1. [Taishan City, Guangdong Province] Three Falun Dafa Practitioners Go On Hunger Strike for Eight Days in a Detention Center

Ruan Xianchou, Li Haiqiang and Huang Jianyu are Falun Dafa practitioners in Taishan City, Guangdong Province. On April 20, 2004, they were forcibly taken into custody by members of the Jiangmen "610 Office" (1) and the Taishan City "610 Office." The three practitioners are being held in the Taishan City No. 2 Detention Center. They are on the eighth day of a hunger strike, abstaining from both food and water. They are in critical condition and cannot even walk. The police are preparing to transfer them to the Sanshui Forced Labor Camp in Guangdong Province. However, because of their poor physical condition, the forced labor camp authorities have refused to take them in.

Relevant telephone numbers:

Taishan City No. 2 Detention Center: 86-750-5664662

Leaders of the Taishan City "610 Office" are:

Zheng Libin: 86-750-5618096 (home), 86-13702215938 (cellular)

Li Zhaofeng: 86-750-5614845 (home), 86-13702414438 (cellular)

Liu Yongze: 86-750-5582973 (home), 86-13902588733 (cellular)

2. [Dehui City, Jilin Province] Wang Xingxiang's Right Arm Broken from Police Brutality

On March 25, 2004, Falun Dafa practitioner Wang Xingxiang was arrested by police in Guojia Town, Dehui City, Jilin Province and sent to the Dehui City Police Department for brutal torture. Wang's right arm was broken during the torture. Wang is being subjected to escalated abuse while being held in the Hospital of the Changchun City Police Department.

3. [Jilin Province] Facts surrounding the Persecution in the Heizuizi Forced Labor Camp

On the evening of March 18, 2004, Ms. Fu Yanfei, a Falun Dafa practitioner held in the No. 3 Brigade of the Heizuizi Forced Labor Camp, was dragged to an administrative office for persecution. She did not return that evening and was then held in isolation. She has not been seen since then.

On March 18, 2004, several male supervisors from the administrative section and other divisions of the labor camp arrived at the No. 3 Brigade. Led by Liu Hui and all other female supervisors, they dragged Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Wang Shuxia out for torture, simply because she stood up for justice for Falun Dafa.

On March 20, 2004, Ms. Lin Dan was dragged out for punishment simply for practicing the Falun Dafa exercises. During those days, "Falun Dafa is good" echoed throughout the building, as male officers were brutally torturing Falun Gong practitioners in the No. 3 Brigade.

Falun Gong practitioner Zhang Hongyun was unlawfully held in the No. 3 Brigade of the Heizuizi Forced Labor Camp. She had been held in isolation and subjected to extended periods of brainwashing. She was also deprived of sleep. At one point, the police abuse was so extreme that she lost consciousness, and she also suffered a mental collapse. She is now being put into a forced labor camp.

Relevant telephone numbers:

Jilin Province Heizuizi Women's Forced Labor Camp: 86-431-5384312, extension for the No. 3 Brigade: 5103

Those who participated in the persecution: Xi Guirong (deputy brigade captain), Shen Minglian (deputy brigade head), Jin Lihua, Zang Li, and Fu Yufen (brigade captain)

4. [Fushun City, Liaoning Province] Chen Dongping Arrested

After 1:00 p.m. on May 12, 2004, Falun Dafa practitioner Chen Dongping was arrested in the courtyard of the building where he resided. Chen's home was ransacked. Chen Wanchi, Chen's 13-year-old daughter, was also taken to the city's police department. The child refused to get into the police vehicle. Several officers forcefully dragged her into it, ripping apart her pants in the process. Later, administrators and teachers from the Nantai Elementary School, which she had attended, took her out of police custody, so that she could go back to school.

5. [Maoming City, Guangdong Province] Ms. Chen Yanrui Abducted by Police Again

Ms. Chen Yanrui is a Falun Dafa practitioner in Maoming City, Guangdong Province. On the afternoon of May 11, officers from Maonan District arrested her at her workplace. The police once broke her right hand because she had strong belief in Falun Dafa and refused to renounce her belief. Through practicing the Falun Gong exercises, she has since recovered completely.

6. [Jilin City, Jilin Province] Mr. Wang Haijun Arrested by Officers from the Linjiangmen Police Station

Mr. Wang Haijun, a man in his thirties, is from Jilin City, Jilin Province. He was unlawfully sentenced to forced labor for appealing for Falun Dafa. At 8:25 a.m. on May 8, 2004, he got on a bus from Line No. 8 at the Yuwen Middle School bus stop. As soon as he got onto a bus, three officers and plainclothes policemen arrested him. He was taken to the Linjiangmen Police Station in Yingchuan District, Jilin City, Jilin Province. Officers from this police station have terrorized numerous Falun Dafa practitioners on various occasions. Many practitioners have been sent to forced labor camps from this station.

