government estimates of as many as 100 million practicing Falun Gong, China's Communist leader Jiang Zemin outlawed the peaceful practice in July 1999 (report). Since that time, Jiang's regime has intensified its propaganda campaign to turn public opinion against the practice while imprisoning, torturing and even murdering those who practice it. The Falun Dafa Information Center has verified details of 966 deaths (reports / sources) since the persecution of Falun Gong in China began in 1999. In October 2001, however, Government officials inside China reported that the actual death toll was well over 1,600. Expert sources now estimate that figure to be much higher. Hundreds of thousands have been detained, with more than 100,000 being sentenced to forced labor camps, typically without trial.

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Oral arguments for the case will be made this Thursday before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit. (website)

On May 27, 2004, the United States Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit will decide if former foreign heads of state may use the "head-of-state" defense, typically limited to sitting heads of state, to shield themselves from civil responsibility for the alleged crimes of torture, genocide and crimes against humanity. To do so would in effect dismantle the framework established by the Nuremberg trials, the international treaties and instruments established in its wake, and remove whatever deterrents they create.

In two cases brought before U.S. federal courts, La Fontant v Aristide, 844 F. Supp. 128 (E.D.N.Y. 1994) and Tachonia v Mugabe, 234 F. Supp. 2d 401 (S.D.N.Y. 2002), the district courts dismissed alleged charges of torture and other human rights abuses against foreign leaders who were still in office. While the jury is still out on the status of sitting heads of state, insofar as the issue has not been addressed by the Supreme Court or even a Court of Appeals, to dismiss the case filed against the former President of China for alleged acts of genocide and torture against practitioners of Falun Gong would in effect permit heads of state to interpret the court's ruling as a license to commit genocide and torture with impunity.

If the 7th Circuit holds that former heads of state, like Defendant Jiang Zemin, are not immune from suit for alleged crimes of torture and genocide, the Court will still have to decide if the Defendant Jiang Zemin, who was served with legal papers during his quasi-official visit to the United States in October of 2002, when he was still officially (an albeit lame duck) head of state, is immune from service of process. In light of the precedent provided by numerous U.S. cases, which permit service upon U.S. sitting Presidents, it is hardly clear why, if the President of the United States is not above the law, why should the President of China be above the law? If President Clinton can be served with process, why exempt the President of China?

The argument proffered indirectly by the defendant, that service of process upon a foreign head of state renders our leaders vulnerable to retaliatory suits does not withstand careful scrutiny. Anyone who has committed criminal or civil offenses may be sued in a U.S. court of law. The dismissal of this case hardly safeguards our high-ranking officials from retaliatory suits, nor should it. No nation commits genocide or torture as an official sovereign act. It insults and demeans the dignity of all nations to permit high-ranking officials of any status or rank to shield themselves with a permanent impunity even after departure from office.

This is a defining moment in U.S. history. We have an opportunity to place ourselves on the right side of history. There is hope that we will rise to the challenge.

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(Clearwisdom.net) In November 2003, Falun Dafa practitioner Wang Shuping shouted, "Falun Dafa Hao!" (Falun Dafa is great!) For doing so, she was then locked up in a small isolation cell for 15 days by Zhang Lei (police team number 211870), the commander of the second division of the third unit of Masanjia Camp. The cell guard also beat her with an electric baton.

In mid-February 2004, Wang Shuping shouted, "Falun Dafa Hao!" again. The police and their collaborators tied her with ropes, handcuffed her, refused to let her use a restroom, and denied her sleep. This went on for nearly a month. Meanwhile, she lost two teeth because each day they stuffed her mouth with rags to keep her from speaking. She is currently on the first floor under strict supervision and subjected to severe torture.

In November 2003, Falun Dafa practitioner Wang Shuchun was sent to a small isolation cell for ten days for handwriting a copy of Teacher's words. After she was released from the isolation cell, both of her legs were so swollen that she could not walk normally for a very long time.

Shi Chunying refused to recite the thirty rules or to sing the propaganda songs that prisoners were forced to sing, so she was put under strict supervision and slated for harsh persecution. She is not allowed any outdoor activity and has been given only coarse grain and salted vegetables to eat for over a month.

Practitioner Shi Jinying is in the first division of the third unit. The police of the first division tortured her many times because she shouted, "Falun Dafa Hao!" Her face bears the deep mark of a handprint from being handcuffed and severely beaten repeatedly. The police often tied her up with ropes, would not let her sleep, and forced her to stand or remain in a squatting position for long periods of time. The cruelty she suffered, and continues to suffer until today, was so horrible that one cannot bear to look.

"Toward the end of 2002 in Masanjia's Second Women's Camp, the police were forcing Falun Dafa practitioners to renounce their belief, while horror could be felt everywhere. The police carried handcuffs and ropes with them. The authorities were going wild. Because of my refusal to comply with their demands, police officer Zhang Lei, collaborator Jiang Lei and seven or eight others forced my legs into the lotus position and tied them up. They cuffed my hands together and tied them behind my chair for several hours. I managed to untie myself sometime later, but collaborator Zhang Huaizhi tied me up again, this time so tightly that I could not move at all. I suffered tremendous pain. When the rope was finally loosened, my ankles were full of large blisters and my hands were numb. Even in this condition, my tormentor still forced me to remain in a squatting position for over two weeks and would not let me sleep. My toes became deformed. I have been confined in an isolation cell for over four months now for reciting Teacher's lectures. The abusive police denied me any outdoor activity or showers and force me to eat highly salted vegetables and corn cakes--for a while they even fed me uncooked corn cakes. I loudly recited Teacher's words which caused guard Zhang Huan to direct two collaborators, [former practitioners of Falun Dafa who renounced their belief under high pressure and torture and now are used to persecute fellow practitioners] Sun Xuejuan and Ma Xiaoli, to handcuff me to the bed, stuff rags into my mouth, and seal it with adhesive tape. When I practiced the exercises, a few collaborators handcuffed me to the bed for over three weeks, allowing me to use the toilet only four times a day. Ma Dongmei hit my face with a metal ladle for no reason. I spoke loudly to other individually confined practitioners to expose their vicious acts, and guard Zhang Huan led two others (one of them was Chen Hongwei) to cover me with tape, including my whole face, so that I couldn't see. I refused to eat any food in protest of the treatment I received. That worried the guards so they altered the punishment from hanging me in handcuffs to handcuffing me to a bed. This lasted for over three weeks. They only let me use the toilet once a day, sometimes once every day and a half. Regardless of how cruelly the guards acted, they were unable to change determined practitioner's rock-solid minds, because Falun Dafa practitioners cannot be broken."

Dafa practitioner Huang Guifen was originally assigned to the second division of the first unit. She remained steadfast in her practice of Falun Dafa. The police felt they could not deceive her so she was sent to the first division of the first unit for forced brainwashing order to get her to renounce her belief in Falun Dafa. The police handcuffed her, hung her from heating pipes and broke her arm. Her legs became so atrophied that she cannot walk, and her broken arm is so withered that it is difficult for her to move it. She had already completed her jail term but the police would not release her. She was confined to an isolation cell for one month. The incessant tortures she was subjected to weakened her body. She has high blood pressure, heart disease, and a hard lump near her heart pains her so much that she cannot fall asleep. She applied for permission to leave on medical parole but the authorities refuse to release her.

Falun Dafa practitioner Hu Ying persisted in studying the Fa and doing the exercises, so the guards used handcuffs, rope and other instruments of torture to restrain her for two long years. During those years, she was also confined in an isolation cell five times. The guards persecuted her both mentally and physically. When she was in the forced conversion unit, Wang Xiaofeng used an electric baton to shock her mouth so that she could no longer open it; her right hand was shocked until it bled. They took off her shoes and socks to shock the center of her foot. She still did not yield, so the police locked her in an isolation cell to intensify the persecution. Initially they denied her food and water. They let her freeze by periodically leaving the window open in the freezing cold of December. The police made frequent attempts to force Dafa practitioners to condemn their belief in December when it was freezing cold. On the shady east side of the fourth floor of Masanjia Camp, Huying froze for twenty days. When she was released, she was skin and bones. She could not move her hands freely because they were swollen and dark purple. Her shoes would not fit because both feet were so swollen, and her toes had festered. Both of her knees were swollen and red. Today the police are still persecuting her. They force her to sit on a small, cold, plastic pedestal each day. She cannot go to sleep until 1:30 in the morning and she has to get up and be sitting on the pedestal by 4:00 in the morning. There is always someone watching her. Even so, she cannot be forced to renounce her firm, righteous belief in Dafa and Teacher.

Falun Dafa practitioner Su Yiwen (Suming) has persisted in studying the Falun Dafa principles, practicing the exercises, sending forth righteous thoughts, and clarifying the truth ever since she was abducted and sent to Masanjia Labor Camp. The police shackled her hands separately and made her sit on a small plastic chair twenty-four hours a day even when it was obvious that she had a serious heart problem, high blood pressure and other conditions. In the summer, the skin that touched the plastic chair festered. She sat like that for an entire year. Eventually, her life was in grave condition because of her heart and lung problems. During that time, she was also confined in the small isolation cell. Now, she can no longer get out of bed, and a hard lump has appeared in her abdomen. She has no money, so the police refuse to permit her to have a physical examination. She was diagnosed with illnesses previously, but the police secretly collaborated with Masanjia hospital personnel to falsify her physical exam and giver her a passing grade so they can continue to detain and torture her. These days, her abdomen hurts so much that it is very difficult for her to sit or stand. She is looking very pale and her life is in grave danger.

On behalf of all the named Falun Dafa practitioners, we call on all the good people around the world to pay attention to, to support, and to save the Falun Dafa practitioners who are being persecuted in Masanjia. These are the bloody and tearful protests from the Falun Dafa practitioners who are still being persecuted.

Every day when we practice our morning exercises, there are always Falun Dafa practitioners who shout, "Falun Dafa Hao!" The collaborators who have renounced their belief in Falun Dafa would always beat practitioners harshly, confine them in small cells, deny them sleep, and stuff rags into their mouths. The labor work that we are assigned to do is toxic. Some Dafa practitioners who have been there for a long time have developed health problems - vomiting, losing consciousness, and fainting while they are at work. The director, Su Jing, told the people who were affected by the poison, "You'll be fine if you adjust your mental attitude." What nonsense! What kind of adjustment is this! It is obvious that it is poison. Sometimes we work overtime until 10:00 pm and they don't care about our lives. To raise the conversion rate percentage [refers to the number of Falun Dafa practitioners they can force to sign a written statement renouncing their belief] in order to obtain a monetary reward, the prison personnel behave irresponsibly and secretly direct the collaborators to persecute Dafa practitioners using severe cruelty.

Those sly police with deceptive smiles on their faces lie to the newly arrived Dafa practitioners saying, "You'll save your whole family if you renounce." But after seven or eight days, when they cannot make Dafa practitioners sign the statements, the labor camp personnel reveal their true evil nature and begin the torture. If a practitioner does not submit to their demand to renounce Falun Dafa within three months, their camp stay is extended for an extra month.

At present, Dafa practitioners in Masanjia are in poor health due to the brutal persecution they are facing. When an inspector visits, the police hide the sick and those who cannot walk so the inspector will not see them.

I now stay on the first floor. This is the floor where the tortures take place. Observing the unwavering Dafa practitioners being persecuted until their last, weak breaths and until they are mentally unstable is horrifying to watch.

On the surface, Masanjia Forced Labor Camp appears to be civilized, when in truth it is actually a place that specializes in persecuting Dafa practitioners! Every year between October and December, the labor camp personnel gear up for a long fight. In the name of "social re-education," a large number of police are sent from other places. They are in fact a group of cruel oppressors who torment Dafa practitioners. The group punishes practitioners who do not submit to "transformation" by beating, punching, kicking, and hitting them in the face, denying them sleep, and tying their legs in the lotus position with rope. These are tactics used to torture Dafa practitioners in order to force them to give up their belief.

When female Dafa practitioner Mao Shulan, 47 years old from Anshan, resolved to persist in Dafa cultivation, the evil police used the torture method of stretching to tie both of her legs in the lotus position with rope for almost five hours. Her legs were so swollen that her heel was invisible when they finally loosened the rope. They then made her stand with both feet on bricks and deprived her of sleep for six days. A collaborator was stationed to monitor on her. The blood vessels in both of her eyes were filled with blood. She had difficulty walking because both of her feet were very bloated. She was fed steamed cornbread and salted vegetables every day in the police restroom. Even with such cruel torture, they could not sway this practitioner, who would give up her own life rather change her belief in Dafa. Running out of alternatives in trying to convert this practitioner's rock solid belief in Dafa, they had to let her go home.

In the dark nights, one can often hear the police loudly shouting at Dafa practitioners as well as Dafa practitioners' loudly calling out "Falun Dafa Hao!" and "Restore My Teacher's Pure Name!" The guards preferred methods of torture include shocks with electric batons, the "big hang up" (practitioners are hung on a metal frame or heating pipe with their hands handcuffed behind them), solitary confinement in a small cell, and other cruel devices.

We are calling all the good people in the world to empathize with the oppressed Dafa practitioners in Masanjia. It is best to organize a special task force to do in-depth internal investigations to expose the evil and cruel things happening there. We'd like to apprehend Jiang Zemin's entire criminal group and make sure they are brought to justice for the crimes they have committed.

There are eighteen divisions for the three units of the Second Women's Camp in Masanjia:

First division - Xue Feng
Second division - Shi Yu
Third division - Huang Haiyan
Fourth division - Cui Hong
Fifth division - Zhang Chunguang
Sixth division - Ren Hongzhan

First division - Wang Xiaofeng
Second division - Zhang Zhuohui
Third division - Qi Fuying

First division - Zhao Jinghua
Second division - Zhang Lei
Third division - Dong Suxia
Fourth division - Zhang Huan
Fifth division - Guan Liying
Sixth division - Pei Feng

A former third unit commander who has been reassigned to a subordinate unit-Qiuping
On-duty commander, second unit - Dai Yuhong (very bad)
Broadcast room - Xiang Bofeng (specializes in broadcasting defamatory Falun Dafa articles)

Director-Fang Yehong
Specialists in converting practitioners-Zhao Yonghua, Yuan Shuzhen
Camp director - Su Jing (female),
Assistant directors - Wang Naimin (female), Zhao Laixi (male)

The so-called Psychological Recovery Center on the fourth floor of the camp
is equipped with:
1. Two high-pressured static electricity meters, one of them with a range of 60 kV (a thousand volts).
2. Three muscle-electrode biofeedback meters
3. One high-quality computerized electric needle meter

The second floor is equipped with noise and light therapy equipment (it plays music that paralyzes human will power and hypnotizes).

