6-10 Office

  • Practitioners Detained at Ehru Brainwashing Centre by 610 Office in Jianyang City, Sichuan Province

    Officials from the 610 Office (an organisation of special agents just for persecuting Falun Gong) arrested and harassed about a dozen practitioners starting on June 29th, 2010. These practitioners were subsequently detained at the Erhu Brainwashing Centre in Ziyang City. Their homes were ransacked and their personal belongings confiscated. The brainwashing centre was set up to persecute, "transform" [forcibly renounce Falun Gong] and force practitioners to sign the three statements to renounce practising Falun Gong. Those who gave up Falun Gong were released. Those who resisted were sentenced to prison.
  • 610 Office in Baoding City Arrests Over Sixty Falun Gong Practitioners, Harasses Over One Hundred More

    The 610 Office [an agency specifically created to persecute Falun Gong] in Baoding City, Hebei Province have recently escalated the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners.Police have arrested and harassed Falun Gong practitioners on a large scale. The police officers broke into practitioners' homes. They kicked in the doors, pried opened the locks, and took away cash and private property. Over 60 practitioners were confirmed arrested. Most were imprisoned in a forced labour camp. Over 100 practitioners were harassed. Wang Heli is now demanding that each county hold its own brainwashing session.
  • The Jilin City 610 Office Sends Falun Gong Practitioners to a Forced Brainwashing Centre

    Falun Gong practitioners were recently arrested and detained in a brainwashing centre in Jilin City. The guards attempted to brainwash the practitioners with the goal of forcing them to renounce their belief in Falun Gong. The guards threatened practitioners that they would be sent to a labour camp or a mental hospital unless they gave up their belief in Falun Gong. Two inmates were assigned in the room to monitor each practitioner. The prison inmates worked two shifts a day, with two in each shift.
  • Heavy-Handed Retaliation Follows the Exposure of 610 Office Plan to Defame Falun Gong at Shanghai World Expo

    The World Expo opened in Shanghai on May 1st, bringing crowds of people and a huge inflow of information. The 610 Office (an organisation of special agents just for persecuting Falun Gong) exploited the Expo as an opportunity to further defame Falun Gong. The 610 Office internally circulated a "classified" seven-page document entitled "Preaching Guidelines." The existence of this report, which is in effect a blueprint for the propaganda blitz to be used against Falun Gong during the World Expo, was made public on the Minghui website Minghui website [Chinese version of Clearwisdom.net] in late April.
  • Four Practitioners Arrested by the 610 Office of Laiyang in Shandong Province for Helping Ms. Liu Zhimei Recover from Mental Collapse Due to Persecution

    On April 16th, 2010, police arrested Ms. Liu Zhimei, a former student at Tsinghua University who suffered a mental collapse as a result of persecution during her imprisonment. They also arrested the four practitioners, including Ms. Gao Chunhong, who were taking care of Ms. Liu. Additionally, Ms. Gao's house was ransacked, and many private belongings were taken away.
  • Atrocities Committed at the Zhangjiatun Brainwashing Centre in Jiaozhou City, Shandong Province

    According to practitioners who have been incarcerated in the Zhangjiatun Brainwashing Centre, Jiaozhou City 610 Office agents hired some local thugs to carry out the abuse in the centre. They severely beat practitioners who refused to write statements to renounce practising Falun Gong. They abused and mistreated male practitioners by pulling out their beard hairs one by one, or freezing them outdoors in the cold weather. They employed a specific torture method to abuse practitioners who remain steadfast in their belief. The persecutors wrapped a long metal furnace hook with newspaper and continuously struck the practitioners in the mouth and teeth so severely that the practitioners' mouths became bloody and their teeth were knocked out one by one. The evildoers shouted, "We will make you suffer until you'd rather be dead than alive!"
  • Huaying City 610 Office Employs Secret Agents to Follow and Monitor Falun Gong Practitioners

    An older man, named Zhou, along with his wife, sells fruit and drinks near the Huaying City People's Hospital. Driven by the desire for profit, they work together with their son and daughter to monitor and follow Falun Gong practitioners for the 610 Office (an organisation of special agents just for persecuting Falun Gong). As part of the persecution of Falun Gong, agents from the Guang'an 610 Office broadcast propaganda defaming Falun Gong practitioners. The authorities use taxpayers' money to hire poor people, street cleaners, jobless people, vendors, and neighbours of the practitioners to become secret agents, and have them participate in the persecution of Falun Gong.
  • The 610 Office Determines the Terms of Falun Gong Practitioners' Sentences and the Judiciary System Just Goes Through the Formality of Holding Trials

