On March 27th, 2009, the Nong'an County Court in Jilin Province held a "public sentencing" of seven Falun Gong practitioners without notifying any family members. After that day, other practitioners and their families hired fourteen human rights lawyers to defend them at the second trial. The Changchun City Intermediate Court continues to obstruct the involvement of the lawyers in this case. After overcoming various obstacles, the fourteen lawyers delivered the lawyers' letter to the intermediate court. The court was afraid after seeing this large team of lawyers that were defending the practitioners, so they never responded regarding the date of the second trial. The date of the second trial is still in limbo.

The prison guards forbade the family members of the practitioners who refused to give up Falun Gong in Yang-ai Prison to see them, thus cutting off their financial sources. They forced the practitioners to say "The Communist Party is good" before they could eat. To avoid doing that, many practitioners went on hunger strike or simply gave up their meals. A practitioner asked the prison guard Huang Chun: "Why don't you release them for medical treatment when they are in such poor physical condition?" Huang said: "They have not yet been transformed into giving up Falun Gong, so they cannot be released for medical treatment."

On January 20th, 2001, Mr. Zhang Hongwei was sentenced to 13 years of imprisonment by the Fangshan District Court in Beijing after he was found preparing materials about the persecution of Falun Gong. Mr. Zhang has been subjected to brutal torture for eight years. Because he refused to give up his belief, he was forcibly put on a "stretching bed" -- this is where the guards fix a practitioner's limbs to a specially made bed on which there are four rings and the practitioner's hands and feet are fixed in the rings. The guards then apply force to the rings so that the practitioner's body is pulled up, away from the bed as their limbs are stretched. Mr. Zhang is now critically ill, but Jilin Prison authorities won't allow him to be released on bail for medical treatment, and his family has not been not allowed to visit him.

Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Zhang Dezhen, 38 years old, was persecuted to death a few years ago by the Mengyin County 610 Office in Shandong Province. On January 31st, 2003, doctors injected toxic drugs into Zhang Dezhen, which soon caused her death. Zhang Dezhen's family and friends strongly requested the Mengyin County Judicial Department to punish the murderers according to the law. But several years have passed, and they still haven't had any response.

On June 9th, 2009, Ms. Peng Xiaomei, 56, a Falun Gong practitioner retired from China Construction Bank in Hunan Province, was arrested by the Liuzhengjie Public Security Bureau in Changsha City. Without any legal representation or judicial protocol, Ms. Peng was taken to the Changsha City Rule of Law Education Training Centre (a brainwashing centre) in Laodaohe Town, Kaifu District, Changsha City. Over the last decade Ms. Peng has endured much harassment and numerous arrests at the hands of the local authorities.

In March 2009 the Heizuizi Labour Camp refused to release a Falun Gong practitioner from the 4th Squadron, although her term had officially ended. Instead, they arbitrarily extended her term and beat her. In protest, other Falun Gong practitioners at the camp refused to perform forced labour, put on the prisoner uniform and name card or to answer roll call. In retaliation, many of those steadfast practitioners were tortured on the so-called "death bed". Ms. Jin Yingshi was then taken to the prison guards' office where many prison guards shouted at her, beat her, and tried to force her to put on the prison uniform, but she refused. After six continuous days of torture she became bedridden and became unable to go to meals on her own.

Ms. Chen Yuxiang and Ms. Chen Yufen, sisters and Falun Gong practitioners from Laixi City, Qingdao, Shandong Province, were arrested by Chinese Communist Party (CCP) personnel and sentenced to five and three years of imprisonment, respectively. Their father was over 80 years old and in poor health. When he heard that his beloved daughters were jailed by the CCP simply because they believed in Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance and tried to be good, he could not bear the mental pressure and the heavy blow. His condition deteriorated and he passed away in the evening on May 19th, 2009.

The Qingpu District Domestic Security Section in Huai'an City, Jiangshu Province, has harassed more than ten practitioners in the last two months. Ms. Sha Suyun, 74, was arrested on May 25th, 2009, by police and Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials. The officers searched her home and interrogated her at the Zhakou Police Station and later at the Qingpu Police Department. Officer Ma Erhua forced her to sign a notice stating that she was sentenced to one year of forced labour and that she would serve her sentence outside the labour camp.

