Clearwisdom.net, Friday, February 02, 2007

(Clearwisdom.net) After near half a year's continuous investigation, Canadian investigators Mr. David Matas and Mr. David Kilgour have more evidence to support the allegation of the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) organ harvesting from living Falun Gong practitioners. On the morning of January 31, the two investigators released their revised report, "Bloody Harvest - Revised Report into Allegations of Organ Harvesting of Falun Gong Practitioners in China". The revised report expanded the previous 18 considerations to 33.

The revised report contains 16 new items of proof and disproof, including interviewing organ recipients, the large number of practitioners tortured to death or missing, large-scale construction of organ transplantation centers in China after the persecution, profit-making by China's military and medical system, the difference in ethics and law between China and other countries, the development of organ transplantation technology, and the large numbers of unidentified Falun Gong practitioners in detention.

(Clearwisdom.net) Since the atrocities of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) harvesting organs from living Falun Gong practitioners for profit were exposed to the public in March 2006, the international community have paid great attention to and condemned it. Two Canadian independent investigators, former Canadian MP and Secretary of State for Asia and Pacific David Kilgour and international human rights lawyer David Matas, released their detailed investigative report in July 2006 after two months' investigation. Their investigation verified this allegation. On January 25 to 26, 2007, at the invitation of Alberta Falun Dafa Association in Canada, David Kilgour, David Matas, and the director of the Association for Asia Research Mr. Erping Zhang held two forums in Edmonton and Calgary. They held a discussion and exchanged opinions with the attendees on the CCP's harvesting and selling organs from living Falun Gong practitioners, human rights issues in China and other aspects. All attendees were shocked at the CCP's brutal persecution of Falun Gong.

According to David Kilgour, the forum themed "Human Rights, Rule of Law, Justice and Illicit Organ Snatching and Transplant Crimes in China," is one part of David Matas' and his global speech tour on "Illicit Organ Snatching and Transplant Crimes in China." At present, Matas and Kilgour have traveled to four continents, including countries and regions, such as Taiwan, Hong Kong, Korea, Japan, Malaysia, Australia, the United States, the United Kingdom, Denmark, France, Swiss United Nations Human Rights Commission and other places to present their reports. The audience and the media have given them positive responses. Many government officials have expressed serious concerns to the CCP officials regarding harvesting organs of living Falun Gong practitioners that is happening in China.

At the forum, Mr. Erping Zhang gave a speech first. He talked about the current situation of the CCP regime undermining traditional culture and persecuting groups of different beliefs. He introduced to the audience the CCP's suppression, damage and destruction of religious beliefs and traditional culture in the past several dozen years. Since the CCP started the persecution of Falun Gong on July 20, 1999, many cultivators have died as a result of the persecution. Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Zhao Xin was one of those who have died as a result of the persecution for appealing for Falun Gong. The persecution is still going on. As it is investigated, organs of Falun Gong practitioners were harvested while they were still alive. The police, public security, and the military all have participated in the organ trafficking. The CCP's constitution claims that people enjoy freedom of belief, freedom of speech and freedom of assembly. But the actual situation is not so. If you exercise these freedoms, you will meet with trouble.

Matas analyzed the CCP's constitution and legal system and expressed that the CCP is actually a one party dictatorship. He further pointed out that in mainland China, it is an indisputable fact that there are a large number of Falun Gong practitioners whose organs have been harvested while they were still alive. Since the release of the "Report into Allegations of Organ Harvesting of Falun Gong.

Practitioners in China" in July last year, during the following six months, they have done further evidence collection work, and the new investigative report will be released at the end of January. Matas also pointed out that the Chinese government's recent claim that "a large number of organs are from executed prisoners" is not valid. He found that the annual number of executed prisoners is very stable, but it is unexplainable that the number of organ transplants has been soared since the persecution of Falun Gong in 1999.

Mr. Liu who is a PhD candidate at the University of Calgary exposed the CCP's brutal persecution of Falun Gong with his own experience. Before arriving in Canada in 2005, he had been arrested and detained numerous times by the CCP police and had to suspend his schooling. Physical torture and mental torment put him in an endless painful situation, as it continues to today. He said that Falun Gong practitioners who have been illegally arrested and detained by the CCP do not have any life guarantee at all. He particularly pointed out that while being illegally incarcerated in prisons, all Falun Gong practitioners are forced to have a comprehensive physical check-up, including blood types, conditions of all vital organs and so on. After the exposure of organ harvesting from living Falun Gong practitioners, he came to understand that Falun Gong practitioners who have been illegally incarcerated have been taken as a bank of live organs. He still remembered some Falun Gong practitioners whom he had met in detention centers. They had gone to Beijing to appeal on behalf of Falun Gong. They only wanted to tell their experiences of physical and mental benefits after practicing Falun Gong, but the police arrested, detained, and beat them. The practitioners firmly refused to tell the police their names and home addresses (they didn't want to implicate their relatives and friends into the CCP's persecution). Later, some practitioners disappeared. It was said that they were sent to specially-built concentration camps, which are the CCP's banks of organs for transplantation. Mr. Liu's wife is still illegally incarcerated in a prison in Beijing. Since he came to Canada, Mr. Liu has been unable to directly contact her for a long time. Mr. Liu's personal experience touched many people at the forum. Many people extended regards to him after the forum and wished him to be reunited with his family soon.

More than a hundred people attended the forums held at the University of Alberta and the University of Calgary. These people included provincial MLAs, democrats, university teachers and students, researchers from hospitals and some people who are concerned about the human rights issues in China. They also had a discussion with speakers on CCP's human rights issues, stopping the persecution of Falun Gong, boycotting going to the mainland China for organ transplants and some other issues.

After the forums, MLA of Alberta Bharat Agnihotri said while having an interview with reporters that it was the first time for him to hear that organs of Falun Gong practitioners have been harvested while they were still alive. It is horrifying. He thought that Falun Gong is good for health, governments should support and promote it. He said that stopping the persecution is not only a matter of the federal government, as international citizens, we are all responsible to speak out, and the governments should also use diplomatic means to help stop the crimes.

When talking about the issue that some Canadians are concerned that human rights diplomacy may affect trade with China, he said he did not worry about the conflict between human rights and trade. He would like to talk about this matter (the CCP's live organ harvesting) with other MLAs, and help Falun Gong student groups make reports or hold forums for provincial MLAs.

(Clearwisdom.net) A public judicial review of hate crimes perpetrated by Chinese Consulate officials in Calgary was presented on January 25, 2007, at Alberta High Court, Calgary. Regarding the decision made earlier by the Attorney General of Alberta that the charge against Chinese Consulate officials for disseminating hate propaganda was not valid, renowned international human rights lawyer David Matas and Ms. Shirish Chotolia submitted a joint appeal. Falun Gong spokesperson Zhang Erping said that he believed that the Canadian government and the judge would handle this case lawfully.

In June 2004, an Edmonton Falun Gong practitioner witnessed two officials from the Calgary Chinese Consulate handing out the propaganda materials hostile to Falun Gong at a local conference. He reported to the police, who conducted an investigation on the materials. On June 23, 2005, after a year of investigation, the police finally submitted an investigation report to the Department of Justice and confirmed that the booklets handed out by the Calgary Chinese Consulate were hostile propaganda. This has been deemed illegal.

Hate crime laws fall under Canada's Criminal Code and mainly refer to systematically spreading certain speeches, rumors, or selective information to harm groups divided according to race, complexion, religion or ethnicity. Constable Stephen Camp of the Hate Crimes Unit of the Edmonton Police said that "these booklets constitute a breach of the hate crime law under Section 319.2 of the Criminal Code of Canada, the law banning the 'willful promotion of hatred' against an 'identifiable group.'" The materials, largely distributed by the Chinese Consulate officials, are full of information slandering Falun Gong.

International human rights lawyer David Matas said: "Canada should not allow itself to become a platform for global promotion of hatred. What is happening in Edmonton is happening all over the world where China has a Embassy or Consulate, and every police service should react in the way Edmonton police have acted to stop hate against Falun Gong."

Constable Camp said, "The Chinese government is defaming and persecuting members of Falun Gong across the country [Canada]. Alberta could be the first province to lead the way, to say enough is enough!"

Matas pointed out that Constable Camp's investigation report is unprecedented in Canada. The police had never before conducted such an investigation of a foreign consulate in Canada. "Even though the Edmonton police confirmed through an investigation that the Chinese Consulate was spreading hostile propaganda, the Alberta judge made the judgment to dismiss the charge. I think it is not right. Currently, we are waiting for the decision from the High Court. If they sustain the original judgment, we will continue to appeal to the court." He hoped that the court would reach a verdict that recognized that "the decision of the judge of Alberta does not conform to the facts and that the charge against the Chinese Consulate officials is valid." The High Court's verdict on the hate propaganda case is very important, and he hoped to stop the slander of Falun Gong within Canada.

Falun Gong spokesman Zhang Erping said, "I believe the Canadian government and the judge will deal with this case lawfully. It is not only a matter of judging lawfully, but also a matter of people from different countries being able to bravely stand up and stop the propaganda of an evil regime unscrupulously spreading its lies around the world."

(Clearwisdom.net) On January 31, 2007, practitioners in Malaysia went to the Prime Minister's office to call for the the government's attention to the CCP's atrocity of removing organs from living Falun Gong practitioners. They also submitted copies of the fourth batch of petition signatures. The practitioners obtained more than 4,000 signatures this time. They have obtained a total of more than 10,000 signatures from the Malaysian public to call for an end to the CCP's brutal persecution of Falun Gong practitioners.

Practitioners in Malaysia hold a rally in front of the Prime Minister's office to call for attention to CCP's atrocity of organ removal from living Falun Gong practitioners.

The practitioners called on the Malaysian government in particular to help stop the persecution. Last December, the Ministry of Health indicated an intent to revise rules on organ transplantation to prohibit the organ trade. The practitioners called on the government to revise the rules to prevent Malaysian people from receiving organs from unknown sources in China. They indicated that the Malaysian government should pay attention to the voice of those 10,000 people and take measures to help stop the CCP's atrocities.

The rally started at 10:30 a.m. After submitting a report and a copy of the signatures, the practitioners held banners condemning the CCP's live organ removal. The banners caught the attention of police and government officials, who stopped to read them. A reporter from the Malaysian newspaper Kosmo came especially to cover the event after hearing about it. After listening to practitioners' explanation, the reporter became very understanding and asked for contact information and to be notified in the future for similar activities.

The signatures were collected on a petition that calls on the World Health Organization and International Olympic Committee to investigate the CCP's atrocity of live organ removal. In addition, the practitioners also sent copies of the signatures to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Health, and the Ministry of Youth and Sports, and strongly requested their attention to this issue to help stop the persecution.

The signatures were collection all over Malaysia. With their signatures, kind-hearted people expressed their wish for a timely end to the persecution to the Malaysian government and international organizations.

(Clearwisdom.net) On January 28, 2007, Falun Gong practitioners from the Taoyuan Area held a monthly group Fa-study and experience sharing gathering. After the activity, practitioners took photos and wished benevolent Master a Happy Chinese New Year.

After reading Master's new articles, practitioners shared their cultivation experience. A young practitioner said that people pay attention to practitioners' speech and behavior. Her classmates noticed that her behavior is very righteous, so they all have a positive impression of Dafa and practitioners. Sometimes they would help her to clarify the truth of Falun Dafa to other people. This practitioner is glad that her classmates will have a wonderful future, meanwhile she realized that practitioners' speech and behavior is very important to saving people.

One practitioner, who helps Chinese people to quit the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) online, shared his experience. He said that we should not have attachment to how fast we can convince people to quit the CCP, and we should be patient when doing it. One practitioner shared his experience of maintaining his xinxing when other people complement or criticize him. One practitioner told a story: one day she got a phone call from Mainland China. A Chinese person asked her if she gambles. She said "no" and told the person not to gamble. After hanging up, she told herself that the phone call was not a coincidence and she should clarify the truth to that person and convince him to quit the CCP. So she called back and clarified the truth to him. That person didn't want to quit the party at the beginning. She said: "How about you quit the party with the name--'very happy', because you will obtain true happiness after quitting it and be happy forever." That person, then, said: "All right, please help me to quit the party with this name."

Practitioners shared experiences of how to work together and look inward when conflicts occur. Everybody felt that as the trend of Fa-rectification moves forward, our cultivation environment is getting better and better. Our opportunities to cultivate and save people are getting fewer and fewer. We should cherish this opportunity and cultivate well and save more people.

Another year of cultivation has passed. We thank Master for His benevolent salvation. We wish Master a Happy Chinese New Year.

GRIM TIDINGS: Former Canadian Secretary of State for Asia-Pacific David Kilgour presents a revised report about continued murder of Falun Gong practitioners in China for their organs, as report co-author lawyer David Matas listens in the background, on Jan. 31, 2007. (Matthew Hildebrand/The Epoch Times)

- Chinese Regime Admits To Organ Harvesting From Prisoners Wednesday, January 24, 2007

- Report into Allegations of Organ Harvesting of Falun Gong Practitioners in China Friday, July 07, 2006

- David Kilgour: Is Peace Just Wishful Thinking? Monday, January 15, 2007

- VIPs Call on China to Allow Investigation Into Organ Harvesting Sunday, December 24, 2006

- Despite New Law, Illegal Organ Harvesting Continues in China Saturday, January 27, 2007

- Religious Freedom and Falun Gong in China Saturday, December 09, 2006

"We believe that there has been and continues today to be large-scale organ seizures from unwilling Falun Gong practitioners," conclude the Canadian authors of a controversial report on organ harvesting in China, in its revised version introduced in Ottawa on January 31.

After releasing their original report on July 6, 2006, authors David Matas, an international human rights lawyer, and David Kilgour, the former Canadian Secretary of State for Asia-Pacific, have traveled to almost 30 countries to conduct further research and publicize their findings.

They've received many comments, some criticism and a great deal of additional evidence since publishing the report, Matas said at a press conference on Parliament Hill. They've also been in contact with many witnesses, he added. The new report, entitled "Bloody Harvest," presents an "even more compelling case for our conclusions."

