At 8:00 a.m. on May 13th, 2008, as Liu Shan left for work, agents from the 610 Office arrested him. He is still missing. His wife and three-year-old son remained at home. Police wanted to break in but failed. Later on the mother and son disappeared, and no one knows their whereabouts. Mr. Liu was well known as a good teacher, particularly since he began practising Falun Gong.
He was arrested twice before for practising Falun Gong.

In March 2008, many Falun Gong practitioners detained at Jiamusi City Forced Labour Camp were handcuffed and beaten. Although the persecution was exposed to the outside world, the labour camp authorities continued torturing the practitioners. Among them, Ms. Zhu Guoying had a mental collapse due to the torture. Since the persecution began on July 20th, 1999, Ms. Zhu has been arrested, detained and her home ransacked many times by police. She has been fined several times, totalling over 25,000 yuan. In the labour camp Ms. Zhu would at times talk senselessly to herself or shout at others. Guards taped her mouth shut and tied her down to the bed, causing her health to deteriorate even further.

Thirty-eight-year-old Falun Gong practitioner Wang Guiming died as a result of abuse in the Chaoyanggou Forced Labour Camp on February 29th, 2008. He had been arrested while working on February 13th and many people saw the police beat him in the police van. He went on a hunger strike to protest the detention and was force-fed three times. When the family saw his body there were bruises all over it, evidence of abuse. Yet the police maintained that Mr. Wang had killed himself.

Mr. Lu Tingxiao was 66 years old. He started practising Falun Gong in 1997. In October of 1999, Mr. Lu went to Beijing to appeal for a stop to the persecution of Falun Gong. After he came back, his workplace sent him to a brainwashing centre and he was fined before he was released. Mr. Lu was detained several times afterwards and his home was ransacked many times. In May of 2007, while Mr. Lu was in Hainan Province, he was sent to another brainwashing centre. During detention, he showed symptoms of severe illness. Mr. Lu passed away on March 31st, 2008.

Ms. Zeng Suqiong, 50, was a Falun Gong practitioner from Leshan City, Sichuan Province. She was arrested many times for persisting in Falun Gong practice. For a long while, she led a destitute and homeless life. When she was arrested again in 2002, she was sentenced to three years in a forced labour camp and detained in the Longquan Women's Prison in Sichuan Province, or Chuanxi Women's Prison. Her husband divorced her and took away their son and all of their property. After she was released in 2006, she was homeless, and had to live in an elderly residential home. She was the only female in the home. Even so, she was monitored and harassed by local police officers. She passed away in June 2007.

On December 19th, 2007, some Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Bai Heguo was transferred from Huazi Prison to Nanguanling Prison. Because he refused to do forced labour, guard Zhang Shuyi ordered prisoner Zhou to beat Mr. Bai in an office and then handcuffed him to the heating pipe. Mr. Bai's head was beaten beyond recognition, and his eyes were only a slit due to the swelling. When the guards found that he was dying, they took him to the hospital for emergency care, but he had died by the time he made it to the hospital.

According to witnesses, at 9 a.m. on July 9th, 2006, Ye Changdong, the head of Wenlin Town Police Station, put on plain-clothes and went with 20 others to force a female practitioner in her 70s to the emergency room on the third floor of Renshou County Hospital. The elderly practitioner sat on the edge of the bed for a little while and seemed to be in a lot of pain. The police told her to lie down. With one hand on her abdomen, she lay down on her side. A while later, Yang Changdong noticed that the woman was dying, so he got a doctor to do artificial respiration. It was only about three or four hours from the time she was taken into Emergency until her death. During that time, no one examined her. The doctor said that there was no record made of her visit.

Ms. Deng Shufen, in her 70s, was arrested and detained eight times after the persecution started. On October 1st, 2007, she went to speak out for justice for Falun Gong to the town government. In the middle of that night officers arrested Ms. Deng and took her to the Chengdu City Legal Education Centre (a brainwashing centre) for 40 days. She was released after she could not eat as a result of the mental and physical torture. She was as thin as a skeleton, and her eyes remained wide open for two months. She died on May 5th, 2008.

