Family Members Arrested While Visiting an Elderly Detained Practitioner

Hao Fukui, an elderly practitioner from Jilin Province has been persecuted for the past 9 months and his life is now in danger. His family members, Hao Yaofeng, Liu Mingwei and Mu Chunmei, went to visit him on March 1st, and were detained by the police. They were all sentenced to two years of forced labour. Police from Wucaicheng Police Station in Kaifa District, Dalian City, Liaoning Province, sent them to Masanjia Forced Labour Camp. On learning of this, their other family members tried every way possible to rescue them. During the process, they met with harassment, verbal abuse and the vicious threats from all branches of the government and the police force.

On May 20th, 2005, at 6 a.m., practitioner Hao Fukui, who was almost seventy years old, was taken from his home by a score of people from the local police department and the 610 Office¹ and put in Kaifa District Jail in Dalian City. After 9 months of persecution, he suffered symptoms of a stroke and is close to dying. He was sent to the Third Hospital in Kaifa District in Dalian on February 27th, 2006.

After learning about his situation, Hao's family members became extremely worried. Travelling overnight on March 1st, they rushed to the hospital to visit him. In the process, a family member had a dispute with the police. Not only did the police put Hao back in jail, they also arrested and detained in Yaojia Jail three of his family members: Hao Yaofeng, Liu Mingwei, and Mu Chunmei.

On March 28th, 2006, police officers Chen Zhiqiang and Sun Chenggang from Wucaicheng Police Station, and Liu Dong and Zhang Lijun from the judiciary division in Kaifa District Police Department, took the practitioners to Masanjia Forced Labour Camp after sentencing them to two years of forced labour. The police did not even inform their family members during this whole process.

Hao Yaofeng, Liu Mingwei and Mu Chunmei's family members became deeply worried after the three were abducted. They tried all of their connections to find out what had happened to them, and finally received some information after waiting two weeks. They went to the Kaifa District Police Department, but people there in the political and security department would not give them any explanation and only kept delaying, making excuses, or avoiding the family members. Finally under their repeated requests, Xu Yungang from the political and security department said: "We have reported them to our higher authorities and we are going to send them to the forced labour camp. They will be sent in a few days." The family members asked for the reason and Xu said: "They were found to have Falun Gong propaganda materials on them." The next day when the family members went again, Xu said: "They had Falun Gong propaganda equipment." The third day, Xu said: "They disrupted the order of society." He changed his allegations three times over three days, basically accusing the practitioners of any offense he could think of.

On March 27th, some family members went to the district police department at around 8 a.m. Police Chief Liu Wei refused to see them or answer the phone.

On March 28th and 29th, the family members went twice to the district police department to see Xu Yungang. The guards tried to call him, but no one answered. The family members waited for a long time. They tried to go upstairs to look for him directly, but were blocked by the guard.

At 9 a.m. on March 30th, the family members went to Wucaicheng Police Station and told the police there about the situation. In the afternoon, they went to the judiciary division in Kaifa District Police Department and asked them why they had not been informed when their family members were sent away to a forced labour camp. A policeman named Liu Dong said: "We had the papers from the judiciary division of the police department and it did not require us to inform family members." The family members got the paper showing the delivery of "personnel" to forced labour from him. A policeman named Zhang Lijun, who also participated in the delivery of the practitioners to Masanjia Forced Labour Camp said, "The first day the labour camp refused to take them. Liu Mingwei and Mu Chunmei kept yelling 'Falun Dafa is good.' They told me a lot of the facts about Falun Gong. They said that only without the Chinese Communist party can there be a new China. Hao Yaofeng also sang a Dafa song. He sang really well. None of us tried to stop him." At this time, Zhang was stopped by Liu Dong. The family members took the opportunity to tell the police officials about Sujiatun Death Camp. Liu Dong said: "I can have you arrested if you keep saying these things here." The family members were not intimidated and kept talking about the facts of Dafa.

Phone number of Zhang Lijun and Liu Dong: 86-411-88969698
Bao Zhouli (the director), police ID number: 207403; phone number: 86-411-88969651
Jing Weizhang (deputy director); phone number: 86-411-88969653
Li Lianqing (instructor): 86-411-88969652
Chen Zhiqiang, police ID: 207598; phone number: 86-411-88969657
Xu Renpeng, police ID: 209994; phone number: 86-411-88969661
Sun Chenggang, police ID: 209962; phone number: 86-411-88969658

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/2006/4/20/125654.html