Penghou Street Police Station's Policy of Extortion

[Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province]

The police of Penghou Street Police Station of Qiaodong District have become even more rampant. On September 28, 2001, they arrested Yang Xiaojie and his wife Liu Runling, a couple who had left home over a year ago to avoid the persecution. The police detained them at the police station for many days, trying to use physical torture to extort a confession. Yang Xiaojie was tied to an iron chair for 7 days and nights, but he refused to give in to the perpetrators. Currently the couple is being detained at the Shijiazhuang No. 1 Detention Centre. On September 29, 2001, the police deceived female practitioner Zhao Xiuli into going to the police station. It has been over a month, and she has still not been allowed to go home. They sent her to a brainwashing class in Qiaodong District, where she was denied sleep for several days. The police took turns watching her. As soon as she closed her eyes, they would shock her with electric batons.

The Penghou Street Police Station not only persecutes practitioners, but also extorts money from their families. The amount ranges from 2000 to 3000 Yuan. (Translator's note: Yuan is Chinese currency. The average monthly income of an urban worker is 500 Yuan.) The money the police have extorted from female practitioner Zhang Rongxiu's family in Dongsanjiao has amounted to tens of thousands of Yuan. The same thing happened to female practitioner Zhang Shuzhen's family from Yuan Village. Another practitioner, Zhao Xiuli, also lives in Yuan Village, and authorities extorted over ten thousand Yuan from her family. The method used by the police is to detain the practitioners first. Then the police force their families to turn in money to pay for their meals at restaurants and other entertainment expenses. After they had enough fun, they would release the practitioners. After some time, they would come up with another excuse and detain the practitioners again to use the same tricks to extort money. The reason that Zhao Xiuli was sent to the brainwashing class instead of being released is perhaps that her family didn't give money to the police.

Phone of the Penghou Street Police Station: 86-311-6103674.

Source: http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2001/12/17/16874.html