On the night of September 27th, policemen from the Goubangzi and Qingduizi Townships initiated a large-scale campaign of search and seizure. After going door by door to find and arrest Falun Gong practitioners, they then demanded money for their release.
The amount extorted ranged from a few thousand Yuan to ten thousand Yuan (the average monthly income of an urban worker is about 500 Yuan). Many practitioners had previously been fired from their jobs for practicing Falun Gong, so their family members had to borrow money from elsewhere to bail them out.
Source: http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2001/11/30/16354.html
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