The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) birth control policy wrecked Ms. Fu Ying's health. After practising Falun Gong, her illness disappeared. When the CCP started the persecution, she was forced into a miserable situation. Police ransacked Ms. Fu's home and confiscated all of her Falun Gong books. She was sent to a brainwashing facility. Her mother was bedridden when the police broke into her home. She was very frightened and her illness became worse. She passed away shortly afterwards. In 2005 Ms. Fu was forced to leave home to avoid further persecution. Practising Falun Gong helped Ms. Fu to become pain free and renew her life, but the CCP has repeatedly persecuted her during the past few years.

After the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) began persecuting Falun Gong in July 1999, Mr. Gao Guangchong was placed in leg irons and handcuffs, and was subjected to force-feeding. He was arrested eleven times, sent to labour camp, and forced to leave home to avoid further persecution twice. His home was ransacked numerous times, as well. Currently Mr. Gao's entire body is swollen from torture in Wumaping Prison, and he has been hospitalized in critical condition. His children went to the prison, saw the condition he was in, and requested that the prison release him. They have yet to hear from the prison.

Ms. Tang Yuan, a 67-year-old Falun Gong practitioner, is a retired associate professor from the Central Culture Management Cadre College. On April 29th, she was talking to people about Falun Gong outside the courthouse where Falun Gong practitioner Chen Changyuan was being tried. She was later arrested near Fangcao Street Police Substation. Her home was searched, as well. Tang Yuan is still jailed at the Chengdu City Detention Centre.

Prior to the Communist regime's initiation of the persecution of Falun Gong on July 20th, 1999, 40-year-old Mr. Xu Bin worked at the Dukou Steel & Iron Factory in Panzhihua City, Sichuan Province. Over the next several years, Mr. Xu suffered severely under the persecution. He eventually left Wumaping Prison in Muchuan County, Leshan City, Sichuan Province in 2009, after enduring constant brainwashing and savage torture. However, another practitioner Liu Tianhou died as a result of torture at the Wumaping Prison.

Mr. Zhang Xingye, a Falun Gong practitioner, was brutally tortured by the guards in Daqing City Prison recently. Guards used sticks to beat Mr. Zhang, which resulted in wounds all over his body. Handcuffs were put on his hands and fetters on his feet. He was left outside in the scorching sun for a long time, which caused Mr. Zhang to suffer heat stroke, and he had difficulty breathing. Mr. Zhang's father, who is 70, went to the Daqing City Prison to visit his son many times, but was turned away every time.

It has been over one year since Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Zhou Xiangyang started a hunger strike at the Gangbei Prison. In May 2009, because he was in critical condition, his family requested that he be released on bail for medical treatment. The prison officials agreed, however the prison stipulated that the family transfer Mr. Zhou's registered permanent address from Tianjin City to an address that was under the 610 Office's jurisdiction. Mr. Zhou's family refused to cooperate. Mr. Zhou weighs only 50 pounds.

In May 2009, Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Tang Min, from Hunan Medical University, was put into a mental hospital by her employer because she refused to give up her belief in Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance. Ms. Tang was injected with nerve-damaging drugs at the hospital, and she has yet to regain her freedom. After each injection, her body becomes cold, resulting in shivering and uneasiness. According to knowledgeable people, this type of drug damages the central nervous system, leading to slower reactions and other harmful effects.

On July 19th, 2009, Falun Gong practitioner Yang Guiquan's body was cremated. There were approximately a hundred policemen present. When Mr. Yang's friends went to the home to request to see Mr. Yang's body one last time, the security guards replied, "You can take a look at anyone else, but not Yang Guiquan." When Mr. Yang Guiquan, 45, was imprisoned at the Xindi Detention Centre in Fuxin City, he was tortured and died on July 5th, 2009. Major wounds appeared on his back as well as on the back of his skull. Signs of electric shocks were also observed on his legs. Mr. Yang's friends had tried to hire a lawyer to investigate the crimes committed by the authorities. However, none of the local lawyers dared to work on Mr. Yang's case. They were told, "Liaoning's People's Courts has recently released a document prohibiting lawyers from defending Falun Gong practitioners."

