Jiujiang City "610 Office" Agents in Jiangxi Province Arrest Many Falun Gong Practitioners

Officials from the Jiujiang Domestic Security Department, the Politics and Law Committee, and the 610 Office¹ recently commenced another round of persecution and suppression of Falun Gong under the pretext of "Olympic Safety" and "Harmonious Society." Besides sending citizens "public letters" via mobile phone text message to emphasize the "urgency" of this campaign, they hired more than one thousand local security men--mostly jobless and retired people--to monitor, harass and arrest practitioners, in complete violation of the Chinese constitution.

So far, twenty practitioners have been arrested. They are: Zhou Meili, Lin Koulan, Zhang Daidi (all sentenced to forced labour), Chen Qing, Chen Qi, Yang Jinfen, Yang Yingping, Zhang Lihong, Wang Chunmei (Wang is now at the Majialong Forced Labour Camp), Wu Tenpeng, Gui Baihua, Lu Zhengxiang, Wang Shifan, Huang Kuanfa, Zhong Xiangwei, Wang Yuelan, Bai Hongjun, Liu Yizhi, Xiong Maofen (missing).�Mr. Huang, employed at the Jiujiang Third Textile Mill, was also arrested.

The agents intruded into a resident's home. One day in early April, the neighbourhood committee head at the Ninth Textile Mill, accompanied by the Guanpaijia Police, broke into practitioner Lu Qingxiu's home at the No. 4 Building of the Ninth Textile Mill. They took her Falun Gong books and other personal belongings. On April 18th, they again broke into Lu Qingxiu's home with a master key. That same day, they invaded practitioner Tan Zhenghua's home with a master key and took all his Falun Gong books.

Around nine o'clock on April 28th, 2008, Xunyang Domestic Security Division head Li Ming took policemen Kong Jiang and others and broke into Bai Hongjun's home at Jinjipo and took him away. Four police officers beat Ba to the ground and bound him tightly with rope. They also arrested practitioner Liu Yizhi, who happened to be visiting Bai. The persecutors eventually confiscated Bai's several computers and truth-clarifying materials. Since July 20th, 1999, Bai Hongjun has been arrested several times and held against his will in a mental hospital.

At 7:00 a.m. on April 29th, 2008, police went to exiled practitioner Zhu Shengli's rented home and seized Zhu's wife as hostage when they couldn't find him. Jiujiang County Domestic Security Department head Wei Qiang and another policeman then ransacked the home, seizing all Falun Gong books. It is believed that this was done under pressure from the supervisor of the Jiujiang Police Department. Bai

Hongjun and Liu Zhiyi are now being held at the Jiujiang Detention Centre.

List of people taking parting in the persecution:

Xunyang Domestic Security Department deputy head Lijun (female): 86-13320129100(Mobile); 86-792-8195293

Xunyang Domestic Security Department head Li Ming

Police Kong Jiang: 86-13507926645(Mobile), 86-792-8587996

Wang Yonggeng, Security head of the Second Construction Branch Company at Jinjipo: 86-13007257663(Mobile)

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.