Concerned People Telling the World about Falun Gong and the Persecution in China: 2005-08-21

[Editors' Note: This is a 16-year-old boy's heartfelt desire to be reunited with both of his parents. Because Xiao Lei's parents practice Falun Gong, the Chinese police have repeatedly arrested them and thrown them into prison, where they have been subjected to many types of gruesome torture. Xiao Lei's parents were taken away from him at the age of eleven.]

My name is Xiao Lei. I live in No. 5, Unit One, Building No. 2, Wenmiao Small District, Kaifeng City, Henan Province, China. My father's name is Wu Guangcheng. He used to be the Secretary at the Kaifeng City Real Estate Company. My mother's name is Wang Deping. She used to be the supervisor of the Kaifeng City Highway Maintenance Bureau.

My parents used to be tormented by illnesses. My father suffered from cirrhosis and was often admitted to the hospital. Every year the medical expenses exceeded 10,000 yuan. My mother used to have kidney stones in both kidneys and had to take medicine daily. In July 1997, shortly after they started practicing Falun Gong, their illnesses disappeared and their health was restored. Their doctors were amazed by the miraculous health improvement.

But our peaceful and happy family was ruined after Jiang Zemin banned Falun Gong in July 1999.

One evening in November 2000, my mother's work supervisors came to our home and tried to coerce her to hand in her resignation. I was present and witnessed everything. At the time I was only eleven years old, and I couldn't comprehend why they had to do this to my mother. A few days later, my mother traveled to Beijing and attempted to appeal to the State Appeals Office for the injustice she had suffered. However, the police denied her constitutional right to appeal and imprisoned her in Fengrun Detention Center in Tangshan, Hebei Province. A month later, she was transferred back to Kaifeng and sentenced to three years in Shibalihe Women's Forced Labor Camp in Zhengzhou, Henan Province without a legal trial. When the leaders at my mother's workplace went to Tangshan to transfer her back to Kaifeng, they stole every penny of my mother's bank savings, totaling 5,310 yuan, with the excuse of compensating their traveling expenses. Later, my father repeatedly demanded that they return the money they had stolen from my mother's bank account, but they only returned 1,300 yuan.

In 2000, my father was fired from his job because he refused to give up practicing Falun Gong. Nevertheless, my father continued his Falun Gong cultivation practice. Later, the local police kidnapped him and imprisoned him in Kaifeng City Detention Center for several months because he clarified the truth about Falun Gong to people. In December 2000, my father went to Beijing and attempted to appeal for Falun Gong, but the Beijing police arrested him and subjected him to brutal beatings. The police repeatedly slammed the door on my father's fingers and caused all of his fingernails to fall off. Later he was sentenced to two years in the Kaifeng City Forced Labor Camp without any legal trial. Thus both of my parents were taken away from me. I was left at home without my parents. My neighbors avoided talking to me, afraid of the possibility of being labeled "guilty" by association with my family.

In January 2003, my father was finally released. My father and I finally reunited. Never had I expected that just two months later the Beishudian Street Police Precinct would come and take my father from home. At first they put him in Kaifeng City Detention Center. Then they arbitrarily sentenced him to one year in Kaifeng City Forced Labor Camp without any legal trial. I was left home alone again without my parents.

Every day that passed, I eagerly anticipated my parents returning home. I know my parents are the best people in the world, but they have been subjected to the worst treatment and torture. I longed for my parents' love and affection, but it might be just wishful thinking.

In August 2003, my mother was finally released, but I could hardly believe my eyes when I saw her. My mother's eyes were sunken and she had lost so much weight that she had become skin and bones. She could not even walk on her own. She weighed about 154 lbs before she was imprisoned, but now she weighed only 87 lbs. Was this woman really my mother? I was so shocked that I could not speak for a long time.

Nevertheless, I was contented to be able to reunite with my mother. After a period of time, my mother was finally nursed back to health. However, we did not have any income. My mother went to her former work organization and asked them to reinstate her, but her request was denied because she refused to renounce Falun Gong in writing. My mother had no choice but to find a part-time manual labor job despite the fact that she was still significantly underweight and very frail. She took on a second job selling bread and buns on the street. Although it was difficult for my mother to put meals on the table, we were contented just to be living with each other. Meanwhile, my mother and I eagerly anticipated my father's return when my whole family could be reunited again.

Unfortunately my small hope was soon crushed. In February 2004, the police from Beishudian Street Police Precinct of the Longting Police Branch Bureau arrested my mother from home. They broke into our home and left nothing unturned. They even broke down the steel anti-burglary door. They arbitrarily sentenced my mother to another two years in Shibalihe Women's Forced Labor Camp in Zhengzhou. My heart was broken. My parents have been repeatedly taken away from me and thrown into the hands of torturers from hell. It has been six long years. When will my parents and I ever be able to reunite again?

In March 2004, shortly after my mother was taken away from me, my father was finally released. Looking at my father's withered frame and prematurely aged face, I knew right away my father must have suffered a lot of torture.

I cherished the precious time I spent with my father and we eagerly anticipated reuniting with my mother. But a few days ago, my father disappeared! When I came home, I noticed signs of forced entry and burglary. I began to panic and tried to look for clues of my father's whereabouts, but no one was able to help me. Finally I heard that Kaifeng City State Security Bureau had taken my father and locked him up in the Kaifeng City Detention Center. I went there and tried to find him, but they wouldn't tell me anything. Where is my father? What has happened to him? No one told me anything.

Why have these horrible tragedies happened to my family? My mother is imprisoned for the second time and my father is missing. I have been living helplessly in terror and suspense all day long. At this young age, I have already experienced the most insufferable and unimaginable magnitude of pain and suffering. I have witnessed honesty, kindness, and tolerance in my parents, the most revered traditional Chinese virtues. My parents want nothing but to practice Falun Gong and follow Falun Gong's cultivation principles of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance to become better people, but they have been repeatedly subjected to imprisonment and torture. Why must the Chinese Communist regime do this to them?

I hereby urge everyone around the world to help end this senseless persecution and help bring my parents back!

Attachments: Brief Summary of the Persecution against Mr. and Mrs. Wu Guangcheng

Mr. Wu Guangcheng is 45 years old. His home address is No. 5, Unit One Building, No. 2 Wenmiao Small District, Kaifeng City, Henan Province, China.

In 2000, the local police in Kaifeng City, Henan Province arrested Mr. Wu and imprisoned him in Kaifeng City Detention Center for several months because he clarified the truth about Falun Gong in public. At the end of 2000, Mr. Wu went to Beijing to appeal for justice for Falun Gong, but he was unlawfully arrested and ended up being imprisoned in Kaifeng City Forced Labor Camp for two years. He was released in January 2003, but was unlawfully arrested again in March 2003 and imprisoned in Kaifeng City Forced Labor Camp for another year. He was released in February 2004. Between July 8 and July 9, 2005, the police arrested Mr. Wu and some other Falun Gong practitioners. It has been verified that Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Li Zhenying is now imprisoned in the Xinhua Hotel across from the People's Hospital in Kaifeng City. However, Mr. Wu Guangcheng's whereabouts require further investigation.

Ms. Wang Deping, the wife of Mr. Wu Guangcheng, is 44 years old. In 2000, she went to Beijing to appeal for justice Falun Gong and as a result was imprisoned in Fengrun Detention Center in Tangshan, Hebei Province. She was transferred to the No. 1 Women's Forced Labor Camp (Shibalihe Women's Forced Labor Camp) in Henan Province in 2000 and detained for three years. In August 2003 she was released. In 2004 she was arrested again for clarifying the truth about Falun Gong to the local people. In March 2004 the police arrested her again and sentenced her to two years in Shibalihe Women's Forced Labor Camp.

Practitioner Mr. Jiang Guilin Brutally Beaten by Police from Longtan District, Jilin City - Family's Release Request Denied (Photos)

Jiang Guilin

(Clearwisdom.net) On August 9, 2005, when Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Jiang Guilin was distributing truth clarifying materials, someone reported him to the police in Jinzhu Township Police Station. The police brutally beat Mr. Jiang and tried to find out the source of the materials. Jiang resisted with righteous thoughts and did not answer any of their questions. As a result of the beating, Jiang's teeth loosened and blood covered his pants and hat (see picture below).

Jiang's bloody pants and hat after the beating

Afterwards, Jiang's wife, Mrs. Liu Mingwei, took his bloody pants and hat to the department above the police station, the Jilin City Longtan Branch Police Department, and other related organizations to complain about the police treatment and asked for the immediate release of Jiang.

Mr. Jiang Guilin, 61, was formerly a staff member of the Jilin City Water Company. Jiang suffered from severe hepatitis B, neurological pain, nephritis, heart disease and hemorrhoids before he practiced Falun Dafa. He felt lightheaded every day. In May 1996, Jiang and his wife, Mrs. Liu Mingwei, who was weak and sick, started to practice Falun Dafa at the same time. Through the practice, all of their illnesses were healed and they subsequently felt happy and energetic.

At 4:00 p.m. on August 9, 2005, after Ms. Liu learned about her husband's arrest, she went to the Jinzhu Township Police Station to request his release. Captain Guan was very rude and unreasonable. When Liu asked Guan why they arrested Jiang, Guan said, "Of course, we had evidence before we arrested him." When Liu asked to see the evidence, Guan forced Liu to leave her name and address (a threat that Liu may be harassed later). After Liu repeatedly asked for Jiang's whereabouts, Guan told her that Jiang was being held in the Jilin City Detention Center.

At 8:00 p.m. on August 11, 2005, Liu and other family members went to the Jinzhu Township Police Station and asked the station chief, Guo Yuhai, and supervisor, Zhang Yufeng, to let the family take Jiang home. Chief Guo Yuhai's attitude was very unpleasant and he asked Liu who she was. Liu told Guo she was Jiang's wife and asked why the police beat Jiang. Guo said that Jiang fell and hurt himself. Liu said, "He fell because of you." Guo had nothing to say. When Liu and the family asked who beat Jiang and who was in charge of the case, Guo evaded the question and did not answer. Liu and the family eventually said, "If you still treat us like this, we'll file a complaint against you." Supervisor Zhang Yufeng immediately forced them to leave and said, "You can complain anywhere you want."

In September 1999, Jiang and Liu went to Beijing to appeal and clarify the truth about Falun Gong. Police from Beijing's Miyun County arrested them, and officers from Jilin Liaison Office in Beijing illegally forced them back to Jilin and detained them in Jilin City's Chuanying District Brainwashing Center. They steadfastly cultivated Falun Dafa and refused to be "transformed," so they were sent to a detention center. Two weeks later, the officials were afraid that they would go to Beijing again, so they sent them back to the brainwashing center and further persecuted them. They refused to cooperate and were later sent back to the detention center. After being arrested and detained several times, they still insisted on practicing Falun Dafa.

In 2000, police from Chuanying District's Zhihe Police Station broke into Jiang's house and arrested him. The police confiscated his television and VCR, and unlawfully sentenced him to two years in Jilin City's Huanxiling Forced Labor Camp. While in the Huanxiling Forced Labor Camp and facing brutal persecution, Jiang resisted with righteous thoughts and never compromised with the officials. After serving the two years, Jiang went home in a dignified manner. Meanwhile, Ms. Liu was illegally laid off by the Jilin City Water Company and was brutally tortured in the Jilin Province Heizuizi Women's Prison. Jiang had no job and was forced to live with his relatives in Jiangbei Township, Jilin City.

Eight months later, the Chinese Communist Party was going to have its 16th People's Congress. Police from the Jiangbei Township went to the home of Jiang's relative and tried to coerce him to give up Falun Gong. Jiang refused firmly. The police sentenced him to one year in Jiutai's Yinmahe Forced Labor Camp. He was brutally tortured in the forced labor camp but never cooperated. To resist the persecution, Jiang shouted, "Falun Dafa is good" in the Yinmahe Forced Labor Camp. He went home not long after that.

Jiang has again been arrested and imprisoned, and Liu is making a great effort to demand his immediate release.

Jinzhu Police Station of the Longtan District Branch Police Department

List of Perpetrators and Related Phone Numbers:

Guo Yuhai, Station Chief of the Jinzhu Township Police Station in Longtan District, Jilin City.
Zhang Yufeng, Supervisor of the police station.
The Jinzhu Township Police Station in Longtan District, Jilin City: 86-432-3011005, 86-432-3039721
Party Secretary's Office of the Jinzhu Township government, Longtan District, Jilin City, 86-432-3011722, General Office: 86-432-3011150
Address of the Jiangbei County government in Longtan District, Jilin City: No. 179, Qipan Street, zip code: 132021, phone number: 86-432-3041917
Address of the Longtan District Branch Police Department of Jilin City: No.2, Binjiang Rd., zip code: 132021, phone number: 86-432-3039658, fax: 86-432-3067720, 86-432-2193057, 86-432-3418617, 86-432-2193058
Director Wang Yi: 86-432-3037105 (Office), 86-432-2024868 (Home)
Political Commissioner Li Yulin: 86-432-3039853 (Office), 86-432-2579011 (Home)
Deputy Director Sun Wei: 86-432-3039860 (Office)
Deputy Director and Secretary of Security Inspection, Hao Zhuang, 86-432-3039647 (Office), 86-432-2443666 (Home), 86-13904404438 (Cell)
Director of the Political Division, Bei Shaoguang, 86-432-3418331 (Office), 86-432-2563399 (Home)

Address of the Jilin City Water Company: No.108, Taoyuan Rd., Jilin City, zip code: 132011, fax: 86-432-2025644, general lines: 86-432-2032778, 86-432-2032779, 86-432-2032780, 86-432-2032781
General Manager and Secretary of the Party Commission, Li Di, 86-432-2083063 (Office), 86-432-2060571 (Home)
Former Secretary of the Party Commission (currently the Vice General Manager), Lu Xiaochen, 86-432-2025236 (Office), 86-432-2447493 (Home)
Secretary of Organization, Li Zhuang (female, in charge of arresting and persecuting Falun Gong practitioners), 86-432-2032778 (x6219), 86-432-2459882 (Home)
Zhang Jiali, Li Zhuang's husband, Director of the Office of Secondary Water Supply, 2022616 (Office), 86-13904417981 (Cell)

Torture Method Used at Hehuakeng Labor Camp, Tangshan City -- The Sitting Board

(Clearwisdom.net) The Hehuakeng Labor Camp in, Tangshan City employs a torture method called the Sitting Board. The board they use is about 10 cm wide by about 10 cm thick. Practitioners are forced to sit in one position, from 5 a.m. in the morning to 8 p.m. at night. Other than two restroom breaks of (5 to 10 minutes each), practitioners have to stay stationary in the one position.

After a few days of sitting like this, pressure sores or ulcers begin to form on the victim's' buttocks. After an extended period of such torture, blood flow to the lower extremities is impeded. Practitioners will lose control over their bladder and/or bowels. Later, practitioners are unable to urinate or move their bowels. The groin, testicles and perineum can become severely ulcerated and infected.

>From 2001 to 2003, the practitioner in this photo was tortured at the Hehuakeng Labor Camp in, Tangshan City. The sitting board torture almost killed him. When he was near death,, the labor camp secretly sent him home. After several emergency rescues while under family members' care, he survived, but 'he is still seriously handicapped by urinary, intestinal and sexual dysfunction,.

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Sitting Board

Each day, practitioners must put their hands in their laps, keep their, backs straight, and sit on the bench for 18 hours. This torture method may be used continuously for more than fifty days. The authorities limit the practitioners' restroom use. Because of the long duration spent sitting on hard benches, practitioners develop large, painful sores on their buttocks. Some practitioners cannot urinate properly because of the pain. Also, the labor camp environment is very damp, but the police refuse to allow the practitioners to have fresh air or sunlight. ,Practitioners have been locked up for so long that, they developed red scabies over large parts of their bodies, causing painful itching. See this case at http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2002/7/29/24631.html

Mother and Son Are Deprived of Their Right to Social Identities

(Clearwisdom.net) The Chinese Communism Party (CCP) deprived a mother and her son of the right to get their social identities (ID cards) just because she practices Falun Gong. Her 20-year-old son is presently unable to get a job and has been suffering the consequences of this action.

Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Mou Yongxia from Daqing City, Heilongjiang Province is 57 years old. She is an excellent middle school teacher. Because she firmly insists on practicing Falun Dafa, she has been detained in the local detention center and the psychiatric hospital, where she has experienced brutal persecution. Daqing City ordered the police from the district branch to implicate her son in this matter. For more than a year the authorities have revoked their social identities.

Before Ms. Mou started practicing Falun Gong, she was very weak. For a long time she was unable to find a cure. From the time he was 4 years old, her son accompanied her to see doctors. He also did housework. When, due to heart disease, his mother was unable to eat normally, he would make rice soup and take it to her bedside. He also brought her basins of water for her to wash her feet. Since the age of 5, the son has been able to cook meals. When he was 9, his mother became paralyzed. Not only could she not play with him, but also he sometimes had to help her get up. With one arm around her waist, he held his mother's other arm and put it on his shoulder. In this way one of her arms would hold his neck and use him as a crutch. He wished that his mother could walk, but she couldn't.

One day, she started to practice Falun Dafa. Without taking even a bit more medicine, she recovered. Her son was so happy. However, six months later the practice was banned. Because his mother refused to renounce Falun Gong, after another year, she was forced to stop working, and their financial situation has since been very difficult. The son said, "Mom, don't worry. When I grow up I'll earn the money to support you!" After another year passed, his mother was arrested and detained for half a year. His father married another woman, and the maternal grandmother passed away in sorrow. The family was broken apart. After that, the son worried a lot. In the past he was an excellent student who even skipped a grade. Yet amid such a personal disaster he could not continue his studies.

In recent years, all the son has wanted to do was to work and earn some money to support his and his mother's basic living costs. However, as all employers ask for a social identity, he could not find a job. He was very worried and wept in despair. On June 3, 2005, his mother tried to get her social identity back again. However, not only did the police not give her the ID, they even arrested her. At the same time, the police confiscated her wallet, which had 600 yuan in it, her cell phone and other personal belongings. They detained her in Daqing Detention Center and punished her by making her sit on a metal chair for an extended period. She lost consciousness for an entire day because of the torture. When she was bailed out of custody, her whole body had black and purple bruises, and she had to be looked after by relatives and friends.

The police did not reinstate their social identities and took away the certificates that they needed to get their IDs (receipts of purchase and sale of their houses, etc.) When the son went to obtain the ID, they still gave him trouble. Now the son is so worried that his throat aches and he finds it hard to eat.

We ask all kind-hearted people to help them, and call upon the Chinese authorities to stop involving families of Falun Dafa practitioners in the persecution, give Ms. Mou Yongxia and her son their social identities, and stop disturbing their lives.

Falun Dafa Practitioner from Zhangjiakou City Tortured

(Clearwisdom.net)

Cruel Torture Received by Mr. Gao Shulin

Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Gao Shulin is 47 years old and an employee of the Xuanhua Steel Company in Zhangjiakou City, Hebei Province. Once he pushed a bike onto the street, with the bike holding a sign that read, "The Tiananmen Self-Immolation Was Not Done by Falun Gong." For this action he was detained in the Xuanhua Detention Center, where guards encouraged prisoners to nail matchsticks under one of his fingernails, causing his finger to swell and turn purple-green in color.

Mr. Gao was detained in the East 1-5 Cell in the Xuahua Detention Center. About ten cellmates took turns beating or kicking him, which caused injuries all over his body and led him to suffer a nervous breakdown. His right leg suffered blows that created two huge swollen bumps that were very hard. He was unable to sit comfortably. Mr. Gao was released after suffering a mental breakdown.

One and half months later, Mr. Gao Shuin was detained in the detention center again. His finger now appeared milk-white in color after the nail had fallen off. After being detained for 45 days, he was sentenced to two years of forced labor.

Mr. Guo Zhengqing Inhumanly Tortured

Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Guo Zhengqing is 43 years old. On April 25, 2001, he unfurled a 2.3 foot wide banner that read, "Falun Dafa is Good!" from a bus passing through Tiananmen. The crowd cheered for his courageous act. After being arrested and locked inside a police vehicle, he shouted through the window to the people outside, "Falun Dafa is good!" A policeman beat him on the face with a three foot long baton, causing his nose to bleed profusely. Seven to eight young policemen tried to tie him up with a thick rope, but the rope was broken in two pieces, and they could not cuff him no matter how they tried. He was brutally beaten many times after having been escorted to Xuanhua Detention Center, and he once passed out for three hours due to the beatings. He would only be able to fall asleep for about one hour at a time due to the severe pain all over his body.

In November 2002, at the time when Mr. Guo Zhengqing was transferred to Hebei Province's Shijiazhuang Fourth Prison, his legs and feet were deformed. His feet were twisted outward, making it impossible to wear shoes and difficult to walk at all; his hands were also injured and deformed. He continued to be beaten in the Fourth Prison. In March 2003, he was tortured at an "attacking class," where resolute practitioners are tortured. He was not allowed to sleep for eight straight days, and he passed out for several hours on the last night.

Although his right leg is now disabled, his solid faith in Falun Dafa has never changed. He said, "The government beats healthy people to disability. Falun Dafa is saving disciples from countless calamities. Without Master and Falun Dafa's salvation, human beings could not withstand such a disaster."

Mr. Guo Zhengqing reported that a female Falun Dafa practitioner employed by Xuahua Steel Company, 41 years old, name unknown, went on hunger strike in a detention center in Beijing. She was later transferred to Xuanhua Detention Center and killed during force-feeding within several days, between the end of March and the beginning of April 2003.

Another Falun Dafa practitioner who did computer printing was detained in the Wei County Detention Center. The thumb, middle, and ring fingers on his left hand were inflicted with the "Digging in Bamboo Sticks" torture (1), and his lower chin was broken after being kicked.

(The police hammer sharp bamboo sticks into the fingers of the practitioner through the tips of the fingernails. In the process of the hammering, the fingernail will be completely torn off. As one's exposed fingernail beds are extremely sensitive, the hammering process causes excruciating pain. The police begin by hammering the bamboo stick into just one finger. If the practitioner still refuses to allow his will to be bent, the police will then hammer bamboo sticks into more and more fingers until they have brutally mutilated all ten fingers.)

Five Dafa Practitioners Persecuted to Death in the City of Tianjin, and in Hunan, Sichuan and Shandong Provinces

(Clearwisdom.net) Ms. Guo Qinglan, 57 years old, lived in Tianjin. In 1994 she found out that she had cancer of the mammary glands and one of her breasts was removed. The doctor said that she would only live for another 8 months. Luckily, she had a chance to obtain Dafa and after practicing, she gained very good health and recovered completely. She was very grateful and steadfast in practicing Falun Dafa. In April 1999, because some scientists slandered Dafa, she went to the Tianjin Education College to validate the Fa. On around July 20, 1999 she went with some practitioners to Beijing to validate Dafa . She was arrested and sent home by officials. No matter how the police and families interfered, her determination to practice never changed. The police went to her house to harass her many times, and each time she told them that Dafa was great, that Dafa had given her a second life. However, due to the constant harassment and interference by police, her family started to feel afraid and then they were made to cooperate with the police. This caused Guo Qinglian to have a relapse of her old ailment. She died in November 2001.

Ms. Zhang Siuyin, 61 years old, was retired from the financial department of the First People's Hospital in Bin County, Hunan Province. She began to practice Falun Dafa in 1996. She was always in very good health. Her family was very frightened by the horrible persecution, which started on July 20 1999, and they tried very hard to dissuade and even prevent her from practicing. In October 1999 she and several other practitioners went to Beijing to appeal. They were illegally arrested by police at the train station in Bin County, and were sent to a detention center. In a damp and chilly jail, they were treated inhumanely, suffering from all kinds of threats, intimidation, force feeding and other forms of torture and persecution. Thus Zhang developed the symptom of a recurring cough. Her family spent 5000 yuan to bail her out and await trial. They forced her to stop practicing the exercises and to not read Zhuan Falun, and her cough became worse and worse. She went to the hospital for a checkup and the diagnosis was lung cancer. The hospital promised her family that her sickness could be cured, but after 9 months Zhang Xioyin passed away.

Mr. Yang Xuezhi retired from a water treatment facility in Jiajiang County, Leshan City Sichuan Province. He went to Beijing in the year 2000 to validate Dafa, and he was arrested and sentenced to two years in a labor camp. In 2002, after he came home from the labor camp, he continuously clarified the truth to other people and validated Dafa. In February 2003, once again he was detained by the authorities, and endured all kinds of torture by the police and others. In March 2003, an official called his family to pick him up and take him home. Two days later, Mr. Yang died.

Ms. Luo Fengying, 36 years old, a farmer from Qinge Village, Suji Town, Leshan City, Sichuan Province, began practicing in 1999. Afterwards, many of her sicknesses disappeared. However, after the persecution began, she was illegally detained for 15 days. Later, local 610 Office personnel and Suji town police often confiscated items from her house, and they constantly threatened and terrorized her, which resulted in her death in June 2002.

Mr. Tang Jinxian, 67 years old, from Liayang City, Shandong Province, began to practice Falun Dafa in March 1998 and was healed of many illnesses. After July 20, 1999, even though he lost his original cultivation environment, he still persisted in practicing. He was arrested and persecuted, suffered a mental breakdown, and in March 2004 he passed away.

Six Practitioners from Hunan, Guangdong, Hebei and Other Provinces Persecuted to Death

(Clearwisdom.net) Ms. Long Xiangyun, 72, was a practitioner from Miaopu Branch of Jiangdong Shop, Zhuhui District, Hengyang City, Hunan Province. In June 2000, she went to Beijing to clarify the truth about Dafa and was unlawfully arrested then transferred to her home city and fined 2,000 yuan. Afterwards, officials from the local 610 Office and the police often harassed her at home. Her husband stopped her from practicing the exercises and studying the Fa because he was afraid of being fined repeatedly. Ms. Long Xiangyun's previous heart disease recurred and she passed away in August of 2001. Before she died, she told fellow practitioners several times to be of strong resolve and not to stop their cultivation.

Mr. Li Guobiao, 53, was a practitioner from Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province. He previously had high blood pressure, but his blood pressure returned to normal after he started practicing Dafa. Since the year 2002, he was repeatedly harassed and unlawfully assaulted by the local police and the street committee over a long period of time, which caused him great mental distress. Mr. Li passed away on October 9, 2003.

Mr. Xing Zhuanyun, 81, was a practitioner from Beizhangbao Village, Raoyang County, Hebei Province. In the winter of 2004, personnel from the local 610 Office went to his village and asked him if he still intended to practice Falun Dafa. Mr. Xing answered "Yes." However, later on the 610 Office made up a "guarantee letter" for him, stating that he would quit practicing. This severely affected Mr. Xing mentally and physically, and he passed away on February 11, 2005.

Ms. Mi Changrong was a practitioner from Donghuayuan, Yunyang Town, Nanzhao County, and Nanyang City, Henan Province. Her husband Li Xingcheng went out to clarify the truth and was reported to the police by the principal of Donghuayuan Elementary School. Li Xingcheng was arrested by personnel from the 610 Office, and his workplace then refused to pay his salary, cutting off his family's only source of income. The police often went to their home to harass and threaten them. As a result of the constant abuse, Ms. Mi passed away on June 24, 2005.

Mr. Xiang Shufan, 74, was a practitioner from Yi County, Liaoning Province. Ever since he started practicing Falun Dafa in the beginning of 1999, many of his illnesses disappeared, and he was able to quit a smoking habit of more than 50 years. However, after the persecution began in July 1999, he was under great pressure from various people and agencies. His daughter, also a practitioner, was unlawfully detained and sent to a forced labor camp because she went to appeal for justice for Dafa and clarify the truth. This was a great blow to Mr. Xiang, and he passed away on January 29, 2004. Before he passed away, he told his relatives and friends to believe in Dafa and not to do anything damaging to Dafa.

Mr. Zhao Shouxin, 68, was a practitioner from Jianping County, Liaoning Province. He previously suffered from various diseases, but they all disappeared within one month of obtaining the Fa in January 1999. Since the persecution of Falun Gong began on July 20, 1999, Mr. Zhao's mental and physical health became severely damaged. Afraid of being affected by their father practicing Dafa, his children also pressured him not to practice. Mr. Zhao eventually passed away on May 18, 2004.

Voices of Justice

Australian University Student Council Passes Resolution to Support Falun Dafa

In the August board meeting of the Student Representative Council (SRC) at University of Technology, Sydney, SRC executives unanimously passed a resolution to condemn the persecution of Falun Dafa in China and it being extended to Australia.

In the resolution, the SRC showed their support for the rights and freedom of belief of Falun Dafa practitioners. They expressed their deep concern about the widespread torture and deaths of Falun Dafa practitioners in China, and for the harassment and interference in Australia conducted through Chinese Embassy and Consulates.

In particular, the SRC was concerned about pressure from the Chinese Communist Party on the Australian government to violate the rights of Australian Falun Dafa practitioners and supporters. An outstanding example of this is the monthly certificates that are signed by Foreign Minister Alexander Downer, banning Australian Falun Gong practitioners and supporters from holding any sign or banner in front of the Chinese Embassy in Canberra. The Foreign Minister started this process only days before the visit of Chinese Foreign Minster Tang Jiaxuan in 2002.

The SRC agreed to write letters to the Australian Prime Minister and Foreign Minister, and to the Australian Chinese Embassy, to express their concerns and urge the Australian government to speak out against this persecution. The SRC resolution is enclosed as follows:

UTS STUDENTS ASSOCIATION RESOLUTION

Preamble

Falun Dafa (also known as Falun Gong) is a traditional self-improvement practice for body and mind based on the universal principle of "Truthfulness-Compassion-Tolerance", and is commended for its devotion to public service and commitment to improving health in mind, body and spirit;

All Falun Dafa activities, including classes and conferences, are offered by volunteers and are opened to the public free of charge;

The 6-year long persecution of Falun Dafa in China severely violates the fundamental human rights enshrined in Chinese constitutional law, and has caused at least 2,671 deaths of Falun Dafa practitioners;

The Chinese Embassy and consulates in Australia continue to monitor and harass local Australian Falun Dafa practitioners and send defamatory and slanderous anti-Falun Dafa propaganda to schools, libraries and government offices, which is unacceptable interference with our supporting Falun Dafa practitioners' rights of practice, and serves to incite hatred and/or contempt towards Falun Dafa;

For the past 39 months, Foreign Minister Alexander Downer has signed a monthly certificate, specifically banning Australian Falun Gong practitioners and supporters from holding any sign or banner in front of the Chinese Embassy in Canberra due to the strong political pressure and economic temptation of the Chinese Communist Regime;

Motion

That the UTS STUDENTS' ASSOCIATION

a) Supports Falun Gong practitioners' freedom of belief and expression;

b) Condemns the persecution of Falun Gong in China and harassment in Australia;

c) Urges the Chinese Government to release all Falun Gong practitioners who have been illegally detained, tortured, and persecuted in prisons, detention centers, labour camps, mental hospitals and re-education centers in China;

d) Will write a letter to the Foreign Minister Alexander Downer to urge him to stop signing the monthly certificate immediately;

e) Will send a letter to the Prime Minister of Australia, urging him to speak up for an immediate end to the murder, torture, abuse, and other cruel and inhuman treatment of practitioners of Falun Gong in China and help to continue to rescue Australians' family members who are illegally jailed and persecuted in China for practicing Falun Gong;

f) Supports efforts to bring Jiang Zemin to justice in the courts for his crimes in genocide, crimes against humanity and crimes of torture.

g) Will write a letter to the Chinese Embassy and Consulate in Australia to urge them to stop harassing Falun Gong practitioners and inciting hatred in Australian communities to defame Falun Gong;

h) Will send copies of this resolution to The Honorable Prime Minister of Australia; The Honorable Minister of Foreign Affairs and the Chinese Embassy and Chinese Consulates in Australia.

News and Events from Around the World

France: Introducing Falun Gong and Exposing the Persecution in Paris (Photos)

(Clearwisdom.net) On August 13, 2005, Falun Gong practitioners in Paris held an activity at Place d'Italie on the southeast bank of the River Seine to promote Falun Gong and expose the ongoing brutal persecution of practitioners by the Chinese Communist Party.

Many came to talk with practitioners to learn more about the persecution

A lot westerners and Chinese stopped at the site to read more information

Colorful banners drew many people's attention, and so did photos detailing evidence of the persecution. People read leaflets distributed by practitioners, and some gave the thumbs up sign to encourage us. Although there were still some Chinese nationals who refused to accept leaflets, an increasing number of Chinese accepted them happily and said thanks. Some commented that the exercises were graceful, and a few even asked practitioners to teach them on the spot. People discussed about the persecution and many condemned the Chinese Communist Party's abuse of human rights. The truth about Falun Gong is reaching more and more people.

Learning Falun Gong onsite

Signing a petition to voice support for Falun Dafa

During the activity, a member of Amnesty International passed by. She listened to a practitioner's explanation of the background of the persecution, and wrote down details of our website. She said she would report it to Amnesty International and said she wished that basic human rights would be defended.

Source: http://clearharmony.net/articles/200508/28462.html

Taiwan: Falun Dafa Study Camp for Instructors Held at Pingdong College (Photos)

(Clearwisdom.net) The fourth Falun Dafa Study Camp for instructors was held from August 15 to 17, 2005 at Meihe Technical College. A total of 120 teachers registered for the study camp and the classes were packed. The three-day session touched many of the teachers attending and helped them to understand the principles of "Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance." They gave speeches on the final day to express their understandings.

More than one hundred attendees participate in the study session

Practitioners present a set of Falun Dafa books to Meihe Technical College library

The study session was held cooperatively by Meihe Technical College and the Falun Dafa Association of Taiwan. The main contents of the session were Master Li's video lectures, exercise demos and speeches by practitioners. The opening ceremony of the study session started with a speech by college president Liu. Several practitioners gave talks during the three days. They were Yang Suoying, associate professor of Sun Yat-Sen University - "Systemic Thinking and Self-Improvement," Sun Guoying, a primary school teacher - "Application of Dafa Principles in Teaching," Wu Yanmen, principal of Kouhu High School - "From Consultation to Cultivation," Nie Shuwen, a former director of the Department of Pediatrics, Shanghai Medical College - "Why Did a Medical Doctor Start Cultivation?" Hu Naiwen, presenter of program "Understanding Chinese Medicine" in New Tang Dynasty TV - "Chinese Medicine and Keeping Fit," Chen Yanling, director of the Taiwan Minghui Education Association - "Education in the New Century," He Yingman and Lin Kangli, a couple working for New Tang Dynasty TV - "Talking about Virtue from Words," Chang Fuchang, an engineer - "Talking about Wisdom in Modern Life Based on Prophesies."

For this session, the college had two classrooms open to hold the "International Truthfulness, Compassion, Tolerance Art Exhibition." A total of 45 paintings were on display. These paintings were from practitioner artists who expressed the wonderful state they experienced during cultivation, uncompromising courage in facing the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)'s brutal persecution, and the heavenly principle of "Good is rewarded with good and evil meets evil." The paintings caught the attention of the attendees of the study session, and they wanted to know more about Falun Gong.

Attendees give full attention to learning the exercises

Outside of the study session room was the book Zhuan Falun in different languages and other books by Master Li. Many attendees asked where to buy the books.

The attendees made the following comments:

Wang Huilan, Professor of Pingdong Education University: I appreciate the Falun Gong practitioners' selfless contribution during the three days. I wanted to find out about Falun Gong after learning that Director Wu Qiunan became so healthy. The three-day session made me decide to become a practitioner.

Mr. Zeng from East Taiwan Industrial Bank: I had heard of Falun Gong before but never learned more. This time I have observed the practitioners and feel that they are truly selfless.

Instructor Gao of Hsinbei Primary School: I read Zhuan Falun about seven years ago but did not understand it well. Recently I read it again and understood more. I started to practice alone at home. After attending the study session, I decide to participate in group study and practice.

Instructor Chuang of Wandan Primary School: I practiced Falun Gong six years ago. I experienced the effect of healing and keeping fit, but gave up when facing conflicts due to my shallow understanding of the principles. This time I did not miss the good opportunity. I got rid of much interference and completed the three-day session. I asked about sending forth righteous thoughts.

Instructor Li of Wandan Primary School: After viewing the paintings in the international art exhibition, I understand the practitioners' purpose for holding the exhibition. I regret that I did not bring my students to see the exhibition. Righteous gods cannot ignore the evil's brutal persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in the human world.

President Hsu: I was not diligent in practicing the exercises and reading the Dafa books. Since my child experienced the wonderful scenes in other dimensions as mentioned in Zhuan Falun, I truly believed and decided to cultivate diligently.

There was a gentleman in his 70s attending the session. He said that he had known about Dafa for about 20 days. He treasured Dafa and advised everyone to cherish the opportunity.

Germany: Falun Gong Information Day in Passau (Photo)

(Clearwisdom.net) Passau is a city in southern Germany that borders Austria and Czech Republic. On the 13th of August 2005, Falun Gong practitioners held an information day in downtown Passau to tell local citizens about the Chinese Communist Party's brutal persecution against Falun Gong.

Falun Gong information day at downtown Passau

On the same day, this ancient city's Catholic cathedral held an international youth activity called "Friends All over the World". A huge number of tourists from different countries walked through the streets and by the Falun Gong information stall. It was an excellent opportunity to clarify the truth, and the yellow banner reading, "Falun Gong is a Righteous Way Cultivating Truthfulness, Compassion, Tolerance" was very bright and eye-catching. Although there were only two people at the table, one demonstrating the exercises and the other handing out leaflets, we still attracted the attention of many pedestrians. People slowed down to watch us and find out more. Lots of people signed the petition calling for the release of Falun Gong practitioner Jiang Renzheng, who was locked up in a forced labor camp after he was sent back to China from Germany.

A gentleman told us that he would very soon be going on a pilgrimage and would visit many places. He wanted to tell people about China's human rights issues. He asked us if he could take more leaflets to hand out to more people.

Some of the Chinese tourists received materials that we had especially prepared for them. We hoped that through reading these materials, they would see through the Chinese Communist Party's propaganda and understand the truth about their six-year campaign of genocide against Falun Gong.

Source: http://clearharmony.net/articles/200508/28466.html

Practitioners Exchange Experiences and Insights

Strengthening Righteous Thoughts to Eliminate All Attachments of Fear, Bit by Bit

(Clearwisdom.net) I started to practice Falun Gong in 1996, and I have been working in a sensitive government agency of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). In 2001, my "solemn declaration" was published on the Clearwisdom.net website. Officials at my workplace forced me to go to a "transformation" center for forced brainwashing and threatened to send me to jail. With the attachments of fear and sentimentality, I was unable to oppose the old forces' arrangements and yielded. I then decided to catch up. At the beginning, I still had a severe attachment of fear, worrying about the officials at my workplace coming to persecute me. Later, I realized that I needed to use righteous thoughts to face them, since Teacher told us to do so.

The power of the Fa manifested itself. I was no longer afraid of these people. On the contrary, they were intimidated by me. They no longer came to bother me and were not so vicious when they ran into me. I even went to the person who was in charge of persecuting Falun Gong at my workplace and asked her to resolve my misplacement at work. She just shirked the responsibility and did not mention Dafa during the talk.

I then decided to clarify the truth to my colleagues. The attachment of fear came to the surface again. I worried that my colleagues might not be able to understand it or even tell the officials. I knew those thoughts were wrong. A practitioner should not have fear and has to let go of that attachment. So I started with a colleague in my office. One day, her child came to the office. As we talked, we spoke of the self-immolation, and the child said, "That is too scary, just like Falun Gong." I felt shocked. How could I clarify the truth to the child? The child's father is a department manager. I thought, "Will there be trouble if I clarify the truth to the child?" I calmed down and decided to clarify the truth to the child--after all, I should not be afraid. I first asked the child, "What do you think of me? Is your uncle a good person?" The child replied, "Yes, you are a good person." I then said, "Let me tell you the truth. You just said Falun Gong practitioners did the self-immolation in Tiananmen Square. That was actually staged. Falun Gong practitioners would not perform a self-immolation--it is the government that made up the story to deceive people..." The child happily accepted what I said. The effect was very good.

Another time during lunch in the dining hall, someone talked about the self-immolation. One colleague who did not know the truth said Falun Gong practitioners had performed the self-immolation. Without any hesitation, I said, "That was staged," and explained the facts. That colleague immediately realized, "Oh, it was staged."

At the end of last year, the CCP started another action to harm the sentient beings who did not know the truth by launching a campaign of Baoxian (meaning "maintaining the advantages of the party"). Teacher told us not to look for detours when confronting any difficulty, so I decided to clarify the truth to several officials. I first sent forth righteous thoughts to cleanse myself. Then I told the officials that I heard that the CCP launched the campaign of Baoxian due to the overseas publishing of the Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party, which pinpointed the Party's fatal flaws. Then, I told them why I practiced Dafa and that Dafa is good. Although they still had confusion and worries, they were no longer against Dafa. They just kindly reminded me to be careful and not to talk about this issue casually. Later, from what they did, I could tell that they had more or less come to know the truth. As a result, they were very passive towards the campaign of Baoxian.

There are many stories like this, and I cannot list them all. I truly feel that as long as we can walk righteously with righteous thoughts, Dafa can do anything. Our great Teacher is very benevolent. Through the years, I have been staggering along the road of cultivation. It is Teacher who holds my hand so that I can make it through. Right now, almost all of my colleagues know the truth about Dafa, and they know that I am a Dafa practitioner. They are not against my cultivation. They just care about my safety under the harsh rule of the Party. Whenever I clarified the truth to a colleague, that person would tell me, "You can practice yourself, but you better not tell others that you are a practitioner. Someone else may report you to the police." Of course, because I was doing this totally for their benefit, nobody reported me to the police. From this we can see that because of the CCP's rule, the trust among people is very weak now.

Currently, I have fewer attachments of fear than before. Nonetheless, there are still some left. We create the surrounding environment, and every one of us has the responsibility to improve it. I will walk the cultivation path steadfastly by following Teacher's requirements. Let us be diligent together and be worthy of the title of "Fa-Rectification Period Dafa Disciples."

After Being Bedridden for Ten Years, I am Back at Work and in Good Health

(Clearwisdom.net) I am 52 years old. Our great compassionate Teacher Li Hongzhi cured my illnesses, which had kept me bedridden for ten years. This has caused quite a stir in our local area.