Mr. Jin Yongnan, a Falun Gong practitioner, was brutally mistreated in forced labour camps for years. In 2004 police arrested him again at home and confiscated Falun Gong books and leaflets exposing the persecution. The police tried to make him reveal the source of his materials by torturing him. From that afternoon on, the police beat him six days and six nights in a row, deprived him of sleep, and put a steel hat on his head so that two people could take turns beating it with a wooden bat. The bat snapped, his head bled and swelled, and every part of his body was damaged. In Jiutai Forced Labour Camp and suffered even more cruel torture, including the "stretching bed" and "swinging." Due to suffering from long-term torture Mr. Jin passed away on May 3rd, 2008.

Ms. Li died as a result of the persecution in 2004, and her husband Mr. Jiang died in 2006 as a result of the persecution. Mr. Jiang Chengjiu was sent to Suihua City Forced Labour Camp for a two-year term. He was released in 2003. On September 3rd, 2004, police again sentenced him to three years of forced labour. His wife died about two weeks later. Mr. Jiang refused to succumb to the brainwashing. Guards cruelly tortured him, causing him to go deaf in on ear, and his legs and buttocks were covered with bruises. He died on November 15th, 2006.

The 610 Office in Changzhou City, Jiangsu Province, pursues the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) regime's directives to persecute Falun Gong. They use all kinds of excuses to arrest and detain practitioners. They employ people who have already been brainwashed to brainwash others. They entice them with a certain amount of profit to attempt to "transform" practitioners who have been detained. Those who went astray and were brainwashed have themselves been confined in forced labour camps and many even tortured. They know exactly how it feels to be tortured. After they went astray, they copied the methods used against them and employed them at brainwashing centres, strengthening the persecution.

Mr. Teng Zhiduo, 62, became very healthy after he began practising Falun Gong in 1998. However, since the persecution started in July 1999, the police arrested and detained him many times. The most severe case occurred in autumn 2004 when police officers arrested Mr. Teng while he was distributing leaflets exposing the persecution and telling people the facts about Falun Gong. They detained him for two months and subjected him to numerous tortures. On March 24th, 2008, Mr. Teng Zhiduo fell. His family took him to the hospital, but he quietly passed away, never having recovered from the tortures he experienced for refusing to give up his belief in Falun Gong.

In May 2006, agents of the Yongzhou City Domestic Security Division ransacked Mr. Tang Cibao's home and took his computer, printer, TV, and cash. He was forced to leave home to avoid being arrested. In January 2007, someone reported that Mr. Tang had returned to his home. Officer Feng Defu arrested him on February 2nd, 2007, and took him to Xinkaipu Forced Labour Camp to serve a two year term. Mr. Tang lost 70 pounds due to the brutal mistreatment. He had no energy to talk, and developed serious liver disease. The Camp Administration ordered his family to pick him up in October 2007, and he died on May 13th, 2008.

On April 23rd, 2008, police officers from the Benxi City Police Department in Liaoning Province arrested local practitioners during a well-coordinated operation. Some officers said that the operation and the list of practitioners were from the Liaoning Provincial government. A dozen officers from Jinshan Police Station knocked on the door of practitioner Mr. Zi Lidong, who is in his 30s, and pretended to be plumbers. Mr. Zi's family told them to wait until the following day. The officers started to pound on the door until they broke it. Mr. Zi jumped from the third floor to escape. Unfortunately he injured his chest, hip, and leg, and was sent to the hospital for an operation.

Ms. Hu Runlian, 52, started practising Falun Gong in July 1997, and gradually her many illnesses disappeared. When the Chinese Communist Party started the persecution, Hu Runlian went to appeal for justice for Falun Gong. However, she was arrested and detained, and her home and belongings were confiscated. She was dismissed by her company, and after being detained at a forced labour camp she was sentenced to prison. Every day the guards forced Ms. Hu to watch a video and read a book that slandered Falun Gong. She was forced to stand facing the wall for long periods of time and the drug addicts and collaborators, who were former practitioners who had renounced Falun Gong, read the book slandering Falun Gong to her.

At about 9:00 pm, on April 23rd, 2008, police officers along with agents from the National Security, 10 individuals turned off the power switch located in the hallway outside Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Wang Zengwu's apartment. He opened his door to see if he could fix the problem by turning the power switch on. They took advantage of the open door to enter, ransacked his home, and took his computer. Mr. Wang Zengwu was arrested and detained for 15 days. Now he is detained in the Shuangliao City Detention Centre. He was sentenced to prison in 2002 and was fired from his job, only because he practised Falun Gong.

