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All Practitioners in Shandong Province Send New Year's Greetings to Great Compassionate Master!

Heshi (pressing both hands together in front of chest) to greet compassionate and great Master, Happy New Year! Here we present adigital greeting card made by a practitioner!

Words in image: Right side: Truth, Compassion, Tolerance

Left side: Wishing Compassionate and Great Master Happy New Year

Center: Falun Dafa is Great

Low side: All practitioners in Shandong Province

December 26, 2004

With greetings to all practitioners overseas in clarifying the truth, saving the sentient beings and voicing support for practitioners in China.

With greetings to all practitioners running and maintaining Dafa websites and other media, including editors, polishers, translators, reporters/correspondents, broadcasters, technical staff and all others involved. You work hard. Thank you all.

With greetings to technical persons in exploring software to break the internet blockade in China and in maintain the network.

With best wishes to all media, private organizations, governments and people in supporting Dafa and spreading the truth of Dafa!

With greetings to all practitioners in China following Master's words and validating Dafa in various ways and getting rid of human notions and stepping forward!

With greetings and strong righteous support of practitioners unlawfully imprisoned in prisons, labor camps, mental hospitals, and brainwashing classes!

With sincere greetings to the family members, relatives, and friends of those practitioners who are tortured to disability or death or suffer greatly in various environments.

With holiday greetings to people in all circles who offer sympathy, understanding, support and help to Dafa practitioners in the inhumane persecution. In the future, you will see goodness because of your kind choice today.

December 26, 2004

All Practitioners in Jilin City, Jilin Province Send New Year's Greetings to Master!

Under Master's compassionate caring, we have been in cultivation during Fa-rectification for five years. A long time ago, we hundreds of thousands of Dafa practitioners swore before Master to follow Master in Fa-rectification and saving sentient beings ......

As Dafa practitioners during Fa-rectification, though we cannot see Master, we feel Master's vast Buddha grace and understand the significant meaning of "Heavy burden on the Shoulders" of Dafa practitioners.

Improving as one body, getting rid of selfish notions, validating Dafa as the basis of all Dafa-related work, coordinating well between practitioners and saving all the world's people who are savable. In this respect, practitioners overseas have already moved ahead of us. In cultivation during Fa-rectification, we see the gap overall from practitioners overseas. As the main body of practitioners, we practitioners in China won't fail in our responsibility offered by Master and Dafa. However dangerous the environment is, however attitudes of the world's people are, whatever changes in social environment, we believe in Master and Dafa, and cultivate ourselves by following Dafa and getting rid of the attachments of selfishness and fear, and wake up every one who is lost beside us.

As one body, we and practitioners overseas study Dafa and cultivate to improve diligently together to realize our great wish before history.

Words in image: Wishing Master Happy New Year!

(A poem is omitted)

December 25, 2004

By All Dafa practitioners in Jilin City

All Little Practitioners in Jilin City, Jilin Province Send New Year's Greetings to Master!

Happy New Year, Master! You work hard!

Greetings, all Dafa practitioners and all little practitioners around the world!

Master, we miss you very much and wish to see you! Though we are not so diligent yet and have not done well the three things, we will improve after studying Dafa and cultivation.

During the last five years of brutal persecution in China, though we are young, we are clarifying the truth, distributing flyers, and doing the three things following Master's words as other practitioners. In Spring, Summer, Fall, or Winter, rain or shine, we move forward on the path of validting Dafa.

We and all practitioners will do the three things and save more predestined people.

December 25, 2004

By all little practitioners in Jilin

All Practitioners in Longko City, Shandong Province Wish Master Happy New Year!

At the coming of New Year, all practitioners in Longko wish Master Happy New Year. Master, please rest assured, we'll remember Master's teaching, coordinate well as one body during the last stage of Fa-rectification, follow Master's Fa-rectification and complete satisfactorily the historical mission of assisting Master and saving sentient beings.

By all practitioners in Longko, Shandong Province

All Practitioners in Laizhou City, Shandong Province Wish Master Happy New Year!

At the coming of the New Year, all practitioners in Laizhou wish Master Happy New Year. Master, please rest assured, we'll remember Master's teaching, and coordinate well as one body during the last stage of Fa-rectification, follow Master's Fa-rectification and complete satisfactorily the historical mission of saving sentient beings.

By all practitioners in Laizhou, Shandong Province

All Practitioners in Anshan City, Liaoning Province Send New Year's Greetings to Master!

Master, please rest assured, we Anshan genuine Dafa practitioners will do the three things well. We will do them better and better.

By all practitioners in Anshan

December 24, 2004

All Practitioners Who Are Forced to Stay Away from Home to Avoid Persecution Send New Year's Greetings to Great Compassionate Master!

All Practitioners in Qiqihar City, Heilongjiang Province Send New Year's Greetings to Master!

All Practitioners in Ewenke District, Inner Mongolia Send New Year's Greetings to Master!

All Practitioners in Manzhouli City, Heilongjiang Province Send New Year's Greetings to Master!

All Practitioners in Wudalianchi, Heilongjiang Province Send New Year's Greetings to Great Compassionate Master!

All Practitioners in Weimian and Weichai, Shandong Province Send New Year's Greetings to Master!

All Practitioners in Shanxi Province Send New Year's Greetings to Master!

Master, Happy New Year!

We are thankful for Master's compassionate saving and caring! We'll take our historical mission to do well three things of Dafa practitioners, have righteous acts with righteous thoughts, save sentient beings and return following Master!

Wishing all practitioners around the world a happy New Year!

By all practitioners in Shanxi

December 25, 2004

All Practitioners in Yingko City, Liaoning Province Send New Year's Greetings to Master!

All Falun Dafa Practitioners from Pingdu City, Shandong Province Respectfully Wish a Happy New Year to Revered Master!

Master, please feel assured, your disciples will definitely strive to do well in the three things Master requires of us.

Respectfully dedicated to revered Master,

On New Year's day of 2005

December 24, 2004

All Genuine Falun Dafa Practitioners from Ezhou City, Hubei Province Send Greetings to Great Revered Master!

Master, Happy New Year!

All Falun Dafa Practitioners from Jinan City, Shandong Province Respectfully Wish Benevolent and Great Master a Happy New Year

Great Revered Master,

Happy New Year!

With the New Year coming, all practitioners in Jinan City extend our most sincere greetings to revered Master.

With Master's benevolent protection, practitioners in Jinan have steadfastly entered the new phase of Fa-rectification. On the path to Godhood, we will definitely study the Fa well, eliminate all interference, strive forward diligently, seize the last limited time to clarify the truth, save sentient beings, clear away evil, and do well what Fa-rectification Dafa disciples are supposed to do with righteous thoughts and righteous actions!

All Dafa disciples in Jinan City, Shandong Province Heshi

December 25, 2004

All Falun Dafa Practitioners from Guangzhou City Wish Master a Happy New Year

Falun Dafa Practitioners from Weihai City, Shandong Province Respectfully Wish Master a Happy New Year!

Falun Dafa Practitioners from Yantai City, Shandong Province Respectfully Wish Master a Happy New Year!

All Falun Dafa Practitioners from Xinzhou City, Shanxi Province Extend Our New Year's Greetings to Esteemed Master!

Respectfully, all Dafa disciples in Xinzhou City, Shanxi Province

December 26, 2004 in Xinzhou

Falun Dafa Practitioners from Shuangcheng City, Heilongjiang Province Extend Our Greetings to Great Revered Master: Happy New Year!

Great Revered Master,

When 2005 New Year's Day is approaching, Dafa disciples in Shuangcheng City, like all other Dafa disciples in Mainland China, miss you very much! All Dafa disciples in Shuangcheng wish great revered Master a Happy New Year! Master, you have been working hard!

Though we are far away and separated by mountains and oceans from Master, we feel close to Master every time when we think of Master's teaching, "...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." (Lectures in the United States)

Master, please feel assured, at the last moment before the imminent arrival of the Fa rectifying the human world, we will definitely learn by heart Master's teachings and do well in the three things. At the same time, we will definitely coordinate and cooperate well, will absolutely not be interfered by human attachments, and absolutely not be taken advantages of by evil. On the returning path of validating Dafa and saving sentient beings, we will think and act righteously, and strive forward diligently!

Dafa disciples in Shuangcheng City, Heilongjiang Province

December 26, 2004

Young Practitioners from Shuangcheng City Extend Greetings to Great Revered Master!

Steadfastly Follow Master to Return

Making a vow many years ago,

To Assist Master to spread righteous Fa in human world.

Steadfastly do well the three things,

Follow Master to return when reaching consummation.

All young Dafa disciples in Shuangcheng City, Heilongjiang Province

December 26, 2004

All Falun Dafa Practitioners from Lianyuangang City, Jiangsu Province Respectfully Wish Master a Happy New Year!

All Falun Dafa Practitioners from Changchun City Respectfully Wish Master a Happy New Year!

Dafa disciples in Changchun City extend our most lofty respect to our benevolent great revered Master! Respectfully wishing Master a Happy New Year! Dafa disciples in Changchun miss you very much!

We are fortunate to be Dafa disciples in Changchun City,

Because we were the first to listen to Master impart the universal Dafa, we were the earliest bathed in the enormous Buddha's grace.

As Changchun Dafa disciples, we deeply feel it's hard to return Master's grace,

Because we were those earliest children Master led to walk on the path to return, Master has sacrificed more for us.

As Changchun Dafa disciples, language fails to express our utmost esteem to revered Master,

Because Master protects us to walk through five more years of storms and winds, Dafa enables us to become mature, and clearheaded.

As Changchun Dafa disciples, we also feel guilty,

Because what we have done is still far from the requirement of Fa-rectification, and fails to live up to Master's expectations and careful instructions.

As Changchun Dafa disciples, we will definitely do better, walk righteously,

Because Master's grand image is always in our mind, Dafa has long been rooted in our hearts.

As Changchun Dafa disciples, we smilingly welcome the day when Master returns,

Feel no regret to face Master who sends us to return home when we reach consummation!

Heshi to revered Master!

All Dafa disciples in Changchun

(Clearwisdom.net)

Mr. Feng Min was a Falun Dafa practitioner in the Nankai District of Tianjin. He died from police harassment and threats for practicing Falun Gong. The exact date of his death is not available.

Mr. Feng, who was 75 years old, was an official at the bureau level in Tianjin. Previously he had undergone heart bypass surgery before practicing Falun Gong and at that time was in poor health. In 1994, his health greatly improved as he began practicing Falun Gong. Shortly afterwards, he eliminated all of his illnesses and saved his organization hundreds of thousands of yuan worth of medical expenses.

After the persecution of Falun Gong began on July 20 1999, Chang Jianguo, a police officer from the Baliqiao Police Station in Tianjin, harassed Mr. Feng numerous times. Mr. Feng could not endure the threats and persecution and was forced to relocate.

Later the police once again showed up at his door to harass him. After one such police visit, Mr. Feng fell to the ground the same afternoon. He never got up and died the next day.

(Clearwisdom.net)

Ms. Huang Bing, 26, was a Falun Gong practitioner from Xudatun Village, Xingtai Town, Pulandian, Dalian City, Liaoning Province. She used to suffer from leukemia, but after she took up the practice of Falun Gong, she completely recovered. Around July 20, 2001, she went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong, but she was arrested by Pulandian police, who later sent her to the Pulandian Detention Center. During the eight months of detention there, she was brutally tortured. As a result, she was in a very bad state of health. The police paid no attention to her weak condition and insisted on transferring her to Masanjia Labor Camp to be further persecuted. However, Ms. Huang failed the medical examination required by the labor camp. Fearing that she might die during detention, the police sent her back home.

