People's Hearts Determine Their Futures

• Assistant Director of a "610 Office" Understands the Truth of Falun Gong
• Police Praise Falun Dafa after Practitioners Fearlessly Clarify the Facts
• Examples of Karmic Retribution: The Head of the Xima Police in Xishui County, Hebei Province Killed by an Electric Shock

Shooting in South Africa--Jiang's State Terrorism Exposed

• FDI: "Who Shot David Liang?" (Photos)
• London, UK: Press Conference Outside South Africa House after Jiang Extends his State Terrorism to South Africa (Photos)
• Germany: Practitioners Hold a Press Conference at the Chinese Embassy to Condemn Jiang and his Followers for Their Role in the Shooting of Practitioners in South Africa (Photos)
• Ireland: Falun Gong Practitioners Held a Press Conference Outside the Chinese Embassy to Condemn the Shooting Incident in South Africa (Photos)
• Japan: Practitioners Rally in front of the Chinese Embassy to Condemn Jiang Group's State-Terrorism (Photos)
• Peru: Practitioners Send Forth Righteous Thoughts Outside the Chinese Embassy in Lima, Protesting Jiang and Luo's Group's Hiring Gunmen to Shoot Practitioners (Photo)
• Montreal, Canada: Practitioners Expose Jiang Group's Involvement in South Africa Shooting Incident (Photos)

Media Reports

• The Epoch Times: Rally Calls for an End to the State-run Terrorism
• MOSNEWS, Russia: Spiritual Movement Sue Chinese Consul Over Threats

Facts of the Persecution

• Practitioner Zhang Yufang, a Retired Official of the Lingwu Epidemic-Prevention Station, Cruelly Persecuted along with Her Family
• Practitioner Ms. Li Xiaqiu is Tortured to the Point of Mental Collapse at the Tumuji Forced Labor Camp
• Illustrations of Torture Methods Used to Persecute Falun Gong Practitioners (Number 31) - Locked to a Ground Ring (Photo)

Special Report

• Lies Cannot Cover Up the Crimes That Will be Exposed: The Systematic Persecution of Falun Gong Practitioners in Beijing (Part 2) (Photos)

Voices of Justice

• Statement of Support from Czech Senator Daniel Kroupa at a Falun Gong Rally on the United Nations International Day in Support of Victims of Torture
• United Kingdom: Falun Gong Seminar Held in the Houses of Parliament

Practitioners Exchange Insights and Experiences

• Guard Against The Less Obvious Forms of Persecution by the Dark Minions of the Old Forces
• Seeking Outside Help to Redress the Injustice versus Acting Together in Concert
• My Understanding of "Looking Inward"
• A Western Practitioner's Experiences Validating Dafa After Being Awakened By The "Self-Immolation" Incident at Tiananmen Square
• Ten Year Old: "I Don't Cause Headaches For My Teachers Anymore"
• A Miraculous Experience: a Falun Guided Me Home

News and Events Around the World

• Rancho Cordova, California: Let the Beauty of Falun Dafa Stay in People's Hearts (Photos)
• Redwood City, California: Practitioners Win Praise Participating in Independence Day Parade (Photos)
• Regina, Canada: Practitioners Participate in Canada Day Parade (Photos)
• Switzerland: Practitioners Expose Jiang's Crimes on UN International Day in Support of Victims of Torture in Basel (Photos)

News From China

• Latest News from China - June 23, 2004
• 65 People Declare that their Words and Deeds Under Forced Brainwashing are Null and Void
• Summary of Other Articles and News - June 27, 2004

(Clearwisdom.net) A college classmate, who had no contact with me for seven years, called recently, saying he really wanted to see me almost two months ago. I met him at a hotel and we talked about Falun Gong. Before I could clarify the truth to him about Falun Gong, he told me the following things. "I know what the TV said is all false. It is so obvious that the ‘Tiananmen immolation incident' is staged. I have been an assistant director in the ‘610 Office' (1) for two years and I know very well that those who practice Falun Gong are all good people. One time we brought 30 practitioners back from Beijing. No one said Falun Gong is not good. There are three bureau chiefs in our county who practice Falun Gong. In 2000, under pressure from the top, one of them was forced to read a manuscript called, ‘Exposing and Criticizing Falun Gong.' It was video taped and sent to the bureau. These are all false."

I asked him: "Did you beat those good people?"

He replied, "No. I have let many go. Today the credibility of television broadcasts can not be trusted. Among our old classmates, the behavior of the numerous Falun Gong practitioners is good. Those who I have come into contact with are all good people."

I told him about two other classmates of ours who were arrested, brutally beaten, and fined a lot of money repeatedly because they practice Falun Gong. One of them lost three different jobs because the bosses were afraid they would be dragged into trouble for hiring a Falun Gong practitioner. He replied to this angrily; "Jiang Zemin is so bad and sooner or later he will be punished. He does bad things and forces others to do bad things, too."

Yesterday this classmate called me again. He said: "I played the Falun Gong Truth Clarification VCD in the county office. Many people were shocked, and understood the true stories. They told me to be careful." My classmate told me that he no longer works at the "610 Office." He has been promoted to a higher rank.

(Clearwisdom.net)

In a village in northern China, there is a practitioner called Xiao Xiao who makes a living selling vegetables. One day he came across two plain-clothes policemen who were investigating a murder. Because he was selling vegetables at a major intersection, he was one of the people that they wanted to interview.

Over the following two days, the two policemen returned to ask Xiao Xiao more questions, and on one occasion they tore down a flyer reading, "Falun Dafa is Great," which was posted on a nearby telephone booth.

"Why tear it down?" Xiao Xiao seriously asked them, "It looks very good up there."

The policemen immediately turned around and asked him, "Do you practice Falun Gong?"

"Yes," he replied. "It is good for my health, so why not practice it?"

"We are the police," they said. "Are you not afraid that we might send you to jail?"

"I am not afraid," said Xiao Xiao. "I have been there before. Besides, we are all good people. Why should we be afraid? The fabricated propaganda campaigns all look very foolish. Just take a look at the self-immolation incident. One of the immolators doused herself in gasoline while the police waited nearby with a fire extinguisher. After the fire was lit, they just put it out. They are all fabricated events aimed at cheating innocent people, and you all know about them. Isn't that the truth?"

The police then started to laugh.

At that moment, another practitioner arrived and picked up the torn flyer. "Who did this?" said the practitioner, posting it back on the telephone booth. The two policemen said nothing about it. The practitioner continued, saying, "If everyone were like Falun Gong practitioners, then you two would not have to work so hard to investigate cases like this one. Can you two say which part of Falun Gong is not good?" The policemen listened to the practitioner's opinion and then said, "Falun Dafa actually is really good!"

(Clearwisdom.net) Editors' Note: In both Western and Chinese culture, the principle of karmic retribution, that is, being held ultimately accountable for one's own actions, is widely accepted. The fundamental teaching of Falun Gong is the characteristic of the universe, "Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance." The universe will reward actions that are in harmony with this principle, while actions such as beating, torturing and murdering people will incur karmic retribution. Stated another way, good deeds will be rewarded with good, while evildoings will meet due retribution. Articles such as this one are meant as a compassionate reminder of this principle to those who would commit wrongdoing. While many of those who persecute Falun Gong are merely "following orders," the universal law requires that they, too, be held responsible for their actions, and that only by reversing their course of wrongdoing may they escape retribution.]

Wu Xizhi, a 38-year-old policeman, was the head of Xima Town Police Station in Xishui County, Hebei Province. On the morning of June 19, 2004, when he was fishing in the Fine Fishing Pool near the Xishui Railway Station, he was killed by an electric shock.

Since July 20, 1999, Wu Xizhi had followed closely the Jiang regime in the persecution of Dafa and Dafa practitioners. As a result, many practitioners' personal belongings and homes were confiscated and they were fined or detained. In early 2004, Dafa practitioner Liu Zhongyang, a retired employee from Xishui County Motor Vehicle Transportation Company, died as a result of the persecution led by Wu Xizhi.

Liu Xiaobo was the party secretary of Dengshibu Town. Since July 20, 1999, he had been persecuting Dafa, and he had fostered a deep hatred towards Dafa practitioners who went to Beijing to appeal. In the winter of 1999, he directly led more than 30 town government officers to confiscate the corn from Dafa practitioners who had been to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong or who were determined to continue to practice. For those who did not have corn, he confiscated farm equipment. He forced the sale of the corn, and obtained 3000 Yuan. He then used the money for his own personal use. In April 2000, Faku County Detention Center sent back the practitioners who had been to Beijing. Liu Xiaobo insisted on not accepting them back into his district. Later, after having no choice but to take them back, he conducted a brainwashing "class" for two months to hold the practitioners. Liu Xiaobo sent Dafa practitioner Sun Defu to Masanjia Forced Labor Camp. Later, after listening to the guards' phony reports, he sent two Dafa practitioners to a detention center. In order to further persecute Dafa practitioners, he once framed them by asking his subordinates to plant truth-clarification materials in front of a Dafa practitioner's home. He then used that as evidence and arrested the Dafa practitioner. In Spring 2002, he illegally seized the car of Dafa practitioner Yan Jihui.

He was killed in a car accident on May 2, 2004. There were three people in the car when the car ran into a tree, but the other two were not injured.

Gao Min, male, 29 years old, was a resident in Longping Village of Nanqiang Town in Suining City. He had been participating in the persecution of Falun Dafa. He went for a vacation in 2003, claiming it was for "training." There was about 8 or 9 people with him. When their van was driving on a mountain, however, a rock suddenly fell down the slope. Gao Min, who was sitting in the van, was killed by the rock.

June 20, 2004

Falun Gong Practitioner Shot During Visit from Chinese Officials Known to Be Responsible for the Murder of Falun Gong Practitioners in China

Chinese officials Zeng Qinghong (left) and Bo Xilai (right) were visiting South Africa when a Falun Gong practitioner was shot in an unusual attack that is drawing international attention. Zeng and Bo are known to be responsible for murder and torture of Falun Gong practitioners in China.

Background

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 992 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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(Clearwisdom.net) The shooting of a Falun Gong practitioner in South Africa on June 28th prompted practitioners the world over to immediately raise their concerns that this was the latest and most disturbing example of the exportation of the persecution of Falun Gong outside of China. To raise their concerns with the public, the media and the South African authorities, practitioners in the UK went to South Africa House on the 1st of July where they held a press conference and handed out information to the public.

Speeches were given by Lord Thurlow, a representative of the Falun Gong Association and the Vice-Chairman of European Friends of Falun Gong. They put the shooting in South Africa in the context of an ongoing campaign of persecution outside of China which has included violence, harassment, phone-taps, interference in emails, death threats and wrongful arrests though serious disruption of political, democratic and diplomatic processes. The speakers also detailed the evidence surrounding the shooting which points at the involvement of the Jiang regime.

South Africa House is on the edge of London's famous Trafalgar Square. As the speeches were given at the end of the working day. Many people on their way home from work and many tourists took leaflets and listened. The large number of people waiting at the bus stop across the road could hear the speeches broadcast over a megaphone.

Asked what he would like the South African Government to do, a local practitioner called Edward commented, "I hope they thoroughly investigate this incident. I think they will find this is related to the visit of the Chinese Officials." As Lord Thurlow pointed out in his speech at the press conference, it cannot be coincidence that the victim of the shooting was involved with filing a lawsuit against two visiting Chinese dignitaries, that he knew no-one in South Africa, and that he was the only person in the car wearing anything to identify him as a Falun Gong practitioner and the only one shot.

Despite the horrific nature of the event, Edward does not think it will affect practitioners' determination to file future lawsuits against those who have instigated the persecution in China. "Practitioners in China step forward to appeal under the pressure of the persecution. Practitioners around the world have the same determination to expose the persecution. I think that this incident will only serve to expose the overseas persecution, and to show people how desperate they are to cover up what has been going on in China."

Speech by the Vice-Chairman of European Friends of Falun Gong
Appealing opposite the Chinese Embassy

Source: http://clearharmony.net/articles/200407/20596.html

(Clearwisdom.net) After learning that Zeng Qinghong and Bo Xilai, who are playing an important role in the Jiang group's persecution of Falun Gong, hired thugs to shoot practitioners in South Africa, extending the terrorist violence against Falun Gong practitioners in China to overseas, practitioners held a press conference on June 29th at the Chinese Embassy in Berlin, Germany.

They exposed the Jiang group's persecution of overseas Falun Gong practitioners and called on all governments, media and kind-hearted people to condemn the Jiang group's crimes and the hiring of thugs to shoot and injure practitioners.

Practitioners participating in the press conference were interviewed by German radio stations and a TV channel.

Source: http://clearharmony.net/articles/200407/20583.html

(Clearwisdom.net) After hearing that Jiang's accomplice Zeng Qinghong, who has played a big role in the campaign of genocide waged against Falun Dafa in China over the last 5 years, had visited South Africa and been involved in hiring thugs to shoot Dafa practitioners who were to file a lawsuit against him, Irish practitioners held a peaceful appeal outside of the Chinese Embassy. The appeal lasted two days, starting on the 29th of June and ending with a press conference on the afternoon of the 30th. The practitioners hoped to let more members of the public know about Jiang's campaign of state terrorism in China and his attempts to export this persecution to the west. They called for the international community to join them in calling for an end to the crimes against humanity committed by Jiang and his regime.

Zhao Ming, a graduate of Trinity College in Dublin who was imprisoned in slave labor camps for 2 years where he suffered torture and ill treatment because he refused to renounce his belief in Falun Gong, said the following to a journalist at the press conference: "The recent shooting of Falun Gong practitioners that happened in South Africa fully exposed the sharp contrast between Falun Gong practitioners' peaceful resilience and the violence of Jiang's gangster regime who persecute Falun Gong. Actually when I was in China I saw a lot of this kind of thing. At labor camps and prisons, police widely use the criminals and hooligans to persecute Falun Gong practitioners and to put them under surveillance. Once I was beaten by ten prisoners in Tuanhe Labor Camp and this was instigated by a police officer who gave the order to a well-known gangster who then asked other prisoners to do it."

Zhao Ming continued, "Shooting Falun Gong practitioners has happened many times in China. Policeman in many areas have revealed one of their secret orders: It is permitted to shoot Falun Gong practitioners who are seen posting leaflets. The police from certain areas extorted confessions by cruel torture after they shot Falun Gong practitioners. They forced them to falsely "confess" that they attacked the police. They use this way to shirk their responsibility. Therefore, the shooting of Falun Gong practitioners in South Africa has indicated that Jiang's regime have spread their acts of state terrorism overseas. The international community should all be concerned about this kind of issue, condemn this act and not allow this kind of terrorism to happen again."