Relevant telephone numbers:

Linjiangmen Police Station: 86-432-4844018, 86-432-4848706

Tong Yingfu, chief of the police station

Pan Tiemin, director of the police station

Luan Hui, officer

7. [Jilin City, Jilin Province] Mr. Huang Yongchuan Arrested

Mr. Huang Yongchuan, a man in his forties, was a driver for the Jilin City General Company of Public Transportation. After 6:00 p.m. on May 15, 2004, Mr. Huang went to the Jilin City Military Medical Institute affiliated with the No. 4 Military Medical University in Jilin City to post Falun Gong truth-clarifying materials. Personnel from the security division of the institute caught him. Later, officials from the Security Division of the Jilin City General Company of Public Transportation, took him away.

Relevant telephone numbers:

Main line of the Jilin City General Company of Public Transportation: 86-432-2557120

Liu Dongchi and Liu Jingquan, officials of the Security Division of the General Company of Public Transportation in charge of this case

Main line of the Jilin City Military Medical Institute affiliated with the No. 4 Military Medical University in Jilin City: 86-432-4661711

8. [Chongqing] Several Falun Dafa Practitioners in Fuling District Arrested

On April 26, 2004, police arrested several Falun Dafa practitioners in Fuling District, Chongqing, including Chen Banlin and his wife, Liu Ping and his wife, and others. The two couples both have elderly parents that need care. Liu also has two underage children at home unattended.

9. [Dehui City, Jilin Province] Jiang Lide Arrested

Jiang Lide, a Falun Dafa practitioner in Dehui City, Jilin Province, was arrested by police on the evening of May 14, 2004 while walking home. Jiang is being held in the Dehui City Detention Center.

10. [Panjin City, Liaoning Province] Seventy-three-Year-Old Falun Dafa Practitioner in Dawa County Detained

Ning Bo, 73, is a Falun Dafa practitioner in Xiaolianggou Village in Xi'an Township, Dawa County, Panjin City, Liaoning Province. Around 3:00 p.m. on May 19, 2004, officers led by Zhang Mingjiang, head of the Xi'an Police Station, broke into Ning's home. Ning was arrested and unlawfully held in the Dawa County Detention Center in Panjin City, Liaoning Province.

11. [Wuhan City, Hubei Province] Lawless Officials in Hongshan District Arrest Falun Dafa Practitioners

On May 12, about a dozen officers broke into Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Xu Guolian's home. The officers were from the Zuoling Town Legal Office in Hongshan District and from the Gehua Police Station. Ms. Xu was a retired employee of the Gedian Chemical Factory. She had been unlawfully detained in Wuhan's Women's Prison for three years. This time the officers were trying to abduct her and take her to a brainwashing center. Ms. Xu thwarted their attempt with righteous thoughts. She has been forced to stay away from home since then.

On May 15, the same group of people led a dozen more heavy-duty villagers from Xudun Village in Zuoling Town to break into Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Xu Aiying's home. Ms. Xu was formerly an employee of the Gedian Chemical Factory. She was expelled from the factory because she practiced Falun Dafa. She had also been unlawfully detained in the Hewan Forced Labor Camp in Wuhan City. She was deceived into getting into a vehicle and was taken to a brainwashing facility.

Relevant telephone number:

Li Jinyu, head of the Zuoling Town Legal Office: 86-27-87610046 (home)

12. [Jinzhou City, Liaoning Province] Several Falun Dafa Practitioners in Taihe District Arrested

On the evening of May 17, 2004, the police arrested four Falun Dafa practitioners in Xiaoxing Village in the jurisdiction of the Xinglong Neighborhood Administration in Taihe District, Jinzhou City, Liaoning Province. Three local practitioners Zhang Shubin, Zhang Baoguo, and Zhao Guirong went to visit an out-of-town practitioner Ms. Zhang Yuqin, who was forced to leave her hometown of Yi County and was staying in Jinzhou temporarily. All four practitioners were wrongfully placed under arrest.

13. [Laiwu City, Shandong Province] Ren Xulan Arrested

Ren Xulan is a Falun Dafa practitioner in Baimayu Village, Laicheng District, Laiwu City, Shandong Province. Between 8:00 and 9:00 a.m. on May 15, Ren was clarifying the truth about Falun Dafa in a neighboring village. Informants called the police. Ren was arrested and has since then been held in the Laiwu City Detention Center. Ren's home was also ransacked.

14. [Shenyang City, Liaoning Province] Ms. Liu Jingxian Unlawfully Detained

Ms. Liu Jingxian, 58, is a Falun Dafa practitioner in Shenyang City, Liaoning Province. At noon on May 13, 2004, officers from the Gaokan Town Police Station deceived her into going to the police station, saying that she needed to verify residential papers. She was detained and has since then been held in the Shenyang City Detention Center.