A large family in Beipiao City, Liaoning Province, Mr. Wang Junru (father), Ms. Zhang Qingrong (mother), Mr. Wang Liang (son), Ms. Zhao Guoyun (daughter-in-law), Ms. Wang Jing (daughter), Mr. Zhao Xiaoming (son-in-law), and two children, Wang Xueting (female) and Zhao Hu (male) were persecuted by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) because they were Falun Gong practitioners. When the persecution started, one of the children was less than six years and the other only several months old.

On August 20th, 2008, I went to distribute flyers about Falun Gong near Jilin Prison. I met a guard from the "joint defence." The guard was about 60 years old. I explained the facts about Falun Gong to him. Instead of listening, he beat me. As a result, my face was injured and turned black. There was a big bump under my left eye and my mouth bled. Three policemen held my arms while the other grabbed my hair. They dragged me and threw me against a wall from a distance of five metres. I heard a "thud," and the back of my head hit the wall firmly, making me dizzy. They threw me against the wall repeatedly, four or five times. I was so dizzy that I could not stand up. They ripped out clumps of my hair.

Mr. Chen Gang, a thirty six year old Falun Gong practitioner from Nanjing City, Jiangsu Province was arrested by the authorities of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) including police, court and procuratorate. During his detention, because of his practice of Falun Gong, he was mistreated to such an extent that his appearance was that of a man in his fifties. On July 10th, 2009, the corrupt court sentenced him to three years in prison.

On June 22nd, the flight from Beijing to Frankfurt was delayed for two hours. For Guo Jufeng, who had waited for 17 months, two more hours of waiting were not the end of the world. Guo is an engineer. He was tortured in China for practising Falun Gong. He came to Germany 17 months ago and was granted refugee status in Germany. That day he was waiting for his wife, Ms. Yu Hailing, a medical doctor, and his son, Guo Fangzhou, whom he had never met. After most of the passengers on the Beijing flight had disembarked, Guo finally saw his wife and their son. She was holding him in one hand and the baggage in the other. Tears ran down his face. As he reached for his son, the boy dodged, for Guo was a complete stranger to him.

On January 5th, 2004, Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Liao Nuli was sentenced to ten years by the Futian District Court in Shenzhen City. Mr. Liao was taken to Sihui Prison in Guangdong Province where he was subjected to brutal torture. In 2006, guard Zhong Shaobin ordered inmate Wang Guihai to beat Mr. Liao. After beating Mr. Liao unconscious, the prison's doctor diagnosed Mr. Liao as not in critical condition. Subsequently, guard Zhong again threatened Mr. Liao, telling him not to create any trouble or else the next time he would not be treated so lightly. Mr. Liao found the handling of this incident unacceptable and wrote a letter of appeal to the prison. The secretary and chief of the Seventh Division physically tortured Mr. Liao, increased the intensity of his labour, and punished him at night using methods such as running or military training. This type of physical torture lasted from 2004 to 2009.

Forty-five year-old practitioner Ms. Guo Lirong from Chengdu City in Sichuan Province is a former electrical engineer, having been fired simply because she practised Falun Gong. On the afternoon of July 18th, 2009, Ms. Guo was arrested a second time, while working in the Junxuwan Restaurant in Chengdu City. At approximately 4:30 p.m., police ransacked her home, and confiscated CDs, a computer and other family belongings.

On June 23rd, 2009, Ms. Guan Yujing was taken away from her home. She is currently being detained at the No. 1 Detention Centre in Fuzhou City. Because she has refused to give up Falun Gong in the face of persecution, Guan Yujing had been sent to a mental hospital twice and was once sentenced to a year of forced labour. On January 14th, 2004, she was arrested while she was at work, and was sentenced to four years in prison. Ms. Guan used to have a happy family, but after her sentencing in 2004, her husband divorced her. Her family has also suffered a lot during these past years of persecution.

Mr. Lu Zhaoxin, 59, was arrested and police forcibly took him to the Luotaishanzhuang Brainwashing Centre and later to the Wujiabao Forced Labour Camp in 2006. The last time he was arrested was on September 24th, 2007, when police found him carrying Falun Gong leaflets exposing the persecution on a bus and arrested him and was subsequently sent to the Wujiabao Forced Labour Camp. He was released in the spring of 2008. Due to being tortured severely in the labour camp, he became extremely weak and emaciated, lost his ability to work, and developed diabetes. He died on June 24th, 2009.