The third floor is called the "Emotional Tuning Room." This small room is padded with sponges over ten centimeters thick. It lacks oxygen for the air cannot penetrate the sponges. This room is used to lock up those practitioners who shout positive messages about Falun Dafa. One can see the handprints, all over the sponges, of those who have struggled while being suffocated.

On the afternoon of March 18, 2004 at 1:15 pm, in the third unit of the camp, a Falun Dafa practitioner whose mouth was taped shut, hands handcuffed, and covered with a cotton jacket was dragged by the unit commander and two others for treatment.

A Falun Dafa practitioner named Li Hong, who was hung with hands handcuffed, was beaten for two days and nights. Some were beaten hanging upside down. This kind of brutality cannot be described in human terms. The direct subordinate unit (also called the industrious labor unit) is the most cruel. Beatings and forcing conversions are regular occurrences. It is in total darkness with absolutely no light.

(Clearwisdom.net) Falun Dafa Practitioner Diao Xihui is twenty-nine years old. He is from Chuanzhigou Village, Fengyi Town, Longkou City. His wife, Lu Yanna, is thirty-one years old. She is from Xilujia Village, Xiadingjia Town, Longkou City. They are both teachers.

Diao Xihui's father Diao Shusheng and mother Fu Guihua, Lu Yanna's grandfather Lu Jinxiang, grandmother Lu Shufen, aunts Lu Renying, Lu Renjuan and Lu Renju, her brother Lu Hengxiao, and four cousins from her aunts' families all practice Falun Gong. Lu Yanna's grandmother was sixty-two when she began practicing Falun Dafa. All of her illnesses such as high blood pressure, rheumatoid arthritis and cataracts were cured after practicing Falun Gong. The whole family practiced together happily.

Since Jiang's regime started the persecution against Falun Gong, Lu Yanna went to appeal for Falun Dafa in Beijing three times -- in July 1999, October 1999 and January 2000. The first time she appealed for justice for Falun Dafa, government staff members from Xiadingjia Town beat her. The previous two times, she was detained. The whole family was detained one after another. Over just one year from July 1999 to July 2000, the family was forced to pay over 30,000 Yuan in fines, deposits, detention center fees, and deducted salaries [500 Yuan is the average monthly income for an urban worker in China].

In October 1999, Lu Yanna went to appeal in Beijing and was sent back home by airplane. The vice-principal of her school, Wang Feng, did not allow her to resume teaching and terminated her salary. She was subjected to surveillance at the school for a long time, during which time she was not allowed to go home. Even her family was not allowed to visit her. In the summer of 2000, just twenty days after Ms. Lu was married to Diao Xihui, local practitioner Tian Xiangcui from Fengyi Town was tortured to death because she appealed for an end to the persecution. Fellow practitioners exposed the incident among the local residents by distributing written accounts of the whole incident. They also exposed it on Clearwisdom.net. Lu Yanna was suspected as being the person responsible for exposing the authorities crime, so her rented room and her parents' home were both ransacked. She was then taken to the public security bureau (possibly the Chengguan Division) and was interrogated and tortured. One young police officer punched her repeatedly while demanding that she disclose the source of the materials. Ma Shumei (female) furiously insulted her, grabbed her hair, forced her to the ground, and kicked her. Lu Yanna's face was badly injured and her glasses were missing. Ma Shumei's teenage son was doing his homework nearby as this happened.

The next evening, Ma Xiangyang, a thirty-year-old police officer who has beaten many practitioners, began to beat Lu Yanna. She was tortured until she became very weak. Ma Xiangyang then deceived her, claiming that they were about to send her home, but they instead sent her to the hospital to have an intravenous injection. Later they sent her back to her school where she was once again strictly monitored. They planned to sentence Ms. Lu to a labor camp term, but she managed to escape and became homeless with her husband Diao Xihui to avoid further persecution.

The perpetrators fiercely went after Lu Yanna. As a result, her second aunt Lu Renjuan and her cousin Liang Bin were also forced to leave home. The homes of Lu Yanna's senior aunt, youngest aunt and her parents were frequently ransacked. Her two aunts were detained and tortured numerous times. Her sick mother missed her daughter dearly but was unable to see her. Facing such a family tragedy, her grandfather and grandmother were traumatized and passed away one after another. Her senior aunt, Lu Renying, had her telephone line tapped. In 2001, her second aunt Lu Renjuan, who had been forced to leave home, made a phone call to Lu Renying. The police then arrested Lu Renying and interrogated her as to the whereabouts of Lu Renjuan. In 2001, Diao Xihui's parents were arrested and sent to a brainwashing class. Thus, Diao Xihui and Lu Yanna lost contact with their families.

After three years of moving from place to place, the couple finally settled down in Qianshan County, Anhui Province. During these several years, they persisted in clarifying the truth to people and telling them that Falun Dafa is good. Lu Yanna was pregnant then. Because they did not get a birth permit when they left home, the local hospital turned them away. However, because an emergency situation occurred during delivery of the baby, Qianshan Hospital took her in, considering that it was her first child. At 9:40 p.m. on March 29, 2004, their daughter Shanshan was born.

At around 3:00 a.m. on April 8, 2004, Diao Xihui went out to distribute truth-clarifying materials and never returned. He probably was arrested, but no one knows his whereabouts. Their baby was only ten days old and Lu Yanna had not completely recovered from giving birth. Realizing that she was in danger, she moved out to avoid further persecution. However, she still did not escape. Police from Longkou City found her and took her and her daughter back to Longkou City even though her daughter was not even one month old. After returning to Longkou City, she was only allowed to see her father Lu Renqiang at the Xiadingjia "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]. On the second day, Lu Yanna's mother and senior aunt went to the "610 Office" to see her but no one paid attention to them. When they tried to phone, they were told that Lu Yanna was not there. At present, no one knows where Ms. Lu is.

Here we call on all kind-hearted people to help free Lu Yanna, her husband Diao Xihui, and their infant daughter!

Director's office of Qianshan County Public Security Bureau, Anhui Province: 86-556-8935088
Political Committee Office: 86-556-8935098
Deputy Director's office: 86-556-8935078; 86-556-8935018
Meicheng Police Station: 86-556-8922942
Chengguan Police Station: 86-556-8921480

(Clearwisdom.net) The violent force-feeding used at Huludao Detention Center in Liaoning Province is an excruciating torture. The guards demand that criminal inmates force-feed hunger striking Falun Dafa practitioners. The prisoners are usually reluctant to do it, and they often vent their anger on the practitioners that are to be forcibly fed. They curse, beat and otherwise abuse their victims while force feeding.

First, five or six prisoners shackle the victim's hands and feet to an iron chair (1). Then they hold his head, pry his mouth open with a special tool (i.e. similar to a tongue depressor) and insert a ratchet-like wooden brace between the upper and lower teeth. Then they pinch the person's nose, fill an empty 500 ml. water bottle with salty corn gruel and pour it into the prisoner's mouth. The victim has to breathe through the mouth and will inadvertently swallow the corn paste while desperately trying to breathe. However, the corn paste is often sucked into the trachea and can enter the lungs, which is very dangerous.

Each feeding includes a bottle of water and two bottles of salty corn paste, and takes thirty to forty minutes. Force-feeding is conducted twice a day, after which the prisoner will have difficulty exhaling, causing them to breathe heavily. Even the next morning, it will still be difficult for them to breathe normally. Such forced feeding injures the trachea and lungs. In terms of a normal person's health status, force-feeding for two or three days will severely injure the lungs, rendering the victim unable to restore his or her health for a long time afterwards and become susceptible to severe infection.

Administered in this manner, forced feeding is such a severe form of torture that few people are able to continue refusing to eat after enduring only several days of forced feeding. Huludao Detention Center only uses this method of torture on Falun Gong practitioners who are already very weak.

On July 16, 2001, Huludao Detention Center caused a death by using the forced feeding method of inserting a tube through the nose and into the esophagus, in order to feed Jin Lifeng, a female English teacher at Huludao Maritime Technical College in Liaoning Province. According to the Clearwisdom.net report (2), the cause of Jin Lifeng's death was the plastic tube, inserted through the nose, which punctured her lung.

In early April 2004, Huludao Detention Center illegally detained at least twenty Falun Gong practitioners. Around April 6, more than ten practitioners a day were being tortured by force-feeding.

Around April 20, another Falun Gong practitioner, Fan Dezhen, suffered from "pneumonia" as a direct result of forced feeding. As he approached the verge of death, the detention center authorities became fearful of bearing responsibility for his impending death, so they released Fan Dezhen, who was already very close to taking his last breath.

In addition, Huludao Detention Center also tortures Falun Gong practitioners by beating them, using the "tiger bench" (3) and "washing" (4). The guards also often command many criminal inmates to torture a single practitioner by beating them and other methods of torture. On April 6 and 7, 2004, instigated by the guards, seven or eight criminal inmates tortured Fan Dezhen, who had gone on a hunger strike for protesting the persecution, to the point where he was unable to walk.(5)

Currently, there are still many more Falun Gong practitioners in Huludao Detention Center who are being tortured to various degrees.

Relevant telephone numbers:
Country code: 86; city code: 429
Huludao Detention Center: 3960806, 3960813
Huludao Judicial Bureau: 311486; Director's office: 3128088; Deputy Director's Office: 3110430, 3110130, 3110142
The Complaint Telephone of the Huludao City Government: 3366
Commission for Inspecting Discipline of Huludao City: 3116717

The Huludao City Public Security Bureau:
Director General: Bao Ruoyan, 3113229(Office), 024-86404969(Home), 13842929999(Mobile)
Deputy Director: Gu Changjiang, 3119068 (Office), 2170002(Office); 3160799(Home), 13309890929(Mobile)

Deputy Director: Zhang Ying, 3118828(Office), 3113698(Home), 13304295398(Mobile)

Deputy Director: Yu Tingwu, 3113815 (Office), 2170003(Office), 3120369(Home), 13904299918(Mobile)

Deputy Director: Lin Baizhi, 3118266(Office), 3180199(Home), 13304290299(Mobile)

The "Legal Education Center" in Yakeshi City, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region (AR) is in fact a vicious brainwashing center.

On November 4, 2002, right before the 16^th Chinese Party (CCP) Congress, the police in Yakeshi City mass arrested many Falun Dafa practitioners for having firm beliefs in "Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance." The personnel in charge of the planning and implementation of the arrests are Luu Tiezhi, deputy party secretary of the municipal committee, Xie Wenzhong, secretary of the Political and Judiciary Committee, Yuan Shaogang, head of the "610 Office,"(1) Zhang Qinglin, deputy head of the "610 Office," Dong Quan from the "610 Office," in the Education Department, and Li Qun, Li Yuezhong, and Zhang Shiliang, from the National Security Division of the Police Department.

The secret arrests started at 7:00 p.m. They sent the arrested Falun Dafa practitioners to a brainwashing center which was officially known as the "Legal Education Class" at the Dianli Hotel.

Among the arrested practitioners are Ge Rile, a teacher from the First Middle School, Pei Xinmin, from the Physical Education Reform Office of the Municipal CCP Committee, Zhou Shuhua, from the Department Store, Liu Mingying, from the Environmental and Health Bureau, retired employee Liu Guirong, from the Vegetable Company, Zhang Lixiang and Wang Xiujie, who live in the area under the 1st neighborhood committee, Zhang Limei, who lives in the area under the 2^nd neighborhood committee, Jin Fengyun, who lives in the area under the 5^th neighborhood committee, and Li Yanling, from Tulihe.

Participating personnel exerted pressure on the workplaces of the arrested Falun Dafa practitioners, and forced their workplaces to collude with authorities, send their employees to the brainwashing center, and pay 5,000 Yuan (2) room and board for the arrested practitioner(s) and "helpers" from the workplace.

Three people were assigned to each room in the brainwashing center - a practitioner, a police officer and a "helper" from the practitioner's workplace. The police and the "helper" monitored the practitioner's every move, including eating, sleeping, and using the bathroom. They followed the practitioners everywhere, and prevented practitioners from talking to each other. Practitioners had no freedom whatsoever. They also forced practitioners to watch videos slandering Falun Dafa. Additionally, Li Baocheng, from the municipal CCP propaganda department, held seminars to slander Falun Dafa, and Dong Quan, from the "610 Office" vigorously slandered Falun Dafa, forcibly brainwashed practitioners, ordered them to write "guarantee statements,"(3) and told lies to deceive practitioners in many respects.

These "610 Office" personnel and police officers used violence and torture on practitioners, and threatened them with forced labor and imprisonment using mean and shameless methods. They forced the workplaces to pay expenses and send another employee to accompany the practitioner during brainwashing. The brainwashing center is a detention center in disguise in that it illegally deprives citizens of their freedom in the name of offering so-called "legal education classes." These officials' behavior already constitutes a crime by unlawfully detaining innocent people without due process. These lawless personnel kept Falun Dafa practitioners detained here and prevented them from going home, but conversely, during interrogations and brainwashing, accused the practitioners of no longer caring about their families and children and other such nonsense.

In order to achieve the brainwashing goal of forcing Falun Dafa practitioners to sign statements renouncing their belief, these law-violating personnel made all kinds of threats to the workplace leaders, the assigned "helpers," and security personnel at the practitioners' workplaces, and stirred up their hatred towards Falun Gong and practitioners. In addition, the persecutors slapped political labels on Falun Dafa practitioners such as "anti-Party," "anti-society," and "anti-CCP" which was in order to justify their persecution.

As a matter of fact, the brainwashing center is a completely illegal detention place where innocent people who believe in "Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance" are persecuted and forced to give up their beliefs. It blatantly tramples citizens' personal freedoms which are protected by the Chinese Constitution.

Ms. Liu Yunhua, an employee of Yakeshi City Forestry Planning Institute of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region previously had many illnesses, and could not find any relief, even though she had spent a lot of money. After she started practicing Falun Gong in April 1998, her illnesses disappeared and she became very healthy.

Ms. Liu Yunhua followed the principles of "Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance," and improved herself by practicing Falun Dafa. Her family thus became harmonious, and the conflicts with her mother-in-law, sister-in-law, and brother-in-law were all resolved.

Ms. Liu Yunhua worked diligently, and was willing to bear the burden of her office. She also got along very well with her neighbors. People in the all throughout the institute said she was a good person.

For example, her workplace permitted its employees who were not hospitalized to be compensated with 300 Yuan for medical expenses every year. Her husband tried to get compensated for the previous two years of claimed medical expenses without her knowledge. After she found out about it, she found the person in charge, asked for her claim form, and tore it up, because she had not seen a doctor or taken any medicine since she started practicing Falun Gong. She said she wanted to be an honest person.

