Zhou Yongkang Secretly Orders Increased Persecution Before the Olympics

In late April 2008, Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Minister of Public Security Zhou Yongkong held more conference calls to discuss "The measures to ensure a stable society during the Beijing Olympics and Shanghai Paralympics." Other provinces and cities also held similar conference calls soon thereafter. The meetings outlined the need to maintain control over "advocates for Tibet's independence," "Falun Gong," "other religions," "extremists," and "people who repeatedly appeal." For those people who try to appeal at the provincial level or in Beijing, they are to be interviewed and their issues analysed individually so that conflicts are resolved and controlled locally. "Members of Falun Gong" are to be extensively controlled. Control over the Internet needs to intensify. If anything goes wrong, all information has to be unified before distribution and the local person in charge will be reprimanded or disciplined. From now on, this plan will be in full effect, all fronts will enter "actual combat" mode and there will be practice drills. All conflicts must be handled locally, and demonstrations must not happen at the provincial level or in Beijing.

It was reported that since April 2008, the Shanghai 610 Office¹, while following orders from "above," held a series of secret meetings throughout the various districts and counties of Shanghai in an attempt to use the Olympics to further arrest and persecute Falun Gong practitioners residing in Shanghai, as well as Uyghurs, Tibetans, and other minority groups temporarily in Shanghai. All the directors of the neighbourhood committees and the heads of local police stations were summoned to attend the secret meetings. The local police stations were told to identify all the minority groups and Falun Gong practitioners within their jurisdiction. They ordered that a 24-hour surveillance be kept on each of the known Falun Gong practitioners until the end of Olympics on August 24th. Spies could be used to keep surveillance on former Falun Gong coordinators in Shanghai and other "key persons." They have even designed an evaluation form and will visit the homes of Falun Gong practitioners. Those who they feel are uncooperative will be further arrested and persecuted. After the conference, all participants were ordered to destroy any and all notes and maintain secrecy.

A few days ago, the Level 2 officials at China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation's Shengli Oil Field subsidiary in Shandong Province read a "classified" document to the employees. The document falsely accused Falun Gong of attempting to disrupt the Olympics and ordered all employees to not visit Falun Gong's websites, or accept any Falun Gong materials exposing the persecution or watch any videos sympathetic to Falun Gong. From the contents of the document, the CCP has publicly acknowledged things they had previously tried to suppress and keep quiet Falun Gong related materials.

Recently, reports have started to come in that the neighbourhood committee leaders are helping the police or 610 Office members visit and harass Falun Gong practitioners at their homes.

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.

Chinese version available at ttp://minghui.org/mh/articles/2008/5/2/177665.html