Matas said the new report aims to answer criticism leveled against the original report and present new information. It will also produce a more analytical framework to the discussion, he said.

More important, Matas added, is to work to stop organ harvesting from happening by putting precautionary and preventive measures in place.

"These are not in place in China, nor regrettably around the world," he said, where the "basic main source of demand for this ghoulish product" exists.

The 65-page report, over 20 pages longer than the original, is comprised of 33 topics that were considered, 16 of which are new.

The new report sheds light on the state of health and military financing in China. Both rely on money made from illegal organ transplants to make up for budget shortfalls, says the report.

The report also addresses how foreign states fund citizens who go to China for transplants. The report contains interviews with organ recipients from various countries and discusses the treatment of Chinese death-row prisoners.

Details of new undercover phone calls to hospitals in China, where hospital staff incriminate themselves, are also included. There is also more evidence to indicate there are large numbers of detained Falun Gong practitioners who refuse to name themselves and then just disappear.

The report cites 41,500 unexplained organ transplants from 2000 to 2005--the 6-year period since the persecution of Falun Gong began in 1999--that do not come from convicted executed prisoners, the brain dead, or family donors.

"Falun Gong practitioners that simply get killed and [their organs] sold to the highest bidder--these are the people we are trying to protect," said Kilgour. The report authors suggest a series of ways to discourage foreigners, who account for a significant number of the organ transplant recipients in China, from seeking organs there.

Foreign states should enact extra-territorial legislation to penalize citizens who receive an organ that was not freely given, said Matas. Moreover, until China stops the practice of organ harvesting from prisoners there should be "no contact with Chinese transplant professionals through training, conferences, or research."

The report authors had other recommendations: doctors should discourage patients from obtaining transplant surgery in China; drug companies should stop sending transplant surgery-related anti-rejection and other drugs to China; and foreign states should ban the export of such drugs to China.

Matas said citizens who get commercial organ transplants abroad should not get reimbursed or get aftercare funding. "Taxpayers should not be paying for that care," he remarked.

The report went a step further and recommended that foreign countries bar the entry of doctors or anyone known to be involved in the practice of organ harvesting.

During the press conference, Kilgour and Matas focused on their home country of Canada as an example for some of their recommendations.

"There is no doubt that Canadians are among those going to China from many parts of the world for transplants," the press release stated. Kilgour called it "organ tourism." He said he and Matas have recently obtained confirmation from hospitals in Toronto, Vancouver, and Calgary that Canadians are going to China for transplants.

Matas emphasized that Canada should issue travel advisories telling Canadians going to China for organ transplants that they may think they are getting an organ from an executed murderer but "in all likelihood" they are getting the organ "from someone who has done nothing wrong." Travel advisories should warn that organ sources in China consist "almost entirely from un-consenting prisoners, whether sentenced to death or Falun Gong practitioners."

According to anecdotal information, over 100 Canadian patients are going to China, Matas said. What's worrying, he added, is that it appears the trend is accelerating in Canada, whereas in Australia and other countries the trend is declining, partly due to publicity surrounding the original organ harvesting report. They urged the Canadian government to gather proper national statistics on this phenomenon.

Matas and Kilgour have also asked the Canadian Council for Donation and Transplantation to inform them of the extent of Canadian travel to China for transplants. Last week they learned that some provinces require such patients needing aftercare to indicate where their operation occurred. They urge the Canadian government and doctors to make more effort to tell people of the situation of organ seizures in China.

Mr. Wang Xiaohua, a former engineer from Yunnan province, spoke at the press conference as a witness of the systematic blood testing of Falun Gong practitioners in Chinese detention.

He was imprisoned for two years in a forced labor camp in China. He said that in January 2002 every Falun Gong practitioner there received a physical examination, including liver and kidney tests and blood testing.

"Obviously not for health reasons, because we were tortured and treated badly," he said. Tests were not done on other prisoners. No one understood the reason, he added, and it was not until news about organ harvesting came out that "we started to have an idea."

The Olympics should be used "as a lever to get [Chinese authorities] to stop this terrible practice," Kilgour told The Epoch Times.

"The reason it is happening is that we have a totalitarian government combined with what I call 'carnivore capitalism' where anything goes, and it shouldn't surprise people to know that this unimaginable practice is happening," he said.

Kilgour believes the International Olympics Committee should "start to make some very stiff demands on China," starting with stopping organ harvesting immediately. He added that if the organ harvesting does not stop, thousands and thousands of people will arrive in Beijing in 2008 with badges saying "Stop Persecuting Falun Gong" or "Stop Organ Snatching."

"Their reputation will be in complete disgrace."

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Canada and other countries should discourage or prevent their citizens from going to China to get human organs whose "donors" may have been killed so that the organs could be harvested, a team of human rights lawyers said on Wednesday. Former Canadian Secretary of State for Asia-Pacific David Kilgour and lawyer David Matas presented a report they say leads to the inescapable conclusion that Falun Gong dissidents and other prisoners in China are killed for their organs.

"Once a customer arrives into China, somebody's killed for the organ, whether it's a prisoner sentenced to death or a Falun Gong practitioner, and they just have this huge supply of people in jail waiting to be killed for organ donations," Matas told reporters.

He said that was one reason China was seeing an explosion in dedicated organ transplant facilities. The number of liver transplant facilities, for example, multiplied to 500 last year from 22 before 1999.

Matas estimated that at least 100 Canadians have gone to China for transplants although many might not know about the allegations that people are killed for their organs. He suggested Canada and other countries should issue travel advisories warning that transplants are sourced almost entirely from prisoners who do not give their consent.

The report also called for legislation that would make it illegal for Canadians to participate in an organ transplant without getting the donor's consent.

Chinese Deputy-Health Minister Huang Jiefu called last November for a network to register all organ donations in what would be a step toward regulating the transplant market. Jiefu said that most organs came from executed prisoners rather than from traffic fatalities.

Matas said none of these prisoners would have given their consent, and even if they had, such consent would have been suspect. He said that the United States bans the use of organs from executed prisoners for that reason.

"We shouldn't be complicit in it," Matas said. "If we can impact on the demand, then we can be saving the lives of these people who are executed for their organs."

(Clearwisdom.net) Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Cui Hongyan from Daqing City, Heilongjiang Province, was illegally arrested on November 1, 2006. Officers from the Tieren Police Department in Daqing City participated in the arrest. She was taken to the Daqing City Detention Center where she has been held for nearly three months. Saertu District Court in Daqing City tried her on December 12, 2006. The court adjourned after examining and discussing the case. Saertu Court announced after January 1, 2007, that Cui Hongyan was sentenced to three years in prison.

Ms. Cui appealed the verdict and went on a hunger strike to protest the persecution. The hunger strike has lasted one month. Wrapped in a quilt, she is carried back and forth twice a day at the detention center for nasal force-feeding. She now suffers from stomachaches, and there are traces of blood in her vomit. Her eyes are bloodshot. She is skin and bones and she is too weak to move by herself.

Officials from the Heilongjiang Province Department of Public Security went to the Daqing Detention Center. Cui Hongyan's family took the chance and also went to see her. Detention Center head Yang Baomin said, "We have orders from above; we cannot let you see her!" Her family said, "Cui Hongyan is ill from persecution. We must see her. Who is responsible if she dies?" Yang Baomin said, "Cui Hongyan is fine right now. If anything happens to her, we will call you." Ms. Cui's family has never been allowed to see her since her arrest and detention.

(Clearwisdom.net) Ms. Wang Yuhong is a Falun Dafa practitioner from Jiamusi City in Heilongjiang Province. She has been illegally detained twice at Jiamusi City Forced Labor Camp over nearly six years. She only wants to be a good person and she believes in "Truthfulness, Compassion, Tolerance." She witnessed and experienced many criminal acts of tortures and lies at the Jiamusi City Forced Labor Camp.

She exercised her human rights in October 1999 by going to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong. On her way to Beijing, she was arrested and returned to Jiamusi City for detention. A week later, 13 Falun Gong practitioners, including Ms. Wang, were tied up and put on "trial." Ms. Wang was sentenced to three years of forced labor camp. Some of the practitioners got only two-year sentences. She was taken to Jiamusi City Forced Labor Camp on November 13, 1999.

Falun Dafa practitioners are brutally persecuted and tortured at Jiamusi City Forced Labor Camp. They did forced labor for more than ten hours per day. They were only allowed to sleep three to four hours a night. Some practitioners saw what was printed on the bags of "food" they had to carry: it was chicken feed by 152,153 manufacturer. More than 30 people were given only a five-minute restroom break and many could not get their turns within the time limit.

Even under these conditions, the practitioners continued to study the Fa and do the Falun Gong exercises. Once the guards of the 7th unit snatched Teacher's lecture notes, so all the practitioners went on a hunger strike to protest. They retaliated by forcing the practitioners to stand still against the wall for a whole day without speaking. Then Zhao Tieshi, the female unit leader, and director Zheng Liyan organized doctors and guards to force feed the practitioners the next day. They were totally evil and inhumane. They mixed uncooked corn flour into strong salty water. The practitioners were dragged, one by one, to a special wooden frame and force-fed through a nose tube. One day the practitioners did group exercises together. That night Liu Hongguang gathered more than 10 guards to break into the 7th unit's female room at 11:30 p.m. like bandits. They beat all the practitioners with rubber sticks. Practitioner Ms. Song Xiuyun's arm was broken in the beating. Her arm and hand were so swollen that she could not move them for nearly two years. Ms. Fu Qiulian was first attacked in bed and then dragged to the floor. They continued to beat her until she could not move any more. Guard Zhang Xiaodan then put her back in bed.

We realized that the guards were criminals. We were beaten because we wanted to be good people. We could not stay there. On March 23, 2000, all the practitioners went on hunger strikes and demanded unconditional releases. Afterwards, all the practitioners were put into a "heavy discipline team."

Head director Guan Dejun and Xu Hengji, the director of the management department; all the guards; and all the prison doctors participated in the direct persecution of practitioners. Female guards and unit leaders watched the practitioners day and night. They force-fed practitioners through nasal tubes everyday. They used a mixture of a little bit of powdered milk, highly concentrated salt water, and some unknown drugs. If a practitioner refused to be force-fed, a guard would beat her with rubber clubs and then continue to force-feed her. If someone vomited, the guard would drag her back to be force-fed again. After being force-fed, they were forced to sit on the cold cement floor. No water or napkins were allowed. If someone could not sit up straight, the guards would beat her.

Every practitioners' stomach burned with unbearable pain and some vomited on their clothes. After their clothes dried, we could see the salt on them. Ms. Meng Qingmin was beaten unconscious during a force-feeding and sent to the hospital. Doctors said she would have died if she had arrived any later. Some practitioners were tortured so badly that they were almost unrecognizable. Their bodies were covered with bruises and their hair was pulled out. You could see it on the floor everywhere. Ms. Liu Guihua was beaten and electrically shocked. No untouched place could be found on her body.

The labor camp transferred all female practitioners, 20 days later, to south side rooms that used to hold the male prisoners. The north side was under construction to expand the prison. Practitioners were persecuted even more. Everyone on a hunger strike was placed in an isolated room. Their hands were fastened to either side of the bed and their feet were tied to the end of the bed. They were given no blanket or cover. April is a very cold month in northern China. The rooms in the forced labor camp were cold and moist. Mildew grew on the walls, as high as half a meter. It was so cold that it was hard for practitioners to sleep at night. The guards intentionally played broadcasts during the day very loudly. The police kept the force-feeding tubes in the noses of prisoners on hunger strike for three days, and while they used the bathroom. Ms. Liu Guihua was one of the most severely persecuted. Later the labor camp announced that the nose feeding tubes would not be removed until the hunger strike ended. Practitioners were forced to give up their hunger strikes over the next 23 days. They were forced to do military-style exercises from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m., rain or shine, even the elderly.

A week later, they were doing work in workshops. The female unit leader, Liu Hongguang, would beat anyone that complained. Ms. Zhang Liyan was one of the ones beaten. They were forced to sit or squat on cold cement floors. Some practitioners were doing the exercises in the evening. They were beaten with rubber sticks and shocked by electric batons. The guard incited ordinary prisoners to beat and scold practitioners. A prisoner broke a broom as she was beating Ms. Sun Fengjie with it. Ms. Gao Qinghua was caught doing the exercises, so guard Jiang Jianan dragged her from the room into the hallway and used an electric baton on Ms. Gao's chest. One evening while practitioners were doing group exercises, Xu Hengji brought a group of guards with electric batons into the room. Xu asked Ms. Suo Lanying whether she was the leader of the group exercises. A practitioner from Harbin Wanjia Forced Labor Camp stood up and said, "It's not her." Immediately, Xu struck her head with the electric baton. Xu hit so hard that the head of the baton broke. Xu said, "The order from the higher officials say it's no problem to kill a few practitioners." Practitioner Ms. Ye Xiuhua was slugged in the face more than 10 times by unit leader Liu Hongguang for doing the exercises. She was also beaten by the guards from Unit 8, put in an isolation room, and was beaten almost everyday. Eventually, she became mentally disordered.

The forced labor camps use many persecution methods. The rooms are shared by four or five people and are very unpleasant. Only half of a wooden scoop of water is provided every morning. The toilet is inside the room and has no cover. The windows are kept shut even in the warm weather. The smell inside the rooms is terrible, and there is not enough oxygen. Everyday, some practitioner got fastened to the bedside, window, or metal chairs because she was caught doing the Falun Gong exercises. At the beginning, violence was used to make practitioners give up their beliefs. Later, they attempted to trick and deceive practitioners to achieve their purpose.