When I was only 27, I became very ill after giving birth. I would throw up when I ate. I could not eat or drink normally at all. Taking medicine, shots, and IV injections didn't help -- nothing worked for me. Three months later, my weight dropped from 106 pounds to 64 pounds. I was extremely thin. During the 12 years from July of 1980 to November of 1992, my life centered around taking shots and IV injections. I also developed ten other complications including heart disease, high blood pressure, a stomach ulcer, gastroptosis, appendicitis, gallbladder stones, and so on. When my illnesses acted up, I could not open my eyes; I felt so dizzy that the world would whirl in front of my eyes. In order to treat my illnesses, I visited a dozen hospitals in my area and other areas. I also used many special herbal formulas. I even went to a witch doctor for help. None of it worked. I eventually went to Peking Union Medical College Hospital, but the experts there could not help me either.

I was bedridden for ten years straight. I was in tears every day and I was all skin and bone. I could not take care of myself and I relied on my family members to take care of me. My husband had to carry me on his back for hospital visits. Over the years, I have spent tens of thousands of yuan on medical treatment. My illnesses often made me lose consciousness and as a result I have had experiences of struggling between life and death. By 1992, at the age of 39, I already looked like an old person. At the time I really felt like the misery was too much to endure. But I could not let go of my young children, so I had no choice but struggle on in pain.

On November 12, 1992, great compassionate Master Li Hongzhi came to my town to teach Falun Gong. After seeing Teacher, my body immediately underwent changes. The illnesses that had bothered me for years disappeared. Ten days later, I went back to work with a healthy body. When my colleagues saw me, they all said that Falun Gong was indeed miraculous.

I'm telling you this because I want to give this wonderful message to my friends, neighbors, and the world's people who are struggling in illness and who are lost in their life's journey. With all my heart I would like to tell you, "Falun Dafa is an upright teaching. The great compassionate Teacher, Li Hongzhi, is here to offer salvation. All lives need 'Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance.' Please don't be fooled anymore by the lies by the Chinese Communist Party that were aimed to deceive the world. Try to understand Falun Dafa and you will definitely understand the meaning of your life."

A Girl Once Consumed by Bitterness over the Breakup of Her Parents Rediscovers Tolerance through Falun Gong, and Her Family Reunites (Photo)

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Today I no longer hate others around me, nor do I bear hatred towards society, and I have gradually grown accustomed to making friends with my classmates. Moreover, I have truly experienced a light, almost weightless state after recovering from my many ailments.

A Twofold Blow - Parents' Divorce and Disappointment in Romance

During my junior high school days, I was a naive and kind-hearted girl. However, when I was in my first year of high school, the relationship between my parents soured. They quarreled and threatened each other with divorce for a period of time. Then one year later, when the conflicts developed to the point in which it became impossible for them to resolve their differences, they carried through with the divorce. I was very much disgusted by their quarrels, and I very quickly developed a mindset of rebellion. I stopped listening and started showing disrespect instead. Later I fell into the mentality of being disgusted with everyone and with society as a whole, until I gradually began to hate everyone around me.

At that time, I thought everyone else was bad and that my own misfortune was society's fault. I further developed the opinion that being innocent and kind-hearted was wrong and stupid. Because of my long-term depression and the unhealthy psychological state that developed as a result, I sought out a boyfriend at a young age. However, he did not bring me any comfort, on the contrary, he brought another heavy blow to my heart. As a result, I really could not stand to look at anyone or anything.

During the summer of my third year in senior high school, I broke up with my boyfriend, which was another blow to me. I hated him, but I hated my father even more. It was my father who deprived me of a warm family life; it was he who drove me to trying to find comfort elsewhere. At that time, I was determined to seek revenge and get payback as soon as possible.

Inability to Control the Hatred Burning in My Heart

Hatred had grown inside of me to a point beyond my control, and it made me wonder why people were so hypocritical. They had cheated me just as society had cheated me, so I thought. This hatred inundated my innocent nature, and I did not believe in truthfulness any more and there was no kind-heartedness in me. From then on, I seldom laughed from my heart, and I formed no true friendships. When I made contact with other classmates, I always had a mentality of distrust, and I took strict precautions to protect myself. I did not want to help others from my own initiative. Even sometimes when I did comfort or help others, it did not come from my heart. I only did it because I was afraid that others might accuse me of being indifferent. The worst was my envy of the pretty schoolgirls. I always hoped that they too would encounter the same experiences as me. While I was in the university, I studied half-heartedly and allowed free play to my wild imagination. For no reason whatsoever, I found everyone to be offensive to my eyes. Whenever anything happened, I would never exercise tolerance. I would flare into rage arbitrarily and try to pick on other people's mistakes. I would feel very miserable and angry if I found that others' families lived happy lives.

As a matter of fact, I knew very clearly in my heart that my behavior was detrimental to myself, because it would make me sicker and sicker psychologically. However, I just could not control this hatred as it had developed into a kind of habit. Although I received a high-level education, it still could not change my twisted notions.

More and more people in different walks of life, including students, experience the beauty of Falun Gong's principles of "Truthfulness, Compassion and Forbearance."

Falun Dafa Has Cleansed My Heart

On February 2, 1996, I had an opportunity to learn about Falun Dafa, and I felt like a child who had been lost for many years suddenly rediscovering the doorway of her home. When I carefully read Zhuan Falun, Teacher's every word shook my heart and soul. Teacher says:

"It is because there is such a principle in the universe: Ordinary human affairs, according to the Buddha School, all have predestined relationships. Birth, old age, illness, and death exist as such for ordinary people. Due to karma resulting from past wrongdoing, one has illnesses or tribulations; suffering is repaying a karmic debt, and thus nobody can casually change this. Changing it means that one would not have to repay the debt after being in debt, and this cannot be done at will. Doing otherwise is the same as committing a bad deed." ... "In order to cure illness or eliminate tribulations and karma, these people must practice cultivation and return to their original, true selves. This is how all the different cultivation schools view it. One should return to one's original, true self; this is the real purpose of being human." (Lecture One, Zhuan Falun)

After reading through Zhuan Falun, I did some soul searching and found that innocence and kind-heartedness were right after all. But because of my mentality of hatred, I had created a lot of karma, and I have brought many extremely bad consequences to myself and others. I realized that hatred could lead me to take even more vicious actions, resulting in harm to others and to society. As a result, I would become a person condemned by society. Falun Dafa taught me that by doing bad deeds, I would lose the most precious substance called, "de" (virtue), and gain the black substance, karma. Without de, I would then face the most dreadful consequence of both my body and soul becoming extinct. I also understood that people gained karma for doing bad things, and that it was the karma that would lead to future troubles and tribulations.

Therefore, I stopped hating others in society, and not only that, I actually began to thank them. I truly expressed my gratitude towards them. This was because all these bitter experiences provided me with an opportunity to learn Falun Dafa. I also enlightened to the truth that it is wrong to be jealous of others. Teacher says:

"A wicked person is born of jealousy.
Out of selfishness and anger he complains about unfairness towards himself.
A benevolent person always has a heart of compassion.
With no discontentment or hatred, he takes hardship as joy.
An enlightened person has no attachments at all.
He quietly observes the people of the world deluded by illusions."

("Realms," Essentials for Further Advancement)

I do not want to be a wicked person, and instead I wish to strive to be a benevolent person who can eventually reach enlightenment through cultivation.

Truly Exercising Forbearance Touches the Hearts of Friends and Relatives

Through cultivating Falun Dafa, I have experienced remarkable changes. I no longer hate the pretty girls, and I now treat the people around me with sincerity and warmth after gradually having let go of my bad temper and resentful disposition. Moreover, when other people lose their tempers, I am able to forbear it. Gradually other students became willing to make friends with me, and I grew very healthy, with no diseases whatsoever. I even experienced a lightness of my body. Today you will find me full of vitality, with a very healthy complexion.

In 1995, before I learned Falun Gong, my father wanted to remarry my mother. At that time, because of my rebellious mentality, I resolutely opposed the idea. Later on, although I did not say much, I was still not happy about it, so I often lost my temper over the matter. After I started to practice Falun Gong, I realized that my father had suffered a lot living in other parts of the country for so many years. Since he had the courage to come back, it was a good thing for my mother, my brother, and me. Therefore, I needed to follow what Teacher has taught us by thinking more about others. I realized that I should offer kind advice to my father instead of always taking to heart what he had done in the past. Indeed, my attitude towards my father has changed for the better, and my mother and brother have both forgiven him. My father was deeply moved by our compassion, and he strived to improve himself both at work and at home. As a result, our whole family is now living very harmoniously, and after talking to my family about my practicing Falun Gong, they all eventually supported me.

It was Falun Dafa that saved my family. If I were not practicing Falun Gong, I would still be controlled by hatred, and I would still be a person condemned by society. My entire youth, and perhaps my whole life, would be filled with a hatred that would eventually destroy me, and the consequences are too ghastly to contemplate. Falun Dafa has created my future anew, thus preventing any harm or damage I might have otherwise done to others and to society.

A Special Speech Given by a Man's Mother on his Wedding Day

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In the winter of 2004, at a hotel in Weixian City, Hebei Province, I attended a very special wedding ceremony. Many guests had been invited to the wedding ceremony that started at around noon.

When the ceremony proceeded to the point where the parents of the wedding couple were supposed to go onto the stage to give a speech, a couple in their fifties happily walked up onto the stage. The lady said, "Thank you, friends and relatives for attending my son and daughter-in-law's wedding. Today I am especially delighted and also extremely touched. This is because I finally managed to survive to this day, to witness my son's wedding." Many people opened their eyes in surprise.

The mother continued, "I am someone who had been expected to die by the doctors at the hospital. In the past, I suffered from many illnesses and had to be hospitalized on many occasions. We spent a lot of money but I did not get any better. In 1998 I was seriously ill and was hospitalized again. This time the doctor gave me a letter informing me that I was critically ill and that my days were numbered. I was told that my request to stay at the hospital was declined and that I should go home and prepare for my funeral. I felt pity for my teenage son, as his mother would be gone soon.... I was in utter despair."

The whole hall was quiet. The mother went on, "Later, a friend introduced Falun Gong to me. From then on, Falun Gong changed my fate. Within a few months of cultivation, I was revived. It was Falun Gong that gave me a second chance. If not for Falun Gong, I would not be alive today, not to mention being able to attend my son's wedding here."

The mother said, "On July 20, 1999, Jiang's regime started to suppress and persecute Falun Gong on a country-wide scale. My family members were illegally detained, fined and tortured with torture devices on numerous occasions. One time, the County Detention Centre police asked me if it was wrong for the government to persecute Falun Gong. I replied that it was definitely wrong. As a person, one must talk about conscience. I am a person who had been given a death sentence by the hospital. It was Falun Gong that gave me a new lease on life and ensured happiness in my family. Falun Gong also taught each member of my family how to be good people. Would you say this is this right or wrong? As people, we cannot go against our own consciences."

The wedding guests were all touched. Some people nodded their heads in agreement, some people were thinking deeply.

"At this time I am able to attend my son's wedding, and I think there is a predestined relationship among us (to meet here). Among you who are seated here, if you have already started practicing Falun Gong, please cultivate diligently and do not let Master and his merciful salvation down. For those who are not already Falun Gong practitioners, please quickly read the book Zhuan Falun and try to understand the true story of Falun Gong. This is indeed a rare chance for all of us."

After the mother finished her speech, she walked down from the stage and shook hands with the guests. She reminded them one by one, "You must remember my words. You must remember to cultivate diligently. Friends and relatives, you must remember that Falun Gong is good! I only have this wish to give as a gift to all of you. I believe that this is more valuable than any other gift in the world."

That day there was another wedding taking place in the same hotel. There were a lot of guests; including hotel employees there were over 400 people. They all stopped their meals and work. The whole hall was quiet and everyone listened attentively to this Falun Dafa practitioner tell her story.

During the meal everyone was talking about the topic of Falun Gong. After the meal, while sending off the guests, this mother again reminded her guests to remember that Falun Gong is good. The guests expressed their thanks and respect to her.

How An Elementary School Pupil Clarified the Truth to Those around Her

(Clearwisdom.net) As the number of people quitting the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), Communist Youth League (CYL) and Chinese Young Pioneers (CYP) keeps increasing, the communist evil spirit is employing all means in a vain attempt to expand its forces and is starting to increase the CYL's membership, even among elementary school pupils under the age of 14.

One day, the teacher in charge of our class wrote out on the blackboard more than ten outstanding students' names for the class to elect and my name was among them. Since I had already withdrawn from the CYP, I knew I should absolutely never get stuck with the CYL. Therefore, I sent forth righteous thoughts to deny the communist evil spirit's arrangement completely and ask for Teacher's help. As a result, I was, as I wished, not elected, but I gave several of my votes to other classmates, thinking with an ordinary person's mentality.

Upon getting home, I told my mom about it. Mom pointed out that I was being too selfish. Since I knew that I myself could not be inscribed with the mark of the party, I should not have elected other classmates. She pointed out that that was the same as if I had pushed them into a bottomless pit. She asked me to clarify the truth quickly to my classmates and have them quit the CYL as soon as possible.

Therefore, I started clarifying the truth to my classmates from the angle of a third party. It went smoothly. Before I realized it, I developed an attachment of being complacent and one of my classmates, who didn't want to quit the CYL, informed our teacher against me.

On the day I went back to school, the teacher in charge of our class suddenly asked me, "Why did you persuade your classmates to quit the CYL and CYP?" I said frankly and calmly, "I read from a book of prophecies that the CCP is a red dragon in another dimension. If one joins the CCP, CYL or CYP, he will be inscribed with the mark of this dragon. Nowadays, the Party has become corrupt and evil, and the gods will settle accounts with it some day in the future. If one is a member of CCP, CYL or CYP, he will be a member of their organization and will be among the ones that are weeded out."

The teacher asked, "Is there anybody in your family practicing Falun Gong?" I didn't answer directly; instead I replied, "I have read flyers handed out by Falun Gong practitioners. They tell people about 'Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance' and persuade people to become good. Furthermore, Falun Gong can cure people's diseases and keep them fit. Now, there are many people outside China who believe in and practice Falun Gong." The teacher then said, "O.K. Let's have a good talk about it tonight."

Upon learning that the teacher wanted to talk to me later, Mom reminded me, "Seize this chance to clarify the truth. You may clarify the truth with wisdom from the angle of a third party. Send forth righteous thoughts frequently, and I will help you by sending forth righteous thoughts also." Having listened to what Mom said to me, I could not help being a little nervous. I lost no time and started to send forth righteous thoughts to clear away my attachment of fear and all the evil factors in other dimensions. Then I found from the "Minghui Weekly" several articles sharing experiences about clarifying the truth to teachers. I read them to get an idea of how others had been able to be successful when clarifying the truth to their teachers.

In the evening, our teacher asked her daughter (also my classmate) to come look for me. Upon going down the stairs with her, I saw the teacher, two other teachers who were teaching us some courses and our vice principal waiting for me there. I was told they came to do an investigation of what happened. I felt my heart beating faster, and I asked Teacher to strengthen my resolve. In the process of clarifying the truth to my teachers, I felt myself filled with wisdom and able to answer questions smoothly. Below are the questions my teachers and vice principal asked me, along with my replies.

The teacher in charge asked, "Do you believe in Falun Gong?"

I answered, "I believe in 'Zhen, Shan, Ren.' I think 'Zhen, Shan, Ren' is very good. 'Zhen' is teaching people to be honest, do things in a honest way and not lie; 'Shan' means always thinking of others, being kind, and having compassion for others; 'Ren' is a way to treat others with tolerance and forbearance, and to be modest and courteous."

Question: "You quit the CYP. Don't you love our country?"

Answer: "I love my country. However, it doesn't mean I love the organization of the CCP. China and the CCP are not equivalent concepts."

Question: "Our country doesn't allow people to practice Falun Gong, so one can not practice. Isn't that right?"

Answer: "It is not the country that doesn't allow people to practice Falun Gong. It is only one or a handful of leaders of the government, who were full of jealousy, that didn't allow people to practice. The Tiananmen Self-Immolation Incident was staged. As far as I know, all Falun Gong practitioners are nice people. They don't even kill insects. How could they commit suicide? If Falun Gong is not good, why are so many people practicing it, including many foreigners?"

Question: "How do you know so much about it?"

Answer: "Because I often read flyers clarifying the truth, delivered by Falun Gong practitioners. Teacher, don't you read those flyers delivered to the building hallways where your home is?"

Finally, a teacher complained to the teacher in charge, "You are stirring up troubles." After saying that, the teacher left in a huff. Another teacher whispered to me, "Please quit the CCP for me, but don't use my real name." After saying this, that teacher was also gone. The vice principal, who was off to the side, also glared at the teacher in charge and said no more.

* * * * *

Upon going through the process of clarifying the truth this time, I found that I still had many human mentalities. Facing the upcoming graduation from elementary school, I thought I should make good progress after finishing the exams and getting into junior high school. As a matter of fact, this was to find some pretext for myself to be lazy and, therefore, I slackened my pace in doing the three things that Teacher asked us to do. Furthermore, when facing the problem of quitting the CYL, I did not realize, from the aspect of the Fa, that I should seize the opportunity to save my classmates and teachers. On the contrary, I voted for classmates out of a human mentality. Is it not the same as pushing my classmates into a bottomless pit?

Later after discussing with Mom, I came to realize that, as practitioners, we are supposed to save sentient beings. However, I clarified the truth only because I wanted to make up for my mistake of voting for my classmates to join the CYL. In other words, I did not do it out of my compassion for them. After several classmates quit the CYP (or CYL), I developed an attachment to being complacent and this allowed the evil to use it as a loophole, which caused the classmate, who didn't know the truth, to report me to the teacher.

Since I failed to study the Fa and practice the exercises often, my righteous thoughts were not strong enough and the words I spoke were not powerful enough. Hence, the evil spirit behind the teacher in charge was not eliminated completely. When the teacher in charge later brought the vice principal and two other teachers to do an investigation (they are also sentient beings I should save), I developed the attachment of fear and wasn't able to realize quickly that it was not me who was scared, but some factors behind me. Only after asking for Teacher's help to strengthen me and under Teacher's protection with compassion, did my wisdom emerge. It kept me from being persecuted by the evil and made those teachers able to know the truth and one to even resign from the CCP.

The above are just some shallow understandings of my Mom and me. If anything is wrong or improper, please kindly point it out.

People Start Practicing Falun Dafa after Learning the Truth

(Clearwisdom.net) Master taught us in "Let Go of Human Attachments and Save the World's People,"

"And as for people who want to learn the practice after you clarify the truth, you should arrange for them to study the Fa and learn the exercises as soon as possible. They are the next group of disciples who will cultivate."

From the beginning of the persecution until now, because Falun Dafa practitioners clarified the truth patiently in our little town, some fellow practitioners who once took detours on their paths have come back, and more than ten new people have taken up the practice, demonstrating solid faith in the Fa and Master. One new practitioner's husband strongly supports her. He encouraged her, "You just practice and don't worry. If one day you are arrested, I will take meals to you every day." New practitioners also actively join each group Fa-study or experience sharing.

One lady started cultivating in 2004, and she does the three things Master asks of practitioners every day. She studies the Fa, does the exercises, and sends forth righteous thoughts every evening. She will not go to sleep before joining in sending forth righteous thoughts globally at midnight. Her husband would help by reminding her whenever it looked like her mind was wandering.

One new practitioner introduced Falun Dafa to her younger sister. The two sisters greatly treasure the Fa. They have withdrawn from CCP (Chinese Communist Party) organizations and helped more than thirty other people withdraw from the CCP organizations, as well.

Recently, a young couple who both started practicing Falun Dafa a short time ago took the initiative to let our group use their house to do group exercises and have group Fa-study. This is the first group practice site we have had since the persecution began on July 20, 1999.

We believe that along with the mighty current of Master's Fa-rectification rapidly pushing forward, so many group practice sites will be established that they will look like bamboo shoots after a spring rain, giving people their chance to be saved!

My Aunt's Change

(Clearwisdom.net) I went back home for summer vacation this year. My aunt hurried to see me, showing fear in her face. She said, "I received a booklet which is against the Communist Party. I remembered you asked your uncle (my aunt's husband) to withdraw from the Communist Party. I am afraid you are involved in this. So I hurried over to tell you not to get involved. Who dares to be against the Communist Party? Even though it's very bad, it is in power. If you are against it, you will suffer. It's much more powerful than you."

I patiently let her finish her words and then said, "Aunt, you came over to tell me because you worry about me. People of your age have experienced what the Communist Party has done, so you are very afraid of it. Haven't you told me about these people who died in labor camps? What crimes have they committed? They were locked up until they died, just because they told the truth."

My aunt replied, "Yes. These people were very capable, and well educated. At that time, they were forced to carry big baskets of dirt to fix the roads, even though they were starving. They died as a result of the starvation and intense labor. In the 1960s, people in the labor camps almost died out. People who died late did not have the strength bury the people who died before them. So the bodies were buried very shallowly. The smell of dead bodies was everywhere. Dead bodies were floating in the river, and crabs were climbing over them. No one dared to eat crabs, because they were afraid that the crabs ate dead human bodies. Bigger wooden signs were for an officer's grave, and smaller ones were for a soldier. Graveyards were several miles long. I am still afraid when I think of it today." She continued, "There were two big pits at the county hospital. No one knows how many babies' bodies were buried there. These babies had just come out of their mother's wombs. The babies were due, and their mothers were sent to the hospital. The babies were delivered after their mothers were given special shots. When the babies came out, their heads were dipped into water, so that they would not cry. After they died, their bodies were dumped in the big pits. The Communist Party has killed so many people. You did not experience the horror. That is why you are not afraid of it."

I said, "Aunt, I worry for you. I worry for you and your relatives. The Communist Party has killed so many people, and it fights against nature and humanity. Its crimes are so huge. Evil will be punished. Heaven will eliminate the Communist Party. You joined the Communist Party, and if you don't withdraw, you will share its fate. Do you want to risk your future for this most corrupt party? For your safety you should withdraw from the Communist Party."

My aunt understood this, and asked all her family members to withdraw from Communist Party later.

When the Mind is Righteous, the Evil Perishes

(Clearwisdom.net) Teacher told us in "Teaching the Fa at the Western U.S. International Fa Conference,"

"So as a cultivator, what is truly remarkable is when you can be steadfast and have righteous thoughts so firm that nothing can sway you. Be solid and firm like diamond, or granite, and then nothing can affect you--evil will be afraid at the mere sight of you. If upon encountering trying circumstances your thinking can be truly righteous, then, when faced with the evil's persecution and when faced with interference, just one sentence of yours fortified with steadfast righteous thoughts can instantly make the evil disintegrate, and it will make those who are being used by the evil turn and flee, it will make the evil's persecution of you dissolve, and it will make the evil's interfering with you disappear without a trace. One thought born of righteous faith is all it takes. And whoever can hold firm that righteous thought and go the distance will become a magnificent god forged by Dafa."

Recalling my experience in validating the Fa, I have a deep and unforgettable appreciation for this paragraph.

It was early summer of 2002. I went to my work unit to clarify the truth.

Prior to that time, I had been arrested by the police while attending a small Fa conference. The police abused me both physically and verbally. I was sent to prison and then to a brainwashing center, where I endured inhumane treatment. My employer suspended me for several months without pay. While facing the persecution, I was determined to deny the persecution. Because of my righteous thoughts and fearless mentality, I was able to pass all the "tests."

The persecution of Falun Gong practitioners is a key point in our truth clarification. Especially when talking about our own experiences, our stories become more powerful and moving. If we tell our stories without fear, and tell them with wisdom and rationality from Dafa, everyone will be willing to listen. Even people who have been poisoned by the lies and slander of the persecution do not dare to oppose our clarifying the truth in this way. I visited many agencies, including police branches, residential offices, banks, social security departments, Politics and Law committees and even the city police department. I clarified the truth to the directors, party secretaries, managers, clerks and officials in the city. I told them about what happened to me and about the truth behind the "Tiananmen Square Self-immolation." To validate the beauty of Dafa, I shared how I personally benefited from practicing Falun Gong. After that, I requested that my employer pay my back salary.

During my truth clarification, I came to know many officials and their staff members. As a result of my efforts, they developed some understanding of Dafa and of the persecution. Later, almost everyone I talked to indicated that they would push the company to pay me my salary. This has been the result of Teacher's compassion; it is also an opportunity for more people to learn Dafa and is a clear indicator that people who have learned the truth are walking toward a renewed life. Even if the manifestation is tiny, we still have to treasure every opportunity to save people. A single spark can ignite an entire grassland. Meanwhile, while people are getting to know the truth, the evil begins to dissolve. This is also a process of demonstrating Dafa's compassion to save people. When we clarify the truth well, we can see how a hopeless situation can turn around to become very good.

The other day I went to see the party secretary of my company. My past experience with him showed that he had some basic understanding about Dafa, so our conversation was friendly. Even the security section chief there did not say anything negative. During our discussion, however, a man came in and yelled angrily, "You Falun Gong practitioners set yourselves on fire." Before he had a chance to continue, I stopped him and said, "That was a hoax by Jiang Zemin to frame Falun Gong." I fixed him firmly with my gaze while talking. To my surprise, he was so frightened that his body trembled briefly. He did not dare stay any longer and left immediately. This person was the office director. The whole exchange happened so suddenly, and I just spoke out loud what came to my mind.

After that, we continued talking, and then another man came in. He was also angry and red-faced. He appeared to be furious and made some noises from his throat. Before he had a chance to speak, I looked him in the eye. He instantly lowered his head to avoid direct eye contact and he turned around and left immediately. This person was the general manager. My salary issue was being delayed over and over again, due to the evil's interference in other dimensions. However, after my comprehensive truth clarification using my righteous thoughts to overcome the evil, I effectively suppressed and dissolved the evil elements and reduced their scope of activity. But the evil was not about to quit easily, and the two persons (general manager and office director) continued to make trouble. Under Teacher's compassionate protection, I dissolved the evil with righteous thoughts and actions. As Teacher said,

"...it will make those who are being used by the evil turn and flee, it will make the evil's persecution of you dissolve, and it will make the evil's interfering with you disappear without a trace." ("Teaching the Fa at the Western U.S. International Fa Conference")

After the evil was eliminated, no one dared to make any more trouble for me, and my company finally paid back all my salary unconditionally.

A New Practitioner: Obtaining the Fa While in Tribulation

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One day last May, I was struck by a disaster. I suddenly fell from a 3-meter high, two-story building. I immediately fell unconscious from the shock and pain. I was sent to a hospital. A CT scan confirmed that I had fractured my wrist and sprained my pelvis. The doctor suggested that I be hospitalized for surgery on the wrist and pelvic bone. At that time, I was in unbearable pain. I had no idea how I would live my life in the future. My parents sought help with a specialist. Eventually, they discussed the situation with me and decided to put a cast on my wrist instead of going through an operation. I went home to recuperate.

After returning home, I had pain all over my body, which made it difficult for me to get through the day. I was in unbearable pain. I could not sleep for two to three days in particular, as I could not lie down, sit, or stand up during the night. I could not describe how awful it was. My parents were with me day and night to take care of me.

A relative of mine practices Falun Dafa and constantly clarified the truth to me. However, I was poisoned by the lies on TV and other mouthpiece media. Therefore, I was not sure if what I heard about Falun Dafa was believable or not. This practitioner told me that I should study well the book Zhuan Falun.

I started reading Zhuan Falun thoroughly. At first, I couldn't hold the book with my hands, so the practitioner read the book to me. Then a miracle happened. I was immobile and could not take care of myself. On the second day, I was able to cling to the wall and slowly walk to the restroom. I was able to sleep. I only took the medicine that my father had bought me for four to five days. When I was in pain, I asked Teacher to help me. During the day, I persisted in studying the Fa and read Falun Dafa related truth-clarification materials. In less than ten days, I was able to get up from bed and walk around, and I was able to take care of myself. One month later I could go downstairs to take a walk. I have personally experienced a miracle of Falun Dafa.

I was blessed from the tribulation and fortunate enough to obtain the Fa. I'm writing this today to share with everyone. With all my heart, I'm telling everyone, "Falun Dafa is good! Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good! It is Falun Dafa that has given me my second life."

Media Coverage

Epoch Times: Stop Feeding the Dragon: Forced Deportation from the UK Is to Certain Persecution
Why Western Governments Need to Learn Some Serious Lessons from Recent Deportations that Have Sent People Back to China to face persecution

Epoch Times UK Staff

Aug 26, 2005

Supporters of Falun Gong (also called Falun Dafa) display a banner showing torture re-enactments. (Greg Wood/AFP/Getty Images)

Commentary

There was a time in China when you couldn't switch on the TV, radio, or pick up a paper without being hit by a deluge of anti-Falun Gong propaganda. But now--not a whisper. The subject of Falun Gong has been faded out over the last couple of years in one smooth slide of the media control panel.

So what happened? Did the Communist regime give up their attempts to eradicate the peaceful practice? Is the silence of the airwaves, once filled with hatred, matched by a quiet in the labor camps which has replaced the echoing screams of torture victims?

In a word, no.

The media silence on the persecution does not indicate a softening stance towards Falun Gong. On the contrary; it is a calculated step designed to continue the persecution unabated. According to the Falun Dafa Information Centre, the number of reported Falun Gong deaths has been continuing to rise at an increasing rate.

The recent deportation cases, in which asylum seekers have been sent back to China to face persecution, are case in point; a sharp example of the serious situation in China and the degree to which Western governments have been duped by the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) tactical shift.

In March, a family of Falun Gong practitioners were deported from Germany back to China. The authorities had confidently dismissed claims that they would face persecution, saying that the husband, Jiang Renzheng had not engaged in any activities which would put him at risk. Within one month, he was in a labor camp.

Two weeks ago in Canada, a Falun Gong practitioner was returned amidst similar assurances. She disappeared on return to China. When Falun Gong practitioners disappear, all too often they reappear months later in labor camps, or emerge years later as a name on a list of death cases.

Recent cases in the UK, as with other cases in other countries, have been taken so close to the wire, with last minute aborted deportations.

In the UK at present, Ms. Ling Na Rong is still in detention, her fate hanging in the balance, having narrowly avoided two scheduled deportations. The authorities have rejected her asylum claims because she is not a "Falun Gong leader". Yet Falun Gong practitioners in the UK are adamant that she faces a very real risk of torture.

The Home Office, like other authorities, says that each case is measured on its own merit. But when governments are consistently misjudging the risk to deportees, the problem lies not with their judgment of the individual case but with their overall perception of the situation. In other words, they have been deceived by the CCP about the situation in China.

Jiang Zemin originally declared his intention to eradicate Falun Gong within three months and launched an all out campaign of demonization. The expectation was that the wave of hatred-inducing propaganda and all-out repression, together with extensive torture and incarceration, would be too much for Falun Gong to bear and all traces of the practice would be washed away. The persecution was an all or nothing gamble; it was such a large scale deception--targeting 100f the population--that were the truth to emerge and Falun Gong to survive, Jiang knew it would spell disaster for the CCP.

So when a few years later Falun Gong was still going strong, and the persecution was beginning to lose support and face growing criticism in China, the CCP quietly pulled it underground. The all-out slander dropped from a daily barrage to a weekly trickle, then to nothing. But meanwhile, in the labor camps and detention centers, the torture and beatings continued.

The purpose was to allow the persecution to continue unchecked, to convince the Chinese people that the CCP had won out against the practice, and to convince the outside world that the persecution was no longer an issue for the CCP.

When the CCP was still shouting from the rooftops about Falun Gong, the voice of criticism had begun to grow louder in the west. The benign nature of the practice was increasingly recognized outside of China, so the voice of hatred from China was beginning to be seen more clearly for what it was; incitement to genocide. In dumbing down the hate campaign, they gave the impression that they had left Falun Gong alone.

And, if the recent spate of deportation attempts is anything to go by, the downplaying of the persecution by the CCP has in part been successful in convincing Western governments that the CCP has lost interest in Falun Gong.

However, the widespread miscalculation of the risk to deportees has several further reasons behind it.

One issue is espionage. Falun Gong practitioners have always claimed that they have been monitored by Chinese spies abroad, and that western governments have failed to grasp the degree of surveillance overseas. They emphasize that for a person to involve themselves in Falun Gong appeal activities even in a small way may place them in great danger on return to China.

They refer to a "blacklist" of Falun Gong practitioners, used by the CCP to bar people's entry into other countries on sensitive occasions, as evidence of overseas monitoring. When ex-president Jiang Zemin visited Iceland, dozens of Falun Gong practitioners from different countries were detained on arrival, and many were barred from boarding flights to the country. The Icelandic people protested in their thousands. Similar things have happened in other countries.

Falun Gong practitioners in the UK have long-claimed to have received menacing calls, had their emails tampered with, their telephones tapped, had conversations opposite the Chinese embassy monitored and have been filmed by people inside the Chinese Embassy.

Perhaps it is forgivable that the authorities doubted Falun Gong practitioners' concerns about espionage and needed further confirmation of the phenomenon. But when Jiang Renzheng was whisked off to a labor camp after deportation from Germany, the alarm bells should have begun to ring in the Immigration departments worldwide.

And when several defectors stepped forward in the last few months, describing and evidencing a network of thousands of spies dedicated to monitoring Falun Gong, governments should have sat up, taken notice and adjusted their perception of asylum-seeking issues accordingly.

But recent events suggest that they haven't.

It is a sad indictment of the failure to take these claims seriously that the latest deportation tragedy was in Canada, where defector Han Guangsheng has not only confirmed other reports of espionage rings monitoring Falun Gong, but also described in graphic detail how he had witnessed torture and beatings of over a hundred Falun Gong practitioners.

It seems that the voice of Falun Gong practitioners is the last one to be listened to. Media reports often imply that Falun Gong would have its own motives in providing false information or painting the persecution as more serious than it really is.

But looking back over the last six years, a clear pattern emerges; the claims of Falun Gong practitioners are slowly but surely, one by one, turning out to be true.

When the persecution first began, many of the lies about the practice were repeated in the west. These lies were challenged by Falun Gong practitioners, and eventually the peaceful nature of the practice came to be recognized as they claimed it to be.

When in 2001 a tragic case of self-immolation in Tiananmen Square caught the headlines, claimed by the CCP to be carried out by Falun Gong, it was vehemently denied by practitioners saying that a genuine Falun Gong practitioner would never do such a thing. Over the following months and years, evidence emerged which clearly points to the whole event being staged by the CCP.

Falun Gong practitioners long ago began to talk about the mysterious 610 Office; an instrument of government above the law which has absolute power in carrying out the persecution of Falun Gong. The existence of this Gestapo-like agency has recently been confirmed by defectors who worked for it.

There are many further examples.

Much of the reluctance to take the word of Falun Gong practitioners at face value stems from the remnants of the labels slapped on it by the CCP which filter through to the west unnoticed. Falun Gong has subconsciously been labeled as having ulterior motives.

There are two sides to any story, but that doesn't mean that the truth lies between. Hitler had his reasons for persecuting the Jews for sure. And the Jews had their reasons for resisting. Hitler was a Genocidal maniac. The Jews were fighting for their lives.

The CCP is trying to eradicate Falun Gong. Falun Gong practitioners are fighting for their right to practice and fighting for the lives of their fellow practitioners. This is not an unreasonable motive for their efforts to expose the persecution, nor a reason to work too hard to find reasons to doubt their word. Caution yes, but when you have to make a choice in which human lives hang in the balance, is it better to trust the word of a persecuted meditation practice or the word of a regime which has murdered 80 million of its own people?

The CCP has always made a mockery of diplomacy, deliberately manipulating the sensitivities of democratic processes to its own advantage. For example, it plays on the concept of "not losing face" Any self-respecting diplomat will be taught that "not losing face" is part of the Chinese cultural make-up and must be handled sensitively. So they play on this: "You can't talk about human rights out in the open, because we will loose face." The diplomats wring their hands in a great show of cultural sensitivity, and comply. Meanwhile the CCP is just laughing at them.

The deportation cases tragically reflect both the naivety and ignorance of the Western governments and the bitter reality of the persecution. The CCP cadres must be laughing, rubbing their hands in glee, as governments prepare these deportations and forward information on the person, their time of arrival and the nature of their application.

Even the CCP must be wondering how many times people will be able to disappear into labor camps on return to China before the Western governments begin to wise up. But one thing is for sure; they aren't going to miss a trick. Poison is just poison.

http://english.epochtimes.com/news/5-8-26/31621.html

News from China

Falun Dafa Practitioners Mr. Huang Wei and His Wife Hao Yanqiu from Shijiazhuang City Are Released

(Clearwisdom.net) Following rescue efforts and calls from people worldwide, Falun Dafa practitioners Mr. Huang Wei and his wife from Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province were recently released. Twice sentenced to terms of forced labor, Huang Wei and his wife were bailed out on medical parole last week, ending their labor camp terms early. Mr. Huang Wei is sick with high blood pressure, and his wife is very weak now, as well.

Mr. Huang Wei is 37 years old and was previously employed as a sales representative for the Shijiazhuang City Branch of Hebei Province Bio-medical Engineering Company. Mr. Huang's wife Hao Yanqiu is 34 years old. She graduated in fashion design from the Hebei Province Light Industry and Chemical Engineering Institute. The couple began their cultivation of Falun Dafa in the spring of 1995. The first time Mr. Huang Wei was sentenced to three years forced labor resulting from his appealing for the rights of Falun Dafa practitioners in 1999. The first labor camp term lasted until 2002.

Mr. Huang was sentenced a second time to forced labor in April of 2004. He was charged with "refusing to accept brainwashing." His wife tried to have him released but was herself detained in the Hebei Province Legal Education Center (a brainwashing class) at the beginning of 2005.

Mr. and Mrs. Huang's attorney Mr. Gao Zhisheng wrote an open letter regarding this case to the People's Congress at the end of December 2004, describing the inhuman tortures suffered by Mr. Huang because he practiced Falun Dafa. The letter called for an immediate resolution to the Falun Dafa practitioners' issues with legal procedures, but the Congress provided no response.

For public relations purposes, Chinese officials will often issue statements showing their continued concern for human rights prior to overseas visits by top officials. They do this while hundreds of thousands of Falun Dafa practitioners are still detained in Chinese prisons and labor camps, including U.S. citizen Charles Li, who has been detained in a prison for two and a half years.

Latest News from China - August 16, 2005

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[Wanyuan City, Sichuan Province] Two Elderly Practitioners, Mr. Zhang Wenbin and Mr. Zhang Wenguang, Were Arrested and Detained
[Kaifeng City, Henan Province] Ms. Geng Yunjiao and Others Were Sent by the Kaifeng 610 Office to a Brainwashing Class
[Chifeng City, Inner Mongolia] Ms. Yang Guixia and Ms. Wang Fengyun Were Arrested by the Police
[Wendeng City, Shandong Province] Practitioners Including Ms. Sun Wenping and Ms. Bi Jinfeng Were Arrested
[Wuyi City, Zhejiang Province] Ms. Li Liangcui Has Been Missing Since Her Husband Was Arrested
[Guangyuan City, Sichuan Province] Ms. Ma Shengnan Once Again Arrested
[Pingdu City, Shandong Province] Ms. Yang Fen'e Was Arrested
[Tonghua City, Jilin Province] Ms. Wang Yufang from Huashu Village of Er'daojiang District Was Arrested
[Hunan Province] Five Practitioners Including Xiao Ganghua Were Detained at Qidong County Detention Center.
[Xuchang County, Henan Province] Practitioners Including Ms. Lian Yuzhu Were Arrested
[Potou City, Hebei Province] Practitioners Including Yin Xiuying Were Arrested
[Chifeng City, Inner Mongolia] Practitioners Including Ms. Wang Fengyun Were Arrested
[Xunke County, Heilongjiang Province] Ms. Fu Lihua Arrested by the Public Security Bureau
[Baoding City, Hebei Province] Mr. Zhi Zhanmin Was Arrested for the Third Time

1. [Wanyuan City, Sichuan Province] Two Elderly Practitioners, Mr. Zhang Wenbin and Mr. Zhang Wenguang, Were Arrested and Detained

Mr. Zhang Wenbin (a teacher, over 60 years old) and his elder brother Mr. Zhang Wenguang (a farmer, over 70 years old), reside at Shiwo Township, Wanyuan City. On July 23, 2005, the two brothers went to the neighboring Yudai Township to clarify the truth, but were reported to the police. The police followed them, arrested them, and detained them for two days. The two brothers were tortured by the police of the Wanyuan City National Security Team and were detained at the Wanyuan No. 1 Detention Center. Even now, the police do not allow any visitors to see them.

The phone number for the Wanyuan Public Security Bureau: 86-818-8622544, 86-818-8602700.

2. [Kaifeng City, Henan Province] Ms. Geng Yunjiao and Others Were Sent by the Kaifeng 610 Office to a Brainwashing Class

The Kaifeng 610 Office sent practitioners from this area to "Wenquan Hotel" in Lankao County to be brainwashed. Those who have been arrested are: Ms. Geng Yunjiao, Mr. Wang Feng, Ms. Xue Zhenghong, Mr. Gou Xinmin, Mr. Feng Haijun, Ms. Shao Guozhi, Mr. Sang Zhenping, Ms. Li Baoyun, Mr. Zou Hongbin, Mr. Hu Shimin, and Mr. Liu Yuhu.

3. [Chifeng City, Inner Mongolia] Ms. Yang Guixia and Ms. Wang Fengyun Were Arrested by the Police

At 6:00 p.m. on August 9, 2005, Dafa practitioner Ms. Yang Guixia (45 years old) from Hongshan District was arrested from her home. The police dragged her into the police vehicle and sent her to the Chifeng City Brainwashing Class.

Some time around August 11, 2005, Ms. Wang Fengyun (over 40 years old) was arrested by the police when she was working as a nanny for a family in the Hongshan District.

In 2000, Ms. Wang Fengyun was sentenced to one year in the Inner Mongolia Huhhote Woman's Labor Camp. After she was released, the local 610 Office and the local police kept harassing her. Ms. Wang was forced to leave home to avoid persecution. Now she has been arrested again and we do not know where she is being detained.