While Mr. Zhu Puzhao was putting up posters exposing the persecution of Falun Gong in November 2005 some people reported him and he was arrested. Police sent him to the Hunan Xinkaipu Forced Labour Camp to serve one year and three months of hard labour. Zhu Puzhao was subjected to a multitude of tortures. He suffered brutal forced-feeding. During the forced-feeding, the camp doctor used a device to keep his mouth wide open, then used a pair of pliers to pull his tongue. Porridge mixed with unknown yellow-coloured substances was then forced into his mouth from a funnel connected to a rubber tube. The porridge ran into his lungs as he breathed. It has been a year and a half since Zhu Puzhao decided to leave home and become homeless.

Jiangsu Province Women's Forced Labour Camp has received many awards and commendations from upper-level authorities in the past, won due to falsifications and deceit by camp personnel. In the pursuit of justice and to keep their evil conduct from spilling over into other camps, I'm making public the true situation. Prisoners are forced to get up at 5:45 or 6:10 a.m. These times change every five days. We work until around 10:00 p.m. or even later. When we have a deadline, it is not uncommon that we work until midnight or sometimes until the morning. Everyone is stressed out. Prisoners often beat and curse people. A drug addict beat me. My head was swollen, but the officer on duty simply laughed and walked away.

One night I did the Falun Gong exercises and was reported. Two guards came. One of them shocked me behind my neck with an electric baton, causing me excruciating pain. After the sizzling sound, I smelled a strong burning smell. I was also cuffed to the bed and deprived of sleep at nights by the inmates assigned to watch me. When forced to stand against a wall and I was not paying attention, and the police officers violently hit my head against the wall. They did not care that I might get injured. I was told they had killed practitioners this way.

Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Wang Xinchun is from Jixi City, Heilongjiang Province. In the No. 2 Detention Centre of Jixi City, the guards tortured him, attempting to force him to make a "confession." As a result of the abuse, his face swelled up, his mouth bled, one could see the white of his skull, and he fell unconscious. Presently, he is receiving emergency treatment in a hospital. Since the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) launched the persecution against Falun Gong on July 20th, 1999, Mr. Wang has suffered severe persecution while in custody four times.

Lou District Court officials in Yueyang City, Hunan Province held a secret court session the morning of June 30th, 2009 to try Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Xue Li, without notifying any of her family members. All those who attended the hearing were personnel from the Public Security, the Procuratorate and the Court, except for Ms. Xue Li. Ms. Xue's sister-in-law got to know about the trial when she went to visit Ms. Xue in the detention centre. She then went to the court, but by the time she got there, the court had adjourned, and she had no chance to defend Ms. Xue's innocence.

On March 25th, 2009, police arrested Mr. Ma Chuncheng, in his thirties. His family learned that he had been detained at a detention centre. Mr. Ma's parents and his sister worried that he would be brutally tortured, and they went to the police station to request his release. They were told that they would be notified in three to twenty days.Only on April 30th, the deputy chief of the Fangzheng County State Security Division called his family to notify them that Mr. Ma had been formally arrested. They went to the Fangzheng County Police Department every day, but the police refused to release him or allow his family to see him.

Ms. He Zhiwei, a 46-year-old Falun Gong practitioner from Zhuhai City, Guangdong Province, was arrested by Chinese Communist Party (CCP) authorities and forced to enter a brainwashing centre. At the Zhanjiang Brainwashing Centre, she was persecuted and abused so severely that one of her cervical vertebrae was dislocated. When her family demanded her release for medical treatment, the brainwashing centre staff said that they would have to negotiate with the 610 Office. They are still waiting for a reply.

In April 2009, Xu Zhengping, head of the 610 Office in Wuxue City, Hubei Province, and others took Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Fang Tianming to the Wuhan City Brainwashing Centre, where he was persecuted. Because Mr. Fang is a teacher, the authorities pressured Wuxue City Normal School to pay for the cost of his detention, demanding over 300,000 yuan. Mr. Fang is still in the Wuxue City First Detention Centre. The police employed a known torture method, handcuffing his hands and legs to an steel pipe. Two armed police then beat him while he was handcuffed. Due to the abuse, Mr. Fang has become dull and unresponsive. It is suspected that he has been given unknown drugs.

Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Zheng Aihua, in her sixties, went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong around July 20th, 1999 and was arrested and detained and several times later as well. In 2000, Ms. Zhen was detained for 105 days in the brainwashing centre. Yang Yulin ordered her family to beat her, causing her to pass out. She was released after her family had 1,600 yuan extorted from them. In 2001 police slapped her, punched her, and extorted money from her family. Her family could not bear the frequent arrests and harassment, and applied a great deal of pressure to Ms. Zheng to try to force her to give up Falun Gong. With constant pressure from her family and the ongoing persecution, Ms. Zheng's old disease recurred, and she died around 2006.

In 2002, Mr. Feng Derong was spotted by police as he practised the Falun Gong exercises outdoors. The police detained him in the Dongan County Detention Centre. Later, police broke into Mr. Feng's home a second time and found some Falun Gong materials. They sent Mr. Feng to Xinkaipu Forced Labour Camp for a one-year term. Mr. Feng eventually became mentally unstable due to the abuse he suffered in the labour camp. But the camp not only denied treatment, but also did not inform his family. Instead, they tied him to a bed for over ten days. In November 2003, the camp ordered his family to come pick up Mr. Feng, who was severely mentally disoriented. On September 6th, 2004, Mr. Feng went missing. To date, his whereabouts are unknown.

On April 16th, 2009, Falun Gong practitioners Mr. Li Hui and his wife Wang Hua were arrested by police. Police Li Hui and Yao Xiaohua tortured them into making a "confession," and then transferred them to the Gongzhuling Court. However the court officer Yue Lin returned the case to the police department due to insufficient evidence. One week later on June 16th, the police still had not released the couple and plotted to fabricate evidence to further persecute them. On June 13th, the children of Li Hui and Wang Hua went to the Taojiatun Police Station to request their parents' release. They were cursed at and threatened by the policemen there. The police even found a local legal consultant named Shi to videotape them to use as "evidence" that the couple's children were "interfering with the government."

Ms. Lin Lisha, 51, lived in Leshan City, Sichuan Province. On January 22nd, 2001, the police persecuted Ms. Lin and 50 other fellow practitioners by tying them up, hanging a board on their necks, sentencing each of them from one to three years of forced labour, and broadcasting this whole process on TV for several days. Ms. Lin was arrested and imprisoned on two other occasions. In 2005 police had her sentenced to five years in prison. By the end of June 2009, Ms. Lin had been abused so much that she was thin to the point of deformity. The Prison Administration returned her to her family to avoid taking responsibility for her condition, but she died only a few days after being released.

The Nangang District Court in Harbin City, Heilongjiang Province held a trial for Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Li Zhigang at 9:00 a.m. on June 22nd, 2009. The judge, Song Chengzhang, resorted to bullying methods to obstruct lawyers in every possible way from defending Mr. Li. The judge denied the lawyers' right to speak with the accused and review the case records. This is a blatant disregard for the law by those who should be enforcing the law.

On April 27th, 2009, while distributing leaflets exposing the persecution and telling people the facts about Falun Gong, Ms. Na Zhiping was arrested by police. Ms. Na is now in critical condition as a result of torture and is being held in in the Xinhua Community Hospital. Because the police did not want to shoulder the responsibility, they agreed to let her children visit her. Ms. Na was lying in bed, each hand cuffed to a bedpost and with shackles weighing over 60 pounds attached to her feet. The sight was unbearable.

At 4:00 a.m. one day in April 2009, Falun Gong practitioners Mr. Liu Ji and his son Liu Fengyu were arrested at home and taken to Yinmahe Forced Labour Camp in Jiutai City in Jilin Province by police. Previously, in December 2008, police broke into Mr. Liu's home, confiscated Falun Gong books and leaflets exposing the persecution and arrested him. He was taken to a detention centre and his family had to pay 20,000 yuan for his release after 20 days.

Ms. Kang Lanying, a Falun Gong practitioner, has been detained in the city detention centre for over two months. To protest the mistreatment by guards, Ms. Kang has been holding a hunger strike. During the hunger strike, the guards handcuffed her behind her back and stuck a tube down her nose into her stomach, which caused massive bleeding through her nose. Ms. Kang is very weak and very skinny. Due to force-feeding through a tube, her neck has been injured and spurts blood. Her condition is very serious.