In May 2001, practitioner Ms. Fu Meilin completed her one-year sentence, plus an additional eight-month extension, but the labor camp did not release her. Instead, they subjected her to more tortures, because she was not yet "transformed." They let regular prisoners (non-practitioners) break window glass and then blamed the practitioners for it. Unit leader Liu Chunlan and a guard from the management department used this as an excuse to get Ms. Wang Yuhong and four other practitioners to the office. As soon as they entered the office, guard Li Xin slugged Ms. Wang Yuhong across the face and then separated the practitioners. Guard Yu Longjiang beat Ms. Wang with a rubber stick while the deputy director Chen Chunmei watched. Ms. Wang asked Chen Chunmei, "This guard is beating people in front of you. How come you don't do anything to stop him?" Chen said, "The management department has a higher rank than us. I can't control them." Liu Guifen, the director of the education department, came in and told the police to handcuff Ms. Wang. She kindly explained to them that the glass was not broken by practitioners. Anyone who persecutes good people will pay for what they have done. Xu Hengji, the director of management department, hit Ms. Wang on her head with his fist. They also used an electric baton to shock Ms. Wang's face repeatedly. Ms. Zhang Lianying, a practitioner and roommate of Ms. Wang's, said, "Guards can't beat people." The guards beat her, too. Guard Li Xin did these terrible beatings while directors Zhu Tiehong and Gong Dianpo and five or six other guards stood around and watched. None of them tried to stop Li Xin. Eventually, they restrained Ms. Wang on a bed, her head was numb from repeated electric shocks. She had almost no blood-pressure and lost consciousness. Even in this condition, guard Li Yongpo was at Ms. Wang's bedside lecturing her from transforming materials. Ms. Wang was sent back after 20 days.

The food in the labor camp was very bad. After they were exposed for using chicken-feed, they changed to flour, but it was moldy. Sometimes the whole bag of the floor was as hard as a rock. Practitioners coughed and their throats burned after eating steamed buns made from this flour. After practitioners complained and told director Liu Hongguang that moldy flour can cause cancer, Liu agreed to change it. The new flour was still moldy, but not as bad. After awhile it got worse again.

Ms. Wang Yuhong held a hunger strike for a year to protest such cruel persecution. Everyday prison doctors tube-fed her, once with unknown drugs. Soon Ms. Wang developed pustules on her body. Her body was so stiff and numb that she could not walk. She only weighed 34 kg. The labor camp refused to release her, even when she was in critical condition. Once they sent her to a hospital for a check-up. The doctor said Ms. Wang was critically ill and must remain in the hospital. The prison doctor talked to the doctor in the hospital., but they still took Ms. Wang back to the labor camp. Another time at a hospital, the prison doctor, Song Yan, first talked to the hospital doctors for a long time before checking on Ms. Wang. They said Ms. Wang was normal, although they couldn't even get a blood sample. Ms Wang was in a coma and still they wouldn't let her go.

Ms. Wang Yuhong was illegally detained in the Forced Labor Camp for three years. She was released and returned her mother's home. Five days later, Wang Huamin, a police officer from Jiamusi Qianjin Police Station, brought a group of police to arrest Ms. Wang. They searched the homes of Ms. Wang's mother and brothers. They failed to find her, as Ms. Wang became destitute and homeless.

Three months later Wang Huamin and a few other policemen arrested Ms. Wang Yuhong from a rented house. Two other practitioners were arrested at the same time. Ms. Wang was detained at the detention center for two months. Then she was sentenced to another three years at Jiamusi Forced Labor Camp. Ms. Wang was placed in the strict-law team. Practitioners were forced to sit on tiny stools from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. and not allowed to stretch their legs. They were required to put their hands on their knees, keep their eyes open and mouths shut, like a piece of wood. Later, those practitioners, very weak from the tortures, were forced to do labor work.

In April 2003, guard Li Xiujin tortured Ms. Wang Yuhong by handcuffing her very tightly behind her back, because Ms. Wang refused to write what they wanted.

In March 2004, practitioners refused to line up and shout slogans as they were told. They were taken to Unit 8 for "strict-law." From 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. they sat on "small-stools." The team director wrote a banner that slandered Falun Gong and hung it on the wall. Guard Sun Limin said, "If you refuse to line up in the morning, I will write your Teacher's name on the ground and make you step on it." The next morning, February 29, the practitioners tore down the banner. Team leader Hong Wei led all the guards from the management department in an attack on everyone with electric batons. This included Ms. Wang Yuhong, who lost consciousness from electric shocks, and Zhang Lingde, a 68-year-old practitioner. They then hung practitioners by handcuffs.

In May 2004, the guards lost a CD that slandered Falun Dafa. They insisted Ms. Wang Yuhong took it. Team leader Wang Xiurong slammed his fist into Ms. Wang's face more than 10 times. At that time Ms. Wang was very weak and already could not take care of herself.

The end of March 2005, the forced labor camp orchestrated one more large-scale persecution of all Falun Gong practitioners. All practitioners refusing to sign the letters of "transformation," were beaten. The guards used rubber sticks and electric cattle prods and tortured them by using handcuffs to hang them up. Practitioners Ms. Li Shumei, Ms. Wang Qi, and Ms. Ma Xiaohua were tortured to the point that they could not take care of themselves. They were confined to their beds for three to four months afterward. Practitioner Ms. Yu Chunmei was hung from handcuffs and the guards shocked her face with cattle prods. Her face was swollen and damaged. Guards with boots kicked Ms. Bao Lixia while she was hanging by handcuffs. They used all kinds of methods to persecute practitioners.

(Clearwisdom.net) Falun Dafa practitioner and physician Ms. Fan Zhijun from Huizhou, Guangdong Province, was persecuted while suffering from a stroke at the Guangdong Provincial Women's Prison. Sources say that the prison sent a notice to the family in January 2007 stating that her high blood pressure was at "the third level" and that she was suffering from a stroke.

The day before yesterday, one of Ms. Fan's family members visited her at the prison. Ms. Fan is only 54 years old but she had to walk with a cane. She also had difficulty moving herself and did not have clear consciousness. Upon seeing this, the family member pressed strongly for the prison to release her immediately. However, the guard said that Ms. Fan did not meet the criteria of sickness needed for release. The family member questioned, "Her condition is so horrible already, what is the criteria to release someone?" The guard answered that there were many prisoners in similar conditions and they did not have the authority to release any of them.

Ms. Fan Zhijun, from Hunan Province, was a chief physician at the Gynecologic Department of the Guangmeishan Railway Hospital in Guangdong Province. She has been illegally arrested and sent to forced labor camps several times by the Huizhou Railway Police Station and the State Security Group of Huizhou City. Ms.Fan was a devout practitioner of Falun Gong. She also distributed the "Nine Commentaries on Communist Party", promoting withdrawals from the Chinese Communist Party and its affiliated organizations, and clarified the truth of Falun Gong.

On May 23, 2005, Fan Zhijun was arrested by the State Security Group police and detained at the Boluo Detention Center of Huizhou. She went on a hunger strike to appeal the persecution against her but was force fed by the guards and tortured. Her old diseases then recurred. She was sent to the Central Hospital of Huizhou City twice and diagnosed with third stage heart disease and high blood pressure (220/160).

The Huizhou 610 Office sentenced Fan Zhijun to eight years of imprisonment. The deputy director of the detention center, Wang, and others tortured her severely and cuffed her hands and feet when transporting her to the Guangdong Provincial Women's Prison on September 30, 2006. On the way to the prison, Ms. Fan lost consciousness, but Wang left her at the prison and quickly left. Although the prison realized that her life was in danger, they did not release her, either.

Xu Zhiping, the former head of the No. 1 Department of Huizhou Railway Police Station, played a major role in illegally arresting Dafa practitioners Tian Xiuyan, Fan Zhijun, Zhong Jiawen, Kuang Dongying, Wang Zaishu, Li Hua, Xiao Kai, Ms. Wu, Ms. Xie, and others. In May 2005, Xu Zhiping manipulated the State Security Group of Huizhou City and the 610 Office to arrest Fan Zhijun's family members and interrogate them with torture. Ms. Fan's son was detained for one month during which he was tortured and threatened.

Guangdong Provincial Women's Prison
Address: P.O. Box 52, Guangcongsi Road, Baiyun District, Guangzhou City, postal code: 510545
Information line of the Prison: 86-20-87423069 (women's section)
Reporting line of the Prison: 86-20-83831187, 86-20-83837934

Boluo County No. 1 Detention Center, Guangdong Province
Director Li Jiangfan: 86-752-6622814(Office), 86-13502209123(Cell)
Deputy Director Wang

Xu Zhiping, former head of the No. 1 Department of Huizhou Railway Police Station, now at the Security Group: 86-752-5822538(Office), 86-752-5822328(Home)

Mr. Dai was 57 years old. He lived in the Erdaojiang District of Tonghua City and worked at Tonggang Tap Water Company. He was very healthy after beginning Falun Dafa practice in 1994. In early June 1999, he went to Beijing to appeal to higher authorities for justice for Falun Dafa. Some malicious Chinese Communism Party members "illegally detained" him twice, each time for 15 days. He was then illegally sentenced to the Tonghua Forced Labor Camp for one year. By the time his family got him out on parole, his blood pressure was very high due to the mistreatment. In 2002, police from the Erdaojiang Police Substation arrested him at his home and sentenced him to two years imprisonment at Chaoyanggou Forced Labor Camp in Changchun City. There he became very weak from the brutal torture, and by the time his family got him out again on parole he was covered with cuts and bruises. Afterwards, he was hospitalized several times and died on December 30, 2006.

Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Yin Jiuxi was from Kaiyuan City, Liaoning Province. He died in November 2006. His family members have also suffered persecution. Mr. Yin Jiuxi was 73 years old. He started practicing Falun Dafa together with his family in late 1998. Right before the 2002 Chinese New Year, his wife was arrested because she practiced Falun Dafa. Mr. Yin had to leave his home and wander about to avoid further persecution. After he returned home, he was harassed at his home and threatened several times by the police in his area. In 2003, his older daughter was arrested since she also practiced Falun Dafa. The police illegally searched her home and sentenced her to nine years of imprisonment. She is still in prison. In 2005, after searching his third daughter's home, she was arrested, but managed to run away. She's still wandering from place to place to avoid further persecution. All the sufferings of his family affected Mr. Yin's health. He died on November 16, 2006. Even on the day of his funeral, police cars from his area followed his family to harass them.

Ms. Zhang Na was 48 years old. She started practicing Falun Dafa in 1997. Even after July 20, 1999, when the illegal persecution started, she still clarified the truth of Falun Dafa to people. She hung up banners that said, ''Wonderful Falun Dafa'' on the street during the New Year holiday in 2004. Two policemen from the Police Squad of the Provincial Government arrested her and took her to the Huayuan Road Police Substation. Later she was sent to the Detention Center at the Jinshui Police Department. After she was released, the local 610 Office, together with the Chinese Communist Party members from her company, continued to persecute her financially and at her job. Due to the continued harassment, she suffered a cerebral hemorrhage and died on December 17, 2006.

Ms. Liu Shuyun was 61 years old. She lived in the Erdaojiang District of Tonghua City. Soon after she started practicing Falun Dafa in 1999, the police and the committee head of her community illegally searched her home and confiscated her Falun Dafa books. Her son is also a Falun Dafa practitioner. The police and people from the community often came and harassed them at home. Vicious people from his workplace frequently came to harass him and would not allow him to go to work. The police confiscated their car and sentenced her son to forced labor camps twice, once for 18 months, the next time for three years. The family was constantly monitored and their phone was tapped. Malicious people stole 2,000 yuan from them, of which they only successfully got two hundred back. Ms. Liu's health was adversely affected by the persecution, and she died in 2006.

(Clearwisdom.net) Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Zhang Deyao, from Qingdao City, Shandong Province, was once a lieutenant colonel in the armed forces in Qingdao City. Because he persists in his belief in Falun Gong, he has suffered mistreatment many times. Mr. Zhang is currently imprisoned at the Mental Hospital of Qingdao City. This is the third time he has been sent to a mental hospital under this persecution.

When the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) started persecuting Falun Dafa in July 1999, Mr. Zhang Deyao went to the municipal government to appeal and was illegally imprisoned by the army for a month. During this period he suffered greatly, resulting in a mental collapse. He was then sent to the Mental Hospital of Qingdao City (the Mental Health Center of Qingdao City, also called the Seventh People's Hospital in Qingdao). At that time he already had the honor of being ranked fifth in the career-change test and had been assigned to the Qingdao Municipal Police Department. However, because he was a Falun Dafa practitioner, he was forced by the relevant organization of the CCP to work at the First Middle School of Qingdao City.

Later, because Mr. Zhang Deyao went to Beijing to appeal, the school officials and the CCP again sent to him the Mental Hospital of Qingdao City. Afterwards Mr. Zhang Deyao walked away from his detention with righteous thoughts and has been destitute and homeless ever since. This year when he was clarifying the truth publicly, he fainted by the roadside due to hunger and exposure to the cold. The "120 Emergency Service" took him to the hospital where he revealed his home address. His wife and the related personnel from the school sent to the mental hospital once again.

This is the third time Mr. Zhang Deyao has been illegally imprisoned at the mental hospital where he is suffering inhuman tortures. He told his child who came to see him that the doctors there injected him with unknown drugs. His wife realized this was not right and went to the mental hospital to demand her husband's release. But Sun Pijian (male), the physician-in-charge of the mental hospital, refused to release Mr. Zhang using the excuse that a consent from Mr. Zhang's employer, the First Middle School, was needed for Mr. Zhang's release. Zhang Deyao's wife found the principal and Li Guoguang (male), the Teaching Affairs Division director of the First Middle School, and asked them to cooperate with her by going to the hospital and negotiating for her husband's release. The principal and Li Guoguang each directed the responsibility to the other, however, Li Guoguang is the main person in charge in this case. He said Mr. Zhang's case was handled by his predecessor and he had nothing to do with it so he did not agree to help release Mr. Zhang.

Falun Dafa practitioners overseas, please make phone calls to clarify the truth to those involved, coordinate with practitioners in Qingdao City to rescue Mr. Zhang Deyao and save all living beings.