Around April 25, 2003, the local police station director Sheng Jijun and vice director Shuo Yantao led a group of police to break into Ms. Huang's home one night. They took her away again using the excuse that Dafa materials were found in her home. She was again thrown into Pulandian Detention Center. During her more than one month detention, Ms. Huang was severely tortured. As a result, her nose kept bleeding non-stop. The detention center didn't want to take any responsibility, so they released her. However, even after she returned home, the local police still kept coming to her home to harass her. Yin Qingyou and Chen Liang of the village government closely monitored her. Under the tremendous pressure, Ms. Huang passed away around 9:00 on the night of February 4, 2004.

After her death, the police still didn't let up their persecution. Without her family's consent, Yin Qingyou sold all the corn owned by her family. He only gave Ms. Huang's family 100 yuan, keeping the rest of the proceeds in the name of so-called fines.

The local police station's phone number is 86-411-8331008.

(Clearwisdom.net)

Falun Gong Practitioner Chen Jianzhong from Kunming City, Yunnan Province Dies in 1999

Mr. Chen Jianzhong was a retired worker of the Yunnan Province Optics Equipment Factory (referred to as "factory" hereafter). After he began to practice Falun Gong before 1999, he became very healthy. After Jiang's regime started to persecute Falun Gong on July 20, 1999, the factory and 610 Office forced him to go through brainwashing many times. On November 4, 1999, the factory once again held a brainwashing class, during which the factory authorities intimidated Chen Jianzhong to give up his practice of Falun Gong. Frightened by the intimidation, Chen Jianzhong fell from the chair to the ground. He spit out foam from his mouth and half of his body was paralyzed. He was then sent to the factory-affiliated hospital for emergency rescue. However, despite the rescue efforts, he died the same night, at the age of 65.

Falun Gong Practitioner Liu Shiyun from Wanquan County, Hebei Province Died in 2002

Mr. Liu Shiyun was a worker at the Wanquan County Cement Factory in Hebei Province. He used to suffer from various kinds of illnesses, which brought much trouble to his life and work. He went everything to seek a cure, but to no avail. In 1994, he was very fortunate to learn Dafa. Soon afterwards, his illnesses all went away.

On April 25, 1999, Liu went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong. As a result, he was arrested and brutally persecuted by unlawful people in Wanquan County. Even after his release, Guoleizhuang Police Station police still went to his home to harass him. As a result, he could not study the Fa and do the exercises normally and he developed some illnesses. On December 31, 2002, he passed away.

Since Jiang's regime started the persecution of Falun Gong on July 20, 1999, Guoleizhuang Town authorities have been relentlessly persecuting local practitioners. Led by town head Zhang Wanbao, police station director Feng Yaoming and vice director Ren Jincai, the local police have illegally arrested, detained and fined practitioners. They also ransacked practitioners' homes. All these actions caused tremendous harm to both practitioners and their family members. Feng Yaoming claimed when persecuting practitioners, "In my jurisdiction, I am the king! I can do whatever I want!"

(Clearwisdom.net) The Hong Kong Court of Final Appeals approved Falun Gong practitioners' appeal against the remaining convictions of eight Falun Gong practitioners. Falun Gong practitioners welcomed the court's decision and said they would continue to clarify the truth as the case progresses to help more people learn about the vicious nature of Jiang's group. The following is background information:

On the morning of March 14, 2002, to protest the Jiang regime's "shoot to kill" and "kill without pardon" orders, sixteen Falun Gong practitioners, including four Swiss practitioners, started a three-day hunger strike in front of the China Liaison Office in Hong Kong. Under pressure from the China Liaison Office, Hong Kong authorities deployed a large number of police to forcibly remove and detain all 16 practitioners. The practitioners were falsely charged with "public obstruction" and "obstructing and assaulting police." After more than two years of legal proceedings, a Hong Kong Court of Appeals overturned all obstruction convictions but upheld five other charges including "assaulting police;" therefore, the practitioners will continue to appeal. On December 22, 2004, Andrew Li Kwok-nang, Chief Justice of the Court of Final Appeal Committee and other committee members listened to the practitioners for over three hours. In the afternoon, permanent judge Kemal Bokhary announced that the practitioners will be allowed to appeal. The committee stated that the practitioners' claims of being illegally arrested by the police and the 14-month delay in the High Court's verdict are both worthy of discussion by the Court of Final Appeals, which is why the practitioners' request to appeal was approved. The initial hearing will be held in April or May of 2005.

Paul Harris, the practitioners' attorney said three things in court: 1. The legitimacy of the arrest is doubtful. 2. The judge who convicted the practitioners didn't consider the issue thoroughly and only took into account the rights of the pedestrians, not the rights of the appellants. 3. The practitioners appealed to the High Court and received a result 14 months afterwards, which is too long, and therefore unjust for the appellants. The court should consider compensation for the plaintiffs, including overturning the charges. The Court of Final Appeals accepted the first and the third point.

Attorney Paul Harris said that anyone who witnessed the arrest would not consider it legitimate. He proposed that abuse of power was involved in the arrest.

The practitioners welcomed the decision from the Court of Final Appeals. They said some Hong Kong government officials slandered the practitioners, some police officers gave false witness accounts, and the judge made an unjust decision, favoring the police. What they did is very similar to the actions of the Chinese government in persecuting Falun Gong practitioners in China. Lu Jie, one of the plaintiff practitioners said, "Jiang used villainous propaganda, slander, and lies that are ingrained in the Party to incite hatred among people. We want to expose the Jiang group's crimes because they are harming people and corrupting society's moral values. It is very dangerous if morality no longer exists in our society, because then no one will be safe."

On the morning before the hearing began, about 50 Falun Gong practitioners marched through Charter Garden, and then quietly sat outside the Court of Final Appeals to protest the persecution by Jiang's group until the court reached a decision in the afternoon. The practitioners said this case involves not only Falun Gong; it also has a significant impact on rule-of-law and human rights conditions in Hong Kong, both of which are of great concern for Hong Kong's citizens. Under a just legal system, the practitioners should eventually win the case.

(Clearwisdom.net) Destruction of life and conscience will never be forgotten, and the perpetrators will be held responsible for their crimes.

According to a report issued by the Associated Press on December 18, on Friday, December 17, 2004, the U.S. Department of Justice requested that an immigration judge deport an Ohio man because he was a former guard at Nazi concentration camps.

John Demjanjuk, 84 lives in Seven Hills, Ohio, and is a retired autoworker. The U.S. government claims he was an armed guard at Nazi extermination and concentration camps during World War II.

In April, the Sixth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously affirmed a lower court decision revoking Demjanjuk's U.S. citizenship on several grounds, including his willing service in an SS-run unit dedicated to exploiting and exterminating Jewish civilians in Nazi-occupied Poland. Hundreds of thousands of people were killed in these camps.

"John Demjanjuk's involvement in the infamous process by which thousands of innocent men, women, and children were gassed to death at Sobibor clearly deprives him of any legal or moral right to live in this country," assistant attorney general Christopher A. Wray of the Justice Department's Criminal Division said Friday.

Last month, after the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear Demjanjuk's appeal to restore his U.S. citizenship, his family was determined to pursue a separate appeal in the Sixth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati, seeking to prove Demjanjuk was a victim of mistaken identity.

U.S. District Judge Paul R. Matia in Cleveland ruled in 2002 that Demjanjuk should be stripped of his citizenship. The Sixth Circuit Court upheld the ruling.

A document issued on Friday by the U.S. Department of Justice and Department of Homeland Security points out that Demjanjuk should be deported because he participated in the Nazi's persecution activities at the Sobibór, Majdanek, and Flossenburg camps. He also lied about his work and residence during World War II when he applied for immigration to the U.S in 1952.

Demjanjuk was an autoworker for the Ford Motor Co. in 1977 when the Justice Department accused him of being "Ivan the Terrible," a notorious Nazi guard who ran the gas chambers at the Treblinka death camp in occupied Poland during 1942 and 1943.

Also according to several, separate Clearwisdom.net reports, Falun Gong practitioners around the world have taken legal actions against the main perpetrators responsible for the persecution of Falun Gong. They have filed lawsuits in 28 countries charging Jiang Zemin and his accomplices with torture, genocide, and violations of human rights. Those who are still loyal to Jiang in persecuting Falun Gong, should pay close attention to the case of John Demjanjuk.

Dec 26, 2004

*FREE MY FIANCEE* - Yeong-Ching Foo, Charles Lee's fiancée, speaking at a rally calling for his release. Foo has been working non-stop since Lee's arrest in January 2003 to obtain his freedom.

Charles Lee sits unmoving on a wooden stool. His heart is beating fast, his breath is short, his back is straight, and his eyes look straight ahead at the television. He is not allowed to move.

After seven hours or longer, he may be taken into a room to make Christmas tree lights for export. For Lee, this is another holiday season away from his fiancée as a prisoner of conscience in China.

In New York, as streets bustle with last-minute shoppers and houses are in their full luminous spectacle, Ms. Yeong Ching Foo is alone at her desk, writing a letter to President Bush.

"Please call for the release of my fianc? Charles, a U.S. citizen," Foo writes. "Charles is imprisoned for his non-violent appeal for human rights, abused and tortured in communist China for his beliefs. Charles has been persecuted for over 700 days."

Lee, 40, was arrested and beaten minutes after his flight landed in southern China on January 22, 2003. The Chinese government accused him of planning to sabotage broadcast equipment, put him through a one day trial, and sentenced him to three years in Nanjing Prison, 170 miles west of Shanghai.

But Foo, 30, says her fianc?is a courageous man who risked his life to help others. She says that since arriving in China, Lee has been tortured and put through a show trial in which he couldn't even defend himself. Lee's purpose in going to China was to broadcast evidence of a covert campaign of persecution against Falun Gong practitioners in China, she says.

Since March 2002, Falun Gong practitioners in China have used the method of overriding broadcast signals to break through the state monopoly on information.

According to human rights groups Falun Gong, a popular and peaceful spiritual practice, has been subjected to persecution since it was banned in China in 1999. The Falun Dafa Information Center claims that over 1,188 Falun Gong practitioners have been killed in the state-run campaign, most through torture during forced conversion.

Dr. Charles Lee, a U.S. citizen and prisoner of conscience (www.rescuecharles.org)

Lee, a naturalized U.S. citizen from Menlo Park, California, is a Falun Gong practitioner himself. He is also a medical doctor and a member of Amnesty International Group 466. He graduated from the University of Illinois at Champaign- Urbana and conducted research at Massachusetts General Hospital before meeting Foo at a social gathering at Stanford.

Foo, who was born in Malaysia and graduated from the University of California Davis, has spent the last two years traveling across the United States trying to free her fianc? She has spoken at press conferences, written to elected officials, the President, and the ambassador to China. She attended both the Democratic National Convention and the Republican one hoping someone could help bring her fianc?back alive.

"It's wrong for him to be imprisoned, suffering physical and mental torture for so long. How long must I wait?" Foo says. "Charles needs to come back to the United States before it's too late."