Source: http://clearharmony.net/articles/200407/20584.html

(Clearwisdom.net) Upon learning about the incident in which Australian Falun Gong practitioners were shot during Zeng Qinghong's visit to South Africa, Falun Gong practitioners in Japan gathered in front of the Chinese Embassy at noon on June 29, 2004 to condemn the Jiang group's terrorists acts. Practitioners unfurled banners facing to the Chinese Embassy with the words, "Falun Dafa is great" and "Bring Jiang Zemin to Justice". The activity lasted until 10 pm. On June 30, practitioners unfurled a banner with the words, "Zeng Qinghong hired gunmen to shoot Falun Gong practitioners." Some practitioners from Australia also joined the activity. On July 1, practitioners continued their appeal to strongly condemn the Jiang group's state-terrorism.

The South Africa shooting incident was the first malicious case in which Falun Gong practitioners were shot outside of China. It was an obvious act of international terrorism. We call upon all people who have a sense of justice as well as governments and media to pay attention to this incident, and work together with us to investigate and expose this crime.

(Clearwisdom.net) On the afternoon of July 3, 2004, practitioners in Lima, Peru gathered outside the Chinese Embassy to strongly condemn Jiang and Luo's group hiring gunmen in South Africa to shoot Falun Gong practitioners who went there to peacefully appeal. Practitioners explained the situation to the police officer who was on duty at the embassy gate. The officer said to the practitioners sincerely, "Don't worry, we'll protect you here!"

Practitioners in Peru gather outside the Chinese Consulate, condemning Jiang's group's hiring gunmen to shoot Falun Gong practitioners

(Clearwisdom.net) Clearwisdom.net correspondents Zheng Ziyan and Xiao Yan report from Montreal …quot; On the afternoon of July 3, 2004, practitioners rallied in Montreal's Chinatown to expose the Jiang group's crime of hiring gunmen to shoot Falun Gong practitioners during Zeng Qinghong's state visit to South Africa. They condemned this act of state-terrorism and called upon the public to be vigilant towards these kinds of crimes and their threat to Canada as well as the international community.

Calling upon the public to be vigilant towards the threat of state-terrorism to Canada and the international community

People are shocked by the facts

The people learn the truth of the persecution

This incident has shocked the public. Looking at the Australian practitioner's injured feet in the photos, many people covered their mouths with their hands and silently read the descriptions on the posters. Later, most people signed the petition condemning the Jiang group's atrocities. They expressed their support for using the legal system in Canada to sue the chief perpetrator, Jiang Zemin, the "610 Office", and those responsible in China's labor camps who participate in torturing Falun Gong practitioners.

A practitioner said at the rally, "In order to suppress Falun Gong, the Jiang group does not hesitate to apply state-terrorism and export it to other countries. This is not only a persecution of Falun Gong, but it is also a threat to the entire world. If the international community fails to pay attention to this terrorist act against Falun Gong practitioners who follow the principles of Truthfulness-Compassion-Tolerance, the evil will inevitably be emboldened and all people will live in terror.

A professional photographer who fled China with his parents about 40 years ago said, "I know the Party (CCP). They have always been lying. I know about their persecution of Falun Gong." He said that his father, who taught economics, was forced to flee China because he would not give up his independent thinking and did not want to lie in accordance with the Chinese authorities' requirement.

Upon learning that the Jiang group would even hired hit men to kill people overseas, and widely spread hate towards Falun Gong in China, a gentleman said after signing the petition, "They probably would try to do the same thing in Canada in the future as they have done in South Africa."

A practitioner said, "All the people were friendly. Chinese people were too. They quietly read the posters and then took the truth-clarifying materials." One lady said, "Upon learning that the Jiang group hired gunmen to kill Falun Gong practitioners, there are more Chinese people than ever taking the truth-clarifying materials."

A 40-year-old Chinese gentleman spent a lot of time reading through the truth-clarifying materials and returned the literature to Falun Gong practitioners, saying, "I read it through and would like to return this to you. I don't want to waste your materials."

Because a public activity was held near Chinatown, a large number of western and Chinese people passed by. During the 3-hour rally, thousands of people learned about this terrorist act and the facts about Falun Dafa.

The Epoch Times

Jul 05, 2004

WASHINGTON, DC …quot; As tourists and locals prepared to celebrate Independence Day in the nation's capital, more than 100 Falun Gong practitioners, pro-democracy advocates, human rights activists and others gathered in front of the White House this weekend to call for an end to what some described as "state-run terrorism" by the Chinese government.

The rally was quickly organized by the Global Coalition to Bring Jiang to Justice (GCBJJ), the World Organization to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong (WOIPFG), and the Press Freedom and Human Rights League (PFHRL) following last week's drive-by shooting of a Falun Gong practitioner in South Africa.

David Liang was driving to Pretoria with other Australian practitioners when he noticed a white BMW following them. A passenger in the car fired several shots from an AK-47 at Mr. Liang and his group, disabling the car and leaving Mr. Liang with serious injuries to both feet. The Australians were headed to a press conference where they were expected to announce a lawsuit against Vice President Zeng Qinghong who was visiting South Africa with China's Minister of Commerce Bo Xilai. Falun Gong practitioners contend that the Chinese officials are behind the attack. They have responded with press conferences, rallies, appeals to world leaders and other activities to call attention to the shooting.

"The terrorism from Jiang's group and its challenge to justice, to peace and democracy is not something that can't be seen or touched; it has already touched upon our life and it fills this world and has even deeply influenced our mind," said Li Dayong, a representative of GCBJJ who traveled from Boston to attend the rally.

Representatives from the Free China Movement and the China Support Network were also among the rally speakers. "The shooting of a Falun Gong practitioner in South Africa in front of the world shocked the whole of humanity into realizing that the state terrorism of the Chinese communist regime is real, and is extending outside the borders of the PRC, said Lian Shengde, executive director of the Free China Movement.

John Kusumi, who heads the China Support Network, likened China's crackdown on the Falun Gong movement to 1989's Tiananmen Square Massacre and described a secret Chinese government order issued in 2002. "The directive said that to better welcome the Olympics, that they were ordering a crackdown against Falun Gong, with specific measures that violate their human rights," Mr. Kusumi said.

"Imagine if you will, a T-shirt that says, ˜I survived the Cultural Revolution, Tiananmen Square, and the Olympic Crackdown!'" he continued.

Mr. Kusumi suggested that after Saddam Hussein is put on trial, former Chinese President Jiang Zemin should be the next dictator brought to justice.

Sixteen-year-old Pedals for Peace spokesman Brian Nieh was joined at the rally by others who rode bicycles from Washington, DC to Chicago, Illinois in May. The group formed to raise awareness about the plight of the 14 million children whose parents practice Falun Gong in China. "Imagine, being beaten, denied of your education, orphaned, tortured, even killed, just because you practice Falun Gong, just because you follow 'Truthfulness Compassion Tolerance,' just because you want to be a good person," he said.

http://english.epochtimes.com/news/4-7-5/22295.html

A rally consisting of seven supporters of the Chinese spiritual movement Falun Dafa (also known as Falun Gong) was held in the Siberian city of Irkutsk on Tuesday.

The rally members who gathered near the building of the Irkutsk region administration protested against the interdiction of the movement in China that violates China's Constitution and international human rights standards, Regions.ru website reported. They said that the Irkutsk center of Falun Dafa had brought a suit against the Chinese consul general in Russia, He Goan. A rally member, Nadezhda Lai, quoted by the website, said that the consul had made threats of reprisals towards the supporters of the movement.

The Falun Dafa supporters demand the authorities to condemn the activities of China and, personally, of the former leader of the Communist Party of China, Jiang Zeming.

[...]

http://www.mosnews.com/news/2004/07/06/falun.shtml

(Clearwisdom.net) Zhang Yufang, female, 60, is a retired official of the Lingwu City Epidemic-Prevention Station in Ningxia Province. Because she continued to practice Falun Dafa, on February 21, 2002, she was illegally imprisoned in the Young Women's Labor Camp of Ningxia for two years.

During her term of "re-education through labor," Ms. Zhang was severely tortured, bringing great damage to both her body and spirit. Every day, she was forced to endure over ten hours of highly intensive work, which made her blood pressure gradually increase.

The labor camp brainwashes Dafa practitioners who are illegally imprisoned. The brainwashing is done in three stages: In the first stage, practitioners are totally isolated for up to one month. They are imprisoned in monitored rooms and watched 24 hours a day. They are also forced to read brainwashing material, and make notes about their "understanding" and thoughts on the materials. The second stage is a semi-isolated type, which takes about one month. The guards force practitioners to watch video programs that slander Falun Dafa and write their "understandings" every day. The third stage is the stage of "solidification." They try to force practitioners to write the so-called "three letters (1)"; they threaten practitioners with increased prison terms etc., and force practitioners to report on and expose other practitioners who are determined in practicing Falun Dafa. Under such pressure against her body and spirit, Ms. Zhang's blood pressure elevated to over 200, which finally led her to have a stroke. She had to lie down in bed for five days. She could eat only when other practitioners fed her. She was unable to feed herself. Finally, she was sent to the armed police hospital. She stayed in the hospital for one day and one night, and then she was sent back to the labor camp without receiving any treatment for her condition. The guards tried to force her to criticize Falun Gong and its practitioners, and they insulted Teacher. In addition, she was forced to stand up even though she was deathly sick. When she stood up, she fell down and became unconscious. It was a week before they informed her family members. On April 10, 2003, when she was sent to a hospital, she was in a coma and her appearance had changed beyond recognition. She received treatment in a municipal hospital for a month. Half of her body was paralyzed. The police officers who persecuted her were Zhang Xiaoyan and Ma Li.

Ms. Zhang's husband Xu Yaozhen (A Dafa practitioner) was illegally imprisoned in Baitugang Labor Camp in Ningxia, and her daughter Xu Yan (also a Dafa practitioner) was forced to live in exile to avoid arrest. Later on, when Xu Yan found out that her mother was hospitalized, she came back and took care of her. During this time, Commissar Ma hypocritically went to the hospital, and said solemnly to Ms. Zhang's daughter, "You should not leave. Your mother needs you. Take good care of her." At the time, SARS had begun to run rampant. The hospital could not allow her to stay. Ms. Zhang was asked to leave the hospital, so Xu Yan took care of her disabled mother at home.

On August 23, 2003, several police arrested Xu Yan at her home and sent her to a detention center. She was imprisoned there for over five months. After the 2004 Chinese spring festival, she was illegally sentenced to three years in prison. She is currently imprisoned in the Ningxia Women's Jail.

At present, one side of Ms Zhang's body is still paralyzed and she cannot take care of herself.

Phone numbers of some of the police at the Young Women's Labor Camp, Ningxia:

Ma Yan (the political commissar): 86-13995096968 (Cell)

Zhang Xiaoyan: 86-13014292531 (Cell), 86-951-4083712 (Home)

Ma Li: 86-951-8107655

The helpers team of the fourth squadron: 86-951-4074562 ext. 144

(1) The "Three Statements": Created by the "610 Office," they consist of a "Letter of Repentance" stating that one is remorseful for having practiced Falun Gong, a "Guarantee Statement" to never again practice Falun Gong, appeal, or distribute information about Falun Gong, and a "Dissociation Statement" to declare a dissociation with Falun Gong, which includes a list of names and addresses of all family members, friends and acquaintances who are practitioners.

6-13-2004

(Clearwisdom.net) Tumuji is a sparsely populated and poor farming area in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. The inhabitants are mainly relatives of policemen. The Tumuji Forced Labor Camp is located in Zhate Banner, Xingan League, (Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.) Since July 1999, there have been 11 confirmed deaths of Falun Gong practitioners due to persecution in Inner Mongolia, including Ms. Meng Guiying of Manzhouli City, who was tortured to death by police in the Public Security Department of Manzhouli on January 24, 2003. The following case tells how Dafa practitioner, Ms. Li Xiaqiu suffered a mental breakdown as a result of being brutally tortured.

Li Xiaqiu is a beautiful and kind girl. She lived in Manzhouli City, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. She was detained at the Tumuji Forced Labor Camp because she practiced Falun Gong. In the beginning of 2001, news continuously came out of the Tumuji labor camp about how practitioners who didn't give up practicing Falun Gong were tortured and injured in the female brigade. Police blocked the news and the abuse continued, so 71 practitioners being detained held a collective hunger strike, to demand that the persecution against them be ended. The labor camp did not respond positively to their protest. Their hunger strike was brutally suppressed, and the entire police force in the labor camp was mobilized in this effort The female brigade was full of police under order to apply "strict management" rules against Falun Gong practitioners, which meant that several police were would each practitioner in order to suppress them. Groups of police used electric batons to shock practitioners, slapped their faces, punched and kicked them, deprived them of sleep, forced them to run laps until physically exhausted and subjected individuals to beatings by groups of police. They tried to force Ms. Li Xiaqiu to sign a guarantee to eat food, but she refused. Police then used electric batons to shock her, screamed at her and gang-beat her.

Li Xiaqiu suffered a headache every day following the abuse. Her face became swollen and she could not sleep at night. During the day, policewoman Wang Guirong led some policemen to drag Li Xiaqiu from her bed to the floor, and kicked and yelled at Li. The police said, "There haven't been so many practitioners holding a hunger strike. Beijing knows it, and the entire world knows it. Someone posted it on the Internet." The police blamed Li Xiaqiu for taking the lead on this act and punished her by adding three months to her term. Li Xiaqiu wrote a letter asking them to reconsider the decision. In response, police in the brigade took her to their office to threaten her. To this day, no one knows if Li Xiaqiu's letter was ever sent to the procuratorate of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region or not. Li Xiaqiu was getting weaker. She had difficulty walking. Her pulse was less than 50 beats per minute. She often spit out mouthfuls of blood, had a very bad headache, and her entire body was swollen. Sometimes, she faded in and out of consciousness. But her suffering didn't end there. Policewomen Luo Jinfang, Na Renhua, Yang Jie, and LiuXX forced her to do labor. They dragged her out every day. While others worked in the field, Li Xiaqiu could only lie there, exposed to the wind and baking sun, with bugs crawling over her. She could not eat anything. Police and a nurse named Li force-fed her. Given Li Xiaqiu's health condition, it was medically irresponsible to do this force-feeding. However, the authorities used this force-feeding as a form of torture, and ignored Li Xiaqiu's weak moans of pain.