Mental Health Center of Qingdao City (Seventh People's Hospital)
Doctor Sun Pijian, person mainly in charge of practitioners: 86-532-86669120
Address: 9 Dong'an Road, Qingdao City, Zip code: 266034

(Clearwisdom.net) Wang Xiaofeng, female, about 40, is the Political Instructor of the Third Division of the Masanjia Women's Forced Labor Camp in Liaoning Province. Prior to this position, she was the Head of the First Division. She was listed as number 2,411 on the website listing those committing crimes against Falun Dafa.

Wang has committed a lot of vicious crimes against Falun Gong practitioners. She thrived on such crimes and is one of the main accomplices of Su Jing, the director at the Women's Forced Labor Camp. Shortly after Wang Xiaofeng was promoted from Squadron Leader to Division Head in 2002, her daughter contracted a problem with her legs.

Wang Xiaofeng instructed criminal inmates to use their fingernails to pinch the skin off practitioner Shanjie's legs. Her legs became bloody and later became infected. However, Wang Xiaofeng still would not leave her alone. She ordered several inmates to kick Shanjie, leaving many sores on her already injured legs. Shanjie was in great pain.

Wang Xiaofeng tortured practitioners by depriving them of sleep, handcuffing them to heating pipes, restraining their arms and legs, hanging them up, solitary confinement, tying them up, freezing them, etc.

Starting in November 2001, Wang and female guard Cui Hong, doctor Cao, and four inmates carried out an intensive round of torture against steadfast practitioners whose forced labor terms were completed. They put a woven grass pad on the cement floor and forced a practitioner to lie on it day and night. That practitioner's hands were cuffed to a heating pipe and she was not allowed to sleep for 32 days, causing her brain became muddled. But instead of taking her to a doctor, they carried her to a bed and fastened her arms and legs in a fixed position to the bed for four days and nights. Afterwards they removed the locks but still would not release her. They continued force-feeding her. The practitioner was tortured so severely that she was unable to care for herself. She suffered memory loss and was in critical condition.

In December 2002, Wang Xiaofeng and female guard Xue Feng hung practitioner Ms. Wang Yulan from the Chaoyang District in Shenyang City in Liaoning Province to the heating pipe in the Division Head's office. Her right hand was burned so badly by the heat that the flesh rolled off. Her left arm was disabled and she still cannot raise it. This cruel torture involves handcuffing practitioners' hands to the two iron brackets holding the heating pipe, six feet off the floor. The practitioner is then left hanging in the air. The handcuffs cut into the practitioners' wrists. It is extremely painful and in some cases, both arms become disabled.

Wang Xiaofeng and female guard Cui Hong from the Third Squadron, Hang Haiyan from the Fourth Squadron, and Liu Hui from the Fifth Squadron confined practitioners Ms. Sheng Lixia, Ms. Liu Xiuyan, Ms. Zhu Yun, Ms. Geng Yulan, Ms. Song Ailian, Ms. Zhang Xiumin, Ms. Gao Fuling, and Ms. Wang Huinang in solitary compartments for torture. They included practitioners who were on protest hunger strikes and were weak. There were not enough solitary compartments, so they put two or three practitioners into one cell. Each small cell had only one bench for two people to sit on, and the third person had to sit on the floor. The place was so tiny that it was difficult for practitioners to sleep. Practitioners were only allowed to use the bathroom three times a day and were not allowed to shower at all. There were also high-volume speakers blaring to further torture the practitioners. Some practitioners were confined there for ten days, two weeks, a month, or even several months. If practitioners held hunger strikes while in solitary confinement, they would be force-fed. If the practitioner refused to cooperate with the force-feeding, the guards would slam the practitioner to the floor, step on her hands, arms and legs, and force-feed her with liquid containing a large quantity of salt and unknown drugs.

Wang Xiaofeng, Cui Hong, and Hang Haiyan, then-intern guards Liu Hui and Liu Jing, and another guard took practitioner Ms. Wang Shuyan's winter jacket off to freeze her. It was 15 degrees below zero (Fahrenheit). As six female guards dragged Wang Shuyan to solitary confinement, she shouted, "Falun Dafa is good!" on the way. The guards all jumped on her to cover her mouth. Some even stepped on or sat on her neck and body, pinching and beating her. They gagged her with a used shoe polishing cloth. The cloth was small and Ms. Wang could still speak. Then they tried to stop her by tickling her, gouging her eyes, and bending her fingers. Later, they found wide yellow tape and throughly taped her mouth and head.

At the end of 2002, Wang Xiaofeng hung up practitioner Ms. Liu Baohong in a storage room. The storage room had some poisonous gas and a terrible smell, which made people dizzy, nauseous, and out of breath. She assigned two inmates as "personal guards" to watch Ms. Liu and force her to write the three statements, announcing she would stop practicing Falun Gong.

Between the end of 2002 and beginning of 2003, Wang Xiaofeng and female guard Xue Feng hung practitioner Ms. Song Guixiang up for four days and four nights and then tied her up in the full lotus position (both legs crossed on top of each other) for a whole day and night. Ms. Song became disabled after this, but nobody even helped her go to the bathroom. Xue Feng later locked her on the first floor. Song Guixiang's hands were shaking, saliva kept dripping from her mouth, and she could not stand any more. She was not allowed to sleep. Afterwards, she was confined in a solitary compartment and put on a tiger bench. Ms. Song's hands were covered with wounds.

Wang Xiaofeng and Huang Haiyan tortured practitioner Ms. Zhang Yuxia. They put her on a tiger bench in solitary confinement. During the "Attack the Fort" campaign in September 2002, they tied Ms. Zhang up in the full lotus position. Practitioners who had given up cultivation under extreme pressure and brainwashing shoved her to the floor and stepped on her. For more than two months, Ms. Zhang was not allowed to sleep. Her eyes turned red and tears kept coming out of them for two months.

On the evening of January 22, 2003, Wang Xiaofeng brought practitioner Ms. Xie Xiulan to the first floor. She told the "transformed" practitioners to tie her up in the full lotus position. They also handcuffed practitioners' hands behind their backs and hung them up in the air.

In 2003, Wang Xiaofeng and female guards Shi Yu and Ren Hongzan brutally tortured practitioner Ms. Wang Yujie from Dalian City, Liaoning Province. They locked her in the washroom, then later a storage room and basement for a total of four months. During this torture, Ms. Wang was tied to hard objects, forced to squat, was forced into unnatural and extremely uncomfortable positions, had to stand in the "army corps" posture, and was forced to do intensive hard labor. Ms. Wang Yujie was beaten, exposed to the baking sun for long periods, and was hung up in the air with her arms handcuffed behind her back. Her breast festered after the long-term torture, and some time after she was released, she died.

Wang Xiaofeng instructed female guard Wang Yuguang, in charge of solitary confinement, and two other guards to torture practitioner Ms. Gao Yaxian from Shenyang City. As a result of being put into a tiny compartment, forced to wear a heavy head mask, being beaten, exposed to intensive noise, and forced to stay out in 25 degrees below zero Fahrenheit wearing only a single shirt, Ms. Gao Yaxian became paralyzed.

Wang Xiaofeng hung up practitioner Ms. Wang Cuiying from Dalian City for three days and three nights.

Wang hung practitioner Ms. Zhou Yajuan from Lingyuan City, Liaoning Province, up in the air. She also hung practitioner Ms. Zhang Yunxia up for two days. Ms. Zhang could barely walk afterwards. She had to be carried to her meals and to the bathroom. Later she could not go downstairs and stayed in bed for more than a month to recover. Wang Xiaofeng tied practitioner Ms. Liu Yanwen on the bed for IV injections for a few days, then charged her over 500 yuan.

In the middle of August 2003, practitioner Ms. Zhou Yajuan was forced to stand in the Division Head's restroom. When she was released at 9:00 p.m., Wang Xiaofeng forced her to stand in the corridor until midnight. Then she was forced to stand in the cold corridor for 12 days. When the 12 days were up, Ms. Zhou was forced to stand in the Division Head's restroom again. But this time she was in the corner of the restroom as there were more practitioners being forced to stand in the same restroom. Throughout the year, there were always practitioners being forced to stand in the Division Head's restroom.

On August 22, 2002, practitioners Ms. Li Dongqing, Ms. Song Caihong, and Ms. Li Liming were illegally sentenced to the Masanjia Forced Labor Camp. Fearing that firm practitioners would tell the truth in court, Wang Xiaofeng and squadron leader Xue Feng ordered a dozen inmates to gag the mouths of practitioners Ms. Xie Xiulan, Ms. Shi Shengying, and several others by stuffing their mouths with cloth and then taping their mouths shut. Ms. Shi Shengying refused to cooperate with this abuse. They pulled her hair and dragged her from the second floor down to the first floor, then to the courtyard. They then handcuffed her hands to the back of a big wooden chair, making it impossible for her to stand up straight. The handcuffs cut into her wrists, which were so painful that it felt as if her hands had been cut off. When a policewoman walked by, she managed to speak and asked her to unlock the handcuffs. That policewoman said viciously, "No, you deserve it!" The inmates then taped her mouth shut. The tape was all over her head. Then the inmates dragged Ms. Shi about 30 meters from the courtyard to the building. With the big wooden chair against her back, Ms. Shi Shengying felt that her arms and back were almost broken. Her waist and back were severely injured but she recovered after practicing the Falun Gong exercises.

On August 11, 2002, practitioner Ms. Shi Shengying stopped inmates from reading books that slandered Dafa and requested to do the exercises. Wang Xiaofeng confined Ms. Shi, who had scabs all over her body from earlier torture, to a solitary compartment. She "fixed" Ms. Shi to an iron chair by locking her forearms and her waist into iron rings and her legs to the chair legs. Ms. Shi was not able to move at all. There was a small window behind the iron chair that was open all the time to let cold air blow in. Wang Xiaofeng put a "brainwashing machine" (speaker) in front of the practitioner to play programs that slandered Dafa four or five times a day. It was so loud that it caused the practitioner's ears to constantly buzz. The practitioners were only allowed to go to the bathroom twice a day. Sometimes practitioners were forced to relieve themselves in their pants. In 2005, Ms. Shi Shengying was tortured to death.

Wang Xiaofeng viciously beat practitioners. She would confine practitioners in solitary compartments and close the doors to beat them. Around 2002, she dragged practitioner Ms. Wang Xueli from Tieling City, Liaoning Province, from the fourth floor to the first floor by her hair, beating her on the way. Wang Xueli became paralyzed as a result.

In 2002 and 2003, Wang Xiaofeng and female guard Wang Shuzheng tortured practitioner Ms. Shao Jingrong from Fengcheng City, Liaoning Province. They also asked policemen to torture her. Ms. Shao's legs were kicked so badly that she could not walk. She was only given poor food to eat and was not allowed to sleep.

In November 2003, Wang Xiaofeng and female police guard Huang Haiyan dragged a practitioner into a restroom and handcuffed her hands behind her back. Then they kicked and beat her. Afterwards, they dragged her to the on-duty office and left her on the floor.

At the end of April 2004, Wang Xiaofeng and other guards brutally beat practitioner Ms. Su Yiwen from Dalian City. She became extremely weak. They handcuffed her, confined her in a solitary compartment, and later dragged her to the room that was designated for torturing Falun Gong practitioners. Ms. Su's hands were shackled to a ring on the floor for a long time, and she had to sit on the cold cement. She was not allowed to sleep and was watched constantly by two collaborators. Director Su Jing of the Second Women's Forced Labor Camp and Wang Xiaofeng ordered temporarily borrowed policemen from outside to beat and insult Ms. Su Yiwen to force her into writing the three statements. After a long period of torture, Ms. Su lost her memory for a while and had symptoms of heart disease. Sometimes she could not breathe. Later Wang Xiaofeng and Huang Haiyan tied Ms. Su Yiwen to a table to torture her, ordering her to write the three statements. Afterwards, Ms. Su was unable to walk.

In July and August of 2006, Wang Xiaofeng gagged practitioner Ms. Wang Xiaoyan's mouth with a dirty cloth. Female guard Li Mingyu slapped her face and female guard Wang Naimin pinched her mouth making it bleed. Also, on July 15, 2006, male guard Ma Jishan and Section Chief Chen continuously struck her face. Her face up swelled immediately and there was a lump on her cheek.

During the SARS epidemic in the summer 2003, Wang Xiaofeng said viciously to practitioners, "We should send all you practitioners that are not 'transformed' to the SARS region, so that you can all catch it and be eliminated."

In 2003, Wang Xiaofeng ordered female guard Shi Yu and doctor Cao to lead five inmates in torturing practitioner Ms. Zhang Chuanwen who was imprisoned at the Second Squadron of the First Division. Ms. Zhang had been on a hunger strike for several days to protest the persecution. They held her head, body, and legs to force-feed garlic into her stomach, claiming they were "cleansing her stomach."

In April 2002, Wang Xiaofeng ordered her staff to gag practitioner Ms. Song Guixiang and another practitioner. Other practitioners went to clarify the truth to her. Not only did she refuse to listen, but she also said, "If you say one more word, I will hang posters insulting your Teacher and Dafa all over the room."

On May 15, 2006, Wang Xiaofeng and female guards Zhou Qian, Xue Feng, Shi Yu, and others took off practitioner Ms. Wang Guixiang's clothes and wrote dirty words slandering Teacher and Dafa on her chest. They tore Teacher's picture from a Dafa book, threw it on the floor, and told Ms. Wang to step on it. She refused, so they picked her up and tried to lay her on Teacher's picture. Because Ms. Wang firmly resisted, they did not succeed.

Wang Xiaofeng and other evildoers tortured practitioner Ms. Sun Jinjun so severely that she suffered a mental breakdown. They then claimed that she was just pretending.

Under Wang Xiaofeng's instruction, inmates tortured some practitioners so badly their faces became disfigured and discolored. They threatened practitioners not to tell their relatives about the torture, fearing their evil crimes would be exposed. They tried to isolate practitioners from the outside world and set rules prohibiting practitioners from calling, writing to, or meeting with relatives.

Wang Xiaofeng was extremely cunning and sinister. She ordered inmates to mentally torture Ms. Li Liming and other practitioners. They were forced to work throughout the day until 1:00 in the morning. They were then forced to get up at 5:00 a.m. to start work again.

