(Clearwisdom.net) [Note: The following is a shortened version of a longer and more detailed article that appeared on the minghui.ca website (Chinese version of Clearwisdom.net).]

Ms. Jiang Guizhen is a Falun Dafa practitioner from Caojiazhuang Village, Liutuan Township, Weifang Changyi City. She went to Beijing in March 2001 to validate Dafa and was arrested and detained at a local police station. Police extorted 2000 yuan from her family and then sent her to a detention center. Jiang Guizhen was detained for one month before she was sent back to the county government. Yang Lizhi, secretary of the politics and law committee, beat her severely and extorted 3000 yuan from her family. At around noon on November 30, 2005, four policemen from the Liutuan Township Police Station went to search the home of Jiang Guizhen and took her to the police station by force. They then sent Jiang Guizhen to the Changyi Detention Center and kept her there for one month. Her family was again forced to pay 3000 yuan.

Mr. Xu Jingliang, 53, lives in Wumiao Village, Liutuan Township, Weifang Changyi City. He went to Beijing in September 2001 and was arrested and detained at a local police station. The police extorted 2000 yuan from him. On the morning of December 12, 2005, Liutuan Police Station arrested Xu Jingliang and jailed him at a detention center for one month. He was then sentenced to one year of forced labor. On January 29, 2006 (Chinese New Year), he was sent to the Wangcun Forced Labor Camp. Mr. Xu Jingliang is still detained there and continues to suffer persecution.

Ms. Yan Yunzhen, 60, was from Jiufeng Village, Liutuan Township, Weifang Changyi City. She went to Beijing in March 2001 and was arrested. She was detained at a local police station and locked up for a whole day. She was forced to pay 2000 yuan. Afterwards, the police often went to her home to harass her and thus, Yan Yunzhen always lived in fear of them. Unable to cope with the mental and physical persecution and suffering, she passed away in December 2005.