Although the Chinese government claims that it treats all its prisoners humanely, U.S. consular officials in China have repeatedly protested the treatment Lee has received. Last week, State Department Consular Affairs Spokeswoman Kelly Shannon said that Lee appears to be tired and weak. Since Lee is refusing to sign a confession, the prison is forcing him to sit motionless for long periods of time watching Chinese government videos vilifying Falun Gong. This has taken place for some 50 days.

Lee's fiancée says that the Chinese government has tried brainwashing him since his arrest, hoping to "transform" him and make him give up his spiritual practice.

When Lee was first arrested, he was deprived of sleep for three days and nights and was handcuffed and tied with a rope in painful positions for as long as 130 hours. According to U.S. consular reports, Lee said he was beaten repeatedly and displayed bruises all over his body.

In order to protest what he called illegal detention and mistreatment, Lee wrote a letter of appeal to the U.S. Consulate. Much of the 96-page letter was written while Lee was handcuffed. The prison authorities, however, withheld critical pages of it.

In protest, Lee embarked on a hunger strike in order to demand that his letters reach the U.S. consulate in Shanghai so they could forward it to his fiancée in America. Only after enduring eight days on hunger strike and painful forced feeding via a hard plastic tube inserted into the nasal channel, did the prison authorities release the remainder of Lee's document in June 2003.

Immediately Lee's local Amnesty International chapter responded with a letter demanding his release. "Recent information accessed from China indicates that...basic rights have not been respected, that Dr. Lee's life is in danger, and that he is in urgent need for help," the letter states.

Many U.S. officials have also raised their concerns about Lee's imprisonment and abuse. In March 2003, Lee's representative, Congresswoman Anna Eshoo, and Holocaust survivor Congressman Tom Lantos wrote to the U.S. Ambassador to China. "The manner in which Dr. Li [Lee] has been treated is outrageous," the letter states. "We respectfully ask for your personal intervention on Dr. Li's behalf at the highest levels of the Chinese government. Dr. Li must be allowed to return home immediately to his fiancée, and resume his life here in the United States."

Yet the prison has continued abusing Lee, forcing him to glue shoes for long hours, causing him to feel nauseous from the intoxicating fumes. They then started forcing him to make Christmas tree lights for export.

"To me it's very ironic," says his fiancée. "I can't imagine what he's going through this Christmas and New Year, the second year he's spending the holidays in jail."

Dr. Sherry Zhang, founder of Friends of Charles Lee, says that although Lee has not yet been released, Americans' protests have been shown to improve Lee's conditions.

"Every time Americans raise a big outcry and the media and U.S. government start talking about this case, Charles' conditions improve dramatically," Zhang says. "I hope all kind-hearted people in the U.S. can help us rescue Charles."

http://english.epochtimes.com/news/4-12-26/25229.html

(Clearwisdom.net)

Information about Liu Jiahui:
Name: Liu Jiahui
Nickname: Xinzhu
Gender: Female
Age: 10
Nationality: Chinese
Birthday: February 14, 1994
Current school: Class 7, Grade 5 at Liumalu Elementary School, Siping City, Jilin Province
School address: South Liumalu No.118, Siping City, 136001
School fax: 86-434-3369943
School phone: 86-434-3387529
Original home address: Building 2, Gate 1, Apartment No. 512, Youhao Residential Zone, Zhihe Street, Chuanying District, Jinlin Province, 132012
Administrative police station: Zhihe Police Station, Chuanying District, Jilin Province Phone: 86-432-2122837
Current home address: Residential Building 1, Gate 3, Apartment No. 102, Siping City Thermoelectricity Plant, Jilin Province
Administrative police station: Simalu Police Station, Tiedong District, Siping City. Phone: 86-434-3535649
Guardians: Maternal Grandfather Yu Yongshen, Maternal Grandmother Fan Xiangyun (Retired)
Mother's brother and his wife: 86-434-6183953 (Home)
Grandmother Liu Shuzhen: 86-432-2130788 (Home)
Address: Building 2, Gate 1, Apartment No. 512, Youhao Residential Zone, Zhihe Street, Chuanying District, Jilin Province, 132012
Administrative police station: Zhihe Police Station, Chuanying District, Jilin City Phone: 86-432-2122837

Detailed information about Liu Jiahui:

Liu Jiahui is very bright and has had a superb memory from the time she was a small child. After she was born, she was taken care of by her maternal grandfather and grandmother, since her mother, Yu Lixin, suffered from several illnesses and her father was busy with his business.

At the age of three, Jiahui could read over 1,000 Chinese words. Little Jiahui was good at painting, and at the age of four obtained the third class prize in a painting contest named "Small Artists in River City," held by North Women's Magazine in Jilin Province.

In 1997, her parents took her back home because her mother, Yu Lixin, had begun practicing Falun Dafa and completely recovered from her illnesses. When Jiahui returned home at the age of five she also started to practice Falun Gong with her mother. In August 1998, her father also started to practice. The three family members studied the Fa and did the exercises together and shared experiences every day, and their family life was very harmonious. When little Jiahui obtained the Fa in 1997 at the age of five, she immediately read Zhuan Falun five times through on her own. Since then, she has never stopped studying the Fa and doing the exercises. She always sits in meditation for over one hour. She always persists until she is finished, and also does the other four exercises.

Five-year-old Liu Jiahui doing the "Falun Standing Stance" exercise

Jiahui participated in group exercises and group study every Sunday, regardless of whether it was very cold or very hot outside. Whenever little Jiahui encountered conflicts with her friends, she always looked within herself and lived up to the standard of the Fa. She not only read and memorized the book herself, she also encouraged her parents to study the Fa and upgrade their xinxing. She even saved the money she might have spent on new clothes or food and instead spent it on Dafa work.

On July 19, 1999, Jiahui went to Beijing with her parents and six other practitioners to appeal, having heard that Jiang's regime decided to ban Falun Gong. After they returned home, her mother, Yu Lixin, was forcibly subjected to frequent interrogations by officials from Jilin City's Committee and the city's General Workers Union, and her home phone hardly stopped ringing until midnight every day. Community officials and police officers repeatedly harassed her family. Faced with this, little Jiahui still insisted on cultivation and encouraged her mother, who had some fear at the time, "What do you fear? We didn't do anything bad." Little Jiahui's words encouraged her troubled mother. Jiahui's mother hence never compromised with the evildoers in any circumstances, and she firmly validated Dafa.

In September 1999, Jiahui's parents once again went to Beijing to validate Dafa. After they returned home, they were framed and designated as the leaders of Falun Gong practitioners. They were attacked on TV and in the newspapers, and were finally illegally detained. Little Jiahui was then forced to become separated from her parents and live with her maternal grandfather and grandmother in an uncle's home in Siping City. In July 2000, when little Jiahui once again was united with her parents, who had been unconditionally freed from prison, her first words were, "I want to go to Beijing to validate Dafa since I only went there once." Jiahui's parents were extremely moved by her pure heart and couldn't help bursting into tears.

In September 2000, Jiahui's father was illegally sentenced to a two-year-term in a forced labor camp because he went to Beijing to validate Dafa. Following that, in November 2000 her mother was illegally sentenced to a five-year term in the Heizuizi Prison because she made Dafa truth-clarifying materials. When Jiahui saw other children having fun with their parents, a little not-easily-detected distress would show up in her eyes. Confronted with the overwhelming lies and facing so many people who did not know the truth of Falun Dafa, Jiahui gradually became silent and never mentioned her parents to fellow students and teachers in her school.

Little Jiahui with her parents

On April 7, 2002 Mother Yu Lixin was tortured to near-death by the police from Heizuizi Prison. Jiahui, her maternal grandfather, and her uncle went to the hospital to see her. A sand storm that day was so strong that it was dark everywhere, and traffic was congested. They made it through all kinds of troubles to arrive at the hospital. Jiahui saw that her mother was at the brink of death, but her hands and legs were still tied to the bed with cloth strips. Two police officers, one male and one female, and two prisoners were monitoring her mother. She also saw that there was a scar on her mother's foot. Although 8-year-old Jiahui hadn't seen her mother for a long time, when she saw her mother in such a terrible state she was too frightened to approach her, and only watched silently from far away.

On May 13, 2002, Jiahui's mother was tortured to death in the Heizuizi Prison, Jilin Province. Having lost one parent's love and the opportunities for cultivation, little Jiahui became lonely, impatient, and self-indulgent. Sometimes she couldn't maintain her xinxing.

One time, three practitioners went to visit Jiahui. When one auntie [in Chinese culture, an auntie is a respected and beloved acquaintance] fellow practitioner told Jiahui how wonderful it was that Dafa was being spread so widely around the world, and that at present, practitioners needed to clarify the truth to the people and needed to make a large amount of truth-clarifying materials, Jiahui thought about it for a while and then took out her little piggy bank. She took out all her savings in the jar, gave it to the auntie and said calmly but firmly, "This is my savings from my New Year's gift and pocket money. Take it and spend it on making Dafa materials to offer people salvation!" Hearing little Jiahui's words, the fellow practitioners present all cried, being deeply moved by her pure heart.

When little Jiahui learned that there were Minghui Schools around the world, and that the students in these schools could publicly study the Fa and do the exercises, her eyes filled with pleasant surprise and she asked another practitioner, "When can we have our own Minghui School?" One practitioner answered, "It shouldn't be too long." The practitioners told Jiahui to diligently study the Fa and treat herself as a practitioner according to the standards of Dafa. Little Jiahui promised to follow everything they had suggested. She asked the three practitioners to send greetings to all the practitioners around the world, especially little practitioners. She also hoped that the little practitioners who can freely practice Falun Gong would cherish this precious time and circumstances.

Little Jiahui made excellent achievements in her school studies. Her maternal grandmother and grandfather, another grandmother, uncle, and aunt took out all their savings to support Jiahui's studies. Little Jiahui earned the yearly distinction "Students with Three Merits." During off-school hours she also took music lessons on the electronic organ. She has already passed the level 9 exam, the highest level in national amateur electronic organ exams. Whenever there were social activities in Siping City that needed organ accompaniment, the school would arrange for her to perform.

Various certificates and medals that Little Jiahui earned

Little Jiahui presently has a stable study and living environment. But her mother's death and her father's homelessness has hurt her deeply, which makes comforting her difficult.

Information about Yu Lixin, the mother of Liu Jiahui:

Name: Yu Lixin
Sex: Female
Date of Birth: May 29, 1966
Date of Death: May 13, 2002
Nationality: Han
Education: University
College degree: Economics Department, Jilin Agriculture University
Former Employer: Organization Department, Jilin City Worker's Union

Detailed information about Jiahui's mother, Falun Dafa practitioner Yu Lixin, who was tortured to death: Fortunate to find Falun Dafa, all her illnesses disappear

Yu Lixin was originally from Nong'an County, Jilin Province. She had been physically weak since childhood, and had many illnesses including neurasthenia, rheumatism, gastritis, gastroptosis, duodenal ulcer, heart disease, and other ailments. She started to work in 1990 and was married to Liu Hongwei.

Because of the stressful working environment, her health continued to deteriorate. In addition to her original illnesses, she developed rheumatoid arthritis, adnexitis, lower abdominal inflammation, peritonitis, myocarditis, irregular heartbeat, and other illnesses. She went everywhere looking for a cure but had no results. It was not uncommon for her to be hospitalized for eight months out of a year. Her employer spent tens of thousands of yuan each year for her medical expenses. Her family also spent over ten thousand yuan on her medical expenses each year.

