(Clearwisdom.net) Around New Year's Day of 2001, the Yanshan County government and the police station illegally arrested many Falun Dafa practitioners. They persecuted practitioners who went to Beijing to appeal by means of brutal beatings, detentions, labor camps, heavy fines, and confiscating the property of their family members, etc. It was said that when Shijiazhuang and Tangshan Labor Camps refused to accept Falun Dafa practitioners, the Party Secretary of Yanshan County Wang Taichang even bribed them in order to send the practitioners there.

1. Yanshan County Mengdian Police Station police Liu Tao and Gao Xuewu forced practitioners to take off their clothes and shoes, and poured cold water on their bodies and feet. When it was cold in early February, he forced practitioners to stand outside, and some practitioners' feet got frostbite.
2. Yanshan County Detention Center had 50-60 practitioners. Many of them were sent to the labor camp, including eight practitioners from Yanshan County. Liu Jiandong from the Town of Chengguan was detained at Shijiazhuang Labor Camp. Three practitioners from Yanshan County Qingyun Town are held in labor camps. Du Junqing of Houboji Village was sentenced to three years in labor camp, and Wang Hongyao of Zhongqin Village was sentenced to two years in labor camp. Both of them are in the Shijiazhuang Labor Camp. Yu Mingjing of Yuhuangzhen Village was sentenced to two years in Kaiping Female Labor Camp in Tangshan City.
3. Other practitioners from Yanshan County, Liu Jinghui of Nanguan, and laid off workers of Yanshan County Food Bureau Li Xiumei and Zhao Ruifeng, Xing Xiuyun of Kingyun Town Zhongqin Village, Yu Shuiting of Kingyun town Yuhuanzhen Village are all detained at the county's detention center, where practitioners are forced to do physical labor for long periods of time. They are only allowed to sleep for two hours everyday, and they face heavy fines of at least 5000 Yuan or they are sent to the forced labor camp. When they did not have the money, their families' property was confiscated. Lu Fengyang of Dawangbao in Wangshu Town was illegally fined 5000 Yuan. Liu Jinghui was fined, and his house was searched several times. The police confiscated the TV, cassette player, and some farm equipment. They even confiscated some practitioners' water pumps, sewing machines, old bicycles, grain (in some cases, the last bags of corn the practitioners had), cattle, furniture, clothes, and the beer in practitioners' stores etc. They openly robbed and robbed the practitioners and their families.
4. Twenty practitioners used to be detained in a garage in the courtyard of the Kingyun Township government. They did not allow the families to visit the practitioners or to send food, clothes, and blankets when it was bitterly cold. They only gave every practitioner one steamed bun a day and charged 10 Yuan for each. (Approximately 100 times the market price) After the practitioners went on hunger strike for 6 days, the police brutally beat them. When beating the practitioners, the police turned off the lights and used flashlights. They used very thick batons and electric shock clubs. Some practitioners were even beaten mercilessly three times during a single night and could not walk afterwards. The police tightly blocked the release of any information and beat those whom they thought might leak the information even harder.
5. Many practitioners have been forced to become homeless, such as Xing Xiuhua of Chengguan Township, Yanshan County government employee Liu Yuancheng, Liu Shuzhen of Liuhongmiao Village, Zhang Yufeng (a retiree of Yanshan County South Iron Factory) and others. Many practitioners have been laid off from work or had their retirement pension discontinued.