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Aftershocks: Chinese Mobs Incited to Attack Falun Gong in New York, Elsewhere

NEW YORK -- The Falun Dafa Information Center reported Wednesday that mobs of hundreds have been assembled in Flushing, New York, daily since Saturday, May 17, to assail Falun Gong practitioners even as millions throughout China mourn.

Sisters Yang Zhaofang and Yang Zhaoying of Suizhong County, Liaoning Province Suffering Inhumane Persecution

(Clearwisdom.net) Ms. Yang Zhaofang, a Falun Gong practitioner from Suizhong County, Liaoning Province, is currently illegally detained at the Huludao City Detention Center. Because she held a hunger strike to protest the persecution, the guards force-fed her twice a day, devastating both her mental and physical state. Her sister, practitioner Ms. Yang Zhaoying, was also illegally detained. Since Ms. Yang Zhaoying went on a hunger strike to protest the persecution, her organs have suffered different levels of damage. She is currently imprisoned at the Suizhong County Hospital, and is under around-the-clock surveillance by a male prisoner who was sent by the Huludao City Detention Center.

Falun Gong Practitioners Arrested in Benxi City, Liaoning Province

(Clearwisdom.net) Police officers from Huanren County, Benxi City, Liaoning Province arrested a number of Falun Gong practitioners on April 24, 2008, under the pretext of trying to forestall possible appeals during the Olympics.