On April 17th, 2008, six Falun Gong practitioners, including Ms. Xu Shuqin, were unjustly tried by the Zunhua City Court in Hebei Province. The court appointed one lawyer for each practitioner for a mock defence. On April 24th, 2008, after the court session, the Zunhua City Court sentenced the six practitioners, including Ms. Xu, who was sentenced to four and a half years. She has already appealed to the Tangshan City Intermediate People's Court. She was previously detained, tortured and suffered brainwashing. Her family was ordered to take her home and pay five thousand yuan.

Ms. Zhang Hanping, in her 40s, lived in Tianjin City. She was arrested while putting up posters exposing the persecution in the Baodi District in April 2004. She was then sentenced to three and a half years in prison. While she was jailed in the Tianjin Prison, Ms. Zhang was subjected to brainwashing and physical abuse. She suffered from diabetes and pancreatitis after she was released in 2007. Ms. Zhang died on April 30th, 2008.

On February 13th, 2008, Mr. Wang Guiming, a Falun Gong practitioner, was arrested by local police and subjected to brutal torture. On February 27th, 2008, he was taken to the Chaoyanggou Forced Labour Camp, where he died two days later, due to torture. The authorities, however, stated that he died a "sudden death." His wife, Ms. Han Fengxia, hired a lawyer and filed a lawsuit with the Suburban Procuratorate in Changchun City. She presented eight doubtful points to show that Mr. Wang did not die of "sudden death," but was actually murdered. Consequently, Ms. Han was arrested from her residence on April 15th, 2008.

Mr. Ding Guowang was sentenced to 18 months of forced labour at the Tuanhe Forced Labour Camp in Beijing. He was subjected to brainwashing. In March 2003, Mr. Ding was released. He appeared to suffer a nervous breakdown. He would often cry or laugh without reason and spoke gibberish. He could not take care of himself, and his condition worsened in 2004. In 2005, half of his body was paralysed and he could no longer speak. He became incontinent and had to fully rely on his family to take care of him. He died on April 20th, 2008, at the age of 65.

Ms. Huang Xiyan, 32 years old, started practising Falun Gong in December 1997. Since Jiang Zemin, the former leader of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), and his gang began persecuting Falun Gong on July 20th, 1999, Ms. Huang and her immediate family, as well as her relatives, have undergone great suffering. Ms. Huang's husband, Li Zhenming, was an employee of a state-owned company in Shenzhen City, Guangdong Province. Because of their belief in Falun Gong, they were both laid off by their companies, and their house was confiscated. Both of them were arrested. Ms. Huang was sent to the Sanshui Forced Labour Camp in Guangdong Province, and her husband was later sentenced to 10 years in prison.

A colleague of mine, a man now in his 70s, worked for the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) regime for decades. He was recently arrested and imprisoned simply because he wrote a few words on a wall: "Falun Gong is good". Immediately after Mr. Wang was locked up, the 610 Office unlawfully searched his house and found some materials exposing the persecution of Falun Gong. Officials are demanding that Mr. Wang tell them where he got these materials. The CCP is notorious for the cruel means used in extorting a confession through torture. I cannot even imagine what horrible torture this man in his 70s is going through. It saddens me greatly to even think about it.

Ms. Liang Li is a practitioner from a broadcast bureau. Since she continued to practise Falun Gong, she was dismissed and has not been paid a salary for eight years. The police often went to her home to harass her and try to "transform" her. Her husband could not bear the intense pressure and jumped off a tall building to commit suicide. Recently, 610 Office agents looked for Ms. Liang everywhere. They could not find her at home, so the broadcast centre dispatched a vehicle to Beijing to look for her, but in vain.

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Political and Judiciary Committee issued secret orders in the document "Suggestion to maintain social stability and ensure the safety of the Olympics." The document was sent to 40 provincial-level CCP administrative offices and "Offices that deal with Falun Gong." The document essentially orders Party authorities around the country to "intensively deal with problems," "to enhance 'management' of the activities of foreign reporters coming for the Olympics," "to enhance the 'management' of the Internet and mobile phone text messaging," and to "severely crack down on Falun Gong."

Police officers in Xiangtan County, Hunan Province arrested five Falun Gong practitioners in February 2008. When police arrested Mr. Zhu Guangquan, his computer, printer and 12,900 "yuan" cash were seized from his home. In March, Ms. Zhang Yaqin was arrested. Her husband refused to cooperate with the police officers, so they threatened to arrest him for "hindering official business".

