On February 8th 2003 Lin Wenrong, a 35 year old musician from Düsseldorf, Germany, was arrested in her hometown, Wuhan, because of her practice of Falun Gong.
On Thursday, January 9, 2003, four drunken police officers from Caidian District Police Substation came to Qunying Liu’s home and tried to take her to the police substation. Qunying refused to go because her 82-year old father needed a ride home from the hospital.
According to a CNN article published yesterday on the legacy of Chinese communist leader Jiang Zemin, at the very top of a list of "blots on the record" are human and religious rights violations. The abuse of Falun Gong is mentioned specifically as Jiang’s most egregious offence.
horrifying news spread from Baiguo Township (Macheng City, Hubei Province). Local police burned a Falun Gong practitioner to death and dragged two others behind motorcycles. In total, four Falun Gong practitioners were burned, tortured, or beaten to death.