(Clearwisdom.net) In mid-December 2006, Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Xu Jingwen and his son, Xu Changfeng, 19 years old, from Zhuwangbao Village, Zhuwangbao Town, Yongchang County, Jinchang City, Gansu Province, were arrested at home by local police and their belongings confiscated. The approximately 9000 yuan that the family had borrowed from relatives to pay for the eldest son's wedding was also taken. Afterwards, the police arrested Mr. Xu's wife, Ms. Xu Guixiang, and sent this family of three to the Yongchang County Detention Center in Jinchang City. Prior to this, Mr. Xu Jingwen and his wife had been forced to become destitute and homeless for three years to avoid arrest.

Ms. Xu Guixiang began cultivating Falun Dafa in 1998. Before that she had health problems that affected her whole body such as rheumatism, gynecological problems, etc. But after practicing Falun Gong all her diseases disappeared and she felt profound gratitude towards Dafa, which she credits for saving her life. After 1999 when the persecution of Falun Gong began, she went to Beijing to appeal in October 2000, requesting that Falun Dafa's good name be restored. Because she appealed, she was taken into custody in the Yongchang County Police Department for a month and then sent to Pingantai Forced Labor Camp in Lanzhou City for a year and a half. After she returned home in 2002 she continued to firmly practice Falun Dafa. Yongchang County police officers arrested her again and sent her to the detention center there. In 2003 she was arrested for a third time and sent back to the same detention center in Yongchang County for approximately five months for clarifying the truth. In 2006 her home was ransacked by the police. After she escaped with righteous thoughts she was forced to become destitute and homeless to avoid being arrested again.

Ms. Xu Guixiang's husband, Mr. Xu Jingwen, is 45 years old. After seeing the huge improvements in his wife from practicing Falun Gong, as well as the persistence of the Chinese Communist Party's persecution of good people, Mr. Xu started to practice Dafa in 2002. In 2003 he was arrested by the police department in Yongchang County because he wrote a letter to the local police station, the town government, and the police department to clarify the truth. After being imprisoned in the Yongchang County Detention Center for several months, he walked out with righteous thoughts and has been destitute and homeless since, unable to return to his home.

At the end of November 2006 Mr. Xu Jingwen and his wife quietly returned home to prepare for the wedding of their eldest son. They were reported to the authorities by people unaware of the truth. Plainclothes police disguised as hunters monitored their home. After spotting Mr. Xu Jingwen and his wife, approximately 40 people from the Zhuwangbao local police station of Yongchang County and the police department in Yongchang County rushed into their home, arrested Mr. Xu Jingwen and his younger son, and snatched the cash, a computer, and an air-gun from the family of Xu Jingwen's younger brother. Moreover they continue to harass the family.

The police took turns mercilessly beating Falun Dafa practitioners at the local police station. Mr. Xu Jingwen and his son were beaten to unconsciousness on the scene. The local police authorities feared being held responsible for the practitioners' condition, so the two were sent to the hospital first. They finally regained consciousness several days later. Afterwards the police arrested Mr. Xu Jingwen's wife, Ms. Xu Guixiang, and sent this family of three to the Yongchang County, Jinchang City, detention center.

Zhuwangbao Town Police Station of Yongchang County, Jinchang City, Gansu Province: 86-935-7611003
Secretary of Zhuwangbao Town government, Yongchang County: 86-935-7611020 (o), 86-935-7611022
Commissar of the police department in Yongchang County Peng Weiping (male): 86-935-7522670
Detention center of Yongchang County, 86-935-7524274

Detention center head, Cheng Yesheng (male): 86-935-7523704