(Clearwisdom.net) Practitioner Mr. Pang Shixing lived in Taihe Village of Xinxing District in Qitaihe City, Heilongjiang Province. After he started cultivation, he did good deeds by following the principles of "Truthfulness-Benevolence-Forbearance," and was widely respected. On July 20, 1999, Jiang Zemin started the persecution of Falun Gong because he was jealous of Falun Gong's popularity. Mr. Pang went to the government of Heilongjiang Province and the Beijing Appeals Bureau to clarify the truth about Falun Gong. In November 1999, he was detained illegally for five months by the Hongqi Police Station in Qitaihe City (Qitaihe City No. 2 Detention Center) because he appealed to the higher authorities in Beijing. He was released when he protested through a hunger strike. In the year 2002, police officers from the Hongqi Police Station harassed him at his home many times.

In the spring of 2003, policemen from the Hongqi Police Station forcibly dragged his aged father to their office. There, they interrogated the old man for an entire day in order to find out the whereabouts of Mr. Pang so that they could capture him. After that incident, the old man fell ill and never recovered. Mr. Pang's father died a month later. Before he died, he wanted to see his son one last time, but could not because his home was under surveillance by the police. On November 8, police from the Hongqi Police Station including Wang Dawei captured Mr. Pang and sent him to the No. 2 Detention Center. Later, he was sent to the Mudanjiang Prison for further persecution. His family members who went to visit him were not allowed to see him. As of now, we do not know how badly he has been abused.

Practitioner Mr. Pang Shixing

Practitioner Ms. Wei Limei, born on November 16, 1972, lived on Beishan Street of Xinxing District. After July 20, 1999, she clarified the truth about Falun Gong to the government. Since then, together with other practitioners from Qitaihe City, she has resisted the persecution. In February 2003, she was arrested and persecuted by the Qitaihe City Police Department. She was sentenced to six years of imprisonment. She is currently being detained in the Heilongjiang Women's Jail. Because her husband was also persecuted and sentenced to imprisonment, their 7-year-old son is alone at home, without anyone to take care of him.

Practitioner Ms. Wei Limei

Practitioner Ms. Lu Xiufen, born on December 29, 1972, lived near the Xinxingkuang Middle School of Xinxing District in Qitaihe City. On November 5, 1999 and July 4, 2000, she was arrested by the Xinxing District Police Department for practicing Falun Gong and was detained for fifteen days. She was arrested again on February 15, 2003. She was then sent to the Second Detention Center for further persecution. On April 8, 2003, she was transferred to the First Detention Center. In August 2003, she was sentenced to six years in prison. Currently she is being detained in the Women's Jail of Heilongjiang Province.

Practitioner Ms. Lu Xiufen

Practitioner Ms. Zhang Guiqin, 58, lived in the Sanxing Village, Qiangken Township of Boli County in Qitaihe City. After July 20, 1999, she clarified the truth about Falun Gong to the government. She was illegally arrested, but was released after being fined 300 yuan. After that she resisted the persecution together with other practitioners. She was arrested again on September 6, 2004. Currently, she is being detained at the women's team of Qiqihar City Drug Reformatory and has been sentenced to two years of forced labor.

Practitioner Ms. Zhang Guiqin

Practitioner Mr. Liu Guichen, 60, lived in Sanxing Village, Qiangken Township of Boli County in Qitaihe City. After July 20, 1999, he clarified the truth about Falun Gong to the authorities. He was arrested and released after paying a 300 yuan fine. After that, he resisted the persecution of Falun Gong together with other practitioners. He was arrested on September 6, 2004. In November of the same year, he was detained in the Shuihua Detention Center for persecution. Policeman Shi Jian punched and kicked him, and tortured him in order to force him to give up his belief in "Truthfulness-Benevolence-Forbearance." Liu Guichen was beaten so badly that for a long time he felt pain in his chest when breathing, and he was not able to walk steadily.

Practitioner Mr. Liu Guichen

Practitioner Ms. Li Xiuxue, born on July 26, 1939, lived in the Xinxing District. After starting cultivation, she became healthy both mentally and physically. She was arrested and sent to the Second Detention Center in August of 2000 by police officers from the Beishan Police Station in Qitaihe. In February 2003, she was arrested again by police from the Xinxing District Police Department and sentenced to a two-year term of imprisonment. She is currently being persecuted in the Women's Jail of Heilongjiang Province.

