Police in Anqiu, Shandong Province Mass-Arrest Falun Gong Practitioners

On the evening of November 2nd, 2007, mass arrests of Falun Gong practitioners took place in Anqui City. Participating in this arrest sweep were more than two hundred police officers from Anqiu City Police Department, the Procuratorate, the court, the Bureau of Justice, the Criminal Police Division, and police stations in Dongguan, Jiage, Nanguan, Wushan, Dasheng, Guanzhuang, Linwu, Shifuzi, Linghe, Liujiayao, and the Xing'an community office. The police were divided into groups of more than a dozen officers, each equipped with two or three police cars. They forced open the doors or windows of practitioners' homes, arrested people and seized private belongings. Practitioners who refused to open their doors were besieged for a long time.

Arrested female practitioners are currently being held at the Anqiu City Detention Centre. A 15-square-metre cell holds 31 people, 21 of whom are practitioners. In the morning they are made to drink dirty dish water, at lunchtime they are given old vegetable leaves boiled in salt water and rancid pickles, and in the evening they have to crowd themselves together on the damp, cold floor. The space is so tight that they can barely turn over.

On December 3rd, 2007, four practitioners were released. Four were sent to forced labour camps. Thirteen practitioners are still being detained. They may be sentenced or sent to forced labour camps.

Six or seven male practitioners are detained in the male ward. One of these practitioners has been sent to a forced labour camp, and the circumstances of the others are unknown.

Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2007/12/18/168621.html