The following is an eyewitness account of brutal acts against and extortion from Falun Dafa practitioners in Aoping Township, Sichuan Province.
During his arrest in September 2001, practitioner Liu Yingsong was kicked and punched, which resulted in bi-lateral broken collarbones. Even as he was lying on the floor unable to move, the the 610 Office (an agency specifically created to persecute Falun Gong, with absolute power over each level of administration in the Party and all other political and judicial systems) staff threw him up into the air and let him fall to the floor.
On-lookers couldn't bear to look.
Yet the brutality didn't stop there. Liu was moved to the commune's office and received continuous brutal beatings. A few days later, they tricked his wife into going to the commune's office and, without giving any reason, violently assaulted her until she was black and blue all over.
They then put her in solitary confinement for two weeks.
When Zhou Guanghua, a female practitioner, went to Beijing for the first time she was arrested and fined 1300 Yuan (approximately three months' salary for an average Chinese urban labourer). Her mother-in-law and husband were incited by the 610 Office staff to verbally and physically abuse her. On one occasion, her husband was even about to strangle her with a rope. The Office demanded that her mother-in-law and husband monitor her at all times and to inform them whenever another practitioner visited her. The Office promised they would return the fined money if the family continued the monitoring.
Every time the staff of 610 Office lost money playing Mahjong, they took it out on Zhou and assaulted her mercilessly.
During the Spring Festival, Zhou was beaten into unconsciousness five times and was held in custody for two months.
Two volunteers who had agreed to be contact persons for other practitioners in Aoping Township have suffered numerous assaults for continuing to practice Falun Dafa. On any so-called "sensitive" dates, these practitioners were arrested, locked up, and beaten. During holidays, they were made to do cleaning and other chores for the office. Even the wife of Yin Xianming, a non-practitioner, was not spared; she was also assaulted and detained.
Source
http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2002/5/17/22144.html
Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2002/5/3/29448.html
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