Police in Shanghai Refuse to Allow Hong Kong Resident Ms. Zeng Aihua to Meet with Her Lawyer

Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Zeng Aihua is a permanent resident of the Hong Kong Region. She has been detained in the Pudong District Detention Centre in Shanghai for more than six months, charged with the "crime" of "spreading Falun Gong materials." At the beginning of October 2006, the Pudong District Procuratorate sent her case back to the Pudong Police Department because there was not enough evidence. Currently, the police from the Pudong District are trying to stop the lawyer from meeting with Ms. Zeng.

Ms. Zeng Aihua was arrested on May 22nd, 2006, by police officer Qiu Lin from Puxing Street Station and State Security Agents from the Pudong District Police Department. Officers in charge of her case never dared to reveal their names, work units, or phone numbers when contacting Ms. Zeng, her family, or her lawyer. They only said that they were from the Pudong District or Shanghai City Police Departments and their last names (Tu and Zhang from the Pudong District Police Department, and Wang from the Shanghai City Police Department). They left their names blank on the arrest

Each time Ms. Zeng's lawyer or family needs to contact officers in charge of her case, the Pudong Police Department operators connect them to an unused phone extension. They looked for Officer Wang from the City Police Department and was told there is no such officer. If they asked Officer Qiu from the local station to look for officers in charge of her case, they would not get any results. Finally, they had to go to the State Security Division of the Pudong District Police Department in person. Ever since her case was sent back from the District Procuratorate to the Police Department, the situation has worsened.

In the middle of November 2006, Ms. Zeng's lawyer tried to visit officers Tu or Zhang in the State Security Division of the Pudong District Police Department and got an answer from the security guards at the gate that they were not in or that there were no such officers! The lawyer cannot request bail for Ms. Zeng or visit her.

In the past six months of detention, Ms. Zeng's family has been deprived of the right to visit her or call her. None of the letters that her family has written to her have been replied to. Only the lawyer was allowed to meet her for 30 minutes in July under strict monitoring. There has been no information since then. Her family is very worried about her personal safety since the harvesting of living Falun Gong practitioners' organs in China has been exposed.

Recently, the situation in Shanghai has been very severe. Practitioner Mr. Lin Mingli from the Putuo District has just been sentenced to six years in prison without reason.

We urgently call for the international community to express concern for Ms. Zeng Aihua's safety. We solemnly warn those officers and officials involved in Ms. Zeng's case that almost 16 million Chinese people have withdrawn from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and its affiliated organisations. At this critical moment, quitting the CCP and stopping one's participation in the persecution is the only way out.

Relevant phone numbers:
Pudong District Police Department: 86-21-50614567 (Officers in charge are Tu and Zhang from the State Security Fourth Office)
Superintend Division of Pudong District Police Department: 86-21-50705021
Shanghai City Police Department: 86-21-23242200 (Officer in charge is Wang of State Security Division)
Appeal Office of Shanghai City Police Department: 86-21-24023584, 86-21-24023456
Puxing Street Police Station: 86-21-68953728, (Hotline Office), 86-21-68953722

Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2006/12/3/143739.html