4. [Wendeng City, Shandong Province] Practitioners Including Ms. Sun Wenping and Ms. Bi Jinfeng Were Arrested

In July 2005, practitioners Ms. Sun Wenping and Ms. Bi Jinfeng from Kouzi Town, Wendeng City, Mr. Lin Zhiguan from Dunjiadian of Songcun Town, and Ms. Liu Yufeng (wife) and Lin Junlan from Xiaozetou Village were arrested. Around August 10, Ms. Song Ailing from Zhouge Village, Songcun Town, Wendeng City was also arrested.

5. [Wuyi City, Zhejiang Province] Ms. Li Liangcui Has Been Missing Since Her Husband Was Arrested

Recently, Ms. Li Liangcui from Wuyi City, Zhejiang Province has been missing after her husband Mr. Zhou Lianghua (who is also a practitioner) was arrested.

6. [Guangyuan City, Sichuan Province] Ms. Ma Shengnan Once Again Arrested

Ms. Ma Shengnan, 56 years old, is a retired worker from the Guangyuan City Auto Transportation Company. Because she practiced Falun Gong she was sentenced to one and a half year of forced labor, and was sent to the Nanmusi Forced Labor Camp to be tortured there. Ms. Ma was extorted out of tens of thousands of yuan. Around 6:00 p.m. on August 11, she was once again arrested by the Guangyuan City 610 Office when she was taking care of her mother who is over 80 years old and seriously sick, at her mother's home at Xin Town, Yilong County, Sichuan Province. She was arrested on the street and the specific location for her detention is unknown.

Relevant phone numbers:

Zhao Anjun, the Secretary General of the Guangyuan City Political and Judicial Committee: 86-13308120006 (Cell)
Sun Wanchao, the Director of the 610 Office and the Deputy Secretary-General of the Guangyuan City Political and Judicial Committee: 86-13154436442 (Cell)
Du Chenghua, the Deputy Director of the Guangyuan City 610 Office: 86-13908121222

7. [Pingdu City, Shandong Province] Ms. Yang Fen'e Was Arrested

Dafa practitioner Ms. Yang Fen'e from Pingdu City was arrested on her way from Pingdu to Jiudian to clarify the truth on July 25, 2005 (June 20, 2005 of the Chinese Calendar).

8. [Tonghua City, Jilin Province] Ms. Wang Yufang from Huashu Village of Er'daojiang District Was Arrested

Practitioner Ms. Wang Yufang from Huashu Village, Er'daojiang District, Tonghua City, Jilin Province, 52 years old, was reported to the police on August 10, 2005. She was arrested from home by the Er'daojiang District Branch of the Tonghua City Public Security Bureau. Her home was searched and her Dafa books and her truth-clarifying materials were confiscated. Currently Ms. Wang is jailed at the Changliu Detention Center of Tonghua City: 86-435-3927192.

9. [Hunan Province] Five Practitioners Including Xiao Ganghua Were Detained at the Qidong County Detention Center.

On the evening on August 13, 2005, Mr. Xiao Ganghua, Mr. Xiao Aimin and Mr. Li Chaoguo were arrested from their homes by the local police together with the local 610 Office National Security Team. On August 11, 2005 and August 12, 2005, practitioners Ms. Shi Jinhua and Mr. Zhou Jianping were arrested. Currently, the five of them are being jailed at the County Detention Center.

10. [Xuchang County, Henan Province] Practitioners Including Ms. Lian Yuzhu Were Arrested

On August 9, 2005, Ms. Lian Yuzhu, Ms. Su Xiulan and Ms. Jiang Jinghua were followed and reported when they were clarifying the truth to people. They have been arrested and are currently detained at the Xuchang County Detention Center and have been tortured there.

11. [Potou City, Hebei Province] Practitioners Including Yin Xiuying Were Arrested

On August 2, 2005, practitioners Ms. Yin Xiuying and Mr. Zhang Xiong from Hezhuangzi Village of Wenmiao Town, Potou City, Hebei Province were reported on and arrested on their way to Huanghua City. Currently, they are being detained at Huanghua City Detention Center.

12. [Chifeng City, Inner Mongolia] Practitioners Including Ms. Wang Fengyun Were Arrested

On August 12, 2005, Ms. Wang Fengyun was arrested by the Chifeng Public Security Bureau.

Due to the persecution, Ms. Wang Fengyun has been homeless. In the morning of August 12, 2005, she was arrested by the Chifeng Public Security Bureau at the Huoua Road Food Market. Ms. Wang Fengyun was sentenced to forced labor at the Huhhot City Women's Labor Camp.

Recently, a female fellow practitioner surnamed Yang from the eastern suburb, who makes a living selling sweet potatoes, has also been arrested by the Chifeng Public Security Bureau.

13. [Xunke County, Heilongjiang Province] Ms. Fu Lihua Arrested by the Public Security Bureau

Practitioner Ms. Fu Lihua from Xunke County, Heilongjiang Province was arrested between 3:00 a.m. and 4:00 a.m. on June 20, 2005 when she was on her way home from Harbin City. She was in front of her home at the time of arrest.

14. [Baoding City, Hebei Province] Mr. Zhi Zhanmin Was Arrested for the Third Time

Around August 10, 2005, practitioner Mr. Zhi Zhanmin from Dagudian Village of Mancheng County, Baoding City, was arrested by the police for the third time. Currently he is being jailed at the Baoding Detention Center.

160 People Declare that their Words and Deeds Under Forced Brainwashing are Null and Void
A Total of 284959 Declarations Have Been Published To Date

(Clearwisdom.net) A "solemn declaration" is a person's public statement declaring to the world that whatever he or she has done or said under duress or deception that was against Falun Dafa is null and void. Most of these statements have come from Falun Dafa practitioners in China who wished to express regret that, in the face of physical torture and brainwashing, they had signed documents renouncing Dafa and guaranteeing not to practice again. Also, as more and more people in China learn the truth about how they have been deceived and lied to by the Jiang regime, many non-practitioners are also submitting "solemn declarations."

Here are some examples of the Solemn Declarations:

Dafa Practitioners' Solemn Statements [5/31/2005]
Solemn Declarations By People Who Have Awakened to the Truth about Falun Gong [6/2/2005]
Solemn Declarations by Young Dafa Practitioners [5/22/2005]

Please click here for more Solemn Declarations.

Cases of Karmic Retribution

Several Examples of Persecutors Receiving Karmic Retribution

(Clearwisdom.net)

Editors' Note: Each time we publish news of this nature, we do so with heavy hearts. These people started off as public servants, but under the intense pressure applied by the Jiang regime, they were pushed into persecuting Dafa disciples. In the process of destroying the lives of kind, law-abiding citizens, they have sealed their own fates and inevitably faced karmic retribution as punishment. If it weren't for Jiang's wicked orders, perhaps their fates would have been different.

A Party Secretary Meets with Karmic Retribution

Zheng Xingqing is the Party Secretary of Xiaojingxiang Vilage, Guangan County, Sichuan Province. Since the persecution began on July 20, 1999, he has been persecuting Dafa practitioners and fabricating lies and slander against Dafa and Teacher. He has frequently criticized Falun Gong during meetings, and he did many things to persecute Dafa practitioners. When a female village group leader Zhang Wancui refused to give up practicing Falun Gong, Zheng Xingqing reported her to the community and went to arrest her. In order to avoid persecution, Zhang Wancui was forced to leave her home immediately, and there is still no information about her whereabouts. Additionally, another village group leader, because of practicing Falun Gong, was relieved of group leader duties, and forced to leave home for years to avoid being persecuted.

On December 28, 2004, along the roadside, Zheng Xingqing suddenly squatted down and then could not get up. Family members paid eighty thousand yuan to the Guangan City People's hospital to save him. In the end, in May of 2005, Zheng Xingqing died.

Party Secretary Sun Guoxi Dies Suddenly

Sun Guoxi was the party secretary of Lidaren Group, Hebeitun Village, Wuqing District, Tianjin City. He followed the Communist government and persecuted Falun Gong. He died suddenly in 2001, at the age of 40. Doctors were unable to determine the cause of his death.

A Lawless Government Official from Bozhou City in Anhui Province Receives Karmic Retribution

Bozhou City's former deputy Mayor Wang Degui in Anhui Province, while in charge of political and legal duties, persecuted Dafa practitioners. Forty to fifty or more practitioners were sentenced or sent to forced labor camps. Among them, Yang Jinying was beaten to death. Over two to three hundred practitioners were sent to brainwashing sessions to be "transformed." Currently, because of charges of bribery and embezzlement, Wang Degui has been taken into custody. His wife has also been subpoenaed. Details of the case are still being investigated.

610 Office Leader Arrested

Anhui Province 610 Office leader Wang Zhaoyao (formerly the Anhui Province Deputy Governor who was in charge of the Politics and Law Committee) is being held in custody on charges of embezzlement and bribery.

An Example of Karmic Retribution in Qingyuan County, Fushun City, Liaoning Province

In a valley in Shenmajianggou, Nankouqian Town, Qingyuan County, Wang Shuqin, some fifty years old, was the village women's group leader during the autumn 2001. In order to achieve some advantage, she reported practitioner Mr. Jiang to higher authorities. The excuse was that Mr. Jiang played some Falun Gong truth clarifying CDs to village residents. This caused Mr. Jiang to be illegally detained in the Qingyuan County Dasha Valley Detention Center for over three months. He was later sent to the Fushun City Forced Labor Camp, where he was detained for another three months. Mr. Jiang suffered much persecution. Currently, he is still destitute and homeless, and has been divorced from his wife.

In 2002, Wang Shuqin's formerly very healthy son suddenly developed psychosis (the family has no history of psychosis). He would pick up a knife every day, threatening to murder his mother. This severely frightened Wang Shuqin. She quickly found fortune tellers, who tried to cure her son's disease. These people all said that Wang Shuqin had angered the divine beings, and that's why her son's disease was not cured. They could only send her son to a psychiatric hospital, and to this day he has not been released.

Chicken coops were being built at Wang Shuqin's home. Many large rooms were constructed, each with four walls already built. Right when they were ready to install the roof, suddenly all the walls collapsed. Afterwards, they rebuilt the walls, but they again collapsed. They collapsed three times, incurring large losses. In the end, the rooms were finally built. In 2005, when a relatively weak gust of wind blew, while other people's chicken coops were fine, only in Wang Shuqin's chicken coops, part of the roof was blown off.

These few years in Wang Shuqin's home, everything they did ended badly. In the village, the older residents understand the situation. The fact that doing evil incurs karmic retribution is a heavenly principle. Because she believed in the CCP's deceit, Wang Shuqin participated in persecuting Falun Gong practitioners.

Karmic Retribution in a Changchun Prison

(Clearwisdom.net)

In spring of 2003, a prison in Changchun City, Jilin Province stepped up its persecution of Falun Dafa practitioners when Warden Liu Zhanzhong ordered inmates to torture and beat practitioners to try to make them renounce Falun Dafa.

An inmate nicknamed Xiaoyu led the persecution in this prison. Later, Xiaoyu learned the facts of the persecution and goodness of Dafa from practitioners. He realized that the persecution is wrong. In spite of enormous pressure from the prison authorities, Xiaoyu stopped torturing practitioners. The authorities were outraged and assigned Xiaoyu to the worst cell and forbade everyone from speaking to him. We know, however, that someday Xiaoyu will be rewarded for making the right choice.

The authorities replaced Xiaoyu with another inmate nicknamed Dayu. The authorities and Dayu instigated inmates to torture practitioners using methods such as sleep deprivation, piercing with a steel needle, beating with a hammer, hanging, tying up with ropes, and placing them in tiny cells. They welded two huge steel tubes together, pushed practitioners inside, and then banged on the outside every few minutes. Dayu wore boxing gloves to fiercely beat practitioners. During the beatings, he barked, "I'm beating you now, so let Dafa punish me. I want see what it can do."

Practitioners sent forth strong righteous thoughts and cleared the environment. Then karmic retributions began.

Xiaoyu was transferred to another division. His family was very poor, and no relative had visited him in the past ten years. After the transfer, however, a brother who runs a little business suddenly made 100,000 yuan. This brother now visits Xiaoyu monthly and leaves him a tidy sum of money each time. The jail warden told Xiaoyu that his sentence would be shortened. Now Xiaoyu is always very nice to practitioners whenever he meets them.

In contrast, Dayu has not been so lucky, for he was diagnosed with AIDs and developed ulcers all over the body. The authorities denied Dayu's request to seek medical attention outside of the prison. Dayu now lies in agony on his deathbed.

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Facts of the Persecution

Thirty-Year-Old Mr. Wu Chunlong Tortured to Death in the Jiamusi Labor Camp (Photos)

Mudanjiang Practitioner Ning Jun Dies after Suffering Repeated Torture

9-Year-Old Ma Fan Dreams of Her Parents, Locked Away in Forced Labor Camps (Photos)

Practitioner Violently Abused by Political Policeman in Zhu City, Shandong Province

Details Regarding Practitioners Illegally Detained in Jiuquan Area, Gansu Province

Mr. Zhao Qingshan on the Verge of Death as a Result of Persecution, Daqing Prison Still Refuses to Release Him

Atrocities in the Guizhou Province Women's Labor Camp

Five Practitioners Die as a Result of Persecution in Shandong, Hebei, and Henan Provinces

People Awaken to the Truth

Kind Gesture From A Being Who Has Awoken

Many Predestined People Are Eager to Practice Falun Dafa

Practitioners Worldwide Share How They Found Dafa

Though I was Born in South Asia, I Found My Spiritual Path in the USA

Young Australian Woman Finds the Meaning of Life in Falun Dafa

Practitioners Exchange Insights and Experiences

Do the Three Things Well and Be a Qualified Young Dafa Disciple

Five Years of Steadfast Belief Despite Inhuman Persecution (Part I)

On July 20, Practitioners Cooperate County-wide and Effectively Suffocate the Evil

Phone Calls from Overseas Practitioners Frighten Evildoers and Have a Great Impact

My Experience Clarifying the Truth on the Internet

News and Events Around the World

Finland: Clarifying the Truth about the Persecution of Falun Gong During the World Track and Field Games in Helsinki (Photos)

Vecernji List (Croatia): Falun Gong Practitioners Peacefully Appeal in Zagreb (Photo)

The Mercury News (San Jose, California): Falun Gong dispute stirs interest in art

News From China

Latest News from China - August 15, 2005

146 People Declare that their Words and Deeds Under Forced Brainwashing are Null and Void

Summary of Other Articles and News - August 16, 2005

Facts of the Persecution

Thirty-Year-Old Mr. Wu Chunlong Tortured to Death in the Jiamusi Labor Camp (Photos)

(Clearwisdom.net) Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Wu Chunlong from Jiamusi City, Heilongjiang Province was tortured in the Jiamusi City Labor Camp until he was near death. He was completely emaciated, was unable to think clearly, and could not speak when he was sent home on April 30, 2005. His condition gradually improved with the care of his family, but police from the Songlin Station had him under close monitoring. They constantly threatened and harassed Mr. Wu Chunlong, and he died on August 20, 2005, only 30 years old.

One week before Mr. Wu Chunlong died.	On August 20, 2005, 2 a.m., Mr. Wu Chunlong died.
On August 20, 2005, 2 a.m., Mr. Wu Chunlong died.	Mr. Wu Chunlong was emaciated from the torture he suffered.

Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Wu Chunlong was a self-employed barber. He was first sentenced to three years at forced labor on November 3, 1999, and was tortured severely in the Jiamusi City Labor Camp during that term. He was forced to suffer the inhuman torture known as the tiger bench (1) for seven days at the end of November 2001. Other Falun Dafa practitioners requested Mr. Wu's release, but when their pleas were rejected, they went on a hunger strike to protest. During this hunger strike, Mr. Yao Zhongliang, Mr. Xia Zhiliang, Mr. Dong Shaohua, and Mr. Li Jingfeng were locked in the Communication Room and force-fed. Their hands were cuffed on two sides of the bed, which allowed them to only sit or lie down all day. In addition their feet were bound. In order to visit his son, Mr. Wu Chunlong's father spent almost twenty thousand yuan. Finally Mr Wu Chunlong was released at the end of 2002. Mr. Wu Chunlong and his father had to move five times to avoid police harassment.

In October of 2003, Mr. Wu Chunlong had to borrow money to open a hair salon business. His studio opened on November 8, 2003. Only three days later, on November 11, 2003, policeman An Quanyi (male) from Yingjun Station arrested him and had him sentenced for the second time to three years forced labor.

Mr. Wu Chunlong was brutally tortured by prison guards Liu Hongguang (male), Yang Chunlong (male) and others. Mr. Wu went on a hunger strike to protest the persecution, and he was then force-fed and injected with unknown drugs. He started fainting a few days later, was incontinent and lost control of his bowels. Seven to eight days after he was force-fed, he lost all feeling from his lower back to his knees. He was unable to move his legs, his chest was cold, his mind blurry, he was physically emaciated and dying.

The guards, however, continued torturing him even as he was dying. One time Mr. Wu suddenly woke up, as the guards dragged him back to the washroom and doused him with cold water, then dragged him back to his cell. Another time he awoke with a shock in extreme pain, and he saw prisoner Wang Fu (male) was digging into his left collarbone with his hand.

Because Mr. Wu would often shout, "Falun Dafa is good," prisoner Wang Fu was encouraged by the guards to gag him with a towel contaminated with feces. Mr. Wu often would awake with a dirty towel stuffed in his mouth.

The Labor Camp was concerned about being held responsible for Mr. Wu Chunlong's death. On April 30, 2005, prisoner guards Yang Chunlong (male) and Diao Yukun (gender unknown) sent him home in a taxi. Before allowing his family to see him, they deceived Mr. Wu's father into signing a statement that the family would assume full responsibility for Mr. Wu. They also tried to extort five thousand yuan from the family, but Mr. Wu's father had no money to give them. In the end he had to borrow three hundred yuan to give the guards.

When Mr. Wu Chunlong returned home, he was nothing but skin and bone. He couldn't sit or stand up straight, he couldn't think clearly, he had no facial expression and could not recognize his own father. His face was very pale, his left side bigger than the right side, one eye very red and swollen, the result of a beating. He could not answer any questions from his friends or family. He appeared to be without memory, thoughts or reflections.

After his fellow practitioners helped him study the Fa and do the exercises with him, his health improved greatly. His swollen face returned to normal, and he could speak a few sentences at a time.

On May 18, 2005, the Jiamusi City Labor Camp sent a guard to the Songlin Police Station, requesting that policeman Yin Xiaodong (male) closely monitor Mr. Wu Chunlong. In the early morning of May 19, 2005, Yin Xiaodong came to Mr. Wu Chunlong's home, demanding that Mr. Wu Chunlong come to the station house every month for interrogation and that Mr. Wu Chunlong return to the Jiamusi City Labor Camp once his health recovered. On May 20, 2005, Yin Xiaodong came to Mr. Wu's home again and requested that Mr. Wu Chunlong register a temporary living certification with photo identification.

Mr. Wu Chunlong was suffering with confusion in his mind. He had only recovered part of his memory. Police harassed him at his home, causing him to relive in his mind the terror of the labor camp. He lost appetite, had diarrhea, lost more weight, developed a high fever, had difficulty breathing, was very nervous and could not recognize his family.

At 2 a.m. on August 20, 2005, Mr. Wu Chunlong passed away from the terror he had endured at the age of only thirty.

Jiamusi City Labor Camp Director Jiang Zuoqi (male), 86-454-8891958 (Office), 86-454-8247690 (Home).
Jiamusi City Labor Camp Deputy Director Yao Debin (male), 86-454-8891931.
Jiamusi City Labor Camp Deputy Director Sun Dehong, 86-454-8891932, 86-454-8243824 (Home).
Jiamusi City Labor Camp Deputy Director Xu Lifeng, 86-454-8891933, 86-454-8651855 (Home), 86-13904547855 (Cell).
Jiamusi City Labor Camp CCP Political Director Fu Maosen (male), 86-454-8891890.
Jiamusi City Labor Camp CCP Political Deputy Director Guan Dejun (male), 86-454-8891948.
Political Office Bai Jinfeng (male), 86-454-8891935.
CCP Discipline Committee Secretary Zheng Liyan (gender unknown), 86-454-8891934.
Six Ward (all male) Leader Liu Hongguang (male), Men's Ward Second Floor, 86-454-8891924.
Six Ward (all male) Deputy LeaderGuo Gang (male), Zhang Zhenhua (male), Guard Yang Chunlong (male).

(1) Practitioners are forced to sit on a small iron bench that is approximately 20 cm (6 inches) tall with their knees tied together. With their hands tied behind their backs or sometimes placed on their knees, they are forced to sit up straight and look straight ahead. They are not allowed to turn their heads, close their eyes, talk to anyone or move at all. Several inmates are assigned to watch over the practitioners and force them to remain motionless while sitting on the bench. Usually some hard objects are inserted underneath the practitioners' lower legs or ankles to increase their pain. See illustration on http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2001/11/24/16156.html

Mudanjiang Practitioner Ning Jun Dies after Suffering Repeated Torture

(Clearwisdom.net) Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Ning Jun from Mudanjiang City, Heilongjiang Province steadfastly practiced Falun Dafa and exposed the truth of persecution. He was illegally held in a detention center, a brainwashing center and a forced labor camp. He was brutally tortured. Later, he was sentenced to five years of imprisonment and persecuted in Mudanjiang Prison. He was released on bail for medical treatment and died on August 12, 2005. More details follow:

1. Introduced Falun Gong in Russia at Own Expense in 1999

Mr. Ning Jun, over 50, lived at western Second Road, Xi'an District, Mudanjiang City, Heilongjiang Province. He began to practice Falun Gong in 1996, and strived to be a good person as well as continually improving his Xinxing. After practicing Falun Gong, he returned the extra housing space that he did not deserve. He spent his own money to purchase Dafa book s and equipment to play Teacher's lectures on video tapes and cassettes. He also taught others the exercises.

Ning Jun and fellow practitioners went to Russia to introduce Falun Gong. On July 20, 1999, the unprecedented persecution of Falun Gong started in China. On July 30, practitioners who went to Russia were issued a warrant for arrest and repatriated in Haishenwai Russia. The Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs teamed up with the National Security Bureau and Public Security Bureau, and arrested them at Dongning Customs. Their passports, identifications and belongings were confiscated. They were held in Dongning Public Security Bureau, Mudanjiang City Public Security Bureau, Xi'an Public Security Sub-bureau in Mudanjiang City, and Xianfeng Local Police Station in Mudanjiang City. After many investigations, the police could not find any evidence of crime, and then obtained their fingerprints and a signed statement that they would no longer go abroad. Only then did the police notify practitioners' families to bail them out.

2. Persecuted in Sidao Forced Labor Camp, Bailed out for Medical Treatment

On September 7, 1999, Ning Jun went to Beijing to appeal on behalf of Falun Gong with fellow practitioners. Three days later, the local police of Beijing arrested them and took them to Lizhiyuan Local Police Station in Beijing. On September 11, the police tried to send them to a detention center but were rejected. The next day, the 610 officers of Mudanjiang City in Beijing handcuffed them and took them to Mudanjiang City Public Security Bureau, and they also confiscated more than 4000 yuan from practitioners. Afterwards, all the practitioners were in Mudanjiang City No. 2 Detention Center for further persecution. In the end of 1999, Mr. Ning was sent to a brainwashing center. Ning Jun firmly believed in Dafa. On January 2, 2000, he was taken back to the detention center and sentenced to two years of forced labor.

On March 17, 2000, Mr. Ning Jun was transferred to Sidao Forced Labor Camp. While in the forced labor camp, because Ning Jun was a steadfast practitioner, the police transferred him to many brigades for torture. While he was in the No. 3 brigade, the police locked up several Falun Gong practitioners and more than ten inmates in a small room of six square meters with no ventilation. They ate, used the toilet and slept in the room; the sanitary conditions were extremely poor, the bedding was very dirty, and the room was wet and hot. Ning Jun had scabies all over his body. Policeman Long Fei, the instructor of No. 3 brigade shocked Ning Jun with an electric baton. With the help of Mr. Ning's righteous thoughts, the policeman, however, shocked himself instead.

Ning Jun was also tortured by the so called "riding an airplane". Both his hands were cuffed behind his back, and a rope was hanging from above and tied to the handcuffs. When the rope was pulled up, the person would suspend in the air like "riding an airplane."

Mr. Ning was tortured to the point of having fluid accumulate in the liver, and his abdomen became very large. He had difficulty in walking and also had bloody urine. Qiao Jianwei, the secretary in charge of administration even incited inmates to assault Ning Jun, but the policemen turned a blind eye to it. They could not transform Ning Jun, therefore they sent him to the brigade that was designated to persecute Falun Gong. Police of the brigade feared that he might die in the prison, so they sent him to the hospital. He was diagnosed with liver ascites and unable to live much longer. The forced labor camp had to release him on bail for medical treatment.

Kou Wei, the policeman of No. 3 brigade reported more medical expense, and it added more financial burden to Ning Jun. Ning Jun exposed the scandal of excessive hospital charge, and Kou Wei retaliated later.

After he returned home, the police officers from the prison regularly interrogated him. The local police officers often harassed him, and disturbed him even further. Five months later, the chief of administration section Ma Libiao and political instructor Li Longyu deceived Ning Jun into the forced labor camp for further persecution, and detained him for nine months beyond the term. He was released on October 11, 2001.

3. Arrested Again and Persecuted to His Last Breath in Mudanjiang Prison

After he was set free, Ning Jun was still being harassed, interrogated, and his home was ransacked. He suffered a great deal emotionally and spiritually, and was forced to become homeless in order to avoid the persecution. On November 11, 2001, he was arrested again by officers from Xi'an Public Security Sub-bureau in Mudanjiang City. He was beaten, shocked with an electric baton and tempted with monetary gain. They used various means to interrogate him and attempted to force a confession. He held his righteous thoughts firmly, and went home within a week. He continued to clarify the truth.

The police treated Ning Jun as a wanted criminal. They issued a warrant for his arrest, secretly recorded his voice, took his photos and hunted him everywhere. Ning Jun could not work and returned home, and became destitute.

On September 9, 2002, after he had been wanted by the police for half a year, Ning Jun was reported by a patient when clarifying the truth at Hongqi Hospital in Mudanjiang City. He was arrested and tortured by officers from Aimin Public Security Sub-bureau of Mudanjiang City. He was later held in the detention center.

During the illegal detention, Ning Jun was in critical condition due to the persecution. At the end of 2003, the detention center issued two terminally ill notices to Aimin Public Security Sub-bureau that was handling the case, but the notices were ignored by the officers for various reasons. Meanwhile, he was sentenced to five years of imprisonment, and sent to Mudanjiang Prison before the 2004 Chinese New Year.

In September 2004, Ning Jun was extremely ill and needed to go to the hospital. After his family paid the fee, the prison delayed and did not sent him to police hospital until November, and at the same time, released him on bail for medical treatment.

After Ning Jun went home, he studied the Fa and improved his inner nature, helped others, woke up other practitioners, and continued to tell the truth about Falun Gong. Because of the long term persecution, Ning Jun died on August 12, 2005.

9-Year-Old Ma Fan Dreams of Her Parents, Locked Away in Forced Labor Camps (Photos)

Charming and happy Ma Fan

(Clearwisdom.net) Ma Fan is a happy and charming nine-year-old girl who, until recently, was always smiling. However, she has not smiled much since March of 2005, because now she can only be with her parents in her dreams. In March, her parents were arrested by police for helping a friend named Gao Rongrong get out of prison. Gao Rongrong's face was disfigured during her detention in prison for her belief in "Truth, Compassion and Forbearance."

Photo: Baby Ma Fan with her dad Ma Yuping and mom Zhang Lirong

"Truth, Compassion and Forbearance are good. Falun Dafa is good!" Ma Fan repeats this sentence. Her mother used to suffer from stomach pain, headaches, and postpartum back pain. All of these disappeared after she started practicing Falun Gong.

In July of 1999, the large-scale persecution of Falun Gong began. On October 13, 2000, four-year-old Ma Fan and her mom went to appeal in Beijing. They consequently were sent to Longshan detention center in Shenyang. The police there were very vicious. Little Ma Fan was terrified when they body-searched her. Several days later her grandma took her home but her mom was still detained there until nearly two years later.

Ma Fan found that her mom had become skinny and pale. She also lost lots of hair. From the adults' conversation, Ma Fan learned that the police ruthlessly tortured her mom in order to force her to give up her beliefs. The torture methods included being forced to stand in the corner in a certain position, to kneel down, squat on a stool, force-feeding, sleep deprivation for one week, and being sent to a male labor camp (Zhangshi Labor Camp). After practicing Falun Gong, her mom became more kind and patient. She was always ready to help others. The neighbors all praised her. A grandfather patted Ma Fan's head and sighed, "No place for justice."

Photo: Her mom Zhang Lirong was tortured in Shenyang Longshan Labor Camp for her belief. This is a re-enactment of "force-feeding"

Although confused, Ma Fan was happy that her mom was finally back home. However, her happiness did not last long. Her dad clarified the truth to passengers when he worked as a taxi driver. As a result, he was sent to the Shenyang City's Zhangshi Labor Camp in September, 2002 when she was just in first grade.

Since starting practicing Falun Gong in 2001, her dad became very kind to others. He would help his wife to do housework and clean the public stairs. He would help seniors and children in his work. Several times he found cell phones worth more than one thousand yuan and he returned them. When people gave him money to thank him, he said, "I practice Falun Gong. I was taught to always think of others and be kind. How can I accept your money?" They were very touched, marveling that, "such a good person truly exists in today's society."

However, this good person was detained for over one year for speaking the truth. This March, Ma Fan's parents were once again taken away and sentenced to labor camps for three years. Her mom is detained at the 1^st division of Masanjia labor camp in Liaoning province. Her dad is detained at the 1^st division of the Shenxin Forced Labor Camp. Now she has to live with her grandmother who is over sixty years old and in poor health. This summer, Ma Fan heard that the friend, Gao Rongrong, who her parents helped to rescue and managed to get out of prison, died mysteriously in an emergency room under police surveillance. Now she is even more worried about her parents' safety.

Photo: Handwork by Ma Fan: my parents sit on moon boat

Little Ma Fan always dreams about her parents. In handwork art class, she made a poster. She said, "In my dream, my parents are sitting on the moon boat. They believe in Truth, Compassion and Forbearance. Bad people cannot reach them. Thus my parents will never leave me."

Practitioner Violently Abused by Political Policeman in Zhu City, Shandong Province

(Clearwisdom.net) On December 18, 1999, Ms. Qiu Jiaxiu, a Falun Dafa practitioner from the Qiujiazhuang village, Zhucheng, Shandong province, rode her bicycle along with another fellow practitioner to Beijing to appeal on behalf of Falun Gong. In Beijing, they were arrested and taken to the Xinghua police station and interrogated.

It was a very cold day. Cao Jinhui, the assistant leader of the Politics and Security Department of the police bureau at Zhucheng, came. Cao slapped Qiu Jiaxiu's face repeatedly. Later on, he beat her with rubber clubs and forced her to sit on the ground with her arms straight up. He would beat her if she did not hold her arms up straight. Qiu Jiaxiu was forced to sit like that for a long time.

In the evening, Cao Jinhui and others came back after getting drunk, and they started to interrogate her again. One of the young men said, "We drank some alcohol, and tonight we will beat you until you tell us something." Cao Jinhui and that young man beat her body, hands, and arms with rubber clubs. They tore her hair out and flicked her forehead with their fingers. After that, they asked someone to take Qiu Jiaxiu back to the Qiujiazhuang production brigade office. Qiu Jiaxiu was detained there for one month. They confiscated the 1,300 yuan that she had with her and fined an additional 5,000 yuan.

On March 2, 2000, Qiu Jiaxiu went to Cangwan Park to do the Falun Gong exercises, and subsequently was taken to the detention center. She was detained there for four days. Zhu Wei called her into the office, where Cao Jinhui slapped her face hard twice. He asked whether she would go to appeal again while he was beating her. He said he would make her family destitute. Zhu Wei then went outside and found a wooden board about four centimeters wide and two centimeters thick, and used it to beat Qiu Jiaxiu's legs. He sarcastically told Qiu Jiaxiu that he would help her "get rid of her karma." The wooden board was cracked during the beating. Wang Yongjuan, a Falun Dafa practitioner who was washing the quilt covers in the detention center, heard the beating in the room and ran in to stop them. She was also beaten with the wooden board a few times. Cao Jinhui asked Wang Yongjuan to beat Qiu Jiaxiu, but Wang refused and asked him why she would beat up a good person. Cao Jinhui said viciously, "It does not matter if I beat you Falun Gong practitioners to death."

The staff members beat Qiu Jiaxiu so badly that she could not sit down. She had to kneel first and then slowly sit down. A few days later, in order to protest the persecution, Qiu Jiaxiu went on hunger strike for seven days. She was forced fed with a tube sticking into her nose and going all the way down into her stomach. It was extremely hard to endure. She was forced fed three times like this. On the fourth time, they pinched her nose and poured powdered milk into her mouth. They would not stop until they finished pouring in all the powdered milk while several people restrained Qiu Jiaxiu. It is hard to describe such suffering, as someone's life is being choked out of them. For each forced feeding, they would charge Qiu 50 yuan. During that time, the village director Gao Yunhai came and tried to force Qiu Jiaxiu to eat. He slapped her face several times and then sent her back to the village.

Because Qiu Jiaxiu insisted on not eating, on the 8^th day of her hunger strike, the staff members had to ask her family members to take her home.

Qiu Jiaxiu's family members did not know that Qiu Jiaxiu was on a hunger strike in the detention center. When the police station asked her husband, who was not a practitioner, to go to the police station, he was scared because he was beaten up there earlier and fined 2,000 yuan by his factory. Under those circumstances, he did not know what would happen. Some time after that, he was fined another 1,000 yuan.

In May 2000, Qiu Jiaxiu went to Beijing to appeal for the second time. She was taken back to the brigade by Shi Dechang, the security director. One night after a few days had passed, Cao Jinhui, Shi Dechang and others approached her. Cao Jinhui slapped Qiu Jiaxiu's face and dragged her around by the hair. While beating Qiu, he said, "It will be fine if I beat Falun Gong practitioners to death. It will be within the law no matter what we do." The next day, Zhang Xijie, the head of the police for the 2^nd police district on People's Road, came and beat Qiu Jiaxiu again. For the next two days, they beat her day and night. The final time, Shi Dechang ripped her hair out and cursed her. Cao Jinhui and another perpetrator stomped on her body and struck her with their hands. Cao found a broom and beat Qiu with it until it fell apart. Cao Jinhui and Shi Dechang twisted Qiu's wrists and injured them badly. Shi Dechang fined Qiu Jiaxiu 7,000 yuan. Later, her husband was coerced into writing a 6,000-yuan acknowledgement of debt.

On June 22, at around 9:30 pm, Zhang Xijie brought some people over to Qiu Jiaxiu's home and searched it without a warrant. They confiscated Falun Dafa material found on her body. Qiu Jiaxiu asked them why they did all of this without a warrant. Zhang Xijie said, "For people like you, there is no need to give notice." Then, they arrested her and took her to the police station and locked her there for the whole night. The next morning, Cao Jinhui and others came and interrogated her, looking for information about practitioners who produce Falun Dafa material. Qiu Jiaxiu didn't tell them anything. The police then beat her with rubber clubs until she lost consciousness. Four days later, they illegally searched her home again and confiscated her tape recorder and tapes.

On the morning of September 16, Qiu Jiaxiu was arrested and taken to the police station while she was making clothes at home.

In December 2002, Qiu Jiaxiu wrote a letter to her village party secretary Guo Shuhua. In the letter, she stated the benefits that she personally experienced after practicing Falun Gong and exposed the persecution of Falun Gong. Guo Shuhua then reported Qiu. Qiu Jiaxiu was arrested and not allowed to go home, even during the Spring Festival. Qiu Jiaxiu protested by initiating a hunger strike, and was sent home when her life seemed to be in peril.

On February 22, 2003, Cao Jinhui and others went to Qiu Jiaxiu's home again. They arrested her and sent her to the labor camp at Wang Village the next day without any legal proceedings. They sentenced her to two years of forced labor.

Details Regarding Practitioners Illegally Detained in Jiuquan Area, Gansu Province

(Clearwisdom.net) Since July 20, 1999 Jiuquan Detention Center of Gansu Province has illegally detained over 40 Falun Dafa practitioners from Jiuquan, Yumen, An'xi, Jiayuguan and Jinta etc.

The jail of Jiuquan Electrical Machinery Factory of Gansu Province has detained close to 20 Falun Dafa practitioners who were illegally sentenced to jail. These include: Mr. Li Yuhai sentenced to 14 years in jail, Mr. Wang Wenzhong sentenced to 10 years, Mr. Wang Xiaodong to 8 years and Mr. Ma Yong to 3 (and also those that we have published on the Internet earlier, and some for which we have not yet uncovered the details).

The male practitioners of Gansu Province are mainly detained at the first labor camp department of Gansu Province, which is also called Lanzhou Ping'antai Labor Camp. There are 7 to 8 big teams, each of which consists of about 70 people; of these 10-15% are Falun Dafa practitioners. Every year there are about 200 Falun Dafa practitioners illegally detained, with a total of 1,000 over the last 5 years. Every day they are forced to work on the farm and do other kinds of heavy manual labor.

Liuhegou Women's Labor Camp of Heping Town, Yuzhong County, Gansu Province has 4 middle teams. 60-70 Falun Dafa practitioners are illegally detained there every year, and the past 5 years have led to a total of 300 practitioner detainees. Every day they are forced to do all kinds of tedious and lengthy labor, such as polishing gemstones. They are forced to polish 900-1000 gemstones every day.

Since the beginning of 2004, the Vice President of Jiuquan City Police Station, Shan Yubin has been responsible for persecuting Falun Gong in that city. He has coordinated with National Security Team Leader Chen Jianhua, Zheng Jun, Zhang Yanhong, Gaoqing (female) and others, to illegally arrest Falun Dafa practitioners. Recently Ms. Fan Xiuling, Ms. Liu Ruixian, Ms. Jia Yanxia, and others, were arrested.

Phone Numbers of leaders and offices of Suzhou District Police Station of Jiuquan City:

President: Tian Changhai: 86-937-2633241
Political Instructor: Zhang Yaohai: 86-937-2633227
Disciplinary Committee Secretary: Nan Xianyin: 86-937-2632364
Vice President: Cha Yi: 86-937-2635102
Vice President: * Shan Yabin: 86-937-2635104
Vice President: Wen Guohua: 86-937-2633789
National Security Team Leader: * Chen Jianhua: 86-13993709991(Cell)
* Shen Wei: 86-937-3869532
(Note: those with * are the main wicked people who persecute Falun Dafa practitioners)
Police of Suzhou District Jiuquan City Police Station:
Chai Changfei: 86-138393758486(Cell)
Zhang Quan: 86-937-3845651
Police from Jiuquan City Police Department (name unknown): 86-13309475829(Cell)
Police from Jiuquan City Jail (name unknown): 86-937-2659684
Director of Police Substation of Xiba Township, Jinta County, Jiuquan City: Zhang Guofeng: 86-13893734020(Cell)

Mr. Zhao Qingshan on the Verge of Death as a Result of Persecution, Daqing Prison Still Refuses to Release Him

(Clearwisdom.net) Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Zhao Qingshan from Harbin has been sentenced to 11 years in prison and is currently being held in the Daqing Prison. Due to the persecution he has suffered, he is now on the verge of death. He cannot hold down any food and has pain all over his body. He is no longer able to look after himself, and is in critical condition. The prison authorities had previously notified his family to bail him out for medical treatment, but lately, the prison authorities are refusing to go through the procedure, using various excuses.

Nearly one hundred Falun Gong practitioners, including Bu Fanwei, Cheng Feiming, Bi Yunfei and Wang Yudong are currently being held at the Daqing Prison. Their lives are in danger. We urgently call on the world human rights organizations, the world organizations that investigate the persecution of Falun Gong, and justice-loving people from all walks of life to lend a helping hand to stop the persecution and to return the freedom of belief back to the people in China.

Mr. Zhao Qingshan, born in 1951, was an employee of the Harbin Vegetable Company. Before practicing Falun Gong, he suffered from various physical problems including insufficient blood supply to the brain and numbness of the right hand. After he started practicing Falun Gong in 1997, he became very healthy both physically and mentally. However, since the suppression of Falun Gong by the Chinese Communist Party began, Mr. Zhao was forced to become homeless in order to avoid being arrested and persecuted. Later, he was detained in the No. 7 Division of the Harbin City Police Department. He was brutally tortured during the interrogation. He became extremely weak and frail due to the torture, and he was released on bail for medical treatment. Mr. Zhao was arrested again in May, 2003 by the police from Harbin City Police Department. Zhao Guang, Fan Jiayuan and other officers tried to extort a confession from Mr. Zhao by cruel torture. Afterwards, Mr. Zhao's face was misshapen and his health was severely damaged, and he was sent to Harbin's Dongli District Detention Centre for recovery. When his health was getting better, Mr. Zhao was sentenced by the Dongli District Court in a secret trial to 11 years of imprisonment. After the Chinese Lunar New Year of 2003, Zhao Qingshan was transferred to Harbin Prison. On July 1, 2004 Mr. Zhao was transferred to Daqing Prison to be further persecuted.

In July 2004, when his family members went to Daqing Prison to visit him, they found that Mr. Zhao was extremely weak. In October 2004, his family members came to visit him again and brought him warm cotton-padded clothes, but they were not allowed to see him and even the cotton-padded clothes were returned.

In 2005, during the Chinese Lunar New Year, his family members traveled a long way to visit him. Prison guard Pan Shaolin tried every means to stop them. They persevered and finally saw Mr. Zhao. By that time, Mr. Zhao was extremely frail and his voice was very weak. One could hardly hear him, even talking to him in close proximity.

On July 14, 2005, Pan Shaolin informed Mr. Zhao's family that the prison authorities had sent him to Daqing No. 4 Hospital for treatment. Not long after, the prison authorities had to send Mr. Zhao to Daqing Oil Field Hospital for a checkup. The hospital diagnosed him with a blood clot in the brain, high blood pressure, and other diseases (his family has not been allowed to see the medical reports).