On July 20, 1999, Jiang's regime suddenly forbade the people to practice Falun Gong. Ms. Liu Yunhua decided to go to Beijing to say some sincere words for Falun Gong.

Along with others, the police arrested and handcuffed her, confiscated all her money and sent her back to her hometown where she was detained for a month.

One day in April 2002, she went to see a Falun Gong practitioner friend. In less than five minutes, officers from Jianshe Police Station arrived and arrested her. They took her to the police department and did not release her until 24 hours later.

In the afternoon of March 1, 2004, after Ms. Liu Yunhua returned from work, Guo Xiaozhong, the party secretary of the institute, deceived her into going to the "Legal Education Center" where two people monitored her, even when she was using the bathroom. She was forced to watch video programs slandering Falun Gong, and the authorities attempted to force her to write the so-called "Three statements."(4) Her workplace was extorted of 4,000 Yuan, and they decided to deduct the amount from her paychecks.

These evil persons used dishonest tactics to trick her into going to the brainwashing center, and then detained her there, forbidding her to go home. In turn, they accused her of being too selfish and neglecting her child and family. She was illegally detained for 18 days in the brainwashing center, and she felt as if she were detained in hell. Under the evil pressure, she wrote the "Three statements" against her will. Although she was released after that, her physical and mental state has not been well ever since.

Mr. Li Yongquan from Yakeshi City has been illegally detained several times for practicing Falun Gong. His workplace fired him. On his second job he was constantly harassed. He then moved nearer to his younger brother and found a temporary job in Anqing City, Anhui Province. The "610 Office" in Yakeshi City notified the Anqing City Police Department and had him arrested and detained. Mr. Li Yongqun could neither work in his own city nor in other cities. He has no way to make a living.

On December 3, 1999, Mr. Li Yongquan went to Beijing and appealed for Falun Gong, but local police arrested him and took him back to his hometown. He was then detained and illegally sentenced to three years of imprisonment, with a suspended sentence. The main culprits are municipal leaders Li Baochang and Wang Guocai, Ye Xianjin from the Political and Judiciary Committee, Police Department chiefs Chen Weiji and Xin Shuhe, Yang Chengwen from the prosecutor's office, Wu Wenzhi and Qu Nianzhong from the court, among others.

He wasn't released until five months after his term expired. Because Mr. Li Yongquan was detained for almost a year and a half for practicing Falun Gong, his workplace, Dayan Hospital, did not allow him to return to work. In late September 2001, he again went to his younger brother's in Anqing City, Anhui Province and found a temporary job there. As soon as he arrived there however, Zhang Qinglin, the person in charge of the Yakeshi City "610 Office," as well as persons in charge of the police department and Xingong Police Station, notified the police department of Anqing City to arrest Mr. Li Yongquan, and the reason given was that the National Day, October 1 was a sensitive day. After Mr. Li Yongquan was arrested, personnel from the Yakeshi City Xingong Police Station sent someone to take him back, and then detained him at the detention center for one month.

After his release, Mr. Li Yongquan worked at the outpatient dental service at Zhongmeng Hospital located on West Eleventh Street. Officers from Xingong Police Station often harassed him at his workplace and wouldn't leave him alone. Mr. Li Yongquan requested the Police Department to allow him to make a living in Anqing City, Anhui Province. The request was granted. But right before he left for Anqing, the police again arrested him and sent him to a detention center, fearing that he would appeal in Beijing.

During the detention, the deputy head of the detention center, Li Yilong, injured Mr. Li Yongquan using violence. Mr. Li Yongquan's physical condition was extremely weak, and he started to spit blood afterwards. His family members had not obtained any information about him for a long time, so his older brother came to Yakeshi City from hundreds of miles away to look for him, and in the end found that he had been illegally detained for six months. His older brother questioned the police department about the reason for his detention and requested of them to release him, the police department referred him to the "610 Office." When he went to the "610 Office," they referred him back to the police department, saying that they were responsible for the arrest. It was not until many rounds of being given "the run-around," back and forth like this, that Mr. Li Yongquan was finally released.

From then on, Mr. Li Yongqun could no longer work at Yakeshi City and he couldn't go to Anqing City either. He was forced to become homeless.

In April 2000, while having dinner with fellow practitioners, Wu Guichuan was arrested and sentenced to 15 days of detention. Because she went on a hunger strike to protest the persecution, she was soon released.

On January 26, 2001, while visiting a fellow practitioner, she was arrested again and detained in Genhe City for four months. She was later sentenced to one year of forced labor in Genhe, during which time she suffered savage abuse, torment, and mistreatment.

On February 4, police tortured Wu Guichuan for more than five hours. She was forced to do a half-squat, and was handcuffed to two ends of a heating pipe, thus her arms were forced to be completely stretched out. When she went on a hunger strike to protest the persecution, she endured savage force-feeding twice, which precipitated a severe heart attack. Wu Guichuan was then sent to Tumuji Forced Labor Camp, but the camp refused to accept her because of her poor health. Instead, they permitted her to go home after being bailed-out for medical treatment. Because she practiced Falun Gong, her husband was implicated and forced to leave his job, leaving only a little income each month for basic living expenses. Police forced her husband to monitor her and forbid her to go out or contact any others. Her freedom was curtailed.

Wu Guichuan was arrested the third time when she was distributing truth-clarification information. She was detained in Yakushi for four months.

(1) "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.

(2) Yuan is the Chinese currency. The average monthly salary of an urban worker in China is 500 Yuan.

(3) "Guarantee Statement" - A statement to declare that one is remorseful for practicing Falun Gong and guarantees not to practice Falun Gong again, not to go to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong, and never again associate with any Falun Dafa practitioners.

(4) "Three Statements" - Practitioners are coerced under brainwashing and torture to write these as proof that they have given up their belief. Created by the "610 Office," the three statements consist of a letter of repentance, a guarantee to never again practice Falun Gong, and a list of names and addresses of all family members, friends and acquaintances who are practitioners.

(Clearwisdom.net) Falun Dafa practitioners in Slovakia sent petition letters to Mayors of villages in the country asking for their support in calling for an end to the persecution of innocent people who practise Falun Gong in China. Mayors of four villages in Slovakia responded to the letter and signed the petition demanding an immediate end to the persecution and severe torture of practitioners of Falun Gong in China.

A Petition for the Support of the Human Rights of Falun Gong Practitioners in China

* Whereas, Falun Gong, also called Falun Dafa, is a traditional cultivation practice, which, apart from the exercises, teaches the universal principles of Truth-Compassion-Forbearance;

* Falun Gong is widely recognised in forty countries as a practise, which leads to higher moral standards and therefore helps to improve society as a whole;

* Falun Gong is impressive by the harmony of the exercises, meditation and study, by which it supports a good spiritual way of life, cultivates the mind, body and spirit;

* Falun Gong helps to preserve the traditional values of humanity, such as sincerity, persistence and unselfishness;

* Practitioners of Falun Gong in China are exposed to suffering in labour camps, prisons and re-education centres. The number of known deaths from torture has reached 955. Tens of thousands are being tortured during their detention in labour camps, prisons and especially women who are subjected to numerous forms of sexual violence, including sexual abuse and forced abortions.

We, the undersigned, demand an immediate stop to the persecution and the severe torture of Falun Gong practitioners in China.

A friend of mine is a senior engineer. After she learned the truth of Falun Dafa, she began studying Zhuan Falun and Master Li's lectures. After listening to Master Li's lectures, she excitedly said: "It's great what Master Li talks about! Falun Dafa teaches people to be good, to be compassionate, and helps people heal illnesses and keep fit. But the government's crackdown on Falun Gong is incomprehensible." She then began the cultivation of Falun Dafa. When she meets acquaintances, she tells them the truth about Falun Dafa. She always talks very reasonably, so after many people understand the truth, they say: "We know that the people who practice Falun Dafa are good people. The self-immolation incident and other propaganda broadcast on TV are all fabrications."

In order to let more people understand the truth, she sincerely donated 100 Yuan for making truth-clarifying material.

People have been telling following story in Tongliao City, Liaoning Province: A nanny in Beijing took care of a baby for a rich family, and her salary was 2,000 Yuan a month. She wanted to reduce her troubles, so she sedated the baby who otherwise did not sleep easily. Finally this had noticeable side effects on the baby.

Another household also needed a nanny. The woman of the family knew the truth about Falun Dafa and wanted to hire a practitioner, but the man of the family did not agree. However, he could not dissuade his wife, so he agreed to pay the new nanny only 200 Yuan a month. After observing for 6 months, they found their baby improved in health. The man now tells relatives and friends: "Falun Gong is really good. The propaganda on TV is totally untrue."

In a certain village there lives an 80 year-old man. After he listened to a Falun Dafa practitioner telling him the facts, he admired the fact that the truth clarification materials were made by the practitioners at their own expense. When he sees somebody tearing up such materials, he says: "Don't tear it up. They are made by the practitioners at their own expense. Falun Gong doesn't want anything from you. You may read if you wish. If you don't want to read, you should not tear it up."

One day, this old man went outside on a bike. When he rode around a corner, there was a car driving straight at him. The old man fell into a 1 meter-deep ditch. When he was pulled out, he was only ruffled a little bit, but was not hurt at all. A Dafa practitioner told him: "you got good fortune because you protected Dafa truth clarification materials."

Qi Zhiwu, at 44 years old, was the police station director in Xijiatao Town, Guzhi District, Tangshan City, Hebei Province. Since July 20, 1999, he has persecuted and abducted Falun Dafa practitioners, as well as assigned spies to monitor practitioners' daily activities. He has beaten practitioners with his own hands and personally sent two practitioners to Kaiping Labor Camp, and another to a brainwashing center. On February 27, 2004, Qi Zhiwu died in a car accident. His face was severely disfigured from the crash and he could no longer be easily identified.

Gao Derong was a 40 year old policeman working at Xinmin Railway Police Station. During the summer of 2002, he persecuted local Falun Dafa practitioners in order to get reward money and gain favor with his superiors. He often spied on practitioners' daily activities in order to assist the persecution. Some Falun Dafa practitioners suggested to Gao Derong to stop his wrong doings, but he did not listen. One morning, his vehicle collided with an express train at Xinmin Railway Station. He was crushed to death from the impact.

Shi Changyan used to be the director of Dongjie Police Station in Liaozhong County. He abused his job title and severely beat Falun Dafa practitioners who had been detained at the station. He also led others to illegally arrest practitioners and ransack their homes. On December 7, 2001, he received some intelligence and stopped more than 10 Falun Gong practitioners from going to Beijing to appeal. His actions led to the imprisonment of Dafa practitioners Guan Suli, Li Haifa, Zhang Dayong and others, who are now still detained in prisons in Shenyang City where they are experiencing severe persecution. Other practitioners were sent to Zhangshi Brainwashing Center and persecuted there. Han Qingcai died due to torture after being illegally detained.

Shi Changyan was awarded and promoted as Traffic Divison Head of Liaozhong County Police Department for the "successful arrests." Shi Changyan was diagnosed with late stage pancreatic cancer. He died in Beijing after medical treatment failed.

Wang Shuzhong, 60 years old, was the former director of Zhucheng City Ceramics Company in Shandong Province. He was also the head of the "Working Team for Falun Gong" that persecuted practitioners. Wang Shuzhong was responsible for Dafa practitioner Ma Yanfang's death. In late 2003, Wang Shuzhong was arrested and jailed for bribery.

At the end of February 2004, the Chinese Anti-Cult Association led by Jiang Zemin, came out with a classified document entitled, "Notice regarding successfully preventing 'Falun Gong' [slanderous word omitted] organization from sabotaging activities [1] during the 'Two National Conferences period." [2] This document was officially cited in classified documents distributed by provincial and municipal governments on March 2, 2004.

Jiang's order targets people who practice Falun Gong. This was confirmed by what was recently published on Minghui Net regarding this new round of intensified persecution against Falun Gong launched nationwide. The purpose of this article is to expose the evil, analyze the true nature of the classified document, and provide information, in a timely fashion, to all the organizations and media in the world that care about the issue of Falun Gong.

2. We also have copies of the classified documents sent out by many provinces, cities, and local governments.

The facts presented in this article provide the international community and human rights organizations with evidence of recent human rights abuses in China to help people gain a clearer understanding of the nature of Jiang Zemin's political group.

The article also aims to help people better understand the nature of the battle between good and evil, and hopes to give people greater faith that good will overcome evil.

The article also reveals the despicable means used by Jiang Zemin's political group, which are comparable to those employed in the most barbaric wars, invasions and political campaigns in history.

Regarding the National People's Congress held in Beijing, Jiang's political group, using its typical method of "passing on the spirit of the central government," came out with a policy directive that specifically targeted Falun Gong practitioners. It also forced all levels of administrative bodies in the nation to act accordingly.

"Passing on the spirit of the central government," without exception, takes two paths, known among officials as the "dark way" and the other being the "bright way." The "bright way" mainly refers to conveying the government orders in the format of secret or top-secret documents, which are usually written formally with elegant and dazzling words, so that local officials can actually see the documents and act accordingly. Once the "bright way" documents are received, the higher authorities will immediately make "dark way" phone calls or use verbal communication to further explain the actual objective and convey the political tone of the documents, while at the same time, leave no written evidence for the subordinates to keep.

Jiang's group persecutes Falun Gong practitioners by using both the "bright way" and the "dark way." This point can be proven by looking at the so-called "classified or top-secret" documents that were distributed by the provinces, prefectures, counties, and townships in China. Viewing the contemporary mindsets of Chinese people in terms of psychology, we know that the low-level officials in the Party have a subservient mindset, and display a kind of "respect and flattering" toward their bosses. So for any central government documents that come in the "bright way," the local governments will for sure add the words of "Coming from the Central Government" or "Coming indirectly from the Central Government" to the local governments' "classified or top-secret" documents. The local governments will use these words to explain the source of the documents, and in the meantime, compel their subordinates to follow the directives. Regarding the transmitting of "The Central Government's spirit" during the time of the "Two National Conferences," we can see from the available classified or top-secret documents that the order came directly from Jiang Zemin's group.

Following "The Central Government's spirit," the Anti-cult Association came out with it's classified document at the end of February. It was sent to all central government branches, provinces, cities, counties, districts, townships, and towns, without omitting any government bodies. The content of the document completely targets Falun Gong, and it laid out the policies, strategies, and measures that were to be used to persecute Falun Gong during the "Two National Conferences." When the document was sent out, it was also stamped with "Urgent Notice," along with the word "classified." The officials could directly read the original document if their ranks were high enough, while those whose ranks were not high enough were only told verbally.