Wang Xiaofeng and Squadron Leader Wang Qiu increased the torture of practitioner Ms. Yu Qiu when she developed pulmonary tuberculosis and started to cough blood.

One day in December 2003, Wang Xiaofeng and female guard Zhang Chunguang brought a practitioner to the conference room to brainwash her. Under numerous tortures and pressure, that practitioner reached her limit and almost collapsed.

Most of the practitioners in the Third Division were subjected to brutal "transformation" attempts. Their watches were taken away, so they had to watch the sunrise and sunset to tell the time. They were forced to work late into the night without any rest. Their work was mainly to peel cloves of garlic, make silk flowers for export, or make beaded necklaces. The glue for the silk flowers is very irritating to the eyes. It was the worst period for the practitioners when Wang Xiaofeng was on duty. She often verbally abused and ridiculed practitioners and claimed that the forced labor camp was hers so that she could extend the forced labor term for whichever practitioner she wanted to.

At the beginning of 2005, female guarad Huang Haiyan tortured a practitioner in her 50s until she became extremely weak. That practitioner was not able to walk afterwards. Even breathing was difficult for her. But they did not let her stay in bed to rest. Instead they forced her to work overtime. They took her to the hospital for treatment only after she lost consciousness several times. When the practitioner came back, she was unconscious and in very critical condition. Director Su Jing and Huang Haiyan were afraid of being held responsible for her death, so they told her relatives to take her home. Concerned that her relatives might not settle with the forced labor camp if they saw she had been tortured so badly, Wang Xiaofeng did not allow people to carry her out. Instead, she shouted in the corridor, "Let her walk out by herself!"

In 2003, Wang Xiaofeng used many cruel tortures against practitioner Ms. Fan Jinhua, but Ms. Fan still would not give up cultivation. The police sent her to Dalian City Forced Labor Camp. To threaten other practitioners, Wang Xiaofeng told them that she "was sentenced and taken to Dabei Prison and became insane after a few days there." When Dalian City Forced Labor Camp was dissolved in October 2004, Ms. Fan was taken back to the First Division of the Masanjia Forced Labor Camp. Fearing her lie would be discovered, Wang Xiaofeng hid her in a storage room of the Number One building and assigned people to watch her, so that the news would not be leaked. Wang Xiaofeng put Ms. Fan in solitary confinement many times to torture her. Then practitioners in other solitary cells found Ms. Fan Jinhua.

On the eighteenth day of practitioner Ms. Sheng Lixia's (from Dandong City) hunger strike, she was extremely weak. When her family visited her and discovered that her condition was so bad, they asked Director Su Jing to get her a medical exam. Su Jing agreed. After Ms. Sheng Lixia started eating, Su Jing defaulted on her promise of a medical exam and hid Ms. Sheng from her parents. Later Ms. Sheng Lixia's father found Su Jing and demanded that the forced labor camp be held responsible for torturing his daughter. Su Jing said savagely, "You can sue us wherever you want to." She pushed her parents over to Division Head Wang Xiaofeng. Wang Xiaofeng promised her parents she would give Sheng Lixia a "compassionate medical leave," but she reneged immediately after her parents left. In fact, all the evil crimes against practitioners at the Masanjia Forced Labor Camp were ordered by the Director, Division Head, or Squadron Lead.

Police guards and "transformed" practitioners once held down a young practitioner in the First Division and put the prison uniform on her by force. That practitioner managed to take it off several times. [Note: because Dafa practitioners are not criminals and should not be incarcerated, they often refuse to wear the prison uniform.] The guard then ordered the "transformed" practitioners to take off all her clothes including her bra, leaving only her underpants on. Then they held her down and put the prison uniform on her. The police used a hidden camcorder to videotape her afterwards. She struggled to stand up and took the prison uniform, representing humiliation, off. The hidden camcorder recorded that she was almost naked. Police used this video as "evidence" to spread rumors among practitioners, saying that "a practitioner took off all her clothes when she saw the policemen." They used it to ruin her reputation and defame Dafa, creating very bad results. Division Head Wang Xiaofeng of the First Division is directly responsible for this crime.

Wang Xiaofeng once said, "It is so easy for me to extend your terms at the forced labor camp. One word from me will do it. And I can use any reason." For those practitioners for which they could not find a reason to extend their terms, Wang forced other prisoners to falsely testify against them. The longest extension was one year. Sometimes she even sent practitioners directly to prison. For example, she illegally imprisoned practitioner Ms. Fang Caixia from Dalian City for two more months after her term was over. The police write the names of the practitioners whose terms are extended on a blackboard in the cafeteria. There are several blackboards listing names.

Around 9:00 p.m. on August 22, 2002, Wang Xiaofeng and Squadron Leader Ren Hongzan interrogated practitioners who shouted "Falun Dafa is good" in solitary confinement. They wrote down the practitioners' words and told them to sign the paper. Then they used it as evidence to extend their terms for five more months.

Starting on July 1, 2004, under the direction of Director Su Jing and Division Head Wang Xiaofeng, police guards at the the Masanjia Second Women's Forced Labor Camp started a new round of torture against practitioners. They froze the practitioners' banking accounts. Then they sent five or six inmates or "collaborators" to surround each firm practitioner from 5:00 a.m. To 11:00 p.m. to impose their evil "enlightenment" theories on the practitioners to force them to give up cultivation. They also threatened to extend the terms of firm practitioners.

1. Locking practitioner's arms to an iron chair. Their arms were fixed to the sides of chair and could not be moved. The practitioner then could not stand up or squat but only sit on the cold iron chair for 15 days.

2. Locking practitioner's hands to the heating pipes. There are two iron hooks between the five heating pipes. The practitioner's hands were cuffed to the iron hooks. Then the practitioner could not stand up or sit down but only bend her body. Eventually the practitioner's arms became black and blue. Practitioners were forced to stay in this position for two months at a time.

3. Handcuffing a practitioner and hanging her from the heating pipe. The practitioner was not allowed to sleep--inmates were ordered to watch her around the clock and would beat her if she fell asleep or closed her eyes. This practitioner was forced to stay in this position for two months. In the end, the practitioner's legs swelled up and the scars on her wrists can still be seen.

4. Handcuffing a practitioner to a water pipe that was close to ground. The practitioner could only sit on a stool. After a while, the practitioner's arms became black and purple and she was not able to stand. The practitioner experiences unbearable pain. Sometimes the stool was be taken away and the practitioner had to sit on the cement floor.

5. Locking the practitioner's arms and legs to the so-called "dead person's bed."

The practitioner was unable to move at all and would experience great pain all over her body. The practitioner was tortured in this position for several days and was not allowed to go to the bathroom.

6. Torturing practitioners in the triangle room. The Masanjia Forced Labor Camp had a triangle room that was set up to torture practitioners. In the room was a low narrow bench. A practitioner's hands were cuffed behind her back to the columns of the bench. Then the practitioner had to sit on this low bench, not able to stand up or lie down. I was locked in the triangle room for over three months.

7. Locking practitioner's arms to the hook of the vertical heating pipe in the corridor. This hook was a little bit higher than practitioners, so the practitioners had to stand on their toes. This hook was specially designed to be adjustable to torture practitioners. The pain was unbearable after being locked at this position for a while.

8. Handcuffing practitioner to the heating pipe in the coldest area of the corridor. The practitioner was not allowed to wear extra clothing and had to sit on the cold cement floor. No sleep was allowed. The cement floor was extremely cold and gradually the practitioner lost feeling in her legs.

9. Handcuffing hands behind the back with one hand crossed over a shoulder. The practitioner's neck was also connected to her feet with a rope, so that she could not raise her head. The pain was as severe as if the heart were being pierced by one's broken bones. I was once put in this position for 40 minutes. Only when I sweat heavily and my heart could not bear it any more did they stop this torture.

10. Tying a practitioner up in the full lotus position. Guards tied the practitioner's legs in the double crossed position, then tied the practitioner's arms and tied the practitioner's neck to her legs with rope so that she could not raise her head. Guards stepped on the practitioner's tied legs with boots and kicked the practitioner's head for several hours. The practitioner was not allowed to go to the bathroom. Afterwards, the practitioner's legs became black and purple and could not be moved. I once lost consciousness from this torture and was unable to take care of myself for a while. Even now, there are still aftereffects in my wrists and legs.

(Clearwisdom.net) Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Chen Fenglei in Renqiu City, Hebei Province, was illegally sentenced to prison for six years without being allowed to notify his family. Chen Fenglei has been illegally detained in Renqiu Detention Center since June 9, 2006, and the prison still does not allow his family to meet with him. An appeal letter from Chen Fenglei was rejected, and he is now appealing to the Supreme Court for compensation. His wife Chai Xiumei also appealed to the Supreme Court according to the law, requesting justice for her husband.

Dafa disciples Mr. Chen Fenglei and his wife Ms. Chai Xiumei were persecuted severely by local officials for several years. Mr. Chen was harassed, arrested and detained many times by policemen from Renqiu Police Station and Yuxi Police Station. In 2000, he went to Renqiu Police Station to clarify the truth of Falun Gong and asked them to release his fellow practitioners. Policeman Hao Jianqiao in the Political Security Division slapped him twice and illegally detained him for two months. Later he was illegally sentenced to prison for five years. His wife went to Beijing to clarify the truth of Falun Gong, but was illegally detained for five months, and later was illegally sentenced to a forced labor camp for three years.

While they were in prison, no one took care of their two children--one is thirteen and the other ten. Left without food, the children sold anything of value to buy food, but still did not have enough. Since their parents were not home, some children in the village threatened and beat them. Some bad people went to their home to steal things. In this environment, his two children were hurt greatly. Both left their schools, and now wander the streets.

Mr. Chen Fenglei and his wife are appealing to the Supreme Court and asking for compensation of 200,000 yuan. They revealed the lawless personnel's illegal behavior of infringing on their human rights, pointing out that Mr. Chen is not guilty and should be released at once. Below is his appeal letter.

Appellant: Chen Fenglei Gender: M Age: 45
Address: the 6^th street, Xinhua Rd, Renqiu City
Appealee: Renqiu City People's Court
Legal representative: Yan Zhiguo Position: Dean of Renqiu City People's Court
Address: Family house Area of Renqiu City People's Court

The above charge of "disrupting the administration of law by distributing Falun Gong promotional materials" has no legal grounds. The court does not mention whom Mr. Chen Fenglei distributed the promotional material to and what kind of social harm he did. They also did not say which law he violated. Therefore, the charge has no relationship with "distributing materials." It should not be treated as legal fact. Therefore the sentence of "disrupting the administration of law" cannot be considered valid. However based on the above charge, Chen Fenglei was sentenced to six years' imprisonment. The case's main evidence was not sufficient to charge and the case verdict was totally wrong. The court abused its power and fabricated the unjust case.

Based on the stipulation in Term 2, Article 42 of the Administrative Procedure Law of the People's Republic of China, the appellant requests that the sentence imposed on the appellant be revoked and he be released, declared not guilty, and be compensated 200,000 yuan for economic and emotional losses, because the main facts were not clear, the main evidence was not sufficient and the court violated legal procedure.

Falun Dafa Practitioner Mr. Kong Xiangzhu from Shuangyashan City, Heilongjiang Province is currently imprisoned at the Mudanjiang City Prison in Heilongjiang Province. He was tortured brutally, and contracted meningitis in June 2006. He was taken to a hospital for treatment and then returned to the prison in July 2006. He is now paralyzed from the waist down. He has become incontinent and his mind wanders. Since he is in very critical condition, his family has urged the prison numerous times to release him so that he can be better taken care of, but the prison refuses to do so.

Dafa practitioners Ms. Zhang Haiyan and Ms. Sun Shuqin from Nancha District in Yichun City, Heilongjiang Province were taken to the Jiamusi Railroad Police Station on January 20, 2007, and have been illegally imprisoned there since.

3. [Shuangyashan City, Heilongjiang Province] Supplemental Information about the Torture of Practitioner Shan Zhiping

Dafa practitioner Mr. Shan Zhiping was illegally arrested by police from the Hongxinglong Police Station in Shuanyashan City in Heilongjiang Province and the Shuanyashan Farm Police Station at 10:00 p.m. on January 3, 2007. Police from the Shuanyashan Farm Police Station also went to his and his mother's residences twice and ransacked their homes, stealing a laptop computer, books and CDs. Mr. Shan Zhiping is currently illegally imprisoned at the Hongxinglong Police Station.

Director Wang Baoquan of the Shuanyashan Farm Police Station: 86-469-4329216, 86-469-4329400
President Wang Baomin of the Shuanyashan Farm Middle School: 86-469-4329736, 86-13504858359

Dafa practitioner Mr. Kong Lingjin from Boli County, Heilongjiang Province was illegally sentenced in April 2006. He developed an illness due to being tortured at the Suihua City Forced Labor Camp in Heilongjiang Province. His family requested that the labor camp release him for medical treatment, but they have denied the request.

On January 13-14, 2007, two Dafa practitioners from Baiqi Village and Wufujia Village were arrested by police while they were distributing truth-clarification materials.

On the morning of January 17, 2007, Dafa practitioner Mr. Zhang Xiao was arrested by police from the Sitaizi Police Station in Shenyang City, Heilongjiang Province. Mr. Zhang Xiao is currently imprisoned at the Sitaizi Police Station.

Dafa practitioner Ms. Lin Weizhu, around 55, was arrested by police in January 2007.

Dafa practitioner Mr. Gong Wenyi is holding a hunger strike to protest his illegal imprisonment at the Changlinzi Forced Labor Camp in Heilongjiang Province.

On January 1, 2007, Dafa practitioner Ms. Li Lin was arrested while distributing truth-clarification materials in Suining City in Sichuan Province.

On January 16, 2007, Dafa practitioner Ms. Fu Yafeng from Shimen Village in Fu'ning County, Qinhuangdao City, Hebei Province was arrested by officers from the Shimen Village Police Station while she was on her way to the Shimen Village Market. She has been illegally imprisoned at the Fu'ning County Detention Center.

