Xuefei has been held prisoner in a Chinese labor camp ever since she was arrested in November 2000 for passing out pamphlets about the practice of Falun Gong. After more than one and a half years of torture and intensive labor in the camp, she has become so malnourished that she has nearly lost her eyesight. Her family has tried very hard to get her out for medical treatment, but they have been refused. Read The Full Story

Sam asks for the help of Georgia Senator to deliver a letter to his wife, Xuefei //Response from US Embassy in Beijing to US Senator Zell Miller's Office

a message from Danielle Wang, 22, a student at the University of Texas

...They heard that he has been forced to sit on a small bench for seven straight days without food, water, or rest. He has been tortured to try to make him renounce his belief in Falun Gong, but he has consistently refused to succumb. One day a phone call from China reached Danielle’s mother and it was Zhiwun. The entire conversation was about their daughter. That was almost two years ago and the last word received from Zhiwun...

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Christina Yuan typifies what many would call the American dream -- humble beginnings, hard work, a Harvard education, a fulfilling life and a successful career in New York City.

Christina's mother, Ms. Benlan Yu, typifies an on-going nightmare in China -- stripped of all rights to freedom of speech and freedom of belief, horribly tortured by Chinese police, and sent to a forced labor camp without trial.

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a message from Celia Wang, New York, NY

My name is Celia Wang. My husband, Zhang Yu Hui, and I have two wonderful children, a little girl and boy. In China, we both had good jobs, and had a simple, happy life. Both my husband and I started practicing Falun Dafa and we lived according to the principles of Truthfulness-Compassion-Tolerance and that improved and enriched our lives beyond measure. Our dream was shattered when Jiang Zemin decided he had to destroy Falun Gong. Read Celia's story

[01/01/03] Queens Tribune: Struggling For Freedom: A New Queens Immigrant's Story

Ms. Han was sent to a mental hospital in Nanjing City for so-called “treatment” after she went to Beijing to appeal on behalf of Falun Gong.

In January 2001, both Mr. and Mrs. Zhang were sentenced to a forced-labor camp for 3 years, where they are made to do heavy labor for over ten hours a day.

[12/30/02] Brookline Skyline: Prisoners of Faith

After being detained twice before, Ms. Zeng was arrested again on February 9, 2002, following PRC leader Jiang Zemin’s new order to “Kill without mercy.” Local police held her in a brainwashing center without notifying her family members. Two month later, her family received notice that she had been sentenced to two years in Changchun Heizuizi Female Forced Labor Re-education Camp for not giving up her practice of Falun Gong. Read Full Story

[12/23/02] The Record: Tale of Oppression, Persecution

Yanyun Huang, female, 58, retired kindergarten teacher;

Haiyan He, female, 35, primary school teacher;

Haiou He, male, 31, physician.

Mother, sister, and brother of Haiying He, 37, MD, Ph.D., biomedical researcher at Harvard Medical School:

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In October 1999, while she was on her way to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong, Ms. Liang was seized by police in Guangzhou and sent to a local labor camp. She was sentenced to two years of forced labor in a Guangdong Province labor camp. However, today she is still being detained in that labor camp.

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Lei Xhuan-Yan has been released from jail in March 2000, but has been under house arrest since. She now must get an approval in advance whenever she needs to leave her home, including a brief visit to her neighbors or relatives. She is a prisoner of conscience confined to her home, and has lost her freedom of traveling, speech, and personal belief.

Ms. Tiemu was sentenced without trial to three years in a forced-labor camp, and the police denied her family visitation rights. It was heard from another source that in the labor camp, she has been subjected to brainwashing (so-called “Education and Saving”) as well as heavy physical labor.

In January 2001, Ms. Chen was arrested because the police found Falun Gong flyers in her home. They used the flyers as evidence to charge Ms. Chen with organizing other Falun Gong practitioners. In the middle of February, Ms. Chen was sentenced to three years in a forced-labor camp.