In China, people who went through the Cultural Revolution and people of a certain age all know that the so-called "classified" document is mostly for controlling and punishing people; if a "classified" document is issued, it means a certain group of people are in trouble. If it were something good for all people, it would have already been published through newspapers and broadcasting stations.

From the document we can see that there is essentially no improvement in the human rights situation in China, even though the Chinese government has recently released several dissidents who had been detained for years. It has become a habitual practice of the Party (CCP) to release several dissidents as a show whenever there is an international agenda presented about human rights in China. However, this does not mean that the Chinese government leaders are relaxing their political control, especially over Falun Gong practitioners. We hope that the governments of different countries recognize the CCP's nature, and continue to raise agendas and resolutions in the United Nation's Human Rights Committee about human rights issues in China.

The value of the information provided in the document is that it not only allows us to recognize that Jiang's political group is not sincere about human rights issues; more importantly, it strengthens the belief of kind hearted people that righteousness will defeat the evil.

From the "classified" document, we can see the sad state of Jiang's political group. "Falun Gong has increased their activities; our tasks are very important and very arduous ..."

Many Chinese people experienced the mental torture and torment of the souls through out various political movements. Every political movement was a tragedy that ended with the people being suppressed yielding to the persecution. Even Liu Shaoqi, Chairman of the country at that time, was overthrown in three days when they wanted to overthrow him. However, the situation is very different this time with regards to the suppression of Falun Gong practitioners who believe in the principle of "Truthfulness-Benevolence-Tolerance." Jiang had demanded at the beginning to eliminate Falun Gong in three months, but almost five years have passed and Falun Gong practitioners have not yielded to the suppression and they are still steadfast in their belief.

The "classified" document stressed the policy of ascertaining responsibility, "strengthen the patrolling and monitoring and guard the paths of the TV optic fiber cables in business and residential areas. During the 'Two National Conferences,' related units must make strict on-duty arrangement to ensure trouble free communication 24 hours a day, and to ensure 'zero reports' every day." From this, we can see the magnificence of Falun Gong practitioners in China. The tapped cable TV programs have brought about a huge psychological impact to the people; they have awakened people to the truth.

Why did Jiang Zemin want to step up the patrol and inspection the TV optic fiber cables in residential and business areas? It is because he did not want the people to learn the truth about their persecution against Falun Gong.

Reading about "patrolling and monitoring the paths of the TV optic fiber cables," people are reminded about the Japanese invaders' "patrolling and monitoring the paths of the railroads" during their occupation in China. When the war against the Japanese invasion reached its critical period, the Japanese army could only arrange its troops in the large and middle cites in their occupied area and along the railroad paths. To defeat the Japanese army, the railroad had to be turned over to cut its supply line. In the past, Jiang Zemin had a Japanese style education in the occupied area during the war against Japan's invasion of China; now he uses all the same fascist techniques to deal with the Chinese people. Furthermore, during the "Two National Conferences" period, Jiang Zemin again brazenly pushed the policy of "patrolling and monitoring the paths of the TV optic fiber cables" to deceive the people in China. Jiang Zemin, what kind of "paths" are you patrolling and monitoring; if it is the "paths" owned by the people and if you are on the side of justice, do you need to patrol and monitor people?!

This document will lead kind hearted and reasonable Chinese people to carefully and ethically logically think about things.

The "classified" document makes people realize the essential development of the battle between the righteous people and evil minded people. Another point worth mentioning is that concerning the "Two National Conferences," Falun Gong was the only group that was targeted in the document. This also shows that Jiang's political group does not take any notice of other groups. This is because Falun Gong represents righteousness and justice and is the only group that non-violently persists to uphold the freedom of belief and expose the evil persecution. Any other group that upholds justice, in their future activities, might as well adjust their focus and put more energy and time in supporting Falun Gong.

(Clearwisdom.net) "Brown vs. the Board of Education" was a landmark case in shaping the US legal and educational system. Recently, Dr. Rod Paige, the US Secretary of Education, attended the 50^th Anniversary of the "Brown" ruling at Harvard University, where he gave a speech -- "Beyond Brown: Unfinished Business." As a person who was born in a middle-class African American family, Dr. Paige reviewed the atrocities that the policy of racial segregation brought to Black communities, fifty years ago. He appraised the achievements in abolishing segregation and pointed out the problems Americans are still facing today.

(Dr. Rod Paige has served as the US Secretary of Education since January 2001. Photo from http://www.whitehouse.gov/government/paige-bio.html)

Among the attendees of the anniversary event were some fellow practitioners of the Falun Gong spiritual practice, who brought to the audience's attention the on-going discrimination and persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in China. They pointed out that in China the whole educational system has been involved in the persecution of Falun Gong. In fact, many teachers and students in China have been subject to illegal imprisonment or expulsion from schools. Moreover, getting the "correct answers" on exam questions often means agreeing with the Party's propaganda campaign against Falun Gong. The Falun Gong practitioners asked Dr. Paige if he could help with their ordeal. Dr. Paige thanked them for bringing the issue to his attention, and he made very clear his unwavering concern about human rights abuses around the world. Finally, he gave some advice regarding how to seek further help.

Here is a brief background on the landmark case, "Brown vs. the Board of Education." In 1954, in response to the complaint of a black student, named Linda Brown, against the Board of Education in Topeka, Kansas regarding forced racial segregation in school, and to similar lawsuits in South Carolina and Virginia, the US Supreme Court ruled in favor of the plaintiffs: "We hold that the plaintiffs and others similarly situated for whom the actions have been brought are, by reason of the segregation complained of, deprived of the equal protection of the laws guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment." After that, the segregation of black children from white children in public schools was gradually abolished and children of different colors could attend the same schools. Take Dr. Rod Paige as an example. He went from being an ordinary African American student to receiving his Ph.D. in education, and from an ordinary teacher to the US Secretary of Education, which clearly demonstrates the great achievements of the US in the past half-century.

However, contrary to the tremendous advancements in the educational systems of most countries around the world, in China, where "respecting teachers and Taos" has been a tradition for thousands of years, the educational system, headed by the Party Minister, Chen Zhili, has been carrying out a policy of discrimination and even brutal persecution against Falun Gong practitioners. This is not a suppression based on race, but rather, on belief. Falun Gong is a traditional system of belief based on the universal principles of Zhen-Shan-Ren (Truthfulness, Compassion, and Tolerance). Chen Zhili is actively implementing Jiang Zemin's (Party politburo member, Head of the Central Military Commission and former Head of State) campaign to "eradicate Falun Gong."

According to numerous reports on the Clearwisdom.net website over the past five years, many children of different ages have either died as a result of persecution they received, been imprisoned, or were expelled from school as a result of their practice of Falun Gong. At the same time, teachers who were supposed to be educating children in classrooms were instead put in prisons, or even tortured to death for their belief in Falun Gong. In particular, among the 958 Falun Gong practitioners (as of May 2004) reported on the Clearwisdom.net website to have died in the persecution, 61 of them were teachers and 6 were students. The death toll of Falun Gong practitioners within China's educational system is one of the highest.

In addition, according to preliminary statistics from the "World Organization to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong," in 2003 alone, at least 435 Falun Gong practitioners at 210 colleges and universities were sent to various brainwashing programs, forced labor camps, or psychiatric hospitals solely based on their belief. The authorities in the education department have been mainly assisting in the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners by exploiting the means at their disposal, i.e. depriving teachers of their right to teach, and stripping students of their right to graduate or to enroll or advance in school. Since 1999, at Tsinghua University (one of the most prestigious universities in China) alone, over 300 professors, teachers, undergraduate students, Masters or PhD degree holders have been imprisoned, forced to attend brainwashing classes organized by members of the university, dismissed from their positions, expelled, or directly sent to forced labor camps. There is no question that this systematic persecution has violated the provisions of China's own "Education Law," which states that, "Regardless of their ethnicities, races, genders, jobs, financial situations, and religious beliefs, citizens shall have the equal opportunity to receive education."

The biography of Dr. Rod Paige, the US Secretary of Education, can be easily obtained from the White House web site (http://www.whitehouse.gov/government/paige-bio.html). As a former teacher and a soccer coach, Dr. Paige began working with students early in his career. He then served for a decade as Dean of the College of Education at Texas Southern University (TSU). In 1989, he was sworn in as a trustee and an officer of the Board of Education of the Houston Independent School District (HISD). Now, he is leading the implementation of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB), to further make it possible for every American child to have the chance to learn in school, regardless of their race or ethnicity.

On the contrary, in March of 1998, Chen Zhili, who had no prior experience working in education, was appointed by the Party to serve as the Minister of Education in China. According to a report in "Cheng Ming," a monthly magazine in Hong Kong, the presidents of the most prestigious universities in China, such as Tsinghua University, Peking University, Zhejiang Univesity, and Fudan University, etc., collectively filed a written appeal during a national conference organized by the State Council asking for the dismissal of Chen from her position as the Minister of Education.

In spite of her notorious reputation in educational circles, Chen hasn't been trying to change her image as an incompetent educator, but has instead been putting her effort into persecuting Falun Gong, suggesting that her appointment as the Minister of Education is merely for political purposes. According to a report from the "World Organization to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong," Chen has been trying to carry out the policy of "eradicating Falun Gong" mainly in the following areas:

Chen also put in effort in persecuting Falun Gong overseas. In the name of "Cultural and Educational Exchanges," Chen has spent huge amounts of money sponsoring activities in other countries to spread the Party's lies. Her purpose was to vilify and attack Falun Gong in the international community. In spite of the difficult situation in China where tens of millions of children live in poverty and cannot afford to go to school, Chen used her power as Minister of Education to spend money extravagantly overseas for the sole purpose of persecuting Falun Gong practitioners in academic circles overseas.

Half a century has passed since the case of "Brown vs. the Board of Education" was ruled on in the US. That bit of history has demonstrated, once again, that any act of violating basic human rights will always fail in the end, no matter how high-and-mighty the violators pretend their reasons to be. With the same token, the on-going suppression in China is going against the historical trend and therefore, will not last long.

For a long time, I had not been able to correctly position myself in regard to being a human or being a cultivator (a future god). From the perspective of the Fa, all Dafa practitioners have appeared to know for a long time that we should allow our divine sides to function. However, in reality, we have, at many times, still taken ourselves as ordinary persons and are trapped in human notions. Judging from the present situation, we are still far from what Master has required of the great Dafa disciples in the Fa-rectification period. Here I want to share my recent understanding on this issue with fellow practitioners. Please point out anything that is inappropriate.

One day when I was reciting this paragraph, I suddenly came to understand one principle: Aren't human beings dreaming while living in the human world? It was said in the past that human life is like a dream, and this statement is actually true. Before Master woke us up, we were the same as ordinary people. We were muddle-headed while busying ourselves in doing things and we had forgotten our true selves.

When Master taught us Dafa, our main consciousnesses started to gradually wake up. We came to realize that only those things related to our cultivation are what we should be truly concerned with, because doing these things can directly change the place we came from and our true bodies, namely, all the things that a god has. Particularly now, Master has asked us to do the three things well, so only these three things are real and beyond the dreams.

However, in the "dream" of the human world, we are, most of the time, muddle-headed, and may be this way one moment and some other way at another moment. This has caused frequent occurrences of the phenomenon that Dafa practitioners, who possess great divine powers, are repeatedly persecuted and mistreated by low level dark minions and rotten demons. This is the case not only for many of the practitioners illegally put in jail, but also for practitioners who are not arrested. The most obvious manifestation is that when we read stories of Dafa practitioners' righteous actions and divine powers, we unknowingly exclude ourselves from having divine powers. We see how well those practitioners have cultivated themselves and how far we still lag behind. What we are saying then is that we have not cultivated ourselves very well and we do not have divine powers. Or we thought that those practitioners' divine powers were unlocked during their cultivation, and we cannot see anything, nor can we use our divine powers.

These are, in fact, manifestations of being in dreams. I will roughly explain some common notions as follows:

This is a typical example of "being in dreams and recognizing no divine powers." I came to understand that when we are clarifying the truth and sending forth righteous thoughts, both of which Master has asked us to do, we exhibit our mighty and magnificent divine powers all the time. It is just that we are in a dream and are not aware of our divine powers.

Let's talk about clarifying the truth first. It appears to be the same as opening the mouth and talking about the principles; but in fact, it is a display of mighty divine powers. Let's take a simplest example: When a Dafa disciple is clarifying the truth to an ordinary person, what is really happening in other dimensions? As the practitioner clarifies the truth, his divine sides, which are layer upon layer and increasingly enormous, are explaining the magnificent Fa principles they have enlightened to in their own dimensions, using the various divine powers to benevolently awaken the numerous beings who are listening, and eliminating the corrupt beings in all dimensions. It is increasingly more magnificent as the level arises. However, in the human world, when the practitioner clarifies the truth to a member of the public, it appears to be very ordinary.

The divine powers that Master has given us are not petty skills. Let us take "Ding" [the supernormal capability of immobilizing a being, which Master mentioned in Lecture Seven of Zhuan Falun] as an example. My understanding is that it is not a supernormal capability of immobilizing a being in the Three Realms. Behind it are the most supreme divine powers. For example: one Dafa practitioner went out to distribute flyers and was seen and chased by a bad person. While the practitioner was running, he remembered the supernormal capabilities that Master had told him about. He turned around and said, "Ding!" and that bad person immediately stopped and became immobile. The fellow practitioner walked away from the danger. Think about it carefully - this "Ding" is really unusual.

So from this perspective, almost every day Dafa practitioners use great divine powers given by Master to assist Master in rectifying the Fa in all dimensions, clarifying the truth, and saving people. It is just that some practitioners are still in the mystery of dreams in the human world and cannot clearly see what is happening. So when they say, "I do not have divine powers," it really makes the heavenly gods laugh.

Saying it this way is no doubt correct. However, sometimes many practitioners partially understand these words. They use similar words to negate their own supernormal capabilities, which shows that they probably have not enlightened to a higher level of understanding.

All living beings in the universe, no matter how high their levels are, are created by the Fa. All their wisdom and capabilities are given by Master. This is absolutely true. However, under this precondition, any god is also almighty to all the sentient beings below his realm. Then, we may understand it this way: In front of Master and Dafa, we are nothing, but in front of the living beings we try to save, and the evil beings that damage the Fa, we are almighty and have divine powers. In fact, Master also hopes that we can act this way.