Person in Charge of Persecuting Falun Gong at the Fu'ning County Political and Legal Committee is Hu Xicai: 86-335-6021698
Director Wang Jingzhong of the Fu'ning County 610 Office: 86-13011465288
Section Chief Ru Hongxi of the Political Security Section of the Fu'ning County Police Department: 86-335-6012230
Shimen Village Police Station in Fu'ning County: 86-335-6098360, 86- 335-6098361

At 11:00 a.m. on January 16, 2007, several policemen broke into a Dafa practitioner's home in Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province. They ransacked the place and arrested a husband and wife who are Dafa practitioners, along with another practitioner.

Dafa practitioner Ms. Zhao Ruixiang from Qingdao City, over sixty years old, lives on Longyan Road in Xinjiazhuang District, Qingdao City, Shandong Province. She visited her hometown of Tangezhuang in Laiyang City, Yantai Region, Shandong Province on July 2, 2006. On July 4, 2006, staff from the Laiyang City 610 Office went to practitioner Mr. Yu Chunqiang's home and arrested him and his wife. They were brutally beaten and tortured by Wei Haibo from the Laiyang City 610 Office. Ms. Zhao Ruixiang has been illegally imprisoned at the Laiyang City Detention Center for more than six months, and her family is not allowed to visit her. Mr. Yu Chunqiang's wife was illegally sentenced to a year and a half of forced labor.

On the evening of January 17, 2007, police ransacked the home of Dafa practitioner Ms. Zhang Suwen from Dong'erying Township in Ji County, Tianjin City. Her laptop computer, printer and supplies used to produce truth-clarification materials were confiscated.

At ten past six on the evening of January 15, 2007, police arrested Dafa practitioners Ms. Wu Huazhen and Ms. Zhao Zerong from the Dashiba neighborhood in Jiangbei District of Chongqing City. They are currently illegally imprisoned at the Jiangbei District Detention Center.

On the afternoon of January 17, 2007, police illegally broke into the home of Dafa practitioners Mr. Luo Xiangxue and Ms. Xiang Zhongyao from the Tongyong Factory in Jiangbei District of Chongqing City, and both were arrested. Mr. Luo Xiangxue was severely injured when he jumped out of his fourth floor apartment window. This couple and their one-year-old baby were all put into the police car and taken away.

In January 2007, Dafa practitioner Ms. Shang Yuping from Wuhan City, Hubei Province was illegally sentenced to three years in prison. She was transfered from the Wuhan City Number One Detention Center to the Wuhan City Women's Prison.

Dafa practitioner Mr. Wan Kai from Wuhan City, Hubei Province was taken to the Yangyuan Brainwashing Center in Wuchang District in Wuhan City after being arrested in October 2006.

At around 2:40 p.m. on April 25, 2006, police from Guangyuan City Police Department in Sichuan Province arrested Dafa practitioner Ms. Zhu Yifang from Guangyuan City at her company's Chengdu office in Sichuan Province. They also worked with police from the Chengdu City Police Department to ransack her home in Chengdu City.

On October 11, 2006, Guangyuan City Court illegally sentenced her to seven years in prison. She is currently imprisoned at the Nongquan West Sichuan Female Prison in Chengdu City.

At around 7:00 p.m. on January 17, 2007, police from the Macheng City Railroad Police Station in Hubei Province, and Macheng City National Security Bureau, along with staff from the Macheng City 610 Office arrested Dafa practitioner Ms. Li Jiqing and her ten-year-old son. Their whereabouts are unknown.

Dafa practitioner Ms. Liang Zhisong, around 60, a retired accountant, lives at the Haichuang Garden neighborhood in Haizhu District, Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province. She was reported to police while distributing truth-clarification materials at Foshan City in Guangdong Province on January 9, 2007, and her home was ransacked. She is currently illegally imprisoned at the Nanzhou Detention Center in Haizhu District in Guangzhou City.

Dafa practitioner Mr. Fan Changhua is a retired teacher from a child daycare center in Yichang City, Hubei Province. He was arrested by police from Gezhouba Police Station in Yichang City on January 12, 2007. His home was ransacked and many materials including copies of the Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party, Disintegrate the Party Culture, and Dafa books were confiscated. He is currently imprisoned at the Yichang City Number One Detention Center.

On January 13, 2007 a senior Dafa practitioner was arrested by officers from the Yichang City Police Station in Hubei Province after being reported for clarifying the truth about Falun Gong.

On January 16, 2007, police from Hulunbeier City Police Department in Inner Mongolia, Yakeshi City Police Department in Inner Mongolia AR and Daxing'anling Forestry Police Department made multiple arrests of Dafa practitioners in Yakeshi City. Practitioners Ms. Wang Lixia, Ms. Li Chuanying, Mr. Guo and two other practitioners were arrested.

On December 21, 2006, Dafa practitioner Mr. Chen Xiangyang, who was illegally sentenced, was taken to the Nanchang City Prison secretly without informing his family. Mr. Chen Xiangyang was brutally beaten and tortured there and was not allowed to see his father.

A dozen practitioners from Zhuyang Town in Jiangjin City were arrested by police from the Zhuyang Police Station in Chongqing City.

Dafa practitioner Mr. Wang Hongge from Changchun City in Jilin Province, who was illegally sentenced to thirteen years in prison, was imprisoned at Shiling Prison in Siping City, Jilin Province. After being tortured for six years, he was injured both physically and mentally. He is currently at the Central Hospital of Jilin Province Prison Management Bureau for torture.

On December 15, 2006, Dafa practitioner Mr. Li Wei from Changchun City was taken to the Changchun City Forced Labor Camp Hospital. On January 12, 2007, his family was extorted of ten thousand yuan to bail him out. He is still awaiting trial.

Dafa practitioner Ms. Yu Cuilan from Changchun City was arrested off the street by three policemen from the National Security Team on May 19, 2006. She was not able to take care of herself after being tortured by police. She is currently illegally imprisoned at the Tiebei Police Hospital in Kuancheng District in Changchun City and is not allowed to see her family. She was tried secretly when she was extremely weak and could not speak, and was sentenced to ten years in prison. She is currently in very critical condition.

President Yan of Changchun City Police Hospital: 86-431-86807118
Director Gao Xuezhang of Changchun City Police Department: 86-13331668001, 86-431-88907001

I am a police officer. I worked for Jiang and his regime in the past just for fame, benefits, and sentimentality. After 1999, I participated in slandering Falun Dafa's Master and practitioners, cursing them, and mistreating them. I committed many stupid, unforgivable sins. I remember many Falun Dafa disciples came to clarify the truth to me, trying to persuade me with kindness, but I refused to listen. I threatened them, yelled at them, and I hated Falun Dafa from the bottom of my heart.

Recently, I suddenly became very sick and no doctor could diagnose this strange disease. I was in so much pain that I had to crawl on the bed every day. I dramatically lost weight. My whole family was worried for me. At the moment of my crisis, a Falun Dafa practitioner stepped into my hospital room and told us why he had come. He told me how to save myself: recite "Falun Dafa is good, Truthfulness-Benevolence- Forbearance is good." I used an alias to quit the CCP and its organizations. It was a miracle: my sickness quickly felt better in only one day. I felt that my whole body was very light, and I had much more energy.

I am hereby sincerely thanking Falun Dafa's Master and thanking Falun Dafa and the practitioners. I have sinned against Falun Dafa, and I am asking for correction from Master Li, Falun Dafa, and disciples.

I am here to declare that I will amend my faults with my actions, make up for the losses I have caused, and declare all words and actions in the past that were disrespectful to Master Li or disciples null and void! I am also sincerely persuading the people who still have not awakened to wake up quickly! Don't sacrifice your life for Jiang and the evil party. Please wake up for the sake of your family and your own eternal life!

(Clearwisdom.net) In the past few weeks, I attended the weekend group sharing in Berlin. I found that whenever I told others about the specific need to distribute flyers at theaters, such as which theater needs more people and how big of an audience was there, some practitioners wanted to know more about my motivation. They asked: "Why did you come to Berlin to distribute flyers? What is the reason for you to do this day after day?" I would like to share about why I came to Berlin.

After the Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party was published in November 2004, I began to send copies to people. Since the summer of 2005, I have been distributing the German version of the Nine Commentaries. On New Year's Day 2006, I decided to use the Internet to encourage the Mainland Chinese people to quit their affiliations with the CCP. Among all the people I contacted, only about one percent clearly indicated their position about the CCP's evil nature.

A childhood friend works in a military hospital. After reading Chapter One of the Nine Commentaries, he said, "I don't want to continue, the topics are too heavy." Both he and his wife are successful doctors, so they think it doesn't matter who's in power, since experts are always needed. They thought the Nine Commentaries was revealing the dark side of the CCP, is anti-communist, and the people who promote Nine Commentaries are interested in gaining power. They would rather wait for someone to overthrow the CCP so they can continue to work as technical experts. They believe that no matter who's in power, they won't be treated too badly.

Another friend believed that making money is more important. Many of his friends have the Nine Commentaries in their possession, but they feel that they don't have time to read and their business is more important. Most people are that way. I met someone on the Internet. He has finished reading the Nine Commentaries but has not quit the CCP yet. He said that he plans to wait for a while.

For those people who don't read or have not finished reading the Nine Commentaries and those who have read it but are still waiting, I have always wondered what to do and how should I break through the barriers. Practitioners all know that if one doesn't clarify his position on the CCP and on issues involving the organ harvesting, then their future will not be good. The Chinese New Year Spectacular is a chance to rectify the CCP's destruction of 5,000 years of Chinese history and to save many people in a positive way.

For example, when I clarify the truth on the Internet, only one percent of the Chinese people will quit the CCP and say "Thank you." Now on Berlin's streets, I tell people "Welcome, visitors, to the Global Chinese New Year Spectacular!" Almost all of them have said, "Thank you" or "Thanks, I have it already." My feeling is like when people fall into water and you offer to save them with the Nine Commentaries, they don't like it; they prefer a boat that they like instead. The flyers for the Chinese New Year Spectacular shows are just the boat they like.

Telling people about the organ harvesting on the Internet is one of the best ways to persuade people to quit the CCP, because this is the bottom line of human decency. If people don't even indicate their position on this horrible atrocity then they are most likely not savable. When I try to persuade people to quit the CCP, I have found that many people are afraid of the evil CCP and many refuse to listen to the truth. When I discussed this phenomenon with practitioners in North America, they told me that the old forces arranged for the evil party to pollute the mainland people for 57 years and for the CCP to lure the Western people with business interests. This is really not fair. But we have also realized that one year is such a short time compared to 57 years. Sometimes in 30 minutes we have the opportunity to dissolve the evil spirit that has been imprinted on that person's mind for 57 years. We must dissolve the evil poison in their brains; this is validating Dafa disciples' mighty virtue and is very meaningful. Master said on many occasions that we have to save as many sentient beings as possible. No matter how hard we have tried, the number of people to be eliminated is going to be huge. Recently some practitioners asked Master what is our scope in encouraging people to quit the CCP? Master said, "You should do it to the extent that you won't feel regret in the future." (paraphrase).

Whenever I meet fellow practitioners from different countries on the Internet, we will have a brief experience sharing on the problems we encountered during the day. We ask each other, "Regarding the person you spent 30 minutes with and he refused to quit, you must then ask yourself, 'If he is eliminated in the future, will you feel sorry?'" Sometimes I also ask myself, "What about the person who gave me a hard time? When it comes to the big elimination in the future, will I feel that I have done everything for him?" I still keep many of my chat mates in my computer because I asked myself this question and decided to keep them. I decided to give them more opportunities using the Quit-the-CCP news.

I have been distributing flyers in Berlin for nearly three months. I had a deep feeling about the old force's arrangement: "Perhaps 1,000 poor people out of 10,000 will survive and only two or three rich people out of 10,000 will survive." We must negate this arrangement. Now I use a mini DVD player to show the beauty of the Spectacular. Some well-to-do people began to accept my flyers. I don't know them, but many of them know me. Every day I go to the theaters two hours before the shows and play the eight-minute promotional show from the 2006 Gala. I repeat it to show everyone until they all have gone into the theater. I found that many people could understand the Gala shows. Gods are behind the music, and they are waking up people that are confused with beautiful music. Yesterday a man walked towards me from the crowd. He was surprised that the Gala music was so beautiful. He said he had never heard such wonderful music before. He is a music teacher.

I traveled 300 kilometers to Berlin to promote the Chinese New Year Spectacular shows because I went to Manhattan in 2005 and knew how much the Chinese people liked to take the flyers. I also remembered when a Westerner heard a key expression from me after he passed, he turned back and asked for a flyer. There were so many of these kinds of experiences. In 2005 in Manhattan, many Westerners and some old people saw volunteers wearing fairy costumes distributing flyers. They would say, "I have seen you before."

One day, an old couple waited outside of the theater for returned tickets. Someone offered a $30 ticket and another offered a $100 ticket. They refused to take them but insisted on waiting for two $100 tickets. Finally they got them. I asked them why they didn't call the ticket hotline, and they said they had tried but the line was always busy. I asked them where they learned about the show and they said that they received a flyer in Chinatown. This incident made a deep impression in my mind. The knowing side of people is telling them to do things like this.

I distributed over 4,000 German Nine Commentaries in the city where I live. When I was debating about what to do next, news about the organ harvesting broke. I began to distribute flyers revealing this atrocity and handed out over 20,000 of them. During the process, I witnessed many people, who had kept quiet until then, begin to express their outrage and thus positioned themselves in the right place. Later I began to chat on the Internet to persuade people to quit the CCP. After two months of chatting, when I was discussing with fellow practitioners about how to dissolve 57 years of poison in 30 minutes, I heard that Gala organizers in New York had invited practitioners to see the pre-show. The pre-show moved many practitioners to tears. After they returned home, they re-doubled their effort like charged batteries. Soon the Spectacular promotion flyers came out. I felt the urgency and fast speed of Fa rectification. Every phase has its' own focal point. They are all important, but there is still a priority. Therefore, I came to Berlin.

