Ms. Wang Huimin is a practitioner in Yingkou City, Liaoning Province. After she began practising Falun Gong, her illnesses disappeared and she became very kind and considerate of other people. However, she was arrested in 2004 and sentenced to six years of imprisonment. Guards of Liaoning Province Women’s Prison ordered criminal inmates to torture her. Inmates tie Ms. Wang up with her arms restrained behind her back. She was not given any food and was denied access to a toilet. Two inmates were assigned to watch her 24 hours a day. Guards forced her to sit on a small stool (30 cm x 20 cm) and recite the prison rules. She was abused this way for one month.

Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Liu Fenglan was recently arrested by Chinese Communist Party (CCP) personnel on unwarranted charges. Her family went to the Dongzhou District Procuratorate of Fushun to inquire about her situation on December 27th. Wang Zhi from the Public Prosecution Section told her family by phone: “She was sentenced earlier.” The family asked when the sentence was handed down, on what charges and for how many years, and they were told, “Go ask the court.”

The largest outdoor Chinese New Year Fair in Victoria Park in Hong Kong was open to the public from January 17th to 23rd, 2012.