Because Yu Lixin was weak and had many illnesses, she did not have any energy to take care of her family. The burden of taking care of the entire family was on her husband's shoulders. Because of the strained family environment her husband started to find other diversions. He drank every day, played the stock market, and played Mahjong continuously for several days and nights. All of these put their marriage on the verge of a divorce.

Yu Lixin had met countless medical experts in different areas, but her health still did not improve. The many intravenous injections made the back of both Yu Lixin's hands almost black, and she had several bags of Chinese traditional medicine at home.

In August 1997, Yu Lixin was fortunate enough to begin practicing Falun Gong. She got up early and stayed up late to learn the Fa and to practice the exercises. After three months, miracles started to happen. Her face, which used to be sallow, started to show some red color, and she stopped taking all the medicines that she had been taking for many years. She started to develop strength, and she could now help her husband take care of the family. Her family was then filled with joy once again.

Following the principles of "Truthfulness-Benevolence-Forbearance" to be a good person anywhere and anytime

Since the time Yu Lixin began Falun Dafa practice, not only did all her illnesses disappear, but her human principles were also changed. She often told the people around her, "My life was given back to me by Falun Dafa! I will purposely tell many more people about the miracles and magnificence of Falun Dafa."

Yu Lixin's photo

In her work, Yu Lixin strictly followed the principles of "Truthfulness-Benevolence-Forbearance" to be a good person. She did not take bribes, and she handled things fairly in her work. This helped more and more people understand that Falun Dafa practitioners are really good people.

She lived a thrifty and simple life, but every month she took half of her salary to buy Falun Dafa books, and gave them to other people. She also printed Master Li's Fa lectures and writings at her own expense for fellow practitioners. By then, the unit she worked in had more than a dozen fellow employees at different levels practicing Falun Dafa.

When the situation suddenly changed she went to Beijing to appeal. After being interrogated over a hundred times, her belief remained steadfast.

On July 19, 1999, When Yu Lixin's family of three, along with six other Falun Dafa practitioners, learned that a handful people in the central government decided to ban Falun Gong, these nine people, including six adults and three children, immediately went to Beijing to safeguard the Fa. They later returned safely.

The municipal Party committee and Jilin City government proposed a slogan to achieve a 100% reformation rate of the Falun Gong practitioners. Faced with this, many practitioners yielded against their own will under the overwhelming pressure.

Yu Lixin and another practitioner at her work were the only ones who declared that they would not give up Falun Gong practice. Then they became the focus at her work unit, and the municipal Party committee recorded their names. Those leading cadres tried all kinds of methods to "reform" them.

Yu Lixin was then taken from her work and sent to a brainwashing class. There she was ordered to write the "Three Statements." Leading cadres at different levels, along with psychologists and criminal experts spoke with her, individually and collectively, over eighty times. Her work unit organized people and held discussion forums, trying to "help" her several times. These were for one purpose -- to destroy her righteous belief and her will, and to force her to be consistent with the Central Party Committee when facing major issues. They even said it was OK that she pretended to be reformed, or lied about stopping Falun Gong practice. Facing such high pressure mental torment, Yu Lixin kept a clear mind. Her firm, righteous belief made all the personnel who were trying to "reform" her feel that their efforts were useless. Yu Lixin's home phone kept ringing until late at night. This drove her whole family to physical and mental exhaustion.

Facing the prolonged pressure around her, Yu Lixin's mental condition sometimes was not too good. She often came to work holding her head high, but after a whole day of "confrontations" she went home with her head bowed. At such times she found fellow practitioners with whom to study the Fa and to discuss things together that same night. After she understood the issues from the principles of the Fa, the next day she came to work again, holding her head high.

She went to Beijing again and was thrown into prison. She remained steadfast in cultivation, with rock-solid belief

On September 6, 1999, Yu Lixin went to Beijing to appeal. She shared experiences with fellow practitioners from other parts of the country and led the local practitioners in Beijing to come out to validate Dafa.

Local leading cadres and Beijing's Ministry of Public Security were alerted to her trip to Beijing. Later, people from the Ministry of Public Security determined Yu Lixin's location by tracking her cell phone signals. They abducted Yu Lixin and her husband from their rented residence in Beijing. The police handcuffed and chained Yu Lixin and her husband, and took them back to their hometown. When they were led off the train, the evildoers indulged in an unbridled publicity farce through the local media.

Yu Lixin and her husband Liu Hongwei

Yu Lixin and her husband, Liu Hongwei, were sent to the No. 1 Detention Center in Jilin City. Her family was brainwashed by propaganda. When they met with Yu Lixin, her brother slapped her face and her father cried and demanded that she sign a document to renounce her belief. During the illegal detention, Yu Lixin did the Falun Gong exercises openly and held a hunger strike to protest the persecution. She helped many inmates, including those who beat her, to learn the truth, and also helped many practitioners who had misunderstandings about Dafa by studying the Fa with them. Because of this, the guards decided Yu Lixin was "inciting people" and detained her in solitary confinement for many days. In December 1999, the Jilin City Public Prosecutor issued an unlawful arrest warrant for Yu Lixin.

At the No. 1 Detention Center in Jilin City, Yu Lixin held a hunger strike and persisted in doing the Falun Gong exercises. The guard and inmates brutally force-fed her and tortured her, but they still failed to stop her from studying the Fa, doing the exercises, and clarifying the truth. Her family gave her over 2,000 yuan at the detention center. During more than nine months of detention, Yu Lixin didn't spend any money on herself [food was provided by the detention center], but she spent more than 600 yuan to buy clothes and other daily necessities for inmates without family or who could not afford these items. She didn't even buy any utensils for herself, and used a broken fork to eat. The guards and many inmates saw the wonders of Dafa by watching Yu Lixin. Inmate Li Weijing was sentenced to one year of detention in early 2000 for financial crimes. She was held at the No. 1 Detention Center in Jilin City. She was appointed head of the cell because she was aggressive and domineering. She got to know many illegally detained Dafa practitioners and learned the truth of Dafa. She then started practicing Falun Dafa and was soon released. Many guards who learned the truth pretended they didn't see anything when they noticed Yu Lixin doing the exercises.

One time the head of Jilin City's Public Prosecutor's Office met with Yu Lixin and told her to give up Dafa practice, saying he would otherwise convict her and sentence her to a heavy prison term. Yu Lixin told him about the tremendous changes that took place in her after she began practicing Falun Dafa, and advised him not to persecute Dafa and Dafa practitioners and to build a bright future for himself. The head prosecutor was exasperated. He pounded on the table and shouted, "If you don't change your attitude, I'll give you a heavy prison term." Yu Lixin calmly and kindly said to him, "Although you are the head prosecutor, you can't determine my fate, because my Teacher arranges my path of life."

In late 1999, the Jilin Municipal Party Committee held a meeting and decided to expel Yu Lixin from the Party and fire her from her job, according to government policies. Within one week of the meeting, part of the conference room where the meeting was held was burned in a fire.

During her hunger strike, Yu Lixin was sent to a hospital. Her work unit, Jilin City Workers' Union, paid her hospital expenses and sent people to care for her 24 hours a day. The caretakers had the opportunity to talk to Yu Lixin and to learn the truth about Dafa. They sympathized with Yu Lixin and admired her outstanding courage. Some were worried about her, and some convinced the police to temporarily un-cuff her arms from the bed poles. Some bought fruit, food, and nutritional supplements, and asked her to eat them. Although people could not fully understand her actions, they were touched by her uprightness and bigheartedness. Some gave her the "thumbs-up" sign and said, "Yu Lixin is great!"

In July 2000 Yu Lixin was unconditionally released. She left the detention center because of her righteous thoughts and righteous actions.

Telling everyone about her experience

After returning home in August 2000, Yu Lixin went to the No. 1 Division of Jilin City's Police Department. She went to the two police officers in charge of her case and clarified the truth to them. The police said, "Do you know where you are? This is the division in charge of persecuting Falun Gong!" Yu Lixin smiled and said to them, "I risked arrest and came here for no other reason than to help you learn the truth." The police officers were touched by her kindness and did not arrest her. She left the police department with righteous thoughts.

She visited her colleagues and told them about the brutal persecution at the detention center, and she clarified the truth to her family. They realized she was persecuted and was doing the right thing by resisting the persecution. She visited relatives and friends and explained to them how great Falun Dafa is.

In August 2000, using her own money, Yu Lixin printed many truth clarification flyers. One Sunday morning, she and another practitioner who was just released from a labor camp distributed the flyers at the bustling Xiangyang Market in the Chuanying District, Jilin City. She told people who accepted the flyers to read through and cherish the opportunity to learn the truth. When she had one flyer left she said to the other practitioner, "This 'Letter to Police' must be given to a predestined person." It just so happened that a local police officer named Zhang Fuliang and his wife were walking by, and they took the flyer. Because Yu Lixin and the other practitioners were very calm with righteous thoughts, officer Zhang Fuliang left without causing any trouble.

Giving up the attachment to self and helping more practitioners to be diligent

Yu Lixin often organized group meetings to share experiences and to discuss issues with fellow practitioners. She encouraged other practitioners to step forward to uphold Dafa. She also risked arrest and went to the Heizuizi Forced Labor Camp seven times to visit former practitioners who had given up Dafa practice. Every time one of Master's scriptures came out, Yu Lixin memorized it overnight. The next day she would recite or deliver the scripture to the incarcerated practitioners. She encouraged those who had gone astray due to brainwashing and torture to return to their Dafa practice and make up for the blemish they put on Dafa.

Yu Lixin patiently listened and talked to fellow practitioners. She always let them finish, no matter how much they had to say. Once, in order to understand one practitioner who had given up his Dafa practice, she quietly listened to him talking about his understandings and feelings for one day and one night. Then she studied the Fa with him to raise his understanding of Dafa. As she talked to these practitioners, she analyzed the cause for their giving up Dafa practice and helped them find their fundamental attachments. She shared with these practitioners that there are still opportunities to make up for their mistakes. About 80% to 900f the ex-practitioners who talked with Yu Lixin returned to Dafa practice.

One practitioner who obtained the Fa very early in Jilin City didn't have a clear understanding of Fa rectification and practiced on his own. He didn't read articles on Minghui Net [Chinese version of Clearwisdom.net] and didn't step forward to validate the Fa, but he had great influence on the practitioners in the area. After learning of his situation, Yu Lixin and two other practitioners traveled on their bikes over ten miles into the mountains to meet with this practitioner, and it was past 8:00 p.m. when they arrived. They brought articles from Minghui Net and other materials. This practitioner was initially rude and didn't want to talk to them. The two other practitioners who went with Yu Lixin said, "We came all this way to help you, and you are trying to throw us out! Forget it! Let's leave." The atmosphere grew tense. Yu Lixin remained calm and said to this practitioner, "Do you think you can let me finish speaking?" She talked to this practitioner for over three hours. He finally wiped away his confusions and said, "Thank you so much!" They left the articles for this practitioner.

Several days later, this practitioner took more than ten practice site assistants and went to a Fa conference. Many practitioners started to step forward and validate Dafa after the conference.

Stepping forward again to firmly safeguard the Fa

In August 2000, as the persecution escalated, the Jilin Municipal Party Committee and the city police department listed Yu Lixin as the leader of practitioners in the area, and they closely monitored her and tapped her phone. In September 2000, Qu and Zhang, two officers from Division 1 of Jilin City's Police Department, along with two officers from the National Security Bureau broke into Yu Lixin's home. Yu and Zhang talked to Yu Lixin and her husband while the two officers broke into the bedroom, locked the door and installed monitoring devices. Yu Lixin discovered their scheme and confronted the police. She said, "Why are you violating my rights as a citizen?" The police couldn't answer and eventually they mumbled, "We can't help it because our superiors ordered us to do it."