How could a member of the public understand the significance of divine powers? For a living being who has assimilated to the Fa, he automatically possesses the wisdom and capabilities at his level. Take a simple example: When a bacterium nearby sees a human taking up a bowl of water and drinking it up, the bacterium would be shocked that the human is so capable, to the extent that he even has the power of picking up a "sea" and the capacity to drink up the "sea." But to a human, this is not a capability at all and every human being can do it, and it is nothing important. Similarly, a god appears to be super capable to all the beings below his level. But to the god himself, his powers are just as usual as eating and drinking, and there is nothing supernormal about them.

It is true that all our capabilities and wisdom come from Master. We should better use these divine powers in eliminating the evil beings and saving people. "If your divine powers truly manifest in a magnificent way as you clarify the facts, save beings, and defy the persecution, then all the Dafa disciples and I will praise you." ["Teaching the Fa at the 2004 Western U.S. Fa Conference"]

For a Dafa practitioner, to think that he has no divine powers, or to show off that he has supernormal capabilities, both indicate that his "main consciousness" is not rational and that he cannot control himself.

This shows that the understanding of Fa-rectification has not improved to a higher level. It is similar to the question of how to break through inborn quality raised at this year's Western U.S. Fa Conference.

If we talk about "inborn quality", wouldn't the supreme gods in the old cosmos and the factors in extremely microscopic levels that keep the cosmos existent have incredibly good "inborn quality"? Yet in the Fa-rectification, many of these beings have very poor enlightenment quality, as they try hard to interfere with and manipulate the Fa-rectification.

On the other hand, in the eyes of these beings, many Dafa disciples' "inborn quality" is not so good, and they even look down upon them. (There are practitioners who have obtained the Fa even though they might not have come from very high levels. Yet the Dafa disciples have very good enlightenment quality, they just listen to Master and follow Master; and no matter how they are persecuted, they are steadfast with righteous belief. About their position in the future cosmos, Master has said, "their beings will switch positions with those highest beings that persecuted them!" ["Teaching and Explaining the Fa at the Metropolitan New York Fa Conference"]

This is a period of time for repositioning, which is unprecedented and will not happen in the future. "The great Fa is boundless. Cultivating it depends entirely on your heart." [Zhuan Falun]. This sentence really reveals all the heavenly secrets. Isn't the so-called "inborn quality" an ingrained factor in the old cosmos? Why do we want to be attached to them in the Fa-rectification?

Thinking whether one has good or poor inborn quality is a symptom of staying in the dream of the old cosmos without awakening, which has severely affected the manifestation of Dafa's divine power.

Although there is nothing wrong with the above statement under many circumstances, however, it has become an excuse to not use one's divine power.

"For a practitioner, one's mind-intent dictates supernormal abilities to do things. For an everyday person, one's mind-intent directs the four limbs and the sensory organs to work." [Zhuan Falun] For thousands of years, we have formed deeply ingrained habits of using our thoughts to direct our limbs and sensory organs to deal with things we come across, whereas a god does not have such notions at all, and his divine powers come in at the same moment as his thoughts and everything is accomplished instantly.

Of course, we have not reached complete enlightenment. In ordinary people's society, we still use our thoughts to direct our limbs and sensory organs to do things. But this is only an illusion in this dimension. Actually whenever we truly accomplish something in our Fa-rectification work, with no exception, it is the true manifestation of Dafa's divine power rectifying the Fa in other dimensions. Everything existing in the human world is actually a reflection of other dimensions. Changes can occur in this dimension only after there have been changes in other dimensions. How can human beings use their limbs and sensory organs to change things in other dimensions?

Fellow practitioners in this kind of state often say: "I cultivate very poorly and I have too many attachments."

A God views the attachments manifested in this dimension in a different way from humans. A God would treat those attachments as a pile of garbage in his room, or a pile of bad apples, "keep the good ones, and remove the bad ones," [Zhuan Falun], he would never view them as part of himself. Especially for a Dafa disciple in the Fa-rectification period, he would treat these attachments as sentient beings that need to be saved or as bad beings unable to be saved. Save the savable ones and remove the unsalvageable ones, why do we need to be attached to them?

However, for practitioners who are stuck in personal cultivation, it is not like that. Under many circumstances, he will treat the garbage as part of himself. "I keep cultivating and cultivating, why am I still not good? Why am I still so dirty? Why do I still have such big tests?"

Because he always regards garbage as himself, although he struggles very hard in the numerous tests placed by the evil, he still thinks that he is "cultivating." Without strong minds, the tests will be as high as mountains. [Hong Yin (II) unofficial translation]If one cannot strengthen his divine thoughts and cannot firmly focus on saving sentient beings, the tests will be truly like high mountains touching the clouds in the sky. No matter how many mountains he has climbed and how tired he is, he is still a person immersed in his dreams and cannot ascend from an ordinary person's level, let alone manifest his profound divine powers.

The above reasoning can often be heard among practitioners. While they sound modest, in reality the meaning behind the words is nothing more than "I am not capable. I have no divine power, only certain practitioners or practitioners who cultivate well have divine power." All of these are signs of lacking enlightenment or lacking belief in Master and Dafa.

The next part of this article is the Fa-rectification experience of one practitioner I know. It looks like nothing special, however it is a true display of profound divine power.

1. After more than ninety days on a hunger strike, a practitioner's face was glowing with health and his eyes were clear and bright.

In September 2001, in order to protest the persecution, an over 50-year-old Falun Dafa practitioner in the Changlinzi Forced Labor Camp, Harbin City, Heilongjiang Province, went on a hunger strike for more than ninety consecutive days. During that period, he experienced random force-feeding, i.e. once on a certain day, twice on the third day and once again three days later. The ingredients of the feeding paste were inconsistent from one time to the next, i.e. high concentrations of salt or drugs were sometimes added to the feeding paste. After being force-fed, one would feel nausea and burning in the stomach, have watery stools or feel extremely thirsty. Because a very thick tube is forced into one's nasal cavity, the mouth and esophagus would bleed from the repeated insertions. Later, however, when the labor camp authorities had to release him, his face was glowing with health, his eyes were clear and bright, and his voice was strong and resonant. He bore no resemblance to someone who had just been on a long hunger strike and brutally tortured with force-feeding! Does this not show that Falun Dafa is supernormal?

2. Recalling Teacher's poem enabled a practitioner to endure torture without pain.

In June 2000, when a Falun Dafa practitioner was being held in a detention center, the cell leader asked him if he still practiced Falun Gong. He answered yes, so the cell leader told him that he would not be allowed to practice there. The assistant cell leader suddenly kicked him in the ribs from behind, causing intense pain and an inability to breathe. At that moment, the practitioner immediately recalled one of Teacher's poems, "Non-existence":

At once, the pain completely left him, as if it had never happened, and the prisoners all got a strange feeling. Since that incident, the assistant cell leader often feels pain in the same toe that he used to kick the Falun Dafa practitioner.

3. The director of the forced labor camp injured his own fingers while shouting at a practitioner.

In September 2001, Shi Changjing, director of Changlinzi Forced Labor Camp, had a meeting with the strictly monitored group of six practitioners who had gone on a hunger strike. One of the practitioners said, "I first arrived at the forced labor camp in good health. Due to your persecution, the lower half of my body swelled so much and hurt so much that I thought the skin would break open. I was so swollen that my feet would not fit into my shoes, and when I needed to urinate I couldn't even find the urethra opening. While I was in the hospital, you were worried over the expense. While I am at the forced labor camp, you are afraid I will die and you will be responsible. So, you sent me back home. I refused all medication and injections, and instead, have restored my health just by practicing Falun Gong. Doesn't it prove that 'Falun Dafa is good' and that 'Falun Dafa is righteous'?"

Director Shi struck the table with all his strength while shouting the practitioner's name. Afterwards, he remained strangely silent and seemed preoccupied with holding his fingertips. It was because he had hurt them when striking the table. Then, he shouted to the guards, "Let him go!"

One night in March 2001, detention center authorities forced Falun Dafa practitioners to watch a TV program that defamed Falun Dafa. One practitioner did not want to watch and asked Teacher to strengthen his energy to end the program. The television set that was showing the program suddenly went silent with a blank screen. The following night, when a guard went to turn on the TV, he discovered that although it was silent with a blank screen, it had never been turned off. When he turned it off and then on again, the image and sound were normal again. The guard muttered to himself, "This is really weird."

No matter whether in a detention center or in a forced labor camp, whenever the guards tried to take pictures of the detainees, a certain practitioner thought, "Please, Teacher, strengthen my energy to make him unable to take pictures." He thought, "I am always a good citizen who observes discipline and obeys the law. I am trying to be a better person. I have not committed any crimes or done anything wrong, so how can they rightfully treat me like a common criminal by taking my picture?" As a result, the guards could not take his picture no matter how many times they tried.

Two policemen observed a female practitioner handing out truth-clarifying materials. The woman ran ahead and the policemen followed closely behind. She thought to herself, "They can't catch me! They can't catch me!" She did not feel that she could run very fast, but the policemen behind her were already tired, gasping for breath and their faces were covered with perspiration.

One of the policeman said, "She runs so fast that I really couldn't catch her. I am exhausted." The two policemen had to drop the matter.

I go out to distribute truth-clarifying materials every morning. On April 23, I came to a residential building that had a security door installed at the entrance to prevent theft. I waited for awhile but no one entered or left the building, so I just asked Teacher to help me open the security door. As a result, the door really did open! I experienced the divinity of Falun Dafa. Every practitioner has supernormal capabilities.

(Clearwisdom.net) From the end of March to the end of April, 2004, Jiang's political group has carried out another round of their ruthless defamation campaign against Falun Dafa and Dafa practitioners. Especially in the educational system, Jiang and his followers force colleges, high schools, middle schools and elementary schools to launch campaigns slandering Falun Dafa, attempting to poison teachers and students.

In a college in northern China, the college authorities put up a photo exhibition to defame Falun Dafa and incite hatred in the public against the peaceful practice. More than one hundred pictures and associated captions were posted on bulletin boards. After noticing the existence of this photo exhibition, a Falun Dafa practitioner immediately notified other local fellow practitioners. They started to send forth righteous thoughts at set times to eliminate the evil elements in other dimensions. One practitioner was a staff member working at the college. At around 11:00 p.m. that night, he managed to use a metal rod to unlock the bulletin boards successfully, and with the strengthening of Master Li, he removed all the photos and associated captions and destroyed all of them.

The following day, the staff and students were shocked by the fact that all the photos were gone! The Propaganda Department, Security Department and leaders of the college didn't publicize the matter, nor did they make any further investigation. They just posted some other items on the bulletin boards. The removal of Dafa-slandering photos by practitioners gave the evil forces at the college a heavy blow. The action greatly frightened the evil and helped to save the sentient beings.

(Clearwisdom.net) On Clearwisdom.net, I found many teachers in China have been persecuted because they practice cultivation in Falun Dafa. Some of them were forced to leave school, some were detained in labor camps and some were forced to leave their homes. I am also a teacher who practices Falun Dafa, but I was fortunate to be born in Taiwan where I can freely choose my belief and legally introduce Falun Dafa to the public and to the school where I work..

Students participating in Falun Gong group study

Practicing Falun Gong in physical education class

Practicing the second set of exercises: Falun Standing Stance

Before practicing Falun Dafa, I was a very demanding and strict teacher. I could not tolerate students who were not serious about learning. For students who could not meet my standards and requirements, I often used physical punishment or abusive language. One time when I visited the home of a student who often did not do his homework and who also looked dirty. I found that his family was very poor and that he did not have a table. I asked him where he did his homework, and he pointed to a low stool on the floor. I finally realized why he did not like to do his homework and felt very sorry for him. I felt sorry that I did not care much for others. Later, I started practicing Falun Dafa. After I read the book, Zhuan Falun, [main teachings of Falun Dafa] I realized how selfish I was and realized that a truly good teacher should conduct himself or herself according to the principles of "Truth-Compassion-Forbearance."

After I began to practice Falun Dafa my personality changed and students started to get closer to me. I found that if I lost my temper while teaching, the students would not change their poor study habits. Only when I talked to them with compassion and kindness did they start to change. Several students did not have a good temper and their interpersonal relationships were not good either. In fact, they also felt unhappy and troubled with their own problems. I explained the principles of "Truth, Compassion and Forbearance" to them and surprisingly, they took them to heart. Their conduct changed tremendously. Once a student happily ran to me and said, "Teacher, I did not get angry today!"

On the first day I started to work at this school three years ago, I met Teacher Wang whom I worked with at another school before. I said hello to her, but she could not recognize me at all. I mentioned things from the past to remind her. When she finally remembered who I was, she was so amazed that she could not utter a word. She said that I had changed so much, that I looked much younger, and that my personality had become much more open and energetic. I told her that it was because I had started practicing Falun Dafa. Teacher Wang said that if Falun Dafa was this good, then she would also like to learn it. The next day, the entire school knew that the school had a new teacher who was practicing Falun Dafa and that Falun Dafa is a very good school of cultivation practice. Teacher Wang has done a good job in telling others in the school about Falun Dafa.

Not long after, the Principal, Chief Administrator, teachers, nurses and other staff all used their free time to practice the Falun Dafa exercises with me. Several colleagues liked to chat with me and they often told me about unhappy matters in their work and families. After listening to their complaints, I would open the book Zhuan Falun or Essentials for Further Advancement and show them a paragraph of the Dafa teachings. Then I would help them understand how to deal with their conflicts and unhappy matters based on my understanding of the principles. They agreed that what Teacher says really makes sense and that Falun Dafa is really good.

Last semester I taught a special education class. The class had 6 students and most of them had learning disabilities. One of them was very withdrawn and isolated from others. It was very difficult to communicate with him. But he had an excellent memory and ability to draw and paint. One day I introduced Falun Dafa to him, and I was amazed that he started drawing the Falun emblem immediately upon seeing it. After he went home, he still kept drawing. His drawing was very accurate as well as colorful. I introduced Dafa to another student who was deficient in recognizing words, and taught him to read the characters of "Falun Dafa Hao!" (Falun Dafa is good!) and "Zhen, Shan, Ren" (Truth, Compassion and Forbearance). I thought that he would not be able to remember these words. To my surprise, one day he told me that when he took a bus downtown the preceding day, he had seen the outside of a bus with words saying, "Falun Dafa is the best cultivation school of practice in the world." In fact, the words on the bus were "Falun Dafa is good!" Later, his ability to read and recognize characters improved significantly and he could also read books quite well.

