Accounts of Persecution against Falun Gong Practitioners by the "610 Office" and the Political Security Office in Hebei Province

Since July 20th, 1999, officials at the "610 Office"[1] in Zhengding County, Hebei Province have severely tortured Falun Gong practitioners. Officials have arrested Falun Gong practitioners, and used many methods to torture them, such as forcing them to live in freezing conditions, starvation, sleep depravation, beatings, and harassment, confiscation of personal property, as well as robbery and extortion.

Officials at the "610 Office" of Zhengding County directed the Zhengding County Police Department's Political Security Office as well as local police stations to commit appalling crimes against practitioners, one after another. For example, practitioner Zhao Fengnian was beaten to death and his body was dumped, while other practitioners were detained, beaten, sent to labour camps, or sentenced to jail terms. Whoever practices Falun Gong is sent to the county's Party School and forcibly brainwashed, while those practitioners who are steadfast in their beliefs are detained. [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

The "610 Office" of Zhengding County instigated the Zhengding County Police Department's Political Security Office to ruthlessly torture Falun Gong practitioners. The police abduct and shadow practitioners, as well as tap their phone calls and keep their residences under surveillance. Police even parade steadfast Dafa practitioners through the streets. The Political Security Office offers rewards of 500 to 1,000 Yuan to each person who reports Falun Gong practitioners to the police. [500 Yuan is the average monthly income for an urban worker in China]

Hu Jun, Deputy Director of the Zhengding County Police Department, is the chief culprit in the persecution of Dafa practitioners. In order to gain a promotion for himself, Hu Jun uses his authority to commit criminal acts. He has abducted and beaten Falun Gong practitioners, tapped their phone conversations, shadowed them, and kept them under surveillance, and ransacked their homes. He has even gone so far as to beat and verbally abuse practitioners' family members, including seniors and children. Such a cruel criminal has been rewarded many times by the Shijiazhuang City Police Department.

The deputy section chiefs in Zhengding County Police Department's Political Security Office, Cai Shengli and Zhang Reiyu, along with their driver Yu Ligang, are the three major criminals who have beaten and tortured Dafa practitioners. Throughout the entire county, many practitioners have been injured by beatings. Moreover, most of those who are being beaten are women and children; even seniors are not spared. These three also force practitioners to hand over their money or simply take the money directly from practitioners' wallets. The Political Security Office also extorts between 2,000 and 5,000 Yuan from each practitioner's family but never issues a receipt. This kind of behaviour is the same as committing robbery in broad daylight. Policeman Cai Shengli has made a fortune from persecuting practitioners. Other policemen are very jealous and use the same methods to demand money and confiscate property from practitioners. Using the excuse of making a search, policemen publicly steal practitioners' property such as cars, cash, valuable jewellry, certificates, cell phones, clothing, Falun Dafa books, and Falun Dafa audio and video tapes.

This path of using their authority to commit crimes is much worse than ruffians robbing and beating others. We have recorded the crimes that these people have committed against innocent and kind Falun Gong practitioners. We will organise and publish to the world the crimes committed by the officials in the "610 Office" of Zhengding County. We will expose these deeds so that they have nowhere to hide, and let people around the world use their conscience to judge these people.

Contact Information for Responsible Persons:

Police Department of Zhengding County

Main line: 86-311-8021717 or 86-311-8011859
Hu Jun, Deputy Director of the Zhengding County Police Department, as well as the head of Zhengding County's "610 Office:" Main line with extension 6166 (work), 86-311-96777-2769 (pager)
Director's office: Main line with extension 6101
Political Security Committee: Main line with extension 6102
Deputy Directors' offices: Main line with extension 6106, 6103, 6104, 6107, 6132
Discipline and Inspection Secretary: Main line with extension 6108

Head of Xipingle Police Station: 86-311-8269354
Head of Xin'an Town Police Station: 86-311-8279295
Head of Beizaoxian Police Station: 86-311-8712618, 86-311-8750118
Quyangqiao Police Station's Advising Office: 86-211-8291026
Xizhaotong Police Station's Advising Office: 86-311-5301099
Head of Nancun Town's Police Station: 86-211-8741907
Zhufuntun Police Station's Advising Office: 86-311-8224322
Shakuang Police Department: 86-311-8021680
Linye Police Station: 86-311-8010420
Nanlou Police Station: 86-311-8241959
Nanniu Police Station: 86-311-8768586
Teilu Police Station: 86-311-8022021
Xinchengpu Police Station: 86-311-8209712
Wanmin Village Police Station: 86-311-5303399
Hengshan Market Police Station: 86-311-8013862

Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2003/7/31/54886.html