In the face of persecution and torture, Li Xiaqiu asked to talk with the heads of the labor camp. Police in the brigade would not allow it, and claimed that Li was pretending to have health problems. Finally, they had to send Li to a hospital for an examination but they concealed it and did not report the results. According to one doctor, considering that Li Xiaqiu was only in her thirties, her hypertension was very serious. Her heart also developed serious problems making it impossible in the future for her to care for herself or be able to stand or walk without assistance. According to the labor camp regulations, someone with a health condition like hers should have been given medical parole and sent home for treatment. Li Xiaqiu is not a criminal, but she suffered in this evil place for over two years. They did not release her until she suffered a mental breakdown from the torture and her weakened physical condition. Her current situation is unknown. Li Xiaqiu is not the only Falun Dafa practitioner that is tortured in the Tumuji Forced Labor Camp.

Those who are responsible at the Tumuji Forced Labor Camp:

Director: Guan Heping
Deputy director: Jiao Fuyou
Female brigade:
Head: Guo Ying: 86-482-6710232 (office), 86-13048210000 (cell), and 86-13030436700 (cell)
Political director: Jia Mei: 86-13847986086 (cell), 86-13030446856 (cell)
Deputy head: Zhou Guoling: 86-13847986036 (cell), 86-13190958178 (cell)
Deputy head: Wang Hongxin: 86-13030446856 (cell), 86-13948216606 (cell)

Brainwashing program administrators:
Secretary: Di Fenghua: 86-13948286525 (cell), 86-13030436536 (cell)
Head: Li Aihua: 86-13948217536 (cell), 86-13190956780 (cell)
Head: Yin Guijuan (this person forced practitioners to do labor for extended hours)
Li Xiaodong (male): this person is malicious.

June 19, 2004

(Clearwisdom.net)

In this torture, the victim's hands are handcuffed and the feet are shackled.

Number 1 shows the handcuffs. There are two rings that are connected by a 15-cm-long chain. Once the hands are put into the rings, screws secure the rings so that the hands cannot be taken out.

Number 2 shows the shackles. The two smaller rings on both ends are used to secure the victim's feet. Three bigger oval rings, each 30-cm-long, 20-cm-wide, and 5-cm-thick, connect the two smaller rings on both ends. Once the feet are put into the smaller rings, the rings are secured by screws so that the feet cannot be taken out.

Number 3 shows the ground ring. This ring is secured to the ground. Then the handcuffs, shackles and the ground ring are tied together to a lock on the floor. Under such torture, the victim can only sit and is unable to lie down. The police often lock practitioners this way for several days straight. If the practitioners wanted to use the bathroom or eat meals, they would need other people's help. In the winter time, the victim is not allowed to wear warm clothes.

Normally many people would collapse under such torture in no more than two weeks.

(Clearwisdom.net)

Part 1: http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2004/7/6/49931.html

Some people think the brutal beating and torture of Falun Gong practitioners are isolated, special cases that only happen at the hands of certain vicious-natured police officers. People who live in Beijing have seen and heard too much of the Falun Gong-slandering propaganda from both the television and the radio, and neither do they want to probe the brutality behind the propaganda. Nonetheless, crimes are being committed in the capital city of China, regardless of the people's knowledge or will.

Since July 20, 1999, due to its special role in China, Beijing is the city where the persecution first began. In the past nearly five years, a number of city officials have followed Jiang's decrees in not only persecuting Falun Gong practitioners from Beijing but also practitioners from all over China who go to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong. Jiang's group shamelessly claims that China is "ruled by law," while these people constantly order the escalation of this illegal persecution. They also threaten those people who have inside information on the persecution, pressuring them to tell the same fraudulent stories to the public in order to cover up the truth and deceive the people in Beijing and around the world.

1. Violence on Tiananmen Square in broad daylight
2. Female Falun Gong practitioner killed under the national flag
3. Brutality in the Tiananmen Square Police Department
4. Bloody atrocities in police stations and detention centers
5. Persecution of Falun Gong practitioners by local liaison offices in Beijing

Falun Gong practitioners who exercised their constitutional rights and went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Dafa encountered all kinds of interference from the authorities. Under threat of demotion and punishment, local officials would intercept the practitioners at train stations and major intersections. They even forced all travelers to curse Falun Gong and those who refused to comply were considered to be Falun Gong practitioners. Their money and belongings would be taken away and they would be detained and escorted back to their hometown where they would be subjected to intense reprisals. Many Falun Gong practitioners were forced to leave home because they were constantly facing threats, harassment, fines, detention, torture, brainwashing and other unconstitutional abuses. Some practitioners abandoned all forms of public transportation and resorted to walking or riding bicycles for up to hundreds of kilometers to go to Beijing to appeal, in order to avoid being intercepted at train stations, on planes and buses.

Beijing police officers have commandeered important locations and tourist attractions including Zhongnanhai, Tiananmen Square, Qianmen and others, where they would force tourists to curse Falun Gong and its founder. Many hotels dare not accept Falun Gong practitioners for fear of being implicated as supporting Falun Gong. The Government Appeals Office is the "window" for detention centers, where practitioners, after they have registered their names and addresses, would be sent back to their hometown for persecution before they could even officially state their appeal. Tiananmen Square became a training ground for the plainclothes agents, police and military police, where they openly beat Falun Gong practitioners. They arrest practitioners and send them to detention centers and police stations. Those practitioners who refuse to give their names and addresses are beaten, tortured and sometimes sexually assaulted. Practitioners would often suffer another round of physical and mental abuse in the Beijing liaison offices of their home cities. Torture deaths of Falun Gong practitioners have been reported from Tiananmen Square, from police stations, liaison offices and detention centers. Below are only a few examples of persecution that Falun Gong practitioners have suffered in Beijing.

Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Zhao Shujing, 51 years old at the time, was retired and lived in the Shijingshan District of Beijing. At around 2:00 p.m. on November 18, 2000, she went to Tiananmen Square by herself to clarify the truth about Falun Gong to the public. A group of plainclothes policemen captured her and took turns beating and kicking her, causing her to lose consciousness right on Tiananmen Square. By the time she had regained consciousness, she was already in a police van. Her nose and her mouth were bleeding. There was blood everywhere -- on her entire body, her clothes and on the floor of the police van. When Zhao Shujing was dragged to the Tiananmen Detention Center, even the staff members there could not bear to look at her terrible condition and asked a policeman from her neighborhood to take her back, but the neighborhood policeman refused to take her back because of her severe injuries. By 8:00 or 9:00 p.m., the detention center told Ms. Zhao to go home. When we met Zhao Shujing five days after she was beaten, her right eye was still swollen and bloodshot, the right side of her face was swollen, her skin was black and purple, and she had a one-inch-long cut inside her upper lip. The bridge of her nose was swollen and her right shoulder was dislocated and was dark purple.

According to inside information, the police in Beijing also hire common thugs to beat up Falun Gong practitioners. On the afternoon of December 31, 2000, a Beijing practitioner went to Tiananmen Square. As soon as he got there, before he did or said anything, the police came over and questioned him point blank if he was going to continue to practice Falun Gong. The practitioner said yes. As soon as he said that, the police immediately hit him on the head with an electric baton, causing a large bump. They then pushed the practitioner into a police van and drove to the front gate of the Tiananmen Police Department. A policeman came out and handed 400 Yuan, easily 2 weeks' pay for an average policeman, to each of the six or seven policemen in the van and said, "Here is your reward for arresting Falun Gong practitioners. You guys worked really hard." [Note: Yuan is the Chinese currency; 500 Yuan is the average monthly income for an urban worker in China.] After receiving the reward money, the police then drove the practitioner to Beijing's Haidian District Detention Center.

According to a Clearwisdom.net report on December 15, 2000, a resident of Tongzhou, Beijing was with her eleven-year-old son when she witnessed perpetrators beating Falun Gong practitioners in Tiananmen Square. Her son recognized one of the perpetrators as their former neighbor who had been sentenced to jail for rape and burglary several years ago. This woman was shocked by her son's words and walked up to take a closer look at the perpetrator. She saw for herself that it was indeed that convicted criminal.

A Falun Gong practitioner saw police officers beating three young female Falun Dafa practitioners. They dragged the young women by their hair to the van, using such violence that two hanks of hair were pulled out by the roots.

One witness described how on December 14, 2000, when a practitioner unfurled a banner, a man clad in black immediately rushed toward the practitioner and kicked him to the ground with a flying kick. That man's badge number was 051625. Another man in black was inspecting a foreigner tourist's camcorder and ordered him to erase what he had just recorded. A military policeman said to the man in black, "Have you taken away the 12 practitioners captured earlier?"

Another witness described what he saw in Tiananmen Square around 10:40 a.m. on December 26, 2001: police officers from Division 19 of the Beijing Police Department brutally beat a Falun Gong practitioner. The witness saw an open wound more than two inches long on the back of the practitioner's head, oozing blood. Another practitioner's face was deformed from beating, and a male practitioner in his 30s was beaten until his face and mouth were covered in blood.

On January 1, 2001, Tiananmen Square was filled with all kinds of police vehicles, and buses were there to take away Falun Gong practitioners. The police officers beat practitioners. They pinned a female student to the ground and stomped on her head and face with their heavy boots. Whenever a practitioner shouted, "Falun Dafa is great," four or five police officers would run up to him and beat him to the ground, push him into a police vehicle, and then the street cleaners would come and wash away the blood from the pavement. Other than the police officers who chased and beat Falun Gong practitioners, there were also personnel who directed police cars, blocked curious passers-by from getting too close and witnessing the violence, and snatched cameras from people who took pictures of these brutalities. A Japanese student from People's University took pictures of Falun Gong practitioners being beaten at the Jinshui Bridge. The police requested the negatives. He refused to hand them over, which resulted in him being taken to Division 5 of the Tiananmen Police Department. Major media from Europe, Australia and other parts of Asia, including AFP and AP, have all documented and reported these atrocities committed in Tiananmen Square.

At approximately 10:30 a.m. on January 1, 2001, a Dafa practitioner was killed at the National Flag Podium in Tiananmen Square. At the east side of the podium, a female practitioner who was about 30 years old, wearing a red alpine jacket and jeans, unfurled a yellow banner reading "Falun Dafa is Great" while loudly saying "Falun Dafa is great!" A national flag security guard immediately ran up to her and kicked her very hard. The practitioner fell on her back. Her back hit a fence post and she died instantly, with her head resting on a chain.

Seeing this incident, the plainclothes police and security guards dispersed the people in the vicinity, fearing the incident would be made public. A police van came within seconds. A plainclothes police officer was heard reporting on a walkie-talkie, "I don't know what happened. But before the van came to the scene, she had already died. Her legs are inside the fence but her head is outside the fence..." A girl about 10 years old standing beside the fence was shocked by the incident. When the police had dispersed all of the adults, the little girl was left at the scene. The guard who had killed the practitioner was replaced before his shift was over.

Falun Gong practitioners who were beaten and arrested in Tiananmen Square were first sent to the Tiananmen Square Police Department located in a small alley at the southeast corner of Tiananmen Square. Below are eyewitness accounts of what happened at the police department:

At the police department, the officers beat, kicked and slapped the practitioners in the face. They handcuffed some practitioners and threw them in a basement, where hundreds of people were held. The people detained in that room could hardly move. They were not allowed to talk to each other or to use the restroom and they were not given any water. If they talked they would be dragged out and beaten, thrown outside in the heat of summer, or doused with cold water in the winter.

Arrested practitioners were also held in the backyard, which is in fact a narrow alley about ten meters long and two meters wide (approximately 32x12 feet) that is blocked off by two metal doors at each end. Practitioners were called out one by one. They were taken to the basement or a small room on the second floor to be savagely beaten with fists and rubber clubs and shocked with electric batons. Oftentimes several police officers beat one practitioner and would not stop until they were exhausted.

A stocky female practitioner around 30 years of age was savagely beaten. Before long the perpetrators beat her again. They took a break then beat her again. After a very long time, when this practitioner returned to the courtyard, her face was as white as a sheet, her lips were black and blue and she could hardly breathe. She held onto the gate and dragged her legs that barely moved. Soon after, the thugs returned and took her back to the small room for the fourth time.

An elderly woman in her 60s was also brought in. She was stout, robust and quick moving. She was calm and smiling when she entered the courtyard, but the perpetrators didn't spare her. This practitioner was unconscious when she was pushed out of the small room.

All Falun Gong practitioners who were arrested, including old people, young people, young mothers with children, workers, farmers, students and officials were savagely beaten.

Sometimes heart-wrenching screams were heard from those small rooms, and the smell of burned skin permeated the air.

One witness saw a Falun Gong practitioner's fingers being chopped off at the Tiananmen Police Department on December 29, 2000: "A police officer hit a male Falun Gong practitioner (in his 30s, about 5 ft 10 in tall) on the face and head. He dragged the practitioner into a room in the front of the police bureau. About half an hour later this practitioner came back and said, 'They chopped off my fingers.' I saw he had only his thumbs left, and his hands were wrapped in cloth. At that time, his blood had soaked the cloth to a dark brown color. There were two purple blisters on his face from being beaten up and his mouth was bleeding as well. I could not believe the police officers here were capable of such cruelties."

A 52 year-old male practitioner from Hebei Province was taken to the Tiananmen Police Department where he was assaulted because he refused to reveal his name and address. The police beat him on his back and his lower body continuously for three days. He received no water or food, only severe beatings. Also, a policeman stepped on his hand and ground it against the floor, which left a two-inch-long abrasion. Days later he was still unable to lift his swollen hand (see photograph). Finally, towards the end of his torture he was given an injection. Then he lost consciousness. When the practitioner regained consciousness he realized that he was in an emergency center in Beijing.

On January 22, 2001, when the practitioner was taken back by policemen from his hometown, he had become so weak that he was barely able to breathe and was only able to drink a small amount of water. Afraid of being blamed for his death, the local police asked his family to carry him home and also demanded nearly 2,000 Yuan [about four months' salary of an averaged worker in cities of China] to release him. These photographs were taken on Jan 25, 2001, the third day after his release. They are solid proof of the deplorable acts of violence those vicious policemen have committed.

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Foreign journalists have widely reported the police violence against Falun Gong practitioners on Tiananmen Square. To avoid further exposure, the police have adopted new tactics to suppress Falun Gong practitioners who go to Tiananmen Square to defend the righteousness of Falun Dafa.