Ms. Liu Tianling, over 50 years old, disappeared while travelling to her home town in Yudong on June 4th. On the morning of June 8th, a policewoman from the Yudong Detention Centre called Ms. Liu's family, verified Ms. Liu's phone number, and asked about Ms. Liu's travel plans to her home town. After confirming each question, she asked Ms. Liu's family to send her clothes to the detention centre. She also asked the family if they knew the identity of a disabled lady who accompanied Ms. Liu. On June 10th, Ms. Liu's home was ransacked by police from the State Security Bureau of Yudong.

Ms. Zhang Shengrong has been missing since early May 2009. A month and a half has passed and there is still no word of her whereabouts. Ms. Zhang, who is over 70 years old, was persecuted severely by the Jinyang Comprehensive Administration Office in Chengdu City, Sichuan Province, after she hired a lawyer. Reports say that Ms. Zhang was taken to a brainwashing centre by the Jinyang Comprehensive Administration Office, but there were no specific details. Because she has been missing for so long, her son, Tao Yuan, who was detained in Guangyuan Prison and tortured so badly that his spine was dislocated, has had no one to look after him. It is not known what his situation is.

On April 22nd, 2009, Mr. Wu Yang and his wife, Ms. Sun Min were distributing materials exposing the persecution of Falun Gong in Beijing. The couple was taken to the Niujie District Police Station. On April 28th, the Fengtai Police Department sent Ms. Sun Min's family a "Death Notice" which stated that on April 23rd, Sun Min was found dead as a result of falling from a height. However when the family saw her body she had a wound on her forehead that looked like it was caused by teeth of an electric torture device affixed to the head. She also had other evidence of torture marks on her body. The so-called Post mortem Examination Report appears to be falsified.

Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Zhang Nengmin has been isolated and handcuffed to a bed for six months. Some of the drug addicts take turns watching her at all times and she is beaten every day. Ms. Zhang has reportedly suffered an ear injury as a result of their beatings. A prisoner has written abusive and humiliating slogans on Ms. Zhang's belly, breasts, and lower body. Ms. Zhang is developing a mental disorder, and is suffering from incontinence.

After Jiang Zemin's [former leader of China and instigator of the persecution] regime and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) began the persecution of Falun Gong on July 20th, 1999, a Falun Gong practitioner from Dalian City was forced to leave his job which he had held for several decades. After 1999 he was severely tortured at the Dalian Forced Labour Camp. In 2008 officers from Zhanqing Police Station and the Jinzhou District Police Department arrested him at his home and he was sentenced to one year of forced labour. During his lengthy detentions, his family led a difficult life and suffered severe financial hardship.

Mr. Li Baowei is a 46-year-old Falun Gong practitioner. He was an assistant Battalion Commander while in the military. In 2000, police ransacked his home. They took away his Falun Gong books, arrested him, and took him to a detention centre. Without any reason or due process, he was sentenced to three years in Hehuakeng Forced Labour Camp in Tangshan City. In the camp, he was persecuted physically and mentally. He was slapped in the face, forced to sit on a bed for a long time, forced to perform difficult work, and brainwashed.

On July 16th, 2008, before the Beijing Olympic Games, my father Zhang Xingwu was sent to a detention centre, and in the next nearly twelve months, no family member has been allowed to visit him. On March 31st, 2009, my father was put on trial. My mother and family members engaged a lawyer and after much difficulty were given a date for a public trial. On that morning, my mother and other relatives, who were setting off to go to the courthouse, were put under house arrest and were not allowed to attend the court session, and even the lawyer was not allowed to enter the courthouse.

Because he believes in Falun Gong, Mr. Fan Qingjun, 40, was arrested and held in the Xushui County Detention Centre in September 2002. In October 2003, he was sentenced to seven years imprisonment and sent to the Jidong Jail, where he has been severely persecuted for the past seven years. Policeman He Xiaoqiang has instigated prisoners to physically assault and abuse Mr. Fan many times. In April 2004, Mr. Fan was immersed in a very cold pond for the whole day. They have also deprived him of sleep and purposefully harmed him.

Ms. Li Yuzhi went to the Domestic Security Division to see her father, who was in detention. She met Cheng Weifeng, who asked whether she also practised Falun Gong. She said that she did. Then, three police officers, beat her and used a cloth to cover her face. When she asked why she had been beaten, they said, "We are paid two thousand yuan by the government to beat you. If you had died, it would have been treated as suicide." Then they put her into a car, covered her mouth to prevent her from speaking, and went to ransack her home. After returning to the second floor of the Domestic Security Division, she was beaten again. They pushed needles into her toenails and she fainted. She did not wake up until 6 p.m., when she found herself lying on the floor.