Practitioner Ms. Li Xiuxue

Practitioner Mr. Yu Qinghai, born on February 9, 1960, lived on Xinli Street of Xinxing District in Qitaihe City. He attended Master Li's class in 1994 and obtained the Fa at that time. He returned to Qitaihe City and brought the goodness and beauty of Dafa to that city. Because of his activities promoting Dafa, there were more and more people who started cultivation of Falun Dafa in Qitaihe City. After July 20, 1999, he went to the governor's office of the province to clarify the truth about Falun Gong with about 100 other practitioners. As a result, on February 26, 2000, he was arrested by the Xinxing Police Department and detained for fifteen days. After that, he worked together with other practitioners in the local area to resist the persecution. He was compelled to leave his home because the center for truth clarifying materials preparation was discovered. He was arrested in Jiamusi by the Qitaihe Police Department in March 2003. Subsequently, he was sentenced to seven years in prison. Currently, he is detained in the Mudanjiang City Jail. His 15-year-old son is in middle school and currently has no one to take care of him, since his mother has passed away.

Practitioner Mr. Yu Qinghai

Practitioner Ms. Yin Guiling, 37, lived near the office of the Taoshan Mine of Qitaihe City, Heilongjiang. After July 20, 1999, she went to the government of Heilongjiang Province and to the Beijing Appeals Bureau to clarify the truth about Falun Gong. She was detained in the Qitaihe City No. 2 Detention Center for more than a month after her arrest. She was released after being fined 1,000 yuan. She was arrested again late at night, the same day she was released, and sent to the No. 2 Detention Center. They took about 300 yuan in cash when they ransacked her house. She was detained for fifteen days and released after being fined another 500 yuan.

In May 2003, she was arrested again at her home by the Qitaihe Police Department. She was detained for fourteen days and then released because she held a hunger strike during those fourteen days.

On August 22, 2004, she was arrested again. The chief of the legal section in the Taoshan Police Department in Qitaihe handcuffed her hands behind her back, and then jabbed needles into her back, palms and backs of her hands. Right now she is being illegally detained in the Harbin City Drug Reformatory for three years of forced labor. She has a 15-year-old son named Zhao Wei, who is a sophomore in junior high school. Her relatives and friends are now taking care of him.

Practitioner Ms. Yin Guiling

Zhao Wei, Ms. Yin Guiling's son

Practitioner Ms. Gao Jiabo, born on April 26, 1963, lived on Taonan Street of Taoshan District in Qitaihe City. She was the health care doctor in the kindergarten of the Qitaihe City government. After July 20, 1999, she clarified the truth about Falun Gong to the city officials. After that, she insisted on resisting the persecution to Dafa together with other practitioners. In February 2003, she was arrested and persecuted by the Taoshan Police Department. She was sentenced to a six-year jail term. Currently, she has her aged grandfather, grandmother and her son at home and nobody to take care of them, as her husband has passed away.

Practitioner Ms. Gao Jiabo

Ms. Gao Jiabo's son

Practitioner Mr. Huang Yuexiang, born on January 3, 1942, lived in Tongren Residential District in Taoshan District, Qitaihe City. After July 20, 1999, he went to the government of Heilongjiang Province and Beijing Appeals Bureau to clarify the truth about Falun Gong. He was arrested and detained in the Boli Prison of Qitaihe City for sixty-five days.

On February 17, 2000, he was tricked by the police with the excuse that the superintendent wanted to talk to him, and he was thus detained for three months.

On July 1, 2000, he went to Beijing to appeal to the higher authorities. He was arrested and sent back again by the police from Qitaihe Police Department. He was then sentenced illegally to forced labor for two years. When the time was up, he was not released. Instead, his imprisonment was extended by another six months.

On February 22, 2003, he was arrested by the Qitaihe Police Department for making truth clarification materials. He was sentenced to five years in prison. Currently, he is being persecuted in the prison of Mudanjiang City.

