Twenty-One Senior Citizens in Miyi County, Sichuan Province Sent to a Detention Centre for Practising Falun Gong

Li Xuesong and Xu Xingbing of the Miyi Domestic Security Division, Qin Decai of the Binggu Town Comprehensive Punishment Office, and others arrested 25 Falun Gong practitioners on June 30th, 2011. At present, practitioners Wang Zhenghui, Li Fangyuan, and two others have been released. The other 21 practitioners were taken to the Miyi County Detention Centre.

Twenty-five Falun Gong practitioners were studying the Falun Gong teachings in practitioner Guo Huibin’s home in Xinhe, Miyi County, Sichuan Province, on June 30th. Li Xuesong, Xu Xingbing, Qin Decai, and other police officers broke into Guo Huibing’s home and ransacked it at around 10:00 am. They arrested Guo Huibing, Feng Shifen, Zhou Juzhong, Zhang Jiaxiu, Huang Guangrong, Liu Dingfen, Wang Yuanzhen, Li Xueju, Wang Zhenghui, Tu Wenfen, Li Fangzhi, Li Fangyuan, Li Fuliang, Fan Chaofen, and 11 other practitioners.

Later, Guo Huibing and Feng Shifen were taken to the Miyi Detention Centre. The other 23 practitioners were taken to a place in Yanzhan of Xinhe.

So far, only four Falun Gong practitioners, including Wang Zhenghui and Li Fangyuan, were released. The remaining 19 practitioners detained at Yanzhan were also taken to the Miyi Detention Centre. All 21 Falun Gong practitioners remain under detention.

The twenty five people are all over 60 years old.

Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2011/7/10/243700.html