One of my mathematics students lacked self-confidence because her grades were not good. She heard that practicing Falun Gong would help open people's wisdom and enlightenment, so she asked me to teach her the exercises. I used the break between classes to teach her. Later she brought another classmate whose grades were also not good to learn the Falun Dafa exercises. One student had been complaining to me that his young brother brought difficulty to his whole family because his health was not good and he had a bad temper. After I told him that practicing cultivation in Falun Dafa could help people gain better health both mentally and physically, he asked me if I could teach his younger brother after school. Later he told me that "Falun Gong works", that his young brother, a kindergarten student, had become healthier and did not often get sick like he did in the past, and that he had a better temper.

I used all possible opportunities to introduce Falun Dafa to people in my school. Last year when SARS was spreading, people were all in a panic and worried. During the week, I served as the overall coordinator in the school, and when students gathered in the morning, I taught them how to prevent the spread of SARS. I also introduced to them the benefits of practicing Falun Gong in keeping fit and healthy and in strengthening the immune system. I also introduced Falun Dafa to parents and others in the school. Many who learned the benefits of the practice wanted to learn.

The school I am working at only has about 500 students, but it has more than 10 social groups and clubs. These groups have their respective class activities in one of the two early sessions on Wednesdays. The principal hesitated at the beginning to allow me to form a Falun Dafa group in the school because the classes for these groups were considered as formal classes by the school. I compiled two binders of literature from Dafa websites ranging from how Falun Gong keeps one fit and healthy, "Falun Dafa around the World", "Proclamations from around the World", to the "Truth of the Persecution". I clarified the truth in detail to the Principal. After he realized the truth, he agreed and supported me in forming a Falun Gong group and indicated that he would like to learn Falun Gong as well.

Our Falun Gong group has about 20 students each semester. The class consists of learning the Falun Gong exercises, watching video programs, and learning to sing songs. After learning Falun Gong, students liked to read and study books more. Their moral character was raised and they would not have conflicts with others. They got along with classmates and their family very well. They also felt very relaxed and comfortable after practicing the exercises. Students who are open-minded and energetic enjoy the 5^th set of exercises the most. Some students said that they originally thought that they would not be able to sit still to meditate for a long period of time. But after they overcame the distracting thoughts in their mind, they felt that it was really good that they could calm themselves down. Students' parents also said that it was very good for students to practice Falun Gong to keep fit and healthy. Last May, the school had a celebration for its 10^th anniversary, and it was also the 10^th anniversary of Falun Dafa's introduction to the world. The Falun Gong group and local practitioners demonstrated the 5 sets of exercises and they were well received. People were all asking where they could learn about Falun Dafa.

This semester I am teaching 4 courses to students in 6 classes. Because the school is a small one, it does not have many classes. The course for senior students is a reading class. The reading material for the class is compiled from articles on Dafa websites. Students like reading these articles. They are unique and meaningful, and they can help students develop righteous thoughts and a kind heart. Some teachers told me: "The classes you have taught are very different. The students are very clever, cute, sensible and obedient." I told him my secret that reading the articles from Falun Dafa websites began to change them. I was also amazed by the fact that the effect of Dafa disciples' articles was so significant.

One session in the science class was on water's three phases and the changes of state. I introduced students to the water crystallization experiments discussed on the Pureinsight website. Students were all amazed by these experiments and said that they would frequently send kind thoughts and would not beat and curse others. For the physical education class, besides introducing to students the marvelous effects of keeping fit and healthy by practicing Falun Gong, I also taught them to meditate. Many students said that it was so wonderful to calm themselves down and that the meditation made them feel very comfortable.

I put posters of "Falun Dafa around The World", "Truth of the Self-Immolation", and "Truth of Falun Gong Practitioners Illegally Persecuted in China" on the classroom's bulletin boards. Many students immediately became very angry upon seeing the persecution facts and told me that they wanted to help Falun Gong practitioners win justice. After students learned the facts, they went home to tell their parents. There was one time that a student told me that his mother thought that Falun Gong practitioners in China had done something wrong to cause the suppression. I said to the student that they are all good people and they did not oppose the government. Instead, it was the mistake of Jiang's regime. I gave him some truth clarification literature to take home to his mother. He went home to tell his mother that after practicing Falun Gong, his teacher had become healthier, her skin became very beautiful and that she did not need to wear short-sighted glasses any more. This student's mother said that she was thinking of practicing Falun Gong as well.

I am still improving and fall short in many aspects. The purpose of writing this article is to help people know that teachers who are practicing Falun Gong in China and Taiwan are receiving completely different types of treatment. Teachers cultivating themselves with the principles of "Truth, Compassion, and Forbearance" are well received in Taiwan, while teachers practicing Falun Gong in China are being suppressed and persecuted and many have died from torture for their belief. I appeal to Chinese authorities to stop persecuting teachers who practice Falun Gong and to let them return to school, so that future generations of China will be blessed.

(Clearwisdom.net) On May 13, 2004, four Peruvian Falun Dafa practitioners went to CAJAMARCA, a city in Northern Peru. Practitioners first contacted Ms. Pilar, who was in charge of the city's culture center. After introducing Falun Gong and explaining the brutal persecution of practitioners in China, she was very happy to accept practitioners' application to give a free teaching class at the center on the coming weekend.

At 8 pm on May 13, Northern TV broadcast an interview with practitioners and a 4-minute Falun Gong exercises demonstration program. REB GLOBAL TV interviewed a Peruvian practitioner the following day.

In the next day (May 14, 004), six radio stations including SAN FRANCISCO, LAISON DOBLE N, CAJAMARCA, CAMPESINA and MODERNA interviewed practitioners. Each interview lasted from half an hour to one hour and was broadcasted live. Many employees of CAJAMARCA learned about the worldwide spread of Falun Dafa as well as the brutal persecution and practitioners' peaceful appeals from the radio broadcasting. A 13-year old young practitioner speaks Spanish fluently, during an interview with Radios San Francisco, she narrated the principles of Falun Gong and the reason that the persecution has occurred. The host was very interested and talked with practitioners for a long time. He also invited the practitioner to write an article about this interview and submit it with pictures to a local journal.

When practitioners went to MODERNA Radio at 6:30pm, the station said that they could only give practitioners a few minutes to inform their listeners about the information of Falun Gong teaching class as the station's news hour had just passed. In the studio, however, the host became very interested when the Pudu music was played and listened to practitioners' peaceful voices. From the practitioners' introduction, he learned the facts and the beauty of Falun Dafa and he invited practitioners to spend another 10 minutes in the studio after a 40-minute interview.

On 3 pm of the following Saturday (May 15), practitioners started to teach Falun Gong at the culture center. Surprisingly, the public arrived in group after group. They all heard about the free teaching from the media. Practitioners divided them into smaller groups for teaching and then conducteda group exercise with them all together. There were also large demand for Falun Gong books and practitioners had to run to a copy shop to make copies. 3 hours quickly passed by, people were reluctant to leave and asked practitioners how to start practice sites and whether or not they could get Master's Lecture Video as soon as possible. A lady presented practitioners a rose, she said that she had been waiting and looking for a good practice.

(Clearwisdom.net) On May 20, 2004, a Falun Gong practitioner attended a meeting held by the UK Amnesty International working group in Huddersfield. At the meeting, the practitioner explained the facts about Falun Gong to four members of the group and showed a video covering the facts of the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in China.

To the people in Huddersfield, Falun Gong is still something new. Therefore, the members of Amnesty International there were not quite familiar with Falun Gong. One of them even said that it was the first time for him to learn anything about Falun Gong. In the meeting, the Falun Gong practitioner first briefly introduced to them the spreading and development of Falun Gong. And then he told them that there were than one hundred million people practicing Falun Gong around the world and the facts about Jiang's persecution of Falun Gong, as well as the on-going lawsuits against Jiang Zemin in various countries. When talking about Jiang's genocide policy against Falun Gong, one lady appeared to be deeply shocked.

Afterwards, when watching Falun Gong's truth-clarification films together, all the members of Amnesty International present showed their sympathy for the persecuted Falun Gong practitioners and expressed their resentment against the perpetrators. A lady whose eyes brimmed with tears after watching the film, said that the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in China is really terrifying.

Finally, the head of this Amnesty International working group expressed his support for Falun Gong, and wanted to do something to rescue Falun Gong practitioners.

After the meeting, all the participants from Amnesty International signed their names on the appeal letters for "Rescuing Falun Gong Practitioners' Family Members in China" and the "Public Trial of Jiang Zemin." They also asked Falun Gong practitioners some questions. One of them asked if Falun Gong practitioners are against the Chinese Government. The practitioner replied that Falun Gong practitioners are not against any government, and that during the Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao's state visits to the U.S. and Europe, the banners prepared by Falun Gong practitioners read "Welcome Wen Jiabao" and "Bring Jiang Zemin to Justice." The one who raised the question thus realized the facts immediately. Then he asked who financially supports Falun Gong practitioners; for instance, who provides the flyers to Falun Gong practitioners. After hearing that all the truth-clarification materials are purchased by Falun Gong practitioners with their own savings, he nodded with a sigh.

Before leaving, they invited Falun Gong practitioners to attend their next meeting, and expressed their blessings and thanks.

(Clearwisdom.net) Gelchsheim is a small town in southern Germany. The translation department of the University is located here and it houses other Chinese specialty subjects. On the 18th of May, at the invitation of the college Christian society, two Falun Gong practitioners held a seminar, talking to students about the ongoing persecution of Falun Gong in China. The attendees of the seminar were mostly the students from the Chinese course who may be the future experts on China.

All participants had heard the news about Falun Gong being persecuted in China from the German media or from their friends. But none of them understood the reason behind Jiang regime's persecution of Falun Gong. From his own personal experience of growing-up in China, a practitioner explained to the German students about the brainwashing political education forced upon the Chinese people throughout the whole education system by the Chinese Government. When the German students, who grow up under a completely different system, learned that the Falun Gong principle of Truthfulness, Compassion and Forbearance was introduced to the public under this special background in China, they suddenly understood. A lady said, "I understand now. The Jiang regime is afraid of these Falun Gong practitioners thinking independently and the government losing control. These controls are the basis of the government's existence. Therefore they need to persecute Falun Gong."

The other German practitioner had appealed in Tiananmen Square in 2002, and was detained for four days in Beijing after being arrested in the Square. A soon-to-be middle school teacher, a large, energetic and kind fellow talked about the time he spent with more than ten Chinese prisoners in China. At the beginning the prisoners were very afraid of him because of the government's propaganda against Falun Gong. After a few days, they slowly realised that he was a normal person with a family, a degree and a kind heart. They also realised that China's nationwide propaganda campaign against Falun Gong paved the way for the persecution of Falun Gong be launched.

The pictures showing the Falun Gong practitioners being persecuted shocked every participant in the seminar. Even though they had heard about the persecution before, they could never have dreamt of the seriousness and the depth of brutality of the persecution.

From the cultural angle, the organizer of the seminar, a female priest, said that there were common grounds between the principles of Truthfulness, Compassion and Forbearance promoted by Falun Gong and the teachings in Christianity: they both teach people to be kind. She thanked the two practitioners for a wonderful information packed evening, and invited them to come back again at the same time next week to teach the five sets of Falun Gong exercises.

(Clearwisdom.net) For five years, we have held Falun Dafa information days in many cities in northern German. This time we came to a Baltic city where no one practises Falun Dafa yet. It is the third city we have visited so far along the shores of the Baltic Sea. The people there were very interested in Falun Dafa.

People came up to our display stand to sign our petition calling for an end to the persecution. Some people there have been interested in the practice for a long time and wanted to know what Falun Dafa really is about. At the same time, there were also people who took information to get to know the true situation and learn the overall facts. Many people signed the forms to support legal action Jiang Zemin. They felt that although the evil is happening in China, it is very good to sue the perpetrators from Germany.

The reactions of these Baltic city citizens gave us new courage; in the future, every weekend, our northern German practitioners will hold an information day activity, with the aim of letting more people know the facts. There are still many people who do not know that such a cruel persecution is happening in China.

(Clearwisdom.net) Slottsskogen Park, situated in Sweden's Gothenburg city, is not only famous for its beautiful scenery but has also gained a reputation for its Falun Gong practice site. A few months ago, Gothenburg's Travel newspaper published an article about a reader who sent 'the roses of the day' to the Falun Gong practitioners who have been continuously practicing exercises in Slottsskogen park every Saturday, no matter what the weather is. Indeed, Falun Gong practitioners have created a harmonious and peaceful environment in Gothenburg City.

On May the 22nd 2004, Dafa practitioners from different places who were originally coming to join the Falun Dafa group study gathered in the park to practice the exercises. The scenes of practitioners practicing the peaceful Falun Dafa exercises attracted the attention of many passers-by. Some of them started to learn the movements, some requested information about Falun Dafa, and others came to speak with practitioners.

The French police arrested about fifty Falun Gong supporters on January 24th-25th 2004 in Paris. They came from the USA, England, Sweden, Holland, France, Austria, Germany, Norway, and Taiwan. Some only participated in the Chinese New Year's parade; some were wearing yellow scarves and some possessed material about Falun Gong.

It appears as if the French authorities acted on the demands from communist China (PRC).

What steps will the Council of Europe Committee of Ministers take to ensure the freedom of speech, freedom to wear yellow scarves, and freedom to express religious and political opinion publicly even for Falun Gong supporters in France?

(Clearwisdom.net) In April 2004, members of the Carefree Heart Choir gathered at the Chung-Cheng Memorial Hall wearing graceful Tang Dynasty attire to clarify the truth about Falun Dafa to visitors using music. The choir was composed of people from all walks of life, including post graduate students, university students, music teachers, civil servants, engineers, people working in the field of meteorology, journalists and so on.

Three big Chinese characters, "Truthfulness-Compassion-Tolerance" were placed in front of the electronic keyboard. Falun Dafa truth clarification photo displays, the carefree and peaceful demeanor of the singers, and their beautiful and moving songs soon attracted the attention of many tourists.

As soon as the tourists approached these singers, many tense faces turned to smiles. Some tourists accepted flyers and stood aside to listen to the singing while reading them. They occasionally raised questions. Some tourists had seen such a beautiful scene prevailing with singing from a distance, and happily walked up and said, "As soon as I saw you, I felt you are good people. You look wonderful!" Several police officers who were patrolling the area also smiled in reply to the singers' warm greetings.

Many tourists from abroad asked to have a photo taken with those dressed as celestial maidens. An energy therapist from America heard the song "Coming For You," and couldn't help walking up and saying, "I can feel the power of compassion. These songs are pleasant to hear, and you give people a good impression. You're beautiful!" She embraced the singers, saying she was very happy to meet with these Falun Gong practitioners who sang so beautifully, and she would carefully read the Falun Gong truth clarification flyers.

As it was getting dark, a group of journalists from Northern Europe passed by, accepted the flyers and looked at the truth clarification photo display attentively for a long time. They took several photos, smiled and waved goodbye to the choir members.