    The 610 Office (an organisation of special agents just for persecuting Falun Gong) is a special agency of the communist regime that came into existence for and is dedicated to the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners. It is directly responsible for the arrest, trial and even the term of imprisonment of each Falun Gong practitioner. The Xingcheng City 610 Office has persecuted dozens of practitioners, unjustly sentencing them to terms of from three to eight years. Thousands of practitioners have been subjected to forced labour and detention. Many of their houses were ransacked and robbed, and many of them were fired from their jobs and had huge amounts of money extorted from them.
  • Lianyungang City 610 Office Agents Persecute Mr. Zhu Chao and His Wife Ms. Dong Yueling

    Mr. Zhu Chao and his wife Ms. Dong Yueling from Puyang, Henan Province are from Lianyungang City, Jiangsu Province. Lianyuangang City 610 Office agents (an organisation of special agents just for persecuting Falun Gong), arrested the couple on April 12th, 2010. Ms. Dong and her daughter, who was about to take the national college entrance examination, were escorted back to their hometown on April 29th. Mr. Zhu was placed in criminal detention around June 10th.
  • Persecution of Falun Gong Practitioners by 610 Office Agents in Cangxi County, Sichuan Province

    Ms. Wang Yao was arrested and taken to the Jiuquxi Hotel Detention Centre. The police extorted confessions by torturing her, brainwashing her and depriving her of sleep for more than 10 days. One day, detention centre doctor Zheng Ze ordered Ms. Wang to kneel. Ms. Wang tried to persuade him not to commit bad deeds against Falun Gong practitioners because this would do him no good. Zheng Ze completely ignored her advice and trampled on her legs. He also beat her chest and stomach, and slapped her face. After he was tired of beating her, he paraded her on the street and put her at the Cangxi County Court front entrance in a public show of humiliation. Back at the detention centre, the abusers placed Ms. Wang in handcuffs and shackles.
  • 610 Office in Xichang City, Sichuan Province Blocks the Public from Attending Trial of Falun Gong Practitioners

    The 610 Office (an organisation of special agents just for persecuting Falun Gong) in Xichang City, Sichuan Province ordered the Xichang City Court to try four Falun Gong practitioners on May 13th, 2010. A few days before the May 13th trial, the 610 Office notified top officials at work sites and communities where practitioners are known to live and work to prevent people from going to the proceedings. The entrances into the court were monitored. Officials from various workplaces and communities were posted at the door, responsible for preventing people that they knew from their areas from entering.
  • Teenager's Cancer Disappears after Practising Falun Gong; Family Threatened by 610 Office

    Qu Jianguo, 16, was diagnosed with terminal bone cancer, but received a new lease on life after starting to practise Falun Gong. He was grateful from the bottom of his heart, and wrote an article "High School Student Survives Bone Cancer after Practising Falun Gong" on the Minghui website [Chinese version of Clearwisdom.net] to tell his story. Then the 610 Office (an organisation of special agents just for persecuting Falun Gong) in Baoding City initiated an investigation into Jianguo's whole family. Since then, Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials have attempted several times to force him to sign a guarantee statement to renounce his belief and to declare that Falun Gong had nothing to do with his recovery.
  • The Fuzhou City 610 Office's Persecution of Falun Gong Practitioners During the Past Two Years

    Mr. Zheng Shizhen was arrested by police on January 10th, 2008, while handing out Falun Gong leaflets exposing the persecution. He was detained at the Second Detention Centre in Fuzhou City. Later he was released. On March 27th, 2008, 70-year-old Ms. Zhao Fengrong was arrested by the Huada Police near Tongpan Elementary School. The police then raided her home and took away her computer, printer, CDs exposing the persecution of Falun Gong, and other personal belongings. Zhao Fengrong was sentenced to three years in prison and she is currently imprisoned at the Fuzhou City Women's Prison.
  • An Open Letter to 610 Offices, Chinese Police, Procurators and Legal Systems

    My name is Mei Xuan, and I am an Erhu player (traditional Chinese musical instrument) in the Shen Yun Performing Arts Company. I am writing this open letter as the wife of a detained Falun Gong practitioner. On February 18th, 2010, I was waiting for my husband, Jiang Feng, at Newark Airport, New York. After all the passengers had left, I still didn't see him. I had been longing for this reunion for a long time, ever since he obtained a visa to visit the U.S. But suddenly, he had disappeared, which made me so sad. I found out that State Security agents arrested him before he could board the airplane. He is now detained in the Luyang District Brainwashing Centre in Hefei City, Anhui Province. I cannot express the pain in my heart upon learning of this.
  • Dehui City 610 Office Agents Arrest Several Falun Gong Practitioners

    Four officers from the Chalukou Town Police Station went to the home of Mr. Ji Guoxiang on March 2nd, 2010. They attempted to arrest Mr. Ji, but he was able to escape. The police took away his Falun Gong books. Dehui City Police Department officers and those from the Chalukou Town Police Station have been constantly harassing and persecuting Mr. Ji since July 20th, 1999. Mr. Ji decided to live away from home, moving from place to place several times. This same group of officers next went to the home of Ms. Jiang Yaqin. They arrested her and confiscated her Falun Gong books and materials.