Ms. Wei Xiuying is 62 years old. On April 17th, 2009, many police cars surrounded Ms. Wei's house. She was detained in the Linhai Detention Centre and brutally persecuted. They poured hot water over her head, kicked her in the chest, and hit her right ear with a filled water bottle. She has now lost hearing in that ear. She could not walk, her heart failed, and she had convulsions and high blood pressure. She spit out whatever she ate and was so emaciated that only skin and bones were left. Her life was in great danger.

Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Kong Xiangzhu, 39, was tortured to the brink of death at Mudanjiang Prison. He was forced to sit on burning concrete. Guards said, "You can meditate right? We'll let you meditate this time." Guards sprinkled plastic bags with mustard powder and then covered Mr. Kong's head with the bag. Mr. Kong's face turned purple from the lack of oxygen. He choked on the powder with tears and nasal discharge streaming down his face at the same time. Mr. Kong was in such pain that his entire body became distorted. Mr. Kong was only released after the prison extorted 5,000 yuan from his family. On April 18th, 2007, family members carried Mr. Kong home from the prison, only to see him pass away two months later.

On June 23rd, 2009, members of the "610 Office," and police broke into 73-year-old Ms. Tang Xuzhen's home and arrested her. Ms. Tang is a retired associate professor from Luzhou Medical Institute. Ten years ago, she was diagnosed with nose and throat cancer, but practising Falun Gong cured her. Because she shared her positive experience of Falun Gong with people and told about the persecution of practitioners, she was arrested and detained seven times by the Luzhou City 610 Office. She was detained for two years and sent to a forced labour camp for three years.

On July 11th, 2009, the police arrested Ms. Zhang Xinyi and interrogated her. Currently, she is detained in a detention centre. Ms. Zhang has been on hunger strike for three days to protest the persecution. This is her third arrest for practising Falun Gong. In 2002, when Ms. Zhang and her husband were teaching in Cambodia the police arrested them, despite the fact that they showed them their certificates as UN protected refugees and they were deported back to China. Right after they arrived in China, they were detained at a detention centre.

On March 5th, 2002, a programme about the true story of Falun Gong was successfully broadcast over the cable television network in Changchun and Songyuan. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP)
became enraged at this and began to arrest and persecute Falun Gong practitioners on a large scale. Liu Chengjun was one of those practitioners arrested. The police tortured him by putting him on a "tiger bench". They damaged his peritoneum, resulting in his suffering from a strangulated hernia. They tied him on a torture bed for more than fifty days. In October 2002, Liu Chengjun was sentenced to nineteen years in jail. He was later tortured to death.

Ms. Xiaoping Xin, a practitioner from Hunan Province, is imprisoned in the detention centre in Linli. Her current condition is not very optimistic: she is pale, losing weight, has cold hands and feet despite a hot summer, is so skinny that bones are visible, and has swollen ankles and a dark instep. On April 15th members of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) sentenced her to three years in prison. Her family is now preparing to appeal and request her release with a verdict of not guilty.

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) began its persecution of Falun Gong on July 20th, 1999. I went to the Beijing to appeal for justice and was arrested. I had to read lie-filled literature. Guards kept me from sleeping. The constant threats and brainwashing confused me, and I wrote a guarantee statement to give up Falun Gong. An official told me to talk to the media to restore my work unit's reputation. Thinking that I could explain the facts about Falun Gong to the journalists, I agreed. I told them truthfully that I became a good person because I practise Falun Gong. An article published in Modern Scientific Living lied and said how the regime had "reformed" me. It also said that I "attacked" Falun Gong.

Lawyer Wang Yonghang in Dalian City defended Falun Gong practitioners who were persecuted by the Chinese Communist Party. As a result, police broke into his home on July 4th, 2009 and arrested him and his wife. His wife and elderly mother were also physically assaulted. Wang Yonghang and his wife were both taken to a detention centre. Their family members went to the police station to ask for the couple's release, but the police refused to reveal where they were. In addition, wherever the family went, policemen in plain clothes would beat them.

My name is Lai Zuhua and I am 64 years old. I live in Chengdu City. On May 14th, 2004, I took leaflets exposing the persecution of Falun Gong and went to Yulong Street to distribute them. When I had just handed out two flyers, I was captured by police and taken to the nearby Xiyuhe Police Station. From 10:00 p.m. on May 14th to 6:00 a.m. on May 16th, the police did not allow me to go to sleep. They shone three 200-watt electric light bulbs on me and put me in handcuffs. These policemen kept interrogating me about the source of my materials. Later I was taken to a detention centre.

