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Summary of Key Persecution Facts:
Name: Xu Lan (徐兰)
Gender: Female
Age: 50
Address: A Village in Binhai County, Yancheng City, Jiangsu Province
Occupation: Farmer
Date of Most Recent Arrest: November 8, 2011
Most Recent Place of Detention: Jurong Forced Labor Camp (句容劳教所)
Detention City: Jurong
Detention Province: Jiangsu
Persecution Suffered: Sleep deprivation, forced labor, brainwashing, illegal sentencing, beatings, imprisonment, torture, extortion, home ransacked, interrogation, detention

Ms. Xu Lan from Binhai County was arrested by the Binhai police and 610 Office in November 2011. She was sent to Jurong Forced Labor Camp in Jurong City, Jiangsu Province, for 18 months. She has not been released.

Ms. Xu was sentenced to forced labor twice in the past and to prison once. She was also held in the Judong Women's Forced Labor Camp for seven months 12 years ago. We would appreciate it if the outside world would pay attention to her case.

Ms. Xu Lan, 50, lives in a village in Binhai County. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) started persecuting Falun Gong in July 1999. Because Ms. Xu remained steadfast in cultivating Dafa's principles of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance and refused to give up her belief, she was persecuted by the local 610 Office and police.

In October and November 1999, Ms. Xu was arrested and detained at Chaoyang Police Station, Beijing, and Changping Detention Center, Beijing. She was beaten, handcuffed to a pole, and deprived of food.

Police officers Shi Zhishun, Zhou He, and Liu Xiuyun climbed over the walls of Ms. Xu's house in early December 1999 and arrested her. She was detained at Funing Detention Center in Funing County, Jiangsu, for 26 days.

Ms. Xu went to Beijing again to appeal for the justice for Falun Gong in 2000. She was arrested and taken to Funing Water Police Station for interrogation, where she was put in handcuffs and shackles. She was forced to kneel down for a long time and was not allowed to sleep. After being held in a detention center for 37 days, she was taken to Funing Security Company for further torture for another month. She had 40 yuan per day extorted from her for "living expenses."

Ms. Xu was also sentenced to forced labor for a year in 2000. She was taken to Judong Women's Forced Labor Camp. Besides being ordered to give up her belief, she had to do 20 hours of slave labor work every day. Her body swelled and she became paralyzed from the torture. At the end of her one-year term, the labor camp extended her term for another seven months. She was closely monitored after her release.

Before the 2003 Chinese New Year, Gao Jian, chief of the local police station, and a few police officers tricked Ms. Xu, who was visiting a relative, into going to the police station. At the station, the police detained her and took turns threatening her. They ransacked her home a few days later and confiscated Dafa books. Then they sentenced her to a year of forced labor.

Ms. Xu was babysitting her grandchild at home in August 2006 when Li Binhai from the 610 Office, officers from Zhenghong Police Station, and others barged in. They claimed that they had been ordered to take her to Yancheng Brainwashing Center (headed by Wang Faqiang from the Yancheng 610 Office), where she would be held for a month.

Several officers broke into Ms. Xu Lan's house at 3:00 p.m. in August 2007, while she was working in her field. Liu, an agent from the Binhai 610 Office, and the police forced her into a car, and a dozen officers ransacked her home. She was later sentenced to 42 months in prison and taken to Nanjing City Women's Prison. Prison guards Meng Tianshu and Xu Xiaoyang threatened her and forced her to listen to brainwashing material.

Binhai 610 Office personnel arrested Ms. Xu on November 8, 2011, and put her in the Jurong Forced Labor Camp to serve an 18-month term. She has still not been released.