Policemen from Wanquan County of Zhangjiakou City Arrest Several Dafa Practitioners

Before April 25th, 2007, Wang Qi, the deputy chief of the Wanquan County Police Department in Zhangjiakou City, Hebei Province, and Jiang Aiguo from the National Security Division led policemen to arrest Dafa practitioners in Wanquan Town, Taishi Village of Kongjiazhuang Town, and Jiubao Town. They also searched Dafa practitioners' residences and confiscated their' personal belongings.

At about 10:00 p.m. on April 23, 2007, Jiang Aiguo, Zhao Xiuhua (female), Liu Zhiguo and more than twenty other policemen from Wanquan County National Security Division climbed over the wall into practitioner Yue Yongqi's yard, which is located in Wanquan Town of Wanquan County. After that, these policemen arrested practitioners Zhang Fenghua, Cao Ruizhi, and Yue Yongqi, who were reading Dafa books in Yue Yongqi's home. In addition, they took Yue Yongqi's TV, VCD player, several satellite TV receivers, four big satellite dishes, 2 small satellite dishes, Dafa books and MP3 players. For two days in a row, they interrogated Yue Yongqi, who is over 70 years old. On the 25th, they took Yue to Shisanli Detention Centre in Zhangjiakou. In the afternoon of the 26th, after going through many ordeals, the family members of Zhang Fenghua and Cao Ruizhi were finally able to take these two back home. One thousand yuan¹ was extorted from each family.

At the same time, Liu Zhiguo and some other policemen surrounded Zhao Wanying's home in Wangquan Town of Wanquan County (Zhao Wanying was not home at the time). Zhao Wanying's wife and their daughter were home, so the policemen kept their home surrounded for more than 40 hours. The policemen confiscated Mr. Zhao's copy machine, over 30 cases of printing paper, a paper cutter, copies of the Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party ², all of his Dafa books, one TV, a VCD, TV satellite receiver, a satellite dish, and CDs that were worth 2,000 yuan. In addition, the policemen also took away Mr. Zhao's wife and his daughter, who are not practitioners, to the county police department. It has been over a week now, and the child is still not allowed to go to school. According to some witnesses, Mr. Zhao's wife suffered a heart attack. Their current whereabouts are not known. The policemen monitored Mr. Zhao's residence for two days, hoping to capture Mr. Zhao and any practitioners who go to his home. The policemen have been camped out inside his home and eating his food.

At around 10 p.m. on April 23rd, seven people from Kongjiazhuang Police Station of Wanquan County broke into Yan Aiying's residence, confiscated Dafa books, materials, and banners that read "Falun Dafa is good." They tore the banners into pieces. When Yan Aiying's husband tried to stop them, the policemen handcuffed him and arrested Yan Aiying. Ms. Yan's current whereabouts are unknown.

That same evening, 12 other practitioners from Jiubao Town, Wanquan County were reading Dafa books together in Guo Qi's home. The deputy head of the county police department Wang Qi led more than a dozen policemen from the Criminal Police Team, National Security Team, and Town Police Station in three police vehicles. They went to Guo Qi's home, and broke into and arrested the practitioners. The policemen had forced labour camp cards with them. The policemen carried these cards so that they could send the practitioners to forced labour camps directly. At Guo Qi's home, all the practitioners were body searched, and 800 yuan was taken from the practitioners, as well as two copies of Falun Dafa books, and all of their meditation mats. They dragged the practitioners into police vehicles and detained them at the village neighbourhood association building. Practitioner Liu Meitao passed out there and only regained consciousness after emergency rescue.

On the same night, practitioner Guo Zhenjun's home was ransacked by the policemen, even though he was not among the group of practitioners who read Dafa books together. His personal belongings such as a TV, Dafa books, and a satellite receiver and dish were confiscated.

At about 9 a.m. on the 24th, some policemen once again broke into practitioner Zhao Zhiying's home and confiscated a satellite receiver, a TV, Dafa books, and a copy machine. Four practitioners were detained at the village neighbourhood association building for an entire day. The policemen intended to take the practitioners away. Because the practitioners used strong righteous thoughts to resist the arrest, the policemen tried to extort money from the practitioners to no avail, and eventually had to let the practitioners go home.

On April 26th, practitioner Jia Huiqin from Wanquzn Town went to visit practitioner Wu Xiutao in Xuanpingbao Township. As soon as she came through the door, she was arrested by police from Xuanpingbao Township of Wanquan County. She was detained in an office in the Xuanpingbao Township government building for a day. Her motorcycle was confiscated, and they also took Wu Xiutao's TV from her home.

The policemen said that they also arrested practitioners from other districts in Wanquan County.

The police in Zhangjiakou had recently decided that because there were a large number of practitioners in Wanquan County, it should be considered a key target location. As a result, Wanquan County established a "special case team," which collected some special police manpower who hid at the surrounding area of practitioners' homes. They also posted materials that slandered Falun Dafa. On the evening of April 23rd, the police force throughout Wanquan County plotted a massive arrest of Dafa practitioners. Some villagers said that a few days earlier, some policemen dressed up as street vendors and went around practitioners' residential areas to check to see if there were satellite receivers and dishes.

Persons directly and indirectly involved in the persecution of Dafa practitioners in Wanquan:
Li Min (head of Wangquan County Political Committee): 86-313-2192828(Home), 86-13903132188 (Mobile)
Wang Congzhuo (head of Wangquan County): 86-313-4233899(Office), 86-313-5908698(Home), 86-13323236606(Mobile)
A newly appointed director of Wanquan County Political and Law Committee, the person in charge of this massive arrest of Dafa practitioners: 86-313-4222012(Office)

Note

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

2. Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party: Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party is a series of essays published in late 2004 that reveal the true nature of the Communist Party. The Nine Commentaries have led millions of people to renounce their membership in the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). "A book that has shocked all Chinese around the world. A book that is disintegrating the Communist Party." http://ninecommentaries.com

Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2007/4/30/153854.html