15. [Beijing] Two Falun Dafa Practitioners in Jinzhan Township, Chaoyang District Arrested; Their Homes Ransacked

Ms. Zhang Peizhi and an elderly woman who is nearly 70 years old are Falun Dafa practitioners in Xi Brigade, Jinzhan Township, Chaoyang District, Beijing. On May 13, the two practitioners went out to distribute truth-clarifying materials and were unlawfully arrested. Two members of the State Brigade Ye Youzhong and Fan Baobin searched the practitioners' homes. Fan's telephone number is 86-10-84333810.

16. [Chongqing] Details on the Unlawful Treatment of Dafa Practitioner Mr. Zhang Qiyong

Around 5:00 p.m. on May 1, 2004, Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Zhang Qiyong was wrongfully arrested while walking near Huahuiyuan Garden in Yubei District, Chongqing. Mr. Zhang is being held in the Qijiang Detention Center, Chongqing, the telephone number of which is 86-23-48615603. He continued to practice Falun Dafa exercises and went on a hunger strike. He was thus handcuffed and shackled.

Mr. Zhang, 28, graduated from Sichuan University. He once worked at the Qijiang County Branch of the China Life Insurance Company. At the end of November 1999, he went to visit a fellow practitioner and was arrested by the police unreasonably. He was sent to the Xishanping Forced Labor to serve a two-year term. At the end of November 2001, he walked out of the labor camp with dignity and has had to abandon his home to avoid future arrest.

17. [Chifeng City, Inner Mongolia] Ms. Li Yuzhi Arrested

Ms. Li Yuzhi is from Hongshan District in Chifeng City, Inner Mongolia. She was unlawfully sentenced to two years of forced labor in 2000 for distributing Falun Gong truth-clarifying materials. She was released from the Tuziji Forced Labor Camp in 2001. On April 5, 2004, she told passengers on a train the facts surrounding the persecution of Falun Gong while she was going to Chengde, Hebei Province from Chifeng City, Inner Mongolia. She was arrested by railroad police officers in the Tongliao Railroad Bureau in Inner Mongolia. She is being held in the Tongliao Railroad Bureau Detention Center.

Relevant telephone numbers:

Office of the chief of the Tongliao Railroad Bureau: 86-475-2222918

Office of the railroad bureau: 86-475-2228788

Legal section of the railroad bureau: 86-475-2228858

Detention center of the railroad bureau: 86-475-2238048, 86-475-2238078

18. [Laixi City, Shandong Province] Three Dafa Practitioners Arrested and Sentenced to Prison for Distributing Truth-clarifying Materials

On January 5, 2004, fellow Falun Dafa practitioners Zhao Xincui, Chen Taiying and I were distributing Falun Gong truth-clarifying materials in the neighboring Fenghuang Village. When we were done and ready to go back home, we saw a vehicle following us (we heard that informants had alerted the police). The vehicle cornered us and a group of policemen came out. They forced the three of us into the vehicle and drove to the police station. We were unlawfully detained for 15 days. Four days later, the police pretended to be nice and let me go home, saying my child was only three years old and needed my care. Fifteen days later, just before the Spring Festival, the other two practitioners were unlawfully sentenced to two years in prison. I was also sentenced to one year of prison (to be served outside of prison).

Relevant telephone numbers:

Wang Shouhau, head of the Laixi City "610 Office:" 86-532-847886 (office), 86-532-8487255 (home), 86-13963970187 (cellular)

Shen, head of the Political Security Section of the police department: 86-532-8483613 extension: 9587

Jiang Chunhong: 86-13969791597 (cellular)

19. [Haizhu, Guangdong Province] Ms. Deng Shujuan Abducted and Taken to a Brainwashing Center

Ms. Deng Shujuan is a Falun Dafa practitioner in Haizhu District, Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province. During the second half of April this year, members of the Haizhu District "610 Office" took her to the Zhuhai District Brainwashing Center.

20. [Chicheng County, Hebei Province] Retired Cadre Unlawfully Detained

Mr. Wang Yu, 66, is a Falun Gong practitioner in Chicheng County, Hebei Province. He was the director of the Chengguan Credit Union in Chicheng County and has retired for many years. He lives in Xingrenbao Village, Chicheng County. Around 9:00 p.m. on May 12, 2004, he was taken to the county police department for posting banners with the words "Falun Dafa is Great." He has been unlawfully detained and held in the county detention center.

¹The "610 Office" is an agency specifically created to persecute Falun Gong, with absolute power over each level of administration in the Party and all other political and judiciary systems.