Eleven Falun Gong practitioners from Jianyang City, Sichuan Province have been arrested since June 29th, 2010, including Xu Suhua, Li Shiqiong, Zhou Rongzhen, Wu Bangrong, Jiang Suying, Wen Xia, Chen Yongjian, Wang Liqun, Fang Shucai, and two more whose names are unknown.
Wu Bangrong was arrested while distributing leaflets exposing the persecution and telling people the facts about Falun Gong, while others were arrested directly from home. Some are being detained at the Erehu Brainwashing Centre, while others are missing.
Jiang Suying, from Shibandeng County, Jianyang City, was arrested at noon on July 30th, 2010, at her home, by seven people who took her to Erehu Brainwashing Centre in Ziyang.
At the same time, Wen Xia from Shibandeng County was arrested by police and taken to the same centre.
Three practitioners from Jianyang City were also arrested and taken to the Erehu Brainwashing Centre on August 4th. One is Fang Shucai, from Songlin No. 1 Team, Yucheng, Sancha County, Jianyang City. He was arrested by officials from four different divisions of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The whereabouts of the other two are unknown.
After 6:00 p.m. on August 12th, police officials arrested Chen Yongjian, who was selling goods at Chengbei Market in Jianyang City, and Wang Liqun from Chuanfuxiang in Jianyang City. The details of their arrests are yet to be investigated.
Nine additional practitioners were subjected to harassment but were not arrested.
According to inside information from the CCP, the brainwashing centre was opened because officials from the highest levels of the CCP called and ordered it. They were apparently very insistent on the phone. The money used for the persecution is directly allocated from a county's financial department, instead of being allocated from a local township or town as before. CCP officials said that this time Falun Gong practitioners must be "transformed" [forcibly renounce Falun Gong]. If they won't give up their practice, or won't sign the three statements to renounce practising Falun Gong, their sentences will be quite severe.
Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2010/8/18/228486.html
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