610 Office Abducts Retired Professor

On June 23rd, 2009, members of the "610 Office¹," collaborating with local community workers and policemen, harassed seven Falun Gong practitioners in Luzhou City, Sichuan Province, and searched the homes of five of them. About ten people, including policemen from the Dashanping Police Station and community workers from Ciyuanlu Community, broke into Ms. Tang Xuzhen's home and arrested her.

Ms. Tang, 73, is a retired associate professor from Luzhou Medical Institute. Ten years ago, she was diagnosed with nose and throat cancer, but practising Falun Gong cured her. While others who were diagnosed with the same cancer died, Professor Tang was leading a healthy life and she felt deep gratitude to Falun Gong.

Because she shared her positive experience of Falun Gong with people and told about the persecution of practitioners, she was arrested and detained seven times by the Luzhou City 610 Office. She was detained for two years and sent to a forced labour camp for three years. When she returned home, she was watched and followed all the time over the past years.

Once she went out with a friend and saw a man filming them with a video camera. She went up to him and tried to talk to him, but he jumped into his car and drove away quickly. Officers from the Dashanping Police Station also took pictures of her secretly and showed the pictures to her husband. Once she came home by taxi and noticed several police cars, policemen, and community workers surrounding her home.

Once again Professor Tang is detained at the Naxi Detention Centre. Tang Deyuan, a key member of the local 610 Office, has often searched practitioners' homes and harassed them. He has actively persecuted Falun Gong in the past. Workers from Xinmalu Community, Lianxilu Community, Dongshengqiao Community in Lantian District, Jinianbiao Community, and others also took part in the recent harassment.

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 http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2009/7/25/205246.html