During the past six months, several Falun Gong practitioners have been arrested in Hanzhong City, Shaanxi Province.
On July 3rd, Falun Gong practitioner Xue Lijun, a doctor at Mian County Gynaecology Hospital, was reported to the police and arrested by the National Security Group of Mian County Police Station.
On September 9th, Falun Gong practitioners Wang Miao and Liu Cuiying were arrested while distributing leaflets exposing the persecution and telling people the facts about Falun Gong. The police later arrested Falun Gong practitioners Xie Hongxia and Cui Xiaomei. The police ransacked their homes, detained them and extorted two thousand yuan1 from them.
On September 10th, policeman Du Jiucheng and three other people intruded into Falun Gong practitioner Liao Jun's home. The police said someone had anonymously reported her. They ransacked her home and sent her to the detention centre of Nanzheng County.
In mid-September someone reported Falun Gong practitioner Zhao Xia (in her forties), an official of the Archive Bureau, for distributing leaflets exposing the persecution and telling people the facts about Falun Gong. She was secretly arrested by the police of Mian County police station. Xia was hung by handcuffs and beaten by the police day after day. Later she was detained at Fengjinglu Detention Centre in Hantai District.
On November 12th, seventy-two-year-old Wang Yunying, sixty-nine-year-old Wang Suyun, and fifty-six-year-old Jin Caihua were reported by Zhang Dongfeng, the person in charge of Nansha River Reservoir, while the three practitioners were distributing leaflets exposing the persecution. They were arrested by the police and detained in Chengu County Detention Centre.
On November 23rd, Du Shuxin (in her sixties) was reported to the police while distributing Video CDs exposing the persecution in Hanzhong City. The leader of the National Security Group of Hantai District, Li Youzhi, along with other police officers, arrested Du and ransacked her home. Du is currently detained at the Fengjinglu Detention Centre in Hantai District. She is being persecuted.
On November 25th, Chen Deben (in his sixties) of Daijiaba Town, Ningqiang County, was arrested at home by police from the National Security Section of Ningqiang County.
On October 11th, right before the Chinese Communist Party's 17th Congress opened, the 610 Office2 of the Shaanxi Provincial Communist Party sent five to six people, including 610 Office agent Wei Qiming and the number one collaborator in Shaanxi Province, Chen Bin, to arrest Falun Gong practitioners. They harassed and forced various district offices and communities in Hanzhong City to help them arrest practitioners. They arrested nine practitioners and sent them to a brainwashing centre in the boarding house of Changkong Instrument Company in Dahekan Town, Nanzheng County. The practitioners were forced to endure brainwashing sessions for as long as two weeks. The practitioners were steadfast in their beliefs, so the evildoers did not succeed and they gave up trying to "transform3" the practitioners.
Recently, Chinese Communist Party officials and police from Hanzhong City attempted to harass Falun Gong practitioners and stop practitioners from explaining the facts about Falun Gong to Chinese people.
At around 1:00 p.m. on December 29th, 2007, Falun Gong practitioner Xu Chunyan and Zheng Cuiping were reported to the police while explaining the facts about Falun Gong in Zhao Village of Hanzhong City. Xu and Zheng were arrested and detained at Fengjinglu Detention Centre of Hantai District. Policeman Ma Ping'an and other officers from the National Security Section of Hantai District later ransacked their home. Xu Chunyan is 43 years old and works for a public bus company in Hanzhong City. Ms. Zheng Cuiping is 63 years old and works for a local product company in Hantai District.
Note
1. "Yuan" is the Chinese currency; 500 yuan is equal to the average monthly income of an urban worker in China.
2. "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.
3. "Reform or Transform" Implementation of brainwashing and torture in order to force a practitioner to renounce Falun Gong. (Variations: "reform", "transform", "reformed", "reforming", "transformed", "transforming", and "transformation")
Chinese version available at http://minghui.org/mh/articles/2007/12/31/169342.html
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