Both Mr. and Mrs. Zhang were fired from their jobs because they practice Falun Gong. In June 2000, Mr. Zhang was sentenced to three and a half years in prison. A few months later, Mrs. Zhang was sentenced without trial to one and a half years in a forced-labor camp in Shijiazhuang, Hebei Province. Because she refused to sign papers renouncing her belief in Falun Gong, she was detained for one year and seven months. She was arrested again in late April or early
May 2002.

Mr. Dang went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong at the end of September 2000. His family did not hear anything from him until a few weeks later. He had been illegally arrested and sent to a local detention center. Several months later, his family learned that he had been sentenced to a forced-labor camp.

The wife of an American citizen, Dr. Teng returned to China and allegedly helped foreign news reporters gain interviews with Falun Gong practitioners who had been tortured in jail or sent to psychiatric hospitals. After a closed-door trial, she was sentenced to three years in prison under the charge of "prying into state intelligence for overseas organizations."

Dr. Teng has been held in a Chinese prison for over two years. We urgently need your support in securing her safe return. U.S. State Department spokesman Richard Boucher characterizes her situation as "deeply disturbing" and requests her release to the United States.

Mrs. Zhang started practicing Falun Gong in 1995 and benefited both mentally and physically. She once said, “Falun Gong made me understand the real meaning of life, that is to return to one’s original, true self.”

After the persecution officially began in July 1999, Mrs. Zhang went to appeal to her local government many times but without any result. She decided to go to Beijing to appeal. In March 2000, she was arrested in Beijing and sent back to a local labor camp for four months. She suffered a great deal and went on a hunger strike. Ten days later, she was released.

In May 2001, she was arrested again. Police ransacked her home and took everything they could including her passport. Because of that, she missed her only opportunity of attending her son’s Ph.D. graduation. Right now her family members are trying their best to rescue her from this dangerous situation and reunite her with her son in the U.S.

Jianhua had been imprisoned in the notorious Masanjia labor camp for 10 months. With the rescue campaign in the Bay Area, her sister was released on September 25, 2001 (20 days after the appeal). On August 29, 2002, her sister, along with other 10 Falun Gong practitioners who were forced to leave home and live in exile, were again arrested; this time in Lhasa, Tibet by the Chinese police. After initial interrogation in Lhasa, Tibet, Jianhua Lu was sent back to her hometown Tielin, Liaoning Province and is captured at its detention center.

Zhiping was detained in early August 2002 at a detention center in Xia County, Shanxi Province for distributing truth-clarification material of Falun Gong.

They were detained and harassed after the persecution began because they didn’t give up their belief in Falun Gong. Their son had started to work on their application for U.S. permanent residency two years ago in anticipation of his wedding. However, because Fenglan and Dengyue didn’t renounce their belief in Falun Gong, the Chinese authorities denied them passports. American Senator Wayne Allard and Congresswoman Diana Degatte contacted the American Embassy in Beijing to ask for assistance. The Embassy granted Mr. Yang’s parents special visas that do not expire. However, two years have passed, and the Chinese authorities continue to block their entry into the U.S.. This summer, Mr. Wang had his wedding, and only his parents were missing.

On February 2nd, 2002, while she was cooking dinner for the family, six people from the Pi county Security Bureau and the notorious “610 Office” showed up to take her away without any arrest warrant. She has been detained in the Pi County Detention Center since.

Ah-lian Zhang faced detention in May of this year and was forced to leave her home in exile. With the tight security, she traveled further and further, eventually she ending up in Lhasa, Tibet, thousands of miles away from home. On August 29, 2002, Ah-lian Zhang, along with another 10 Falun Gong practitioners were arrested by the local police and detained at the Tibetan Public Security Bureau. On September 21, she was taken back to Guangzhou by the police and was put into Nanzhou Detention Center. According to the Guangzhou police, Ah-lian Zhang may be sent to a labor camp for at least a couple of years.

Zhiming, director of the computer lab in the Beijing Air Force Research Laboratory of Training Equipment was arrested in November 2000 in Shanghai with other Falun Gong practitioners. A few months later he was sentenced, without trial, to a 4-year jail term.

Zhiqiang worked at the Dandong Air Force. He was detained on January 14, 2002 and was sentenced to a 3-year term in a labor camp in Dandong, Liao-Ning province.