On July 26, Pan Shaolin notified Mr. Zhao's family to go through the procedure of bailing him out for medical treatment. On August 1, Mr. Zhao's family finished the necessary paperwork. On August 9, the Provincial Justice Department approved the bail and at the same time the department's verification center notified Daqing Prison to go and pick up the forms for the bail. However, Daqing Prison suddenly refused the bail. It argued that an official surnamed Zhou from the Procuratorate, stationed in the prison, objected because Mr. Zhao Qingshan had served less than one third of his sentence.

Mr. Zhao's family asked to see the prison leaders. The prison officials refused their request. When the family members argued with them, one prison guard even threatened to report them to police for "obstructing official business." The prison authorities claimed that Mr. Zhao Qingshan's life was not in danger and said that the verification report from the Provincial Justice Department did not contain the words of "life threatening."

On the evening of August 12, when Mr. Zhao's family phoned Pan Shaolin about the bail, Pan said, "Zhao Qingshan has not served one third of his sentence, therefore he cannot be released on bail for medical treatment." The family members said, "When the prison authorities notified us to post bail for Mr. Zhao for medical treatment, he had not served one third of his sentence. Why do you raise this issue now?" Pan Shaolin said, "Zhao Qingshan's life is not in danger." Pan claimed, "The verification report did not contain the words 'life threatening.' Only when an authorized hospital certifies that his life is in danger can we release him on bail." Mr. Zhao's family said, "Now we formally request to take Zhao Qingshan to the hospital for a checkup." Pan Shaolin turned down the request and said "We have already given him a medical checkup."

Mr. Zhao's family asked, "From Zhao Qingshan's present status, his life is really in danger. We want to take him to the hospital for another checkup but you disagree. If Zhao Qingshan dies, who will shoulder the responsibility for his death?" Pan said with a bit of excitement, "The prison would not shoulder this responsibility. It is Zhao Qingshan who does not admit his guilt and refuses to submit himself to the law." Mr. Zhao's family said, "As a matter of fact, you all know that all Falun Gong practitioners are good people. We must look at the issue from the angle of cherishing his life. We must not ignore people's lives." Pan claimed, "People die in prison. Birth, old age, sickness, and death are only natural. Some time ago, several inmates in their 40s old died in Daqing Prison. Wasn't that very normal?"

From the above conversation, it's not hard to see the hooligan nature of the guards and prison authorities, deliberately creating difficulties and ignoring people's lives. The officials even described deaths from abuse in detention as "dying of natural causes."

The following is an open letter that Mr. Zhao Qingshan's family wrote to the leaders of Daqing Prison.

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An Open letter to the leaders of Daqing Prison,

The authorities and the prison guards,

We are the family members of Mr. Zhao Qingshan and we want to talk to you about bailing Mr. Zhao out for medical treatment.

Zhao Qingshan had suffered from various illnesses before practicing Falun Gong. He had fully regained his health after practicing the wonderful exercises. He was transformed from a person who had severely suffered from lingering illnesses to a person who was disease-free. During the process he also regained his hope for life. Falun Gong also helped him to shed all his bad habits and understand how to conduct himself well in society.

Since 1999 when Falun Gong was suppressed, Mr. Zhao, who had benefited so much from practicing Falun Dafa, naturally continued to practice the exercises. He also clarified the truth to the government officials and the people. As a result, he was illegally detained and was physically and emotionally abused. When we said illegal detention you might not accept this, however, the suppression of Falun Gong was illegal from day one. The Chinese Constitution stipulates, "Citizens of the People's Republic of China enjoy freedom of belief," "Citizens of the People's Republic of China enjoy the freedom of speech" and "The personal dignity of citizens of the People's Republic of China is inviolable." Besides, you all said that all Falun Gong practitioners are good people. Since they are good people, then why do you want to "transform" them? What kind of people do you really want them to become? Since they are all good people how come the word "evil" is associated with Falun Gong? As Falun Gong practitioners, we can understand your prison guards' difficulties in dealing with the orders from above. However, you must be very clear that objectively you are doing a wrong deed. The issue of Falun Gong will be resolved sooner or later, and history will reveal the truth.

Now, Zhao Qingshan's life is in danger. You asked us to go through the procedures to bail him out for medical treatment not long ago. We don't understand why all of a sudden you refuse to follow through. Your only reason is that Zhao Qingshan has not served one third of his sentence and his life is not in danger.

As we all know that at the time when you first notified the family about releasing Mr. Zhao on bail for medical treatment, he had served less than one third of his sentence. Why has this become an issue today? If Mr. Zhao Qingshan's life is not in danger, why did you repeatedly send him to the hospital for checkups and ask the family to bail him out for medical treatment? All this clearly shows that Mr. Zhao Qingshan's life is in danger and he is in critical condition. Even if his life is not in danger, we also request that you release him right away. This is because Falun Gong practitioners held in the Daqing Prison have no safety guarantee and they could be in a life-threatening situation at any time. Xu Jishan was a very healthy person and was tortured to death in only four hours. We hope, from the consideration of humanitarianism and for being responsible for Mr. Zhao's life, the leadership at Daqing Prison will release him for medical treatment at an early date.

At the same time, our whole family has the following requests:

We ask Daqing Prison to allow us to go through the necessary procedures so that Mr. Zhao Qingshan can be released unconditionally for medical treatment.

If Daqing Prison does not allow us to bail Mr. Zhao out for medical treatment, then we need a clear statement from the prison authorities -- who will take the responsibility if Mr. Zhao dies.

As long as Mr. Zhao is not released, we will continue our efforts to rescue him. If he dies in the prison, we will definitely claim his body, conduct investigations and affix responsibility for his death. We will carry this out to the end.

The Zhao family

Atrocities in the Guizhou Province Women's Labor Camp

(Clearwisdom.net) I was illegally detained in the Guizhou Province Women's Labor Camp for three years, and I witnessed and experienced the CCP's (Chinese Communist Party) savage persecution of Dafa practitioners.

The labor camp ordered prisoners to monitor Dafa practitioners closely twenty-four hours a day. They lived and worked together. Two people had to share one narrow metal bed. We were forced to work for long periods of time to produce colored Christmas lights. Some practitioners were forced to work past midnight or 2 or 3 a.m. They were emaciated after the torture and lost their appetites. Some vomited blood.

Every two weeks or so, they forced us to watch false news and lectures slandering Dafa, and to write so-called "reform" essays. If someone did not meet the requirement, she would be sent to solitary confinement and even to the guards' chamber. In solitary confinement and the guards' chamber practitioners endured extreme torment and the guards constantly yelled at and beat practitioners. Sometimes several people brutally beat and kicked a practitioner. They broke some practitioners' legs. They banged practitioners' heads on windows and doors, force-fed practitioners with excrement, and put practitioners in refrigerators to torture them. Even worse, some were raped in the guards' chamber. I knew one Dafa practitioner who was tortured to death.

There was a female practitioner from Guiyang City who suffered 24 kinds of tortures, including having long bamboo shoots forced under her fingernails.

Most practitioners who were illegally detained in the Guizhou Province Women's Labor Camp had been sent to the so-called "attack team" twice, three times or even more. The guards incited prisoners to verbally abuse and brutally beat practitioners. A female practitioner was hung up for 3 days. The guard said, "Do you give up?" Then he pressed a lit cigarette into her breast.

The above is just the tip of the iceberg of the brutal persecution of Falun Gong practitioners at Guizhou Province Women's Labor Camp.

After July 20, 1999, under the instigation of the evil CCP, some institutions and organizations participated in the persecution of Dafa practitioners. For example, from August to November 2000, many Falun Gong practitioners were affected by the CCP's "Judicial Bureau Re-education Assistance League." They became collaborators and formed a "Re-education Assistance Group." They brought practitioners from the Men's Labor Camp (i.e. Zhongba Labor Camp) to the Women's Labor Camp (i.e. Guizhou Province Women's Labor Camp). Seven or eight female collaborators besieged one male practitioner; they tried to brainwash the male practitioner with the so-called "using Fa to break Fa" according to the requirement of the CCP.

From August to December 2002, an evil person locked a female practitioner in the guards' chamber of the Garrison Division in the men's labor camp. He told criminals to rape the female practitioner. One of these criminals is Wang Jianqiang from Guiyang City.

(Note: "Guizhou Province Women's Labor Camp" was originally a team of the Zhongba Labor Camp, and in 1997 it became an independent camp.)

Five Practitioners Die as a Result of Persecution in Shandong, Hebei, and Henan Provinces

(Clearwisdom.net) Ms. Sun Yuqiu was a 58-year-old Falun Dafa practitioner living in Jitai Town, Shouguang City, Shandong Province. On December 22, 1999, her daughter, sister, and brother-in-law, plus several other Dafa practitioners, went to Beijing to appeal for the right to practice Falun Dafa. On the way there, they were illegally arrested and detained. They suffered brutal beatings and were paraded through the streets like criminals. On top of this, each of them had to pay ten thousand yuan for being kept in captivity. Sun Yuqiu and her husband, plus about 100 other Dafa practitioners, were also illegally detained by the village commission for three days and three nights. They all encountered cruel beatings and torture. Sun Yuqiu was forced to watch her daughter being tortured in public. At the same time, Ms. Sun and her husband were also threatened by the officials and forced to pay over 2,000 yuan. After suffering all kinds of serious physical and mental torture, Ms. Sun was released, but by that time she was already in a coma. She died 9 days after she went home. The murderers who persecuted Dafa practitioners include Liu Xuxin, Liu Zhiqiang, Zhang Shaoyong, Yang Yongzhong, Yang Guizhong, Ding Shiguo, Zhang Yuqing and Su Xiuhua.

Ms. Zhang Xiuhua was 80 years old and lived in Changle County, Weifang City, Shandong Providence. She began to practice Falun Dafa in 1995 and became very healthy both mentally and physically. After the persecution of Falun Gong began on July 20, 1999, she was arrested, harassed, threatened and detained over a two-year period. Due to this intense pressure, her old illnesses relapsed, and in July 2001 she passed away.

Mr. Shao Yaming was 66 years old and retired from the Baoding Prison of Hebei Province. Before he practiced Falun Dafa, he was in very poor health and had a very serious skin problem. After starting to practice in 1995, he became very healthy. On April 25, 1999 he went to Beijing to appeal for Dafa and to clarify the truth. After July 22, 1999 when the CCP started to persecute Falun Dafa, he once again went to Beijing to validate the Fa. Police officials and other authorities attempted to arrest him, so he was forced to leave his home. Later the police and other officials coerced his family to call him back, and he was arrested on the way home. His house was ransacked, and all of his Dafa books were confiscated. Shao Yaming was constantly harassed during the last 6 years. The 610 authorities and police officials came regularly to his house to hound him. As a result, Mr. Shao lost his cultivation environment and the mental pressure caused his physical condition to get worse and worse. Because of this continual harassment, he passed away in May 2005. His colleagues said that if they had allowed him to practice Falun Dafa, he would not have died at all. Before Mr. Shau passed away, he asked other practitioners to post his solemn declaration and his statement of resignation from the CCP.

Mr. Liu Aichen was a 60-year-old practitioner living in Nanxule Village, Zanhuang County, Hebei Province. He started to practice Falun Dafa in1996. After the persecution began on July 20, 1999, Mr. Liu walked between 30 and 40 miles to the provincial hall, passing through the patrols, in order to appeal for the rights of Falun Gong practitioners. Because he was deprived of a safe environment to practice Falun Gong and maintain his health, he died on December 21, 2004 from stomach cancer.

Mr. Kang Anrong was a Dafa practitioner who was approximately 60 years old and lived in Zhonghua Village, Huagong Town, Mengzhou City, Henan Province. In the winter of 1999, he was arrested in his city. They took off his coat and handcuffed him to a tree until his family paid 2,000 yuan for his release. He passed away in 2002.

People Awaken to the Truth

Kind Gesture From A Being Who Has Awoken

(Clearwisdom.net) There is a man I recently ran into when I was spreading the Fa. Over the years he has been closely following Falun Gong's situation. Whenever he received truth-clarification material, he read it carefully and kept it in a safe place. After reading the Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party, not only did he withdraw from the Party, he also persuaded his family members to do the same.

A few days ago, I lent the book Zhuan Falun to him. After reading it for a few days, he quit his addiction to smoking that had lasted for several decades. He himself felt that it was miraculous.

Today, he gave me 100 yuan and asked me to pass it to practitioners who are responsible for making truth-clarification material. He said, "I know Falun Gong doesn't have money. The money you used to make truth-clarification material has been gathered through practitioners' frugality." He told me that he had read in a flyer that some practitioners earned money by selling pickles in winter so they could make truth-clarification materials. They endured so much hardship and it was certainly not easy. Now that he understood the preciousness of Falun Dafa, he also wanted to make a contribution so that more people could understand the truth.

Although it's not a great deal of money, this is a kind gesture from a being who has awoken and it shows his love for Falun Dafa.

Many Predestined People Are Eager to Practice Falun Dafa

(Clearwisdom.net)

As the immense force of Teacher's Fa-rectification progresses, Falun Dafa practitioners are making an all-out effort to clarify the truth. The world's people are responding by awakening. Recently, in fact, many people have taken up the practice of Falun Dafa and become new practitioners.

I'm a teacher by profession. After listening to my truth-clarification, many of my students have asked for Falun Dafa books, while others have waited in line for their turn to read them. Because my students are always reading my books, I have to study the Fa online from the book that is available on the Internet. A while ago, about a dozen students had come to me at various times to learn Falun Dafa, but we faced some difficulties. First, these students were about to graduate, so the time we had together was limited. Second, the students did not have an environment in which to practice the exercises. Third, the book Zhuan Falun was an extremely rare commodity. Several students promised to return after graduation next year in order to learn Falun Dafa. Six students insisted that they learn Falun Dafa immediately.

I played Teacher's exercise instruction VCD for them and taught them the exercises. They said that it's not a good idea for them to practice the standing exercises, but that they could practice the exercises when they went home for vacation. At night, when they were in the dormitory, they could let down the mosquito net around the bed and practice meditation or study the Fa inside. I was moved by their great desire to obtain the Fa.

Under Teacher's kind protection and with the help of fellow practitioners, the severe shortage of Falun Dafa books was resolved, and we obtained two copies of the book Zhuan Falun. Later, some practitioners at a truth-clarification material site printed the book, and we therefore obtained an additional three copies from them.

Let us keep Teacher's words in our hearts and strive to do the three things even better than before.

"Gather up and rescue the beings that you are to save! Have righteous thoughts and righteous actions, dissolve all hindrances, and spread the facts widely. Divine beings are among men." (From "To the European Fa Conference in Stockholm")

Practitioners Worldwide Share How They Found Dafa

Though I was Born in South Asia, I Found My Spiritual Path in the USA

(Clearwisdom.net) I would like to share my cultivation experiences and how I came to learn about Falun Dafa. Although I am South Asian, I have lived in the U.S. since the age of 9.

I have been deaf since birth. I come from a Hindu family but I was not interested in practicing it because I felt it was too complicated. I tended to like things simple, plus I was a rebellious daughter. My mother became more spiritual after her divorce. She tried to encourage me to read spiritual books and choose a path. I was reluctant, thinking the world was more "practical" and I was fascinated with everyday things.

I went through several years of hardships, emotionally and financially, and then eventually became interested in finding a spiritual path. I went to few different churches but they had different beliefs and also I felt the teachings were superficial. I read a few spiritual books based on enlightened people's past lectures. There was one particular teacher that I liked but unfortunately, he already left this dimension 60 years ago. I was disappointed as I wished for a teacher and some guidance. I felt that merely reading spiritual books and trying to improve one's life alone were not enough; it's like groping in the dark. To my discouragement I also found that this teacher's retreat classes cost money and plus I was not sure if his disciples who took over were that enlightened or "trustworthy" for me to follow. I then sighed and became resigned, thinking it was not going to happen in this lifetime and prayed it would happen in the next lifetime--until one year later.

I had never heard of Falun Dafa at all until my co-worker mentioned it. Upon reading the e-mail from my co-worker and seeing the word, "Falun Dafa," I got excited. I knew there was something spiritual about it. But to my disappointment upon arriving at the meeting it was only an exercise demonstration and there was no sign-language interpreter. So I left in the middle of the meeting. It never crossed my mind to wait after the meeting to ask the speaker about it. One month later, the opportunity came for people to learn the exercises and I immediately jumped on it. Looking back, I realize it was predestined because I had worked at this company for seven years and never heard of it and also I had seen my co-worker, who taught me the exercises, around my company building. After I started practicing, she announced her retirement one year later. I'm glad I immediately grabbed this opportunity.

Two weeks after learning the exercises, I bought Zhuan Falun and started reading that night. However, in contrast to people's articles stating how excited they became from reading the book, I did not feel that way. Most probably it was due to the fact I had read many other spiritual books and what Teacher Li said was in many ways very similar. But, when I read the part about many living beings being formed in a practitioner's body, I thought it was "far out." Nevertheless, in few weeks, I obtained the Fa.

When I read in one of Master Li's articles about how we should pay attention to what is happening around us, I realized I should pay attention to what people--especially my husband says to me. For example, one time I had a desire to watch this particular movie but it was difficult to find. My husband suggested that we watch another movie instead, but I wasn't interested. He said to me, "You're only interested in this movie because it is popular and many people are watching it." I quickly recalled in Zhuan Falun: "Of course, you should not follow what is going on in society. How can that be allowed?" I immediately let go of this attachment.

Although I am deaf, nothing stops me from what I want to do. I cannot hear the exercise music but I find other ways. In group practice, I ask one of the practitioners to tap me on the shoulder when it is time to change position. After practicing for several months, I get the feel of "movement rhythm" and once in a while I open my eyes to peek as to whether my movements are in sync with others. When practicing alone, I use the clock for exercises two and five, and view the exercise demonstration on a computer for one, three, and four.

My Husband

A few months after practicing, I got a photo of Master Li. Immediately upon arriving home, I replaced a spiritual teacher's photo with Master Li's picture. One hour later, at dinnertime, my husband commented that he sensed something different in the environment and that it felt more vibrant, but he couldn't figure out what it was. He turned and saw Master Li's picture. My fellow practitioner told me that my husband has a good foundation and should grab this opportunity to practice.

With my suggestion, my husband started practicing. After two months, he suddenly developed severe back pain. Unfortunately he did not enlighten to it, even after my explained the teachings to him. He asked for my help, so I massaged his back for a bit. The pain, however, did not dissipate until three weeks later, and by the time he got well, he had already stopped practicing because he was unable to bend at all to do the exercises. It took him at least 7 minutes to just get up from the sofa. He then used that excuses that he was not able to comprehend the book and that it was hard. He also kept saying he did not have time.

I knew one should not give up and sentient beings should be saved, especially those who are "savable." From time to time I continued to explain the teachings to him bit by bit. I got an idea and bought a book, a modern English version. That evening, when my husband arrived home, I showed the book to him and said he could try and see if he could understand it better. He got upset and the first thing he said was "Why are you always wasting money? You insisted on buying other books last year but they're still sitting on the bookshelf" I replied, "I wasn't a practitioner last year and Dafa always comes first in one's life."

However, I felt he did want to go back to practicing from the hints he gave me, but he was unable to find time. For instance, one evening, we were playing a board game, and it was his turn. He drew a card from the board. The card question said "Is there something in your life that you should be doing but have not done?" He pondered and said he felt he should go back to practicing. I was surprised, but pleased to hear that.

His job took him two hours to commute each way, plus he often brought work home in the evening. It was difficult for him to find time. I still did not give up and had hope. One day the opportunity arrived. My husband was telling me how his boss was so happy with his performance that he gave him a brand new computer and his own office--a room with a door. I then suggested that he practice at lunch time in his office and read the book on the train. He immediately took up the idea. Now, he has been practicing for a few weeks and he says he understands the modern English version a bit better.

I used to have a bad temper and was sharp-tongued, but eventually I overcame it, although I have had one or two relapses. As long as I treat myself as a practitioner though, I am able to restrain myself. I still have lot of attachments to overcome but am trying to strive forward and do the three things that Master Li asked us to do.

Young Australian Woman Finds the Meaning of Life in Falun Dafa

(Clearwisdom.net) I was a 21-year-old woman living in Brisbane, Australia, when I first saw Falun Dafa being practiced in my local park. I was walking around in the rose garden in the park when I saw people practicing an Indian school of Yoga, Tai Chi and Falun Dafa. I thought to myself, "I have tried both Yoga and Tai Chi, I will give Falun Dafa a try." At the time I was practicing and studying Buddhism and had been very intrigued by meditation and enlightenment throughout my teenage years.

At my first lesson of Falun Dafa, I felt a deep excitement and wonder. I really wanted to learn the exercises quickly and well so that I could practice without guidance at home. I bought the introductory text on the first day and read it in a few days. Then I bought the main text the next week. The thing that touched me initially about the teachings of Falun Dafa was the emphasis on cultivating one's Xinxing that is, improving ones heart and moral character. This to me, was the truth and essence I felt all religions and spiritual practices were trying to achieve and master. At that point I thought to myself, " I'll practice Falun Dafa earnestly for 6 months and see what happens." Less than one month later, I knew I would be practicing Falun Dafa for the rest of my life.

Teacher Li Hongzhi asks his student to sincerely look within one's heart to find where one should improve oneself. He asks his students to be kind to others in all respects and under all circumstances. This to me is the meaning of life.

Although it has never been easy to achieve, I have however noticed huge changes in myself since practicing Falun Dafa. For example, I now try to use Zhen, Shan, Ren (Truthfulness, Compassion, Tolerance) as my guiding law when facing any problems. This has eliminated confusion in my life. I now value other people's opinions and have more respect for the lives of others, even if I don't understand them, or if they hurt or insult me. When I study Falun Dafa, I am constantly being reminded to be unselfish, patient and kind to others.

Practitioners Exchange Insights and Experiences

Do the Three Things Well and Be a Qualified Young Dafa Disciple

(Clearwisdom.net) I'm a young Dafa disciple from Nongan County, Jilin Province. I'm ten years old. I have studied the Fa with my family since early childhood. When I was too young to read, I only listened to the Fa and recited Hong Yin.

In 1999, Master and Dafa were wronged and persecuted by the Jiang scoundrel regime. To validate Dafa, my mother went to Beijing to appeal. Before she left, I told her: "If you see Master, please remember to mention that other people in our family also practice." Mom left and I was very happy thinking: This time Master also knows that I'm a young Dafa disciple. I was 5 years old and thought Mom would see Master.

I knew that Mom was doing a great thing, so I was very obedient at home. Later I heard that Mom and Grandmother and other fellow practitioners were arrested on the way, and were detained and persecuted in the local detention center. I was very sad and I cried. Mom and Grandmother went on hunger strike and they were released two weeks later. At Grandmothers' home, when I saw my mother, I did not run to her like a child of an ordinary person. All the people were looking at me, and I calmly approached Mom and told her: "I did not let Dafa down."

With the progress of Master's Fa rectification, it becomes more and more urgent for Dafa disciples to validate Dafa. I became more diligent and I studied Fa, practiced the exercises, clarified the truth, and sent forth righteous thoughts with my family. I am an active child, and I know that Master is protecting me every moment. When my family is studying Master's articles, I can recite them after listening several times, and I also practice the exercises when my family practices.

Once, on the way to school, I suddenly had a stomachache. I put down my schoolbag and sat on the roadside and sent forth righteous thoughts. I was OK after a while. At school I clarified the truth about Dafa to all my classmates, and handed out truth-clarifying flyers and pamphlets to my teacher. I also helped some of my classmates to quit the Young Pioneers, and gave them bookmarks and cards with the words: "Falun Dafa is Good."

The school raises a flag every week, and I stand in the front row. We are required to raise our right hand in front of the Communist flag, but I am a Dafa disciple and will do this. I recited "Falun Dafa Hao" silently and felt my neck with my right hand. After I mentioned this to Mom, she told me to send forth righteous thoughts. I sent forth righteous thoughts to stop the flag raising and told my classmates to stop singing the Communist anthem. Since then, they quit holding the flag ceremony.

I listen to one tape of Master's Fa lectures every day. One time, I wanted to play so I fast-forwarded the tape. When I talked with Mom, she said that Master told us: cultivation is serious and that our every thought is known by Master. I cried and Mom asked me why. I told her about the mistake of fast-forwarding the tape. Mom told me very seriously: "Immediately confess your wrongdoing to Master." I told Master that I would never do that again and that I want to be a qualified Dafa disciple. That night Mom had a dream in which she saw me falling from a house and she went to catch me but failed and I fell down to the ground and stood up with smile. I realized that, although I made a mistake, if I stood up after falling, Master still accepts me as a disciple.

On the path of validating the Fa, I will be more diligent and do the three things well and be a qualified young disciple.

Five Years of Steadfast Belief Despite Inhuman Persecution (Part I)

(Clearwisdom.net) For the past five years, I endured mentally and physically through an unprecedented and inhuman persecution that did not give any reprieve. The three years of suffering at Masanjia Forced Labor Camp is almost impossible to describe in words. Because I validated the Fa and shouted, "Falun Dafa is great," I was locked up eight times in a small confinement cell, where the persecution intensified significantly. Because of the long-term torture method with the iron tiger bench, my buttocks were putrid and raw to the bones and my weight loss was from 80 kg. (176 lbs.) to less than 40 kg. (88 lbs.).

I wish to tell a fraction of the suffering I experienced, so kind-hearted people can get a better understanding of the persecution Dafa practitioners are suffering for holding on to their belief in "Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance." My experience will show how the evil party persecutes Falun Dafa and its practitioners.

1. Appealing for Dafa in Beijing

During the afternoon of January 17, 1999, I was fortunate to come across Falun Dafa. I found a practice site and group study site in March 1999. I lived by Teacher's principles, looked within when I was settled with a problem and treated others kindly. I was always happy.

After July 20, 1999, Jiang Zemin began the inhuman crackdown and persecution of those who follow the principles "Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance." Fellow practitioners and I decided to go to Beijing to speak the truth of Falun Dafa. A week later, my family brought me back against my will. In October 2000, I went to Beijing again. At Tiananmen Square, a policewomen forcibly arrested me, and a policeman put me into detention in Beijing. Then, policemen from the Xingcheng Wenquan local police station cuffed my hands behind my back, took me back home, and illegally detained me for 15 days. I gained my freedom on December 13.

On New Year's Day of 2001, I went again to Tiananmen to validate the Fa and tell people that Falun Dafa is unjustly persecuted. I was arrested by police on Tiananmen Square and sent to a prison in Beijing. That day, too many practitioners were arrested, and the prison could not hold them. Therefore, some practitioners and I were transferred to Changping Prison in Beijing.

Not knowing what was awaiting any us, be it life or death, Dafa practitioners held firm faith in Teacher and Dafa and shouted all the way: "Falun Dafa is great! Falun Dafa is the righteous law! Restore Teacher's innocence!"

2. Facing the Persecution at Changping Prison in Beijing

Changping Prison in Beijing is a newly built large prison. Every cell was filled beyond normal capacity with Dafa practitioners. No one organized any truth clarification activity, but all practitioners shouted in unison, "Falun Dafa is great! Falun Dafa is the righteous law..." Every practitioner's heart and trust in Dafa and Teacher was so pure and righteous that my tears kept flowing from my eyes, and my heart felt the sacredness of what we were doing. In this secluded and evil place, the pure, harmonious and merciful field of Dafa practitioners was displayed. This was the grand gift of Buddha law.

Because practitioners were brought in all afternoon long, some practitioners were taken to other locations. I was taken to another cell. At night, we studied the Fa and practiced the exercises together. There were many policemen and policewomen in the corridor. We were separated by an iron gate from the police. Kind-hearted Dafa practitioners continuously compassionately explained the truth to them, although harm was only an arms-length away. We told them to remember that Dafa is good. A policeman said: "If I learn it, I will not be jailed like you." I told him, "Some practitioners are also from the police force, but were arrested for appealing for Dafa." He was not afraid! I had seen in truth-clarification material from Beijing that plainclothes police were arresting practitioners. I saw that two plainclothes policemen had a Dafa practitioner in police uniform between them. Remembering that, I took truth-clarification material from my pocket and handed it to him. He gladly accepted it.

On the second day, ten practitioners and I were sent to the local Donggaodi Police Station in Fengtai District. They then took us to Fengtai Detention Center, where they took photos of us. The police made us stand outdoors in the morning, afternoon and evening and would not allow us to wear warm clothes. No matter what time of the day or night, they tried to "transform," practitioners by using physical punishment. We did not cooperate and went on a hunger strike to demand unconditional release.

3. Face Burned by Police with Lighter

In the afternoon of the sixth day, police officers forced me to squat between two cabinets and against the wall. One officer sat on a chair, put his legs on mine and pushed down. He did not allow me to get up, tightly held my hair, and bumped my head against both cabinets and the wall, which made me loose a lot of hair. Then the officers changed the torture method. They started to hit my face, eyes and forehead. I suffered severe pain when they violently attacked me. I did not make any noise despite the pain. I endured with a peaceful and calm heart.

Once the policemen realized that their methods had no effect on me, they began to burn my face with a cigarette lighter and cigarette butts. This immediately produced many burn blisters on my face. The skin was burning and the pain was unendurable. My eyelashes, fine hair, eyebrows and hair were all burned. Even today, one can still see the cigarette burn scars on my face. I remained calm and unmoved. The policemen wickedly bellowed, "Do you know that we have received notification from the highest office (Jiang's regime) that we will not be held responsible if we kill Falun Gong practitioners? Their deaths will be counted as suicides." Despite facing atrocities, intimidation and threats, I was not moved. Teacher told us: "By having your heart unaffected you will be able to handle all situations." (Essentials for Further Advancement II) The evil could not affect me. It was winter and very cold. The evil grabbed every opportunity to attack us. Whenever our thoughts were not righteous the evil took advantage of it. The only method that would sustain me through this was reciting the Fa ceaselessly to strengthen my righteous thoughts. Thus human notions and the external environment could no longer affect me.

The perpetrators were utterly confused. Therefore, they attempted to destroy my will through subtle means. They took me outdoors, forced me to stand in the cold wind, pulled off my clothes and let me stand in my underwear. They poured cold water down my neck and scraped me with a wooden board. After a while, they touched my clothes to see if they were frozen. Then they dragged me inside, and hit my body and legs with wooden clubs. After that, they took a wooden club and pressed my neck towards the clothes cabinets. In desperation I pushed them aside with both hands. The police then slapped my face from both sides, and poured water on my face. The icy-cold water splashed my face and made my entire body wet.

4. Hypocrisy

In the still of the night it is lonely and cold, and the evil has the ability to put enormous pressure on people. But my heart was strong and tranquil, because I am a Dafa disciple. Teacher said:

"But although you can't see me in person, as long as you practice cultivation, I'm actually right by your side. And as long as you practice cultivation, I can be responsible for you all the way to the end; what's more, I'm looking after you every single moment." ("Teaching the Fa in New York City," from Falun Buddha Fa - Lectures in the United States),

and "...with the master and the Fa here what is there to fear?" ("Lecture in Sydney")

Several policemen arrived to continue the torture. They tickled my armpits and body to see if I reacted to it. Facing such depravity, I still looked at them calmly and held no hatred or resentment in my heart. I did not laugh, therefore those villains said, "This elderly lady does not fear being tickled." After saying that, they shamelessly pulled my clothes off and left me in my underwear standing barefooted on the ice. It was snowing, I was wearing socks, and the socks became wet from the ice. Not surprisingly to me, these villains were freezing although they wore warm overcoats. They felt so cold that they covered the ears with their hands and walked back and forth to keep warm.

The next day, they took turns trying to brainwash and threaten me. They said: "Only you remain now. We will send you to a remote area. If you are tortured to death, it will be considered suicide." Even at night, they continued to harass me, "We must have your address, even if we have to pry it out of your mouth." I calmly replied, "It's not that I do not want to go home, or purposely confound you, but Jiang is carrying out an implication policy. I do not want to bring problems to all my local government agencies." After seeing that neither soft nor hard methods made a dent in my resolve to not share personal information with them, the police became speechless.

At dark, a policeman found a way to trick me into revealing personal information: "We will leave you alone now. I will pay from out of my pocket to send you to the train station. You can go home!" I told him I had no relatives in Beijing, and he did not need to give me money. I asked, "Please let me use the telephone, I'll wait for my relatives to pick me up." At 11:00 p.m., they told me that my relatives had arrived. I believed it, and went with them. I got into the car, but did not see my relatives, and the car was traveling in the wrong direction. The police had tricked me. The car was in an accident and could not go very far, because it was snowing heavily. When I got out of the car, I saw that we were at the Xingcheng Office in Beijing. The police cuffed my hands. I realized that I had been caught off guard. Later my relatives told me that police detained them also.

5. Brainwashing in Masanjia, the Den of Evil

After I returned to Xingcheng, the local police station detained me in a detention center for ten days. After returning home, I continued to clarify the truth and validate Dafa. Alas, someone reported me when I was giving out truth-clarification VCDs one day. Staff from the Chengdong local police station ransacked my home, took my photos, and confiscated Dafa books, cassettes and Teacher's photo. They arrested me, detained me for eight days and then sent me to Masanjia, the den of evil, for further persecution.

At Masanjia Forced Labor Camp, guard Dai Yuhong took me to the storeroom. Several collaborators were there. Dai Yuhong spoke to them and then left. These former practitioners turned collaborators began to bombard me with evil things they had enlightened to, and distorted Dafa truths. Teacher said in "A Suggestion,"

"As Dafa disciples, what you should do in the current situation is clarify the truth to the world's people and expose the evil, thereby safeguarding Dafa. Your own improvement and Consummation are part of this process. Those who do the so-called 'reform' work, too, are people who have been deceived. Why not turn the tables and expose the evil and clarify the truth to them? I suggest that all students who they are trying to forcefully reform (this excludes those who haven't been taken away for reform) expose the evil and clarify the truth to those people who are doing the reform work, and tell them about the cause and effect relationship of 'good and evil always have consequences.' It is the evil that is afraid of people knowing the truth of the situation, not Dafa disciples." (Essentials for Further Advancement II)

I tried to help them by explaining what was incorrect and how to conform to Teacher's Fa. I told them to firmly practice, no matter how rough and taxing it became. I compassionately told them not to give up ten of thousands years of waiting! I wanted them to know that it is difficult to gain the right law and to meet the right teacher. Teacher told us "...not to lose it easily just because you have obtained it easily" (Zhuan Falun).

During the brainwashing, the villains not only tried to destroy me mentally by barraging me with evil theories that slander Teacher and the Fa, but also tortured me physically. I was forced to squat or stand for long periods of time, deprived of sleep for many nights, and I was kept in isolation. Besides the camp guards, I could only meet with the collaborators. I was almost completely isolated from the outside world. Steadfast practitioners were not allowed to talk or have contact with each other and were supervised by the collaborators. In order to achieve their evil goal, the unscrupulous camp staff used all kinds of despicable torture methods. They pulled off all my upper body clothes, but due to my resistance, they were unable to pull off my pants. They dragged me outdoors, forced me to kneel down for a long time, and carry a stool on my head with a basin of water on the stool. The collaborators read the written "transformation" statement to me. I tried my best to hold my fist tightly and refused to sign. The collaborators put the statement in front of me, and threatened that they would keep me on my knees until I signed.

Guard Dai Yuhong was in charge of my persecution. Dai gave Teacher's image to the detestable collaborators. The collaborators even tried to make me step on Teacher's image. When I bent down to hold Teacher's image in both hands, they tried to take it from me and ripped it. Dai Yuhong took out another Teacher's image and ordered the collaborators to make me sit on it. When I struggled and refused to sit down, they pushed me down unexpectedly and put the image into my pants. I used all my strength to break loose and quickly took out Teacher's image. The villains turned vicious and made me sit on the iron pipe. I lost count as to how many times they slapped my face. Dai said finally in an evil and sadistic tone to stop beating me and let me go to work!

For a period of time, they changed their malicious tricks and tried lies to deceive me. Several collaborators claimed that everyone knew that I had been "transformed." They claimed that my "transformation" statement was read to everyone and published on Internet. They even sang the so-called "transformation song." I told them that I negated all they had to say.

In December, we moved to a new building. I was allocated to the fifth unit. The leader of this section was a guard with the surname Sun. I was forced to listen to slanderous words daily. I refused and told them that they were making foolish remarks, and I did not allow them to defame Teacher. I refused to listen to their obnoxious words and got ready to leave. The collaborators held on to me tightly and did not allow me to move. During the daily brainwashing, several collaborators took me to the back area and held me tightly. I treated them mercifully and with kindness.

We had gone to Beijing to validate the Fa despite immense pressure, and had let go of life and death. To counterbalance the injustice Teacher and Dafa encountered, we wanted people to have a correct understanding of Dafa. We were taken to Masanjia and persecuted because we wanted to validate the Fa and not be "transformed." I refused to listen to the deception and lies. The collaborators did not allow me to talk and forced me to listen to their slanderous words. The minute they did not pay attention, I left the room. They made me squat, and tried to intimidate me. They told me belligerently, "What place do you think this is? Do you think this place will allow you to act like that?"

6. Heavy Discipline and Being Locked in a Small Confinement Cell

Prison guard Sun ordered two of the brainwashed people to take me to a small cell, force me to sit on a very narrow and short stool, stretch out two arms and cuff both my hands to the iron pipes beside the stool. I was locked in the confinement cell like this for about a month, until the Chinese New Year. Another guard named Zhang Yan took over the leadership and allowed me to join in the Chinese New Year celebration. I told him that I refused to participate in any kind of study. In the afternoon, brigade chief Qiu Ping took me out of the small cell and sent me to first floor for heavy discipline. In fact, I spent the rest of my detention under heavy discipline in a small cell.

To achieve their goal, the villains tried everything possible to break Dafa practitioners firmness and faith in Teacher and Dafa. For a while, they had me meet with people who had not been "transformed," but did not have a clear understanding of the Fa. They used all means to have me compromise and not resist. Seeing fellow practitioners on the verge of enlightening on an evil path, I was very sad and anxious. At lunch-time, I shouted: "Fellow practitioners, we are illegally detained. Do not be affected by the evil, and do not cooperate with the evil. We should firmly practice Dafa and be unmoved in our resolve, firmly practice Dafa and follow Teacher." Consequently, some "transformed" people dragged me out of the cafeteria, covered my mouth and stopped me from shouting. From that time on, the lawless people no longer allowed me to eat in the cafeteria.

One morning, guard Zhang Yan came at the time when I was reciting the Fa. Zhang Yan asked me why I did not get up to greet her. I told her that I had not greeted anyone here. She wickedly said, "I'll cuff your hands and only unlock it once a day." After dinner, when I was working, Zhang Yan came and told me, "Do you still remember my words from this morning?" She did not allow me to respond and cuffed my hands to the heating pipe. During the first three days, Zhang Yan came daily to unlock the handcuffs in the morning and let me use the toilet. She did not come at noon or night. I was cuffed in this position continuously. Nobody inquired about me. Then, Zhang Yan disappeared for three days. I was cuffed to the heating pipe during all that time.

I was not given any food and water during those six days, and I became emaciated. Someone saw me and said that my appearance terrified people. The brigade chief Qiu told me that they would unlock the handcuffs three times a day and let me eat. Because I was cuffed to the heating pipe and had stood for a long time, my legs and feet were very swollen. They did not allow me to sit down. Once, when I had taken a stool to sit on, Zhang Yan came running in and told me viciously "Who told you to sit down?" I told her that my feet were swollen because I had stood for such a long time and asked her, "Can't I sit down to have a rest?" Guard Zhang told people who monitored me to take away the stool and said some slanderous words.

I recited Teacher's article "The Chill of Autumn's Winds,"

"The evil ones should think twice about their flagrant savagery,
When Heaven and Earth are bright again, down to the boiling cauldron they go;
Punches and kicks do little to change people's hearts,
Violent winds usher in an autumn with even harsher chill."

(Essentials for Further Advancement II)

Zhang asked who would go into the boiling cauldron. I said whoever persecuted Dafa and Dafa practitioners would go into the boiling cauldron. Zhang Yan was speechless. She left angrily, did not open the handcuffs or let me use the toilet. In the morning, the guards forced us to do physical exercises. I refused! Zhang Yan asked me why. I told her that I only do the five Falun Gong exercises. Because I don't practice anything else, I wouldn't do the exercises they wanted me to do.

One morning, I talked with others. Zhang Yan yelled from outside the window that I was not permitted to talk. I began to recite the Fa. A little while later, Zhang Yan came to stop me from reciting the Fa, and cuffed my hands to the iron pipe next to the bed. Zhang Yan cruelly held my hands against the iron pipe, I was so tired and my face was wet with sweat. Zhang Yan also ordered several people to monitor me and cover my mouth. I ignored her and continued to recite the Fa. I refused to compromise. Zhang Yan then stuffed my mouth with socks and pinched my nose. I was unable to breathe. The guards believed that this would stop me from reciting the Fa. However, the supernatural and grand Buddha Law does not allow the evildoers to use low means to change steadfast Dafa practitioners' convictions in their great and merciful Teacher and Dafa. All their efforts were useless. Teacher said in "Coercion Cannot Change People's Hearts."

Zhang Yan yelled for helpers and a group of the camp personnel came. This time they cuffed both of my hands together behind my back and then to the iron rails of the bed. They then covered my mouth with toilet paper and cruelly slapped my face twice. Blood dripped out of my mouth corners. There were many torturing me, pinching my nose and covering my mouth. I almost choked. Zhang Yan ordered people to insult me. They maliciously defamed Teacher and Dafa and spoke hoodlum and dirty language. Zhang Yan found a cassette player to play evil recordings. I begged Teacher to strengthen me and continued to recite the Fa to negate the persecution. The cassette player did not work. Zhang Yan then brought people who read it towards me. I did not listen, but recited the Fa. Zhang Yan pinched my nose and stuffed my mouth with a towel. I did not cooperate. Therefore, she desperately clutched my cheeks with her hands. My cheek flesh was broken and I could not eat for several days.

After dinner, I was reciting the Fa when Zhang Yan came into the room. She said, "Don't do that when I come in." I asked what does it do when I recite the Fa? The guards said, "You don't recite when I come." I ignored them. Zhang Yan saw that I was unmoved. Consequently, she cuffed my hands behind my back and to the bed. I then began a hunger strike to protest the illegal persecution.