Ms. Shi Lanfang, in her 70s, was arrested and taken to a brainwashing centre on on April 23rd, where she was held for 42 days. This is Ms. Shi's own account of what happened: "I was about to go grocery shopping when I saw five or six police officers in front of my house. One female officer called out to me and said that she wanted me to accompany her to the community centre to 'have a talk.' I told her that I did not have time. At that point, the police officers dragged me into the car and took me to a place called the 'Law and Order Centre' in Xinjin to try to brainwash me."

On July 6th, 2009, police broke into practitioner Ms. Ning Li's home in Xiongyue Town. They then took her to the Bayuquan Domestic Security Division. Afterwards, someone revealed that Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leader Xi Jinping was scheduled to visit the region to do inspections on the morning of July 7th, 2009. Everywhere he went, the security was heightened. Practitioners living near the streets where Xi went by were arrested. Guotun Village, Xiongyue Town, where Ms. Ning lived, was one of the inspection sites.

Practitioner Ms. Wu Jingqing was arrested at the end of October 2002. To implicate her, police planted some Falun Gong CDs in her home while ransacking it. Gongdatang Community Party Secretary Liu Kegui of Guangming Street Residential Committee signed the search list. Ms. Wu was detained in a hotel and a detention centre for about seven months. Due to torture, she passed blood in her stool and urine. The detention centre guard said openly, "If you are dying, we will send you to the hospital, but we will have nothing to do with your death--even if you die five minutes after you are dropped off." Extremely thin, Ms. Wu Jingqing left the detention centre in May 2003, with dignity. It took her several months to recover through studying the Falun Gong teachings and practising the exercises.

Mr. Fu Ziming was a 34-year-old Falun Gong practitioner from Jianli County, Hubei Province. While travelling in the scenic district of Wuyi Mountain, Fujian Province on April 17th, 2009, he posted the message, "Falun Gong is good" in several places. Wuyi Mountain Police Department/Scenic District Police Station agents arrested him. Jianli County 610 Office deputy director Jiang Changhong arrived on April 20th, 2009 to take Fu Ziming back to Hubei Province on a train. Mr. Fu died before his return to Jianli County.

Ms. Liu Guixiang, 63, would not give up the practice of Falun Gong and went to Beijing to seek justice for Falun Gong. As a result, she was arrested and sentenced to forced labour many times by Chinese Communist Party officials. She suffered indescribable tortures. The guards in the forced labour camp force-fed her, and ruthlessly twisted the tube in her oesophagus and stomach with malicious intent. Her retirement pension was also withdrawn for two years.

Tomorrow is Xiaoshun's seventh birthday. His mum has been in Dashan Detention Centre in Qingdao City for over a year now. For fear that Xiaoshun might get upset or feel sad without his Mother there, his dad intentionally did not celebrate his sixth birthday. One day last June, Xiaoshun did not see his mum when he got home from school and found that the house was a mess. Later, his dad told him that his mum had been arrested. At night, he always dreamed of mum, and awoke in tears. But he never told dad about it because he did not want him to feel sad.

My name is Ms. Gao Guizhen. I'm a Falun Gong practitioner from Qitaihe City, Heilongjiang Province. In 2003, I was sentenced to a four-year prison term for being firm in my belief in Falun Gong. I was imprisoned on September 16th in Harbin Women's Prison. Practitioners were inhumanly tortured in the prison. The prison authorities tortured practitioners with the most cruel methods, methods not even used on condemned criminals. We were hung up with our hands cuffed behind our back and with both feet off the ground from the top of a bunk-bed. Once a practitioner lost consciousness from the excruciating pain, the guards poured unknown drugs down her throat. She was hung up again the minute she was revived.

Ma Fan, a thirteen-year-old girl from Liaoning Province, has a simple wish: to be united with her mother. However, in July 2009, this wish was once again denied. On the afternoon of July 13th, 2009, Ma Fan's mother, Ms. Zhang Lirong, was arrested on the charge of "spreading propaganda about Falun Gong" by officers from the Tiexi Police Department's Gongren Village Police Station in Shenyang City, Liaoning Province. Ma Fan has a kind and loving mother. However she has spent very little time with her. Because her mother believes in Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance and strives to be a good person, she has been arrested three times and spent five years in a labour camp.

