Pictures from May, 2006

Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Zhao Wenbo lives in Pingliang City, Gansu Province. He is in his 50s and employed at the Pingliang Area Transportation Company. He started practicing Falun Gong in August 1996. Quickly after starting the practice his long-term migraine headache were cured. After the persecution started on July 20, 1999, his employer and local police pressured him repeatedly, arrested him multiple times, and ransacked his home. He has been tortured many times because he firmly holds his faith and as a result he was disabled. He was cruelly tortured, including being beaten on his head, chest, throat and lower back with a police baton and having cold water poured on him after being stripped. Upon examination, the doctor found many injuries, including a leg bone fracture, deformity of the lower spine, a chest injury, brain injury, other problems, and paralysis due to the persecution. His wife had a hard time accepting he had become disabled, and she wanted a divorce. Mr. Zhao did not agree to the divorce, but the neighborhood administration helped his wife divorce him with only one excuse that he practices Falun Dafa. Mr. Zhao has never given up his practice of Falun Gong despite his difficulties.