On the fifth day of the hunger strike, the evildoers began to force-feed me and inject fluids. I did not cooperate and told them that this was not how to resolve the problem, but another way of persecution. They tied my feet to the bed, pulled my arms apart, cuffed my hands to the angle-iron rails on each side of the bed, and let a big fellow sit on my feet to hold me down so I could not move. Then they inserted the tube to force-feed me with rice flour and salty water, and charged me 30 yuan for each force-feeding. It went on, and on the ninth day, a commissar came to the yard. I said to him: "The ways Zhang Yan behaves shows clearly that your Masanjia is full of evil."

On July 20, Practitioners Cooperate County-wide and Effectively Suffocate the Evil

(Clearwisdom.net) A few days before July 20, 2005, the five-year anniversary of the start of the persecution, the head of the 610 Office of our county's Political and Legislative Affairs Committee led people to two practitioners' homes to harass them. They claimed that they were acting under the orders of their superiors, to intimidate Dafa practitioners.

Over the past few years, every time certain sensitive dates approach, the 610 Office and the county police monitor and ransack practitioners' homes, intensify the patrol on the streets, and check bus and train stations. This year, they came again to intimidate Dafa practitioners using the excuse of searching for copies of the Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party and other "anti-Communist Party" materials. Our practitioners enlightened to the understanding that the evil communist spirit was going to completely collapse and dissolve soon and that we should definitely not allow it to do evil any more. Therefore, we discussed the situation and decided that we could not wait any more and that we should go ahead and eliminate the rampant arrogance, suffocate the evil and offer salvation to sentient beings.

Therefore, Dafa practitioners throughout the entire county cooperated as one body. Some practitioners prepared signs and banners, and some wrapped truth clarification materials as red gift packets with plastic covers. Then, practitioners bought various colors of silk cloth to make big banner with 5 smaller scrolls on two sides. We made hundreds of banners and scrolls and bought ten packs of red, yellow and green paper. We also bought other materials for posting Dafa messages on electricity poles and walls.

Some of large banners read, "The whole world knows that Falun Dafa is good" and other banners said, "Respect human rights and stop the persecution," among other messages. Other banners and scrolls also had contents to promote Dafa and save sentient beings. The red paper mainly contained information about quitting the Chinese Communist Party and its affiliated organizations. The green paper notices mainly had sentences such as, "Punish Jiang Zemin," "Bring Jiang Zemin, Luo Gan, Liu Jing and Zhou Yongkang to Justice," etc. Also, several days before July 20, we asked more practitioners to send forth righteous thoughts to eliminate all the evil factors that were responsible for the intensified surveillance of Dafa practitioners; and also to dissolve all the dark minions and rotten ghosts that would interfere with this Fa-rectification activity.

The two hills facing each other on the two sides of our county are good locations for people to do exercises and recreational activities. Every morning, people walk up the hills and gather, and thus these two spots were the focus of the evil's attention, with a great deal of surveillance personnel around the area.

After 10 p.m. on July 19, Dafa practitioners county-wide cooperated with each other and started to take action: hanging banners, posting notices, distributing truth-clarification materials and sending forth righteous thoughts at home. It took practitioners several hours to finish the work and most practitioners didn't go back home until 2-3 a.m., early in the morning. Everything went smoothly and none of us ran into any monitoring or patrolling people.

On the morning of July 20, when people came to the top of the hills to exercise, they saw the 6-meter-long big banner and large golden yellow scrolls hanging in the wind, and read aloud, "The whole world knows Falun Dafa is good," "Respect human rights and stop the persecution," etc.

The director of the People's Congress Committee and the deputy director of the police department went there. One section official said, "The more severe the persecution, the more Falun Gong thrives and it spreads everywhere." The deputy director of the police department said with a sigh, "This really looks as strong as grass, 'wildfire could not destroy it and it flourishes again with the breath of spring wind'!"

We would like to do the three things well that Master Li tells us to do to, together with the Dafa practitioners around the world, and fulfill our sacred vows that we have made in prehistory. We hope we will not let down Master Li's graciousness and sentient beings' expectations, and together we will greet the beautiful future when the Fa rectifies the human world.

Phone Calls from Overseas Practitioners Frighten Evildoers and Have a Great Impact

(Clearwisdom.net) Since the persecution started, we have persisted in reaching the international community through the Minghui/Clearwisdom website, exposing how the evil tries to destroy Dafa and persecutes practitioners. Because we quickly and truthfully exposed the evil, and overseas practitioners sent pure righteous thoughts and timely support by making calls, sending emails and regular mail, those participating in the persecution feel the power of Dafa and as a result, they restrain their wicked deeds.

At the end of last year, after we exposed the evildoer Yao on the website, when "brainwashing" and persecuting practitioners, he mentions, "these days I have been busy with receiving phone calls from overseas, including the US and Canada." He also tried to argue, "I didn't persecute Falun Gong myself, I am just hired to work."

Last year, after we exposed a village head in a certain area who reported Dafa practitioners, the overseas phone calls kept coming in. His family members were worried and regretted that he became an accomplice in persecuting good people. After news about this incident was spread, even policemen knew that whatever they do, they need to know that the world is watching them. In addition, local practitioners also strengthened our efforts to clarify the truth, and now our local environment has greatly improved.

One police station in Inner Mongolia illegally arrested a practitioner working at a school. After this case was exposed, overseas practitioners called the police chief's home urging him not to do bad things any more. His wife received phone calls and asked, "Did they arrest the practitioner? I heard they decided not to arrest them. I surely will tell him not to do bad things any more." When I got a chance to chat with the phone operators, they said they were afraid of receiving phone calls about Falun Gong because they didn't know who could answer such phone calls and no one would want to get into trouble. Even ordinary policemen didn't want to monitor Falun Gong practitioners any more, as they didn't feel right about persecuting Falun Gong.

In addition, some companies' fax machines and message centers kept printing copies of the Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party, sent from overseas. People are amazed at practitioners' vitality and unlimited wisdom. Some people opened their mailbox and found that they had received many truth-clarifying materials from overseas. Practitioners tried many different means to save or wake up people whose minds have been closed and indifferent for a long time.

I learned that many Chinese people received truth-clarification phone calls at home or at their workplace, including direct calls from people or recorded messages. I feel that they truly want to listen to this information and want to know what it is all about. They just felt a bit surprised that people knew their phone numbers.

The main shortcoming is that there are still not enough phone calls coming from overseas. Truth clarification phone calls indeed help frighten the evil and also help more people understand the truth.

My Experience Clarifying the Truth on the Internet

(Clearwisdom.net)

One is very fortunate to obtain Dafa.

I am often deeply touched by the Fa during recent Fa study. I don't cry like before, but a desire comes from my innermost being: I must devote my entire body and mind into the Fa, practice really diligently, to appreciate Master's enormous compassion.

In the past, it was not possible to return to one's "home" besides joining a temple to become a monk. Prior to obtaining the Fa, I spent quite a few hours copying the Buddhist scriptures every day, recited 72 times the very difficult incantation, and also had to pray using the Buddhist couplets thousands of times. Thinking of the karma created through the generations and the debt owed, I knew it was impossible to return my origin. Therefore, when I obtained Dafa, I was so happy. But at the time, that joy was entirely based on returning to my true origin.

I recall when I had just obtained the Fa, just after the nine-day lectures, I experienced a sickness tribulation. I had to lie in bed continuously for several days, half asleep. My whole body felt boiling hot and I unable to get out of the bed. I had only a vague awareness. However, during times of clarity, my innermost feelings were quite at peace. Master's "Cause and Effect" (Hong Yin) came to my mind then:

It is not that it's painful on the path of cultivation,
Karma of lifetimes and lifetimes impedes;
Steeling the heart, eliminating karma, cultivating xinxing,
Forever possessing a human form is a Buddha.

I didn't dwell on the physical pain and only told myself how lucky I was to have Master taking care of me.

2. During Fa study, I understood the mission of offering salvation to all beings

Time went by very fast. In the past four plus years, although I staggered along, I have always hoped to be one of Master's good disciples, to be a genuine Dafa disciple during the Fa-rectification period. When I read Master's article in ("Teaching the Fa at the 2005 Canada Fa Conference")

"Fa-rectification is to save all beings that can be saved, which includes all forms of life that are created by gods and are present in a person's main body. What's more, many people have undergone great hardships over the course of the long, drawn-out years, so how could they not be saved? Aren't humans the primary beings in the Three Realms? Don't all of the beings in the Three Realms need to be saved? Then this cultivation form as well as the foundation that the human race has laid and the suffering that it has gone through over the course of the long years of history--isn't it exactly these things that have enabled human beings to gain the greatest mighty-virtue of all time? And shouldn't these beings be deemed the most outstanding and considered first for salvation?"

Knowing that we all came with such huge karma, I can help but wonder how fortunate we are to have our great Master's salvation. This paragraph actually made me realize that the timing is urgent, and Master's wish to save all beings is the greatest mercy. Previously when we clarified the truth to people, some wouldn't listen. Now the Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party is helping to make people to think hard about these things. If it would be not enough, Master said,

"If the CCP, while in its death throes, still tries to use different tactics to tamper with the salvation of sentient beings, then we have other ways to deal with it--the Buddha Fa is boundless!" ("Teaching the Fa at the 2005 Manhattan International Fa Conference ")

My heart was deeply touched. How could we still waste time? How could I not be diligent?

At present, I feel solid and joyful in my cultivation. My mind is also broadened and I feel the comfort of being a practitioner. When I couldn't do well the three things that Master asks us to do, I feel quite unhappy. I no longer pursue only the goal of my personal consummation. From Master's Fa and from the process of my clarifying the truth, I have realized the mission for my coming here. Right now the truth clarification situations are different than before. Without the evil factors' control, beings have awakened. One can sense people's kind side and their hope. They are seeking out Dafa disciples. Therefore, if a practitioner couldn't cultivate well, it is not just a matter of whether this practitioner could be saved.

3. An Experience about Clarifying the Truth on the Internet

Several years ago, as I recall, it was very difficult to clarify the truth on the Internet. One had to collect individual email addresses, type out the messages, and then send all the mail out. Their feedback email often attacked us viciously, and it often took one or two months to change a person's opinion and get them to accept the facts. For a time, I dared not to sleep too much because as soon as I laid down, my brain would be full of worry: when a person's misunderstanding runs so deep, what could I do? Now someone may still say something offensive, but when you tell him or her that you view them as a friend, the other party would respond in kind. He will even ask one question after another. They actually want to know and just don't dare to easily ask these questions. I realize that it is because of the huge impact of Dafa's field formed in the Three Realms, and our Dafa disciples need to make the best use of our time to clarify the truth.

A friend I made on the Internet, after fully seeing the CCP's cruelty, posted his withdrawal statement in public and then asked me for secure software to withdraw from the CCP on the Internet. He felt that it was worthwhile to let more friends know about such an important matter. He sent me a short message, asking me to send him the Nine Commentaries so that he could let more people know about the CCP's true nature and help his friends withdraw.

After I introduced to him the WuJie (Ultrasurf) browsing software, another Internet friend every so often would say, "I am 6.6 (his net name), it there any news? Please let me know!" Many other people also asked me for the dynamic website, inquiring about news and new software.

I told a woman a couple of years older than me the facts about Falun Gong. She asked if I could call her. I agreed, but quite often when I called her, she was in a meeting. I learned that she actually was a high-ranking CCP official. I asked her, "You are a Party member, but you did not know about this?" She asked me eagerly. "What is it? Please tell me." After she found the truth, she was shocked and unable to accept what I told her. Through further contact and reading the Nine Commentaries, she asked me to help her entire family withdraw from the CCP. She later told me that she has obtained the Fa, does the exercises and studies the Fa every day. She also told me that she was often moved to tears when she read Master's Fa. Later she told me, "My best friend is a '610 Office' head; how do I tell him the facts?" I really felt happy for her.

Another friend I know from the Internet used to belong to a religious practice and he was often very anxious. Because his third eye was open, whenever he saw some odd phenomenon through the third eye, he would be scared. His previous practice built some barriers in his understanding of the Fa. After several rounds of truth clarification and exchanges, he said to me, "I believe all that you've said." Later he told me that after letting go of his many notions, he actually felt more at peace than at any point in more than ten years. He said that he has started to understand the principles of Dafa. Later he told me that after I exposed the evil nature of the CCP to him, he was surprised to realize that his thinking had followed the way the CCP had indoctrinated everyone, yet he was totally unaware of it. I was really moved and realized Master's merciful salvation and arrangement. We have a significant mission to fulfill. No truth clarification opportunity we run across is accidental.

In addition, I would like to share about a team I participated in, where fellow practitioners shared their understanding and encouraged each other. Our team is small, but each member is doing things proactively. We work together closely, frequently sharing experiences. I noticed the fellow practitioners' attitude of not eagerly expressing themselves, but rather always using righteous thoughts and trusting other practitioners. Moreover, they are always quietly supplementing each other and doing their best to help accomplish the overall goal. The team members look at things from the basis of Dafa, and are earnestly and compassionately sharing experiences and encouraging each other. I am very moved by such an environment, and I treasure the opportunity for us to walk together on the path of cultivation and improve diligently together.

These experiences are only my current understanding. The main idea is to express that we must treasure everything that Master has arranged for us, and treasure each day that Master has created for us. Master said, "The truth is, I treasure you more than you treasure yourselves!" ("Eliminate Your Last Attachment(s)") How could we not treasure each and every single day? How could we not be diligent?

News and Events Around the World

Finland: Clarifying the Truth about the Persecution of Falun Gong During the World Track and Field Games in Helsinki (Photos)

(Clearwisdom.net)

Anti-persecution exhibit exposes the persecution

On August 12, 2005, the World Track and Field Games were held in Helsinki, the capital of Finland. For the benefit of tourists and media from around the world, Falun Gong practitioners from Finland, Latvia, Sweden and Norway came to Helsinki City Center Park and reenacted torture methods used on Falun Gong practitioners in China. They exposed Jiang and the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) six-year brutal persecution of Falun Gong practitioners, who follow the principles of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance. The practitioners called for people with conscience to join them to stop the persecution.

People view reenactment of torture methods

During the World Track and Field Games, tourists in Helsinki came in streams. There were five to six kinds of performances held in the park. Falun Gong practitioners' demonstration site was right in the center of the park. The shocking simulated torture methods display and peaceful exercise demonstration attracted a large number of tourists to stop and look.

Little practitioner from Latvia does the exercises along with his father

Videotaping the peaceful exercises

As soon as people saw the simulated torture display, they were astonished. Some asked questions, some hurriedly went to look at display boards, and many tourists took photos. Through these photos, Jiang and the CCP's persecution of Falun Gong will be spread more widely.

Children show concern over the persecution	Both mother and son watch attentively
The older man shed tears	Finding answers from display boards

One lady shed tears while looking at the torture display. A man beside her tried to pull her to leave, but she directly walked over to the table where signatures were collected to call for an end to the persecution and signed her name. The man also signed his name.

A reporter from Swedish EX3M Radio Station interviewed a Swedish practitioner.

Mother signs her name	The older man signs his name seriously
Lining up to sign their names	Soldiers also come to support

Candlelight Vigil for Murdered Falun Gong Practitioners

On August 13, 2005, the World Track and Field Championships were coming to an end. Although it was getting dark, traffic was still heavy on the streets. Having hung a banner reading "Falun Gong is good," and erected exhibition boards explaining the background to the persecution and portraits of practitioners who have died as a result of the persecution on both sides of the pavement in front of the Finland Parliament Building, Falun Gong practitioners lit candles and sat silently in the glow of the candlelight.

Candlelight vigil to mourn the deaths of so many practitioners in front of Finland Parliament Building

Since August 6th, when the games began, practitioners from Finland, Sweden, Norway, Latvia, Denmark and Germany have been holding a series of activities to introduce Falun Gong and expose the persecution near the railway station, the entrances to the underground, at the Chinese Embassy, in the park near the field of competition, on the streets, in the city centre park etc. We were there on this day to call on the world's people: please pay attention to the cruel persecution of Falun Gong practitioners (who believe in "Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance") by Jiang Zemin and the Chinese Communist Party. At present, it has been verified that 2,781 Falun Dafa practitioners have died as a result of the persecution. Please join us to stop the persecution and uphold the justice!

People silently stop in front of truth-clarification posters

Having enquired about our activities, a lady passing by sat down with practitioners and mourned for the practitioners who were tortured to death.

A lady passes by and sits down with practitioners to mourn the deaths of practitioners

Two people from Sweden asked why we were here and if practitioners who were tortured to death were all Chinese. Upon learning the reason and that we came from several different countries, they praised us, "What you are doing is very good." They went on to say "It is not right for foreign governments to keep silent during the persecution because of economic interests."

After watching all this and having received a leaflet, an American was deeply moved and said, "I want to know everything about the persecution."

Vecernji List (Croatia): Falun Gong Practitioners Peacefully Appeal in Zagreb (Photo)

(Clearwisdom.net) Vecernji List reported on July 24 that Falun Gong practitioners held a peaceful appeal on a business square in Zagreb, the capital of Croatia. The theme of the activity was "Stop the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in China".

The report stated that the practitioners distributed flyers, which exposed the brutal persecution of practitioners in China. Falun Gong is an ancient practice to purify body and mind.

Practitioners in Croatia welcome all residents to learn Falun Gong. The location is Zelengaj Park and time is 10 a.m. - 12 p.m.

The Mercury News (San Jose, California): Falun Gong dispute stirs interest in art

There's nothing like a political mystery to pique interest in high culture -- and human rights.

An admitted middle-brow, I was merely leaning toward seeing an exhibit of Qing dynasty and 20th century Chinese paintings, heretofore unseen on the West Coast, and rarely to public view at all until 2003. But you know, life is hectic.

Now that a San Francisco politician has suddenly declined to participate in the event through a cryptic press release, it's a must-see for me. Perhaps others, too.

The "National Treasures of China'' show, scheduled Sept. 2-11 at the Urbis Artium Gallery in San Francisco, had a sudden attention boost Tuesday when Supervisor Fiona Ma was a no-show at a news conference that had her support.

Perhaps it was too hot to handle that Mei-Ling Dai, the matriarch of an aristocratic Chinese-Australian family who owns the collection, practices Falun Gong. Practitioners of the Chinese [practice] system for spiritual and physical well-being have been denounced by the Chinese government as [...]

Dai is showing her family's extremely valuable collection to raise awareness of traditional Chinese culture -- and to plead for the release of the imprisoned granddaughter of one of the renowned artists.

Say what?

Meanwhile Ma has been unavailable since Wednesday when she issued this short statement: "As the daughter of an artist, I consistently support the arts and culture in San Francisco. It was my understanding that this exhibit was a priceless and rare collection that was never seen by the public. I thought this would be a great opportunity for San Franciscans and Bay Area residents. After knowledge of the past political history of the original collector, I have informed the sponsors that I will not play any further role in this exhibit.''

Those things are true. It is a great opportunity. Qi Baishi, Zhang Daqian, Xu Beihong, Fu Baoshi and Wu Changshuo are all big names in 20th century Chinese painting, said Pauline Yao, the assistant curator of the Asian Art Museum. The museum has some of those artists in its own collection. In addition, the Dai family, who served as high officials in the Qing Dynasty, are showing original pieces from the 19th century imperial court.

So what "past political history of the original collector'' would Ma be referring to? What is controversial about scroll paintings of landscapes, birds and flowers, and Bodhisattva representations of Kuan Yin? These are the traditional subjects of Chinese brush painting for centuries.

Only that Mrs. Dai, who has been a strong supporter of the practice of Falun Gong since she survived a progressive disease called scleroderma, is showing the pieces as a way of alleviating the suffering of imprisoned Falun Gong practitioners including Qi Bingshu, the artist granddaughter of Qi Baishi. She's been freely showing her priceless collection at private venues, said her son Tony Dai, rather than waiting for them to be shown at major museums, which need years of advance planning.

Meddling in America

Of 40 shows held from Korea to New York to Houston since 2003, this is the first in which an elected official withdrew her support. This elected official, however, was set to lead a delegation to China soon.

Show organizer Victor Yu, a host on the Mountain View-based Sound of Hope radio program, said the group respects Ma's decision. Yu said Ma told him and organizer Sherry Zhang that pressure from the Chinese government had caused her withdrawal. Sound of Hope, the New Tang Dynasty Television and the Epoch Times were sponsors of the show.

"I have significant concerns around the autonomy of local government," said fellow Supervisor Chris Daly. Daly, who unsuccessfully sponsored a local resolution condemning the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in China, was angered by the negative letters and phone calls he received from the Chinese consulate four years ago. Appearing at a news conference Thursday, Daly called "interference by an outside country'' as "a chilling thought.''

Makes you want to run right out to the art gallery and see what all the fuss is about.

News From China

Latest News from China - August 15, 2005

(Clearwisdom.net)

[Guangdong Province] Hong Kong Practitioner Zhao Xiyun Arrested in Jiangmen
[Henan Province] Ruthless Persecution of Practitioners in the No. 3 Forced Labor Camp
[Chengdu City, Sichuan Province] Huang Min Tortured to Critical Condition
[Jilin Province] Practitioner Mr. Bai Is Still Being Held at the National Security Bureau
[Tieling County, Liaoning Province] Li Guoliang Arrested
[Wuhan City, Hubei Province] Personnel of the City Steel Company's 610 Office Sent Liu Xiaolan to Brainwashing Classes Several Times
[Lianyuan City, Hunan Province] Police Arrest Tong Jinqing and Ransack His Home
[Fuyu County, Jilin Province] Wang Yunlong Sent to the Yinmahe Forced Labor Camp
[Siping City, Jilin Province] Zhang Ying Arrested for Distributing Truth-clarifying Materials
[Guilin City, Guangxi Province] Wang Xuerong Sentenced to Two Years of Forced Labor for Distributing Truth-clarifying Materials

1. [Guangdong Province] Hong Kong Practitioner Zhao Xiyun Arrested in Jiangmen

On August 3, 2005, practitioner Ms. Zhao Xiyun from Hong Kong took her son back to Jiangmen City to visit her father and meet relatives. On August 7, several policemen broke into her father's home and arrested Zhao Xiyun, her mother and sister. The police ransacked her parents' home and confiscated the Epoch Times newpaper editorial articles the Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party and truth-clarifying materials.

2. [Henan Province] Ruthless Persecution of Practitioners in the No. 3 Forced Labor Camp

We are practitioners who are being held in Henan Province's No.3 Forced Labor Camp in Xuchang City. Since the Nine Commentaries were published, the labor camp police escalated the persecution of practitioners . The torture method they often used is "Tightening the Rope." They would insert a bottle or bricks between the rope and the practitioner's skin to further tighten the rope if they didn't hear the practitioner scream. Each tightening of the rope would cause more bleeding, injury, or even disability. To force the practitioners to give up Falun Gong, they selected a group of thugs from the prisoners. They poured urine into practitioners' mouths, spit on them and daubed feces on practitioner's faces, pounded their toes with hammers, pricked their fingers with needles, brushed their rectum with a tooth brush, hit their genitals, pulled their pubic hair, handcuffed them behind the back, and exposed practitioners to blazing sun or heavy rain.

The police praised the prisoners who tortured practitioners and reduced their detention terms. Because they tortured practitioners savagely and forced some practitioners to give up Falun Gong practice, in the past four years, this forced labor camp was given the recognition award "Prinvincial Advanced Law-Execution Unit."

The policemen who brutalized practitioners included Yan Zhenye, Jiang Qingtai, Yao Jieshi, Jin Long, Ma Huating, Tan Junmin, Xu Shuiwang, Zhao Zhimin, Shen Jianwei and Xu Zuwang.

3. [Chengdu City, Sichuan Province] Huang Min Tortured to Critical Condition

According to an insider, practitioner Ms. Huang Min, 51 years old, from Chengdu City, former deputy director of Chengdu City Town and Township Enterprise Administration Bureau, was arrested and now has been tortured to the point of being in critical condition. She is unable to speak, and the authorities do not allow family visits.

4. [Jilin Province] Practitioner Mr. Bai Is Still Being Held at the National Security Bureau

Mr. Bai He, 39 years old, used to work as a deputy commander in the 47th Division of the local Army of Jilin City, Jilin Province. On July 22, 1999, he went to appeal for Falun Gong, but afterwards the army aurthorities put him under house arrest and ordered him to retire.

In October 2000, Bai He went to Beijing again to appeal on behalf of Falun Gong. Thus the local police arrested and sent him into the Jilin City Forced Labor Camp for a two- year term. He has suffered cruel mistreatment. Because of his determination to practice Falun Dafa, he was tortured to the point of being extremely weak.

On July 15, 2005, personnel from the city's National Secrurity Bureau arrested him at his home. He has been detained for 30 days.

National Security Bureau: 86-432-3501131

5. [Tieling County, Liaoning Province] Li Guoliang Arrested

Practitioner Mr. Li Guoliang from Tulouzi Village, Xiongguantun Township, Tieling County, Tieling City, Liaoning Province was arrested and locked up in the county detention center.

At 11:00 p.m. on August 1, 2005, a gang of policemen headed by the chief of the Township Police Station broke into and ransacked Li Guoliang's home because Li Guoliang was reported for clarifying the truth of Falun Dafa a few years ago. They confiscated some Falun Dafa truth-clarifying materials, forcibly put him into a police car and incarcerated him in the county detention center.

6. [Wuhan City, Hubei Province] Personnel of the City Steel Company's 610 Office Sent Liu Xiaolan to Brainwashing Classes Several Times

Practitioner Liu Xiaolan, an employee of the No.3 Steel Factory for the Wuhan City Steel Company has been sent to detention centers, forced labor camps, brainwashing classes in the steel company, the Tangxun Lake Provincial Brainwashing Class and the Jiang'an District Brainwashing Class, merely for continuing to practice Falun Gong. The latest incident: personnel from the company's 610 Office held him in the Jiang'an District Brainwashing Class for 6 months.

Personnel in the brainwashing class forced him to stand for a long time. They deprived him of rest and sleep in order to force Liu to write the so called "Guarrantee Statement." After he was released, the steel company's "610 Office" ordered him to write a "report" and attend a brainwashing session every 6 months.

7. [Lianyuan City, Hunan Province] Police Arrest Tong Jinqing and Ransack His Home

In early June 2005, practitioner Tong Jinqing from Quanhe Village, Yangshi Town, Lianyuan City, Hunan Province, was arrested and his home was ransacked. Some truth clarification materials and two books of the Nine Commentaries were confiscated. Tong has not been release yet.

8. [Fuyu County, Jilin Province] Wang Yunlong Sent to the Yinmahe Forced Labor Camp

During the morning of July 5, 2005, policemen from the National Security Team drove to Fuyu County Experimentation Primary School to talk with Wang Yunlong about his mother practicing Falun Gong. Wang Yunlong clarified the truth to the policemen. They asked whether or not he practiced Falun Gong. Wang Yunlong then told them that all his illness vanished after practicing Falun Gong for two years. Furthermore, for many years he was unable to father a child due to health reasons, but his wife had a baby boy after he began practicing Falun Gong. Policemen said someone reported that Wang Yunlong distributed truth-clarifying materials. Then they began to search Wang's house and confiscated cassettes, video tapes, Dafa books, truth-clarifying materials and the Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party. They stated if they found five copies of the book the Nine Commentaries, they could send him to a forced labor camp. Later they sent Wang Yunlong to a detention center for 15 days.

During detention, the National Security Team and Legal System Section went to Songyuan City to request authorization for one year of forced labor for Wang Yunlong, but failed. After practitioners published Wang Yunlong's circumstances of his arrest on the internet, practitioners overseas called the Fuyu County Police Department to clarify the truth. The chief, however, refused to listen. Instead, he requested authorization for forced labor on the second day. Wang Yunlong was then sent to the Yinmahe Forced Labor Camp in Jiutai City, Jilin Province for one year.

9. [Siping City, Jilin Province] Zhang Ying Arrested for Distributing Truth-clarifying Materials

During the night on August 10, 2005 when Zhang Ying was distributing truth-clarifying materials, he/she was arrested and is currently being held at the Siping City Detention Center.

During the morning on August 11, two officers from the Huangtukeng Street Police Station together with personnel from the community went to search Zhang Yin and his/her mother's houses with a search warrant issued by the Huangtuken Street Police Station. They confiscated a copy of Zhuan Falun. The policemen said the arrest was carried out under orders from Tiedong District "610 Office" in Siping City.

10. [Guilin City, Guangxi Province] Wang Xuerong Sentenced to Two Years of Forced Labor for Distributing Truth-clarifying Materials

Wang Xuerong is a Falun Gong practitioner from Guilin City. On June 23, 2005 when he/she was distributing truth-clarifying materials, policeman Hu Kai arrested him/her and sentenced him/her to two years of forced labor at the Guangxi District No.1 Forced Labor Camp in Nanning City.

Hu Kai: 86-13517538875

146 People Declare that their Words and Deeds Under Forced Brainwashing are Null and Void
A Total of 284799 Declarations Have Been Published To Date

Here are some examples of the Solemn Declarations:

Dafa Practitioners' Solemn Statements [5/31/2005]
Solemn Declarations By People Who Have Awakened to the Truth about Falun Gong [6/2/2005]
Solemn Declarations by Young Dafa Practitioners [5/22/2005]

Please click here for more Solemn Declarations.

Summary of Other Articles and News - August 16, 2005

(Clearwisdom.net)

Facts of the Persecution

1. Mr. An Fengbo Tortured with "Hanging by Hand-Cuffs"

Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. An Fengbo is from Jilin City, Jilin Province. He is now detained in Yinmahe Labor Camp in Jiutai City, Jilin Province, where he has been tortured with "Hanging by Hand-Cuffs," Sitting Board (1), etc. He is strictly monitored. His wife and six-year-old son went to visit him but the Labor Camp refused to allow them to see him. http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2005/8/16/108510.html

2. Mr. Zhou Minzhong Arrested on the Way Home from the Court House

Fifty-year-old Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Zhou Minzhong was arrested on the way home from the Court House in August 2005. The Court House officials and the State Security Agents tried to force him and his wife to withdraw their lawsuit against Moping District Textile Factory for firing them without reason. No one knows Mr Zhou Minzhong's whereabouts.

http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2005/8/16/108503.html

3. Ms. Liu Xiuyun Abducted by Three Policemen, and Beaten till Four Limbs Covered with Bruises

On August 3, 2005, three policemen from Zhengzhuangzi Township Station suddenly stormed Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Liu Xiuyun's home in Jiazhuangzi Village, Zhengzhuangzi Township, Kaiping District, Tangshan City. They took Ms. Liu to the Station, threatened her, and beat her brutally until her arms and legs were purple and black.

http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2005/8/16/108489.html

4. Crimes Policeman Du Hengli Committed

During the 2000 Chinese New Year Holiday season, policeman Du Hengli from Tongbei Forestry Department in Heilongjiang Province went to Beijing to arrest Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Li Chengjiang. At that time he extorted three thousand yuan from Mr. Li's family, taking the money for his own use On January 22, 2003, Du Hengli stormed Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Fan Changjiang's residence without a warrant and stole their family stereo. On January 29, 2003, he stormed Mr. Fan's residence again, demanding 3000 yuan. Fan's family could not meet his demand and had to borrow 300 yuan to give to Du Hengli.

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(1) For fifty days practitioners were forced to sit with backs straight and hands in their laps on hard benches for 18 hours per day. The authorities even limited practitioners' restroom use time. Because of the long time spent sitting on hard benches, practitioners' buttocks developed painful sores. Practitioners could not even urinate normally because of the pain. The labor camp was very wet, but the police would not allow practitioners to have fresh air or sunlight. Practitioners were locked up for so long that countless painful, itchy red scabs grew on the bodies of practitioners. See case on: http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2002/7/29/24631.html

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Facts of the Persecution

Persecution Intensified as Hundreds of Practitioners at the Masanjia Forced Labor Camp Declare Their Resolve to Continue Practicing Falun Gong

Details of How Falun Dafa Practitioner Wang Hongde Was Persecuted to Death

UN Investigates Torture Suffered by Professor Wu Xiaohua

Practitioners Endure Gruesome Torture from Inmates and Guards in the Heilongjiang Women's Prison

Shanghai Practitioner Wu Aizhong and Others Facing Illegal Imprisonment

Resisting Brainwashing, Female Scientist Li Guiqin Had Two Front Teeth Knocked Out

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My Thoughts Regarding a Fellow Practitioner's Death as A Result of Persecution

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Facts of the Persecution

Persecution Intensified as Hundreds of Practitioners at the Masanjia Forced Labor Camp Declare Their Resolve to Continue Practicing Falun Gong

(Clearwisdom.net) At the end of 2004, most illegally detained Falun Gong practitioners in Masanjia Forced Labor Camp submitted a statement to the center, denouncing the center's "transformation" tactics and declaring null and void the previous statement they signed under high pressure to give up the practice of Falun Gong. The detention center was very frightened and carried out a policy of "Separate Management" to persecute the practitioners more severely.

The Masanjia Forced Labor Camp is a concentration camp used to persecute Falun Gong practitioners. The guards there randomly bring steadfast practitioners into small wards and brutally torture them, using methods including: fierce beatings, handcuffing practitioners to metal chairs for 24 hours, leaving the windows open in freezing winter temperatures which causes injury and disability, putting high-volume loudspeakers beside practitioner's ears, sleep deprivation, and not allowing practitioners to use the toilet more than 2 or 3 times per day.

Huang Haiyan, a guard (female), once beat Falun Gong practitioners with a steel rod. The practitioners had lumps all over their heads as a result. Even though the evil is so vicious, it could not move the steadfast practitioners.

At the end of 2004, most Falun Gong practitioners submitted a statement to the center, condemning the brutal "transformation" attempts and declaring null and void the previous statement they signed under high pressure to give up the practice of Falun Gong. They refused to participate in hard labor. With improved understanding of the Fa principles, practitioners came to realize that they needed to completely negate the persecution and not even wear the detention center uniforms. Their righteous thoughts and actions frightened the authorities. The guards decided to employ new methods - "Separate Management" - and divided the more than 600 practitioners in the detention center into three large teams. About 130 people were put in the "Severe Management" team, and about 200 people were put in the "Normal Management" team. These two teams were for determined practitioners. The remaining 200 people put in the "Loose Management" team were practitioners who had been brainwashed and given up Falun Gong.

Determined practitioners under "Severe Management" are given only corn flour buns to eat. They are monitored 24 hours a day, including the time they spend using the toilet. They only have five minutes to wash and brush their teeth, and are not allowed to dry their clothes outdoors. They sleep in a 40-square-meter room, where an 80-watt light bulb is on all through the night. During the daytime, the TV and radio are played constantly at high volume. The practitioners' pens and paper are all taken away. The guards also conduct brutal force-feedings on practitioners who go on hunger strike to protest the persecution. Four policemen will stand on the practitioner's arms and legs, force a tube into the practitioner's nose, and administer force-feeding with corn flour porridge saturated with salt.

Details of How Falun Dafa Practitioner Wang Hongde Was Persecuted to Death

(Clearwisdom.net) Falun Dafa practitioner Wang Hongde died as a result of persecution at the Daqing City's Hongweixing Prison on May 14, 2005.

Mr. Wang Hongde, 56, was an employee of the Xinhua Power Generation Plant in Datong District, Daqing City, Heilongjiang Province. He started practicing Falun Gong in 1997. After the persecution started in July 1999, Mr. Wang persisted in his belief. The Datong District police unlawfully detained him twice, for fifteen days each time, in March 2000 and February 2001. After being released from the second detention, Mr. Wang decided to leave his hometown.

In the spring of 2001, Mr. Wang invested over 200,000 yuan planting seedlings and cactus in Beijing and Tangshan. On April 26, 2002, staff from the Yutian County Police Department arrested Mr. Wang and ransacked his home in Tangshan City. They found 11,000 yuan and confiscated it, calling it a "fine." The over two hundred thousand yuan investment was completely lost, which caused Wang Hongde extensive mental trauma.

Because Mr. Wang refused to give up his belief in Falun Dafa, the persecutors sentenced him to a five-year prison term. On August 16, 2003, Mr. Wang was sent to the Hongweixing Prison in Daqing City.

On the first day, some training group guards beat and tortured Mr. Wang with leather belts. His hands were swollen, his palms were bleeding, and half of a tooth in his upper-right jaw was broken off. During the detention, staff from the prison's "Education Section" (610 Office) also forced him to watch Dafa-slandering video programs. They tried to brainwash him, and mentally tormented him. He was not permitted to sleep before twelve midnight.

Around December 2002, Mr. Wang suffered a heart attack as a result of the torture, and fell into a coma. He was then diagnosed with severe heart disease (mitral stenosis and third degree heart failure).

When his family heard about this they went to Daqing Prison to visit him, but prison Chief Wang Yingjie didn't allow the visit, no matter what. His reason: Wang Hongde didn't write the Three Statements. With the family's persistent and firm requests, Wang Yingjie finally agreed reluctantly, but only with the condition that the family members would help his efforts to reform Wang Hongde. He sent Guo Chuntang from the 610 Office to accompany them (monitoring).

When the family visited him, not only did they not help reform Wang Hongde, but even gave him support and encouragement. Guo Chuntang was furious with the family and said, "Don't expect to see Wang Hongde again. You didn't even say one word telling him to repent." Since then it was even harder to visit Wang Hongde. They had to have proof from their local police that these family members were not Falun Gong practitioners.

In the meantime, the prison was required to raise their "reformation rate," so Wang Hongde's persecution worsened. He was in the prison hospital by then. Hospital director Huang often put Wang Hongde under duress to write the "Three Statements" and threatened that if he didn't write them he would be kicked out of the hospital. When another director named Gao Qing received truth-clarification calls from Dafa practitioners he rampantly cursed Wang Hongde and forced him to tell who the caller was. Due to the mental pressure Wang Hongde's situation worsened each day. He had a hard time breathing, and had whole-body edema. Mr. Wang was at the brink of death as a result of being tortured in prison.

The family was finally able to convince the officials to send Wang Hongde to a conventional hospital. At first, prison chief Wang Yingjie didn't agree and spoke rudely to the family. Afterwards the officials were worried about being held liable for his death, and then agreed to send Wang Hongde to the Fourth Hospital of Daqing.

On January 15, 2003, Wang Hongde went to the Fourth Hospital in heavy handcuffs and shackles. The checkup was performed while he wore the handcuffs and shackles. The final diagnosis was rheumatic heart disease, combined valve disease, high aortal pressure, mitral stenosis, tricuspid regurgitation, and fourth degree heart failure.

The doctor said that this patient was at risk of losing his life at any time and had to be kept in the hospital to be rescued. Zhu Rui, prison division leader didn't agree, and was firm in wanting to take Wang Hongde back.

Wang's family insisted on having Wang Hongde remain in the hospital. Otherwise, they would sue the prison. On January 16, 2003, the decision was made that Wang Hongde would stay at the hospital and remain there for 14 days. But the arrangement was odd.

During his stay in the hospital, the prison was trying everything to make life difficult for the family. For example: 1.Two policemen in three shifts were assigned to them. All the officers' food, lodging and expenses were charged to the family. 2. They didn't allow the family to visit. 3. Every night, Wang Hongde had to be returned to the prison and sent back to the hospital the next morning. Because the family strongly opposed this, the officials didn't do it every day.

Because Wang Hongde had fourth degree heart failure, he was eligible to obtain medical parole. On January 24, 2003 the family officially submitted applications for medical parole to the Hongweixing Prison. Prison chief Wang Yingjie not only didn't release Wang Hongde, but he also imposed a tight information blockade, intensified the persecution, and didn't permit family visits.

Wang Hongde's mother is over 70 years old. She has high blood pressure. When she heard that her son was suffering at the prison and was at risk of losing his life she traveled to the prison from far away and requested medical parole for her son.

In the morning on August 25, 2004, Wang Hongde's mother arrived at the Daqing Prison office to look for prison chief Wang Yingjie, who didn't let her enter the office. Wang Hongde's mother said, "It wasn't easy for me to come here from far away. Why don't you let me in? You made my son sick. Why can I not talk with you?" Wang Yingjie said he needed to attend a meeting and walked out of the office. Wang's mother followed him to the meeting room, asking him to give her an answer. Wang Yingjie called officers from the Hongweixing Police Station. They dragged Wang's mother from the third floor to a police car, then brought her to Hongweixing Police Station. The police interrogated her, and charged her with appealing for Falun Gong.

For two years Wang's family made continuous efforts requesting medical parole, but the prison always deceived the family with lame excuses, and gave the family the run-around. The prison division referred it to the prison hospital, and they in turn referred the matter back to the division. The division then referred it to the prison chief. Prison chief Wang Yingjie said, "We would rather see a Falun Gong practitioner die here than release him or her for medical treatment."

Such mental torment worsened Wang Hongde's illness. If he didn't feel good, a doctor would give him a shot of heart medicine. That is the only treatment the hospital supplied! When he showed a little improvement he was sent back to the prison ward. After a few days in the prison ward the illness got worse. He was then sent back to the prison hospital, back and forth. This happened again and again. During one day this actually happened three times, and in this manner Wang Hongde's health deteriorated rapidly.

On February 13, 2005, at around 2:00 p.m., Wang's family received a phone call from the Third Prison Division, telling them to go to the Fourth Daqing Hospital because Wang Hongde's illness had worsened. At around 3:00 p.m., Wang's family arrived at the emergency room. Wang Hongde was being checked and given an electro- cardiogram. The doctor said, "He is at great risk. His heart rate is over 160. He could die at any time. His illness is so severe. Why didn't you send him here earlier? He has to be admitted to the hospital now."

Prison policeman Zhu Rui and prison hospital director Gao asked the doctors if they could just subscribe some medicine for Wang Hongde instead of having him stay in the hospital. The doctor said, "The patient's heart could stop at any minute. I'm only considering this from the patient's perspective. I'll leave it up to you." Zhu Rui had to call the prison and the officials finally agreed to keep Wang Hongde at the emergency room in the first patient section. Wang Hongde's heart rate was 160-200 per minute and his whole body was swollen. He couldn't move about, so he had to relieve himself on the bed. He also had a hard time breathing. The doctor in charge of the case said, "He could die at any moment. The family should be prepared."

Wang Hongde was still forced to wear the heavy shackles and handcuffs. Wang's family pleaded several times for removal of the shackles, but no one listened. With the disease having worsened, in addition to the heavy torture implements, Wang had no choice but to relieve himself in his pants, which didn't always get cleaned up right away. Leaving the hospital after several days revealed decay on his upper thighs and leg muscles.