On September 5, 2000, Yu Lixin and three other practitioners went to Beijing to validate Dafa. On September 29, police officers broke into an apartment where Yu Lixin and more than 30 other practitioners were staying. Yu Lixin stood at the door and blocked dozens of police officers who tried to barge in. She clarified the truth to them for over half an hour. Several police officers gagged her, carried her downstairs and put her in a car.

During the time she was illegally held at a police department in Daxing County, Beijing, she refused to give her name. The head of the police department ordered the officers to torture her. Six or seven young police officers beat and kicked Yu Lixin. They tied her to a column, yanked her hair and banged her head against the column. They stabbed her shoulders, knees, elbows, spine, fingertips, jaw, wrists and other parts of her body with needles, and then they burned her hands and body with cigarettes. They ordered her to kneel on the floor and "repent," and Yu Lixin refused. An officer around 30 years of age stood on a bed and jumped at Yu Lixin to kick her knees with his boots. Yu Lixin was not afraid in the least, and she stood there and didn't move while the officer kicked her three or four times. Then this officer took her to a small room and beat her, and ordered female officers to watch her. Yu Lixin grit her teeth and didn't give in, despite the violence.

Re-enactment of officers burning Yu Lixin's hands with needles stuck in them (drawn by another practitioner)

At around 4:00 a.m. the next morning, Yu Lixin left the police department while all the police officers were sleeping. After she left the room she saw a ladder next to a wall in the courtyard. She climbed the ladder and got out of the yard. She went to the home of a practitioner in Beijing. Many of the practitioners barely recognized her. She had wrapped her head with a piece of torn cloth and her body was covered in blood. She had hurt one foot from jumping over the wall and was limping. She kept in touch with many practitioners in Beijing and Jilin City. She picked many of them up at the train station when they went to Beijing and saw them off when they returned to Jilin City. She returned to Jilin City after she recovered.

She spoke with fellow practitioners and encouraged those who stayed home to step forward to validate Dafa. After many discussions, some practitioners went to Beijing and some started distributing flyers. Yu Lixin also helped practitioners who had misinterpreted Dafa and given up the practice, to return to Falun Dafa practice.

Sentenced to five years of imprisonment for making Dafa truth clarification materials

At the end of October 2000, Yu Lixin and another Falun Dafa practitioner, Liu Mingwei, bought a computer and a copier and started making truth clarification flyers. On November 22, personnel from the Jilin City Police Department arrested them. No matter whether it was at the police station or the detention center, Yu Lixin incessantly told people the facts about Falun Dafa. At the Zhihe Street Police Precinct in the Chuanying District of Jilin, the policemen pushed her onto a table and bound her with several ropes encircling her body. She could not move.

On the evening of November 22, the two practitioners were sent to Jilin's No. 1 Detention Center. Yu Lixin started a hunger strike and refused to have a nutrient infusion. Time and again she pulled out the infusion needle. Each time she was forced to have an infusion, several criminals forcibly held her down and pushed the needle in for over two hours. They would not release her until the infusion was over. Even though the criminals tortured her, with her pure, compassionate mind, she still tried to help the criminals realize their good nature. One of the inmates suffered from stroke. Every time she used the toilet, she got the urine and stool outside the urinal. Sometimes she really made a mess in the toilet. Yu Lixin cleaned the toilet every time and helped her to change clothes. Yu Lixin was soon sentenced to a five-year prison term. Liu Minghui was sentenced to three years of imprisonment. Yu Lixin kept telling the judge the true situation of Falun Dafa and how wonderful Falun Dafa is.

On May 31, 2001, Yu Lixin and Liu Mingwei were handcuffed and shackled together and taken to the Heizuizi Women's Prison in Jilin Province where they continued their hunger strike. The police in the prison bound them to the "Dead Person's Bed." (1) Yu Lixin kept clarifying the truth about Dafa to those who came to check on them. She went on a hunger strike to protest the sentence and requested an appeal. The guards pulled her body into four directions with ropes around the clock for two days. She was also subjected to brutal force-feeding during those two days. The police force-fed her with brine and highly salted corn porridge. On the third day in the prison, Yu Lixin's heartbeat was only 38 beats per minute, so she was sent to the Public Security Hospital in Jilin Province.

The doctors in the hospital forcibly subjected her to an infusion, but Yu Lixin strongly resisted. If they injected her left hand, she pulled the needle out with her right hand. When they injected her right hand, she pulled out the needle with her left hand. The guards bound her hands to the bed with handcuffs and ropes, but she struggled out of the confinement quickly and continued to pull out the needles. The police tried to tie her to the bed again and again, but she struggled to get out of it again and again. The doctors then tried to inject her foot when her hands were bound with rope and handcuffs. They put a needle in one of her feet and bound her other foot with rope and cuffed her. Yu Lixin stayed on her first hunger strike continuously for 28 days, and the second hunger strike for over 30 days. Guards force-fed her by inserting a tube through her nostrils into her stomach. Each time they pulled out the tube it was stained with blood.

Yu Lixin's third hunger strike lasted for four months. At the beginning, the police forbade her from getting out of bed, because as soon as she got up she would practice the exercises. They tied Yu Lixin to the bed with rope and handcuffs and forcibly injected and force-fed her. Yu Lixin was forbidden from using the toilet, and she had to urinate on the bed. The police laughed at her. Later, they even forbade her from using the toilet when she wanted to defecate. It happened to be summer time and the bed smelled very bad. In addition, the force-feeding left corn porridge all over her face. Yu Lixin could not wash. Flies came and landed on her face; however, Yu Lixin could not move at all. As time went by, it smelled even worse. It was not until then that the guards moved Yu Lixin and her bed into the hallway. Three layers of bedding underneath her were stained. Urine and stool extended from her hips to the back, from her shoulders to the neck. Urine was all over behind her head. Her whole body was immersed in the excrement.

During that time, the police tried to use a bladder catheter when Yu Lixin was restricted onto the bed. It didn't work because the tubing was very thick. When they tried to insert the tubing in a brutal manner, Yu Lixin suffered a lot of pain. As a result, she could not control her bowel movement. Thus, she was immersed in the excrement for two months. Later, higher-ranking leaders came to inspect the hospital, and the hospital staff had to remove the three layers of bedding which were severely stained. They ordered Yu Lixin's fellow practitioners to help Yu with toileting.

After Yu Lixin was sent back to the Women's Prison, she was allowed to get off the bed. The purpose was to allow her to digest food. Half an hour later, the police bound her to a wooden chair with ropes and restricted her movements in an attempt to prevent her from spitting out the food during force-feeding. It didn't work, so they bound Yu Lixin to a bed again. Then they used a big dental tool to forcibly open her mouth widely, blindfolded her, and used a spoon to force feed her. The spoon was also used to prevent her from breathing so that the food could get in. Yu Lixin strongly resisted the force-feeding. She didn't swallow anything. She held her breath. As soon as the spoon was removed, she spit out the food with all her strength. The food burst out onto everything -- Yu Lixin's face, hair, the force-feeder's body, and the bed. They could not force-feed her much food in one day. Then, the police put the big dental tool in her mouth 24 hours a day. When it was removed, Yu Lixin could not close her mouth. The police threatened her, "If you go on a hunger strike for one day, we will force-feed you for one day. You continue for one year, we will force feed you for one year. You continue for five years, we will force feed you for five years!"

Because Yu Lixin could not move, she decided to yell out to validate Dafa and let everyone know she didn't do anything wrong. She hoped everyone who could hear her might get to know Dafa, to know how she was persecuted so as to expose the evildoers. When a prison supervisor heard what she was yelling, she wept twice. Whenever Yu Lixin heard footsteps outside, she started to yell out, to tell people the truth about Dafa.

After getting out of the prison with righteous thoughts, the police kept harassing her family

On September 21, 2001, Yu Lixin was sent to a hospital for treatment. When she got home, her weight was reduced to only 90 pounds. On October 8, 2001, Wu Zeyun, the prison's deputy warden Li Jian, the deputy department head of the administrative section of the prison, and several other policemen went to Yu Lixin's brother's home to harass his family. They didn't find Yu Lixin. That same night, Li Jian called Yu Lixin's home phone number and asked her about her health.

On the morning of October 9 at 7:50 a.m., Wu Zeyun, Li Jian, and several policemen went to Ms. Yu's place, trying to arrest her again, but she was not at home. The police interrogated her mother and mother-in-law, and forced the two elderly women to go out and look for her. Another policeman whose family name was Li was waiting outside the building. A police van was parked beside him. There were several policemen in the van. The two elderly women didn't find Yu Lixin. The police forced her mother to write down all of Ms. Yu's whereabouts in those days.

In less than a month, the police went to Yu Lixin's brother's place again, trying to capture her. The police searched every room. At that time, Qu Zhuohui, Ms. Yu's sister-in-law, was asleep after a night shift at work. She woke up from the noise the police made. They searched several rooms and didn't find Yu Lixin. When they left they duped her brother by saying, "We just dropped by to take a look."

Twenty days later, prison guards broke into her brother's place for the third time. They didn't find Ms. Yu. Then they asked her parents and brother to tell them all of her relatives addresses. Ms. Yu's mother refused with stern words. The police also went to Yu Ze's (Yu Lixin's brother) workplace to harass him. Yu Ze's supervisor spoke with him and asked him about his sister's situation. Yu Ze told them that his sister was a good person, that she cultivated herself in accordance with "Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance," and that she had changed tremendously for the better after she started to cultivate Falun Dafa. Not only had she become very healthy, she was awarded "good worker" status at her workplace every year. The police didn't find any clues at Yu Ze's work unit. Later they lured Yu's father, Yu Yongshen, to show up at the Sima Road Police Station for interrogation. They were aided and abetted by their accomplice, Zhang, a police officer from the Sima Road Police Station.

In November 2001, Wu Zeyun, Li Jian and others went to Yu Lixin's apartment for the second time. The police searched every room and even opened the wardrobes to check. When they failed to find Ms. Yu, they told her family hypocritically, "We came to check whether she has recovered or not. If she needs money, we would give it to her for medical care." They left the prison phone number and threatened Yu Lixin's mother-in-law, "As soon as Yu Lixin comes back home, report to us immediately. Otherwise, we will arrest you as well!"

Keep on studying Dafa. Maintain a compassionate heart toward others

As soon as Yu Lixin escaped from the prison and returned she didn't take a break. She slept for only four to five hours a day, studied the Fa during the day and read Minghui articles day and night. Many fellow practitioners and her colleagues came to visit her and spoke with her. Some offered to give her some money. She always gratefully declined. If she couldn't refuse, she would use the money to make truth clarification materials. Although she had financial difficulty in her daily life, she would not use a penny from others for herself. She looked very healthy and energetic, with fair skin and rosy cheeks. It was hard to imagine she just got out of prison and had been on hunger strike for a long time. Dafa's extraordinary power was manifest through her.

When Ms. Yu was at the truth clarification production site, she was even stricter with herself. Because the money came from fellow practitioners, she ate plain food to save money as well as to save time. Every night she went out to post truth clarification material. She was always strict with herself and never lowered the requirements for herself because she was involved in truth-clarifying materials preparation. In early 2002, when time allowed, she sent forth righteous thoughts at the top of each hour.