In late April 2008, Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Minister of Public Security Zhou Yongkong held more conference calls to discuss "The measures to ensure a stable society during the Beijing Olympics and Shanghai Paralympics." Other provinces and cities also held similar conference calls soon thereafter. The meetings outlined the need to maintain control over "advocates for Tibet's independence," "Falun Gong," "other religions," "extremists," and "people who repeatedly appeal." For those people who try to appeal at the provincial level or in Beijing, they are to be interviewed and their issues analysed individually so that conflicts are resolved and controlled locally. "Members of Falun Gong" are to be extensively controlled. Control over the Internet needs to intensify.

Falun Gong practitioners Mr. Wu Renliang, 54, and his wife Ms. Zhao Meiluan, 51, went to Tiananmen Square in Beijing to appeal for justice for Falun Gong. Wu Renliang held up a banner with the words, "Falun Gong is Good." Police immediately nabbed him and threw him into a van. Mr. Wu witnessed the police on Tiananmen Square brutally beating practitioners with electric batons and punching and kicking them. Later, the Wu couple was taken to the Huangmei County First Detention Centre, where Mr. Wu Renliang was cruelly tortured. Ms. Zhao Meiluan was shackled and handcuffed. The police still made her walk back and forth and they brutally hit her about the head when she stopped walking.

Practitioner Ms. Hu Zhanying is almost 70 years old. She retired with honours from No. 18 Middle School in Chongqing City. On the afternoon of March 24th, 2008, as she entered her home with her grandson, a group of police officers led by Liang Shibin rushed in and arrested her. They also ransacked her home, seizing many items including purses, computers, and some materials exposing the persecution of Falun Gong. It is reported that Ms. Hu is being detained and mistreated in a brainwashing centre in Chongqing City.

Li Hong, Shapingba 610 Office head, the District Domestic Security Division head in Chongqing and other Chinese Communist Party (CCP) personnel arrested retired teacher Mr. Lei Zhengxia and terrorized his wife Li Weiqun. The arrest took place because the couple told them that Falun Gong is treated unjustly, and that reports on the TV, in newspapers and other media defaming Falun Gong are untrue. The couple suffered a brutal beating. Lei Zhengxia sustained two broken ribs. He haemorrhaged internally and was in critical condition.

Ms. Fu Ping, 44, was arrested in 2000, while handing out Falun Gong leaflets exposing the persecution. She was locked in a cell for death row inmates for more than three weeks by officers from Gaoxin District. Ms. Fu was then sentenced to 18 months of forced labour. Later, she was reported to the authorities while handing out DVDs exposing the persecution. Her home was ransacked, and she was forced to leave her home for a long period of time to avoid being arrested. After returning home, Fu Ping was under surveillance and could not practise Falun Gong. Her former illnesses reoccurred and she lived a hard life. Ms. Fu died at the end of March 2008, her body entirely swollen.

Local police arrested practitioner Ms. Xie Caile from Chengdu in August 2002. She was sentenced to five years in prison in June 2003 and later incarcerated at Chengdu Women's Prison, where she suffered much misery. They injected her with unknown drugs and placed her on a "Death Bed" and inserted a tube used for liquefied gas from her nose to stomach. Her nose and oesophagus were injured right away. She was forbidden to leave the cell and was cut off from all connections to the outside world. Rumour once had it that she had already died from abuse. Ms. Xie was released on August 27th, 2007.

In July 2000, Mr. Li Wenmou, 72, went to Beijing to appeal on behalf of Falun Gong and was arrested by Tiananmen Square police. He was released but once at home, local police arrested him and had him sentenced to one and a half years of forced labour. On September 2-3rd, 2000, he was taken to Tonghua Forced Labour Camp, where all the practitioners, regardless of age, were physically assaulted and shocked with electric batons. Guard Sun Jianfu urged criminal inmate Zhan Wandong to slap the practitioners with the bottoms of his shoes. He also told the criminals that, if they beat practitioners, they would get credits and reductions in their sentences. Li Wenmou was made to do hard labour every day and forced to watch slanderous videos and undergo compulsory brainwashing.

