Eight Middle-Aged and Elderly Women Arrested for Practising Falun Gong Exercises in Private Home

Ms. Cao Fengying is a Falun Dafa practitioner in Wanquan County, Hebei Province. On April 5th, 2007, police officers from the Wanquan County 610 Office¹ and the National Security Division arrested her and ransacked her home. They also took away seven others who were practising Falun Gong at her home at the time.

In 2007, Ms. Cao went to the National Security Division of the County Police Department many times. She wanted to get back her motorcycle and 1,300 yuan² that had been seized by Division Head Jiang Aiguo the previous year. However, she did not succeed. On April 2nd, she went again but was told rudely by Jiang, "No one else dares to come here like you do. You even wrote to me and exposed me on the Internet. Wait and see how I deal with you."

At around 4:00 a.m. on April 5th, several policemen and two police cars blocked the lane where Ms. Cao's home is located. They arrested people who were there practising the Falun Gong exercises, most of whom were new practitioners who had just started practising Falun Dafa. An elderly woman in her 70s was so scared that she fainted on the spot; her daughter took her home later on. Eight people have been arrested. The police also confiscated a TV and antenna, the only valuable items in Ms. Cao's home.

The arrested practitioners are mostly in their 50s. They had suffered from all kinds of illnesses in the past, but recovered after practising Falun Gong. One of the practitioners, Ms. Yan Bin, was deaf and dumb, but started talking after she started practising Dafa.

Phone numbers of the responsible parties and individuals:

Li Fenglou, new director of Wanquan County Police Department: 86-313-4227608 (Office)

Zhang Kefeng, political head of Wanquan County Police Department

Jiang Aiguo, head of National Security Division: 86-313-4221688 (Home), 86-313-8682823 (Office), 86-13603136126 (Mobile), 86-13191914078 (Mobile)

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.

2. "Yuan" is the Chinese currency; 500 yuan is equal to the average monthly income of an urban worker in China.

Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2007/4/8/152377.html