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Facts of the Persecution

1) Persecution of Yin Xinyun and his family, Falun Gong practitioners from Qingdao City, Shandong Province: On June 12, 2000, Yin Xinxiao, brother of Yin Xinyun, was sent to 15-day detention for sticking to his belief in Dafa and going to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong. On July 25, 2000, he was detained again on a false criminal charge for 30 days. On October 26, 2000, he was illegally sentenced to 3-years of forced labor. On June 16, 2004, Yun Xinyun was illegally sent to Qingdao City Labor Education Center for 2-years labor education. His wife, Zhang Wanxia, was illegally sent to 2-years labor education in the 2nd Women's Education Center in Wang Village, Zibo City. There she was inhumanly tortured. Currently Yin's two elder parents at home are on the brink of physical and spiritual breakdown due to frequent misfortunes.

2) Cheng Yonghe, male, 29-year old, is a Falun Gong practitioner from Changshou District, Chongqing City. After the persecution of Falun Gong began on July 20, 1999, Cheng Yonghe went to Beijing to validate Dafa and was illegally arrested and detained. From the end of 1999 to the end of 2002 Cheng Yonghe was illegally detained for 3 years at the Labor Education Farm of Deyang Prison in Sichuan Province. There he was brutally tortured physically and spiritually. At the end of 2002 Cheng Yonghe was arrested again when he went to Shiyan Town, Changshou District, his hometown, to validate Dafa. During his detention at Changshou Detention Center he was brutally tortured. His legs were broken. Later, he was sent to the Dianjiang Labor Education Farm Serious Criminal team for more persecutions, which caused him to develop mental problems.

3) Falun Gong practitioner Bai Hongmin, male, 40-year old, is a college graduate. He works at the Agriculture Bureau of Xuchang City, Henan Province. Since July 20, 1999, when the Jiang's regime started the persecution of Falun Gong, Bai Hongmin was arrested many times and brutally persecuted. Currently he is still detained at the 3rd Labor Education Center in Henan Province after his 3-year term of detention is due.

4) He Tengxiu, 61-year old, is a Falun Gong practitioner in Hongshi Village, Dengshuang Town, Xinjin County, Sichuan Province. He was illegally sentenced to 3 years in prison in August 2003 for sticking to the practice of Falun Gong. Currently he is illegally detained at Longquan Prison in Sichuan Province, where he is being tortured both physically and spiritually.

5) Falun Gong practitioner Bai Yuzhi from Jingxing County, Hebei Province has been persecuted many times for sticking to her belief in Falun Gong and clarifying the truth about Falun Gong. Since 1999 she has been illegally detained at a detention center, a labor education center, prison, a drug rehabilitation center, etc. for a total of 3 years. She was forced to go on hunger strike to protest against the illegally detentions, and she nearly died 4 times. According to incomplete records, during the many illegal detentions in the past several years, Bai Yuzhi was on hunger strike for a total of 20 months. She is currently detained at the 2nd Prison in Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province. She started a hunger strike recently, which has lasted for nearly 2 months.

6) On April 24, 2004, Yang Guangmao, a Falun Gong practitioner from Weifang City, Shandong Province who was illegally kidnapped, went on a hunger strike to protest the persecution. Although the persecution toward him has caused tuberculosis and heart disease, the Qingdao Railroad Public Security Bureau and the "610 Office" still sent him to labor education through bribing related parties.

7) On June 13, 2004, the police from Daling County Police Station and people from the "610 Office" in Linqi City, Shandong Province illegally broke into the house rented by Falun Gong practitioners Qian Fajun (male), Wang Fuju (female), and Duan Jiazhi (female) in Xiaoling Village, Daling County, illegally arrested them and sent them to Daling Police Station for detention. On June 13, Deng Liangcun (female), another Falun Gong practitioner, was also illegally arrested. On June 10, 2004, Liu Yongjin, a Falun Gong practitioner who left his home in Linqi City to avoid further persecution was illegally arrested by the people from Linqi City. He is now detained at Linqi Detention Center and is being persecuted. Liu Yongjin went on a hunger strike. He was illegally sent to the Wang Village Labor Education center.