When I began to distribute the flyers, I also realized that while doing this I need to study the Fa and cultivate myself as well, which will also make my efforts more effective.

When I began to hand out flyers, some chat buddies from the past came back to talk. Sometimes, when I got ready to leave and my green light was still on, someone still wanted to chat. I told him I had no more time to chat. Gradually, he realized that I was distributing flyers. Once he asked, "Is the Chinese government against the show?" I said, "The show reflects 5,000 years of traditional culture and arts, why would anyone be against the show?" He asked about money. I told him that I am a volunteer. Later I realized that I can't ignore the Chinese people on the Internet just because I am distributing flyers. Their questions were about exactly what I had tried to clarify to them a few months ago. I also discovered that when I sent articles about quitting the CCP to people in China, fewer people would argue or curse me. Before I began promoting the Chinese New Year Spectacular shows, almost all the feedback I received was bad. But after I came to Berlin, I received much positive feedback. I told a fellow practitioner in the US who also was promoting the Chinese New Year Spectacular shows. She had the same experience. Now she receives more positive feedback from her automatic phone messages. We realized that the Chinese New Year Spectacular shows are an expedited process for saving people.

When I felt tired or when no one took my flyers, I knew this was the time to study the Fa. I would go to a subway station near the Opera House and sit down to study the Fa for two hours until it came time for the audience to enter the theater. I would tell myself, "It's time for the battle between the righteous and evil." Then I would walk toward the theater while sending forth righteous thoughts. I normally go to the theater two hours before the show. When no one is there, I study the Fa. This is the best time to study. I remember better and the effect is best. If I see someone, chances are they are from out of town and it's more likely we can have a long talk.

I distribute flyers amidst four million Berlin people. I have no barriers but always find new wisdom. We are racing with the old forces to save four million people. In this battle I am able to improve my own cultivation. There are a lot of things to do and a lot of joy. Once a security guard took my flyer. After he read it, he came back to tell me, "You should pass flyers out over there, where there are more people." When I got there, I found it was where the up and down escalators met.

At night when I played the promotional DVD to the subway workers, they were very interested. Once a seven member crew saw the DVD and asked if they could buy group tickets. All those who completed watching the eight-minute show indicated that they would definitely attend the show.

In January 2007, more people saw my DVD shows. I also got to know better what was on people's minds. Some people thought we were selling the tickets for a salary, so I told them that I was a volunteer. I just feel that for such a wonderful show, it would be a shame if people didn't know the truth about the CCP. I want everyone to know what the real arts of China--without the CCP's pollution--look like. I told people, "You can check on the Internet to see New Tang Dynasty's programming. It includes things like last years' show and their touring performances around the world." People would tell me, "I would rather watch the live show in the theater."

I discovered that using last year's DVD to promote this year's Chinese New Year Spectacular shows produced a very good result. This way we don't have to show our new performance, which may not be good for ticket sales. In the meantime, we can interact with people and inform them with the latest truth clarifying information. In the past, I rarely gave flyers to tourists. Now I think we can tell them to watch the show on the Internet. To the tourists who come near showtime, they may also come to enjoy the live show.

I then realized a big loophole in my cultivation: I could only realize what needed to be done individually and do it myself, but I did not think about the whole group and make efforts to improve the whole group's cultivation. Last year I heard that a coordinator got into a hard tribulation because he was too busy coordinating to study the Fa himself. On the surface, this was one practitioner's omission. But later I realized that I also had an omission. That practitioner did a lot of work. We should have helped him, but we were too busy studying the Fa. So how could he find time to study the Fa? We should focus on cultivating the whole group and validating the group's mighty virtue. The process of the Chinese New Year Spectacular shows is also a process for everyone to take action. Then we can talk about saving more people. Berlin's population is four million. How could a few practitioners save all of them? So our collective wisdom and group sharing is very important. We should make every effort to achieve Master's plan as a group. A US practitioner told me that after they studied "Teaching the Fa at the 2003 Atlanta Fa Conference," all practitioners in their city had an emergency experience sharing and the next day ticket sales greatly improved.

(Clearwisdom.net) I have come to understand that any thought based on the Fa is a divine thought, while thoughts based on worldly people's perspective are just the thoughts of ordinary people. For example, if a practitioner has righteous thoughts that are based on the Fa after he is struck by a car, he will not be hurt, but if he reacts to it from an ordinary person's perspective, it will bring severe consequences. During Fa-rectification, Dafa practitioners must choose between divine or human thoughts, and the results will be far apart.

In my personal cultivation I have come to realize that, in order to achieve divine thoughts in truth-clarification and persuading people to quit the CCP, practitioners' level of thoughts are completely determined by their compassion. When my compassion emerges, I can accomplish everything smoothly. During truth-clarification and persuading people to quit the CCP. I will no longer quarrel with other people, or raise my voice or get angry when they raise their voice and become angry, like I did several years ago. Previously, I had been using my human thoughts, and human emotions, which led to a bad outcome. Now, I am no longer afraid that the person I am trying to persuade will show disrespect to Dafa. When the disrespect appears, I use my compassion and serenity to patiently clarify the truth. Then I add my righteous thoughts, thus clearing all the bad elements behind the person. Some of the persons' bad thoughts might not be their own, they may just have been polluted by the CCP or controlled by evil spirits. As soon as I realized this, my xinxing level was elevated. My mind became tranquil and I no longer got angry.

Every Dafa practitioner knows that lack of righteous thoughts leads to poor results. Every time I encounter a difficult situation, I first try to find my compassion. Sometimes I can even imagine hearing Teacher's voice. For example, one day I finished posting truth-clarification materials in an apartment building and went down the stairs. One lady heard me posting a paper on her door. She came out with the paper in her hand and shouted at me: "Come back, did you paste this on my door?" She seemed ready to chase after me. I went to her with a smile on my face and compassion in my heart. I looked at her with a compassionate and peaceful heart, feeling pity for her. She saw me drawing near her and stepped back. I saw that she kept on reading what was on the paper, so I left without saying anything. Later, it occurred to me that other practitioners have probably all encountered similar situations. If I had started running, I would have fallen into the trap of an everyday person's thoughts and she would have yelled even louder, causing me trouble.

When I distribute truth-clarifying materials I always base my thoughts on the compassionate intention to save sentient beings. I am always considerate of the benefit to others, and the effects have been very good. At times I entered an apartment building and heard people coming out. I then thought to myself: "You go back home first! Don't come out until I finish what I need to do!" At the same time, I kept my compassionate thoughts. Before long, the person returned to her home. Once I finished distributing the materials and exited the building, I would hear the person coming out the door again.

Compassionate thoughts are divine thoughts because compassion is an attribute of a divine being. During the first two years after the start of the persecution in 1999, I stopped playing the music when practicing the exercises. Later, I resumed using the practice music. Whenever I hear Teacher reciting "Have compassion in your heart," I feel very upset because I had not been adding this thought during the past two years when doing my meditation. I now put an emphasis on "having compassion in the heart." I think of this wherever I go and I can even imagine Teacher's voice in my mind. I also repeat the thought that the "Buddha's light shines everywhere, propriety and righteousness harmonize everything." Since I always think of other people's benefit first and my heart remains pure, my righteous thoughts grow stronger.

Compassion comes from Dafa practitioners' cultivation. It is sacred, and cannot be generated by everyday people. The power of a Dafa practitioner's mind will determine whether an everyday person appears to be strong or weak in comparison. I also realized Teacher's Fa in asking us to do everything from the heart.

I will end my sharing by quoting Teacher: "If every one of you can understand the Fa from the depths of your mind, that will truly be the manifestation of the Fa whose power knows no boundary--the reappearance of the mighty Buddha Fa in the human world!" (Essentials for Further Advancement, "Cautionary Advice")

(Clearwisdom.net) Ever since Teacher started teaching the Fa, he has always told us that regardless of what issue we have encountered, we need to look at ourselves and find problems in our own xinxing -- searching within and cultivating ourselves. As I calm down, I ask myself, how did I do?

In "Teaching the Fa in the City of Los Angeles," Teacher emphasized heavily the issue of practitioners not being able to accept criticism from others. Thus I have been paying special attention to it. But often I am unable to keep my xinxing stable at critical moments and cannot help but quarrel with others. At those moments, my heart starts racing and I even get upset. This of course is not a right state of mind and is far from the state of a cultivator. The reason for it is that I still am not paying enough attention to this issue. On the superficial level, it seems that I did pay attention to it, but there was no change deep in my heart. The human reason that was formed through thousands of years, as well as the competitive mentality from the Communist culture, did not change a bit.

From the Fa, we all know that an attachment has strong associations with matters in other dimensions. Particular states of mind, such as not searching within oneself, always pushing problems onto others, liking to hear good words, and not being able to hear criticism, are manifested as mountains in other dimensions. We cannot move these mountains, neither could any cultivation form in the past but by help from a master. "Cultivation depends on one's own efforts, while transforming gong is done by one's master." (Zhuan Falun) As long as we truly cultivate ourselves and search within, Teacher will remove these mountains for us, in the same amount as we cultivate. At the same time, in the process of looking withing and cultivating ourselves, we continue to enlighten to the sacred Fa.

A few days ago, my wife encountered some problems and wanted to take up some of my time. I was not very happy about it and said, "You always look for things for me to do. I don't have enough time to study the Fa. If I don't cultivate well, no one at home is really safe. See, evil is taking advantage of the loopholes." At the time, I thought that I had a good reason and it was from the Fa's perspective. I felt pretty good about myself. However, the next evening, my wife walked in the room as I was studying the Fa. She pointed her finger at my nose and accused me of thinking of myself as infallible. She went on and on for a while to scold me. When I was just about to talk back, I suddenly remembered, "Didn't I just read 'Teaching the Fa in the City of Los Angeles'? She really is scolding me with a finger pointing at me!" I kept control of myself but still felt uneasy. After I calmed down and thought about it, I realized that it was a simple matter. I did not study the Fa well, and I was blaming others for it instead of looking within. The next day when I talked to my wife about this matter, she laughed.

Cultivation requires one to continuously search within, cultivating oneself and letting go of attachments. Yesterday, my workplace had its annual employee review. There was not much criticism on the review form that I received and I treated the feedback calmly. However, during the lunch break, when there was no one else in the room, my manager told me that some people thought that I spoke to others harshly and that I should pay attention to it from now on. At the time, my answer was, "Yes, I do have this problem. I should pay more attention to it." My manager smiled. I thought to myself, "I just finished studying 'Teaching the Fa in the City of Los Angeles' a few days ago. I should be able to take the criticism." So I didn't explain myself. However, I still felt uneasy in my heart. I felt that I had lost face. At the time, my throat was very uncomfortable as if it was stuffed with feathers. I felt sore all over and very tired. It had started the night before and had lasted over ten hours. I started to feel that I had a legitimate grievance and complaint. I thought, "Why do you have to tell me this now? Couldn't you wait till I feel better?" I was also not very convinced of the criticism. Yet the righteous thoughts told me that these are just a sentimental mentality and attachments of which I should let go. I searched within myself and slowly regained calmness. It felt very good.

By that night, I felt even worse. I was feeling cold no matter what warm food I ate. With that, I had one thought, "I am a Dafa disciple. I should believe in Teacher and the Fa firmly. I should search within unconditionally. Let's see what you can stir up. I won't pay attention to it."

When I went to bed, I seemed to have some enlightenment. The old forces had detailed arrangements for us. Even a single thought of a disciple is not a coincidence. They had arranged these bad things for us, then used them as excuses to persecute us during Fa-rectification as they try to destroy us. How evil it is. But Teacher asks us to search within and cultivate ourselves. When we truly follow it, then the arrangements of the old forces will lose their usefulness.

Moreover, when we search within unconditionally, we can also break away from the fundamental characteristic of beings in the old cosmos, that is, selfishness. And we can walk away from the old cosmos and into the magnificent new cosmos. From that perspective, searching within is a great tool that Master has given us. We should cherish it, cultivate ourselves well, and become better at validating the Fa and saving sentient beings.

The next morning when I woke up, I didn't feel as bad. I went to work and wrote down this experience sharing. Please kindly point out anything inappropriate.

My sharing today is entitled "Assimilating into a New Cultivation Environment as Quickly as Possible." I started my cultivation practice in 1996. I arrived in Toronto in August this year. I will share with you some of my experiences and understanding on cultivation since my arrival a few months ago.

I. My Feelings Upon My Initial Arrival in Toronto
As soon as I left the plane, I saw the clear blue sky. I breathed the fresh and free air of Toronto. I thought about the fact that just some ten odd hours ago, there were still dark clouds clustered in the dark blue sky over my head in a place where the evil filled the air. I realized that I had now reached a brand new cultivation environment.

When I met up with my youngest aunt, I couldn't wait to ask her about the cultivation environment of the overseas Falun Dafa practitioners. Not long after, I was informed about the Divine Land Marching Band, how fellow practitioners had clarified the truth in shifts at the Chinese Consulate in Toronto, and many things about the three media. All of these were things I didn't know when I was back in China.

When I learned that there was a group Fa-study at Toronto University on Fridays, I wished it was Friday that very day. The Fa group study is one of the forms that Teacher has given to all practitioners, and which has become almost impossible in Mainland China. The persecution launched by the evil has made it difficult for Falun Dafa practitioners to even meet, let alone study together.

Finally, the sacred time for group study came. I accompanied my aunt to the University of Toronto. Seeing so many practitioners entering the classroom, I felt as though I was meeting with a roomful of relatives and was very excited. The grand scene of the Fa group study brought me back to the times before 1999, before the evil had launched the persecution. At that time, I was very young. I would go with my mother daily to participate in the Fa group study and watch Teacher's videos, while at the same time we shared our experiences and understandings enlightened by Falun Dafa and discussed how to eliminate all of our attachments and how to assist Teacher in spreading the Fa well. What we share at present, overseas among all the fellow practitioners is how to clearly clarify the truth, validate Falun Dafa, save sentient beings, and how to make ourselves upright during the Fa-rectification. All kinds of thoughts swelled up in my heart and I was deeply impressed by the free environment of overseas practitioners.