Practitioner Mr. Huang Yuexiang

Practitioner Ms. Li Hongxia, born on March 7, 1962, lived in the Xinxing District in Qitaihe City. After July 20, 1999, she went to the Beijing Appeals Bureau to clarify the truth. On September 12, she was persecuted by the police from the Thirteenth Department of Changping Police Department in Beijing. She was forced to stand daily, squat for long periods of time, and stand with her head bent down and both hands lifted up behind her back. She was tied up on a bed and with electric current passing through both her hands. She was not allowed to use the bathroom, and she was given unspecified drugs and injections. The drugs caused her to lose the use of her tongue and half of her body. After being released, she was arrested again by the Xinli Police Station in Qitaihe City and detained in the No. 2 Detention Center in January 2000. One month later, she was released after she wrote, against her conscience, the guarantee statement promising give up the cultivation of Falun Gong.

In January 2001, Ms. Li was arrested again by the Xinli Police Station and sent to the No. 2 Detention Center. She protested by holding a hunger strike. She was force-fed twice and released after nine days.

In March 2001, Ms. Li was arrested again by the Xinli Police Station when she was on the road. They sent her to the No. 2 Detention Center for three months, where she was persecuted and then released.

In April 2002, Ms. Li was arrested again in her home by the Xinli Police Station and sent to the administrative detention center. She was released after going on hunger strike for fourteen days.

At 4 o'clock in the early morning of March 2003, Ms. Li was arrested and sent to the Second Detention Center by the Xinli Police Station. She was tortured until she vomited blood, and then sent to the First Detention Center. However, the center refused to accept her since she had difficulty walking at that time and her health condition was precarious. The deputy police department chief Zhang Heping and the 610 Office section chief Bi sentenced her to four years of imprisonment in spite of the fact that she has three young children at home and nobody to take care of them.

It was Liu Yazhou, the police station deputy chief, who implemented the persecution against her. Because of his efforts, he was promoted to become the superintendent of the Xinhua Police station.

Practitioner Ms. Li Hongxia

Practitioner Ms. Wang Yuqin, born on May 30, 1973, lived on Dongfeng Street of Xinxing District of Qitaihe City. In the year 2000, she was detained for three years because she appealed to higher authorities in Beijing about Falun Gong.

In 2003, she was arrested by the Qitaihe Police Department and sent to the Second Detention Center. Later she was sentenced to a three-year prison term. Currently, she is being persecuted in the Women's Prison in Harbin City.

Practitioner Ms. Wang Yuqin

Practitioner Mr. Di Shihong, born on January 4, 1972, lived in Daihe Village of Xinxing District in Qitaihe City. Both he and his wife are Falun Gong practitioners. On November 17, 1999 and July 6, 2000, he was detained twice for fifteen days by the Xinxing Police Department in Qitaihe City because he appealed to the higher authorities in Beijing. While working on an oil plant, he was arrested by the Qitaihe Police Department. Even the owner of the oil plant was arrested and persecuted. Mr. Di was sentenced to four years in prison. Currently he is being detained in the Mudanjiang City Prison in Heilongjiang Province. His wife Yu Xiuying was arrested and suffered persecution at the same time. She is now detained in the Women's Prison of Heilongjiang. His mother is in her seventies, and is without any income to take care of herself and her grandchildren.

Practitioner Mr. Di Shihong

Mr. Li Fengquan, born on October 10, 1966, lived in the Zhongxinhe Village of Qiezhihe District of Qitaihe City. After July 20, 1999, he went to Beijing in order to appeal to higher authorities and to clarify the truth about Falun Dafa. He was illegally arrested five times by the Qishiqiezihe Police Branch. He was detained twice, and they illegally extorted more than 10 thousand yuan from him. In March 2003, he was persecuted by the Xinxing Police Department Branch. Currently he is being detained in the Prison of Mudanjiang City in Heilongjiang, where he has suffered severe persecution. Mr. Li was seriously hurt, both physically and mentally. His wife Li Bo was arrested by the Qiezhihe Police Department and illegally sentenced to a three-year prison term. Right now she is detained in the Harbin Drug Reformatory. Because her sons, Li Fengquan and Li Fengjie, her daughters-in-law, Li Bo and Song Wei were arrested, beaten up, detained, sent to forced labor, and sentenced to imprisonment many times, Li Fengquan's mother (a former Falun Dafa practitioner) could not withstand the mental suffering and passed away on January 4, 2005. Currently, Mr. Li Fengquan and Ms. Li Bo are still detained. They have two kids at home and nobody to take care of them.

Practitioner Mr. Li Fengquan

Practitioner Ms. Li Bo

August 1, 2005