On July 31st, 2008, the police in Laixi City, Shandong Province, arrested 17 Falun Gong practitioners. They were having a study and discussion session at a practitioner's home.
The current situations of these practitioners are as follows:
Ms. Dai Guoyu, Ms. Zhou Chunhua, Ms. Chen Yufen, and Ms. Wu Xiuxin were arrested and are facing imprisonment.
Mr. Liu Jingquan, Ms. Liu Hong, Mr. Zhu Lixin, Mr. Zhang Weixing, Ms. Li Xiumei, Ms. Pang Weina, and Ms. Wu Jianfang have been sentenced to forced labour. They were taken to the Zibo Forced Labour Camp on August 30th, 2008. Their family members were not informed.
Ms. Wang Guizhi is out on bail and awaiting trial.
Ms. Guo Ruiyu, Mr. Huang Xingjiang, Mr. Xian Dequan, Ms. Tian Lanfeng, Ms. Li Guixiang, and Ms. Ding Hongai are imprisoned at the Qingdao Defence Education Centre. Laixi 610 Office1 Chief Wang Jianzhi rented the third floor of the Qingdao Defence Education Centre to set up a brainwashing centre, where the above six practitioners will be imprisoned. This is the Laixi 610 Office private jail, set up in attempt to persecute and force practitioners to give up their belief. In order to maintain this location, the 610 Office extorted from each practitioner's family members 3,000 yuan2 and forced them to write guarantee statements to renounce Falun Gong before they would release the practitioners.
On July 31st, the 17 practitioners were taken to the Qingdao Road Police Station. Afterwards, their homes were ransacked by the police. In the evening, the local police from the Qingdao Road Police Station arrested Ms. Wu Xiuxin, who is a employee of the Municipal People's Hospital. They also ransacked her home.
The police interrogated these practitioners and photographed them during the night. The practitioners resisted and were beaten mercilessly by the police. The faces of some of the practitioners were swollen. One elderly female practitioner was taken to a hospital.
On the afternoon of August 1st, the Laixi police tried to take the practitioners to the Qingdao Dashan Detention Centre. They took 11 female practitioners to Haici Hospital in Qingdao City for physical examinations. The exam results showed that they were all very weak and did not meet the conditions for imprisonment. Hence, Qingdao Dashan Detention Centre authorities refused to accept them. However, the Laixi police gave money to the detention centre personnel so that these practitioners were put in handcuffs and fetters. When Ms. Chen Yufen and Ms. Wu Xiuxin did not cooperate, the officers dragged them into the detention centre by their feet.
Chief Wang Jianzhi, 610 Office: 86-13954287766 (Mobile)
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1. "The 610 office" is an agency specifically created to persecute Falun Gong, with absolute power over each level of administration in the Party and all other political and judiciary systems.
2. "Yuan" is the Chinese currency; 500 yuan is equal to the average monthly income of an urban worker in China.
Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2008/9/18/186126.html
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