On April 14th, 2008, opolice arrested Ms. Niu Yuhui at her home Shulan City. The police searched Ms. Niu's home and confiscated more than 6,000 yuan in cash, along with a computer and other personal property. Ms. Niu was taken to the Beicheng Police Station and transferred to a local detention centre that night. Ms. Niu has been imprisoned for her belief many times since the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) started to persecute Falun Gong practitioners in 1999. In 2001, after she was released from a forced labour camp, she was forced to flee her home to avoid constant harassment from local CCP members. Yet later police arrested her again.

Ms. Gong Guozhi, 62, was arrested and locked up in a detention centre. Whilst there the police applied torture to try to force her to give up practising Falun Gong. Guard Zhao Jian (male) slapped her so violently that she fell to the ground. Her face turned black and blue. Zhao Jian forced her to sit on the floor and stretch out her legs. He then stepped on her knees and kicked her lower back. He stomped on her back with his leather shoes.

Several days ago I was surprised to hear that schoolteacher Ms. Tao Yi and her husband, Mr. Bao Jianwei had been arrested by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) authorities in China. I felt grief and indignation, and my conscience wouldn't allow me to remain silent. I was once a colleague of Ms. Tao Yi's, and I remember her being extremely amiable. The students also liked her very much. Several years ago Mr. Bao Jianwei was imprisoned for over three years for practising Falun Gong and speaking out for justice. In order to achieve the goal of "reformation," the prison guards forced Mr. Bao to sit on a small backless stool, and deprived him of sleep.

Li Jianguang, a police officer from the Zhaoyuan City Domestic Security Division in Shandong Province, has been involved in the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners for the past nine years. Despite the fact that his evil behaviour was exposed many times on the Clearwisdom website, he never stopped committing crimes. Ms. Lan Jucui is a practitioner in her 40s. She was physically assaulted from time to time in the brainwashing centre. One day, Li Jianguang continually slapped her face until he was exhausted. Then he humiliated her by kicking her crotch until she fainted and vomited.

In February, 2008, a dozen people, including two lawyers, went to Shenyang City in order to visit Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Feng Guofu in jail. On February 25th, 2008, they were arrested while they slept. After they had money extorted from them, everyone in the group except 50-year-old Ms. Li Shuming was released. She has been beaten, jailed, and endured forced labour many times because she practises Falun Gong. She has been deaf for four years, ever since the township's government ordered 15 people to beat her.

In the detention centre, if your family paid out money, then you might be given a used toothbrush. If not, then you had to share a toothbrush with 10-20 prisoners, or you wouldn't even have one. Next, everyone must recite the prison regulations. Those with an education and able to read had to memorize them within a week. Those with no education had to recite them in two weeks. If not, the prison guards would deprive you of sleep and force you to recite them all night long. If you refused to recite, the cell head would beat you brutally and sent you to the guards. The guards would put you into a torture position called "riding a motorcycle" (putting you in shackles and then handcuffing you under the shackles). This bends your back at a right angle, and your are unable to straighten up to walk or to sleep. This would last for three to four days, or sometimes even a week or two.

Mr. Gao Ke was handcuffed and tortured severely in an “iron chair”. The chief guard ordered a prisoner to seal Mr. Gao's mouth. The prisoner then put a dirty rag in his mouth and sealed it with a wide piece of tape. Yang ordered another prisoner to tie Mr. Gao to the iron chair and watch him closely. Mr. Gao was not allowed to use the toilet and he had to urinate and defecate in his trousers. Mr. Gao was also not allowed to eat for two days. On the fourth day, Mr. Gao's feet became extremely swollen. The iron hoop on the chair cut into his muscle.

On March 3rd, 2008, the chief of police led a dozen agents from the security section and the 610 Office to break into Ms. Zheng Caiyun's home and take her away. Her husband and children tried to stop them, demanding to know if they had a legal basis to do such a thing. They replied, "The chief said so." Her family had to watch Zheng Caiyun being taken away. After cultivating Falun Gong, Ms. Zheng always thought of others and was appreciated by her neighbours. Now this wonderful person has been arrested and locked up and continues to be persecuted.

On September 23rd, 2007, Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Huang Qian was taken into custody by 610 Office agents. The agents suspected that Ms. Huang was involved in rescuing her younger brother, Mr. Huang Jiang, who had been arrested and detained at a brainwashing centre. She was arrested by police officers from the Tianhe District Station and had been previously detained at the Tianhe District Detention Centre for over six months. On March 20th, 2007, Mr. Huang Jiang was arrested and taken to the brainwashing centre.

