The Situation of Practitioners Mr. Zhao Longzhi and His Wife Ms. Luo Na in Tibet Remains Unknown After Eight Months in Police Custody

Tibetan Falun Dafa practitioners Mr. Zhao Longzhi and his wife Ms. Luo Na were arrested by local police officers and members of the 610 Office¹ on January 31, 2006. The officers also searched their home. No information is currently available on the couple.

Practitioners Mr. Zhao and his wife Ms. Luo were Falun Gong assistants before the persecution started on July 20th, 1999. After July 20th, 1999, they headed out on a journey of thousands of miles to Beijing to appeal for justice for Falun Gong. Ms. Luo Na suffered from severe nausea while riding the bus, and eventually on the night when they reached her hometown, they were caught by a group of officers from the Tibetan Police Department who had followed them. The police stopped them, and two days later took the couple back to their work unit, where the couple was placed under surveillance.

In 2000, Mr. Zhao and Ms. Luo went to Beijing again to make a statement that Falun Dafa is good. They were arrested and beaten in Tiananmen Square. After being sent back to Tibet, they were sentenced to two years of forced labour and held in the Lhasa Forced Labour Camp.

In 2002, when the forced labour terms ended, the labour camp authorities held them in custody for fifteen extra days, as they refused to write "guarantee statements" promising to quit practising Falun Gong. In the end, the Najin Electric Factory took them back and placed them under strict surveillance and deprived them of time away from work. Later, Ms. Luo was pregnant and wanted to deliver the baby in mainland China. She was not granted leave to visit her parents until 2003.

On January 31st, 2003, local police officers and members of the 610 Office became suspicious that Mr. Zhao and Ms. Luo were distributing leaflets exposing the persecution. The officers searched the couple's home and took them into custody. No family visit has been granted. It has been reported that Mr. Zhao Longzhi and Ms. Luo Na were unlawfully held in the Lhasa City Detention Centre. Police officers in charge of the case claimed that the paperwork has reached the courts.

More detailed information regarding the couple is not available. They have almost no family members living in Lhasa.

Because of the special geographical location and inconvenience in travel, there are very few local practitioners in the area. We hope fellow practitioners can use letters, telephone calls or other methods to reach out to people from all walks of life in Tibet and clarify the truth.

Police Department at No. 36 Duosen Road, Lhasa City, Tibet Autonomous Region; telephone number: 86-891-6331089; fax number: 86-891-6331089
Wang Qing, police officer: 86-13908914457 (cell)
Najin Electric Factory in Lhasa City: 86-891-6388927

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/2006/10/14/140174.html