At around 8:00 a.m. on February 27, 2005, prison policeman Zhu Rui went to the Fourth Hospital to get Wang Hongde out. Without agreement from the family or the patient, he processed all the release paperwork.

At the time, Wang Hongde's condition was not good enough to be released from the hospital. He had only experienced a slight improvement. The doctor said this kind of illness needs to be adjusted to a stable condition or it would recur frequently, getting worse each time he has a relapse, and that he would eventually lose the chance of being treated successfully.

On February 25, 2005, Wang Hongde's family reached out to prison division leader Zhu and petitioned him to allow Wang Hongde to continue receiving hospital treatment. Zhu said he didn't have to the power to make that decision, and told Wang's family to go to the prison chief to start anew on the process. The family made hurried attempts for three days without any results. The prison consistently used the same technique, passing responsibility from one group to another.

Between February 22 and April 30, due to the abrupt cessation of treatment, several recurrences of the illness, and not getting immediate treatment, Wang Hongde lost his chance to be treated.

Prison chief Wang Yingjie and other officials delayed the medical application process that had begun on January 24, 2003 and didn't complete it until April 20, 2005.

On May 14, 2005, fifteen days after his release, Mr. Wang passed away as a result of the persecution.

UN Investigates Torture Suffered by Professor Wu Xiaohua

(Clearwisdom.net) Professor Wu Xiaohua's case, submitted by the Falun Gong Human Rights Working Group, has drawn international attention. The case of Professor Wu has also been taken on by the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (the UN Working Group). Professor Wu was one of victims whom the Working Group sought to interview during its visit to China last September. However, the Peoples Republic of China (PRC) rebuffed all attempts, did not provide information regarding her situation at that time, or allow contact between the UN Working Group and Ms. Wu.

Reports of the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention of the United Nations on Professor Wu Xiaohua:

Wu Xiaohua, female, 47 years old, an associate professor of the Environmental Art Department at Anhui Civil Construction Engineering College at Hefei city, Anhui province, was reportedly placed under house arrest in October 2001, during the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation Summit held in Shanghai. Later, she was sent to a labor camp for women. She was allegedly tortured at the camp in a number of ways, including having her mouth stuffed with rags and tissues soaked in urine and menstrual blood. In mid-October 2001, on the tenth day of a hunger strike she had initiated to protest her detention, she was sent to the No. 4 People's Hospital at Hefei city, Anhui province. At the hospital she was stripped of her clothes and shocked with electric needles and an electric baton all over her body. Dr. Li, a medical doctor, tortured her with electric shocks until she became unconscious. She was also forcibly given injections and force-fed drugs. It was further reported that Professor Wu was first arrested in December of 1999 for appealing in Beijing to the Government to put an end to its persecution of Falun Gong. She was allegedly tortured at the Anhui Female Detention Centre in Anhui province. Later she was transferred to the No. 4 People's Hospital of Hefei city where she also was tortured, including being locked in a bathhouse full of mosquitoes for one night and forced to use a pigpen full of spider webs as a toilet. At the end of April 2001, she was again arrested.

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) continued to persecute Ms. Wu. Late in April 2003, Ms. Wu Xiaohua completed her 18-month term in a forced labor camp. Because she refused to give up practicing Falun Gong, her term was extended for two months. Ms. Wu went on a hunger strike to oppose the extension, and the police ordered other detainees to brutally force-feed her. To accomplish this, four of her teeth were extracted. She experienced brutal torture in the forced labor camp, as well as in the mental hospital, which left her struggling for survival, and she was on the verge of death several times. Long-term inhuman persecution made her hair almost totally white and she became extremely weak. As a result, Ms. Wu was released on probation on May 13, 2003.

After her release, she continued her efforts to expose the facts of the persecution. She was arrested twice in other cities after people reported her activities to the authorities. Each time, she was released immediately. On the night of November 16, 2003, Ms. Wu was arrested again after being reported for exposing the facts; her arm was wounded during the arrest. She was detained in the Second Detention Center in Hefei City, Anhui Province.

Right after she was sent to the labor camp, she was cuffed onto a big board for nine consecutive days. Ms. Wu started a hunger strike to protest the detention and persecution. She had no bowel movement for over 50 days and was reduced to skin and bones. She was severely emaciated when she was finally bailed out of the labor camp.

Conclusion of the Working Group

In its reaction to the reply from the Government, the source states that the Government of China used "disruption of social order" as the pretext for detaining Zhong Bo, Liu Li, Wu Xiaohua, Gai Suzhi, Chen Gang, Zhang Wenfu, Liu Junhua, Zhang Jiuhai and Zhu Xiaofei. According to the source, the Government failed to name the specific offences with which they had been charged. The source notes how strange it is that people of different ages (from 25 to 62), different professions (workers, professors, retirees) and from different locations suddenly develop the same tendency to "disrupt social order", many even repeatedly. According to the source, Zhong Bo, Liu Li, Wu Xiaohua, Gai Suzhi, Chen Gang, Zhang Wenfu, Liu Junhua, Zhang Jiuhai and Zhu Xiaofei are all Falun Gong practitioners and were persecuted for exercising the freedom of belief guaranteed by China's Constitution. They were repeatedly detained and tortured for refusing to renounce Falun Gong.

The Working Group further observes that the Government has not denied that Chen Gang, Zhang Wenfu, Wu Xiaohua, Liu Junhua, Zhang Jiuhai and Zhu Xiaofei are Falun Gong practitioners, or that they were detained in connection with the practice of this discipline.

As there is no evidence that Falun Gong is a violent belief, as far as the cases under consideration are concerned, its free exercise should be protected by article 18 on freedom of belief and article 19 on freedom of opinion and expression of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Even though the sentence of re-education through labor is, as claimed by the Government, a more favorable measure, offering better possibilities to the person concerned than a prison sentence imposed by a court judgment, it still constitutes, in the opinion of the Working Group, administrative deprivation of liberty that may be arbitrary in character, as found by the Group in its deliberation 04 of 1993 (see E/CN.4/1993/24, chap. II).

In its report on its visit to China (E/CN.4/1998/44/Add.2, para. 95), the Working Group stated that the measure of re-education through labor should not be applied to any person exercising his or her fundamental freedoms as guaranteed by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In the cases at hand, detention does constitute a coercive measure designed to undermine the freedom of those persons to adopt beliefs of their own choosing.

The Working Group therefore deems that these persons were prosecuted and sentenced to the administrative measure of re-education through labor, and therefore deprived of their liberty, mainly for exercising fundamental rights which are set out in articles 18 and 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: the right to freedom of conscience and religion (art. 18) and the right to freedom of opinion and expression (art. 19).

In the light of the foregoing, the Working Group issues the following opinion:

The detention of Chen Gang, Zhang Wenfu, Wu Xiaohua, Liu Junhua, Zhang Jiuhai and Zhu Xiaofei is arbitrary, being in contravention of articles 18 and 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and falls within category II of the categories applicable to the consideration of cases submitted to the Working Group.

Consequently, the Working Group requests the Government to take the necessary steps to remedy the situation of these persons and to bring it into conformity with the standards and principles set forth in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and encourages it to ratify the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.

Practitioners Endure Gruesome Torture from Inmates and Guards in the Heilongjiang Women's Prison

(Clearwisdom.net)

The following is a personal account of the cruel persecution that I suffered and witnessed in the Hegang No.2 Detention Center and in the Heilongjiang Women's Prison.

On the afternoon of April 21, 2002, four police officers arrested me at my mother's home and locked me up in the Hedong Branch of the Police Department. The next day, they transferred me to the No. 2 Detention Center. In just three days, all the prison cells were packed with Falun Dafa practitioners, with each cell having fifty to sixty people. The authorities at the Hegang Branch aggressively arrested practitioners at will.

One day in May, an inmate named Yang Ying asked us if we would continue to practice Falun Gong. The answer was a unanimous, "Yes." Yang quickly reported to the police officers of the prison that we did not want to give up our practice. The officers started to prepare all the instruments of torture. Because there were simply too many practitioners who were imprisoned there, the authorities did not have enough instruments of torture, so they borrowed some from other places and created some of their own. The instruments included eight meter long steel pipes with many steel loops on them. The officers instructed the inmates to lock each of our feet into one steel loop and then to handcuff our hands to it, making us unable to straighten our backs or stand up. We were locked up like this even when eating.

The cruelest form of torture was to prevent us from closing our eyes and sleeping. As soon as any of us closed our eyes, they poured cold water on us, slapped us with their shoes, or kicked us. Some practitioners' buttocks began to fester. The more they sat, the worse their buttocks festered. Eventually some of had three large holes open on their buttocks, with blood and pus oozing from them. When a practitioner in this state needed to use the toilet, three people had to help her up. The torture of preventing us from sleeping and constantly beating us lasted as long as seventeen days.

Later the authorities sentenced me to three years in prison and sent me to the Heilongjiang Women's Prison. On September 5, 2003, a few of us were sitting on the floor, sending forth righteous thoughts, when Zhang Chunhua and a few other policewomen, together with another male officer, came into our cell. Outraged, the male officer walked towards us and fiercely beat us with his fists. Then he kept kicking us with his leather shoes until he was exhausted. After the beatings, he grinned to the female officers, "Strip them and take away all of their clothes. Let's see how they can practice." Soon a few inmates came in with many ropes. They wrapped us up with the ropes and tied us on the beds.

The next day Officer Zhang Chunhua again came in, accompanied by a few inmates. The untied us and tried to take us out. We refused. They beat and kicked us, forcing us to go inside the gate of the male prison. All of us were stunned when we saw what was there! This was a well-prepared torture scene. Some Falun Gong practitioners were already there, running and being beaten. Circle by circle, male and female officers, together with the selected inmates, were all holding the instruments of torture including electric batons, water bottles and wooden planks. They were continuously beating the practitioners. They forced the practitioners to run inside their human circles so that they could torture them altogether. Running or not, the practitioners would suffer the same amount of torture. As a result, some practitioners refused to cooperate. They then handcuffed the practitioners around the windows so that the practitioners were forced to be on tiptoes. Then Wang Liang, a policeman, held the electric baton and started to shock the practitioners' faces. As some practitioners were exhausted and could not run any more, the officers forced them to squat down with their heads facing the wall. Some of us were in so much pain from the torture that we had to roll back and forth on the ground. There were a few officers standing near the torture scene, watching the torture and talking about it.

It was time for the prison officers to go home. They let us go back to our cells and asked the inmates to use ropes to tie us up. Then they left us on the cold, damp, hard floor. When it was mealtime, an inmate held a flour bun, walking by each of us, and letting us each have a couple of bites of the bun, as we were all tied up and unable to move. Then he fed us a little bit soup with salted vegetables. That was our lunch!

When it was bedtime, a few inmates watched us at the same time. They did not let us close our eyes. As soon as any of us closed our eyes, they beat us up with their shoes, wooden planks or their fists.

It was late autumn. The "room" we were staying in was actually a hallway that the prison authorities wanted to turn into a prison cell. Since no windows had been installed, cold air blew in onto the flesh of the practitioners who were sitting on the cold, damp, hard floor, wearing only light clothes. On top of all this the inmates were beating and cursing us. When other inmates passed by at night, these men quickly closed the door so that other inmates would not be able to see the horrendous scene. For the whole night, the inmates beat us. They kept us from sleeping until the next morning, when the prison officers came back to work. Holding the instruments of torture, they continued to beat us at will.

One early morning, a few inmates, holding the instruments of torture, started beating a few Falun Dafa practitioners. In particular, they beat practitioner Ms. Wang Aihua so badly that her face was deformed. While beating the practitioners, the inmates asked them if they would sign a pledge of conversion. Ms. Zhou Chunzhi was the second practitioner who got beaten. After the beatings, Ms. Zhou's back could not move at all. As if this was not enough, they stripped off the pants of a few practitioners, including those of Ms. Xu Youxin. After that, they beat them with wooden planks and with their shoes and then tortured them further by putting them in salt water. One by one, they tortured us in order to "convert" us. Despite the torture, they were doomed to fail.

After eleven days of continuous torture, the practitioners were still as determined as before, and they failed to convert any of us. The prison authorities had to change their tactics by having some inmates curse and beat us. In particular, Officer Zhang Chunhua picked the two inmates Li Guihong and Zhu Yuhong (who have since been released from prison) to further persecute us.

In March of 2004 when the practitioners at the No. 8 prison district refused to cooperate, the authorities at the district cuffed the practitioners behind their backs against an iron bed.

No matter how cruel these people have been, they have failed to shake the righteous faith of Falun Dafa practitioners. In fact, we have all successfully remained on our path.

Shanghai Practitioner Wu Aizhong and Others Facing Illegal Imprisonment

(Clearwisdom.net) In January 2005, Dafa practitioner Mr. Wu Aizhong and his wife Zhong Hui, who resided in the Xujing area, Qingpu District, Shanghai, were illegally arrested. They have been detained at the Qingpu Detention Center and are facing sentencing.

Wu Aizhong was employed as a sales manager at the Fan Wu Trading Limited Company, a Korean corporation in Shanghai. He was highly regarded by his employer.

On January 8, 2005, Wu Aizhong was suddenly arrested from his office by the Xujing area Qingpu District police. His wife and their six year old son were also arrested on the same day. The reason for the arrests was that the couple had printed Falun Gong truth clarifying flyers. They have both been detained for an extended period of time at Qingpu Detention Center, where government officials and police have tried to "transform" both of them without success. Authorities also tried to sentence them in April. Three other Shanghai Dafa practitioners, Liu Quanzeng, Li Yuyan and Liu Lan, were also arrested at the same time.

On July 27, the Shanghai Qingpu Courthouse started hearing the Wu family's case. The couple proclaimed their innocence before the court's public prosecutor. They declared that they printed Falun Gong flyers with the purpose of letting people know the truth about Falun Gong. The court ruled that both of them had violated the illegal ban on Falun Gong, and said that making Falun Gong materials carries a sentence of 7 - 10 years in prison. The court appointed defense attorney openly admitted that he could only submit a guilty plea. The verdict is not yet known.

On July 27^th, the couple's family members went to the hearing from out of town. Zhong Hui's mother and her six years old grandson, Wu Xingyu, were refused entrance because Zhong Hui's mother had forgotten to bring her ID with her. In frustration and sadness at the prospect of her daughter going to prison, she cried uncontrollably in front of the courthouse. At present, all four elderly parents of the couple find it very difficult and painful to accept the fact that their children may face imprisonment.

A warm family will soon be broken-up, leaving only elderly grandparents and a young child. How could the grandparents, at their advanced age, bear the pain of losing their children and seeing their grandson's support taken away? Why is it a crime for Dafa practitioners to tell people the facts? We hope that all kind-hearted people around the world will pay attention to this tragic case and similar ones happening everyday in China. Let the attention of kind people from around the world expose the evil and its atrocities - those who are suffering need the support of righteous people! Let all Dafa practitioners support them with righteous thoughts.

The relevant offices' contact information:

Qingpu Section People's Court
Address: 555 Chengzhongbei Road, Qingpu County, Shanghai
Judge Fei Xiong: 86-21-69201478, 86-21-69201481
Postal Code: 201700

Qingpu District legal aid center: Room 206, 105 Chengzhongbei Road, Postal Code: 201700
86-21-59731890

Qingpu Detention Center
Address: 485 Chengzhongbei Road, Qingpu County, Shanghai Qingpu Police Substation
Main number 86-21-59729780 switch to Qingpu Detention Center

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Resisting Brainwashing, Female Scientist Li Guiqin Had Two Front Teeth Knocked Out

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Heilongjiang Province Agricultural Science Institute scientist Ms. Li Guiqin was unlawfully detained at Jiamusi Labor Camp. During her detention, the guards persecuted her using the "big handcuff from behind" torture method [a very brutal torture whereby one hand is pulled over the shoulder to the back, the other hand is twisted behind the back near the waist, and two hands are handcuffed]. On one occasion, guards beat her, knocking out two front teeth and then laughed at her.

On February 20, 2003, Jiamusi Labor Camp guards beat Ms. Li Guiqin and knocked out her front teeth.

Ms. Li Guiqin was abducted and taken to Jiamusi Labor Camp on October 30, 2002. On February 17, 2003, she was handcuffed for protesting the unlawful extension of her sentence. During the daytime, she was forced to sit on the floor in a north facing room on the second floor, handcuffed to a metal bed. At night, she was handcuffed in a storehouse on the third floor. She was also forced to stand from morning to 10 o'clock at night for four days continuously.

After 2 p.m. on February 20, 2003, in a classroom on the third floor, Outpost Section guard Wang Tiejun asked Ms. Li if she was being "reeducated through labor." Ms. Li answered that she was being forced. Wang Tiejun then kicked her face, head and body brutally with his leather shoes until she lost consciousness. When she woke up, she found two of her front teeth had been knocked out and the guards were laughing.

Guards then handcuffed Ms. Li and eleven other people to iron beds and shocked them with electric batons. Guard Mu Zhenjuan tried to force Falun Dafa practitioners to acknowledge that they were being "reeducated through labor" and asked the guards to beat them. Practitioner Ms. Zhang Guiyan shouted "Don't hit people!" Guard Wang Tiejun kicked her and said, "I just want to beat people who talk too much like you." Ms. Zhang's face was black and blue for a dozen days afterwards. Policewoman Mu Zhenjuan claimed that they were being beaten because Ms. Gao Cuilan refused to shout CCP slogans. Ms. Cao Xiuxia always displayed strong resistance to the persecution. Ms. Li Siju refused to sign a "reeducation contract." Ms. Xu Xianghua read Falun Dafa articles and Ms. Xie Xuepu recited Falun Gong articles.

Ms. Li was not allowed to rest her head until 8:10 p.m. She needed two rolls of toilet paper to wipe her bleeding nose. Among the practitioners who had been tortured, eight were around 50 years old, with the eldest being 57. Ms. Xu Xianghua had a heart attack from the torture. She was still handcuffed even after she lost consciousness. Ms. Chen Xiuling was handcuffed and deprived of sleep for five days and four nights because she refused to curse as requested by the guards.

Having lost so much blood, Ms. Li Guiqin could not brush her teeth nor eat. She was extremely weak and could barely walk after the torture and physical punishment. Police even prohibited her family from visiting her for over four months so that they wouldn't see how she had been disfigured.

One time, when an inspection team came to visit the labor camp, Ms. Li Guiqin was hidden inside a storehouse.

The persecution Ms. Li Guiqin suffered in Jiamusi Labor Camp has made her very weak and emaciated. She can barely even sit up for any length of time.

Media Reports

Waco Tribune (TX) Reports on "Rescue Falun Gong Orphans" Van Tour across Texas
Waco Tribune Herald, TX: 6-year-old shown as example of Falun Gong persecution in China

Monday, August 22, 2005

Zhang Shanshan looked like any other carefree 6-year-old as she played near the fountain in front of Waco City Hall on Sunday afternoon. That appearance may be deceiving, though, as Shanshan and her family have faced years of persecution by the Chinese government, according to her mother and leaders of the "Rescue Falun Gong Orphans" van tour across Texas.

The weekend long van tour, which seeks to raise awareness of the Chinese Communist Party's persecution of practitioners of Falun Gong, made a stop in downtown Waco Sunday. The tour previously made stops in Austin, Houston, College Station and Dallas.

In November 2000, when Shanshan was 1 year old, her dad was sentenced to 10 years in prison for posting Internet articles critical of the Chinese Communist Party, tour organizers said.

When Shanshan was 2, her mother, Hongkin Wong, fled China for the U.S. after years of monitoring by government officials, leaving Shanshan with relatives.

Last month, Shanshan was reunited with her mother in New York and is now touring Texas with the group.

Falun Gong is a practice of meditation and exercises that bases its teachings on the principles of truthfulness, compassion and tolerance. To date, more than 2,800 Falun Gong practitioners are confirmed to have died as a result of governmental persecution in China, according to Hongyi Pan of the Epoch Times.

During the stop in Waco, Shanshan's mother spoke about her experience with persecution. Shanshan's 9-year-old brother, Wesley, who came to the U.S. with his mom, made a plea for help for his friends in China, many of whom have been orphaned.

Though the group's tour is designed to increase awareness of the plight of Falun Gong practitioners, Wong said she hopes it will indirectly lead to her family being reunited, a bittersweet process that began at John F. Kennedy Airport in New York last month.

"When I met my daughter in the airport, she didn't recognize me and she asked where her father was," she said through an interpreter. "When I saw my daughter I was very happy, but at the same time it was painful - I had to finally tell her that her father was in prison."

Pan said support for the CCP in China is waning, with more than 3.8 million people having already resigned from the party. He said more people would resign if they either knew how or were not afraid of the CCP.

The tour was to conclude with a stop in Crawford, in hopes that attention will be brought to the group's cause before Chinese Communist leader Hu Jintao visits President Bush's ranch in mid-September. Falun Gong practitioners demonstrated against Chinese President Jiang Zemin during his visit to Bush's ranch in October 2002.

"The persecution against Falun Gong and Chinese children is unacceptable and must be stopped," Pan said.

Source http://www.wacotrib.com/news/content/news/stories/2005/08/22/20050822wacfalungong.html

Open Forum

Chen Xiuling's Appeal Letter for Her Daughter Who Died as a Result of Persecution

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To the Jiamusi City Prosecutor:

I am a resident at 9^th group, 54^th neighborhood committee, Dongfeng District, Jiamusi City. I am now 55 years old and am being illegally detained in the women's team of Xigemu Forced Labor Camp.

I am writing to appeal for my daughter, Chen Ying, who died as a result of persecution.

My daughter benefited from practicing Falun Gong, both in body and mind. When the government-controlled media began to slander and smear Falun Gong in July 1999,

she went to Beijing to appeal the illegal rulings against Falun Gong. She believed that she was being responsible to society, to her country, to others, and to herself by exercising her basic right of appeal as guaranteed by the Chinese Constitution. She hoped the government would be practical and realistic enough to resolve the issue of Falun Gong amiably.

Unfortunately, I learned that she was arrested and illegally detained at the Jiamusi City Government's Liaison Office in Beijing and that she had been taken back handcuffed by the political commissar of the Municipal Police Department. She was mistreated on the train and was confined even in the restroom, which insulted the 17-year-old girl. I was told that she committed suicide by jumping out of the train on the way home (1). My daughter lost her life while under government supervision; yet her murderers have still evaded punishment.

My precious daughter died an inculpable death, and I was mentally and physically devastated. To add insult to injury, the truth about what happened was covered up and the government authorities lied by saying that my daughter had mental problems and that she had tried to commit suicide many times. They said she jumped out of the train when her family members were off guard. This is an outrageous lie. As matter of fact, none of her family members were there when she died. She was an outstanding student and received many awards for her excellent behavior in school. Such an intelligent girl who just wanted to stand up for the truth and improve herself according to the standard of "Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance" was killed for no reason and then had to suffer her name being slandered after her death. This is beyond the limits of my forbearance. I believe the true cause of my daughter's abnormal death was the negligence and abusive behavior of certain police officials.

What is even more despicable, in order to cover up the truth they have tried to silence me. I have been abducted by police officials and have been detained in a forced labor camp. I keep appealing, but have had no response. I do not know whether the enforcement department has received my appeal letters or just does not care about the death of innocent people. But I believe that the good will be rewarded and the evil will be punished. Nobody can escape divine punishment.

I believe that very soon my daughter will be exonerated, and the truth of her persecution will be revealed to the public. I would also like to put in a sincere word to the law enforcers: do not go against your conscience and against what you know is right for the sake of profit. Doing so will ruin your true life forever. I hope you will be responsible for yourselves and bring the true criminals to justice and that you take on this responsibility with dignity.

I hereby demand that an investigation be conducted to find out the truth about Chen Ying's death and that those responsible for it be brought to justice. I demand that I be unconditionally released and that I be compensated for my illegal imprisonment by the National Compensation Act.

Petitioner: Chen Xiuling

June 2005

(1) In order to cover up their crimes, the Chinese authorities often cite "suicide" as the cause of death of Falun Gong practitioners. In this case, it is much more likely that the young practitioner jumped from the train in an attempt to escape the police brutality.

Their Tears Unseen, Their Cries Unheard: Posters from the Orphan Rescue Benefit Concert in New York

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The following are posters that were created to promote the Orphan Rescue Benefit Concert that was held in New York on July 9, 2005.

Their Tears Unseen, Their Cries Unheard (1)

Their Tears Unseen, Their Cries Unheard (2)

Their Tears Unseen, Their Cries Unheard (3)

I Want My Mom !

A Fortunate and Brave Drummer Plants Seeds of Truth in People's Hearts Around the World (Photo)

(Clearwisdom.net) Sterling Campbell is a professional drummer. He travels around the world throughout the year for performances, and on his drums, he has printed the Chinese characters of "Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance", to help more and more people hear the beautiful message.

Sterling has been the drummer for Duran Duran and Soul Asylum. In 1992 he started working with David Bowie, and since 1999 he has been the professional drummer for David Bowie's band, traveling around the world for concert tours. What many people don't know is that Sterling is also a Falun Gong practitioner.

Hitting rock bottom, then having the good fortune to find Falun Gong

During our interview, Sterling emphasized that Falun Gong was a precious gift for him. Seven years ago, Sterling experienced the worst period of his life. At that time, he smoked two packs of cigarettes every day, took drugs and was addicted to alcohol. He felt he had no purpose in life. One day he passed by a park and saw a group of people practicing a gentle exercise which was very attractive, so he started to learn the practice. That gentle and beautiful exercise was Falun Gong.

Sterling said to us with a smile, "It has been seven years, I have quit smoking, no longer take drugs or alcohol, and I am very healthy. But this is not all. Falun Gong has not only brought me great physical health, but what's more important is the change in my spirit. I'm now a happier person. I strongly believe in 'Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance'." On the drum that Sterling uses for his performance, the three Chinese characters of "Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance" are very clearly printed so that all the people in the crowd can see them.

Going to Tiananmen Square to appeal for an end to the persecution

On July 20, 1999, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) started to persecute Falun Gong. From then on, news of the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners kept coming out of China. As the CCP controls the media and broadcasts false news, the large scale brutal persecution and the cruel tortures went unnoticed by the international community. In 2002, Sterling and dozens of other western practitioners went to Tiananmen Square to appeal for an end to the persecution, and hoped to draw the attention of the international community.

Sterling said, "I've traveled to many countries, but this trip to Beijing was very special. We were arrested in Beijing and beaten. Those policemen were still teenagers, and in ignorance they tried to force us to read materials that were fabricated by the CCP. Sometimes they tried to appear to be "nice" by offering us water and food, but just behind their shoulders, a video camera was set up to take footage to show how "nicely" they treated us!"

"Later I got a chance to clarify the truth to a policeman. The policeman afterwards sent me an SMS message to my mobile phone, telling me that he was very sorry, what they had done was wrong, and that he did not like how his profession had been used for persecuting good people, and how there was not much he could do. I was glad to know that this officer had examined his own conscience and understood the truth about Falun Gong."

When asked why he took the risk of going to China, Sterling said, "I was encouraged by Falun Gong practitioners in China. They have bravely stepped forward to clarify the truth of Falun Gong to people even in that tough situation. As western practitioners, going to Tiananmen was for drawing more attention to this."

Sterling said with a sigh, "I was incarcerated for 24 hours, and experienced mental trauma for a day and a night. I was able to endure a day of such torture, but it is indeed hard to imagine what kind of physical and mental tortures that practitioners in China are suffering every day and every moment in prisons, forced labor camps and detention centers!"

When asked if he regrets that trip to Beijing, Sterling said, "I don't. I hope that, in the future, I will still have chances to visit China."

Planting the seeds of truth in people's hearts

After the trip to Beijing, Sterling clarified the truth of Falun Gong to his friends and family. He found that some westerners still had misunderstandings about Falun Gong. "We are actually not against the Chinese government. We merely request that practitioners in China have the same right to practice Falun Gong as we do. We also want to bring the criminals who persecute Falun Gong to justice. The persecution of Falun Gong is not an isolated incident; it will eventually affect each of us. In January 2004, the policemen in Paris were misled by Jiang's criminal group and arrested Falun Gong practitioners for no reason. This is an example. It is damaging the foundation of our democratic system."

While on tour, whenever he arrives at a destination, Sterling often invites Friends of Falun Gong, a non-profit organization, to hold an information table in the performance hall. He also invites Amnesty International. Sterling said, "I hope to draw people's attention to the persecution of Falun Gong this way. They may not pay close attention at the time, but the seeds are planted in their hearts. Later the seeds will grow, and in the future they will spread the news about the persecution of Falun Gong."

Practitioners Exchange Insights and Experiences

My Understanding of Fear and Attachments

(Clearwisdom.net) When I was studying in college, I was fortunate to obtain the Fa with the help of my teachers and classmates. I had done some Dafa work in the past, but when I saw the group appeal incident at the State Appeals Bureau in Beijing on April 25, 1999 (1) and the "red terror" created by the nationwide mass persecution of Dafa, I was afraid and found it very hard to let go of various attachments. I have read many articles on the Clearwisdom website about practitioners' experiences doing Dafa work and their understandings. I would also like to share some of my understandings. Please point out anything incorrect.

1. About Fear

Some disciples do not have a clear understanding of the damage done by the old forces. They wrongly believe that "without fear" means they can do anything they want. In fact, "clarify the truth with wisdom" (Essentials for Further Advancement II, "Rationality") cannot be regarded simply as doing things "without fear." It is just like how being a vegetarian cannot replace Buddha cultivation. If we only emphasize letting go of the "attachment of fear," we will often create many other attachments, which will bring interference to our work and cultivation. We are often not willing to look inward, and instead we use "no fear" to cover up our other attachments. Human beings have too many attachments. The requirements of our doing Dafa work are not to simply let go of one or two attachments, but rather to rectify anything unrighteous, whether it's internal or external, through assimilating to the Fa.

Some disciples think that once they let go of fear, they will be brave. I do not believe so. My understanding is that a person who is without fear is rational, wise and compassionate. Fear is sentimentality and bravery is also sentimentality. The process of abandoning attachments is just like this. We need to upgrade our understanding of the Fa. We cannot use sentimentality and allow one side of our human notions to replace another.

Nonetheless, Teacher has mentioned many times to, "strive forward vigorously." My understanding is that if we can see our attachments while studying the Fa, we believe in the power of the Fa and we build up our righteous thoughts and abandon attachments, then it will be considered that we "strive forward vigorously." Teacher said in the section about "enlightenment" in Lecture Nine of Zhuan Falun,

"The enlightenment that we actually refer to is a matter of whether in the course of cultivation practice one can enlighten to and accept the Fa taught by the master or the Tao taught by the Taoist master, whether one can treat oneself as a practitioner upon encountering tribulations, and whether one can adhere to the Fa while practicing cultivation."

I understand that in any circumstance, we will be considered to "strive forward vigorously" if we can "adhere to the Fa."

Teacher also said in the article, "Path,"

"Cultivation is hard. It's hard in that even when a terrible calamity strikes, even when evil madly persecutes, and even when your life is at stake, you still have to be able to steadfastly continue on your path of cultivation without letting anything in human society interfere with the steps you take on your path of cultivation." ("Path" in Essentials for Further Advancement II)

I understand that no matter how hard the path of cultivation is, if we can take the Fa as our teacher, believe in Master and believe in the Fa and "steadfastly continue," this will mean that we "strive forward vigorously." To "strive forward vigorously" is a state of our diligently letting go of all attachments. It is not the same as acting "without fear."

2. How to correctly view our remaining attachments

The "attachment of fear" is only one attachment in cultivation. It's only one side of it. Every cultivator carries attachments. Then how can we do Dafa work well while carrying these attachments? My view is that we first need to realize that we have attachments and that we want to abandon these attachments. This is most important. The fundamental cause of various attachments is insufficient Fa study.

Teacher said,

"When someone who's learned Dafa goes down the wrong path, it's because he has attachments that he hasn't been able to let go of. And these attachments are sure to be controlled and taken advantage of by the evil beings." ("Teaching the Fa at the Washington, D.C. International Fa Conference")

I understand that the "attachments that he hasn't been able to let go of," is the root. The old forces' motive is to take advantage of these attachments. We need to break through their evil arrangements.

So if we want to realize the real attachments and eventually abandon them, the only way is to study the Fa. As long as we want to let go of attachments and believe in the power of the Fa, we can definitely abandon these attachments. I believe that if we can recognize that "only by studying the Fa can we let go of attachments and as long as we study the Fa, we can definitely abandon the attachments." This is the most fundamental righteous faith of the Fa. But many people have neglected Fa study and reduced their Fa study. This is because the righteous faith in their hearts has consciously or unconsciously been shaken. I personally believe one-sidedly emphasizing "abandoning fear" or breaking through attachments using human methods cannot be called having righteous faith in the Fa.

My understanding is that we may have attachments, but as long as we believe in the Fa, assimilate to the Fa, affirm our righteous faith and abandon these attachments, we can also develop our abilities to our best potential and accomplish everything a Dafa disciple should accomplish in his or her Fa-rectification cultivation, even though we still carry attachments. Fa-rectification cultivation has validated that this can be achieved. This is fundamentally denying the fake principle "taking advantage of every attachment" of the old forces. It is validating Master's great compassion of "universal salvation." We may still have attachments, but we are magnificent as long as we can catch up with the Fa-rectification, and Master will still save us. We will be able to harmonize Master's great wish of "giving compassionate salvation to every being," because we can upgrade our levels without going through the persecution arranged by the evil, and sentient beings will not need to "build the most wicked relationship" with Dafa while being deceived. On the human level, we are saving deceived sentient beings through clarifying the truth to them, so they will not face a possible elimination ("destruction"). Perhaps this means that in the future, there will only be "formation-stasis-degeneration" and no more "destruction." This is the manifestation at the human level. We are creating history. From this perspective, the remaining attachments we have are in fact giving us a chance to validate Master's great compassion and Dafa's magnificence, to build up Dafa disciple's mighty virtue, and to consummate Dafa disciple's fruit status and paradise. But of course, the condition for this is that "righteous thoughts are absolutely unshakable." ("Dafa is Indestructible" in Essentials for Further Advancement II)

(1) In response to the unwarranted arrest of 45 practitioners in Tianjin, more than 10,000 practitioners went to the State Appeals Bureau in Beijing to appeal to the government to release them. Because of this gathering, Falun Gong began to receive international attention.

My Experience of Getting Rid of Fear While Clarifying the Truth

(Clearwisdom.net) Since I was very young, I have always been very timid. I was frightened even when hearing a small sound. I was afraid to go out after dark. I even had the fear of a falling leaf hitting my head. After the persecution of Falun Gong began, my attachment of fear got much worse and I was extremely worried.

Since I couldn't endure the persecution, I had given up Dafa cultivation against my will. Upon returning home, with help and encouragement from fellow practitioners, I again started cultivation. Through Fa study, I have gradually regained my confidence and understand what it is to be a Dafa practitioner during Fa-rectification and that we have enormous responsibilities for saving sentient beings. I thus made up my mind to step forward to clarify the truth.

When I prepared to go out to clarify the truth, my heart started pounding even before I stepped out the door. When I walked towards people, my heart pounded heavily and I just said to people, "Remember that 'Falun Dafa is good' and 'Truthfulness, Compassion, and Forbearance is good!'" I then gave people a truth-clarifying pamphlet and walked away in a hurry. I would hide if I saw the same person again. After several days of practicing, my fear lessened. A few more days, the fear again became less. At the beginning, there was a lot of interference. For example, when I started to talk, suddenly several people would come around or I would experience other forms of interference. Even though I still had fear, I didn't give up. I had the unwavering thought that I needed to clarify the truth to save sentient beings. Because I was persistent and Teacher was helping me, the interference I experienced disappeared after a while.

After a fellow practitioner accompanied me the first few times, gradually I was able to communicate with people well. I did my best to be articulate so that people would understand me. I gained confidence and was able to give away lots of truth clarifying CD's. I could talk in a natural and easy manner. Sometimes, when there were several people around me, I wasn't afraid anymore. Once, I was so taken when I read an article about a fellow practitioner who was able to clarify the truth on a bus. I was thinking to myself, "When would I be able to do the same?" I couldn't believe that the very next day I was able to seize an opportunity to clarify the truth on a bus. I knew it was Teacher who was encouraging me.

As I became more confident with clarifying the truth, the Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party (Nine Commentaries) was published. It had caused some difficulty for me, as it was easier for me to tell people the facts of the persecution, but how would I tell people to resign from the Communist Party and its associated organizations? I was so worried that I lost my appetite and even had a dream about how to talk to people. Just like an everyday person I wanted to turn away from the difficult task and a substandard thought emerged: Why don't I just send out a few booklets every week, and maybe that will be counted as validating the Fa. Although I had such a thought, I didn't follow through with it because I felt it wasn't right.

One day when a fellow practitioner asked me whether I had gone out to clarify the truth on the Nine Commentaries, I told her that it was too difficult for me to do. She said that I needed to do it even if it was difficult. After she had brought me along for a while, she then suggested that I bring others with me to clarify the truth. I told her that I still didn't know what to say. Every day I waited for her to come get me; and if she didn't come, I didn't go out either. One day I had a dream that she and I went out to clarify the truth and suddenly she left and I waited for a long time, but she never came back. After I woke up, I realized it was Teacher hinting to me not to depend on others. I then tried to go out by myself. I felt I wasn't doing too badly. I had distributed quite a few CD's and books on the Nine Commentaries; recently, I have often brought with me a fellow practitioner to join me.

In the process of clarifying the truth, I have met different types of people. Some said that they didn't believe in anything but making money. I said to them, "Don't just try to make money. If you had money but not your life, what is the use of money? Take the tsunami for example, 200,000 people vanished in an instant. There are so many natural and man-made calamities today because of mankind's declining morality. Because so many people are influenced by the Communist's atheist theory, they don't believe in 'good will be rewarded with good, and evil punished with evil' and they dare to do bad things. Some people betray their own conscience to make money. Some high officials of the Chinese Communist Party are so corrupt that they have hundreds of millions dollars deposited in foreign banks. This party is basically rotten to its core. I have heard that The Epoch Time newspaper overseas has published a book called the Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party, which has caused quite a stir. The Chinese Communist Party has persecuted so many good people that Heaven will not allow it to continue to exist. We are the good people and we don't want to go down with them. Hurry up and resign from that evil party." A lot of people have accepted what I said.

Once, I met an acquaintance that I had not seen for years. When I tried to clarify the truth to her, she said she was a Buddhist and she doesn't believe in other things. I then sent forth righteous thoughts while I clarified the truth. I told her that regardless of belief, a person's allegiance to the Communist Party would mean their eventual demise when the CCP was destroyed. You are a good person, if you don't resign from it, I am afraid that you'll be in danger. She felt that my sincere concern was truly for her own good. She said she would resign from it after thinking it over.

I realized that the process of clarifying the truth is also a process of eliminating fear. Once, when I didn't go out to clarify the truth for several days, my fear came back. I thought that when I was reluctant to go out to clarify the truth, I would have more fear. The more fear we have, the more we should do our best to overcome it. We can't let it stop us. We must eliminate it. Even though my legs trembled when I clarified the truth, I just thought of my unwavering belief in Dafa and the fact that I came to save sentient beings, then I knew I mustn't back away. As I sent forth righteous thoughts, I finally overcame the fear. Because there are fewer evil factors now, more people are able to accept us. But there are exceptions. Once, a young man didn't believe us and said he'd call the police. We sent forth righteous thoughts right away and under Teacher's compassionate care, we were able to leave safely. Now I can understand the comment Teacher made on the article, "The Only Thing Falun Dafa Disciples Have a Role in Is Saving People ** With Teacher's Commentary:"

"The fact is, those who can't step forward, regardless of the excuse, are concealing fear. Yet for cultivators, fear or lack thereof proves [one's] humanity or divinity, and it is what differentiates cultivators from ordinary people. It is something that a cultivator must face, and the biggest human attachment that a cultivator must remove."

When we truly cultivate according to the Fa and remember that we are helping Teacher validate the Fa to save sentient beings, we will be able to get rid of our fear.

My Thoughts Regarding a Fellow Practitioner's Death as A Result of Persecution

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In late June this year, a local practitioner was illegally arrested. She died that night. This incident caused much discussion in our area.

We all thought that practitioner was very diligent in cultivation. She did very well the three things that Teacher had asked us to do. She maintained powerful righteous thoughts. She had been arrested and detained in forced labor camps several times; however, she always broke through with righteous thoughts. She had also passed many tribulations. How could she die overnight? I would like to share my some of my thoughts.

The police followed her and suddenly demanded to search her. The police confiscated Teacher's pictures in her purse. She died that night in a detention center. Her death is a superficial manifestation of the persecution in this dimension; however, what is the true cause of her death? We should look inside for everything that happens. This practitioner's death must be connected to us, since all practitioners are one body.

Others who personally knew this practitioner remember that, days before her death, she said something like, "I'm exhausted. My cultivation path is bitter. I'm not a good practitioner. Other practitioners are not willing to contact me. My current state is not good. If I die in this persecution, I want to die in a prison, because I don't want any bad people to use my death to defame the Fa." She was a brave practitioner. She had the courage to clarify the truth even to the police. Why was she so pessimistic?

When we reflect on the incident, we find that pressure from fellow practitioners might have caused her negative thoughts. Some practitioners thought, since she had been arrested several times, police would monitor her. These practitioners feared that contact with her would expose them to the evil. She had difficulty in getting truth-clarification materials. We would not notify her of our local Fa conferences, nor would we allow her to attend. She lost the environment to talk with fellow practitioners and improve. She was ostracized from the one body. She must have felt frustrated and sad. She could not break through this barrier on her own. She planned to move to another place and even thought about death.

The evil closely watches practitioners. Her separation from other practitioners and her pessimism gave the evil an excuse to intensify the persecution.

She died from the persecution. All of us should reflect on this. Have we met the Fa's requirements all the time? Did we follow the path arranged by the old forces? Her unrighteous thoughts contributed to her death, but we have shortcomings as one body. As one body, when we see a practitioner sustain severe persecution, we should clarify the facts together to expose the evil. We should send forth righteous thoughts together to eliminate the evil elements. We should not blame our fellow practitioner or make her feel bad. We are here to save sentient beings. We are supposed to help each other. When our fellow practitioners suffer tribulations, we need to remind them to study the "Fa" and strengthen righteous thoughts. We should not shun them, for doing so is an attachment to fear. When each of us acts righteously, such tragedies cannot happen again. She could have saved many more people, if she were still alive!