II. Joining the Divine Land Marching Band
A month after I arrived in Toronto, I joined the Divine Land Marching Band. When choosing a musical instrument, I was told by many fellow practitioners that the trumpet was not easy to learn. The trumpet is supposed to play the main melody and is the most needed in the band. Knowing that it is hard to learn, I was stirred by human thoughts without even hearing the second half of the sentence. I told myself, "Since the trumpet is so hard to play, it will weaken the power of the band if I can't manage it well, plus I may not be in the parade as soon as I wish." I have a good sense of rhythm, so it might be easier for me to play the saxophone or the bass drum. Without my knowing, my aunt chose the trumpet for me. I was really a bit vexed and complained why she didn't ask for my opinion. She said "No, I did not, but are you afraid of the difficulties you will encounter in playing the trumpet?" I think it was Teacher that used my aunt's words to enlighten me. I finally accepted the trumpet as my instrument. When I looked within, I found the attachment of pursuing the easy way and the fear of difficulties which were interfering with me.

When I held the trumpet in my hands for the first time, I was delighted. Feeling that I had a friend with me, the excitement kept me from thinking too much about whether it would be hard or not. I adored it so much. Every day, I longed to get home as soon as possible after school so I could play my trumpet. I looked forward to playing it well so that I could participate in parades with fellow practitioners to validate Falun Dafa and save sentient beings. When I first received the trumpet and was ready to practice, I could feel that Teacher had strengthened me with wisdom and righteous thoughts. Every day when I practiced I could accomplish a lot and the practicing process solidified what Teacher has taught me. As long as I practice more, I can grasp it. I feel that I've improved quickly.

I realized that practicing the trumpet is a process of cultivation. As long as we eliminate human notions and are diligent, we can make improvements. To think about which instrument is hard to play, or which is easy for young people to learn, or that people without a basic knowledge of music learn slowly, are all human notions that interfere with Falun Dafa practitioners. They should be all rooted out. I have enlightened that when Teacher granted each Dafa practitioner with a Fa implement, everyone of us was given abilities and powers. To practice a musical instrument is to conform to the law and the state of the human world. It is just like the enlightened beings needing to start their cultivation all over again when they descend to the human world to save the people. As long as we have righteous thoughts, and are aware that we are practicing the great Fa, our divine side will take effect. And there will be no way for the evil to interfere.

The first time I took part in a parade, while walking in the procession, I was fully aware that I was validating the Fa and saving sentient beings. At that moment I truly felt the mission I shouldered as a member of the Divine Land Marching Band. Every parade of ours received a good response. I think this is because when Falun Dafa practitioners are together, their energies are strong, and the music they play is pleasant. I feel deeply happy for the people who heard, saw, and cheered for our band.

III. Study the Fa Well and Clarify the Truth
Teacher said in his new article, "To the Australia Fa Conference":

Thinking back on my ten year journey of cultivation, whenever I could not pass a test, or my cultivation state was not good, the reason was that I didn't study the Fa well and also did not have Fa in mind. With so many things to do now, if I do not study the Fa well, I will fall into a state of completely doing things with my human side. I will easily feel entirely exhausted. I think of practitioners in Mainland China inside labor camps, whenever there is a chance, they will recite Zhuan Falun for other practitioners. Those practitioners who had just learned the Fa and those whose houses were searched were eager to read this great book.

At present in Mainland China, Falun Dafa books are not available. I remember how excited a new practitioner was when he received a copy of Zhuan Falun from my mother who had copied it by hand. Before leaving China, I also gave my mp3 player with Teacher's lectures on it to a new practitioner who had just started cultivating.

In Mainland China, our fellow practitioners never neglected Fa-study in that tough environment. Compared to them, I see my shortcomings. I should do even better to get rid off my laziness and all the other evil which interferes with my Fa study. I must cherish the Fa study environment here.

To clarify the truth is also one of the three things that Teacher requires of practitioners. On the first day of the new semester at the University of Toronto, I went to distribute truth-clarifying materials and gained many valuable experiences. Many people were walking on campus, and fellow practitioners tried to give out those materials to them. Many of them received it with gratitude, some even took the materials with both hands and bowed which really touched me. Being blinded and poisoned by the atheism of the evil Party culture, many Chinese people do not believe in gods and display indifference for human life.

When the persecution was just launched back in the year 1999, my family members and I, and many fellow practitioners around, were all illegally detained. It pained my heart to learn that some fellow practitioners were tortured to death, to see practitioners walking shakily who had suffered from several rounds of torture, to know that some practitioners were arrested and sent to labor camp several times, and to think of the practitioners forcefully taken into the labor camps! Never, ever will I forget any of those scenes. Teacher said in his new article,

I was enlightened that Fa-rectification has entered into a new stage, and we still fall short in eliminating the dark minions and rotten demons that are instrumental in the persecuting of Falun Dafa disciples.

IV. Encouraging People to Quit the CCP and Its Affiliated Organizations
As for helping people to quit the CCP, I should say I haven't done well enough, for I've failed to initiate making the phone calls, but only took a few opportunities to clarify the truth to some of my former classmates and teachers. I really see that some Chinese people at my age are poisoned. In fact, they are poisoned daily by the evil Party culture without even knowing it. Ever since they were born, they have been living in that environment. Nowadays the contents of elementary school textbooks for students in China are almost exactly the same as those twenty years ago; there is no essence of traditional Chinese culture, but only the evil Party's propaganda and brainwashing. For example, when the teacher asked one of my Chinese classmates in the language school where I now study, whether the Chinese people have the right to vote, he answered without any hesitation, "Yes." So I asked him when actually was the last time he voted and his reply was, "How can I get my turn at that!" Then I asked him who should vote and he couldn't answer. I continued, "Just think about how the American president got elected, but everyone knew Hu Jintao was coming to power one or two years even before he became the President. Do Chinese people really have voting rights?" He thought for a while and then said, "It makes some sense now."

Once, I spent an entire night clarifying the facts to another Chinese schoolmate. Finally, he agreed to quit the CCP and its affiliated organizations. As I was about to say goodbye to him, he added, "It is because of the human rights problem that I agreed to quit, but in terms of the economy, there are natural cycles of ups and downs." I could find no other way then, but he did get saved by quitting. It was 3 o'clock in the morning and I had a parade the next day, so with no further discussion, we ended the conversation.

The nine classmates in my class are from six different countries. Now, they all know that the Chinese Communist Party is very evil and incompetent. I should mention here that the entire credit for this need not go to me, for during the course of clarifying the truth to them, I felt that except for some of the Chinese people, the people of the whole world already know the evil Party's autocratic and vicious nature. What I did only made them understand that the CCP is much more vicious and incompetent than they thought.

Though I continue to clarify the truth, compared to fellow practitioners in Mainland China, I feel I lag far behind. These days, I get e-mails from my mother every day asking me to help people to quit the CCP on their behalf on the Internet. It's always more than one name, and the longest list had 169 names. When I see an alias like 'Fo Yuan' (predestined relationship with the Buddha), I feel as though I am actually seeing a new life before me. Thinking of Falun Dafa practitioners in Mainland China on rain soaked nights, wearing rain-coats, singing "Coming for You" and with truth-clarifying materials on their backs, they go out to save sentient beings. Thinking of them distributing truth-clarifying materials to police stations with their clean and pure minds, thinking of the exciting scene when my mother and I found a new approach to distributing truth-clarifying materials, thinking that inside a delicately wrapped parcel there are some shining truth-clarifying materials, thinking that they have kept on clarifying the truth without rest, I feel that I have fallen behind and have not kept pace with the Fa-rectification process. Our fellow practitioners in Mainland China must keep very strong righteous thoughts. Failing that, the evil forces would make excuses to carry out their persecution. Even in those cruel surroundings, they still do not forget the "three things" Teacher asks us to do. Why can't I pick up the phone to clarify the truth? Is it out of fear or worry? Or is it just out of my attachment to seeking comfort, fundamentally? Each time I hear my fellow practitioners share their experiences on helping people quit the CCP, I had a kind of wait-and-see attitude to check out if other practitioners would make their move. I never thought of how I could be better involved and take action. When I look inward, I ask myself, "Have I slacked off now that I am in a better environment? Have I failed to keep in mind that I am a Fa-rectification period Dafa disciple? Have I always remembered that as a Falun Dafa practitioner, I should do the three things well? Thinking this I break out in a cold sweat all over. It is time for me to pick up the phone and call China.

V. Conclusion
Time flies and in an instant, I have been in Toronto for three months. I came to understand deeply that for a Falun Dafa practitioner, wherever he or she is, solid cultivation is of vital importance. We have to try our best to do the three things that our Teacher requires us to do under any conditions. I realized that though my cultivation environment seems to be getting better, how I keep cultivating diligently in the new environment is Dafa's new and higher requirements of me. I'll make every effort to study the Fa, and try to merge myself into the new cultivation environment as soon as possible.

Finally, I'd like to cite Teacher's words in Essentials for Further Advancement - "Melt into the Fa":

"As a student, if his mind is filled with nothing but Dafa, this person is definitely a genuine cultivator. So you must have a clear understanding on the matter of studying the Fa. Reading the books more and studying the books more is the key to truly elevating yourself. To put it more simply, as long as you read Dafa, you are changing; as long as you read Dafa, you are elevating. The boundless content of Dafa plus the supplementary means--the exercises--will enable you to reach Consummation."

(Clearwisdom.net) I began Falun Dafa cultivation in 1999. I understood that Dafa is for cultivating the Buddha and the Tao. It was hard to describe my excitement. I am so fortunate. I will cultivate to the end. I brought this great news to my family, and our entire family began our cultivation paths and immersed ourselves in Master's enormous compassionate Buddha light. Our happiness is beyond words.

Before I began practicing Falun Dafa, my husband and I did not get along. We quarreled every other day and fought every third day, almost to the brink of divorce. After studying the Fa, we began respecting and understanding each other, and helped each other improve. From studying the Fa and doing the exercises, my husband's severe heart disease unknowingly disappeared.

When we were full of happiness and longing for a wonderful future, the evil persecution that darkened the sky and covered up the earth began. Out of jealousy, Jiang's regime began their frenzied oppression and persecution against an entire group of people who believe in "Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance," and maliciously attacked and insulted Master who provided salvation to all. I was distressed, upset and anxious. What should we do? As a Dafa practitioner, I could not tolerate the evil slandering of Dafa and Master. Fellow practitioners and I went to the local government to clarify the truth. Contrary to our expectation, they not only did not listen to us but detained us and forced us to hand in our Dafa books. I felt that I should never hand in our Dafa books even if they kill me. I hid the books well after I came home and studied them secretly at home.

In 2000, many practitioners went to validate Dafa in Beijing. I felt that I should go too. But at the time the evil was furious, the persecution was unprecedentedly savage. Concerned for the safety of my family, my husband's job and our child's schooling, I had a strong attachment of fear. At the time I could only constantly study the Fa. Finally I was able to let go of life and death, fame, benefit and sentimentality, so I resolutely went to Beijing to validate Dafa.

During my brief stay in Beijing, the local police arrested and held me in the police station. They beat and cursed me. I was not afraid nor did I give in. The weather was extremely cold. I wore only a thin layer of clothes and could not help but shiver in the cold. When I could no longer handle it, I began learning Hong Yin and Zhuan Falun (Lunyu) by heart. I felt warmth all over my body and felt very comfortable. I suddenly realized that Master had never left me, he was beside me all along, and he cared for and protected me in every possible way. Master also helped me come back home smoothly. Whenever I remembered the support and encouragement Master bestowed upon me in Beijing, I could not help shedding tears.

In order to change people's misunderstanding of Dafa, other practitioners and I thought of all sorts of ways to clarify the truth. At the time, our local area was not able to receive Master's recent teachings, truth materials, stickers or posters. I went to other places to get the materials. During the "SARS" outbreak, there were roadblocks everywhere. The first was checking for "SARS," then checking for Dafa practitioners. I sent forth righteous thoughts non-stop and memorized Hong Yin II on the road. I came home safe and sound each time with Master's compassionate protection.

In order to let the world's people understand the truth and be saved, other practitioners and I went to deliver truth pamphlets and the Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party, hang banners and post slogans. One night, another practitioner and I went to a village to post slogans and hang up a banner. We were satisfied with what we had done and planned to leave, when suddenly we saw a policeman running towards us. We were not scared and in unison said, "Hurry, send forth righteous thoughts and immobilize the policeman." The policeman was immobilized and we escaped safely. Many people saw the golden banner that greatly shocked the evil the next morning.

As a result of my sustained effort, all my relatives and friends, and many people in the world have quit the Chinese Communist Party and its affiliated groups. Through my patient and thorough truth clarification, they all know that Falun Dafa is good, however I will not feel complacent and pleased with myself. I am clearly aware that many people still need to be saved, so I cannot slack off even a bit. I will try my best to save more sentient beings during this limited time.

I have limited education and my understanding of the Fa needs improvement. I cannot incisively and vividly express all my thoughts and my gratitude towards Master, but I can certainly say that I have a rock solid belief in Dafa and Master. I will learn the Fa better, look inward whenever a conflict surfaces, elevate my understanding and help Master validate the Fa during the final stage. I will not let Master down.

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

(Clearwisdom.net) More and more people in China are awakening to the truth and realizing that they were deceived by Jiang and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) into participating in the persecution of Falun Gong, either directly as government officials, police, labor camp guards, etc., or indirectly as practitioners' family members, who in many cases may have cursed Dafa, burned Dafa books, or interfered in various other ways to prevent practitioners from following their beliefs. As a result of this awakening, the Minghui/ Clearwisdom website is receiving increasing numbers of heartfelt messages from non-practitioners who wish to publicly express remorse for their wrongdoing and announce their intention to rectify their words and deeds in the future. The editors will periodically choose representative messages of this type and publish them as articles entitled, "Solemn Statements from Non-Practitioners."