In Hebei Province, the Manchen county police station and the detention center brutally persecuted Falun Dafa practitioners during the past two years using various means, such as beatings, fines, detention and sentencing to prison. As of now, dozens of Falun Dafa practitioners still remain in captivity. The Director of the Political Protection Office, Zhao Yuxia, frequently beats these practitioners personally.

One of the practitioners has a somewhat abnormal physical body. Long ago before becoming a practitioner, she fell out of a tree. Afterwards, her leg was paralyzed and she became incontinent. She could not take care of herself in daily life without assistance. Her family spent 9,000 Yuan for medical expenses, but to no avail. Her legs often felt achy and weak, causing her to have thoughts of suicide. Not long after being introduced to Falun Dafa she began to practice and her legs became strong and the pain disappeared. This strengthened her confidence in Falun Dafa, and helped her to behave accordance with, and follow the principles of "Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance." Although her legs are still thin, she can now walk just a little and take care of housework. She even adopted a child.

In the new year of 2001, in order to carry out their assignment, the local police station took personnel from the political safeguard department to her house and ransacked it.

When they found the Falun Gong books, they forcefully took her to the political safeguard department and asked her whether she would insist on practicing Falun Gong. She described the benefits that Falun Gong had given her and ended up by saying, "I have to continue to practice." Her experience did not touch the hearts of the police, and she was sent to a detention center. They did not even let a disabled person go.

In the Manchen detention center, practitioners bear all kinds of torture. Certain that practicing Falun Dafa was not a crime and that they had been illegally detained, they went on a hunger strike and even refused to drink water, some for 8 to 10 days. Even so, the detention center did not release them, but instead tried to force them to write "guarantee letters" to discontinue practicing Falun Dafa. All the practitioners refused. Unable to achieve their purpose, they exploited family members and forced them to pay to get their loved ones back. The amount varied from 1,000 to 10,000 Yuan.