Once during a Fa study and sharing, Ms. Yu said, "I don't want to be arrested again. No more!" Fellow practitioners felt it wasn't quite right, but didn't pay much attention, not to mention raising the issue with her that it was not a righteous thought. Master told us,

Before the 2000 Spring Festival, the police again ordered her arrest. Although exposing herself to the great danger of being arrested, she went to the Chaoyanggou Forced Labor Camp in Changchun to give Master's new article to her husband. After the Spring Festival she went to visit her husband a second time to tell him the Fa rectification situation everywhere. She encouraged her husband to continue to cultivate. She even recited Master's new articles in front of the police. Before she left, she made the Heshi to her husband with a smile in front of many people. It was the last time the husband and wife saw each other.

The police harassed Ms. Yu's family even when she was dying

Jilin City offered a 50,000 yuan reward for the capture of Yu Lixin. On March 5, 2002, she was arrested again. The three policemen who arrested her each received 5,000 yuan cash reward.

This arrest on March 5, 2002 was carried out by the police from Lianhua Police Station in the Changyi District of Jilin City. They had been hiding and waiting around her home. She was sent to the Zhihe Police Station in Chuanying District, Jilin City. Later she was imprisoned at the Fourth Brigade, at the Chuanying Police Department. She was subjected to the torture methods called the "Big Hang Up" (2) and the "Tiger Bench." Then she was sent to Jilin City's No. 1 Detention Center.

Yu Lixin went on hunger strike and refrained from drinking fluids to resist the persecution. On March 8, she was sent to Heizuizi Prison again. She continued her hunger strike to resist the persecution. When her life was in danger, the prison hospital authorities feared that they would be held responsible for her death, so they transferred her to the Bethune Hospital in Changchun. The prison staff called Ms. Yu's family several times and told her family members to go to Changchun and take care of her in the hospital. However, they didn't allow her mother to go, because her mother is also a Falun Dafa practitioner.

On April 7, Yu Lixin's father and brother went to the hospital to visit her. That day, there was a sandstorm that covered the sky and the ground. Buses stopped service, and they had to take a train to the hospital. When they arrived, her father discovered that Yu Lixin was dying and urged Ms. Yu's mother to rush to the hospital. Her life was in danger, however, her hands and feet were bound to the bed even at this critical moment. A male and a female police officer and two criminals were there as guards. When Ms. Yu regained consciousness, she told her mother that as soon as she moved just a little bit, the criminal would slap her. The prison hospital doctors injected her with nerve-damaging drugs. Each time they injected the drug, they cut open a vein on her foot. Her mother saw a one-inch long scar on her foot. Yu's mother, brother and daughter didn't have a place to sit down when they took care of her at the hospital. Her eight-year-old daughter had not seen her for a long time. But she didn't dare to come close to her because the tragic scene scared her. Ms. Yu's mother took care of her dying daughter for only one day. The police drove her family members away and transferred her to Public Security Hospital in Jilin Province as soon as Ms. Yu recovered a little. They didn't allow her family to take care of her, even though she was dying.

Ms. Yu's family was heart-broken and extremely worried. Her mother and brother feared that she could be tortured to death and begged policeman Li Jian to allow family members to take care of her. Li Jian tried to stall them and told them, "You can write a letter to the Administrative Bureau of Prisons in Jilin Province for approval." Ms. Yu's father immediately wrote such a letter. It was not until ten days later that the staff from the bureau replied to their letter.

The prison police called Ms. Yu's family, ordering them to help "reform" her. By then, Yu Lixin had been sent back to the Heizuizi Prison Hospital. When Yu's mother and mother-in-law saw her again, she was tied up with both hands stretched upward toward the ceiling, and her feet were tied to a bed. She was also being given injections of unknown drugs. The police made arrangements for the two elderly women to live outside the prison in an empty house in extremely terrible condition. There was no water and no electricity. Every morning when the police went to work, the two elderly women followed them into the prison hospital. When they were off duty, the two women followed them to go out. When they were inside the prison hospital, the police strictly monitored them, the same way they treat criminals. Even when they went to eat they could not go together. Their health could not withstand such suffering. They often got colds or fevers and had to go back home.

On May 10, 2002, the prison police called the family again and told them that Yu Lixin was severely ill and was transferred to the Bethune Hospital. They asked the family members to go to the hospital. Ms. Yu's family rushed to the hospital, only to find Yu Lixin crouched in a small cart in the hallway on the third floor, unconscious. It took them a long time to arrange for her hospitalization. Yu Lixin was reduced to a skeleton and remained unconscious. The two elderly women waited by her bed for three days and didn't dare to leave. Medication didn't have any effect. On May 13, at 10:20 in the morning, after 66 days of painful suffering, Yu Lixin died as a result of torture inflicted by Heizuizi Prison personnel.

In order to fabricate lies, the police broke into the ward to take pictures of Yu Lixin's body. Yu Lixin's mother had seen enough of their wicked tricks and went all out to resist the police. The policemen had to stop.

Soon, Yu Lixin's body was wrapped in a piece of cloth and taken away. The police forced Yu's mother and mother-in-law into a police van and sent them to the Heizuizi Prison office. They were forced to sign the cremation application form. When Ms. Yu's family members asked to change Yu Lixin's clothes, they found that Yu's body had not been sent to hospital reposing room. Rather, her body was directly sent to the prison, because the police wanted to save money and cover up their crime. Her body was placed in an empty room. She was unclothed for that entire night and was only covered by a piece of white bedding sheet. On May 14, at 8 o'clock in the morning, the prison used three police vans and seven policemen as an escort for Ms. Yu's family to take her body to the crematorium for unauthorized cremation. A police officer forged Ms. Yu's death certificate. He signed a non-existing family member's name, "Cui Fuqin."

After cremation, Yu Lixin's mother-in-law went back to her original dwelling in Jilin City. Before she opened the door, she was met by Jiang Quan, Jilin City's political chief from the Zhihe Police Station and local police officer Zhang Fuliang, who had been waiting for her at her doorway. The policemen interrogated Yu's mother-in-law, "Who was present at Yu Lixin's cremation? Did any Falun Gong practitioners go to the crematorium?" Yu Lixin's mother-in-law denounced them bitterly. The police left because they themselves knew they were doing wrong.

The police forged a family member's signature. Yu Lixin had no relative whose name was "Cui Fuqin."

Details about Liu Jiahui's father Liu Hongwei

Name: Liu Hongwei
Gender: Male
Age: 39
Nationality: Han
Date of Birth: October 19, 1966
College: Jilin Medical College
Degree: Bachelor of Medicine

Details about the persecution of Liu Hongwei

Liu Hongwei started practicing Falun Gong in August 1998. On July 19, 1999, Liu traveled to Beijing to tell the government of Falun Gong's benefits and returned home safely.

On September 6, 1999 he again went to Beijing to petition for Falun Gong and was arrested. On October 11, police from Jilin City took him back to his hometown. Jilin City newspapers and radio stations falsely claimed that Mr. Liu and his wife Ms. Yu were leaders of Falun Gong. After three days in a police station, Mr. Liu was transferred to Jilin City's Number Three Detention Center where he spent the next 42 days.

In June 2000, Mr. Liu was unlawfully arrested again during a conversation with other practitioners at Meihekou, Jilin Province. After 28 days of detention, police failed to produce any evidence and released him without charging him.

On September 6, 2000, Liu Hongwei went to Beijing for the third time. He was arrested in Daxing County, Beijing. After spending over 20 days in Daxing County's Police Station, he was sent to the Zhihe Police Station in the Chuanying District in Jilin City in October. Later, police chief Jiang Quan and Zhang Fuliang from Zhihe Station forced him to accompany them to the Number Four Criminal Police Team in the Chuanying Police headquarters. The police handcuffed Mr. Liu to a metal chair for 17 hours. He wore scant clothing and the weather was cold. They interrogated him using violence. Later yet he was detained at Jilin's Number 3 Detention Center for a month before being sentenced to two years of forced labor. He served his sentence in the Huanxiling Forced Labor Camp in Jilin City.

While in Division No. 4 at the Huanxiling Labor Camp, Liu Hongwei persisted in following the principles of Falun Gong. One time he and other practitioners did the Falun Gong exercises together. Guard team leader Yu Wenzhi, guard Zhao and two other guards brutally beat him. Despite such harsh treatment, Mr. Liu and fellow practitioners demanded their unconditional release without delay. To punish their defiance, police locked them up in small cells for seven days.

On March 27, 2001, Liu Hongwei was transferred to the Tonghua Forced Labor Camp. There he resisted the evil persecution using righteous thoughts, and refused to do slave labor. He also motivated the practitioners who compromised with the evildoers to change themselves and correct their errors.

On December 24, 2001, Liu Hongwei was transferred to the Chaoyanggou Forced Labor Camp in Changchun City. He stayed in Division One and later in Division Three. During this time he was subjected a violent torture called "Tough Battle" twice. Policeman Li Jun shocked his anus with electric batons and beat him with a heavy wooden club. He was also subjected to other long-term physical abuses and mental torments. After his term expired, police held him 50 days beyond his term, and then finally had to let him go.

Once home, Liu Hongwei immediately joined in the effort with fellow practitioners to clarify the truth and offer people salvation.

On September 16, 2003, police again abducted Liu Hongwei. The perpetrators were officers named Sun Zhuang, Liu Guoping, Tang Aijun, and Guo Qiang from Jilin City's 610 Office, from the National Security Branch, and from Yunheli Station, Changyi Police Precinct. Chief Wang Jiali, policemen Guo Qiang, and Liu Yuhe at the Yunheli Station tortured him extremely violently. He was injured so severely that he was near death. Police sent him to Jilin City Hospital for emergency treatment. Three days later Liu Hongwei escaped from the hospital. He is presently still in hiding to avoid arrest.

Yu Lixin's former employer:
Jilin City General Worker's Union
47 Songjiang Road. Fax: 86-432-2024241. Chairman's office: 86-432-2025512, 86-432-2069030, 86-432-2031729, 86-432-2023128, 86-432-2031730
Disciplinary office: 86-432-2027801, 86-432-2021869, 86-432-2023428
General office: 86-432-2031869 2024091

Other related agencies:
Jilin Municipal Party Committee
86 Beijing Road, Postal Code: 132084, Operator: 86-432-2010113, 86-432-2010114, Hotline: 86-432-2010200
Party Committee Management Department: 86 Beijing Road, Postal Code: 132084, Fax: 86-432-2010000, secretary's office: 86-432-2010207
Jilin City Political Security Office: 86 Beijing Road, Postal Code: 132084, General office: 86-432-2010465, secretary's office: 86-432-2010458

Jilin Women's Prison
Address: Jilin Province Women's Prison, Heizuizi, Changchun City, P.O. Box 1048, Zip Code 130000
Prison Telephone: 86-431-5375089, Prison Hospital: 86-431-5375084, 86-431-5375008
Wu Zeyun, Deputy Warden in charge of reforming: 86-431-5375004
Li Jian, vice section chief, prison political section: 86-431-5375007
Xu Guangsheng, Warden. 86-431-5375001
Gao Mingya, Deputy Warden, 86-431-5375002
Wang Jie, Deputy Warden, 86-431-5375003
Zhao Xijun, Prison Party Secretary, 86-431-5375005
Tang Yajuan, Assistant Section Chief, law enforcement section, 86-431-5375010
Wang Jinghua, Director, Prison General affairs, 86-431-5375038

Jilin Province Police Headquarters
Address: 51 Beijing Road, Post Code: 132011, fax 86-431-2454682
Operator: 86-431-2409221, Police Chief's Public Line: 86-431-2409110 & 2488110
General office: 86-431-2454682
Police Discipline Section: 86-431-2409110

Jilin Chuanying Police Branch
100 Jiefang Road, Zip code: 132012, Phone: 86-431-2026300
Public Line: 86-431-6962905
Director's Public Line: 86-431-6962787
Zhihe Police Station: 86-432-2122837
Station Chief: Jiang Quan
Policeman Zhang Fuliang: 86-13314362004 (Cell)

Zhihe Residential Management Office
Party Secretary: 86-432-2127153
Office manager: 86-432-2139616

Notes:

(1) Dead Person's Bed - The four limbs of the practitioner are stretched out and tied to the four corners of an icy-cold metal bed. The practitioner cannot move at all. Neither is he allowed to get up to eat, drink, or use the bathroom. This treatment would last from several hours up to more than a dozen days. This type of cruel torture causes severe damage to the practitioner both mentally and physically.

