On the morning of July 9, 2004, a police officer from the Huaidi Police Station arrested Shijiazhuang City Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Li Xiumin while she was walking on the street. She was sent to the Shijiazhuang City No. 2 Detention Center for unlawful possession of Dafa truth-clarifying materials. She has been on a hunger strike, abstaining from both food and water, and has refused to answer any questions, in order to protest the persecution.

Relevant telephone numbers:
Country code: 86; city code: 311
Huaidi Police Station in Yuhua District: 5815280, or 5875445 extensions 800 through 819
Gong Jianzhong, Head of the police station
Ding Xiangzhong, Director of the police station
Li Jiankui and Li Yubao, Deputy Heads of the police station
Shijiazhuang No. 2 Detention Center: 7782024
Du Xilin, Head of the No. 2 Detention Center on Zhaolingpu the Third Street in Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province: 7755213
Zhang Hongqi, Director of the detention center: 7755202
Wang Zhibin, Deputy Dead of the detention center: 7755202

Liu Bin is a Falun Dafa practitioner from Guilin City, Guangxi Province. Liu has been arrested by the Crime Investigation Brigade of the Qixing Branch Police Department in Guilin City and taken to the Guilin No. 2 Detention Center. Liu Bin is on the fifth day of a hunger strike, to protest the illegal detention.

Relevant telephone numbers:

Country code: 86; city code: 773
Qixing Branch Police Department in Guilin City: 5821847 (office)
Crime Investigation Brigade of the branch police department: 5812951
Guilin No. 2 Detention Center: 5604150 (office)

Ms. Mu Kunli, who is in her thirties, is a Falun Dafa practitioner from Xuchang City, Henan Province. In June 2003, she was arrested at her home for raising public awareness of the persecution against Falun Gong. Her home was ransacked and Falun Gong materials were confiscated.

While being held at the Xuchang Detention Center, Ms. Mu went on a hunger strike to protest the persecution. She was inhumanely force-fed. Mu Kunli has appealed her case after being sentenced to three years in prison.

On July 7, 2004, Liu Chunxiang, head of the Beijing City State Security Brigade, led police officers from the Goubangzi Town Branch Police Station, which is in charge of the local residential area, to break into Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Wei Baoxiang's home. The officers arrested Ms. Wei and conducted a search without following any legal procedures. Ms. Wei is currently being held at the Beining City Detention Center.

Relevant telephone numbers:
Country code: 86; city code: 416
Wang Junren, Chief of the Beining Police Department: 6600110 (office)
Li Chunzhi: 6624653 (home)
Liu Chunxiang, of the State Security Brigade: 6631186 (home)
Yin Yiquan, Deputy Head of the Beining City Detention Center: 6628705 (home)
Wang Shixue, guard at the Beining City Detention Center: 6626069 (home)
Goubangzi Branch Police Station: 6652581

Eight Falun Dafa practitioners in Jinan City, Shandong Province, including, Ms. Yu Yali, Ms. Chu Zhongmei, Su Shuzheng, Liu Hongxiang, and others, have been arrested by local police stations in cooperation with the Jinan City Police Department at the end of April 2004. Their whereabouts are unknown.

Early in July, it was learned that Ms. Yu Yali had been unlawfully sentenced to three years in prison, and Liu Hongxiang to three years of forced labor. Most other practitioners have been sentenced to forced labor, but the lengths of their labor terms are unknown.

Han Jinsheng is a Falun Dafa practitioner from Zhongjia Village in Ershilipu, Jinzhou District, Dalian City, Liaoning Province. On May 13, 2004, the Ershilipu Police Station arrested Han for distributing Falun Gong truth-clarifying CDs to local residents. Han's home was ransacked, and the police confiscated a large number of Falun Dafa books. Han Shengjin went on a hunger strike after being taken to the Jinzhou District Detention Center and was released several days later.

The release was a scheme deployed by the police. In the past few days, the police showed up again at Han's home in order to track down other Falun Dafa practitioners. Han Shengjin has been forced to leave home to avoid further persecution.

Wu Guangyuan is a Falun Dafa practitioner from Yongling Town in Xinbin County, Liaoning Province. Informants reported to police while Wu was distributing Falun Gong truth-clarifying materials. This resulted in Wu's arrest by the local police station on July 11, 2004.

Since May 2004, several Falun Dafa practitioners have been arrested in Urumqi City, Xinjiang Autonomous Region, including: Xu Zhuqing, Wang Jinjun, Zhu Mingxi, and Hu Suzhen. Three other practitioners, Zhang, Li, and Zhao, whose first names are unknown, have also been arrested.

Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Li Qiaoling wrote a letter of appeal to the authorities presenting the fact that her husband Mr. Luo Yujie was unlawfully arrested and inhumanely tortured by the Baiyun District "610 Office" (1) in Guangzhou City. She was arrested on March 23, 2003, the day her husband was released. On June 13, she was taken to a brainwashing unit known to the public as the Guangzhou Legal Education School. Ms. Li went on a hunger strike to protest the persecution.

Relevant telephone numbers:
Country code: 86; city code: 20
Pan Jinhua, Principal of Guangzhou Legal Education School: 81730648
Li Xuezhen, Commissar of the school: 81730767
Lai Jianfeng, Head of the correctional department: 81730646

Ms. Wang Feiyuan, who is in her twenties, is from Nanyang, Henan Province. She graduated from a teachers college with an associate degree. On February 24, 2004, she was arrested by Weidu District police at a Falun Gong materials production site. She has been held in the Xuchang Detention Center. The police gagged her, handcuffed her and suspended her off the ground, then viciously beat her during the interrogation. Her back was severely bruised and turned dark purple as a result of the police brutality.

Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Zhang, 65, is a teacher in Xuchang City, Henan Province. At the end of June, he was arrested by police while distributing Falun Gong truth-clarifying materials. He is currently being held at the Xuchang Detention Center.

After serving a three-year unlawful forced labor term, Falun Dafa practitioner Liu Wen was directly transferred from the Tangshan Forced Labor Camp in Hebei Province to a brainwashing unit in Zhuozhou City on November 16, 2003. A month later, Liu was taken to the Balizhuang Forced Labor Camp in Baoding City, Hebei Province for further abuse. At the beginning of June, Liu Wen, Zhang Yanwu, and Zhi Zhanmin were also tortured for several days.

(1) "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.