Practitioner Liu Yongfen, 59, and her family live in Zhuzhou City, Hunan Province. The relationship between Ms. Liu and her husband used to be very bad. They quarrelled a lot, and were infamous for their acrimonious relationship. After they began practising Falun Gong they both followed Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance and became good people. They looked inward when conflicts arose and never fought again. However, they have been arrested and jailed several times because of their belief in Falun Gong. Among the family of four, one has died, one is forced to stay away from home, one was released for medical treatment, and the fourth is still in prison.

Mr. Lu Zhen, 33, was arrested in early March 2004 and was subjected to numerous tortures in brainwashing sessions. The forced labour camp rejected him because he did not pass the health check-up. In December 2004, he was sentenced to eleven years in prison and sent to the Shandong Province Prison. Recently, the Linyi and Mengyin 610 Office spread rumours that Mr. Lu Zhen had mental problems, but they never officially notified his family. He had been brutally abused in prison because he firmly persisted in practising Falun Gong. On June 22nd, 2009, his family was notified that Mr. Lu suddenly died in the early morning of June 22nd, from heart disease. There are several obvious bruises on his neck and hip areas.

Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Shen Shuangsuo, 59, lived near Beijing. On March 1st, 2007, police ransacked her home, arrested her, and sentenced her to two years of forced labour. At the end of her term, her husband and two sons found her to be emaciated, and her abdomen was severely bloated. She was so weak that she could not catch her breath. She was physical wreck as a result of the two years of forced labour. The doctors found that she was suffering from late-stage uterine and lung cancer. She died on May 30th, 2009.

Ms. Zheng Cuixia, 62, went to Beijing to speak out on behalf of Falun Gong in March 2000. She was arrested and detained in Hantai District Detention Centre. Police beat her, did not allow her to sleep, and forced her to stand for a long time. Ms. Zheng's injuries were so severe that she could not breathe and her life was in danger. In December 2007, she was reported while handing out leaflets exposing the persecution of Falun Gong. In the detention centre police forced her do heavy labour and subjected her to intense brainwashing. Ms. Zheng's health deteriorated steadily, and she died on April 28th, 2009.

In May 2005, a group of policemen rushed into the home of Ms. Zhao Hongying and arrested her. She had been caring for her elderly relative, Ms. Li Xiangzhi. Policemen searched the home and confiscated her personal property. Declaring that they found several Falun Gong DVDs, they unlawfully sent Ms. Zhao to the Hebei Provincial Women's Forced Labour Camp and persecuted her there for a year and three months. Less than 20 days after this happened, Ms. Li passed away on June 11th. Her daughter, Falun Gong practitioner, Li Xiumin, who was imprisoned in Hebei Prison was not allowed to see her mother's body.

The Big Hang-up: This torture is administered inside a solitary confinement cell. The persecutors handcuff the victim to a huge metal ring that is affixed to a chain or rope on a wall. Then the abusers pull the ring up, lifting the victim's body upward, with the tips of his feet barely touching the ground. Soon the victim loses all sensation in his arms, cutting off the blood circulation over time, possibly resulting in permanent disability or even death

Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Yang Yucui was arrested on May 13th, 2009 and taken to Banqiao Women's Forced Labour Camp in Tianjin. After the onset the persecution on July 20th, 1999, Ms. Yang explained the facts about the persecution at her workplace and went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong. For this, her employer suspended her salary as punishment. She was later imprisoned for five years for practising Falun Gong, during which time her husband divorced her, due to social pressure.

Practitioner Mr. Fei Mingyan, about 38 years old, has been persecuted for many years and was forced to stay away from home. On March 18th, he was arrested by police. He was then sentenced to six years in prison and imprisoned in Yongchuan Prison. While he was in the prison, Mr. Fei was severely beaten because he refused to wear the uniform for "re-education through labour," causing him to be covered in cuts and bruises. He was also forced to haul coal.