(2) Big Hang Up - There are two forms in this torture: (1) With both hands cuffed behind the back and only toes touching the ground, one is hung by a rope that is tied to the metal window frames. (2) One hand of a practitioner is cuffed to one bunk bed and the other hand to another bed, and the two beds are pulled in the opposite directions. One feels extremely painful as the body is pulled.

(Clearwisdom.net) Ms. Wang Yumei is a Falun Gong practitioner from Hanpaozi Village, Jiatun Town, Gongzhuling City, Jilin Province, China. She was abducted from her home on September 24, 2004, and then incarcerated in Heizuizi Forced Labor Camp in Changchun City, under the watch of its Third Team. There she has been suffering from cruel tortures. When Ms. Wang started a hunger strike as a nonviolent means to protest the illegal detention and tortures, the staff tortured her with forced-feeding (1). As the result of the brutal force-feedings, Ms. Wang's mouth began to fester and three of her teeth (bottom incisors) became loose. When the repeated tortures brought her to the brink of death, Ms. Wang was sent to the Jilin Provincial Hospital for emergency resuscitation. The following photographs were taken ten days after she was released from the hospital.

Immediately after Ms. Wang Yumei was thrown into Heizuizi Forced Labor Camp on September 28, 2004, she was locked in a small cell where the Intensive Watch Brigade of the Third Team continuously tortured her. The prison guards had collaborators (former practitioners who have turned against Dafa due to torture and brainwashing) take turns brainwashing her each day. In order to accelerate the brainwashing, the prison guards also forbade Ms. Wang from speaking to anyone else. Thus Ms. Wang Yumei started her hunger strike to protest the forced brainwashing. During the 14 days of hunger strike, she was subjected to the brutal torture of force-feeding. The Captain of the Third Team, Ms. Fu Yufen, disciplinary staff, Ms. Du Juan and Ms. Jin Lihua, and Doctor Sha participated in the force-feeding.

Beginning on October 8, 2004, Ms. Wang Yumei was taken to the torture chamber every day where a group of female prison guards tried to force her to renounce Falun Gong using violent means. They repeatedly beat her, kicked her, and took turns shocking her using electric batons of 10,000 volts. Wang Yumei's body was covered with terrible bruises that remained dark purple for many days. The perpetrators kept torturing her in this fashion for a month, until November 10, 2004.

During that month, the female prison guards also deprived Ms. Wang of sleep. They made her stand facing the wall from 5:30 a.m. to 11:00 p.m. or midnight. Towards the end of the month, they extended the standing torture to 3:00 a.m. and even to dawn. Ms. Wang felt unbearable pain in her feet. They were so swollen that they wouldn't fit into her shoes. In fact, her leg muscles had developed pitting edema. When the guards failed to force Ms. Wang Yumei to renounce Falun Gong, they prepared a pre-written "Five Statements" for her to sign (including the dissociation statement, repentance statement, Guarantee Statement, renunciation statement, etc.). They placed the "Five Statements" on the desk in the torture room, and ordered Ms. Wang to put her signature and fingerprints on them. When Ms. Wang refused their demand, the female guards jumped on her and started to torture her. Ms. Jin Lihua lifted her shirt and shocked her body with an electric baton. Guard Shen Minglian (female) pinched her hard. Guards Zang Li, Liu Hui, Du Juan, and Xi Guirong (all female), pressed Ms. Wang against the ground and immobilized her. Then another two female guards moved the prepared "Five Statement" under Ms. Wang Yumei's right hand, and tried to force her to scribble her signature and to press her fingerprints on the statements. Then they announced, "Wang Yumei has renounced Falun Gong." In a whole day of coercion, they couldn't make her "sign" the "Five Statements." They forced her hand to scribble on one statement each day in this fashion. It took five days for the prison policewomen to forge Wang Yumei's signature and fingerprints on all "Five Statements" in this fashion. (This is how the prison police "create" the news that Falun Gong practitioners have "renounced" Falun Gong.) After the week of the "Five Statements" fiasco, the female prison guards started the next round of torture of Wang Yumei.

In the afternoon of October 11, 2004, Jin Lihua, Du Juan, Shen Minglian, Liu Hui and Zang Li subjected Wang Yumei to tortures in an attempt to make her renounce Falun Gong. They taped her mouth, tied her to the bed, and then violently beat her using a wooden plank while shocking her with high-voltage electric batons. Next, they dragged Wang Yumei to the health office to give her shots. Captain Fu Guifen kept cursing her during the torture.

On October 13, 2004, they took Wang Yumei to the torture room and kept torturing her for a full morning. When they realized that Wang Yumei was steadfast in her belief in Falun Gong, they decided to escalate their torture. On the next day, Jin Lihua forced Wang Yumei to sit on the cold concrete floor in the freezing autumn of northern China, in the full lotus position (both legs crossed, folded on top of each other --

a standard posture for Falun Gong's sitting meditation). They completely deprived Ms. Wang of sleep and made her sit on the concrete floor in this posture around the clock. They had two collaborators monitor Wang Yumei. Anytime she tried to put her legs down, the prison guards would beat and kick her. Female guard Du Juan continuously kicked Wang Yumei hard whenever she put down her legs. Wang Yumei was afraid to move. Du Juan also slapped Wang Yumei's face. When the slapping injured Wang Yumei's mouth and caused bleeding, Du Juan blamed the injury on Wang Yumei. She said shamelessly, "It's all your own doing! You bit your own tongue!"

Any time Wang Yumei closed her eyes in exhaustion, Ma Yan (a female collaborator from Jilin City) called her name loudly to keep her awake. Ms. Wang Yumei was having her menstrual period at the time, but they still made her sit on the cold concrete floor without a mat. The coldness of the floor made her waist and legs all the more painful. They also forbade her from wearing her shoes. Wang Yumei tried to put her shoes under her hips as a sitting mat, but Captain Xi Guirong would not allow it. She denied Wang Yumei of any type of mat. Thus Ms. Wang Yumei was forced to stay awake while sitting with both legs on top of each other on the cold concrete floor around the clock during the six days of her menstrual period. During the six full days and nights, she was forbidden to brush her teeth, wash, bathe, or change clothes.

Ms. Wang Yumei started to fail and become absent-minded. She even lost her appetite and in the end could not eat on her own. Instead of giving her medical attention, Captain Fu Yufen ordered the prison guards to torture her with force-feeding. On the morning of November 15, 2004, Du Juan coaxed Ms. Wang Yumei to the health office with a lie, and started torturing her with punitive force-feeding. First, the female prison guards threw Ms. Wang Yumei to the ground. Next, Captain Xi Guirong used her weight to keep Ms. Wang's abdomen and legs still while female prison guards, Hu Yan and Du Juan, as well as some staff members from the health office, stepped on Ms. Wang's arms with their feet and pried her mouth open with a pair of pincers. Ms. Wang's three bottom incisors became loose as the result of the torture. Next, they forced a plastic tube into her nostril, injuring her nose and mouth. Ms. Wang spewed a lot of blood that turned the floor red. Her hair and clothes were covered with corn porridge, mucus and blood. It was an unbearable sight.

On November 17, 2004, Xi Guirong ordered Wang Yumei to go downstairs and submit again to the punitive force-feeding torture. When Ms. Wang refused to comply, Xi Guirong, Hu Yan, Du Juan and Jin Lihua dragged her downstairs by force. They pulled her by her legs, with her head hitting the floor. Although Ms. Wang tried to resist, they dragged her across the floor all the way to the health office. During the process, Ms. Wang's clothes became torn and filthy, and her upper body was exposed to the cold wind.

The prison police tortured Ms. Wang Yumei with force-feeding in this fashion twice a day. With each punitive force-feeding, they were slowly killing her. Ms. Wang was subjected to force-feeding from November 15 to 26 until she was on the brink of death and had to be rushed to the hospital for emergency resuscitation. While in the hospital, Ms. Wang was tied to the bed and given glucose infusions. She had a high fever and was unconscious most of the time. The nurse had to assist her when she needed to relieve herself.

The following women participated in the punitive force-feeding that almost claimed Ms. Wang Yumei's life: Hu Yan, Gui Juan, Xi Guirong, Jin Lihua, nurses Luo and Jin, and two other unidentified nurses.

The continuous punitive force-feeding torture resulted in Ms. Wang Yumei developing a high fever and caused her digestive system to malfunction. Her stomach was bleeding, her throat was swollen and in a lot of pain. She suffered from severe abdominal pain. Her mouth cavity was festering and three of her incisors were loose. She was unable to eat anything. She could not stop crying and her eyes were swelling. Her nose was swollen and in pain. She had a terrible headache. Because the liquid contents of the force-feeding was frequently spilled on her face and neck and was not wiped up afterwards, the skin on her face and neck has now become like goose flesh. Because Ms. Wang was subjected to the "Death Bed" torture for a long period of time, her limbs are numb and painful. Wang Yumei is dying, and has been sent to the Jilin Provincial Hospital for emergency resuscitation.

Partial list of prison personnel participating in the torture of Ms. Wang Yumei:

The Third Team: Captains Fu Yufen, Xi Ruirong, and Shen Minglian

Disciplinary staff: Du Juan, Jin Lihua, Hu Yan, Liu Hui, Zang Li (who claimed to have stabbed Ms. Wang's body with needles), Sun Jia

Medical staff: Dr. Sha, Dr. Guo, Dr. Luo and two unidentified nurses.

(1) Force-feeding is the number one cause of death among Falun Gong practitioners in detention. Almost every Falun Gong practitioner who has gone on a hunger strike in forced detention has suffered from abusive forced-feeding. Many practitioners not on hunger strikes have also been tortured using this method. The purpose of criminal force-feeding is never to nourish, but rather to punish practitioners and to cause so much pain that they will renounce their belief in Falun Dafa. To that end, the police have used many different methods to cause excruciating pain and injury, including: repeatedly inserting and withdrawing the feeding tubes, leaving the feeding tube in the stomach for long periods of time, knocking off teeth during force-feeding, force-feeding highly concentrated saline solution, vinegar, hard liquor, hot pepper oil, mustard oil, boiling water, as well as urine and feces. Many Falun Gong practitioners who have survived the repeated torture of force-feeding are still suffering from the severe injuries the forced feeding has done to their organs.