In 2005 I was arrested at my home by the local police and the thugs from the neighbourhood committee. I was sent to the notorious Masanjia Forced Labour Camp where I was detained for three years. I was tied to a "Dead Person's Bed" and they gave me intravenous injections and force-fed me with unknown drugs every day. After the drugs I felt numb in my head and legs. I was tied to the bed day and night. I even had to relieve myself on the bed. I was also force-fed corn flour paste. When the paste had gone bad they still fed it to me. I was not only covered in the smell of excrement, but also had nasal mucus all over my face

Mr. Zhang Quanliang, a Falun Gong practitioner, was arrested in December 2006. The prison guards have forced practitioners to read books that defame and slander Falun Gong. Practitioners are prohibited from using the toilet, sometimes for 24 hours at a time. In addition, they are not allowed to take showers or do laundry. The guards force practitioners to kneel down and clean the floor with hand towels and rags. Guards stuff rags from the mop into practitioners' mouths to gag them so that they cannot speak. Guards and inmates frequently use batons, brooms, and mops to brutally beat practitioners, but they do not allow the practitioners to make any sound during the beatings.

Qianjin Forced Labour Camp detains over forty Falun Gong practitioners, who were transferred from Wanjia Forced Labour Camp. They are forced to work for over fourteen hours every day. In the summer, they make ice cream sticks and toothpicks, load and unload trucks, plant trees, work on farms, etc. Many practitioners are suffering from their former illnesses, which have recurred under the persecution. Despite this, Zhang Bo and Zhang Aihui force them to continue working or their terms are extended.

Ms. Lai Jinming, 49, was reported to the police by a gate guard when she distributed leaflets exposing the persecution of Falun Gong in the apartment building of the Hunan Province Art Institute. Later, she was arrested by police and was detained at the Changsha City Detention Centre. Since no visits are allowed, her current situation and how badly she has suffered from torture is still unknown.

Ms. Huang Jinrong, 45, is a Falun Gong practitioner from Jiujiang City. Since the persecution began in 1999, she has been detained many times and sentenced to a forced labour camp twice for practising Falun Gong. In the Jiujiang City Detention Centre, she suffered severe mistreatment. She was handcuffed to an iron bed for more than four months, deprived of sleep for a long time, and forced to stand for a long time. She was severely devastated both mentally and physically. Later, she was forced to take unknown medicine and suffered a mental collapse. In January 2008, Ms. Huang was arrested again. She was not released until she became extremely weak due to the mistreatment.

First I wish to tell you about the heavy forced labour practitioners have to perform. Every day, practitioners have to work for 17 hours. The labour is generally making handicrafts, with most of the products being artificial flowers. Between August and September, we were forced to cut garlic or peel ginger for more than 10 hours a day. Many practitioners' skin broke open and festered. We made the flowers in our cells, which included spray painting. Most of the sprays are toxic, which affected our breathing. Those doing such work also had headaches, vomited and were fatigued.

At about 11 a.m. on March 20th, 2008, a group of plainclothes police officers suddenly rushed into a school in Nangang District in Harbin City, Heilongjiang Province. The police took away 17 students who were attending class, and confiscated two computers. The students' parents are Falun Gong practitioners who are being detained and persecuted. Some students' parents were persecuted to death. Under the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) persecution, these children were forced to drop out of school.

Mr. Xie Yunhuan was arrested in 2000 and sentenced to ten years in prison for appealing to stop the persecution of Falun Gong. In Hadagang Prison, Mr. Xie was forced to do dangerous hard labour underground in the coal mine everyday. He was whipped or beaten with a club by the guards if he did not work fast enough. Recently in Mudanjiang City Prison he was beaten badly for speaking out for justice for Falun Gong.

At 7:30 a.m., a group of persecutors from the Political and Legal Committee in the Yuexiu District, personnel from the 610 Office and the local police department went to practitioner Cai Yuzhen's home. They confiscated a computer, printer, an MP3 player and other personal belongings. The 75-year-old Cai Yuzhen immediately experienced symptoms of high blood pressure and was hospitalized for four days. Her children were forced to write a "guarantee statement" to give up Falun Gong and provide copies of their identification cards. They then had to send their mother to the home of a daughter who lives in another city. This was only one of the persecution events that were due to the "Olympic Torch" coming to Guangzhou.