Police Threaten Relatives of Practitioners

[Sanhe, Hebei Province]

The authorities in Yanjiao District in the Sanhe City suburbs, Hebei Province, have been frantically pursuing practitioners who had left their homes to escape persecution. The police have also been closely watching, following, threatening, as well as deceiving the relatives or friends of the practitioners. For example, the County's Deputy Party Secretary General Mr. Zhang Zihua tried to threaten and lure relatives of the practitioners. He tells them, "If by this date, he comes back home, then I guarantee that he will not be sent to labour camps or jail. Otherwise, the consequences will be more serious." They also tried to threaten the elder son of the practitioner Zhang Deli to find and get his father home before a deadline, or risk foreclosure of his cattle farm.

The police did everything in their power to send agents to northeast China in hopes of capturing female practitioner Hao Yafen. On two separate occasions, they also sent Zhang Lianchun, a former practitioner who had strayed from his cultivation, to go to other provinces to catch a relative, Zhang Lianchun (Translator's note: the two names are translated the same, but different Chinese characters), also a practitioner. The Public Security Bureau has arrested many practitioners and sent them to brainwashing classes. It was reported that some of the female practitioners have been raped while in detention.

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