Latest News: Intensifying the Crackdown Against Falun Gong

Recently, a so-called "Keeping up with the crackdown of Falun Gong" meeting was held in Jinzhou City. Liu Zhiqiang, Vice Party Secretary of the city, and Liu Wei, Deputy Mayor, gave speeches at the meeting. According orders from higher authorities, all Party members and cadres who practice Falun Gong are to be discharged from their posts while ordinary workers and citizens who practice Falun Gong are to be sent through brainwashing and forced labour. Whoever is found distributing or putting up Falun Gong literature is to be jailed without exception. In order to further persecute Falun Gong practitioners, the municipal "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 judiciary systems) increased its staff. Jia Ningchao, the general secretary of the municipal Political and Judiciary Committee, is acting as the office director. A brainwashing centre has been established with the purpose of forcing practitioners to give up their beliefs. Every working unit and neighbourhood office is required to collect the names of Falun Dafa practitioners who are still persisting in their cultivation. The authorities have collected many practitioners’ names.

Officers from the City Administrative Branch and the Ling'an Neighbourhood Office actively cooperate with the "the 610 Office." Presently about eleven Falun Dafa practitioners from that area have been sent to brainwashing classes. On the morning of July 15, Wang Lifeng from the City Administrative Branch was arrested. Five policemen from the municipal "the 610 Office," No. 7 Police Division and the Longjiang Police Station of Ling'he District carried her onto the police car and sent her to the brainwashing centre. Some practitioners were forced to leave their home to avoid further persecution. One female practitioner refused steadfastly to give in and persisted in clarifying the truth the "the 610 Office " staff. She was later sent to a detention centre.