The new strategy is as follows: plainclothes agents pretend to be street vendors. Once they noticed people who looked like practitioners, they would inform hired thugs on the Square to rob the practitioners of their belongings, to stir up trouble. Then the police would come and take both the practitioners and the thugs onto the police vans, pretending to keep order. Once inside the vans, the thugs and the police would beat practitioners in the police vans.

Because so many practitioners were arrested for appealing in Beijing, the Beijing police were forced to send the practitioners to different Beijing police stations and detention centers. The following are examples of the atrocities committed at these places:

Sun Jihong (male), employee of the Huanan County Forestry Bureau, Jiamusi City, Heilongjiang Province, was arrested and taken to the Fengtai Police Department on September 25, 2002. He was beaten to death four days later on September 29. According to inside sources, Sun Jihong was tortured to death. At the time of his death his face was badly deformed and looked terrible. There were three holes on the left side of his face and three burn marks on the right side. There were also scars from burnings between his eyebrows and his chin, and there was a deep cut on his left eyebrow. He had scars and wounds all over his body. The police had put lots of facial powder on Mr. Sun's face when the family went to see his body, and his family could not recognize him. They pleaded with the police to remove the powder and then they finally recognized him.

Wang Xiuying lived at Nankantou Street, Daowai District, Harbin City. Ms. Wang was arrested on May 13, 2000 and was detained in the Jiaomen Detention Center, Chongwen District, Beijing. During her detention, she and other detained practitioners made requests to the detention center which included allowing practitioners to continue to study and practice Falun Gong, as well as the unconditional release of all detained practitioners. Then they went on a hunger strike. In response, the guards ordered force-feeding with highly concentration saline solution. Wang Xiuying had been forced-fed six times, five times of those with the saline solution, which put her in a state of severe dehydration and loss of consciousness. She died at 7:00 p.m. on May 22, after failed emergency treatment.

Liu Yucai, 60, a doctor in private practice from Panshi City, Jilin Province was beaten to death at the Chaoyang District Detention Center after being detained during a Falun Gong appeal on Tiananmen Square on October 1, China's National Day. Liu Yucai's family was informed of his "sudden death from a heart attack" on October 5. However his family noticed heavy wounds on his neck and the sides of his body. Dr. Liu was cremated on October 6.

A Falun Gong practitioner saw fellow practitioners being shocked with electric batons at Liangxiang Police Station in the Fengtai District, Beijing, in January 2001: "A police officer repeatedly shocked a female practitioner's hands, face, mouth and thighs until he was tired, and then rested for 15 minutes. When he started up again, he viciously held the electric baton and tried to force her to tell him her name and address. The practitioner again refused to comply. He became angry and ordered another young policeman to bring her in into the hallway, about ten feet away from me. He took off her shoes and handcuffed her to the radiator pipes. They then started torturing her. They shocked her hands, mouth and face until the baton sparked and made noise. The practitioner still refused to say anything. They angrily changed to another, larger electric baton and shocked her legs and toes. By then, another vicious policeman arrived. He threw away her shoes and continued to shock and torture her."

A Falun Gong practitioner in Liaoning Province wrote to Minghui.net in July 2001 and exposed a police officer named Ma Zengyong who had barbarously beaten and sexually assaulted female Falun Gong practitioners in early December 2000. In his article this practitioner revealed that two female Falun Gong practitioners who were beaten and sexually abused were sent to the Chongwen District Detention Center on December 10, 2000. The guards at the detention center saw that the practitioners' faces were heavily injured and were unwilling to take the responsibility, so they told the police officers from Beijing's Qianmen Police Station to take them to a hospital for a physical exam. The two practitioners were taken to Bo Ai Hospital in Beijing. The hospital staff was shocked when they saw the practitioners' condition. Their bodies were covered with black and blue bruises. The perpetrators later sent them back to the Chongwen District Detention Center.

A female Falun Gong practitioner was arrested in Tiananmen Square on December 1, 2000 and refused to give her name and address. She was first locked in a cage in the basement of the Tianamen Square Police Station and was later sent to the Haidian District Detention Center in northwestern rural Beijing. On the second day of her detention she began a hunger strike. The practitioner described her experience at the detention center:

"The male guards force-fed me after they learned that I was on a hunger strike, and the female guards hurled insults at me. The male guards tied me to a metal bed; seven or eight of them pinned me down and put a tube through my nose into my stomach. What they fed me smelled like medicine. The guards violently wrenched my kneecap and I shook in pain. I felt as if I was about to break into pieces. Another female practitioner's hands and feet were shackled together, her head was deformed from being beaten, and the guards put a thick cotton hat on her with only her eyes exposed. She could suffocate at any time. The handcuffs and shackles cut into her flesh and blood dripped from her wrists and ankles. She asked to go to the restroom, but the inmates who were monitoring her said she was not allowed go without reporting to an authority figure. One inmate ordered a tall inmate to step on her stomach. She screamed from pain. A guard walked over to investigate, but he left without saying a word when he saw it was a Falun Gong practitioner being tortured. They force-fed her every day. We were force-fed nine times and suffered all kinds of additional tortures. Twenty-four days later we left Haidian Detention Center with the power of righteous belief in Dafa."

The following facts also provide evidence of the brutality at the Haidian Detention Center:

A female practitioner was arrested and detained at the Haidian Detention Center on December 29, 2000. She was interrogated in Room 301 by three police officers (two males and one female). She was severely beaten many times during the interrogation. At one point, the female police officer forced her to take off her sweater, leaving her only wearing an undergarment. They shocked her whole body with electric batons, and three times she fell to the ground. They ordered the practitioner to get up and continued to shock her. Later another male interrogator came and shocked her. She fell to the ground and they punched and kicked her hard. This interrogation lasted more than four hours. Because she refused to cooperate in their forced-feeding, the guards handcuffed her hands and put her in shackles. The guards ordered the common criminal inmates to beat her day and night. The practitioner was locked in Cell 402. The head of the cell beat her up almost every day and acted in a despicable manner towards her.

Another practitioner was taken away from her cell (Cell 112) on January 3, 2001 for interrogation and was not brought back until late at night. Her hands, arms, legs and feet were all black and blue. Her ribs and back were covered with wounds. The next day the guards took her away to the hospital and no one has heard from her since.

Many local governments or government agencies have liaison offices in Beijing. Some have their own buildings; some are located in hotels, and others are scattered in the city or nearby rural areas. Many Falun Gong practitioners who went to Beijing to appeal were first beaten by police officers on Tiananmen Square and then sent to liaison offices for another round of torture.

The most common forms of persecution and gross abuse at the liaison offices are monetary extortion and physical torment. Some practitioners were tortured to death at these liaison offices. Below is a Falun Gong practitioner's eyewitness account:

"In late 2000, a Falun Gong practitioner from Shuangyashan City, Heilongjiang Province went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Dafa and was first detained in the Tiananmen Square Police Department, then at the Shahe Detention Center and finally at the Changhe County Police Department Patrol Unit, where he suffered severe beatings. After he was forced to tell his name and address, they detained him in the basement of the Shuangyashan City Liaison Office in Beijing, next to the Zuogezhuang Market. The basement was full of detained practitioners of all ages, both male and female. All those people were held together in a windowless space, not larger than 10 square meters (about 32 feet by 32 feet). Together with others, my wife, my 10-month old baby and I were detained in that same windowless room. We had to pay 45 Yuan for our 'luggage storage fee' and 45 Yuan every day for 'food and lodging.'"

Another Falun Gong practitioner detained there was an elderly woman who was living by herself on 100 Yuan a month. In June 2000, she borrowed 500 Yuan and went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Dafa. She was held at the Shuangyashan City Liaison Office in Beijing where a female police officer extorted 61 Yuan from her and then took more than 200 Yuan in cash from her. In the end the officer demanded 3,000 Yuan in "fines." An elderly woman practitioner whose last name is Zhou from Changsheng County was also extorted for 270 Yuan and was forced to pay a 3,000 Yuan "fine." She didn't have the money, so the officials didn't allow her family to pick her up. She ended up being detained at the office for 12 days and then was sent to a detention center and held for another 15 days. The police finally extorted the 3,000 Yuan from her.

In early 2001, several Dafa practitioners were arrested on Tiananmen Square and sent to the Beijing Liaison Office for Hubei Province. The police forcibly searched their bodies. Their main purpose was not to search for Dafa materials, but to look for money and valuable items. One practitioner only had a little over 100 Yuan. This dissatisfied the police. The police said, "Is this all you carry when you travel?" The police searched and took away sums of 200 Yuan and 300 Yuan from other practitioners.

The perpetrators at the Chengdu City Liaison Office in Beijing have hired thugs to interrogate and torture Falun Gong practitioners with all kinds of torture means. Witnesses say these perpetrators search the practitioners and rob them of their belongings. They also extort money from them with all kinds of excuses, and often withhold their food and water and deny them the use the restroom. They also verbally abuse practitioners and are especially brutal toward elderly practitioners.

Six elderly practitioners from the Chenghua District, Chengdu City, including Ms. Yang (57 years old), Ms. Wen (73 years old), Ms. Zhang (62 years old), Ms. Shi (57 years old), Mr. Yang (62 years old), and Ms. Mu (57 years old) went to Beijing to clarify the truth before the Chinese New Year 2000. They were arrested and robbed of all their cash at the liaison office. Fifty-seven-year-old Ms. Mu was beaten and kicked for doing the Falun Gong exercises and was handcuffed to a basketball post and not given food for a whole day.

Falun Gong practitioner Liu Zuokuan from the 512 Factory of Chengdu City went to Beijing to appeal and was sent to the Chengdu City Liaison Office in Beijing. He was brutally beaten for doing the Falun Gong exercises. His hands were handcuffed behind his back for such a lengthy period that he did not regain full use of his hands for a long time afterwards. Two young male practitioners were hung up on a large beam with their feet dangling in the air. A perpetrator beat them until one of the practitioner's eyeglasses broke. The broken glass cut his face and blood was all over his face. Another practitioner's arms went through a window and blood soaked his white shirt. The veins were bulging on the two practitioners' shackled hands and their arms were turning black. More than 30 practitioners were detained in a room less than 10 sq. meters (approximately 32 square feet) with poor air circulation in the heat of summer.

The Cangzhou City Police Department has an office in Beijing to arrest and send back practitioners from Cangzhou City. This office forced the relatives of arrested practitioners to pay them 2,000 Yuan for each practitioner. They also had the local police station inform the relatives and practitioners' work places to pick them up, and if they arrived late they would have to pay a fine of 200 Yuan for each extra day the practitioner was detained. The police also said that if they failed to pay the required money, the practitioner would be sent to a labor camp. When they came to the police department, the relatives found that many practitioners had injuries.

In December 1999, a nine-year-old boy who went to Beijing with his mother was handcuffed for more than four hours at the Shijiazhuang City Liaison Office in Beijing.

The Guangdong Province Liaison Office in Beijing is located in Lingnan Tower. A witness described the basement this way: "I was sent to the basement right after I entered the building. Several practitioners were already there, and some other practitioners were detained in other basement rooms. The room was extremely dark with no windows, only one room had a half-window and all the other rooms were pitch black. They didn't turn on the light, either. When the officers from our local police department came to pick us up, it was often two weeks later. We were guarded by security officers. If any practitioners held a hunger strike, the perpetrators would drag them out and beat them or make them freeze in the cold winter weather outside."

Falun Gong practitioner Wang Zhongcheng, director of the Office of the Bureau of Culture from the Fangcun District in Guangzhou City, went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong during the Chinese New Year in 2000. He was beaten up by many police officers from the Guangzhou Liaison Office and from the Public Security Ministry in Beijing. Later, Wang Zhongcheng was secretly sentenced to two years of forced labor and was sent to the Huadu Chini Labor Camp in Guangzhou City where he had to work 15 hours a day.

Police officer Sha from the Shiyan Liaison Office in Beijing stripped Falun Gong practitioners of their coats and shoes and made them stand barefoot on the ground in the winter. A witness said, "They beat the practitioners over and over again. The police officers themselves couldn't even remember how many times they struck the practitioners. The practitioners looked as if their bodies had been dyed black and blue and were covered with bumps... They handcuffed the practitioners together and when they released them, the handcuffs had cut into one practitioner's wrist so deeply that it was impossible to take them off even after trying for a long time."

In order to conceal the number of practitioners who went to Beijing to appeal from their local area, some liaison offices in Beijing buy registration lists of Falun Gong practitioners from the Beijing police for hundreds and even thousands of Yuan per list. Then they would extort the money from the practitioners they illegally detained. On April 26, 2000, Luo Haibin, an official from Hengyang City Police Department Liaison Office in Beijing picked up several practitioners from Hengyang City at the Tiananmen Police Department. On their way to the Hengyang City Liaison Office, Luo Haibin called the Hengyang City "610 Office" and said, "Today I bought several registration lists and each costs 1,500 Yuan." The practitioners were extorted for large sums of money to cover the expense of buying those lists.

Many among the more than 900 Falun Gong practitioners who have died from the persecution have died in liaison offices. The following are just several of these cases:

Three Falun Gong practitioners from Chongqing, including Li Guihua (47 years old, from Jiangbei Town, Jiangbei City), Xia Wei (female, 43, from Guanyinqiao, Jiangbei District) and Yu Xiangmei (female, around 35, from Changshou County) went to Beijing to appeal between September and October 1999. They were arrested in late October and November 1999 and died during their detention at the Chongqing City Liaison Office in Beijing. The police told their families to claim their bodies but admonished them to keep quiet about the deaths.

Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Lin Limei was from Boli County, Heilongjiang Province. She went to Beijing to appeal in mid-May 2000. She was detained at the Qitaihe Liason Office in Beijing and died from torture during detention. Lin Limei died with her hands handcuffed behind her back. Her body was facing up and she was impaled on top of an iron fence. Her death scene was horrifying to witness.

Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Wang Guoping was 40 years old and came from Shulan City in Jilin Province. He was arrested while appealing in Beijing. The police beat him using all kinds of torture instruments. He had been physically insulted many times, including being doused with cold water after having his clothes stripped off, and being pushed down into the pit toilets. On October 15, Mr. Wang was transferred to the Jilin Liaison Office in Beijing. At 3:00 a.m. October 17, he was forced to jump from the eighth floor of the building and fell to his death.

Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Cui Guoqing, 36 years old, lived in the Yongqiang Area, Changyi District, Jilin City. He traveled to Beijing to appeal on July 5, 2000 and unfurled a banner in Tiananmen Square on July 7. He was arrested and sent to Miyun County the evening of the same day. At around 10:00 a.m. on July 11, 2000 he was transferred to the Jilin Province Liaison Office in Beijing, where he was detained on the eighth floor. He was interrogated at 11:00 p.m. and he told other practitioners later that the police questioned him about other practitioners and demanded that he curse Falun Gong and Falun Gong's founder. When he refused, they beat him. He said, "How can a practitioner curse Dafa or Master?" Around 1:00 p.m. Mr. Cui was interrogated for the second time and never returned. His shoes and shoe pads were thrown outside the door of a room, but Cui Guoqing never returned.

Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Lu Shuqiu, about 46 years old, was from Jilin City, Jilin Province. In February 2002, her family received a notice stating that Lu Shuqiu had died in the Jilin City Police Department Liaison Office in Beijing. In the notice the police ordered her family to handle her funeral affairs.

Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Gu Jiahong, 27, was a boiler worker at the Third Division of the Fifth Engineering Department of the China Construction Company in Changsha, Hunan Province. In December 1999, he went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong. He was detained on the sixth floor of the Changsha Liaison Office in Beijing. In the early morning of December 8, he fell from the sixth floor and was found dead. Details of his death remain to be investigated.

Jilin Province Liaison Office, address: Qishengdayuan, Beitaipingzhuang, Haidian District, Beijing, 86-10-6201-1085

Shanghai Liaison Office, address: No 7 Qianzhai Hutong, Beichangjie, Xicheng District, Beijing, phone: 86-10-6605-7046

Tianjin City Liaison Office, address: No. 1 Xiaohuangzhuanglu, Xijie, Hepingli, Beijing, phone: 86-10-6423-7282

Chongqing City Liaison Office, address: No. 2 Xinzhongxijie, Dongcheng District, Beijing, phone: 86-10-6506-1182

Hebei Province Liaison Office, address: No. 1 Zhuiba Hutong, Huanghuamenjie, Dongcheng District, Beijing, phone: 86-10-6403-1304

Shanxi Province Liaison Office, address: No 16 Jingshanxijie, Xibanqiao, Xicheng District, Beijing, phone: 86-10-6401-4647

Neimengu Autonomous Region Liaison Office, address: No 47 Chongneidajie, Beijing, phone: 86-10-6524-3921

Liaoning Province Liaison Office: No 15 Maxianhutong, Dongdan, Beijing, phone: 86-10-6524-1409

Shandong Province Liaison Office: Qishengdayuan, Beitaipingzhuang, Haidian District, phone: 86-10-6201-1021

Zhejiang Province Liaison Office, address: Qishengdayuan, Beitaipingzhuang, Haidian District, phone: 86-10-6201-1037

Jiangxi Province Liaison Office, address: Qishengdayuan, Beitaipingzhuang, Haidian District, phone: 86-10-6201-1070

Hunan Province Liaison Office, address: Qishengdayuan, Beitaipingzhuang, Haidian District, phone: 86-10-6201-1077

Jiangsu Province Liaison Office, address: Jiangsu Hotel, Ganshuiqiao, Anwai Street, phone: 86-10-6422-4807

Anhui Province Liaison Office, address: No 1 Huixinxijie, Chaoyang District, phone: 86-10-6496-5588

Henan Province Liaison Office, address: No 28 Huaweili, Panjiayuan, Chaoyang District, Beijing, phone: 86-10-6775-1188

Hubei Province Liaison Office, address: No 44A Baishiqiao Road, Beijing, phone: 86-10-6217-2288

Guangxi Province Liaison Office, address: Building 6, Nanli, Shuanghuayuan, Dongsanhuan Mid-road, Beijing, phone: 86-10-6771-5603

Guangdong Province liaison Office, address: No. 36 Nanling Road, Xisanhuan, Beijing, phone: 86-10-6841-8097

Sichuan Province Liaison Office, address: No. 5 Gongyuantoutiao, Jiannei, Beijing, phone: 86-10-6512-2361

Guizhou City Liaison Office, address: Building 18 Yinghua Street, Hepingxiqiao, Beisanhuandonglu, Beijing, phone: 86-10-6442-6679

Yunnan Province Liaison Office, address: Building 8, Donghuashi Beili, Beijing, phone: 86-10-6711-3322

Xizang (Tibet) Autonomous Region Liaison Office, address: No 149, West Gulou Street, Xicheng District, Beijing, phone: 86-10-6401-9831

Shaanxi Province Liaison Office, address: No 17 Beisanhuan East Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing, phone: 86-10-6421-5714

Gansu Province Liaison Office, address: No 17 Beisanhuan East Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing, phone: 86-10-6422-3878

Qinghai Province Liaison Office, address: No 17 Beisanhuan East Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing, phone: 86-10-6442-7188

Ningxia Province Liaison Office, address: No 15 Fensiting Alley, Andingmennei Street, Chaoyang District, Beijing, phone: 86-10-6403-5587

Xinjiang Province Liaison Office, address: No 37 Sanlihe Road, Haidian District, Beijing, phone: 86-10-6833-2266

Heilongjiang Province Liaison Office, address: No 5 Beidajie, Fuxingmen, Beijing, phone: 86-10-6802-6116

Fujian Province Liaison Office, address: No 18 Building, Fahuananli, Stadium, Beijing, phone: 86-10-6714-8823

Hainan Province Liaison Office, address: No 188A, Andingmenwaidajie, Beijing, phone: 86-10-6426-1368

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On the 26th of June 2004, Czech Senator sent the following statement to a Falun Gong press conference on Krizovnicke Square in Prague, Czech Republic.

Dear Friends,

We must not be silent about the abuse of human rights, regardless of which part of the world it is happening in -- be it Belarus, Cuba or China. I want to greet Falun Gong practitioners in the Czech Republic and thank them for their efforts in standing up for those who are tortured and persecuted.

On this occasion I want to express my support to persecuted Falun Gong practitioners in China, I want to praise their bravery and endurance. I also want to express my hope that the constant pressure by the world's public opinion will finally force the representatives of the Chinese government to apply their Human Rights policy in accordance with the United Nations' stipulations.

Daniel Kroupa
Senator from the Parliament of Czech Republic

Source: http://clearharmony.net/articles/200407/20592.html

(Clearwisdom.net) On June 30, 2004, a seminar about the persecution of Falun Gong was held in the Houses of Parliament in London and was attended by Lords, Members of Parliament and Falun Gong practitioners. Those who attended were able to gain a better understanding of the persecution of Falun Gong and the situation in China.

The seminar was chaired by a Member of Parliament who began by saying that in her own constituency industrial links are being forged more and more often with China. She commented that "with the opening of industry and links with China, comes the need to pay attention to human rights." She said she had come to know the persecution of Falun Gong through a local constituent who practices Falun Gong and has kept her informed of the persecution over the last several years.

Lord Thurlow gave a wide-ranging speech in which he outlined the nature of the persecution, and emphasized that the supposed improvements in China's human rights are just a façade behind which the persecution continues unabated. He talked about how the free world has become obsessed with China's potential "economic muscle," but that far from encouraging the regime to actually change its stance on human rights, they had actually got worse. Describing the nature of the persecution, he said, "The effect has been beyond words and beyond imagination. The size of the structure of the persecution outstrips anything that has been seen before in history." He described how the structure of the persecution seemed to take Hitler's Gestapo and Stalin's regime as models, and how it had utilized "everything developed in the world of torture."

Pinpointing Jiang as the person responsible for the persecution, Lord Thurlow outlined how the dictator turned the Party and the nation against a traditional form of meditation and exercise. He pointed out that before the persecution of Falun Gong, there was widespread acceptance of the practice by the Chinese Government, and that it was embraced by Chinese society. The persecution had been carried out by Jiang, despite the fact that 6 members of the Politburo Standing Committee (China's highest political office) were against the persecution of Falun Gong, as they had seen the benefits Falun Gong had brought to society.

The attending parliamentarians listened to Lord Thurlow's speech intently, commenting afterwards on his thorough knowledge of the situation. One Member of Parliament echoed his colleague's comments about the need to use the opportunity of increased trade to raise the issue of Human Rights more with China. At the end of the seminar, positive suggestions were made for the establishment of future concrete actions for the persecution of Falun Gong to be challenged on a governmental level.

Source: http://clearharmony.net/articles/200407/20591.html

(Clearwidsom.net) Recently many fellow practitioners shared their experiences on Clearwisdom.net regarding how the dark minions of the old forces exerted persecution against their physical bodies and how they finally managed to eliminate them with strong righteous thoughts. Lately similar incidents also happened to some people around me. The practitioners involved were in their thirties and forties. Unfortunately they did not have the same clear-minded understanding as the practitioners mentioned above. Three of the practitioners died and the others continue to deteriorate in their health without proper enlightenment.

Practitioner A was in his forties. The authorities persecuted him in early 2000 by sending him to a forced labor camp for two years. He was later released on the basis of medical parole soon after he had symptoms of a stroke. One month after he returned home, his health became abnormal and his symptoms of sickness were intermittent. Since then, the police officers and security forces have no longer bothered to come over. Many of the local practitioners including he thought that this was the way Master protects him. Only a few practitioners were clearheaded and realized there were problems in this. His situation had an extremely negative effect on validating the Fa. When he was suffering physically, he took it as reducing karma. He could not handle the tremendous conflicts in his family, either. In the end he passed away.

Another fellow practitioner of mine, practitioner B, 37 years of age, was also released on the basis of medical parole when he was diagnosed for pulmonary tuberculosis during his detention in a forced labor camp. Since then, he had been working at a Dafa literature site to validate the Fa. However, the dark minions of the old forces had been interfering with and controlling him. First he had a lot of dreams …quot; almost every day he had dreams. Other than doing the first four exercises, he spent most of the time between dinnertime and the time for sending forth righteous thoughts at midnight talking about his dreams. After some experience sharing with another practitioner, this practitioner finally became clearheaded on this issue. However, he was unable to move a step further to uncover his own fundamental attachments and to truly understand the Fa. Instead, he immediately threw himself into his work for producing the Dafa literature. Then the dark minions of the old forces started to persecute him in various ways …quot; first making his voice husky, and now he has difficulty speaking. At this time he has even lost his voice almost completely and can't swallow any food. To some degree he still takes it as a process of reducing karma and he fails to entirely eliminate the persecution.

Perhaps there are a lot more such scenarios that I am not aware of.

The old forces used to instruct the dark minions to control the rotten demons who then persecuted Dafa disciples by means of wicked people. Now the old forces have been destroyed; the rotten demons have been mostly eliminated; the wicked people have gotten their retribution; sentient beings are awakening to the facts of the persecution and are seeking the facts about Dafa; the dark minions of the old forces are seeing themselves come to a very sad and dreadful end. However, poison is always poisonous. The dark minions of the old forces will not retreat from this historic drama by themselves.

My personal understanding is that the physical persecution against the Dafa disciples is a form of the final struggle by the dark minions of the old forces that directly persecute Dafa disciples under the vague appearance of the human world. Exploiting Dafa practitioners' blurred understandings of the Fa, the dark minions exert this persecution against the physical bodies of Dafa disciples in an unnoticeable form to interfere with the Fa-rectification and the salvation of the sentient beings. They exploit the abnormal situations among Dafa disciples to damage the Fa, to impact the understanding of many people, to interfere with and hinder the public from learning the facts, and to maintain the material field for their own presence. That is the reason why there are relatively more such cases lately.

In spite of the many stages we Dafa disciples have been through since the historic day, July 20, 1999, this new form of interference and persecution seems to offset the effect of the truth-clarification efforts by Dafa disciples. Isn't it a new stage in the process of Fa-rectification that requires us to cultivate to a higher level?

We must be clearheaded in recognizing persecution by the dark minions of the old forces. We must use our powerful righteous thoughts in the process of widely saving sentient beings to thoroughly eradicate their sabotage and interference. In the meantime, we must, in my opinion, be introspective as to the responsibility and mission we have as Dafa disciples, maintaining our starting point in the Fa-rectification, and making sure that we are truly validating the Fa from the Fa.

Of course, since the very first day of the persecution, the old forces have been persecuting Dafa disciples not only in the form of detention, forced labor camps, and jail sentences, but with whatever means they can use. Compared to the widespread persecution of detention, forced labor camps, and jail sentences, other forms of persecution are relatively not as obvious. Examples are troubles that are not supposed to occur in the workplace, unreasonable harm from the conflicts of everyday life, and the physical sufferings that are different from the regular karma-reduction process of "illness karma." We must be clearheaded that these are cases when the dark minions of the old forces are exploiting our loopholes when we don't have clear understanding of the Fa. Only by closely following the course of Fa-rectification and elevating ourselves through rational and clear minded understanding of the Fa can we get rid of them with our powerful righteous thoughts.

(Clearwisdom.net) In "Teaching the Fa at the 2004 Chicago Conference," Master taught us,

"As Dafa disciples have clarified the facts you have saved many beings who were supposed to be saved, but it's not enough. In fact, so far, what you've accomplished is still limited, and in terms of numbers the proportion is still quite small. The Dafa disciples in Mainland China, in particular, have the greatest responsibility. The main body of Dafa disciples is in China, so the Dafa disciples there should do even better; through lessons learned they should become more rational and more clearheaded, and do things more righteously; they should allow more sentient beings to be saved; and they should have the effect of the main body of Dafa disciples. Everything the Dafa disciples in other regions do revolves around the main body of Dafa in Mainland China, and is restraining the evil's persecution, lessening the pressure for the Dafa disciples in Mainland China, and helping the Dafa disciples in Mainland China to clarify the facts."

I have come to realize that Master's teaching is to correct the thoughts that were formed in the past five years of our fellow practitioners in China and abroad alike.

Since July 20, 1999, the persecution has been very brutal indeed and the pressure in that environment has been very intense. Many fellow practitioners in China (possibly what Master describes as the third group of students) maintain the mentality of everyday people passively enduring the persecution. They cannot set aside the attachment of seeking outside themselves and they always look for some external forces to end the persecution and thus end their sufferings. Misled by such everyday people's mentality, this group of practitioners has been passively expecting some outside factors to redress the injustice for them. One of the manifestations is that they anticipate some external force to save them …quot;looking for answers from certain everyday people like the Prime Minister, from the "Two Conferences (1)," from the United Nations Human Rights Committee, from overseas practitioners who are making phone calls to eliminate the persecution, and from some international organizations to bring Jiang to justice. By and large, they are looking for someone to save them.

