The Persecution of Beijing Falun Dafa Practitioners

[Note: The following is a shortened version of a longer and more detailed article that appeared on the minghui.ca website (Chinese version of Clearwisdom.net).]

Dongcheng District Government Official Says they Will Detain Practitioners for Two Years Without Trial

Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Zhang Yinying is from Dongcheng District in Beijing. She is 52 years old and works at the Dongcheng District Environmental Protection Administration. On February 20th, 2006, four or five policemen, led by local policeman Dong Zhiguo, forced their way into Ms. Zhang's home and arrested her. Ms. Zhang had been arrested prior to this incident, in 2001. She was sentenced at that time to one year in a forced labour camp. Ms. Zhang was arrested again in July 2003 and sent to a forced labour camp for two and a half years, during which time she was severely tortured. During the brutal beatings, all of her teeth were knocked out. Ms. Zhang was released on January 3rd after finishing her term at the labour camp.

Falun Dafa Practitioners Wang Daping and Fu Yan, a Married Couple from Haidian District, Sentenced to Prison

Mr. Wang Daping, around 40 years old, and his wife Ms. Fu Yan, also around 40 years old, are Falun Dafa practitioners from Haidian District, Beijing. Fu Yan was sentenced to one year of forced labour. During the evening of January 20th, 2005, a group of policemen broke into and ransacked their home and then arrested the couple. A memo sent out in November 2005 stated that Mr. Wang and Ms. Fu had been sentenced by the court as follows: Mr. Wang was sentenced to four years in prison, and Ms. Fu to three and a half years in prison. Mr. Wang and Ms. Fu have a son at home. He just started vocational high school and is currently under the care of his grandparents.

Falun Dafa Practitioner Guo Fengqin from Chaoyang District Sentenced to Two Years in a Forced Labour Camp

Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Guo Fengqin, 52 years old, is from Chaoyang District, Beijing. On the evening of March 1, 2005, Zhang Jianmin, the person in charge of the Anzhen "610 Office¹', led area policemen and people from the community office and broke into Ms. Guo's home. They ransacked her home, took away Dafa materials and other items and arrested Ms. Guo. She was sentenced to work in a forced labour camp for two years. Ms. Guo's husband and son are back at home. Her husband was also threatened after his wife's arrest.

Note

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.

Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2006/3/13/122716.html