Some Falun Gong practitioners in Jiaozhou City of Shandong Province went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong. The local political judicial committee directed the police department to incarcerate them in the mental hospital of Jiaozhou City. (The name of the hospital has been changed to "Psychological Rehabilitation Center", but only mental patients are treated there.) The Falun Dafa practitioners were tortured in the mental hospital including forced injections and medications.

-- In July of last year, Gueihua Tan (female, age 43), a worker of The Third Leather Shoe Factory of Jiaozhou City, was kept in the mental hospital for five months because she appealed for Falun Gong in Beijing.

-- Huayu Wei of Jiaozhou Accounting Office was kept in the mental hospital for four months because she went to Beijing to appeal in last July. In March of this year, she went to Beijing to appeal again. After she was brought back, she has been detained in the mental hospital until today.

-- Yuane Qiu (female, age 32) of an oil company and Bencui Kuang (female, age 47) of the Third Leather Shoe Factory were detained in the mental hospital for two months for going to Beijing to appeal in February. At that time the work unit of Bencui Kuang deceived her by telling her they were taking her home, but she was tricked into the mental hospital instead and has been kept there indefinitely.

-- Yanzhong Xu of Zhao Jia Yuan village (male, age 36) was detained in the mental hospital until today because he practiced Falun Gong exercises in a local stadium in April.

-- Zhaohong Liu of the Water Conservancy Office (male, age 40) was taken into custody by police on September 8th last year and was not released until December 27. On May 13 of this year he went to Beijing to appeal and has been kept in the mental hospital since he was brought back to Jiaozhou. He is still not released as of today.

On September 8, Lulian Si (male) and Ailing Wan (female) a couple were called to "talk" with a certain department of their work unit. They were put under house arrest at their work unit and still have not been released as of this date. Gueixiang Song (female, age 60) has been under house arrest by her work unit because she went to Beijing to appeal in February. Aihua Yin (female, age 29) went to Beijing to appeal in February and has been taken into custody by the local police department as of this date.

Fuxi Liu (male, age 44) and Yi Lu (male, age 37) of Hua Dong Design Institute of the Oil Exploration Bureau went to Beijing to appeal after The Chinese Spring Festival. They were taken into custody by the Jiaozhou local government in the city detention center where they remain as of this date. (Note: The detention center is managed by the local appeal office. Since the number of local people who went to appeal in Beijing is recorded, if there are too many people go to appeal, the local government's score will be deducted and they will be criticized. In order to control the number of people going to Beijing, the appeal office forced the people who had been to Beijing several times to stay in the detention center and restricted their freedom of movement. Moreover, all the detained have to pay 800-yuan detention fee. Since the "detention" is in name not in law, they can indefinitely "intern" people if they feel is necessary. Many Dafa practitioners have been kept for a long time in the name of "internment.")

Although the government has been irrationally persecuting Falun Gong, all Dafa practitioners are very firm and have left many touching stories. Yanzhong Xu of Zhaojai village (male, age 36) went to Beijing's Tiananmen Square to practice Falun Gong exercises on the eve of last Chinese Spring Festival. After he was taken back, the local police handcuffed him to the protection barrier of a building hallway for ten days. When a policeman loosened his hands, he could not move his hands down. A policeman asked him, "Do you still want to go to Beijing to appeal?" he said, "I cannot tell you if I will go to Beijing now. However, as long as Dafa is still not rehabilitated in the world for a single day, protecting the Falun Dafa will be my top priority!"

Yi Lu (male, age 37) went to appeal in Beijing last July. After he was brought back, the police beat him severely. Four policemen beat him for three days, using electric batons and other devices. His chest was wounded and has not recovered completely after one month. Even during the torture, Yi Lu did not show any sign of fear and he was very firm. He would rather be beaten to death than write a renouncement or say any words that would be unfair to Dafa. He was called by the police "three big practices", i.e., "practice even if dismissed from job, practice even if sentenced to jail and practice even if gunned down."

May 29, 2000

(Translated on June 2, 2000)