It is this very attachment that hinders the effect of restraining and lessening the persecution and thoroughly ending the persecution. The earlier one sets aside this attachment, the more likely one can demonstrate the power of Dafa through oneself as a Dafa practitioner. This is because the persecution is not about some ordinary people persecuting others. Rather it is about the dark minions of the Old Forces controlling the rotten demons that commit bad deeds. Sometimes the dark minions may even commit bad deeds themselves. Therefore, the problem cannot be resolved with human attachments. Surely it cannot!

If we don't abolish our attachments or elevate ourselves with regards to our understanding of the Fa-rectification, the remaining evils will continue to come back, even if their numbers have been reduced. They will specifically target for persecution those who have strong attachments in their cultivation practice and those they consider are not qualified to be Dafa disciples. As long as we do the three things we Dafa practitioners are supposed to do, and we always do things wholeheartedly, the dark minions of the Old Forces will not be able to do as they wish, because we do what Master has required of us and we do not fall into the trap of the Old Forces. On the other hand, if we hold onto the attachments of everyday people and more or less take ourselves as victims in daily life, or do not follow Master's requirements to do the three things we ought to do, the dark minions of the Old Forces will take it that we choose to be the disciples of theirs instead of Master's. In that case, they will certainly take care of us in their way …quot; their way of teachings to beat us lethally or beat us to death until our righteous thoughts come out.

Therefore the attachment of dependency upon outside help, which shows up merely as being weak or unconfident, is in fact a manifestation of the lack of firm belief in the Fa and lack of understanding of the Fa. Such an attachment is certainly very harmful. As the Fa-rectification reaches such a critical stage, one must set aside the attachment and become a genuine Dafa disciple.

Regarding the situation overseas, since the anti-persecution and truth-clarification activities we have been doing are truly effective, some of us have slowly become accustomed to stressing something like "this is my project," "I want to establish my mighty-virtue," etc. Driven by our everyday attachment of abilities and accomplishments, we start to take Dafa work personally, fall into the habit of doing the project itself, amplify the work we are doing unconsciously, and finally forget about where the work we're doing objectively is in the overall picture of the Fa-rectification, and about how to support the entire Fa-rectification from the project we are doing.

Actually if I should take some everyday things to contrast with, in this war between good and evil, practitioners inside China and outside China are like different armed forces assigned to fight in different battlegrounds. China is the main battleground and the Dafa disciples in China are the main armed forces, who, using righteous thoughts and power gained from the cultivation practice, are eliminating the evil forces that come from other dimensions. Practitioners outside China, on the other hand, are like supplemental armed forces that are restraining the evil and helping practitioners in China eliminate the evil. Wherever they are, each soldier is part of the whole army, and each battleground plays an irreplaceable role. Nobody can replace another's role. Otherwise, it would not be us fighting in concert.

1. The conference of the National People's Congress in China, and the Communist Party Political Consulting Conference of China. These are considered the two most important conferences of the central government and the Party in China.

(Clearwisdom.net) No matter how harsh and unkind other people may appear to be, as long as we did not conduct ourselves well or with a pure heart, we should look inward. It does not matter whether other people cultivated well or not. Even when a child points out our shortcomings, we should look inward. It does not matter whether other people talk with strong attachments to fame and self-interest or not, as long as we are not 100% pure, we should look inward. Looking inward is unconditional, just as cultivation itself.

Of course, when we see others' shortcomings, we should point them out kindly. This is an embodiment of compassion. However, during the process, we should still look inward at ourselves. "Is it because he pointed out my shortcomings, or what he said that I feel that he has attachments?" Or "Is it because I have developed some notions that whatever this person says or as long as this person says it in such a manner, I will not listen, and instead come back to say that he has attachments?" Although this person may not be perfect but what is most important is whether or not we maintain a pure heart. Teacher taught us in Zhuan Falun that "The one who practices gets the gong."

This is only my personal understanding and for you to reference.

2004-6-21

Shared at 2004 Canada Falun Dafa Conference

(Clearwisdom.net)

Good-day everyone,

My name is Olivier. I would like to share with you how, after a long sleep-like state of three years, I have returned to Dafa. I would like this sharing to encourage those practitioners who have procrastinated or feel guilty because they did not do well in being more determined, to eliminate this attachment rapidly.

I was born into a French-speaking family in Montreal. In 1997, Master gave me the chance to know Dafa. The first time I read Zhuan Falun, I knew that I would practice Falun Dafa for the rest of my life, that this is what I was looking for, and that I was ready to sacrifice everything and anything to be a good practitioner. But as Master has mentioned many times, good or bad may arise from a single thought. So, in my case, I was afraid to let go of all of the attachments I had developed since my youth. At that time I started to cultivate, but since the environment for French practitioners was not that well developed in Montreal, and because I was too lazy to learn English, I would read and practice alone at home. Without a stable environment, about a year after, my notions and attachments and fears became stronger. So for three years I continued to consider myself a practitioner who would practice after tasting the joys of life. I knew I was taking a crooked way without any sense, and I did not manage to strengthen my righteous thoughts. During those three long years, the evil took advantage of my gaps and incited me to take on a certain behavior which moved me further and further away from being a practitioner and even worse than that, of being an ordinary human being.

My enlightenment began in the summer of 2001. At that time, I was in Ottawa on a contract, and I saw the self-immolation scenes at Tiananmen Square in the Canadian media. Then, my righteous thoughts were reinforced and I decided to break through all these attachments, which I had to do to finally become really responsible towards the Fa. I felt so unworthy to have done nothing up until that time to support Master and Dafa, that had given me so much. So, I decided to start clarifying the truth.

The next morning a young reporter from a Radio station in Ottawa came to interview my friends and me about the decision that was made to have the 2008 Olympics in Beijing. So I took advantage of this opportunity to clarify the truth to the reporter and to my friends who did not know that I practiced Falun Dafa. In retrospect, I understand that Master was looking after me, and that he had never abandoned me. He was waiting for me to take the full responsibility that he had attributed to me as a disciple of Dafa to give me opportunities to clarify the truth.

Nevertheless, since I had accumulated a lot of karma during those three long years, at that time most of the people who were close to me opposed vehemently the fact that I would practice Dafa. It didn't matter that I explained it in all the different ways with calmness and patience, the situation only got worse. I was being pressured from all sides. I only had a limited understanding, but I had the heart to validate the Fa and to come forward with each step being more and more firm. I started to clarify the truth to the University of Montreal, where I am still studying, and did this through information booths in the halls, presentations before groups and participating in different events. Each time I felt that I was breaking through notions of embarrassment and the attachment of how others would view me. Even though I knew I was making a lot of mistakes, for the fist time I felt I was accomplishing that for which I was born.

In 2002, I started to ask myself just how more effective I could be in validating the Fa. After a period of reflection, I came to the understanding that since I was young and had few responsibilities in the society of ordinary people, the best thing for me was to go and clarify the truth in China. However, I really did not know how to do this or how one should clarify the truth over there. Consequently, I spoke about it to a practitioner in Montreal and he confided to me that he also was thinking about going to China.

Approximately two weeks later he contacted other practitioners who had the same desire. We thus started to organize a project and to exchange on the subject during several months. It was at this time that the Minghui website posted a message asking practitioners not to go over to China. So little by little the project fell through. I still had this understanding that my way was different, and no matter what occurred on the surface, I was always determined in going to China. In spite of that, I did not have any money and I had no clue as to how I would validate the Fa in a responsible way in China.

After one week of questioning myself to the point having a headache over this I decided to let go and to be trusting in the fact that if I was to go to China, Master would show me how and why. One week later I got this phone call from a friend, inviting me to teach French in China. When I answered that I did not have the financial means, the answer was that the company that was hiring me was in such a dire need of a teacher that they would pay the plane ticket, part of the cost of the apartment, and would give me a monthly salary. I was surprised with Master's arrangements on my path and accepted in appreciation to Master. About a month and a half later, I was on the plane in the direction of Kunming, province of Yunnan without fully appreciating what was going to happen and how I would clarify the truth in an environment where I knew neither the language nor they way of life.

Upon arriving there, I felt a great pressure. I knew that I had to be most calm and rational so as not to put the lives of those around me in danger, I had a lot of notions about the situation in China. Before leaving, I did not have much compassion for those who opposed Dafa. There were many things that I did not grasp with my western notions. All along this trip, I realized that men, women, and even children had a negative attitude towards Dafa, not because they were basically bad but because they simply had no other source of information but for the lies of Jiang Zemin.

Aside from the reincarnated demons, a lot of people oppose Dafa because the evil takes advantage of their ignorance and their shortcomings. One of my students was a practitioner before she went to a labor camp for one year. After a divorce, prison, and much pressure from all sides she was supposedly "reformed." Even though the evil had taken advantage of her gaps and shortcomings, and instigated her signing a letter supposedly "promising" to stop the practice, how can we not have compassion and desolation for such a practitioner who fell under so much pressure? After talking with her I understood that she had read the Zhuan Falun more than a hundred times, but she had been only superficially reading the Fa. Her understanding of the Fa was very superficial. In spite of everything when I showed her the French version of Zhuan Falun,

Her face lit up as if she was finding a happy thought that she had long forgotten. Towards the end of my trip, unfortunately, all of her attachments to fear came to the forefront and took over. But until it is finished she will have other opportunities.

Having witnessed all the evil in China on all levels, and wanting to do all that I could for the Chinese people, I started to buy equipment and material to make VCDs. To make copies I had to use the office computer where I worked, and I had to do it fast so I would not be caught, because sometimes my work companions would come back quickly, unannounced. When I had enough I would distribute them in the night. It was not always easy. At each second, I had to fight my attachment of fear of being caught by whomever, not only in the distribution but also in the making of the VCDs. However in the distribution there were very few problems for a surprising amount of time. Master was watching over me. One day as I rested for a few minutes whilst making VCDs I had a dream. I saw at a few hundred meters away from me, some people being killed by a rainfall of stars descending from heaven. It was as if each star was aiming at the particular person. In my dream I immediately started running in their direction to save them, but I had the horrible feeling that I should have done more before this catastrophe. I woke up startled. I understood Master's message, and I started to make VCDs anew being even more determined to save sentient beings of this world.

During the whole time I was teaching, I tried to clarify the truth in smaller discussion groups by showing films of truth-clarification and having righteous behavior. At the end of my stay my students told me: "You have not come here only to teach us French and the Quebec culture but also to teach us how to be a good person." Later, at the last class, I explained to them that I did try to do my best to be a good person in the way that Master has taught me. They understood that Falun Dafa was good and that the Chinese government was lying to them to justify the persecution.

Towards the end of my voyage, because I was doing things with a hurried heart, and I was not paying so much attention anymore to my safety, someone reported me to the police. I was illegally detained for 3 days. Contrary to what I was expecting, the policemen were not particularly mean. Of course they lied to me and made all kinds of threats, but they did not insist on making defamatory remarks about Master or Dafa. At the beginning, I clarified the truth to them in a persistent way, but I encountered their years of bad accumulated notions. I was not able to make them accept what I said to them in connection with the truth.

Thereafter, I adopted a calmer attitude. I then understood the lesson: The best way of clarifying the truth to them was by my behavior, not by words. Although they did not seem to understand what I had come to do in China, when I left, I felt that several of them almost greeted me like a friend. Even one of the police officers, who was going to make a dirty joke about Master, became quiet after I asked him nicely but firmly not to make such comments. I do not know the future of these men, but I hope they will come into contact with the films that I have left there and that their hearts will open up to Dafa.

I was then illegally expelled to Singapore. There, I was very moved after having been seven months in China, and now able to see so many disciples practicing in the open air, it was like walking into a garden of flowers after a long walk alone through a desert way full of stones. I joined them, and an old couple of practitioners helped me greatly so that I could return to Canada. As Master says, Falun Dafa is a place of purity. Everywhere around the world, somebody can count on the practitioners to receive assistance in the event of a problem.

Upon my return to Montreal, I started again to clarify the truth through various projects. But I also had the idea to take part in the organization of a Fahui in Montreal. My comprehension was that this opportunity could clarify the truth on a broad scale in Quebec, and in this way would help the entire body of Canadian practitioners to be more solid. Also, the people of Canada would have a deeper comprehension. My personal cultivation resembles a lot the cultivation of the body of practitioners in Montreal. We had been late in our efforts, and now we had to make up the time lost and consolidate the body as a whole. One could say that when one takes care of the weaker part of a body, the whole body will become more solid.

I knew that we would come upon obstacles when trying to get this project off the ground, but I could not imagine in which form they would take. Among the greatest obstacles were those from us in Montreal. On this subject, the lack of communication between the Chinese and Western practitioners played a big role. The first obstacle was a lack of confidence in organizing such a Fahui here. For the most part, the Chinese practitioners were afraid of the workload because they did not know how to proceed in a French society. And furthermore they did not know if they could count on the Westerners, who in the past did not commit themselves too much. The Westerners understood the workload not to be that complex, but expected the Chinese to take charge of everything.

For so many years, the Westerners waited for the Chinese to set up truth-clarification projects. And sometimes when the Chinese practitioners did not succeed well in truth-clarification, not knowing the mentality of our society, we would blame them without looking inside, without understanding that it was our responsibility to silently complete them to make a whole. How could we expect that Chinese practitioners who only knew the English language or just Mandarin could understand the mentality and the means to do things in Quebec?

All things considered, I am infinitely grateful to Master to not have abandoned me and to have given me a second chance even after three years of a behavior that was not even worthwhile for an ordinary human being. Sine then I have surmounted obstacles that seemed immense from the point of view of an ordinary person, but that I consider minute from the point of view of a practitioner. At the beginning of my cultivation I lost a lot of time but I am hurrying to make up for lost time; a lot of beings are waiting to be saved.

(Clearwisdom.net) My name is Zheng Yiyun. I am ten years old, and I have been practicing Falun Gong for over a year. Before I started to practice, I was a "problem child" in the eyes of my teachers. They often called my mother and told her about my wrongdoings. I have always been very competitive since I was a child, and there were often problems in my relationships with other people. Because of that, my mother was very concerned about me.

After I started practicing Falun Gong and slowly came to understand the principle of Truthfulness-Compassion-Tolerance, my temper mellowed without my realizing it. A few days ago, one of my schoolteachers asked my mother in wonder, "Yiyun has improved a lot lately, how did you help him?" My mother then shared with my schoolteacher about what we have learned from practicing Falun Gong, such as thinking about others and putting others ahead of ourselves.