This practitioner's death is a serious lesson. We need to be clear-minded. We need to study the Fa to strengthen our righteous thoughts. We are Fa-rectification period Dafa disciples. We need to walk the path arranged by Teacher. We need to use the Fa instead of human notions in judging what we see and do. When the police monitor us, we should completely deny the old forces' arrangements, so that those means would not affect us. However, when our thoughts or actions are on the human level, bad people can take advantage of us. Of course, we need to rationally clarify the truth to save sentient beings. Nonetheless, we need to pay attention to security and safety issues. True safety, however, comes from righteous thoughts and righteous actions based on the Fa. When we deviate from the Fa, we cannot possibly be safe.

I Regained My Health After Resuming the Practice of Falun Dafa

(Clearwisdom.net) I am eighty-five years old. On April 27,2005, I came from Sichuan Province to visit my niece in Hebei Province, where I was fortunate to start practicing Dafa again. As early as 1996, I practiced Falun Gong at Xinhua Park in Chengdu City. On July 20, 1999, the evil Party started attacking and slandering Dafa on TV stations and radio. They arrested people everywhere and we lived under the shadow of fear. One day my granddaughter, who was attending junior high school, burned all of my Dafa books when I was not home. When I got home, she told me, "Grandpa, I burned those books of yours. I was afraid that you would be arrested by the security office. The government and security office have arrested so many people. I fear that they will search our home." I was very distressed after I learned that she burned all of my books! I then developed the attachment of fear and dared not practice. Six years have passed in a snap. I truly regret the precious time I have wasted. It is our great Teacher who gives me another chance to return to my origin. I will cherish this opportunity.

On April 29, 2005, my niece said to me, "Uncle, make up your mind to practice Dafa even though you are over eighty. You will benefit both physically and mentally." I then practiced the exercises together with her. She patiently taught me the movements again. Since I had not practiced for six years, I had forgot the movements, especially for the meditation exercise. I now insist on practicing the exercises, studying the Fa and sending forth righteous thoughts regularly. In just over two months, I have read through all the Dafa books. I watched Teacher's lectures on VCD and listened to the lectures on tape. I have also read Zhuan Falun three times.

I had suffered insomnia for over one year. Being unable to sleep even after taking pills, I often had to get up and do some reading or watch TV, or listen to radio. It was truly burdensome. However, several days after I restarted practicing Dafa, I could sleep at least seven hours, after which I get up to study the Fa and practice the exercises. My right ear was once deaf from an injury. My hearing was bad and I could only hear a little. It has now improved a lot. My right ear is almost as good as my left ear. My niece bought me a tape recorder so that I can listen to the Teacher's lectures on tape. I switched the earpiece from left ear to my right ear and found that I can hear equally well. Dafa is truly miraculous.

I once suffered from a severe hernia. I had sought medicine all over and spent several thousand yuan without any relief from the pain that I often suffered. There was a big swollen lump on my lower abdomen, which made my daily life very difficult. After I restarted practicing Falun Gong, it shrank in size and was no longer painful. I can now freely go about my daily activities.

I had cataract surgery in 2002. I could only see slightly better after the operation. My vision was blurry and my eyes watered all the time. I had taken various kinds of medicine without much effect. After I restarted practicing, my eyes no longer water and my vision has improved a lot. I can read and write without any problem.

Two weeks into my practice in May, I developed a big lump the size of a dollar coin on the left side of my neck. I thought it was some kind of boil, as it was very itchy. Within about twenty days, it gradually became smaller and eventually disappeared. In mid-May, I suddenly developed many lumps on my hands. Their sizes ranged from the size of my little finger to the size of my thumb. Next day they spread to my legs and waist. The feeling of itchiness and burning sensation was almost unendurable. On the third day, I sent forth righteous thoughts and asked Teacher for help. On the fourth day, they all disappeared. I could not express my gratitude towards Teacher in words. Teacher: I thank you for your compassionate protection, and for everything you did for me. I have nothing to return. I can only be diligent and keep up with the pace of Fa rectification.

I will spread the magnificence of Falun Dafa to all the people I know or those I may not know but who have predestined relationships. I will ask them to truly realize the lies of the evil party and tell them that Falun Dafa is good, and that "Truth, Compassion, Forbearance" is good. I will do the three things well: study the Fa, send forth righteous thoughts and clarify the truth to live up to the expectations of Teacher.

People's Hearts Determine Their Future

Learning the Truth about Falun Dafa and Surviving a Potentially Fatal Accident

(Clearwisdom.net) There is a married couple from Qidaoquanzi Town, Longcheng District, Chaoyang City. They have a small family business. Two years ago, they had the pleasure of meeting a Falun Dafa practitioner at the market. The practitioner clarified the truth about Falun Dafa to the couple thus giving them a new understanding of Falun Dafa. Since that time, the couple has always been very interested in issues relating to Falun Dafa. They carefully read every word whenever they got Falun Dafa truth clarifying materials. As a result, they gained a more in-depth understanding of life. Furthermore, they also corrected many of their own undesirable thoughts and habits. Whenever they saw discarded Falun Dafa truth clarifying materials on the ground, they picked them up and put them in a proper place saying, "things like this cannot be discarded. That's like committing a crime!"

On May 4, 2005, the couple bought a second-hand automatic three-wheeler, and the wife was trying it out near Lingbeiji. The moment after she started the engine, the three-wheeler quickly zoomed out sideways just as a cement mixer was driving towards her at top speed. The three-wheeler went under the cement mixer and was completely destroyed. The wife was thrown several meters from her vehicle, flipping over several times after she landed on the ground. She lost consciousness instantly. The driver of the cement mixer quickly found a car and took the woman to Chaoyang Central Hospital.

In the emergency room, a doctor conducted a complete examination including x-rays and discovered that she had two fractured bones, the left pelvis and the left shoulder blade. She regained consciousness after an hour, feeling dizzy and nauseous. At the time of the accident, the Falun Dafa practitioner who had clarified the truth to them had been present and so also accompanied them to the hospital. After the wife regained consciousness, the practitioner told her to repeat in silence, "Falun Dafa is good." The woman did as she was told. Soon, she felt much better and after the doctor took care of her external injures, she was sent for a CT scan, the results of which were normal.

The next day, on May 5, while the wife was silently repeating, "Falun Dafa is good" in the hospital room, twice she saw a spinning wheel of light that had a yellow and blue aura. She understood that Master saved her life. She then requested to be discharged, but the doctor refused. She stayed in the hospital for four more days receiving intravenous drips throughout. On May 8, she again requested to be discharged and the doctor finally agreed.

After she arrived home, she continued to silently repeat, "Falun Dafa is good," and "Truthfulness, Compassion and Forbearance are good." Her external injuries - leg and shoulder - did not hurt. She only received two more days of intravenous drips and took some medicine to strengthen her bones. She was convinced by the magical power of Falun Dafa, and started to read Zhuan Falun. After half a month, she was able to move her leg; on day 30, she was able to stand on her own while holding onto the window; on day 31, her husband helped her outside into the garden for some sunlight; on day 32, she was walking slowly on her own. Her condition continued to get better and better. After 40 days, she had basically recovered. An ordinary person would take at least half to a full year to recover and would have had very high medical bills.

Many people could not believe it when they heard of her magical recovery. Only when she went to the market to show them how well she had recovered did they believe it. She did not use a cane for even one day.

After surviving this potentially fatal accident, she often told people, "I am grateful to Master who gave me a second life!"

News From China

Latest News from China - August 3, 2005

(Clearwisdom.net)

[Baoji City, Shaanxi Province] Police Force-Feed Falun Gong Practitioners Zhao Gencang and Liu Gaixian
[Baoji City, Shaanxi Province] Zhao Anqi Arrested When Distributing the "Nine Commentaries"
[Baoji City, Shaanxi Province] Chen Aiqin and Daughter Zheng Huali Suffer Persecution
[Yingkou City, Liaoning Province] Chen Liyan Sentenced to Seven Years of Imprisonment
[Jiujiang City, Jiangxi Province] Police Arrest Zhu Xiaomei for Teaching a Person How to Practice the Falun Gong Exercises
[Aohan Qi, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region] He Shuyan Arrested Again
[Liaoning Province] Lin Xiuqin Has Been Locked up in a Solitary Compartment for Two Months in the Masanjia Forced Labor Camp
[Dalian City, Liaoning Province] Chu Qingli Arrested and Put into the Yaojia Forced Labor Camp
[Chengdu City, Sichuan Province] Lin Xiaoquan and Li Yun Arrested
[Shenyang City, Liaoning Province] Zhang Ying Has Been Detained at the Masanjia Forced Labor Camp for One Year
[Changchun City, Jilin Province] Liang Lijie Has Been Tied to the "Dead Person's Bed" for Five Days and Nights
[Wuhan City, Hubei Province] Xu Guoqing Arrested When Preparing Truth-clarifying Materials
[Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province] Lu Haiyun Arrested When Distributing Truth-Clarifying Materials
[Zhaoyuan City, Shandong Province] Guo Jianmin Arrested and Taken to the Lingnan Brainwashing Class
[Mudanjiang City, Heilongjiang Province] News Update from Mudanjiang Prison
[Chongqing ] Practitioner Ms. Li Yan sentenced to 12 years in prison
[Lanzhou City, Gansu Province] Dafa Practitioner Zhang Ping Held at the No. 2 Detention Center in Lanzhou City
[Chengdu City, Sichuan Province] Practitioner Liu Ying Detained and Tortured
[Tangshan City, Hebei Province] Several Dafa Practitioners Detained at the Tangshan City Textile University Brainwashing Class
[Shanxi Province] Practitioner Liu Gaixian Sentenced to Three-and-half Years in Prison and Being Held at the Xian City Women's Prison

1. [Baoji City, Shaanxi Province] Police Force-Feed Falun Gong Practitioners Zhao Gencang and Liu Gaixian

Personnel from the Qishan County 610 Office and the Political and Judiciary Committee arrested Falun Gong practitioners Mr. Zhao Gencang, over 60 years old, and Ms. Liu Gaixian, 55 years old, from Baoji City, Shaanxi Province. Mr. Zhao Gencang has been held for over a month and has been on a hunger strike for around six days, so he is currently very weak. Liu Gaixian was arrested on May 11, 2005. Ms. Liu has been on a hunger strike 18 days and is also extremely weak. In order to force-feed the two practitioners, police put them in shackles and pushed their heads back.

Telephone number for the Political and Judiciary Committee for Qishan County, Shaanxi Province: 86-917-821-2282

2. [Baoji City, Shaanxi Province] Zhao Anqi Arrested When Distributing the "Nine Commentaries"

During the afternoon of June 28, 2005, policemen from the Weibin District, Baoji City, Shaanxi Province arrested Falun Gong practitioner Zhao Anqi when Zhao distributed the "Nine Commentaries" and clarified the truth about Falun Gong. Zhao's whereabouts are unknown.

On around July 1-3, 2005, police from the Jintai District, Baoji City, Shaanxi Province arrested practitioners Ms. Chen Aiqin and Ms. Xu Xiaorei and ransacked their homes. Both practitioners are still in detention. Their family members went to the Branch Police Department in the Jintai District to ask for their release, but policeman Lei Zhili didn't permit it.

3. [Baoji City, Shaanxi Province] Chen Aiqin and Daughter Zheng Huali Suffer Persecution

On July 1, 2005, policemen from the Jintai District, Baoji City, Shaanxi Province arrested 58-year-old practitioner Ms. Chen Aiqin and ransacked her home. She has been held for over 20 days. Her daughter, Ms. Zheng Huali, 30 years old, went to the District Police Department to request the release of her mother and clarified the truth about Falun Gong. She told them that Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance and Falun Gong are great. Because of Falun Gong practice, her mother became healthy, physically and mentally. Personnel from the "610 Office" and policeman Lei Zhili, a section chief in the police department, however, not only refused to release her mother, but also claimed that she hindered their work. They immediately notified her work unit, the Baoji City No.2 Power Plant, and demanded of her to write a statement that she hindered their work. She refused. Afterwards they threatened the power plant again with huge fines of hundreds of thousands of yuan and ordered it to set up a brainwashing group. The plant then fired Zheng Huali and refused to pay her salary and bonus. They tried to brainwash her with videos slandering Falun Gong. They forced her to defame Falun Gong and declare support for the Communist Party.

4. [Yingkou City, Liaoning Province] Chen Liyan Sentenced to Seven Years of Imprisonment

On October 20, 2004, practitioners Ms. Chen Liyan and her husband Qiu Dazhong from Yingkou City were arrested and incarcerated in the Yingkou Detention Center. In June 2005, she was sentenced to seven years of imprisonment. She is currently being held in the No.1 Division of the Shenyang Province Women's Prison. She has been persecuted to the point where she requires the help of two people just to walk.

5. [Jiujiang City, Jiangxi Province] Police Arrest Zhu Xiaomei for Teaching a Person How to Practice the Falun Gong Exercises

At 10:00 p.m. on July 5 2005, several policemen, including Feng Wenhui, deceived practitioner Ms. Zhu Xiaomei, saying they wanted to talk to her, but instead they threw her into a car and sent her to prison. The reason was that Ms. Zhu showed someone how to do the Falun Gong exercises.

Feng Wenhui's cell phone: 86-138786-281244

6. [Aohan Qi, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region] He Shuyan Arrested Again

On April 11, 2005, practitioner He Shuyan from Aohan Qi, Inner Mongolia AR was arrested when she and Ms. Li Xiulan posted an announcement of renouncing the CCP at night. She walked away with the power of righteous thoughts the same night but was forced to live in exile for two months. Her husband was working out of town, so no one could take care of her two children. Because she missed them, she went back home to see them on July 7. During that time, she was arrested again at a hospital and imprisoned in the Aohan Qi Detention Center. During the detention, she went on a protest hunger strike, and the police force-fed her. She was released on July 15, as she was extremely weak due to torture. After she had just recovered a bit, the police arrested her again on July 30. Right now she is being held at the Aohan Qi Detention Center.

Personnel who are involved in the arrest:

Yao Zhenting, deputy chief of the National Security Team, 86-13947600323 (cell)

Wu Zhengguo

Yu Lianchao: 86-13848063456 (Cell)

Aohan Qi Detention Center: 86-476-4333535

7. [Liaoning Province] Lin Xiuqin Has Been Locked up in a Solitary Compartment for Two Months in the Masanjia Forced Labor Camp

Forty-six-year-old practitioner Ms. Lin Xiuqin was arrested twice and sent to a brainwashing class in the Benxi City Forced Labor Camp. On February 3, 2003, when Lin went out to clarify the truth about Falun Gong, she was arrested again and sent to the No.1 Division of the Masanjia Forced Labor Camp. Around April 25, 2005, she and other practitioners went on a hunger strike to protest the persecution. They were on the hunger strike for one hundred days, and she was locked up in a solitary compartment for over two months. During that time, her family members asked for visitation privileges several times, but personnel in the Masanjia Forced Labor Camp refused their request with the excuse that Lin Xiuqin refused to put on the prisoner uniform. Her family hasn't seen Lin Xiuqin yet, so they don't know her current circumstances and are very much worried about her.

8. [Dalian City, Liaoning Province] Chu Qingli Arrested and Put into the Yaojia Forced Labor Camp

In early July 2005, 37-year-old practitioner Ms. Chu Qingli from Dalian City, Liaoning Province was arrested and put into the Yaojia Forced Labor Camp because police found a lot of Falun Gong truth-clarifying materials at her place of residence.

9. [Chengdu City, Sichuan Province] Lin Xiaoquan and Li Yun Arrested

At 6:00 p.m. on July 27, 2005, personnel from the Xinfan Town Police Department arrested practitioners Lin Xiaoquan and Li Yun when the two practitioners were sending forth righteous thoughts at Lin Xiaoquan's home.

10. [Shenyang City, Liaoning Province] Zhang Ying Has Been Detained at the Masanjia Forced Labor Camp for One Year

On May 22, 2005, personnel from the Shenyang City Fengyutan Police Station arrested practitioner Ms. Zhang Ying and sent her to the Luotaishan Brainwashing Class. After being detained there over 20 days, she was sent back home. She lived at her sister's home for about 20 days. On July 18, some officials arrested her and put her into the Masanjia Forced Labor Camp for a one-year term, where she is currently being detained.

11. [Changchun City, Jilin Province] Liang Lijie Has Been Tied to the "Dead Person's Bed" for Five Days and Nights

On June 10, 2005, personnel from the Minkang Road Police Station arrested practitioner Liang Lijie from Changchun City when Liang was posting truth-clarifying materials at a children's park. They put Liang into the Shuangyang No.3 Detention Center. On July 18, Liang was sentenced to one year of forced labor at the Heizuizi Forced Labor Camp. At the forced labor camp she was tied to a "dead person's bed" for five days and shocked with electric batons. Liang Lijie is presently detained at the No.1 Team of the No.6 Division in the Heizuizi Forced Labor Camp.

Persons responsible for the persecution:

Persons in the No.6 Division at the Heizuizi Forced Labor Camp:

Li Tong, the chief
Zhu Dan, the associate chief
Ding Caihong, policewoman

Minkang Road Police Station:
Huang Jiancheng, Police chief
Jiang Lianming, Political head

12. [Wuhan City, Hubei Province] Xu Guoqing Arrested When Preparing Truth-clarifying Materials

On July 14, 2005, policemen from the National Security Team arrested practitioner Mr. Xu Guoqing when Xu was preparing truth-clarifying materials at home. Xu has been detained at the Wuhan City No.2 Detention Center. It was reported that he has been on a hunger strike for many days.

13. [Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province] Lu Haiyun Arrested When Distributing Truth-Clarifying Materials

In early July 2005, practitioner Lu Hayun from the Fanyu District, Guangzhou City was arrested when distributing truth-clarifying materials. Lu is currently being held at a detention center.

Detention center phone number: 86-20-8473 8131

14. [Zhaoyuan City, Shandong Province] Guo Jianmin Arrested and Taken to the Lingnan Brainwashing Class

At 10:00 a.m. on July 29, 2005, six officers from the Jinling Town Police Department arrested practitioner Mr. Guo Jianmin from his home at Guojia Village, Jingling Town, Zhaoyuan City, Shandong Province and put him into the Lingnan Brainwashing Class.

15. [Mudanjiang City, Heilongjiang Province] News Update from Mudanjiang Prison

Dafa practitioner Mr. Zhang Shijiang, 38 years old, lived in Zhengjiu Village, Dancheng Town, Shuangcheng City, Heilongjiang Province. On November 4, 2004 he was arrested by perpetrators from the Yangming Police Department in Mudanjiang City and was illegally sentenced to ten years in prison at the Xian Court. His wife, Dafa practitioner Yang Shuxiang, was sentenced to one year of forced labor by personnel from the Yangming Police Department on November 4, 2004.

Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Huang Yaoxiang, 64, was incarcerated at Ward 8 and tortured. He was further tortured at a hospital and beaten by inmate Ding Limin.

In the evening of July 12, 2005, inmate Lu Qinghua at Ward 8 beat Dafa practitioner Liu Jun in the presence of guard Li Jun. In the morning of July 13, Jiang Xiaochun and Shi Zhidong forced him to take injections at a hospital under the threat of shocking him with electric batons.

Liu Minghua, head of Division 14, and political head Gao Haimin beat Dafa practitioner Liu Qiliang and forced him to do heavy labor. Liu's cell phone number is 86-13091888138

16. [Chongqing ] Practitioner Ms. Li Yan sentenced to 12 years in prison

Dafa practitioner Ms. Li Yan from Chongqing City was sent to forced labor in 2001. She remained steadfast in her practice of Dafa. In 2003 the police paid a private computer shop owner and told him to hire Li Yan. The shop owner taught Li Yan to use the Internet, and Li Yan clarified the truth online. Secret agents chatted with Li Yan online, pretending to be Dafa practitioners. They asked for information on other practitioners and observed her activities online. They didn't get anything from Li Yan because she was careful. Later, they tricked Li Yan and arrested her. They then sentenced her to 12 years in prison.

17. [Lanzhou City, Gansu Province] Dafa Practitioner Zhang Ping Held at the No. 2 Detention Center in Lanzhou City

Between June 5 and June 7, 2005, practitioner Zhang Ping was arrested at her temporary residence on Lintao Street, the Xigu District, Lanzhou City. The police ransacked her room and took a bank card with at least 40,000 Yuan of credit on it and equipment, including a computer. Later the police told her family to claim her clothes, ID and some other items. It was learned that Zhang Ping was held at No. 2 Detention Center in Lanzhou City. Her father attempted to visit her, and the authorities denied that she was held there. Later they phoned her family and changed their story, saying that she was being held at the detention center and running a fever. They told her family to bring 1,500 Yuan. When her family arrived, they were told the fever had receded and they were still not allowed to see her. The head of the detention center told Zhang Ping's family that they cannot see her until a sentence has been issued. Her case is being handled by people in Room 507, Division 26 of the Lanzhou City Public Security Department.

Zhang Ping had a fever after holding a hunger strike for four days. The perpetrators at the No. 2 Detention Center in Lanzhou City said they were also holding eight other Dafa practitioners, and that Zhang Ping was doing the Dafa exercises. The guards ordered three female inmates to monitor her and prevent her from doing the exercises, also telling them to grab her hands if they saw her doing the exercises.

18. [Chengdu City, Sichuan Province] Practitioner Liu Ying Detained and Tortured

Dafa practitioner Liu Ying from the Qinglong Residential District in Chengdu City was arrested by three plainclothes police officers from the Qinglong Police Department. It happened on June 29, 2005, and they sent her to the Chenghua District Brainwashing Class. Two days later she was sent to the Pi County Detention Center. Liu Ying held a hunger strike at the brainwashing class and was mentally tormented. She was very weak and the Pi county Detention Center refused to accept her. She was later sent to the Qingyang District Hospital.

While at the hospital, the doctor injected Liu Ying with drugs that made her condition worse. She could not eat and vomited blood. She was released when she was at the brink of death. On July 20, perpetrators from Qinglong Police Department sent people to monitor Liu Ying. She is followed by plainclothes police officers whenever she leaves her home and being deprived of all personal freedom.

Because of the torture she went through, Liu Ying is now very weak. Her whole body is swollen; she is shaking and has difficulty walking; her breathing is labored and shallow, and her heart rate is too rapid. The doctor diagnosed her with hyperthyroidism and warned that she could die if not hospitalized immediately.

Phone numbers of perpetrators responsible for persecuting Liu Ying:

Weng Kai: 86-28-80822916
Chen Xiaolin: 86-28-83516630
Yuan Lin: 86-28-88158827
Guard Qing: 86-28-88162333

Address: Qinglong Police Department, Zhaojueheng Road, Chengdu City, Sichuan Province, Zip Code 610081

Zhang Fuming:

Address: No 115 Yunlong Road, Chengdu City, Sichuan Province, Zip Code 610081

Zhang Bing and Tang Guozhi

Address: No 115 Yunlong Road, Chengdu City, Sichuan Province, Zip Code 610081

19. [Tangshan City, Hebei Province] Several Dafa Practitioners Detained at the Tangshan City Textile University Brainwashing Class

Tangshan City Textile University Brainwashing Class is located inside the Xinhua Dongdao Textile University, the former Textile Technical Institute in Tangshan City, Hebei Province. It promotes itself as a legitimate school but is in fact a brainwashing class.

In May 2005, Gao Jianhua was released from a forced labor camp, but he was arrested from home and sent to the county brainwashing class. He was later transferred to the Tangshan City Textile University Brainwashing Class.

On June 11, 2005, practitioner Chen Xiuqing was released from the Kaiping Forced Labor Camp. His family signed a document and waited to pick him up, but instead, perpetrators including Wang Limin, He Airong, Li Shuhai, and Wang Fuhe transferred him to Tangshan City Textile University Brainwashing Class.

After their three-year term expired, practitioners Li Haidong and Zhai Shunhe were detained and subjected to brainwashing.

20. [Shanxi Province] Practitioner Liu Gaixian Sentenced to Three-and-half Years in Prison and Being Held at the Xian City Women's Prison

News from June 19, 2005: Liu Gaixian was arrested from home in the evening of April 29, 2005 and was secretly sentenced to three-and-a-half years in prison. She is currently being held at the Xian City Women's Prison. According to an insider, Liu Gaixian was receiving an IV infusion during the secret trial and was carried into the room. Only three people were present at the trial.

Latest News from China - August 7, 2005

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[Shijiazhuang, Hebei Province] Practitioner Zhang Jianfen and Others Have Been Arrested
[Beian City, Helongjiang Province] Practitioner Long Yanfen at Tongbei Town Has Been Arrested by the Police
[Chengdu, Sichuan Province] Practitioner Huang Xueyun Was Forcibly Taken to the Legal System Education Center of Deyang City
[Jilin Province] Ms. Cai Mingshu Was Arrested
[Jilin] Sun Xiting is Critically Ill as a Result of Torture at the Jilin Women's Prison
[Zhejiang Province] Liu Shujie and Her Daughter Huang Yu Were Arrested in the West Lake Village of Hangzhou City
[Guizhou Province] Ms. Luo Yunzhi Arrested and Detained
[Liaoning Province] Practitioners Who have Been Secretly Arrested by the Police in Panjin and Liaohe Oil Field Are in a Very Difficult and Dangerous Situation
[Shenyang, Liaoning Province] Ms. Wang Lanxia Was Arrested

1. [Shijiazhuang, Hebei Province] Practitioner Zhang Jianfen and Others Have Been Arrested

On August 5, 2005, practitioners Ms. Zhang Jianfen and Fu Xin, who live at Guozhuang Village of Liujiazhuo Town in Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province, were arrested by the police. The policemen searched their home and took them away.

2. [Beian City, Helongjiang Province] Practitioner Long Yanfen at Tongbei Town Has Been Arrested by the Police

On August 5, 2005, policeman Zhen Chenggen and others arrested Ms. Long Yanfen, who is living in Tongbei Town, Beian City in Helongjiang Province. Currently, Long Yanfen is detained in the detention center of the Beian City Public Security Bureau.

3. [Chengdu, Sichuan Province] Practitioner Huang Xueyun Was Forcibly Taken to the Legal System Education Center of Deyang City

Mr. Huang Xueyun, a retired engineer from the Metrics Monitoring and Examination Center, is a resident at 240 Shuangqiao Road in Chengdu City. On July 12, 2005, at approximately 3 p.m., he was arrested as he was returning home. It is verified that Mr. Huang has been sent to the Legal System Education Center of Deyang City - a brainwashing center held by the Guanghan City and the Xin Township.

Address of the Shuangqiao Sub-district Office: 12th Shingling Zhongheng Road, Chengdu City, Zip 610066Head of the Office, Xu Jiong

Director of the General Security Section, Xue Yong: 86-28-84361599

4. [Jilin Province] Ms. Cai Mingshu Was Arrested

Practitioner Ms. Cai Mingshu, about 60 years old, is a retired employee of the 104th Factory of the Jihua Company. On the morning of August 3, 2005, the head of the Retired Employee Office of the 104th Factory, yielding to threat and orders from the 610 Office, asked Ms. Cai to the office under the pretext of verifying her apartment size. She was then forcibly taken away from the Retired Employee Office and her current whereabouts are unknown.

The head of the Retired Employee Office, Sun Yan: 86-432-3967489.

5. [Jilin] Sun Xiting is Critically Ill as a Result of Torture at the Jilin Womens' Prison

Ms. Sun Xiting, 27 years old, has been imprisoned at the Jilin Women's Prison since June 2001. Over the past 4 years, she has suffered various tortures. Ms. Sun is now critically ill.

Phone number of the Jilin Women Prison: 86-431-5375073.

6. [Zhejiang Province] Liu Shujie and Her Daughter Huang Yu Were Arrested in the West Lake Village of Hangzhou City

Around July 30, 2005, Ms. Liu Shujie and her daughter Huang Yu from Daqing City, Helongjiang Province were taken away by the police of the West Lake Public Security Sub-bureau of Hangzhou. On the afternoon of August 4, the police searched Ms. Liu Shujie's home.

7. [Guizhou Province] Ms. Luo Yunzhi Arrested and Detained

On October 20, 2004, Ms. Luo Yunzhi was taken away from her home by the Anshun National Security Bureau. She has since been detained at the 2nd Detention Center of Anshui City for over 10 months. Up to now, her family members have not been allowed to visit her. They were told that she would be given a trial not open to the public in mid-August of this year.

8. [Liaoning Province] Practitioners Who have Been Secretly Arrested by the Police in Panjin and Liaohe Oil Field Are in a Very Difficult and Dangerous Situation

On August 3, 2005, Ms. Xin Minduo, Mr. Hu Zhehui, Mr. Yang Lixin, Mr. Wang Hechang, and Mr. Qi Changkun ( from the Liaohe Oil Field), and Mr. Hou Yunfei (from Panjin), were secretly detained by the police of the Panjin National Security Bureau and the Liaohe Oil Field National Security Section. The police refused to tell those practitioners' family members of their whereabouts.

Wei Guobao, Deputy Director of the National Security Bureau: 86-427-7821357.
Wang Youshan, Chief Officer of the National Security Section of the Liaohe Oil Field: 86-427-7830055.
Phone number of the Head of the Liaohe Oil Field Public Security Bureau: 86-427-7827838.
Phone number of the National Security Section of the Liaohe Oil Field Public Security Bureau: 86-427-7830096.

9. [Shenyang, Liaoning Province] Ms. Wang Lanxia Was Arrested

At about 11:40 a.m. on August 1, 2005, Ms. Wang Lanxia was distributing truth-clarifying materials and was reported to the police by a janitor. That night she was arrested by the police from the Xinhua Police Station of the Tiexi District and was then sent to the Tiexi District Public Security Sub-bureau. She is detained at the Shenyang City Detention Center while the police wait for approval to send her to a forced labor camp.

Xinhua Police Station of the Tiexi District of Shenyang City, phone number: 86-24-25853743.

Wang Gang, Director
Zhu Bing, Deputy Director
Policeman Qi Hong

174 People Declare that their Words and Deeds Under Forced Brainwashing are Null and Void
A Total of 284382 Declarations Have Been Published To Date

Here are some examples of the Solemn Declarations:

Dafa Practitioners' Solemn Statements [5/31/2005]
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Summary of Other Articles and News - August 10, 2005

(Clearwisdom.net)

Facts of the Persecution

1. Mr. Liu Weiji Recounts Persecution He Experienced in Hebei Province's No. 4 Prison

Mr. Liu Weiji went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong but was arrested and sent to the Shunyi Police Station in Beijing. In freezing cold winter, police made him stand outside without any clothes on for over seven hours. They even poured cold water on him. In the Hebei Province No. 4 Prison Mr. Liu suffered even more inhuman treatment. He was savagely beaten, deprived of sleep, denied access to water and use of a toilet. The police hit his private parts with the corner of a stool, pinched his muscles, twisted his arms and hung him up with arms stretched behind him, and committed other atrocities.

Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2005/8/10/108116.html

2. Persecution of Falun Gong Practitioner Ke Xingguo, an Employee from the Ministry of Agriculture

Mr. Ke Xingguo was sentenced to seven years in prison. For a long period of time he was jailed at the Shenzhou City Detention Center in Hebei Province. Mr. Ke held a hunger strike three times to protest the persecution, with the longest period lasting 23 days. The police there cuffed his hands behind his back, forced him to work with shackles on, and force-fed him, leaving the feeding tube in his body. They used various methods to torture him. He was often subjected to violent beatings from the police and the prisoners. They even hung him upside down by a pool of excrement. But no matter how cruel the treatment he received, Mr. Ke remained steadfast in his belief in Falun Dafa.

Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2005/8/10/108115.html

3. Illegal Sentencing of Three Falun Gong Practitioners from Jixi City, Heilongjiang Province

Ms. Sun Jinkui, Mr. Zhang Yuezeng and Ms. Wang Lianqin are Falun Gong practitioners from Jixi City, Heilongjiang Province. They are 51, 48 and 47 years old, and they were illegally sentenced to 7, 8 and 6 years in prison, respectively. On July 13, Ms. Sun and Ms. Wang were sent to Heilongjiang Province Women's Prison. The three practitioners have appealed to the mid-level People's Court in Jixi City but the court groundlessly refused to hear their cases.

Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2005/8/10/108134.html

4. Changyi County 610 Office Police from Shandong Province Again Abducts Six Falun Gong Practitioners

Chen Xiaodong, a division head, and Liu Xinmin, a police officer from Changyi County's 610 Office in Weifang City, Shandong Province, got resources from city police departments and police stations of each town. On July 26 they launched a grand scale arrest action of Falun Gong practitioners in every town and village. Six practitioners including Ms. Ma Guizhen, Gao Heping, and two sisters named Zhang and Tang Ruifen were arrested again and their homes were illegally searched. From April to July, police continuously arrested Falun Gong practitioners on a large scale. Each time they dispatched police who handle criminal cases. Since 2001, Chen Xiaodong has constantly issued orders to arrest and detain Falun Gong practitioners and ransack their homes. He extorted money from practitioners, their families and relatives, amounting to thousands of yuan, sometimes more than ten thousand yuan. He has violently beaten and ordered his subordinates to torture Falun Gong practitioners. On one occasion the painful cries of practitioner Xie Wenliang being beaten could even be heard in the court outside the detention center.

Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2005/8/10/108104.html

5. Persecution of Falun Gong Practitioners at the Guizhou Women's Forced Labor Camp

Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Chen Guihong suffered various illnesses from persecution. She currently cannot walk, eat or think clearly. She is very thin and at the brink of death. The Guizhou Women's Forced Labor Camp authorities have subjected older and weaker practitioners, some even over 70 years old, to various mental torment and physical tortures. On both hot summer days and snowy winter days, practitioners have been verbally abused without stopping every noon time. They are forced to squat half way down outside. Some fainted in the hot sun, and some lost the feeling in their extremities, or even lost consciousness due to the freezing cold. When 63-year-old Falun Gong practitioner Zuo Zuxiu was sent to forced labor a second time she firmly refused to be reformed. As the result, police made her stand still continuously for more than ten hours, day and night. In the end she developed edema all over her body. She could not walk a single step and had to soak her feet in salt water for long hours. She also was unable to eat and had to receive constant injections and medication. Despite her medical condition she was not released until her term expired.

Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2005/8/10/108102.html

Summary of Other Articles and News - August 12, 2005

(Clearwisdom.net)

Facts of the Persecution

Exposing crimes at Tiebei Prison in Changchun City

About 100 Falun Dafa practitioners are being detained in different divisions at the Tiebei Prison in Changchun City, Jilin Province. The Attack Division was established for the sole purpose of persecuting Falun Dafa practitioners. Jun Hailin is the head of this division. Because of the prison authorities' severe information blockade, relatively few reports on the persecution at this prison have been published.

http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2005/8/12/108229.html

Exposing perpetrators at the No. 2 Forced Labor Camp in Shenzhen City who deceive Dafa practitioners

At the No. 2 Forced Labor Camp in Shenzhen City they founded a Special Control Committee to persecute Dafa practitioners, to force the practitioners to renounce Falun Dafa. They use violence, lies, or twisted interpretations of Dafa teachings to deceive the practitioners. To conceal these atrocities from the public and from those who were deceived into giving up Dafa, they sent the practitioners to other places. The heads of the labor camp threatened the guards of the Special Control Committee, "If you can't reform the practitioners, you'll be laid off."

http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2005/8/12/108220.html

Traditional Chinese Culture

Chinese Folklore: Heaven Honors the Man Who is Truly Concerned for the People

(Clearwisdom.net)

In May of the tenth year of the Qianlong Period under Emperor Gaozong's reign, two men from Wujin County named Qian Weicheng and Li Jianzhong began their journey by horse to the capital city to take the imperial examination, an ancient Chinese system for recruiting government officials. On entering Shandong Province, it suddenly began to rain heavily. By the time the two men checked into a tavern in the town, they were both soaking wet.

Feeling exhausted, they both hit the sack as soon as they finished dinner. Shortly after Qian Weicheng fell asleep on the bed, he entered a trance and saw himself walking in the capital city. He wandered into the Ministry of Examination and saw many examinees gathering in front of a wall where the results of the imperial examination were posted. "Who is going to win first place this year? Will I pass the imperial examination?" he wondered. Qian began to read the results. He immediately saw that Li Jianzhong won first place. After a while, he finally found his name in the 30th place. He exclaimed in ecstasy, "I passed the imperial exam!"

Li Jianzhong had not fallen asleep yet. He heard Qian Weicheng's exclamation and asked him, "What did you say? What did you pass?" Qian rubbed his eyes and replied, "I just had a dream about you winning first place and me winning 30^th place in the imperial examination." After hearing about Qian's dream, Li Jianzhong was so excited that he couldn't sleep. He stayed up all night anticipating the sunrise so that he could leave for the capital city.

However, it continued to pour the next day. Li Jianzhong anxiously paced back and forth in the room. Out of kindness, Qian advised him, "My brother, be patient. The rain is merely trying to keep us longer here as guests in this town. We may as well take the opportunity to get more study in before the exam." Li Jinzhong did not pay any attention. All he could think about was leaving. Qian Weicheng, on the other hand, took out the books from the trunk and studied alone.

The rain lasted three days. When it finally stopped, Li Jianzhong hurried Qian Weicheng to get going as soon as they had breakfast. Because it was already very close to the day of the imperial examination, they sped up the horses. They crossed a dark pine forest, passed by Sandao Bay and came to a riverbank. As they were about to cross the bridge, they suddenly heard a little girl crying for help from the forest on the other side of the river. Qian Weicheng halted his horse right away and said to Li Jianzhong, "Brother, we must hurry and rescue her!" Then he whipped his horse and crossed the bridge to rescue the little girl. But Li Jianzhong said coldly, "You may stay if you want to rescue the child, but I must hurry on to the capital city for the exam." Then he rode off towards the capital city.

After Qian Weicheng entered the forest, he got off the horse and walked towards the direction where he thought he heard the cry for help. Soon he discovered a woman and a little girl holding each other and both were in tears. On a tree next to them, there was a noose on a tree branch. Qian Weicheng immediately knew that the woman was trying to kill herself by hanging. He approached them and asked anxiously, "Madam, why do you want to do something so foolish?" The woman looked at him absent-mindedly for a moment. Then she shook her head and tears flooded down her face.

The little girl saw that her mother wouldn't say anything, so she made a reply on behalf of her mother. She said, "The thugs gave my father no choice but to kill himself, so my mother wanted to kill herself too..." Before she could finish, they threw themselves into each other's arms again and began to wail again. Qian Wecheng felt very sad. Tears welled up in his eyes. He tried to hold back his tears and said, "Madam, please don't cry. I have some money." He took out 10 taels of silver and put them into the woman's hands. Qian Weicheng was not from a rich family. It took him a lot of time and effort to come up with about 20 taels of silver for the trip. Actually, 20 taels of silver was barely enough for the round trip. Hence, he had been very frugal during the trip. By giving away the silver, he wouldn't have the money to return to his home if he failed to pass the test. But he didn't think of that because all he could think about was saving these two people.

The woman looked at the money in her hands in shock. It took her a while to remember to thank her rescuer, but Qian Weicheng had already left the forest and was on his way to the capital city.

Ten days later, Li Jianzhong and Qian Weicheng met during the examination. They didn't say anything to each other. Fifteen days later, the results of the examination were published. Qian Weicheng got first place on the examination, but Li Jianzhong only got 30th place. It was exactly opposite to the result that Qian Weicheng had seen in his dream. When Li Jianzhong met Qian Weicheng again, he said fiercely, "You have robbed me of my first place!" Qian Weicheng replied peacefully, "You have to ask yourself for the reason."

The imperial examination was a way to recruit government officials. If a man turns a blind eye to the misery of the people, what would be the use of hiring such a man as a government official? Thus Heaven withdrew the honor of first place and gave it to the man who was truly concerned for the people.

First published in English at http://www.pureinsight.org/pi/articles/2005/8/15/3225.html

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Learn More About the Persecution of Falun Gong in China

Falun Gong Human Rights Working Group

Here is the link:

http://falunhr.org/

-Dave

Health is your most precious asset.
Read this important no-cost book online:
http://tinyurl.com/6rm9b

Upcoming visit of Hu Jintao to Canada

On the occasion of the upcoming visit to Canada by the Chinese leader Hu
Jintao, we would like to get your support by writing to the Prime
Minister, asking him to call on Hu Jintao to end the persecution of
Falun Gong in China immediately and to free all practitioners, including
the 18 family members of Canadians presently jailed. A sample letter is
attached for your reference.

Human rights groups have well documented the terrible violations against
practitioners where over 100 methods of torture are being used in the
escalating persecution including rape, forced abortion, force-feeding,
electric shock, etc. Between May and July of this year, 757 Falun Gong
death cases were reported. Over 2,780 deaths have been verified despite
the information blockade and cover-up by the Communist regime. Hundreds
of thousands are incarcerated. The persecution of Falun Gong targets not
only Falun Dafa practitioners but also harms all ordinary citizens and
the whole society.

Furthermore, please ask Prime Minister to express the Canadian people's
distress over the recent reports of espionage, hate incitement,
intimidation, and harassment from Chinese agents and consular officials
against Falun Gong right here in Canada.

It's an opportunity for Hu Jingtao to learn that Canadian people support
human rights of Falun Gong practitioners, which will definitely help him
to make a constructive move to put an end to the persecution, which was
initiated by his predesessor.

I attach a sample letter for your reference. I also enclose a few links
of recent persecution reports.

Thank you very much for your time and efforts, Please feel free to
contact me for more information.

Sincerely,

Xun Li,

President, Falun Dafa Association of Canada

90 Belleview Dr., Kanata,
Ont., K2L 1W3
613-599-7494 (Tel)
613-599-7034 (Fax)

Enclosures:

1. Sample letter to Prime Minister (attached)

2. List of 18 Family Members of Canadian Citizens/Residents Jailed in China

3. June 2005: Deaths of 230 Falun Gong Practitioners Verified
(Photos)http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2005/7/12/62813.html

4. United Nations Special Rapporteurs Reports on the Persecution of
Falun Gong 2005
http://falunhr.org/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=1275&Itemid=0
<http://falunhr.org/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=1275&Itemid=0>

5. List and Case Description of the 2781 Falun Gong Practitioners Who
Have Been Killed In the Persecution
http://clearwisdom.net/emh/special_column/death_cases/death_list.html

Nine Ping (Commentaries) in audio format.