These Falun Gong practitioners from all walks of life make use of their holidays to go to tourist sites to sing, hand out flyers, and be close to tourists with the sole purpose of letting people learn that "Falun Dafa is good," and "Falun Dafa is the righteous Fa." They also call for people to extend their helping hand to stop this brutal persecution in China, which violates the laws of both man and God.

In mid-March, Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Wu Qinchai was taken to a detention center from the Anyang City Hospital. Wang Yuansheng led other members of the Anyang City "610 Office" (l) located in Beiguan District, Anyang City, Henen Province to abduct Ms. Wu. After twelve days of hunger strike, Ms. Wu walked out of the detention center with righteous thoughts in mind. Four days later she was abducted again. She went on a hunger strike for the second time, which has lasted fourteen days. She has suffered tremendous mental and physical abuse.

Telephone number of the Office of the State Security Brigade in Beiguan District, Anyang City: 86-372-5969912.

On April 23, 2004, Xiqing District Falun Dafa practitioner Zhang Dexiu was arrested by the Xiyingmen Police Station in Xiqing District, Tianjin. Zhang's home was unlawfully searched.

Guo Honggang and Fu Xiaoliang, members of the State Security Section of the Xiqing Branch Police Department: 86-22-27393013, 86-22-27393014, 86-22-27393015, and 86-22-27393016, 86-22-27393017
Office of the chief of Xiqing Branch Police Department: 86-22-27393016 ext. 89101
Wang Kedong and Gou Zhijun, of the Xiyingmen Police Station in Xiqing District: 86-22-27796390

Changting County Falun Dafa practitioner Chen Yanmei was released from prison on April 21, 2004. On April 26, the Changting County Police Department again placed Chen under arrest. It has also been reported that the Changting County Court unlawfully put four Falun Dafa practitioners on trial at the end of March.

Main line of the Changting County Police Department: 86-597-6831216
Office of the police department: 86-597-6838244
24 hour call-in number of the police department: 86-597-6831411
Internal Security Section of the police department: 86-597-6806772
Legal Affairs Section of the police department: 86-597-6807364
County Detention Center: 86-597-6831586
County Detention Facility: 86-597-6824852
Office of the President of the Changting County People's Court: 86-597-6831913
Civil Affairs Courtroom of the county court: 86-597-6823277
Trial Courtroom of the county court: 86-597-6829923
Chengguan Courtroom of the county court: 86-597-6832803

Falun Dafa practitioners Wang Xingtian, Wang Dianwen, and Zhou Lianfang live at Shisanlipu in Jinzhou, Dalian City, Liaoning Province. Falun Dafa practitioner Wang Shulan lives in Duoshan Township, Wafangdian City in Dalian City. On April 22 and 25, the four practitioners were arrested by local police stations. They are currently being unlawfully held in custody at the Wafangdian City Detention Center.

On April 1, 2004, Qi County Falun Dafa practitioners Qu Xiuran, Wang Zhi, and Wang Cuilin were turned in to the police by village cadres while distributing Falun Gong truth-clarifying materials. The Xicai Township Police Station coordinated with Shiyuan Police Station and took the practitioners to the Qi County Detention Center. Fifteen days later, the practitioners were transferred to a brainwashing center located within the Kaifeng City Social Welfare Institute in the capital city of Henan Province, where they have remained ever since.

Bai Zhuoyun and Zhang Dianying are Falun Dafa practitioners of the Bureau of Forestry in Huadian City, Jilin Province. On the evening of April 16, they were arrested by the Hongshi Town Police Station while distributing Falun Gong truth-clarification materials. The two practitioners are being held in the Huadian City Detention Center. Other practitioners arrested in Jiapigou, Jilin Province awhile back, including Tian Wujun, Gao Defen, Zhao Lingling, Yu Shuqian, and Wang Hongzhang, are also held in the same detention center.

Zhou Jian, director of the Huadian City "610 Office": 86-432-6226288 (home), 86-432-6220610 and 86-432- 6225565 (office), 86-13904448659 (cellular)
Ren Qingshi, chief of the Huadian City Police Department: 86-432-6265432 (home), 86-432-6235779 (office), 86-13704446599 (cellular)
Wu Changzhi, Party secretary of the Huadian Communist Party Committee: 86-432-6222135 (home), 86-432-6230999 (office), 86-13804407000 (cellular)

From April 25, 2004 to the end of the month, nine more Falun Dafa practitioners were arrested in Jishu Town, Shulan City, Jilin Province. Officers sent by the Shulan City "610 Office" carried out the arrests. They ransacked practitioners' homes and took away a copy machine and a large number of Falun Gong books.

Jishu Police Station: 86-432-8812498
Office of Chief of the Shulan City Police Department: 86-432-8224808, 86-432-8225114, 86-432-8222705, 86-432- 8230606, 86-432-8235626
Legal Affairs Section of the police department: 86-432-8234799
Security Section of the police department: 86-432-8222562
State Security Brigade of the police department: 86-432-8225509
Xin He, deputy chief of the police department: 86-432-8218390, 86-432-8227199, 86-13904440778 (cellular)
Zhang Zhimin, mayor of Shulan City: 86-432-8282991 (office), 86-432-8234855 (home), 86-13904440500 (cellular)

Jilin City Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Yang Xiaochen is in his fifties. On February 24, 2004, the Beishan Police Station in Chuanying District, Jilin City arrested him. Mr. Yang has since been held in the Jilin City Detention Center. Officials of the detention center have denied his family any visits.

Dispatch Office of Officers on Criminal Cases in Chuanying Branch Police Department in Jilin City: 86-432-2026300
Beishan Police Station in Chuanying District, Jilin City: 86-432-4844085

On April 16, Chifeng City Falun Dafa practitioner Zhao Tingjun was turned in to the authorities for painting Falun Gong signs and was arrested at his home. (The government has offered a reward of 5,000 Yuan (2) for information that leads to the arrest of a Falun Dafa practitioner.

On April 24, Ms. Zhang Cuihua, Zheng Daqin, and Ji Wenling were abducted to the Chifeng Brainwashing Center from their homes or while working in the field. Meng Qingchao was also abducted on the same day. Meng's whereabouts is unknown.

On April 30, Ms. Wang Yanping and Ms. Zhai Cuixia were arrested. The two practitioners are being persecuted in the Pingzhuang Detention Center.

Liu Wanhu, Party secretary of Jianchuanying Town: 86-476-3210425 (office), 86-476-3663500 (office), 86-476-3210767 (home)
Li Wenyong: 86-476-3210582 (home)
Wang Fuxiang: 86-476-3210996 (home)
Wang Jianfeng, head of the detention center: 86-476-3210341 (office), 86-476-3590571 (home), 86-13190930096 (cellular)

Zhang Zhaohua is a former section level cadre in the Security Section of the Yitulihe Office, Hailaer Railway Sub-bureau, Inner Mongolia. Zhang Zhaohua was sentenced to 7 years in prison and tortured, just for writing to the national leaders describing the persecution he has experienced. Currently Zhang is tied up and locked in a small cell in Beian Jail, and is reported to be in a critical situation.

A human rights organization outside China called the Beian Jail to investigate the matter. Three different people answered the three successive phone calls, and each person immediately hung up the phone as soon as they heard the name Zhang Zhaohua.

Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Sun Qian is detained at the Jilin Jail. He has been on a hunger strike for 4 months to resist the persecution. However, the police tortured him by ordering criminal inmates to force-feed Mr. Sun with a thick salt solution that contained 500 grams of salt, and then not allow him to drink water.

After 8:00 p.m. on April 17, 2004, Dafa practitioner Mr. Liu Hongyao went to the wrong door when he returned home. He mistakenly knocked on a door on the 6^th floor. The neighbor reported him to the Yanjiang Local Police Station and Ningjiang District No. 2 Public Security Sub-bureau. The police illegally searched his home on the 5^th floor, and then arrested his wife Wang Yujie and practitioner Ms. Duan Liane, who were in the apartment at the time. The police also waited outside to catch other practitioners. They arrested a male practitioner who went to visit, then after 4:00 p.m. the police also arrested Jiang Qi, another practitioner who went to visit the male practitioner. These five practitioners were detained at the Songyuan City Shanyou Detention Center until April 29, and each was sentenced to 3 years in prison.

Mr. Liu Hongyao, Mr. Jiang Qi, and the other male practitioner were sent to the Jilin Province Jiutai Yinmahe Forced Labor Camp, together with practitioner Wang Xiaoxin, who was a teacher in Maoduzhan High School in Guo County. Wang Yujie, Duan Liane, and another female practitioner were sent to Changchun Heizuizi Forced Labor Camp. One male practitioner had high blood pressure and was sent to an aid station for a month of observation. To resist the persecution, Jiang Qi had refused to take any food or water after his arrest on April 17, so the forced labor camp refused to accept him. On April 30, he was again sent to the hospital in Jilin Province Forced Labor Camp for further persecution. He was critically ill, but he kept clarifying the facts of Falun Gong and the persecution to the doctors, and was refused admittance for a second time. After 6:00 p.m. on April 30, the police of Ningjiang District No. 2 Public Security Sub-bureau unconditionally released him, as they didn't know what else to do. One of the female practitioners was released because both of her hands were disabled. Wang Xiaoxin was sentenced to a three year term in a forced labor camp.

Mr. Li Yong is a Dafa practitioner from Jincheng, Linghai City, Liaoning Province. When he was practicing the exercises at a practice site during the 2002 Chinese New Year, he was arrested by the public security section of Jincheng Paper Making Corporation, and detained in Jinzhou City Forced Labor Camp. He was released in mid-January 2004, but suddenly disappeared on April 2. Later Li Yong's family learned two that plainclothes police from the Jincheng Public Security Sub-bureau deceived Li Yong into going to Donghua Village, which is near Jincheng. Then the police requested a police car and took Li Yong to Linghai City Detention Center. He was later sentenced to three years at the Jinzhou City Forced Labor Camp, and is not allowed visits from his family.

During 4-plus years of persecution of Falun Gong, the Public Security Section and Jincheng Public Security Sub-bureau, led by police officer Wang Jingshan, have been recognized as an "Advanced Unit" for their participation in the persecution. The successfully sent 15 practitioners to forced labor camp, and detained many people. The police there torment practitioners by abusing, beating and kicking, face-slapping, administering shocks with electric batons, tying up with ropes, searching their homes, confiscating money and property, and fining them large sums of money (mostly without a receipt, and some receipts are improperly prepared).

Police officers in Jincheng District that were primary participants in the persecution:
Wang Jingshan, Jincheng Public Security Sub-bureau Director General: 86-416-8285999 (Office)
Yang Xiaochun (in charge of the persecution) 86-416-8285615 (Office)
Li Guihua (female, she is peremptory and threatening the arrested Dafa practitioners, and is against Dafa) 86-416-8281047 (Home)
Jincheng Public Security Sub-bureau office on duty: 86-416-8285110

5. [Jiaohe City, Jilin Province] Police Arrest Five Practitioners in Fuqiang Village

On the afternoon of April 27, 2004, Jiaohe City Fuqiang Village Dafa practitioners
Ms. Shao Zexia, Ms. Shao Zeai, Ms. Fu Xiuhua, Ms. Liu Yulan and Ms. Wang Baoqin clarified the truth in Huangnihe Town, Dunhua City, Yanbian District, Jilin Province. Between 7:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m., the police approached them. Three of them walked away using righteous thoughts, and only two were arrested.

Around 4:00 p.m. on the 28^th, police officers from Dunhua City Huangnihe and Jiaohe City Baishishan Town rushed into the home of the three practitioners who had escaped. The police searched their home and arrested the practitioners at 6:00 p.m. It was reported that these five practitioners are now detained at the Dunhua City Detention Center, and are suffering brutal torture. The police said these five practitioners will likely be sentenced to a minimum of one year each.

The relevant telephone numbers at the Jilin Province Dunhua City Public Security Bureau:
Dai Zhaoqiang, Director General: 86-433-6361388
Political Protection Section: 86-433-6360340
Detention Center: 86-433-6682301
Dunhua City Huangnihe Town Local Police Station: 86-433-6552592
Zhang Guohua, Dunhua City Huangnihe Town Local Police Station manager:
86-433-6220055 (Home)

On January 18, 2001, Luan Jibo, Nongan County Xinnong Township Local Police Station manager, along with Li He, arrested Dafa practitioners Chen Guanghong, Wang Yong, Liu Shudong, Bian Chunxiang, Wang Yingjie, Wang Fengjie, and Wang Fenglan. They were detained at the Nongan County Detention Center for 8 days, and all the money and valuables they had, totaling 7,000 yuan (1), was confiscated. Luan Jibo and Li He are known to wantonly curse Dafa, slander Dafa, and torture Dafa practitioners.

In July 2001, officers Li He, Wang Jun, Liu Wenxin, and Tang, of the Jishi Xinnong Township Local Police Station, suddenly rushed into practitioner Wang Yong's home, located at Huangjia Station, Siping Street, Xinnong Township, and took Wang Yong to the station. Under the instigation of Song Zequan, former manager Luan Jibo roughed up Wang Yong, causing him to pass out several times. Wang Yong's body was covered with bruises. Finally a few people lifted him into a car and sent him to the Nongan County Detention Center, and he was later sentenced to one year of forced labor. He has since suffered more physical and mental persecution in the forced labor camp.

On April 23, 2004, Zhang Lianduo and about eight other policemen from the Shijiazhuang Hedong Local Police Station rushed into Dafa practitioner Ms. Zhang Fengzhen's home, and tried to force the 58-year-old to write a statement guaranteeing not to practice Falun Gong. When she refused to write it, the police took her fingerprints. Intending to send her to a forced labor camp, they first took her for a health check-up. When the doctor found she had heart disease, the police extorted 10,000 Yuan from her family, and sent her home instead. Personnel from the local police station monitor her home, and she has no freedom.