One time, I saw a fifth grade kid bullying a second grade kid on the school bus. I kindly told the fifth grade kid that it was not nice [to bully other kids], but he hit me instead. At that time, I remembered what Teacher said, "As a practitioner, the first thing you should be able to do is to not fight back when you are beaten or sworn at--you must be tolerant." So I did not hit him back, and he also stopped bullying the other kid. My teacher was very surprised that Falun Dafa practitioners can conduct themselves with such high standards. "Not fighting back when being beaten or sworn at" is very hard even for an adult to do, but a fourth grade child can put it into practice. Perhaps that is the effect of "directly targets one's mind."

My dad is a very nice person, so my sister and I used to take advantage of him without any respect. For example, in one winter, we kept nagging until he went outside into the bitter cold to buy us candy. I feel ashamed even thinking about it now. I have learned to become more sensible and no longer so unreasonable.

One time, my mom was saddened by my laziness in cultivation. "If you do not want to cultivate," she said. "I won't force you anymore." After hearing that, I was in tears and said, "I want to be a Dafa practitioner, I want to cultivate!" I know that the side of me that understands does not want to abandon Truthfulness-Compassion-Tolerance. I must make extra efforts so my mom won't be worried about me and Teacher won't be disappointed in me.

Every Wednesday and Saturday afternoon, I participate in activities at the Minghui School. And, I learned to ride the bus by myself so mom no longer worries about my transportation. Along with other young practitioners, we study the Fa, practice the exercises outdoors, and hand out pamphlets. We all know that Falun Dafa is good, but many practitioners in China are being persecuted, beaten to death, and locked up inside mental hospitals. They need our attention and help.

Once I told my schoolteacher, "There are people from over 60 countries practicing Falun Gong. Falun Gong teaches people to be compassionate and to be good people. It raises people's moral standard and improves their health. Jiang has been persecuting Falun Gong for almost 5 years." The teacher asked me, "Why does Jiang persecute Falun Gong?" I said, "Because there are many, many people practicing Falun Gong, and Jiang is jealous. That's why he persecutes Falun Gong." My teacher nodded, " I understand now."

So one day in our sociology class, the teacher told the entire class about Jiang's persecuting Falun Gong. In addition, the teacher also asked my mom to bring Falun Dafa material to our class so everyone could read about it. Because the teacher knows and approves of Falun Dafa, many more children now know that Falun Dafa is good. That makes me very happy.

There is another thing I want to share with everyone. My dad was the only one in our family who did not practice. Recently he spent a lot of time with us when we had outdoor group practice and other Dafa activities. He has also read Zhuan Falun and started to do exercises with my sister, my mom and me. I am very grateful to Teacher! I must be more diligent and be a true practitioner!

(Clearwisdom.net) I am a Dafa practitioner from Xingcheng City, Liaoning Province. In order to help more people to understand the true nature of Dafa, I donated my dowry from more than twenty years ago in support of the production of truth-clarifying materials. Below is the true story of what happened to me on the night of June 5, 2004.

After distributing truth-clarifying materials, I got lost in the darkness. Unable to figure out how to get home, I sat down and asked for Teacher's guidance. I then noticed a round, red object in the northwestern sky. It looked like the revolving light on top of a police car, and it moved towards me. Thinking that it might really be a police car, I didn't dare to move. As I sat bewildered, the red light-like object moved in front of me in an instant. Meanwhile, another round red light-like object also appeared behind me, but it was smaller.

I was very surprised. Could this be a Falun? Was it Teacher helping me? The red object in front of me moved back and forth, as if telling me to follow it. I then realized our merciful Teacher was helping me. With gratitude that cannot be put into words, I stood up and began following the Falun. Soon it disappeared, but upon closer inspection, I realized that I had already arrived home.

Miraculous Dafa! Merciful Teacher! Words are inadequate when it comes to describing my gratitude. I know I must carry out the duty bestowed upon me and walk the remaining path righteously, following Teacher all the way home.

(Clearwisdom.net) On July 3, 2004, Falun Gong practitioners in northern California participated for the fist time in the Independence Day Parade in Rancho Cordova.

Rancho Cordova is a city near Sacramento, the capital of California. Practitioners brought the beauty of Falun Dafa to the citizens in their annual Independence Day Parade. When one of the organizers, Meise District Primary School Principal Alan Withers saw the Falun Gong contingent, he was amazed and greeted the practitioners, "Wonderful! You are welcome to participate."

The Falun Gong contingent was led by banners with the words, "Falun Dafa is Good" and "Truthfulness-Compassion-Tolerance." Behind the banners was Seven Celestial Maidens Dance Team, followed by a large Falun Emblem and a group of practitioners who demonstrated the exercises. A sign reading "Please Help Rescue Our Persecuted Family Members in China" was behind the exercise demonstration group, followed by young Dafa practitioners in a stroller. At the back of the contingent was a banner reading, "Falun Dafa is Spread Around the World." The contingent composed of 30 practitioners was in good order, and left good impression on spectators who gave them applause.

Practitioners who would perform the Seven Celestial Maidens Dance arrived at the assembly place quite early to carefully make up. During the parade, they kept dancing lightly with great conscientiousness. Spectators gave them a round of applause. People on the way commented, "Beautiful! Beautiful!" and "They are close to be perfect."

The Falun Gong contingent was quite outstanding, the exercise demonstration group was even more special, and was also children's favorite. They yelled, "I like those practitioners, they are really special, fantastic!" Some people requested materials on their own initiative, even children stretched their hands and asked, "Can I have one?" "What about me?"

Bob also came. He got to know us two days ago when we held the torture exhibit in front of the State Capitol Building. At that time, he was reluctant to leave us. He learned to practice the five sets of the exercises and helped us hold banners. Bob was tall, and walked at the end of the contingent, holding up the large banner that read, "Falun Dafa is Spread Around the World" along with practitioners. When the activity concluded, Bob told practitioners that it was his first time in his life to participate in a parade, and he was quite proud of holding up that banner.

After the parade ended, the practitioners went to a park to practice the exercises, some people walked up to talk with practitioners to get the information about local practice sites. They said, when your group passed by, you brought us a very peaceful and wonderful feeling.

Perhaps many people still do not know Falun Gong and the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners, but through participating in such activities, we believe that the beauty of Falun Dafa will stay in the hearts of more and more people.

(Clearwisdom.net) On July 4, 2004, Falun Gong practitioners from northern California participated in the annual Independence Day Parade in Redwood City, and won high praise from the host and spectators.

The Falun Gong contingent

The world needs "Truthfulness-Compassion-Tolerance"

Falun Dafa flags

Waist Drum Team

Celestial Maiden Dancers

Spectators

Practitioners performed Celestial Maiden dances, a lantern dance and a traditional waist drum performance. When the waist drum team passed through, some people waved the American flag to the drum rhythm.

When the Falun Gong contingent passed by the presiding stage, the host kept saying, "Wonderful, beautiful, what beautiful costumes." He also said, "Truthfulness-Compassion-Tolerance is a principle beneficial to the world." When the host saw the banner reading, "Use compassion to face hatred," he said, "Thank you for bringing us these, thanks."

The Independence Day Parade in Redwood City is among the largest in northern California, and attracts 200,000 to 300,000 people each year. This was the fourth time for Falun Gong practitioners to participate in it. Many people have become familiar with the Falun Gong group. When the group passed by, spectators on the way gave them a round of applause.

(Clearwisdom.net) On July 1, 2004, Falun Gong practitioners in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada participated in the city's Canada Day Parade.

(Clearwisdom.net) June the 26th was the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, sponsored by the United Nations. Swiss Falun Gong practitioners held a photo exhibition from 10 am to 10 pm in downtown Basel, an important Swiss industrial city. By displaying photos of the persecution, practitioners exposed to the Swiss public the appalling torture that the Jiang group conducts against Falun Gong practitioners. The purpose was to call upon Swiss people to pay attention to the fate of Falun Gong practitioners, and to stop the Jiang group's atrocities. Many passers-by stopped to look at the photos. Shocked by the brutality, they signed their names on the petition to express their anger towards the persecution, and provide their support to Falun Gong practitioners.

Coming across members of "ALL NATIONS CAL" from Israel

Some Israeli tourists were very sympathetic towards Falun Gong practitioners in China after they heard the truth. They thought that the suppression was wrong and they volunteered to put their signatures on the petition. Dafa practitioners were sending forth righteous thoughts at the time. The people from Israel said they could feel the strength of our energy field. When they received information Video-CDs, they said happily that they were members of an Israeli non-governmental organization called "ALL NATIONS CAL". They have contacts with many international organizations. They will play our VCDs in their offices so that more people can understand the truth about Falun Gong. When they were about to leave, they held practitioners' hands and wouldn't let go. Practitioners told them with a smile that we would surely meet meet again someday in the future.

"I can imagine how cruel this persecution is"

After she understood the truth, a young lady from Poland said that she finally realized that the persecution began because Falun Gong teaches people to establish their own viewpoints about what is right and what is wrong. She said she could understand the persecution because when Poland was under the reign of the Communist Party, all of the media were allowed to report only how happily Polish people lived their lives, although the reports went completely against the facts. Any coverage about the bright side of capitalist countries was prohibited. She said, "I can imagine how cruel this persecution is." As she left, she said that she hoped this persecution would end as soon as possible.

A young Chinese lady with a predestined relationship

A young Chinese lady said she already had Zhuan Falun, audiotapes of Master's lectures and a VCD showing the exercises. She tried to learn by herself, but she gave up after a while. She went shopping today and came across our display. To begin with, she asked about several of the lies that the Jiang regime have spread. She also suggested that we should not push it too far and everything would become alright when Jiang lost his power. Practitioners told her that what we were showing to people was just a tiny tip of a gigantic iceberg. The tragedy taking place everyday in China is extremely brutal. Our wish is to let more people learn the truth. Practitioners also mentioned that there were lots of students forced out of education or that had to flee from their homes in China. As students ourselves, how could we pretend that we hadn't seen the persecution and remain silent? She took the information CDs offered by practitioners and wrote down the details of the local practice site. When she was about to leave, she left her phone number and told us she would like to participate in future activities. She showed up in front of our booth in the afternoon again, and said she wanted to be together with us. When she saw practitioners doing Falun Gong exercises, she said that she would like to practice with us. After we demonstrated the five exercises to her, she said that she now had a much better understanding. She also asked a lot of questions. She said she could not understand Jiang's decision to persecute Falun Gong at all because it is such a good practice. It originated from China, and China should be proud of it. On the contrary, Jiang decided to suppress Falun Gong. Then, she sat quietly watching practitioners exercising and sending forth righteous thoughts. That evening during the candlelight vigil she crossed her legs and sat together with practitioners. She picked up truth materials and began to distribute them to passers-by. When she was asked about the stories behind the photos, she would invite the practitioners to explain while she listened quietly. We could feel the changes inside her. She didn't leave for home until it was past nine o'clock.

"We will tell the truth to our friends"

There were two English-speaking ladies who asked practitioners what had happened when they looked at the photos of Wang Lixuan and her 7-month old son Meng Hao who were both tortured to death because the mother practiced Falun Gong. After realizing the inhuman persecution that Falun Gong practitioners have suffered, they felt very sorry and expressed their great sympathy. They asked practitioners what help they could offer. Practitioners told them it would be of a great help if they could tell the truth about Falun Gong to their friends and colleagues so that more people would support justice. They said without hesitation, "We will tell the truth about Falun Gong to our friends."

Source: http://clearharmony.net/articles/200407/20595.html

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Dafa practitioner Mr. Wang Yaping from Huangtun Village, Xiajiabao Township, Qingyuan County has been tortured so severely in Benxi City's Prison that he has serious anemia. According to a prison doctor, Wang Yaping has suffered from blood infection. His whole body became swollen, he had fluid on his lungs, and he felt extremely physically tired. The doctor said his life is in danger. Wang Yaping is currently held at the prison's Education Section.

Zhao Xuezeng, Education Section chief, Benxi City's Prison: 86-414-5538887.
Fu Jingshun, prison policeman.

Recently, more than 20 female Dafa practitioners held at Harbin City's No.2 Detention Center held a hunger strike to protest the illegal arrest and detention. Police don't allow family members to visit these practitioners and strictly block all information about the practitioners' circumstances.

It is now known that there were 42 Dafa practitioners from all districts of Shanghai arrested during the first ten days of May 2004. One of them, practitioner Ms. Zhang Lijuan, was put into Minhang District's Detention Center on May 14, 2004 by order of the Minhang District Police Department chief.

Telephone numbers of relevant units:
(Country code: 86, area code: 21)
Minhang District's Police Department: 64921800
The Qibao Police Station: 64780026 and 64191267

In April 2004, police from the Changning District arrested practitioner Ms. Yan Li. As they failed to find any excuse or evidence to persecute her, they had to release her in the form of "bailing out for hospitalization," but they still monitor her. Approximately eight practitioners were arrested at the same time. One of those, 70-year-old Ms. Yu Peiying may be tried as "The No. 1 Defendant." Yu Peiying and Yan Li were both sentenced to forced labor and had been arrested and harassed several previous times.

On June 20, 2004, practitioner Zhang Zhen from Chaluhe Township distributed Dafa truth-clarifying material to people in Sanjiazi Township. He was reported to police when he handed the material to some personnel working for the township government. Later on, police from the Sanjiazi Township's Police Station arrested Zhang Zhen.

Telephone number of Sanjiazi Township's Police Station: 86-432-4108219.

During the evening of June 17, 2004, Chou Yongsheng, Fangzheng County's Political Security Section chief, and policeman Wang Hongyuan, accompanied by a police officer from the Dalianhe Police Department, suddenly broke into the home of practitioner Ms. Jiang Yulian in Shahezi Village/Fangzheng County. They searched Jiang's house and confiscated a copy of the book of Zhuan Falun. Then they arrested Jiang Yulian and held her in Fangzheng County's Detention Center. The current circumstances of Jiang Yulian in the detention center remain unknown. Since July 22, 1999, Jiang Yulian has been arrested and held many times. One time she was sentenced to one year of forced labor. She was mistreated with all kind of tortures in the Wanjia Forced Labor Camp. In order to avoid the persecution, her entire family had no choice but to leave home, and not long ago they wandered into Dalianhe Town.