(Clearwisdom.net) My name is Yuan Jinliang and I live in Qingyan Village of Fuping Town. I was reported to the police on June 8 when I was clarifying the truth to the people, telling them that Falun Dafa is good. I was arrested by police from Chengguan Police Station and sent to the Baoding Forced Labor Camp in the afternoon. All these years, the police officers here have persecuted, to different extents, several hundred practitioners. The persecution methods commonly used are electric shocks and "Cuffing and hanging up." (1)

The second day I was there, they used electric shocks on me. In a small room, my hands and legs were fixed to the four corners of an iron bed so that I couldn't move, even a bit. Then two people, one on each side of the bed, used electric batons to shock me.

There was a young practitioner from Sichuan Province named Wang Chunde who was once bound to the bed. Four people, each holding an electric baton, shocked him simultaneously. After the shocks, they bound him with even more ropes, including one around the stomach and one around the legs. He remained bound in this manner for more than two weeks.

Dafa practitioner Liu Wenbo from Zhuozhou City was locked up in a small cell and prohibited from contacting anyone. He was allowed to have a shower before October 1. When he undressed, it was really shocking to see that his whole body was covered with round black scabs, and his back was covered with a large body of scabs.

Dafa practitioner Hu Jinbiao from Wangdu County was tortured to the extent of losing consciousness in March of this year. They then put him in a room where the windows were covered with newspapers, so no one could see inside. The next day the guards went there to check, and found Mr. Hu still unconscious without any signs of movement. His eyes were so swollen that he wouldn't have been able to see even if he did regain consciousness.

These facts constitute only part of the complete picture of what happens inside the labor camp. For the past several years, camp authorities have persecuted countless practitioners. They dared to be so cruel because they were carrying out orders issued by Jiang, including "Ruin their reputations, bankrupt them financially, and destroy them physically," and "It is not a crime to beat them to death, just say they committed suicide."

Note:

(1) Cuffing and hanging up - With the hands cuffed together, both feet off or only toes touching the ground, one is hung from a basketball support or the beam of a building by the handcuffs. The hands and arms soon become numb.

(Clearwisdom.net) The Heilongjiang Province Women's Labor Camp, formerly known as the Harbin Substance Abuse Rehabilitation Center, is an interim "transformation station" set up as a provincial labor camp for the brainwashing of Falun Gong practitioners. Most of its wardens participate in the systematic persecution of practitioners.

Since its establishment several years ago, this labor camp has been active in the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners, forcing them to watch videos and read books slandering Falun Gong and even to give answers on their test papers that slander and defame Falun Gong. They also deprive the determined practitioners of sleep. These high-pressure tactics are ongoing. Team captain (now the warden of the labor camp) Zhang Ping, administrative department head Yang Yushan (in charge of extending prison terms), and instructor Ning Lixin have been in charge of directing police officers Niu Xiaoyun, Zhang Yushu, Liu Zhujie, Zhao Wei and Li Quanming to participate in the persecution.

In July 2002 when practitioners first entered the labor camp, they would be brought to the conference room, stripped of their clothes, and subjected to the so-called "security exam" totally naked. This was to search for Falun Gong articles written by Teacher that the practitioner might have brought and also for any money that they might have. Later on, these security examinations on the determined practitioners were carried out in front of everyone on the team.

The determined practitioners were not allowed to sleep and were subjected to intensive brainwashing until 11-12 p.m. and again at 4 a.m.. This could last as long as three months. Some practitioners who refused to co-operate would be taken to a storeroom and handcuffed to the shelves for nine days. Some practitioners who refused to recite the labor camp regulations would be required to stand with their hands cuffed to a radiator behind their backs in such a way that they could neither squat nor stand up straight, and they had no room to move their head or shoulders. After a while they would lose consciousness.

After November 12, 2002, the persecution intensified. The head of the labor camp, Chen Guiqing, made it clear that day at a meeting, "The determined practitioners must be transformed by whatever means available." After the meeting, Zhao Wei, the former general team captain and now the captain of the third team, Li Quanming, the former second team captain and now the fourth team's instructor, instructor Ning Lixin, the third team's instructor, Niu Xiaoyun, the fourth team captain, Sun Baolian, Zhang Yushu and Liu Wei personally directed the extensive persecution of the detained Falun Gong practitioners. At the same time, the police under their command, Sun Yanxiu, Liang Xuemei, Zhang Liwei and others stepped up the mental torment on those who had been brainwashed.

The police took each of the determined practitioners down to the basement, one by one, to be tortured. Their methods included the following:

In November 2003, practitioner Ms. Tong called out "Falun Dafa is good" on the drill ground, and was mercilessly tortured to death by police officers Liu Zhujie and Li Quanming. Practitioner Sun Xuelian from Ningan was forced to squat for seven months. Every day she was tortured from 5 a.m. to midnight and given only two meals a day. Later she went on hunger strike for two months and was subjected to the "iron chair torture," causing her serious injuries. She died in 2004 shortly after being released.

These brutal tortures filled the basement with the constant sounds of beatings, weeping and cries of misery. Some practitioners sustained paralysis of the lower limbs, while others developed numbness of their limbs and face, deterioration of their vision, and loss of teeth. Some had boils and ulcerations on their legs, resulting in the loss of tissue and deep scarring.

(Clearwisdom.net) In order to try to force Falun Gong practitioners to give up their belief, the Chaoyanggou Forced Labor Camp in Jilin Province has adopted various kinds of inhuman methods to torture practitioners.

"Hanging as an airplane"

"Hanging as an airplane" is a torture method used on practitioners who refuse to renounce Falun Dafa. The practitioner's hands are twisted behind his back and tightly tied. The rope that tied his hands together is hung from the crossbeam of a bunk bed, so that the practitioner's feet can barely touch the ground and all of his weight is on the wrists. His clothes are pulled up to cover his head. The police then use electric batons to shock his armpits, each shock causing a spasm and severe pain. Once a spot on the body is burnt and worn out by the electric shock, they then switch to another place and continue the electric shocks until the practitioner loses consciousness. By the time they are released from the hanging position, many practitioners' arms are broken already.

(Clearwisdom.net)

Teacher cured my heart disease

In 1989, my store was very prosperous. Suddenly, I was diagnosed with angina pectoris and fainted twice. In order to live out my life, I closed the store. On December 21, 1994, I was fortunate enough to attend the 5^th Fa Lecture Session in Guangzhou City. On the first night of the lecture, Teacher cured my heart disease. The practitioner sitting next to me said, "I have followed Teacher and have attended eight Fa lecture sessions. This is my first time seeing Teacher treat a heart disease. You are predestined. Cultivate well." At that moment, Teacher made two hand gestures to the standing practitioners and asked them to stamp their feet. He also had the other half of practitioners stand up and stamp their feet. Teacher did another two hand gestures. I could not bring myself to believe: Has the sickness that I have endured for so many years been cured? Time flies, and it has been ten years since that lecture session.

During the persecution, the police were trying to "transform" us. They strapped heavy stones to practitioners' bodies and made them run. I was ordered to run carrying a heavy bag of soil on my back. They would beat us if we didn't run quick enough. Even after all these tortures, my heart disease never recurred.

Teacher eased our emotions

On the night of December 28, 1994, the Guangzhou Lecture Session ended. Teacher said to us, "My visa is ready." All of us knew Teacher would travel around the world to introduce Falun Gong. We did not know when we would be able to see him in the future. During the eight days of lectures, Teacher taught us the universal law and cleansed our bodies. When it was time to say goodbye, everybody was feeling sad. When all practitioners rose to see Teacher off, the applause was really intense. The energy field and my feelings were indescribable looking at Teacher walking towards the door. Our hearts were pumping, and tears filled our eyes. Teacher seemed to not want to leave us in dismay. He turned back and made two hand gestures to everybody. The applause slowed down, as we could not detain him anymore. Teacher then walked out of the lecture hall. I started to understand the meaning of his hand gestures. Teacher wanted to ease our emotions to help us cultivate well.

(Clearwisdom.net)

1. My Understanding of Clarifying the Truth in Manhattan, New York

I have been to Manhattan twice during which I have gained some experiences and understandings that I want to share with everyone.

It is effective to clarify the truth about Falun Dafa and the persecution in the subway

Before I went to New York at the end of November, I read a fellow practitioner's article commenting that it was very effective to let people know the facts to people while they were on the subway. The practitioner commented that is easier as these people are not walking, allowing them to focus on reading the materials that we give them.

On one occasion when I was distributing materials to people on the train a man standing in front of me said, "Have you read today's 'New York Times'?" Seeing that I hadn't read it, the man told me that the article explained why practitioners hold anti-torture exhibits, and that the article would help lots of people come to a clearer understanding of such activities. As the train was arriving at my station, the man asked people nearby for a copy of the "New York Times." I thanked him and wanted to give him some materials explaining what Falun Dafa is and what the persecution is, he said with a smile, "I already have one." I then proceeded to hand out the materials to the people around us, who all responded with a smile. They told me that they had either already taken one, or had just heard the conversation between myself and the gentleman.

I came to realize that whilst chatting with people those who were nearby could also hear me. Before I got off the train, I felt a very compassionate energy field. Clarifying the truth about Falun Dafa and the persecution in the subway trains is a very effective and is something that we should use to its fullest extent.

Compare ourselves with fellow practitioners, abandon our notions, pay more attention to our mindsets whilst letting people know the facts

I left where we were staying early in the morning and returned in the late afternoon. In the evening I joined group Fa study and experience sharing with other practitioners from Taiwan and North America. I find group study really beneficial.

Seeing fellow practitioners' pure and righteous attitude in validating the Fa and their deep understanding of the Fa, I came to realize the notions I still held onto. For example, for two consecutive days, I was told to distribute Falun Dafa related materials at the same location. This made me feel awkward as I didn't want to distribute materials to the same groups of people. With the absence of my righteous thoughts, I did not distribute a lot of materials that day. During the experience sharing, a fellow practitioner mentioned that what we are doing is the most righteous thing and commented that the compassionate field we have when we clarify the truth benefits every single person who meets us. I suddenly enlightened to the fact that I had forgotten this basic point of saving sentient beings. On the next day, I was again assigned to the same location which was at the entrance of the subway station. With a righteous mentality, I found many people who had previously refused to take the materials had changed their attitude and accepted them.

Another practitioner was talking to someone who knew the truth about Falun Dafa and the persecution. In the past, whenever people asked me how to help us, I usually repeated what I was told, "You can write to your president and congressmen and senators, ask them to help to stop the persecution of Falun Gong." After that, I did not have much to say. Then one day, I met a lady who was saying that she had many friends from different groups who can write to senators and congressman. I asked her, "Would you like to have a bunch of flyers for your friends?" which she gladly accepted. Now my attitude towards clarifying the truth is very flexible.

It has been five months since practitioners from around the world have started to hold activities to let people know the truth about Falun Dafa in the Manhattan area of New York. Although many people understand the facts of Falun Gong and the persecution, lots of white-collar people still don't. I hope that we can work harder and do better on the three things we are requested to do. I hope that we can have greater wisdom towards our activities and stronger righteous thoughts so as to save more people.

2. Experiences of Taiwanese Practitioners Who Took Part in Activities to let More People Know the Truth About Falun Gong in Manhattan (Pictures)

Falun Dafa Practitioners' Determined Hearts and Persistence Awakens People in Manhattan