Ms. Xing Yuzhen, female, 42, is a teacher at Daqing City Sixth Middle School, Daqing City, Heilongjiang Province. During the period from June to December 2000, Ms. Xing went to Beijing three times to appeal to the government to stop the persecution of Falun Gong. Each time, she was arrested in Beijing and detained.

Once, she was escorted back to Daqing City, detained in a detention center for 75 days, and forcibly brainwashed for 18 days. Once, during her one of detentions, she went to hunger strike. As a result, she was tortured and force-fed. After she was released, she was forced to become homeless to avoid further persecution. On May 11, 2001, police from the Rangu District Police Station in Daqing City arrested Ms. Xing and sent her to the Daqing City Detention Center, where she went on a hunger strike for 40 days and was force-fed. Later, she was sentenced to one year of forced labor in the Harbin Drug Rehabilitation Center. She was released on May 11, 2002. In the early morning of September 6, 2002, police from the Rangu District Police Station abducted her from her home, and detained her at the Daqing City Detention Center, where she went on a hunger strike for more than one month; inmates were ordered to force-feed her every day. Then she was transferred to the Saqu District Detention Center, where she continued the hunger strike. On December 3, 2002, she was transferred to the Harbin Drug Rehabilitation Center and was later sentenced to three years of forced labor. Because the authorities blocked the information about her, her current condition in the labor camp is unknown.

Ms. Xing’s husband, Mr. Jiang Nianxiang, was a mining engineer, but he was reassigned to a menial labor position because he practices Falun Gong. In the early morning of September 6, 2002, police from the Rangu District Police Station abducted him at home. His whereabouts is unknown.

Ms. Xing’s ailing mother-in-law passed away in October 2003 because she was unable to endure the shock and worries after the couple’s arrest.

Ms. Xing’s 14-year-old child was also expelled from school and rendered homeless. It is said that a relative adopted the child.