Related policemen and their phone numbers in Fangzheng County:
Political & Security Section chief, Chou Yongsheng: 86-451-57124620 (office), 86-451-55055668 (home)
Wang Hongyuan: 86-13936216411 (cell)

Related unit phone number:
"610 Office:" 86-451-57116731
Political and Judiciary Committee: 86-451-57116858

Dafa practitioner Zhang Jinqiong is around 30 years old, and is from Xindi Town in Honghu City, Hubei Province. She is an employee of the city's Cotton Mill Company. In 2001, for persevering in Falun Gong practice, Zhang Jinqiong was arrested by people from the local "610 Office" (1) and sentenced to two years of forced labor, to be served in the Shayang Forced Labor Camp, where she suffered all means of torture. She did not cooperate with the evil persecutors, and eventually walked out of there with the power of her righteous thoughts. In May 2004, the local "610 Office" arrested her again. We don't know if her life or death hangs in the balance right now.

In early April, police from Nanchang City took concerted action to raid practitioners and arrest them. More than a dozen Dafa practitioners were arrested from home. Police ordered special agents in parks to covertly photograph people with camcorders and monitor or follow practitioners. As a result, several Dafa truth clarification material production sites were recently damaged.

Additionally, at noon on April 12, three policemen broke into the home of the Xu Jianrong and Wang Guoying practitioner couple, and forcibly arrested Xu Jianrong, while confiscating a compact copy machine and some Dafa truth-clarifying materials. Wang Guoying walked away with the power of righteous thoughts. A hearing-impaired teenage daughter was left at home without care. Police often came to harass the daughter, and asked for her mother's whereabouts. Wang Guoying is living in exile. She could not go back home.

More than 100 practitioners are being held in Jiangxi Province's Female Forced Labor Camp, including determined practitioners Wu Jingjun, Kong Xiangming, Xiao Genxiang, Chen Huaying, Chen Fanghua, and others.

Responsible personnel for this aspect of the persecution:
Song Bo, policeman, deputy labor camp head, in charge of persecuting Falun Gong, 86-13907090285 (cell)
The provincial "610 Office:" Head Wang, 86-791-6240410
The city's "610 Office:" 86-791-3885625, 86-791-3885655

During the afternoon of May 5, 2004, Wang Guozheng, the Political & Security Section chief, and Ma Zhaoyun, officer from Jianchang County's Police Department, Huludao City, led four policemen from a higher police authority to the work unit of practitioner Mr. Ren Qingli and forcibly took Ren Qingli to the county police department for interrogation. Since they didn't get any results after an hour's interrogation, these four police officers took Dafa practitioner Mr. Ren Qingli with them and arrived in two police vehicles, to search Ren Qingli's home, where they made a mess.

Ren Qingli's wife, Ms. Zhao Haiqin, had been living in exile for over three years. She was hiding in the home at that moment. At first, those gangsters didn't find her hiding place. Wang Guoqing found her when he did the second search and found Dafa materials, CDs and books and other personal belongings. They confiscated two cell phones and a PDA. Zhao Haiqin clarified the truth to those policemen; Wang Guozheng, however, slandered Dafa. Ma Zhaoyun put Zhao Haiqin into handcuffs.

Ren Qingli managed to escape from police custody, and then left home once again, to avoid further persecution. Ren Qingli's work place was searched and Dafa books were confiscated. Zhao Haiqin was put into Jianchang County's Detention Center. She was transferred to the Masanjia Forced Labor Camp after holding a hunger strike for five days. A teenage child is left at home without care.

Directly responsible personnel:

Wang Guozheng, Political and Security Section chief of Jianchang County's Police Department: 86-13898939765 (cell), 86-429-7126969 (home)
Ma Zhaoyun, police officer of the Political Security Section, Jianchang County's Police Department: 86-13942998808 (cell)

In early June 2004, a large amount of flyers exposing the Jiang regime's persecution of Falun Gong appeared in Dangshan County in Anhui Province, which scared the people in the Dangshan County "610 Office." They were extremely afraid. The Dangshan County "610 Office" enforcers invited personnel from Suzhou City's "610 Office" to assist in arresting practitioners. Deputy chief for Dangshan County's Police Department, Shao Zhufeng, led the effort. They arrested practitioners Wei Shezhang, Zhang Hongzhan, Zhang Liying, Hu Jinling, and others, and initially held them in Dangshan County's Detention Center. The practitioners' present whereabouts are unknown.

Dafa practitioner Mr.Wang Shiyuan, a Ph.D. candidate, is from Hongdong County's Vinylon Factory, Shanxi Province. Dafa practitioner Mr. Wang Shiyuan was arrested in October 2000 after he traveled to Beijing to appeal. Policeman asked him how old he is. He replied 27. Then the policemen took off all his clothes and poured 27 barrels of cold water on him. Afterwards he was sentenced to two years in a forced labor camp in Tianjin City, where he was beaten and otherwise inhumanely tortured. He was on a hunger strike for six months, but was not released until he was tortured to his last gasp of breath. His university dismissed him. Following is additional information:

On March 20, 2004, Shanxi Province's Coking Factory in Hongdong County found Dafa truth-clarifying materials. The provincial Police Department sent officers to investigate. Personnel from Hongdong County's Police Department and from the Political & Security Section from the Vinylon Factory went to search Wang's home late at night. Wang Shiyuan tried not to cooperate with the arrest, but policemen forcibly removed him from the home. He shouted out, "Why do you arrest me? I'm not guilty! Falun Dafa is Great!" He was held in Hongdong County's Police Department and sentenced to three years of forced labor. Now he is being held in Taiyuan City's Xindian Forced Labor Camp.

Ms. Fan Yanli, 31, was an employee of Huozhou City's No.4 Ceramics Factory. In February 2000 she went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong, but was sent back to Huozhou City's Detention Center and illegally detained 36 days by persons from the Huozhou City Police Department. After handing over a 3,000 Yuan (2) "deposit," she was released.

In January 2001, Chen Zhongqi, Ren Liangming, and others in the No. 4 Ceramics Factory attempted to brainwash her, and forced her to do heavy labor. They deprived her of her freedom for over 30 days.

During the 16^th Chinese Ruling Party Congress in 2002, Ren Liangming, Huozhou City's "610 Office" head, captured Fan Yanli and took her to the No. 475 Army without due cause. Fan had been illegally detained there for nine days under the surveillance of special personnel.

Dafa practitioner Ms. Fan Yanli has been subjected to three illegal house searches so far, merely because of her belief in Falun Dafa. Whenever a holiday approached she was always harassed, which hurt her entire family. Even talking about it, her 89-year-old grandmother becomes scared and trembles in tears.

In April 2004, Ms. Zhang Yuqing, who lives in dormitory No. 13 of Jinan City's Engine Factory, and Ms. Zhu, who lives at the Luji Building, were tracked down while distributing truth-clarifying materials. Lawless policemen went to Zhang Yuqing's home three times to harass her. On April 21, Zhang Yuqing and Ms. Zhu were arrested. It was reported that Ms. Zhu was fined 10,000 Yuan. Both were detained at the No. 2 Female Prison in the Jiangshuiquan District in Jinan City. So far they haven't been released.

Since July 20, 1999, when the persecution began, personnel of the Miyun County "610 Office" closely followed orders from the head evildoer to actively persecute Falun Gong practitioners. During the past four years they have illegally arrested, detained, put into forced labor, and sentenced more than one thousand Falun Gong practitioners.

In the past six months they have frequently raided Dafa practitioners. On November 7, 2003, lawless plain clothes policemen, led by Zhang Baoling, the Xibinhe Police Precinct chief in Miyun County, went to Dafa practitioner Ms. Wang Shufang's home. They duped Wang into opening the door by claiming that they were personnel from the residential committee. Then they arrested her and searched her home. They confiscated over 10,000 Yuan and some other private belongings. That same day they arrested more than ten Dafa practitioners, including Zhang Yulan and Zhang Shurong. Most are over 50 years old, with the oldest woman being over 70 years old. All were sentenced to two years of forced labor.

On February 28, 2004, just before The Two Conferences, "610 Office" personnel secretly arrested four Dafa practitioners who only practiced at home, including Zou Shuyi. They were sentenced to two years of forced labor.

On April 20, 2004, Tian Liwen, chief of the police department's National Security Section, led several policemen to arrest four Dafa practitioners at their work units. Practitioners arrested include Li Hong, from the County's Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital, Li Xiuxia, an officer of the County's Health Department, Qi Guangran, secretary of the Party committee of the Non-staple Food Products Company, and Wang Jiachun, Party branch secretary. Their homes were searched and Dafa books and computers were confiscated. At the same time the policemen also arrested several other older village women.

Phone number of the National Security Section: 86-10-69063629

Dafa practitioner Ms. Dang Xiaoyan, from Qujiapu Village, Shimen Town, Zunhua City, Hebei Province, was abducted and taken to Shimen Town's Police Precinct for illegal detention by policemen Wen Jingchun. At night she was transferred to the Zunhua City Police Department. When her husband asked for her release at the police department, policemen did not allow him or any of her family to see her. They ordered her husband to take away all her shoes and clothes he had brought with him. Her whereabouts are still unknown, several months after the illegal arrest.

Ms. Dang has a disabled husband, a daughter, and two elderly parents in their 80s. Her father couldn't even see her before his death. Her sister Dang Xiaolan was also arrested one day for appealing for her. Currently, her sister's whereabouts are also unknown.

Related phone numbers:
Shimen Town's Police Precinct: 86-315-6099110
Wang Bao'an, Shimen Town's Police Precinct chief: 86-315-6098008

Ms. Wang Ping from Tonghua City protested her illegal detention after her arrest by persons from the National Security Team. She and other Dafa practitioner's went on a hunger strike at the detention center to protest the illegality of this affair. That is the reason the National Security Team sentenced her to three years of forced labor in advance and sent her to Changchun City's Heizuizi Female Forced Labor Camp.

(1) 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.

(2) 500 Yuan is the average monthly income for an urban worker in China.

June 22, 2004

(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."

Here are some examples of the Solemn Declarations:

• Dafa Practitioners' Solemn Statements [4/29/2004]
• Solemn Declarations by Non-Practitioners[4/17/2004]
• Solemn Declarations by Young Dafa Practitioners [4/29/2004]

Please click here for more Solemn Declarations.

(Clearwisdom.net)

1) My name is Qu Guizhen, and I am a Dafa practitioner from Bin County, Harbin City (Heilongjiang Province). Over the past 5 years of persecution, because I've remained firm in my belief in FalunGong's principle of "Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance" and clarified the truth of the persecution people, Jiang's political group has illegally detained me on five separate occasions, during which I've been subjected to numerous tortures. In April 2002, I was arrested for the 5^th time. I escaped from the police station with my righteous thoughts and was left destitute, living a hard life in different places for over a year.

2) Practitioner Wang Hongyan and practitioner Wu Jinlian are a couple living in Houzhuan Village, Cuimiao Town (in Fucheng County, Hebei Province). During the past few years, the Cuimiao Town Judiciary Secretary, Qu Dongwu, and his followers have persecuted the couple very badly: including illegally detaining and torturing them, and extorting nearly 10,000 yuan from them(1).

3) Yi Juncai is a 52 year old female Dafa practitioner who lives in Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province. On April 4, 2004, some authorities from the State Security Bureau of Shijiazhuang City abducted her and closed her real estate company. Employees of the company were left without jobs.

4) Practitioner, Li Wenjun, is a resident at Gaoxin District, Jilin City (Jilin Province). On April 16, 2004, some persecutors abducted Li. They sentenced Li to 3 years of forced labor and sent him to Yinmahe Forced Labor Camp in Jiutai City. Because of the persecution, Li became very weak. His family members and lawyer asked for a medical examination, yet the forced labor camp used various excuses and refused the request. The lawyer received pressure from many sources because of Li's case. In order to free the lawyer from all the trouble, Li's family members terminated the contract they had with him.

5) Practitioner Zhang Dezhou lives in Shewei Village, Jiuzhou Town (of Xixiu District, Anshun City, Guizhou Province). In April 2001, Zhang was arrested at a brainwashing center. The persecutors sentenced him to 2 and half years of forced labor. About 6 months after Zhang was released from the forced labor camp, he was abducted again on June 8, 2004. The perpetrators also ransacked his home. Currently, Zhang is detained in the No. 1 Detention Center of Anshun City.

The police in Shouguang City, Shandong Province persecute practitioner Wang Zhongyun and Zhang Keliang (husband and wife). On the morning of November 28, 2001, three plainclothes police officers abducted Wang Zhongyun from his/her workplace. In the detention center, Wang suffered from a sudden and serious stroke, resulting in semi paralysis. As a result, the police had to release him. On September 3, 2001, the couple was arrested together. They were later sent to a brainwashing class held by the "610 Office." (2) In order to avoid the persecution and harassment, the couple had to live in various places away from home, and leave their 10-year-old child and 80-year-old mother living there without anyone to care for them. The child and the elderly grandmother then went back to their native home in a rural area. However, the police followed the child and elderly woman. It has been reported that the police often break into their home and interrogate them, constantly frightening the child and elderly lady.

Police officer Zhao Huidong in Haigang District Police Sub-department (Qinhuangdao City, Hebei Province) used to attack Dafa during brainwashing sessions held by the police in 1999, which attempted to force about 100 practitioners to renounce their belief in Falun Dafa. The persecutors' efforts failed. Instead, the brainwashing session provided practitioners an opportunity to share their experiences. Later on, the police separated the practitioners from each other and brutally tortured them individually, trying to force them to renounce their belief. Around June 8, 2003, Zhao Huidong directly participated in abducting practitioners and interrogated practitioner, Dong Junming. Zhao also arrested practitioner, Bi Yanzhen, and sent her to the Kaiping Forced Labor Camp in Tangshan City even though she failed the medical examination and was found to be in poor health. Because Bi failed the medical examination, the forced labor camp refused to take her in.

Crimes of Police Chief Jin Shengguan, from the Bajiazi Area, Helong City (Jilin Province). On February 25, 2004, practitioner Ms. Wu Yanjun, Wu Yanli and her child were arrested while clarifying the truth in public. Guard Zhao Baolin beat Wu Yanjun in front of Police Chief, Jin Shengguan. As a result, Wu Yanjun's right eye was badly bruised and swollen. Zhao even beat Wu Yanjun's child. Jin Shengguan ignored the brutal torture. Wu Yanjun had 5,000 Yuan extorted from her and is currently detained in the Bajiazi Detention Center. The authorities plan to transfer her to the local court.