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

1. Ms. Zhao Lixi and some fellow practitioners went to Beijing on January 26, 2000 to ask the central government to stop the persecution of Falun Gong and to validate that it is a good practice. While in Beijing, police handcuffed them and took them to the Linwu Detention Center. Police also extorted 2,000 yuan from them as ransom. The practitioners' families were constantly monitored and harassed.

2. Ms. Chen Xiuwen was suspended from her job without pay solely because she was a Falun Gong practitioner. In March 2000, she went to Beijing to appeal to the government, but police arrested her in Tiananmen Square. They sent her back home where she was imprisoned in a detention center for five days. Her son, who attended school in Weifang City, was threatened with dismissal, and her husband was also under great pressure at his place of employment.

On November 28, 2001, Public Security Bureau officers forced Chen Suwen to attend brainwashing sessions. However, Chen Xiuwen went on a hunger strike to resist their persecution. In February 2002, she escaped from the brainwashing center, and was forced to become homeless. Prior to this round of persecution, Chen’s home had once been ransacked, and her pay from work had been suspended from early in 2000 through when she retired in 2004.

3. On April 15, 2000, Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Yun Jiying from Dianzi Village, Wushan District, Weifang City, was holding a banner in Tiananmen Square that stated "Falun Dafa is Good." She was arrested and taken to the Anqiu office in Beijing. They then sent her to the Anqiu City Detention Center.

On June 18, 2000 Ms Yun was arrested and again detained in the Anqiu City Detention Center, this time for ten days. After she was released to her home, police still kept her under surveillance.

On March 10, 2001, Ms. Yun was again taken to a 610 Office brainwashing center for "transformation."

4. Ms. Li Xiuyu, 42, from Hanjiafu Village, Anqiu City, went to Beijing to appeal to the government on October 13, 1999, but was arrested. The next day, she was driven back to Anqiu Police Station where she was imprisoned for fifteen days.

On the evening of February 23, 2000 she was arrested and taken to a brainwashing center, where she was held for fifteen days. After going on a four-day hunger strike, she was released.

On March 6, 2000, Li Xiuyu again went to Beijing to appeal, but local police officers arrested her and sent her to a brainwashing facility. After a five-day hunger strike, she was released without condition.

In June 2000, Li Xiuyu and her sister went to Beijing to appeal again. When they reached Tiananmen, they were arrested and detained. They were transferred to a brainwashing center on the following day. After a three-day hunger strike to protest the persecution, they were released. Tragically, her sister is now having mental problems resulting from being persecuted.

On October 25, 2000, policeman Liu drove up to the door of Li Xiuyu’s home, handcuffed her, and drove her to a brainwashing session. She escaped, but was then forced to become homeless to avoid further persecution.

On November 13, 2000, when Li Xiuyu and a fellow practitioner were passing out truth materials, she was arrested and her home was ransacked. They sent her to a detention center where she held a hunger strike for six days. She was released after a family member was forced to pay 120 yuan.

Ever since the persecution began on July 20, 1999, the authorities have harassed her and her family, causing them to live in terror.

Posting date: 8/8/2006
Original article date: 8/8/2006
Category: Eyewitness Accounts
Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2006/7/23/133698.html

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