Ms. Xu Hui, 47, is a geography teacher at the Dalinzi Town High School. Because of her belief in Falun Gong and Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance, every year her school threatened her to renounce Falun Gong. She was forced to live at the school and her salary was withheld, in an effort to pressure her into renouncing her belief. In 2006, her school forced her to work as a guard instead of as a teacher. Ms. Xu was arrested on April 24th, 2008. She was then sent to the Fuyu County Detention Centre and sentenced to eighteen months of forced labour because she refused to renounce her belief.

On July 17th, 2009, 66-year-old Ms. Xu Hanming was arrested at home by police from the Changning District 610 Office and the Changning Police Department. The police confiscated a large number of personal belongings from her. Since Ms. Xu Hanming began practising Falun Gong, she has been very focused and responsible at work. She has volunteered to help students from poor families many times. This kind, exemplary teacher has been detained and persecuted three times only because she would not give up her belief in Falun Gong. She has been detained in brainwashing facilities twice, and sentenced to a labour camp for a year.

Mum, How are you doing? I haven't seen in you so long. I miss you so much! I am writing this letter but I am not sure whether you will be allowed to read it. I sincerely hope a kind guard will let you read this letter. The morning of July 20th, 1999, about twenty plain clothes policemen intruded into our home. You and Dad were arrested. Our home was turned upside down. I was the only one left, frightened and crying. No one took care of me for the next fifty days. I was not even ten years old then. I had to wander around. One of my legs became infected and oozed pus. Finally, you came back, but we no longer had a normal life as before.

Falun Gong practitioners Wu Yang and his wife, Sun Min, from Inner Mongolia, were arrested in Beijing by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) police. Wu Yang was arrested while he was distributing Falun Gong DVDs exposing the persecution in Beijing. Sun Min was arrested after her husband and she died during a brutal interrogation in police custody. The police tampered with her post mortem examination report, claiming that she fell from her apartment window.

Mr. Du Shiliang, a 50-year-old practitioner died as a result of persecution in Jianshanzi Prison, Heilongjiang Province on January 20th, 2006. Before his death, his family visited him on January 13th, and he appeared to be in normal physical condition. After his death, when his family asked to take his body, the chief of the Prison Guard Section said, "Du Shiliang is still serving his sentence. He has to continue to serve his sentence, even if he is dead, so you can't take his body." Later, his body was cremated by police.

The 2010 World Expo is to be held in Shanghai. Zhou Yongkang, former Minister of Public Security of the People's Republic of China and head of the Central Political and Legislative Committee, and a major persecutor of Falun Gong, arrived at the Shanghai World Expo Coordination Bureau on June 20th, 2009. At the beginning of 2009, Jiang Zemin, the chief criminal who orchestrated and maintains the persecution of Falun Gong, returned to Shanghai where he issued the slogan, "Successful Olympics, Splendid World Expo." He also instigated another crackdown on Falun Gong practitioners under the pretext of "ensuring the safety of the World Expo."

Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Zhu Hongbin died on June 18th, 2009, after being brutally tortured during his detainment in the Hongweixing Prison in Daqing City. Mr. Hong was injected with an unknown drug which caused him to lose consciousness. When he regained consciousness, he experienced severe memory loss, including the loss of short term memory. The guards deprived him of food, sleep, and use of the toilet. Five days later, they forced a feeding tube in through Mr. Zhu's nose, down his throat and into his stomach and forced a bowl of milk powder down into Zhu's lungs.

On April 30th, 2009, eight female practitioners from Nanchang city, Jiangxi province were studying Falun Gong teachings at 60-year-old Ms. Leung Meihua's home when more than 10 police officers arrested them. Ms. Leung Meihua and Ms. Jiang Lanying are still detained at a detention centre. Ms. Leung Meihua was only allowed to sleep for less than three hours and forced to stand for over 10 hours a day because she refused to give up her practice.

On July 15th, 2009, the police in Loudi City, Hunan Province raided more than ten practitioners' homes, arrested practitioners and some of their family members, and seized computers, printers, TVs, DVDs, and other items. After being forced to write guarantee statements to renounce Falun Gong the family members and new practitioners were released. Other practitioners are still being detained. Mr. Jiang Mogui and Ms. Deng are in their seventies. They have been repeatedly harassed by police officers and agents from the 610 Office for advocating for Falun Gong in public places.

