[Nanjing City] After Writing to Authorities about Persecutions in Mental Hospital, Practitioner Li Qun Herself Was Thrown into Mental Hospital

Ms. Li Qun, master degree, was a young teacher in the Institute of Communication Engineering. She was thrown into the Nanjing Mental Hospital because she had written an appealing letter to the government about the fact that many practitioners were detained in mental hospitals illegally and receiving inhumane treatments. Ms. Ding Jian-hua, the first rank police supervisor of Nanjing City, was sent to the same mental hospital earlier this year. They are being forced to take medicines on a regular basis. The medicines can make a normal person become mentally unstable.

[China] New Round of Crackdown to Be Implemented before April 25

According to the decisions of the Central Political Bureau and the Central Committee of Politics and Law, before the anniversary of the "gathering of April 25", the Chinese authorities will start a new round of cracking down on Falun Gong practitioners starting from April 12.

In this February, the Chinese authorities had attempted to implement a harsh nationwide crackdown on Falun Gong practitioners before the "Two Sessions" to prevent them from appealing to the National People's Congress. However, their schemes were leaked. Therefore, the harsh crackdown was implemented only in some areas such as Si-chuan Province.

For the past few months, the Chinese authorities have been building new jails and forced labor camps. Before the planed crackdown in the mid of April, the state-run newspapers, journals, TV, and radios in China will also start a new round of propaganda campaign to attack Falun Gong.

[Shen-zheng] Practitioner Mr. Liu Tao Tortured for Practicing Exercises in Jail

Practitioner Liu Tao is serving forced-labor "education" in Shan-shui labor camp. Because he continued to practice Falun Gong exercises, he suffered persecutions such as being lashed for 30 times by each convicted criminal inmate. He has been on hunger strike for many times.