8) Xu Chenghua, Wang Yufang and Xiaoyu, Falun Gong practitioners from Jiamusi City, Heilongjiang Province are currently detained at Jiamusi Detention Center. All of them have been seriously tortured. Xu Chenghua has lost almost all her hair due to the torture. There are injuries on the chest bones and inner organs, her arms are lightly handicapped, and her memory has been seriously damaged. Currently she is on a hunger strike. Wang Yufang continuously carried out hunger strikes. She has been frequently force-fed, and she could not take care of herself for a long time. Currently she is in critical condition. Xiaoyu continuously went on hunger strikes. She was forced-fed and her life was in danger quite a few times.

9) Li Lizhuang, a doctor from Harbin Medical University Hospital, is imprisoned in the 1st Section of Daqing Prison for adhering to the practice of Falun Gong. He has been inhumanly tortured. The vicious people threw him into a 1.2-meter tall water barrel and pushed his head under water again and again. They also thrust a thick water tube and a toothbrush into his anus. On February 4, 2004, Li Lizhuang was seriously injured by Wang Huanqing and others. The third rib on his right side was broken. The left side of his forehead was bleeding and scars remain. The soft tissue on his waist was injured. He cannot see clearly through his left eye.

10) Zhang Huishuang, 49-years old, is a Falun Gong practitioner from Huolianzhai, Xihu District in Benxi City, Liaoning Province. She was once tortured in Masanjia Labor Education Center. She broke out of there after an over 70-day hunger strike. Several months later she was kidnapped and sent to Benxi City Detention Center. The police and a doctor in the detention center injected her with poison and she lost consciousness for 2 months. Not long ago, Zhang Huishuang was kidnapped and sent to Masanjia Labor Education Center again for persecution.

11) Wang Yan, a doctor at Taihang Prison in Hebei Province, and Li Yueran, his wife, were forced to leave home for sticking to their belief in Falun Gong. On February 8, 2004, they were illegally kidnapped by the police from Xinshi District Public Security Bureau in Baoding City. The police brutally tortured Wang Yan. They beat his head with a twisted leather belt used by the police. He lost consciousness. In order to resist the vicious persecution, Wang Yan started a hunger strike. Li Yueran was forced to stand on an iron stick at Baoding Detention Center, while holding heavy things in her hands. She fainted when she was hit on the head. She was in emergency treatment in a hospital for nearly a month before she came out of critical condition. Li Yueran also went on a hunger strike to protest the persecution. Their parents asked to visit them many times, but were rejected by the police without any reason. However, when the couple was brutally tortured and started hunger striking, seeing their weak health condition and afraid of the responsibility, the police found their family and gave them the so-called transformation task, asking them to persuade the couple to give up their belief in Dafa. Currently Wang Yan and Li Yueran have been formally arrested.

12) On June 5, 2004, special agents from the National Security Team of Dongchang District, Tonghua City, Jilin Province, illegally forced open the door to Wang Ping's home. They searched her home, kidnapped her and sent her to a detention center. Wang Ping started a hunger strike to protest against the illegal arrest and detention. The National Security team gave her a serious sentence of 3-years of forced labor. During the medical examination at Heizuizi Labor Education Center in Changchun City, Jilin Province, she was found to be too weak. The National Security Team of Dongchang District, Tonghua City forced the center to accept Wang Ping for forced labor in the name of "forced implementation."

Practitioners Exchange Insights

Enlightening to the phenomenon of "Falun Dafa is Great": Some people who suffer from deadly diseases have already been "sentenced to death" by the hospital. Soon after sincerely reciting the phrase "Falun Dafa is Great," they recovered from their illnesses. When this human body recites "Falun Dafa is Great," many bodies in other dimensions also recite the same sentence, which has a strong Fa influence in different dimensions of the universe, and the person will receive incredible benefits from the Fa. Today with the viciousness of the persecution still existing, everyday peoples' reciting of "Falun Dafa is Great" also defends and validates the Fa.