Nine Falun Gong practitioners from Fengcheng City, Liaoning Province have been detained, and four of them are imprisoned outside of Fengcheng City. On December 25th, 2007, Mr. Zhang Qinggui was sentenced to six years of imprisonment at Benxi Prison by the Donggang Court. On February 20th, 2006, a Fengcheng City Court judge sentenced Ms. Ma Yuxin to five years of jail. On July 3rd, 2006, Fengcheng police arrested Ms. Liu Yingmei. A Fengcheng Court judge sentenced her to three and a half years. Ms. Liu is now detained at Shenyang Women's Prison.

Qingqing is five years old. Even before she was born, her father Niu Jinping and mother Zhang Lianying had been arrested and detained numerous times. On April 20th, 2008, police seized Qingqing and her parents in an alley. They beat the couple right in front of Qingqing. Then they dragged them and Qingqing into a police vehicle.

Falun Gong practitioners Mr. Chen Baihe and his wife Mrs. Zhang Guilan, have been repeatedly detained in detention centres and brainwashing centres. Mr. Chen was again arrested in May 2006 and was sentenced to four years of imprisonment. He remains in Jidong Prison to this day. Mrs. Zhang was again arrested by the National Security Team and the 610 Office of the Public Security Bureau on March 14th, 2009, and is now detained at Qianxi County Detention Centre. For the last eight years, this family has repeatedly gone through harassment, raids and arrests.

Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Li Haidong, 35, has been subjected to persecution by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) many times. About a little more than a month ago, Mr. Li was again arrested and detained at the Zunhua City Detention Centre. In 2002, police arrested Mr. Li and he was tortured with various torture instruments. When he held a hunger strike to protest his detention, he was forced to eat dog food. Mr. Li was later sentenced to three years of forced labour and imprisoned at the Hehuakeng Forced Labour Camp. He was also tied on the "Dead Person's Bed" torture instrument.

Mr. Luan Ning was recently sentenced to four years in prison in Yinchuan City, Ningxia Prefecture. Mr. Luan is currently appealing to a higher court. While Mr. Luan was standing trial at the Xixia District Court on February 24th, 2009, personnel from the Ningxia Region Political the Judiciary Committee and the 610 Office were guarding the courthouse as if they were expecting an attack from a formidable enemy! The mental and emotional anguish that Mr. Luan's mother endured during her son's long term imprisonment proved to be too much for the elderly lady and she passed away on February 27th, 2009. The prison authorities would not even permit Mr. Luan to attend his own mother's funeral.

Practitioner Ms. Zhang Xingyu was abducted from work and taken to a brainwashing centre by agents of the Chinese Communist Party on April 1st, 2009. She was subsequently taken to Guangxi Women's Forced Labour Camp. Earlier, Ms. Zhang was jailed in the same forced labour camp for four years. She had been tortured so badly while detained there that could only crawl when released from the camp. Sources say that the police arrested scores of Falun Gong practitioners from the twelve towns and counties within Baise City. They separated male and female practitioners into different classes. They tried to force them to "transform" and give up their belief in Falun Gong by using nerve-damaging drugs and depriving them of sleep.

Ms. Guo Liguang is a Falun Gong practitioner from Jinzhou City, Liaoning Province. Last year, the police arrested her at home, and then tortured her before sending her to Masanjia Forced Labour Camp. In the detention centre she went on a hunger strike to protest the persecution. Prisoners attacked her and a guard then pulled out clumps of Ms. Guo's hair and dragged her to the wash room. Several prisoners continued to beat Ms. Guo there. They used a shoe-brush to pry open Ms. Guo's mouth and caused her teeth to loosen. Since then, she has had difficulty eating.

On May 13th, 2009, four practitioners from the Xuanhua District of Zhangjiakou City were arrested at Liu Yongli's home. They are Yan Xiulian, Feng Yanli, Liu Yongli and Wang Minghai. Afterwards, their homes were all ransacked. However, the perpetrators were so afraid that they did not present any documents, nor did they identify where they were coming from when they were doing these wrong deeds. These practitioners' relatives don't know their whereabouts.

The Chuanxi Women's Prison and the Chuanxi Prison are located between Luodai Town and Hongan Town, southeast of Chengdu City in Sichuan Province. Although both prisons look modern on the outside, especially the Chuanxi Women's Prison which has been beautifully renovated, Falun Gong practitioners are still being brutally persecuted inside. The suffering and torment that practitioners have to endure is not apparent on the outside.