On the afternoon of January 30th, 2008, the police from Yangyong Town Police Station at the Laishui County, Hebei Province arrested Falun Gong practitioner Zhou Jingchun from Zhoujiazhuang, Yongyang Town, Laishui County.
Mr. Zhou, 61 years old, is from the Zhoujiazhuang, Yongyang Town, Laishui County. It is the third time that he was arrested and persecuted by the Laishui County Chinese Communist Party (CCP) government.
On September 30th, 2004, Mr. Zhou was forcibly arrested by the police from the Laishui County Police Department. Under the Laishui County 610 Office's1 incitement, the police brutally tortured Mr. Zhou and beat him in turn until he fell to the ground and could not stand up.
Zhou Jingchun's wife, Ms. Xu Shulan, was also arrested by the Laishui County Police Department and was brutally tortured by the police. She suffered severe injuries. The police also interrogated and threatened her. When Xu Shulan's health condition had dangerously deteriorated, the Laishui County Police Station forced her son to pay 1,000 yuan2 for her release. Later Zhou Jinghcun was sentenced three years of forced labour by the Laishui County Police Department and sent to the Baoding City Forced Labour Camp.
On June 13th, 2007, Mr. Zhou went to a fellow practitioner's home to help him build an addition onto his house. Policemen Dai Chunjie and Dong Honghao from the Laishui County Police Department came and arrested the practitioner and seized his home. Mr. Zhou was also arrested and detained at Laishui County Detention Centre. He was released after more than a month.
On the same day, Falun Gong practitioner Zhang Guohua from Yongyang Town, Laishui County was also arrested by the Dongwenshan Police Station in Laishui County when he went out in the early morning. He has since been released.
We call on all people of conscience to help the Falun Gong practitioners to be released and reunited with their families as soon as possible.
Telephone numbers:
The chief of the Yongyang Town Police Station at Laishui County: Niu Zhigang
Yongyang Town Police Station at Laishui County: 86-312-4581998
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/2008/2/3/171648.html
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