On July 8th, Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Deng Xiaoming, a teacher in Huayang Teacher Training School, was sentenced to six and a half years imprisonment by Shuangliu Court. The court tried to prevent Mr. Deng's defence lawyers, Xie Yanyi and Li Chunfu, from defending him in court. After an hour-long argument, the two lawyers finally were permitted to attend the trial as Mr. Deng's representatives. The judge interrupted the defence attorneys several times in an attempt to halt their accusations. In the end, the court sentenced Mr. Deng to six and half years in prison, even though the prosecution was unable to provide any legal basis or advance any further arguments.

Fuxin City Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Yang Guiquan was distributing leaflets exposing the persecution and telling people the facts about Falun Gong in a Fuxin City shopping mall when he was arrested on June 20th, 2009. He was detained in the Xindi Detention Centre. During his detention, Mr. Yang held a hunger strike to protest the persecution, but the guards brutally force-fed him. He died on July 5th, 2009. His back and head had bruises, and there were scars on his legs. Mr. Yang's inner thighs showed scars from electric shocks.

Lu Hai, a 13-year-old boy, had to live with his grandmother, Song Wenxiu, after his father, Lu Qiqi, and his mother, Li Shihong, were arrested last year because they practise Falun Gong. Then, on June 12th, 2009, when Jiang'an District Court held a trial for three Falun Gong practitioners, Ms. Song Wenxiu wanted to be present. When she neared the courthouse, she was arrested by police. She was later detained in the Chenjiaji Brainwashing Centre. Poor little Lu Hai now has to live all by himself. He has lost his dear grandmother, who looked after him. In Lu Hai's memory, there were few times when his whole family was ever together over the past ten years. His father, his mother, and even his grandmother were often arrested. There are many incurable wounds to his fragile heart.

Recently, six women Falun Gong practitioners were sentenced in Jining City, Shandong Province. Among them, Ms. Li Fengyun, 69 years old, was sentenced to three years imprisonment and is now being detained in Yuhuatai Prison in Nanjing City, Jiangsu Province. Ms. Xu Binhai, in her 60s, was sentenced to three years and is now in Yuhuatai Prison

The Chinese Communist Party has persecuted Falun Gong for ten years. I recently recalled a fellow practitioner, Wu Junyang, who died five years ago. On July 20th, 1999 the Communist regime began to persecute Falun Gong. Mr. Wu went to Beijing to appeal four times and was detained at the detention centre twice. In 2004 when he was arrested police detained him in Benxi Detention Centre and tortured him. Each day the thugs beat him to force him to give them information about a site producing Falun Gong leaflets exposing the persecution and his fellow practitioners. He divulged nothing. Wu Junyang was tortured to skin and bones, his body was full of scars and he became blind.

Ms. Zhang Sufang was released in 2000 from the Chongqing Women's Forced Labour Camp because she was in grave condition after suffering long term mistreatment and repeated beatings. Guards repeatedly ordered prisoners to beat her. Those prisoners used stools to batter her head and their elbows to strike her back. They kicked whatever part of her was closest to them. An imprisoned practitioner counted nineteen wounds on just one of her legs. Ms. Zhang died only a week after being released.

Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Jiang Yong is 38 years old. In 2001, he was sentenced to eight years by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). He was detained in the Tilanqiao Prison in Shanghai for eight years and subjected to various types of torture. Only a few months passed since Mr. Jiang Yong had returned home and then he went missing again on June 13th, 2009. There is still no sign of him at the time of this report. This incident is related to the widespread arrests by the Shanghai authorities in advance of the World Expo. We ask that human rights organizations around the world pay close attention to this matter.

During the past ten years I was incarcerated on and off for nearly eight of those years, and I lost my job and my family. I was arrested six times, sent to forced labour camps three times, sent to a psychiatric hospital twice and to a brainwashing centre once. I was subjected to dozens of different physical tortures. As a result of the long-term abuse and mistreatment under the persecution, I suffered tremendously. Even now I have whole-body oedema. I also have severe insomnia and can't sleep for days. I have had a stroke, memory loss, been in a vegetative state, and lost the function of my four limbs. My legs are paralysed. I also lost bladder and bowel control and was near death four times.