Zhang Fengzhen's home telephone number: 86-311-5065805
The units and personnel directly involve in the persecution:
Hebei Shijiazhuang Hedong Local Police Station Address: No. 33 Jianhuanan Street, postal code 050000
Telephone: 86-311-5052891, 86-311-5055880
Manager: Wang Xilian
Instructor: Li Huiyuan (in charge of the persecution of Falun Gong)

Tian Ruhong and Luo Siyin of the No. 1 Section in Lushan District Public Security Bureau, Jiujiang City, Jiangxi Province have been following orders from the Jiang regime since July 20, 1999, when the persecution began, and fanatically persecuting Falun Gong practitioners. Many practitioners have been forced into brainwashing centers where they are persecuted. Tian and Luo have caused the deaths of practitioners Gui Xunhua (Xiaochi Town, Huangmei County) and Lan Hu (Lushan District Price Bureau). Practitioners who have been sentenced to prison include: Zhang Jing (11 years), Zhang Shu (8 years), Shen Chong (8 years), Luo Youmin (8 years), Cao Juncheng (8 years), Xu Feng (8 years), Huang Jihan (3 years), Li Kanlin (3 years), Chen Shiwu (3 years of forced labor), Hu Yali (3 years of forced labor), Shi Shuqin (3 years of forced labor), Hu Dingyin (3 years of forced labor), Hu Dingxi couple (2 years of forced labor), Zhu Shengli (2 years of forced labor), and Cai Maobao (2 years of forced labor).

On March 27, 2004, Dafa practitioners Li Guirong, Hu Yanhua, Wang Shan, Yang Guihua, and others were arrested, and secretly detained at the Jiujiang City Yongxiu County Detention Center.

Handan City Fuxing District practitioner Ms. Tang Yu is 38 years old. She began to practice Falun Gong in 1997. On January 29, 2004, the police arrested her, searched her home, and extorted her family of at least 6,000 Yuan in exchange for her release. However, not only was she not released, but she was sentenced to one year of forced labor, and sent to the Shijiazhuang Forced Labor Camp.

In mid-March 2002, police officers from the Shijiazhuang Forced Labor Camp No. 3 Brigade forced the practitioners who denounced Falun Gong against their wills to write to the Secretary-general of the United Nations. The police set a limit of 3 days to finish the letters in which the writers had to slander Falun Gong, acknowledge that they have been "transformed" by the government and police, and express that America interferes in China's internal affairs and violates human rights by criticizing the Chinese government's human rights violations, etc.

24-year-old practitioner Ms. Xu Haili of Jingxing County was forcibly brainwashed. The police deprived her of sleep for 26 days, and instructed others to take turns brainwashing her 24 hours a day. Xu Haili was tortured until her entire body became swollen, and she was practically disabled. However, she still would not give up her beliefs. The police feared being held responsible for her death, and only then stopped tormenting her. Her case is a prime example of "education and transformation" that the Chinese government brags about, and belies the self-proclaimed "best period of human rights on record." Moreover, the brutal persecution still continues.

(1) Yuan - Chinese currency. 500 yuan is the average monthly income for an urban worker in China.

(2) "Guarantee Statement" - A statement to declare that one is remorseful for practicing Falun Gong and guarantees not to practice Falun Gong again, not to go to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong, and never again associate with any Falun Dafa practitioners.

On April 20, 2004, more than 20 Dafa practitioners were arrested and taken to the Changliu Detention Center. In order to shock the evildoers, a few practitioners decided to set up several loud speakers nearby, and after adequate preparation, at around 8:50 p.m. on April 20, the melodious "Pudu" music ('Save All Living Beings') resounded over the detention center.

Since April 27, 2004, policemen from Xingtai City's "610 Office" (1) and from the Police Department have arrested more than a dozen practitioners from the city. Most of them were from the Qiaoxi District. The practitioners whose names can be confirmed are: Ji Zhilan, Zhang Jinsheng, Li Zichang, Wang Zixiang and a relative of his (also a practitioner), Zhao and Wang Jianshe from the city's No.3 Hospital, a female practitioner from the city's No. 1 Middle School, a female practitioner from the city's No. 8 Middle School, Hao Huaimin from the Property Tax Bureau and a male practitioner from the Nanshimen District, Xingtai County. Most of them are being held at Xingtai City's Brainwashing Center.

On May 8, police arrested Wang Jianshe from the city's No.3 Hospital and put him in the Special Cases Team in the hostel affiliated with Xingtai City's Mineral Bureau. The police turned his home upside down and confiscated his computer. The lawless personnel secretly set up a prison in the hostel. They beat Wang Jianshe so badly that his body was covered with bruises. Furthermore, they locked him up in an iron cage that was made especially for torturing Dafa practitioners.

It was reported that policemen force all the practitioners sent to the brainwashing center to write the so-called "Four Statements (2)" and extort 2,600 Yuan (3) from each of them. Those who refuse to write the statements were sent to Xingtai City's Detention Center or the detention centers in their respective counties.

Head of the Police who participated in the persecution: Li Jingang from the No.1 Section, Qiaoxi Police Department.
Switchboard for Xingtai City's Police Department: 86-319-2022253;
Xingtai City's Brainwashing Class: 86-319-3190616, 3193610 and 3191294;
Switchboard for the Xingtai City Mineral Bureau's Hostel: 86-319-2027441, 2027440, 2057447 and 2057445.

On April 2, a practitioner and her family member(s) went to Yujiahe in the Lushan District to paste up truth-clarifying materials. When officers from the Yujiahe Police tried to arrest her, her son Cai Hao, a non-practitioner, attempted to protect his mother, and she managed to escape with the power of her righteous thoughts. The angry policemen went so far as to arrest her son. At noontime, the family went to the police station to demand the release of the son, but the personnel had already sent him to the Lushan District Police Department and detained him.

Telephone number for Lushan District's Police Department, Jiujiang City: 86-792-8251045 ext. No. 1 Section;
Jiujiang City's "610 Office" office head is Zhang Ming.

During the afternoon of April 21, 2004, police arrested 65-year-old practitioner Ms. Hai Delan from Ningyang County, Shandong Province, when she was distributing truth clarification information. She is currently being held in the Zhoucun Brainwashing Center in Zibo City. Meanwhile, her home was searched. When she was sent to the brainwashing center, her family members had three thousand Yuan in cash extorted from them. The brainwashing center is located at the Zhoucun No.2 Female Labor Camp in Zibo City, Shandong Province.

On April 29, 2004, Dafa practitioner Ms. Yang Hua (over 60 years old), a retired employee from Shijiazhuang City's Synthetic Fertilizer Factory was arrested while posting Dafa truth clarification information in Xisanzhuang. Now she has been sent to Hebei Province's capital brainwashing center.

6. [Luan County, Hebei Province] Ongoing Detention of Dafa Practitioner Wu Xingjun in Luan County's Detention Center

Practitioner Mr. Wu Xingjun from Luan County, Hebei Province, was working at Luan County's Technical Supervision and Administration Bureau. He was arrested on July 20, 1999 and on September 23, 1999 he was illegally sentenced to four years of imprisonment in violation of the Chinese constitution. On September 22, 2003, when his prison term had expired, he was not released back home but sent to Luan County's Detention Center and has been held there since then.

Related personnel's phone numbers (Country code: 86, area code 315, Do not dial area code before a cell phone number):

Wang Xuezeng, head of the "610 Office": 7166738 (home), 13832985809 (cell)
Tian Weihan, in charge of persecuting Falun Gong in the police department: 7126875 (home) 13832986526 (cell)
Police: (who brutally beat up and abused Dafa practitioners)
Cao Wenxiang, 7129399 (home), 13832989257 (cell)
Yuan Yongfeng, 13832982769 (cell)

Several Falun Gong practitioners are currently being detained at Benxi City's Forced Labor Camp including Wang Xuefei, Zheng Gongxing, Xu Rongfu, Qu Zhilian, Li Dengwen, Tian Dong, Zhao Mingjie, Wang Jianquan, Ma Fuyue, Zang Shuli, Chen Chuanli and Gao Dong.

The address for Benxi City's Forced Labor Camp in Liaoning Province: Weiningying, Mingshan District, Benxi City, Liaoning Province, P. R. China, postcode: 117008

On April 8 or 9, 2004, Dafa practitioners Ms. Zhang Jiying, 58 years old, and Ms. Niu Yuzhen, 67 years old, from Huajianzi Township, went to a village to distribute truth-clarifying materials, but someone reported them. Thus in the middle of the night, four officers from Hengren County's Police Department arrested and took them to a detention center.

At 5:00 a.m. the next day, policemen went to arrest 68-year-old Dafa practitioner Ms. Liu Guirong. Because Liu Guirong had symptoms of heart disease she was not taken away, but the police confiscated all Dafa books.

In addition, Dafa practitioner Hu Ximei, about 50 years old, from Gucheng City, was also arrested and taken to a detention center for distributing truth-clarifying materials.

Dafa practitioner Zhang Hong is from the Dongli District, Harbin City, Heilongjiang Province. During the night of May 8, 2004 when he was creating Falun Gong truth-clarifying banners near the Dongfeng Prison at Dongfeng Town, Taiping District, Harbin City, an armed policemen on duty at the prison's watchtower reported him, resulting in the practitioner's arrest. On May 9 he was sent to Harbin City's No.2 Detention Center, also known as Yaziquan.

(Clearwisdom.net) A "solemn declaration" is a person's public statement declaring to the world that whatever he or she has done or said under duress or deception that was against Falun Dafa is null and void. Most of these statements have come from Falun Dafa practitioners in China who wished to express regret that, in the face of physical torture and brainwashing, they had signed documents renouncing Dafa and guaranteeing not to practice again. Also, as more and more people in China learn the truth about how they have been deceived and lied to by the Jiang regime, many non-practitioners are also submitting "solemn declarations."

In mid October 2003, the authorities at the notoriously cruel Masanjia Labor Camp started another round of persecution against Dafa practitioners. Collaborators [former Falun Gong practitioners who went astray after torture and brainwashing and now have been coerced into helping to persecute their fellow practitioners] tied up practitioner Zhen Juxiang's legs in the double lotus meditation position. Then they sat on her legs and pushed down on them. Ms. Zhen Juxiang could not walk afterwards.

Dafa practitioner Sun Yanli, an unmarried woman, was not allowed to sleep for fifteen days and fifteen nights. The authorities decided to sexually assault her in order to persecute her to the maximum. Sun was forced to sit on the ground while the authorities violently scratched and tore at her inner thighs until they became bruised all over. Then Sun was sexually and sadistically abused by the authorities who forcibly inserted their hands into her vagina in order cause bruising and to purposely break her hymen to insult her virginity and degrade her.

Dafa practitioner Zhou Yuzhi was hung up for several days. The perpetrators shocked her with electric batons.

Dafa practitioners Liu Wenxiu and her son Han Xing from the Jinzhou Normal Institute in Xingcheng city, Liaoning Province were illegally arrested and held at the Huludao City Detention Center. Liu Wenxiu was recently sentenced to three-and-half years in prison and Han Xing was sentenced to three years in prison.

Dafa practitioner Miao Jun tore up Dafa-slandering propaganda and was reported, resulting him being held at the Huludao City Forced Labor Camp for one year.

On April 8, 2004, officers from the Diaoyutai Police Station broke into the home of Dafa practitioner Chang Yuqin in Zhoujia Village, Sijia Town. They abducted her and sent her to the Masanjia Labor Camp for two years of forced labor.

On April 8, the perpetrators broke into the homes of Dafa practitioners Liu Jinjuan and Zhou Chunping and also ransacked the homes of three other Dafa practitioners. Liu Jinjuan and Zhou Chunping were held in detention for fifteen days and then were sent to the Masanjia Labor Camp.

Around 11:30 a.m. on May 13, 2004, perpetrators from the Shenyang City Female Prison (the former Dabei Female Prison) and Xinxing District Police Department abducted Dafa practitioner Ms. Liu Yanjun from Donggang City, Liaoning Province. All this was done under leadership from the Donggang City Police Department, who claimed they would "take Liu Yanjun for a physical exam."

Dafa practitioner Shi Jinling from Fushun City, Liaoning Province went to Beijing in August 2001 and shouted on Tiananmen Square, "Falun Dafa is good." She was arrested and sent to the Fushun Forced Labor Camp for three years of forced labor. Shi Jinling did not cooperate with the persecution and shouted, "Falun Dafa is good!" "Restore Master's reputation!" In April 2002, Shi Jinling escaped from the labor camp with the power of her righteous thoughts, but she was deceived by the authorities and ended up back in the labor camp in September 2001. Shi Jinling held a hunger strike and shouted "Falun Dafa is good!" continuously in an effort to resist the persecution. On the seventh day she was sent home in an open and dignified manner. In December 2003, Shi Jinling shouted, "Falun Dafa is good" at the Tiananmen Tower in Beijing and was arrested once again. She was held at a detention center and a labor camp for 30 days and was picked up by perpetrators from the Fushun Forced Labor Camp. After they extorted 2,000 Yuan from her for travel expenses, they sent her home.

On May 6, 2004, police officers in Qinhuangdao City broke into Dafa practitioner Chang Yuzhou's home and arrested her. Her four-year-old son realized the police officers were "bad people" and called the neighbors for help. The police officers beat the neighbors. In the end they arrested Ms. Chang Yuzhou, citing "obstructing the law."

On December 21, 2001, Dafa practitioners Li Zhihua and Xiong Shuxiang from Zhangwu County, Fuxin City, Liaoning Province were abducted when distributing truth clarification materials and were held at the county detention center. Cui Haifeng, head of the Politics and Security Division from the county police department threatened and intimidated them, and he ordered them to reveal the source of the truth clarification materials. They released the practitioners after extorting 5,000 Yuan from each of their families.

On December 8, 2003, Dafa practitioner Kong Fei from Zhangwu County went to Beijing to appeal and was detained at the county detention center for more than 20 days. Cui Haifeng unlawfully sentenced Dafa practitioner Kong Fei to three years of forced labor and sent him to the Masanjia Forced Labor Camp.

Dafa practitioner Li Jianguo is 63 years old. The perpetrators at the Baoding City Forced Labor Camp in Hebei Province hung Li Jianguo up on a metal railing by his handcuffs for ten days and ten nights.

The perpetrators cuffed practitioner Ma Yulin's left hand to the wire mesh outside the window and his right hand to the heating radiator and didn't allow him to go to the restroom.

The police officers in Baoding City tortured Dafa practitioner Liu Yongwang with the method called the Tiger Bench and broke both of his legs [With this cruel torture, practitioners are forced to sit on a small metal bench that is approximately 20 cm (6 inches) tall with their knees tied together. With their hands tied behind their backs or sometimes placed on their knees, they are forced to sit straight up and look straight ahead. They are not allowed to turn their heads, close their eyes, talk to anyone or move at all. Several inmates are assigned to watch over the practitioners and force them to remain motionless while sitting on the bench. Usually some hard objects are inserted underneath the practitioners' lower legs or ankles to make it harder for them to tolerate this abuse (see illustration on http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2001/11/24/16156.html]. After Liu Yongwang was sent to the Baoding Forced Labor Camp he held a hunger strike to protest the persecution. The guards spread rumors, exclaiming, "Liu Yongwang's legs are broken from holding a hunger strike."

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