Here is the link:

http://eng.soundofhope.org/makeCategory.asp?catID=663&pnum=1

- Dave

Clear Wisdom [Monday, August 22, 2005 ]

Clearwisdom.net, Monday, August 22, 2005

Facts of the Persecution

Orphan Rescue: Please Help Tianjiao, Another Young Victim of the Persecution

Ms. Kong Fanrong Tortured to Death in 2003, Her Family Still Suffering Persecution (Photo)

Mr. Zeng Hongfu from Suining City, Sichuan Province Went Blind, Then Passed Away in 2004 As a Result of Persecution

A Blind Grandmother Is Tortured and Forced into Homelessness

Dafa Practitioners Beaten At Wafangdian Prison, Authorities Cover up Their Crimes

Atrocities at Nanmusi Women's Forced Labor Camp in Sichuan Province

Information on Seven Elderly Falun Gong Practitioners Who Died as a Result of the Persecution

News and Events from Around the World

"Nine Commentaries" Wins National Journalism Award in the U.S. (Photos)

United Kingdom: Practitioners Demonstrate the Falun Gong Exercises and Raise Awareness of the Persecution at the Start of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival (Photos)

Switzerland: Introducing Falun Gong and Exposing the Persecution in the City of Thun (Photos)

Taiwan: Falun Gong Children's Summer Camp Ends Joyfully (Photos)

Media Coverage

Houston Chronicle: Falun Gong speak for those in China who 'are not seen'

Italian Newspaper "Unita" Publishes an Article on the Persecution of Falun Gong

Croatian Newspaper "Vecernji List": Falun Gong Practitioners Protest (Photo)

Open Forum

Because of Saving Many Lives, My Father's Life Was Extended by 20 Years

Practitioners Exchange Experiences and Insights

Breaking Through the Test of Life and Death by Looking Inward and Digging out the Root of Our Attachments

How Coordinators Should Deal With Coordination Work in the Fa-Rectification Period

Providing Good After-School Classes In an Adverse Environment

Rotating Faluns Manifest During Truth-Clarification Activity in Singapore (Photos)

Maintain Righteous Thoughts and Actions, Always Measure Things with Dafa

People's Hearts Determine Their Future

Stories about My Husband's Respect for Master

Factory Manager Asks His Staff to Protect Practitioners

News from China

Latest News from China - August 10, 2005

205 People Declare that their Words and Deeds Under Forced Brainwashing are Null and Void

Summary of Other Articles and News - August 8, 2005

TV Programs

Pure Heart, Clear Mind #168

Clearwisdom Digest

Clearwisdom Digest (Issue 42, August 2005)

Clearwisdom Weekly

Clearwisdom Weekly - August 15 ~ August 21, 2005

Facts of the Persecution

Orphan Rescue: Please Help Tianjiao, Another Young Victim of the Persecution

(Clearwisdom.net)

Tianjiao

One day in 1991, while travelling on a train, a team of medical personnel heard a cry coming from underneath a seat. A baby girl, whose umbilical cord was still intact, was found in a cardboard box. After getting permission from relevant authorities, Mrs. Lu Changlan adopted the child and gave her the name Lu Tianjiao. Tianjiao was then left in the care of Lu Changlan's parents, Lu Qingzhai and Shi Shengying who were more than happy to be her grandparents.

In the spring of 1996, Grandma Shi was badly injured in a car accident. The sixth and seventh vertebrae of her spine were broken, and it was believed that she would most likely have to be bedridden for the rest of her life. Three months later, someone recommended Falun Gong to her, a cultivation system known to have given miraculous healing results. She was given a copy of the book, Zhuan Falun. A few days after reading the book, something unexpected happened to Grandma Shi - she managed to sit up in bed. About two months later, she even managed to walk again. All of the people who knew her found it to be a most remarkable recovery.

Grandma Shi was indeed grateful to have been introduced to Falun Dafa. To show her respect, one day she hung Teacher's portrait on the wall. An amazing thing then followed - little Tianjiao walked into the room, saw the portrait, and immediately kowtowed to Teacher on her knees - a traditional gesture of utmost respect to someone. At age six, Tianjiao was a playful girl. For a child who has not been brought up in the old traditions, to follow a ritual commonly rejected as old-fashioned in this generation, Tianjiao's behavior was an amazing sight to behold.

"What are you doing, Tianjiao?"

"Isn't this our Teacher? Isn't it proper to pay respect to our Teacher?" Tianjiao answered.

Some days later, Tianjiao said, "I saw Teacher last night. He was dressed in the same garment, but his hair was curly and blue. He even taught me to recite passages from Zhuan Falun."

After the persecution began on July 20, 1999, Tianjiao fell ill. Her body temperature was high and she was admitted to the hospital. Examination revealed that the lower lobe of her right lung had collapsed. Surgery to remove it could only be carried out after autumn. Grandma Shi brought Tianjiao home and encouraged her to do the Falun Gong exercises regularly. Miraculous things then started to happen. Every time after practicing the exercises, Tianjiao coughed up a lot of sputum. One day, the little girl told Grandma Shi that she had been hearing a voice that said, "Don't be afraid, your lung will be all right soon." Sure enough, a month later, she recovered completely without taking any medication.

On October 15, 1999, Grandma Shi was arrested in Beijing for protesting the persecution of Falun Dafa. Two days later, her second daughter Lu Changliang, also a practitioner of Falun Dafa, was also arrested in Beijing and sent to a detention center. Seeing Grandpa Lu's worried face, little Tianjiao began to cry. "Grandpa, will they come back?" she asked. Six months later, after having been tortured, burned by electric batons, and paying a fine of 2,000 yuan, Grandma Shi was allowed to go home, whereas her daughter Lu Changliang was sentenced to a year of forced labor at the infamous Masanjia Forced Labor Camp.

Six months after her release, Grandma Shi was arrested again. This time, she was sent to Masanjia Forced Labor Camp, where, for the first time since her first arrest, she met her daughter again, who was so badly beaten that she could not walk and had to be carried.

Tianjiao missed Grandma Shi so much that she called out her name day and night. Tianjiao had learned to be very patient and understanding with Grandpa Lu; she never brought problems home to worry him and she was careful not to make him upset. Occasionally she missed Grandma Shi so much that she would quietly ask, "Grandpa, when is Grandma coming back?"

Grandma Shi was tortured to the limits of her endurance before Masanjia Labor Camp finally released her. Since her return, Tianjiao followed her almost everywhere she went. She could not bear to lose her again. One day, while Grandma Shi was preparing lunch for Tianjiao who was about to come home, a group of officers from the 610 Office came and arrested her again. She had hardly recovered from the previous tortures when they took her away to a labor camp. Three days later, those people came back and took Grandpa away as well. Tianjiao was now completely alone.

After about a month of physical and mental torture at the brainwashing classes, and being driven to the limits of her endurance, Grandma Shi was finally released. On November 30, 2004, while trying to expose the atrocious persecution and clarifying the truth in a park, Grandma Shi was again arrested. This time she was sentenced to four years of forced labor in Shenyang Prison.

The last few years of persecution have drained the Lu family financially. Grandpa Lu, now 70 years old, has to find work to support the family. Tianjiao is now 13. Every day, she brings food to Grandma Shi as well as money to pay for her stay in the prison. Moreover, they are still under constant pressure from the 610 Office, as well as from the people in the neighborhood, who have not understood the reasons behind Grandma Shi's arrest.

With this article, we hope to expose the atrocities and implore the public to give their generous support to this young girl called Tianjiao who has now become a victim of the persecution as well.

Ms. Kong Fanrong Tortured to Death in 2003, Her Family Still Suffering Persecution (Photo)

(Clearwisdom.net) Mr. Kong Fanrong, a Falun Dafa practitioner from Shulan City, Jilin Province, and her family have been suffering persecution from since 1999. On May 11, 2003, Kong Fanrong died due to torture she received in detention. Her husband, Bian Hongxiang, was arrested in March 2005. By the time he returned home, he was nearly dead from torture. Their daughter, Bian Lingyun, was arrested at the end of July.

Ms. Kong Fanrong

On January 14, 2003, Kong Fanrong, who was working out of town at the time, was arrested in Hua Jiao, Changchun City by Shi Yongliang, Liu Qiang (superintendent), and Huang Huichen, among others, from the An Qing Road Police Station in the Green Garden District of Changchun City. When Huang Huichen took 4,000 yuan from Kong Fanrong, he hid behind a cardboard box and counted the money. (Often when police officers search a practitioner and find money, they keep it. When the police find valuables or cash in a practitioner's home, they frequently come up with excuses to confiscate these possessions and keep the items themselves.)

After Kong Fanrong was brought to the An Qing Police Station, the police yanked her by the hair and slammed her head against a wall. They tortured her by kicking her repeatedly in the lower torso with their heavy boots, stomping on her toes, shoving toothpicks under her fingernails, forcing her to sit on a tiger bench, and poking her eyes with their fingers, all the while cursing her with vile profanities.

Kong Fanrong was transferred to the Shulan City Detention Center from the An Qing Road Police Station, where the torture continued. She died on May 11, 2003 due to torture by the officers of the An Qing Police Station and the Shulan City Detention Center.

After receiving the news of her death, her son brought a camera with him to collect photographic evidence of the torture his mother had been subjected to. Looking at her body, he couldn't believe what he saw. There were bruises all over his mother's body, and too many wounds to count. He could barely recognize her. When he took a picture of his mother, several police officers came in and snatched his camera, saying, "If these pictures are publicized, you will be condemned as a political criminal and find yourself in a worse position than your mother was in."

The government not only failed to investigate the murder, but forced Kong Fanrong's family to sign papers authorizing the cremation of the body in order to eliminate the evidence of the crime. The superintendent of the Nancheng Police Station in Shulan City and Li Jiazhe, the Assistant Section Chief of the Political and Security Section at the station, spoke to Kong Fanrong's son alone and asked him, "Do you want some money?"

He said, "I won't take a penny. I want to expose the murderer who killed my mother, and I want him to pay for it with his life."

As they often do when faced with this situation, the police employed the method of holding someone hostage in order to compel the family to authorize cremation. The police arrested more than ten practitioners and told them, "We will release you today if Kong Fanrong is cremated today. We will release you tomorrow if she is cremated tomorrow. If she isn't cremated within ten days, we will never release you."

On May 19, the leaders from the Shulan 610 Office and the police station came calling on the three remaining members of Kong Fanrong's immediate family and tried to coerce them into signing the paperwork for the cremation. They said, "We will cremate her today whether you sign the paper or not. If you refuse to sign, we will arrest you all and order the cremation ourselves." The three held each other in their arms and cried.

Even their attorney told them, "There is no one to appeal to. Vice Premier Li Lanqing has control of this case." In this way, the authorities got their way and disposed of the evidence of their crimes.

In 2004 a practitioner surnamed Cao was arrested. The police force-fed him with hot pepper juice and mustard oil while interrogating him as to the whereabouts of other practitioners. Mr. Cao said nothing. The police roared at him, "You'd better talk! Didn't we kill Kong Fanrong even though she was very steadfast? Didn't she die for nothing? If you don't talk, you'll share Kong Fanrong's fate!"

On March 3, 2005, nine police officers arrested Kong Fanrong's husband, Bian Hongxiang, at the Changchun Store and was tortured until his life hung by a thread. When the police realized that he was on the brink of death, they sent for his daughter to take him home. While Mr. Bian was recovering, the perpetrators continued to go to the family's home to harass them.

On the afternoon of July 21, after 4 o'clock, Yan Jianhua, superintendent of the Huan Cheng Police Station in Shulan City, raided the home with several officers and took away Kong Fanrong's daughter, Bian Lingyun. Her 8-year-old child was terrified and crying loudly. Bian Lingyun's 93-year-old grandmother (who can't take care of herself and is reliant on Bian Lingyun) was also terrified and trembling, and couldn't say a word. A formerly happy family has been violently persecuted, resulting in the death of one member and separation of the rest.

Since 1999, there have been 11 practitioners who have died from persecution in Shulan City. The experiences of Kong Fanrong's family clearly illustrates the evil nature of the Chinese Communist Party.

August 1, 2005

Mr. Zeng Hongfu from Suining City, Sichuan Province Went Blind, Then Passed Away in 2004 As a Result of Persecution

(Clearwisdom.net) Dafa practitioner Mr. Zeng Hongfu from Daan Township, Sichuan Province was persecuted repeatedly, causing him contract a serious disease and go blind before dying under the surveillance and harassment of the police.

Zeng Hongfu was arrested in January 2000, and his home was ransacked. After being tortured for one month in the Wu Jiawan Detention Center, his family was extorted out of 3,000 yuan in order to secure his release. After Zeng Hongfu returned home, the police came by his home many times to harass him. After he had been home for two days, Zeng Hongfu was arrested again, taken to the police station, and tortured. The police didn't release him until they extorted another 350 yuan from his family. On April 20, 2001, the police came to ransack his home again, so Zeng Hongfu left, becoming destitute and homeless in order to avoid further persecution.

The authorities inquired as to where Zeng Hongfu had gone. During the period that he was homeless, he developed diabetes and, in 2002, had to return home. The police found out and returned to his home to harass him again and try to force him to write the three statements, but Mr. Zeng rejected their attempts. A local official wrote the document and asked Mr. Zeng to sign and place his seal on it, but Zeng Hongfu refused. So that person took Mr. Zeng's stamp and sealed the document.

Later, Zeng Hongfu went blind, but the officials still kept him under 24-hour surveillance. Under such enormous pressure and stress, Mr. Zeng's health deteriorated and he died in July of 2004.

August 4, 2005

A Blind Grandmother Is Tortured and Forced into Homelessness

(Clearwisdom.net) Ms. Lu Haizheng is a blind grandmother living in Group 26, Sector 5 of Anju Community, Xinfu District, Fushun City, Liaoning Province. On June 27, 2005, the Chinese Communist Party Secretary, a woman surnamed. Hou, led a group including Liu Liancheng, Sun Wu, Zhao and Cao of Xinfu Police Station, and broke into Ms Lu's house and arrested her. While at her residence, they stole many of Ms. Lu's personal belongings.

Led by policeman Zhao, the perpetrators tortured and mercilessly beat Ms. Lu. They tried to force her to reveal the source of the truth-clarifying materials that were being distributed in the area. Afterwards, Ms. Lu was taken to a detention center. The detention center personnel refused to accept her because she had been tortured so severely that she could not pass the health inspection. The police then brought Ms. Lu back to the police station and threw her into a special cell.

Ms. Lu was then forced into the brainwashing class in Luotai Shanzhuang, Fushun City, Liaoning Province. Twelve days later, she was sent home. However, even at her home, Ms. Lu was constantly threatened and harassed by the Political and Judicial Committee of the CCP of Xinfu District, officer Hou from Anju Community and policemen from Xinfu Police Station.

According to several sources, those vicious people had decided to continue persecuting Ms. Lu by sending her to Masanjia Labor Forced Camp in Shengyang City. They also planned to arrest Ms. Lu's son. When she heard this, Ms. Lu and her son had no other choice but to flee their home, leaving her injured husband without care. Now, the police have begun a manhunt for Ms. Lu and her son.

Information on personnel who participated in the persecution of Ms. Lu Haizheng:

Policemen from Xinfu Police Station of Xinfu District, Fushun City, Liaoning Province: Zhao, Liu Liancheng, Sun Bing, and Cao. Among them, Zhao (male) beat Ms. Lu.

Phone number of Xinfu Police Station: 86-413-8301155

Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) of Anju Community, Xinfu Jiedao, Xinfu District, Fushun City: Hou (female): 86-413-8857591 (Cell phone)

Phone number of Anju Community: 86-413-3980091

Residents of Anju Community who took part in the persecution:

Wang Fuhai (male), originally worked at Hedong Police Station, then Qiange Police Station, then became a policeman in Gebuxincun

Wang Fuhai's wife, Lin: 86-413-2345132 (Home phone)
Li Ke (female)
Li Ke's husband, Cui Tiecheng

Luotaishan Brainwashing Class, Fushun City, Liaoning Province
Section chief: Kou (male)
Political and Judicial Committee of the CCP at Xinfu District, Fushun City: Zhang Sufen (female)

Other people who took part in the persecution:
Jiao Dashu (male)
Wei (male)
Zhang Guoqing (assistant instructor, male, lived in Gebuxincun area)
Chen Yin (assistant instructor, female)
Liu Qingwen (assistant instructor, male, lived in Jiangjun area)
Luo (assistant instructor, male, lived at Daojie of Xinfu District)
Zhang Fenglian (assistant instructor, female)
Fu (assistant instructor, female, lived in Wanghuqu, Fushun City)
Zhang (assistant instructor, female)
Xia (assistant instructor, female)

Dafa Practitioners Beaten At Wafangdian Prison, Authorities Cover up Their Crimes

(Clearwisdom.net) We learned in early 2005 that many Falun Dafa practitioners detained at Wafangdian Prison in Dalian City, Liaoning Province were severely tortured. During detention, they were constantly beaten by guards and inmates. As a result of cruel torture, three practitioners suffered broken ribs and many others were severely injured.

Article 248 of the Chinese Criminal Law stipulates: "Personnel in detention centers and correction centers who beat up and physically abuse inmates or detainees, in a severe case, will be sentenced to three years in prison. In an extremely serious case, he would be sentenced from three to ten years in prison. If the torture results in permanent physical or mental damage or death, one should be severely punished according to Article 232 and Article 234." Armed with this information, in April of 2005, over ten Falun Gong practitioners detained at Wafangdian Prison jointly filed a lawsuit with the Liaoning Provincial Bureau of Labor Camps against Lu Chuangui (the instructor of Wafangdian Prison), Li Xu (division instructor), Liu Chenglin (division instructor) and other personnel who were involved in the torture.

In May of 2005, the Bureau of Labor Camps ordered Wang Tao, the deputy director of the Discipline Committee in Wafangdian Prison, to represent the prison and investigate and resolve this issue. However, during the process, Wang Tao twisted the truth. Regarding the issue of Falun Gong practitioners being tied up on a death bed, beaten and not allowed to use the toilet, Wang Tao claimed: "It is not a 'death bedâ€™, it is a 'multi-function bedâ€™ used for isolating infectious patients. It is commonly used in prisons."

Does this imply that all patients with infectious diseases need to be tied up and beaten? When practitionersâ€™ families asked why the practitioners had bruises all over, Wang Tao claimed, "You saw the bruises, but I did not see them. You cannot see the bruises now."

During a visit, practitioner She Yue told his/her mother, "My rib is broken due to the severe beating. It is now still protruding. You can feel it." At that moment Lu Chuangui who was monitoring their conversation shouted: "Stop your conversation!" Later Lu Chuangui promised to She Yueâ€™s mother that this would never happen again. One week later, when she visited She Yue, she saw many new bruises on his/her face and neck. This kind of incident happens at Wafangdian Prison frequently. The families of Falun Gong practitioners can testify to it. Wang Tao denied all of these facts and said, "Even if all of your family witnessed it, what can you do if Lu Chuangui denies it?"

As law enforcement workers for the nation, they dare not admit their crimes because they know that everything they are doing violates the law. Admitting it is to announce that they are guilty and this will subject them to punishment by the law. Therefore they try everything possible to cover up and deny their crimes. But how can they dare to do so? Because they have mistakenly attached themselves to the Chinese Communist Party, which stands above the law, human rights and morality, and which is about to collapse.

July 29^th 2005

Atrocities at Nanmusi Women's Forced Labor Camp in Sichuan Province

(Clearwisdom.net) Xinhua Forced Labor Camp in Mianyang, Sichuan Province used to persecute Falun Dafa practitioners by forcing them to carry burning bricks inside the brickyard kiln. Each person only had two minutes to go in and come out; people often collapsed on the ground unconscious. Each person had to work 8 hours a day, and their gloves were often burnt through. Later, practitioners went on a hunger strike to protest against such mistreatment while practitioners outside wrote an article entitled "Brickyard Kiln at Xinhua" and posted it on the Clearwisdom/Minghui website. Since then, Xinhua Forced Labor camp no longer dared to force practitioners to carry burning bricks. Even the criminal inmates inside the camp felt the positive change in the environment and thanked the practitioners for bringing about the change. Therefore, we should also expose the atrocities committed by Nanmusi Forced Labor Camp in order to stop the persecution there.

In mid-November 2004, policewomen Wu Minghui, Li Xia, Yue Xiuqiong and Li bound Ms. Yang Zhengru, a practitioner from Shifang County, Sichuan Province, onto a metal Hills Hoist (rotary clothes line) in the spread-eagle position with handcuffs and shackles. The policewomen beat Ms. Yang severely with high voltage electric batons, causing her to fall unconscious. A criminal inmate named Chen Qi was then ordered to press the acupuncture point above Yang Zhengru's lips to wake her up. When Ms. Yang came to, they demanded that she say she had fallen unconscious for no reason. If she refused, Chen had to continue beating her. Ms. Yang is now very weak and emaciated due to frequent beatings.

Policewoman Li Qi, a team leader from Sandaqi Brigade, incited criminal inmates to beat Chengdu practitioner Ms. Xu Peiqi numerous times. They deprived her of all freedom and put her under strict control.

Li Qi also forced criminal inmate Qing Xiurong (from Xi Chang City) to beat Ms. Tong Guiqiong, a Dafa practitioner from Ermei, as she refused to cooperate with the prison rules and sang Dafa songs. Li Qi and other perpetrators beat Ms. Tong so frequently that Ms. Tong suffered a mental collapse and physical disfigurement.

Li Qi and perpetrators Chen Qi and Zhang Yuqiong (these two criminals have since been released from jail) often beat up Dafa practitioner Ms. Yang Guiying from Luzhou. Ms. Yang is now extremely weak.

Li Qi and perpetrator Li Yan beat Dafa practitioner Ms. Lu Yuancui from Xichang numerous times with steel wire because she refused to be brainwashed. She was often beaten unconscious. These perpetrators also threatened Ms. Lu so that she would not tell anyone about the abuse.

Li Qi ordered Chengdu practitioner Ms. Su Shihui to write defamatory statements against Dafa when she was writing her end-of-jail-term summary report. Ms. Su refused. Li Qi then forced criminal inmates Chen Qi, Ning Limei, Yang Huali, Yang Yuanyuan and Li Yan to beat Ms. Su. Her screams of pain could be heard for a long distance. Practitioners and other inmates couldn't help crying upon hearing such heart-wrenching cries. Li Qi and other perpetrators then stuffed Ms. Su's mouth with a cloth and continued to beat her. Nanmusi Women's Forced Labor Camp later transferred Dafa practitioners under the age of 44 to the Fourth Brigade or other brigades, for fear that the abuse they suffered would be exposed.

Policewoman Zhang Xiaofang (former head of the Seventh Brigade) confiscated 300 yuan from Dafa practitioner, Luo Haiquan from The Agricultural Bank, Leshan Branch, Sichuan Province, when she was detained at Nanmusi Women's Forced Labor Camp. Ms. Luo was once beaten unconscious while in the spread-eagle position.

The above are just some of the atrocities at Nanmusi Women's Forced Labor Camp. The persecution is still taking place there.

Information on Seven Elderly Falun Gong Practitioners Who Died as a Result of the Persecution

(Clearwisdom.net) Mr. Zhang Zhonglu, 60, a resident of Niuwangmiao, Chengdu City, Sichuan Province, had suffered with a stomach flu for decades, but quickly regained his health after beginning the practice of Falun Gong in 1997. He spread Dafa in the tea shop that he managed, and played videos of lectures by the founder of Falun Gong for fellow practitioners on his only TV. Since the beginning of the persecution, on July 20, 1999, the evil staff members of the 610 Office threatened, monitored and attempted to brainwash Mr. Zhang. As a result of the illegal harassment and threats by the neighborhood committee, street office and police station, Mr. Zhang passed away in December 2004.

Mr. Hu Mingxiang, 59, a retired employee from the Electricity Bureau of Leshan City, Sichuan Province, was diagnosed with cancer before 1997. Soon after he started to practice Falun Gong, the cancer disappeared. After the Chinese Communist Party began to persecute Falun Gong, he was put on the "blacklist" because he had been in charge of Dafa truth clarification materials for the local area. The local police confiscated his property and a lot of the materials. Because of the persecution, Mr. Hu suffered a relapse of the cancer and died.

Mr. Bi Yuefa, 78, was a resident of Nong'an County, Changchun City, Jilin Province. He went to Beijing to appeal for justice for Falun Gong on February 13, 2000, and was detained at a local detention center. Mr. Bi protested the illegal treatment with a hunger strike, but passed away in August 2000, soon after he was released.

Ms. Yu Shuzhen, over eighty years old, lived in Jilin City, Jilin Province. She was steadfast in studying the Fa and practicing the exercises. When her granddaughter was sentenced to three years of forced labor, she lost her good cultivation environment, eventually resulting in her death on July 15, 2005.

Another Nong'an native in Jilin Province, Ms. Xu Shulan, 68, benefited from Falun Gong after learning the practice in 1996, and had several illnesses cured. After she appealed to the provincial government on behalf of Falun Gong on July 20, 1999, she was frequently harassed by the local police, sometimes several times a day. In addition, Ms. Xu's husband, daughter, and son-in-law were also taken to the town government or police station for brainwashing, where they were forced to hand in their Falun Gong books and renounce Falun Gong. In the face of such intense mental and physical persecution, Ms. Xu stopped practicing Falun Gong. In February 2000, her two daughters appealed for Falun Gong in Beijing. They were detained in the detention center of Nong'an County, and both of them were fired from their jobs and were charged 12,000 yuan. Ms. Xu was even forcibly body-searched when she visited her neighbor. Under this high pressure, Xu Shulan eventually died in February 2004.

A Guizhou practitioner, Mr. Yang Wenxue, was frequently harassed by corrupt officials and was reported to the police by his family members. As a result, he died at 78 years of age in January 2005.

Ms. Lu Guiying was a Hunan Province Falun Gong practitioner in her seventies. After beginning the practice of Falun Gong in 1996, she enjoyed good health and happiness until July 20, 1999. Under extreme mental pressure brought about by the persecution, Ms. Lu died in August 2001.

News and Events from Around the World

"Nine Commentaries" Wins National Journalism Award in the U.S. (Photos)

MINNEAPOLIS - The value of the Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party was highlighted when it was honored with a National Journalism Award in the category, Asian American Issues - Online by the Asian American Journalists Association (AAJA) on Thursday, August, 18, 2005.

The Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party wins National Journalism Award in the category, Asian American Issues - Online by AAJA

Journalists from more than 1,000 newspapers, journals, television stations, radio stations and networks attended the grand occasion. This year, eleven awards were given in four categories including newspaper, online, broadcasting and TV reporting. Among more than 100 entries, the Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party published by the Epoch Times won top honors in the category "Asian American Issues - Online."

The author or authors of the Nine Commentaries must remain anonymous--their lives and their families' lives would be in danger if their identities were known by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). In their place, Epoch Times editor John Nania had been nominated for the award. In Minneapolis, he accepted the award on behalf of the Epoch Times, and took the stage along with approximately eight other winners.

Other award winners included Ben de la Cruz, Senior journalist, Washington Post, Amy Waldman, foreign correspondence, New York Times, Ruby de Luna, reporter, KUOW National Public Radio, Seattle, and Sue Kuang, CBS 5 San Francisco from among other organizations.

The featured speaker at the awards luncheon was Walter Mondale, former U.S. Vice President and former ambassador to Japan. Mr. Nania had an opportunity to chat briefly with Mr. Mondale, who accepted a copy of the Nine Commentaries with interest. "I'll read this!" Mr. Mondale replied.

Representatives from the Epoch Times introducing the Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party to former U.S. Vice President Walter Mondale.

Founded in 1981, AAJA is a national, non-profit educational association based in San Francisco that has more than 2,300 members. Today, AAJA encourages young Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders to enter the ranks of journalism, to work for fair and accurate coverage of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, and to increase the number of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders and news managers in the industry. More and more journalists from Tokyo, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Bengal become AAJA members. The AAJA includes among its members some of the top journalists in the country, from network news anchors and reporters to Pulitzer Prize-winning writers, editors and photographers, to national radio show producers and major magazine editors.

Every year during the AAJA annual convention, National Journalism Awards are awarded for several categories including network, photo, radio, television, print, and journal. AAJA National Awards recognize and encourage excellence among Asian American journalists and outstanding coverage of Asian American issues.

The 2005 AAJA convention had abundant programs including more than 50 special topic discussions, career service, individual assistance, and social gatherings. Discussion involved topics on practical issues faced by Asians in the U.S., the American media's view on Asian Americans, news reports on the tsunami in Southeast Asia, as well as ethics in media work.

The Nine Commentaries is a series of essays revealing--for the first time--the full, shocking history of the Chinese Communist Party. The Nine Commentaries was first published in Chinese in the Epoch Times newspaper in November 2004. It was then translated into English and posted on the Internet and put in print. Now it is available in 20 languages. Since its publication, the series of essays aroused broad attention and up to the present, more than 3.8 million people have peacefully and publicly resigned their membership in the CCP and associated organizations, with a daily average of 20,000 to 30,000 resignations.

Appendix:

Award winners of the 2005 AAJA Convention

Network:

Ben de la Cruz, Senior journalist, Washington Post
John Nania, editor in chief, the Epoch Times

Print:

Traci Jan, staff writer, Boston Globe
Alison Overhalt, contributing writer, Fast Company Magazine
Amy Waldman, foreign correspondence, New York Times
Noreen O'Donnell, reporter, The Journal News, White Plains, NY
Marcella Rojas, reporter, The Journal News, White Plains, NY

Radio

Ruby de Luna, reporter, KUOW National Public Radio, Seattle
Dmae Roberts, executive producer, Media Rites, Porland, OR

Television:
Sue Kuang, CBS 5 San Francisco
David Ono, KABC-TV, Los Angeles

Source: http://english.epochtimes.com/news/5-8-19/31392.html

United Kingdom: Practitioners Demonstrate the Falun Gong Exercises and Raise Awareness of the Persecution at the Start of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival (Photos)

(Clearwisdom.net) UK Falun Gong practitioners were once again invited to take part in the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, which is held annually in August. The Festival originated in the 1940s and according to the organizing committee, this year's event attracted many tourists from all over the world.

On August 6, at the start of the festival, Falun Gong practitioners introduced the practice on Prince's Street and informed the public of the persecution in China. They demonstrated to people the five sets of Falun Gong exercises. Their peaceful and serene performance was in stark contrast to their display of the photos of the brutal persecution and torture taking place in China.

Signing petition in support of Falun Gong

Demonstrating the Falun Gong exercises

Practitioners talked to curious onlookers about the persecution. Some signed the petition to show their support and wished the practitioners good luck.

Falun Gong is also known as Falun Dafa. It is a high level cultivation practice of the Buddhist School and was introduced to the public in 1992 by Mr. Li Hongzhi. Practitioners follow the principles of Truthfulness, Compassion and Forbearance to improve their mind-nature. The number of practitioners grew rapidly and prior to the beginning of the persecution in 1999, the Chinese media estimated that there were around one hundred million people practicing Falun Gong.

In 1999, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) started the comprehensive, brutal persecution of Falun Gong. More than 2,700 practitioners have been persecuted to death according to human rights organizations.

Despite the persecution in Mainland China, Falun Gong has spread to more than seventy countries around the world and received more than one thousand awards from various governments and organizations. Its founder Mr. Li Hongzhi, was also nominated several times for the Nobel Peace prize.

The peaceful protests of Falun Gong practitioners have been noticed more and more by the world's people, media and governments. The CCP's persecution of Falun Gong has been widely condemned by human rights organizations around the world.

Source: http://clearharmony.net/articles/200508/28365.html

Switzerland: Introducing Falun Gong and Exposing the Persecution in the City of Thun (Photos)

(Clearwisdom.net) On August 7, 2005, Swiss Falun Gong practitioners held an activity to promote Falun Gong in the famous tourist city of Thun. Following the sound of traditional Chinese music, we found the Falun Gong booth. Practitioners demonstrated the five sets of Falun Gong exercises and people stopped to watch. Some sighed and said, "This music is so wonderful. It's like music from heaven." However, when people saw the display boards disclosing how Falun Gong practitioners are being cruelly tortured in China, they were shocked. Some said, "This is terrible. It's horrible. Such miserable things happen today in the 21st century. Is this real?" Our fellow practitioners said, "These are practitioners being persecuted whose names and home addresses we know. What these facts disclose is only the tip of the iceberg. There remains a great number of persecutions hidden from the public knowledge."

People learn about the persecution facts

Through the practitioners' careful explanations about Falun Gong and the persecution, people gradually came to understand the situation and asked for informational leaflets. They signed their names to help rescue practitioners persecuted in China. Some asked about where the exercise sites were and said that they'd like to learn to practice Falun Gong.

"I'm touched by your patience"

Two middle-aged women at first did not understand Falun Gong and said something bad about it. When fellow practitioners explained it in more depth to them, they said that they did not understand China and they were not interested, either. They did not sign their names to help the rescue efforts and did not take any leaflets. But they did not leave, either. The practitioners believed that these women were truly nice people and the reason why they acted this way was because they did not understand Falun Gong. So, a practitioner said, "Could you patiently listen to me about Falun Gong?" The women did not say a word. Our fellow practitioner started to talk about how Falun Gong cures illness and make people healthier, and how Falun Gong raises people's morality. Falun Gong teaches "Truthfulness, Compassion, and Tolerance." Whenever something happens, practitioners look inward and try to be kind and think of others first. As these two ladies began to listen, they asked, "Do you feel tired when practicing Falun Gong?" The practitioner pointed at those who weredemonstrating the five sets of exercises, who clearly looked peaceful and relaxed. The two women nodded their heads and said, "Falun Gong is a good thing. But why is the Chinese Communist Party persecuting Falun Gong?" The practitioner pointed at Jiang Zemin's photo and said, "The former Chinese Head of State was terrified when he saw so many people practicing Falun Gong. So, he ordered the persecution. Various propaganda tools, such as TV stations, newspapers, etc, were used to make up negative stories about Falun Gong; and a large-scale, nationwide arrest campaign started. Currently, the number of Falun Gong practitioners persecuted to death is 2,739."

By this time, a lot more people had come to listen to the introduction about Falun Gong. The two ladies said, "The ex-President is a bad guy. How can we help you?" A practitioner said, "Please sign your names to rescue the mother of the student studying in Switzerland. She was put in jail only because she is a Falun Gong practitioner and because she wants to be a good person." Everyone present signed their names. The two ladies gave their thanks again and again to our practitioner for such a detailed introduction. They said, "Your patience makes us feel touched, which enables us to truly understand Falun Gong. It is our first time to meet such a group of nice people. Falun Gong is magnificent. You are magnificent." Our practitioner responded, "It is Falun Gong that is magnificent. Please remember that Falun Gong is good! Truthfulness, Compassion, and Tolerance is good!"

The Whole family supports Falun Gong

Signing petition in support of Falun Gong

A few families came together to sign their names to support Falun Gong on this particular day. One family, with both elderly and young members, came to the Falun Gong booth and said to the practitioners, "Finally we found you. We were all in tears watching the informational VCD about Falun Gong. It is so miserable, what is happening in China. So many nice people are cruelly killed. What a wonderful practice being persecuted by the Chinese Communist Party. There are no human rights in China. It is hard to accept that there is no freedom of belief. Every one of our family members feels they want to help Falun Gong. Please let us know how we can help you." A practitioner said, "Please sign to support the rescue of the mother whose child is studying in Switzerland. Please tell your friends and family the truth about Falun Gong and appeal to people to help stop the Chinese authorities' persecuting Falun Gong. This is the greatest help to us." They all agreed, and the whole family signed the petition. They expressed their best wishes to Falun Gong and wished Falun Gong success.

"The Chinese Communist Party has gone crazy!"

A middle-aged woman was seen around our booth several times. A practitioner went to tell her about Falun Gong. She said, "I know that all those practicing Falun Gong are nice, honest people. The Chinese Communist Party loves to humiliate people. We farmers are no exception. The Communist Party occupied the farms by force and ordered over a hundred policemen to suppress those who resisted. When farmers go to meet with the higher authorities in Beijing, they are abused and sent to prison by policemen."

She also mentioned that she was in Beijing when the so-called self-immolation at Tiananmen Square happened. Some Falun Gong practitioners told her that it was made up by the Jiang regime to slander Falun Gong. She said, "The Chinese Communist Party is crazy. You Falun Gong practitioners are great to endure such suppression and to persist in your belief of Truthfulness, Compassion, and Tolerance. I admire you. Please give me some Chinese informational materials." Before she left, she also said, "I hope to see that you hold out until the last minute. Victory will definitely come your way."

After a long day, though the practitioners were tired, everyone felt happy from the bottom of their heart to see so many people learn the truth about Falun Gong.

Source: http://clearharmony.net/articles/200508/28366.html

Taiwan: Falun Gong Children's Summer Camp Ends Joyfully (Photos)

(Clearwisdom.net) From August 12 to August 14, Tainan Minghui School held a summer camp for little Falun Dafa practitioners. Schoolteacher Ms. Wang, the organizer of the camp, said that the goal of the summer camp was to help children to discipline themselves according to Falun Dafa's "Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance" principles and learn the sense of independence and mutual care in a large group.

Morning group practice

Studying the teachings of Falun Dafa

Ms. Wang said the camp received nearly 110 applications, with applicants ranging from preschoolers to high school students. While such a diverse group is very hard to manage, all the volunteers worked very hard to solve all the challenges and never complained. As they are all practitioners, they reviewed their work daily and helped each other in order to better serve the children.

The 2-day summer camp offered a lot programs for the children, including Fa study, group exercises, storytelling, experience sharing, movies, crafts, games, a talent show, and other activities. Children could even learn new things during mealtime and before going to bed.

Schoolteacher Ms. Wu teaching how to make artwork

Children making artworks

Children's fine artworks

Schoolteacher Ms. Jiang Huimin brought three children to join the summer camp, and she also served as team leader of the junior group (from 3^rd to 6^th graders). She said that the children were very well behaved. For example, during dining time, they always acted thoughtfully, handing plates and food to others.

Two brothers caught the reporter's attention as they were both very serious about Fa-study, exercise practice and sending righteous thoughts. The younger brother is exceptional. He always finished his plate completely and cleaned up his table. Upon seeing his good demeanor, many others also followed his example.

Fun time

Ms. Lin Huijun, the team leader of the youngest group (toddlers to 2^nd graders), has a son in first grade. However, she treated all the children in her group the same. She said that she was so touched by the children's innocence and trust.

Schoolteachers Mr. Lin Zhiqing and Ms. Sun Guoying didn't have any children participating in the summer camp, but they still volunteered their time to serve the camp. "The most rewarding thing about this work is seeing the positive changes occurring in the children. They cultivated very hard during these two days and learned a lot," Mr. Lin said.

Ms. Lin also said, "Four students who were not talkative in the past also shared their experiences courageously - what a big step!"

The summer camp had a big impact on a high school student. She and her young brother are both new practitioners. Before coming to the camp, they had only read the teachings of Falun Gong and hadn't tried the exercises. They learned the five sets of exercises during morning group practice. Though she felt quite lonely at the beginning, as she was the only high school student, she gradually found a way to communicate and share with the other youngsters. In the end, this young woman felt that the summer camp was quite good and joyful.

Feedback from the children was also enthusiastic. They all felt that the activities were exciting and the facilities were wonderful. Some even asked, "Can the camp extend for another week?"

On the last day, there was a talent show where the children had a chance to exhibit what they learned from the camp in various ways: plays created based on stories given by Master Li in Zhuan Falun, singing, story-telling, etc.

The camp concluded in an atmosphere of joy and relaxation. The children said goodbye to each other and promised to come back next year.

Talent show

Media Coverage

Houston Chronicle: Falun Gong speak for those in China who 'are not seen'

Group is touring Texas and hoping to win the support of President Bush

Aug. 21, 2005, 12:57AM

Hong Kin Wong fled China in 2001, shortly after her husband was sentenced to 10 years in prison for criticizing the Chinese government.

She left behind her 2-year-old daughter, In Sin.

"It was very painful," said Wong, who left her daughter in her mother's care while she worked to bring In Sin to the United States. They were reunited last month.

Wong, a practitioner of Falun Gong, a spiritual self-improvement belief system, is among 25 people touring Texas this weekend to raise awareness about China's orphaned children whose "tears are not seen and whose cries are not heard."

The group is spending most of this weekend traveling between Austin, Houston, College Station, Dallas and Waco, and ending up at President Bush's ranch in Crawford, in hopes he will help rescue children whose parents were persecuted.

Chinese President Hu Jintao is scheduled to visit with Bush in mid-September.

Far-reaching effects

Falun Gong, introduced to the public in 1992, combines spiritual beliefs and physical exercise, and promotes health and inner peace. Millions practice it worldwide.

The Chinese government banned the movement in July 1999, [slanderous charge by Chinese Communist Party omitted]. The Chinese government has jailed and tortured thousands of practitioners and killed perhaps hundreds more, according to a U.S. State Department report. [Editor's note: as of August 21, 2005, there have been 2,781 confirmed deaths of Falun Gong practitioners due to persecution.]

The children of those practitioners have no one to care for them, and are often persecuted themselves, those protesting in Houston said Saturday. Some children live with their grandparents, while others are sent to orphanages. Countless children--precise numbers are hard to obtain--have been deprived of their educations, driven to homelessness, placed in adult prison cells and, in some cases, killed.

Local believers in Falun Gong say the weekend protests are the beginning of a coordinated effort to reunite children with their families or find ways to care for those who have been orphaned.

Yiyang Xia likened the Falun Gong children to the "Pedro Pan" children of Cuba.

Between 1960 and 1962 more than 14,000 Cuban children were sent by their parents to the United States. The parents wanted to spare their children from Cuban leader Fidel Castro's communist regime. They were known as the Pedro Pan children, a tag coined by a Miami news anchor in reference to Peter Pan.

"This is a worldwide campaign," Xia said. "We need to tell the Chinese government, 'You have already killed their parents, you should let them go.'