Illegal Detention and Imprisonment
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Fearing Honest Attorneys' Defence and Public Exposure in Court, Qixia Court Officials in Shandong Province Try Practitioners Secretly
2012-08-10
Qixia Court officials covertly tried six Falun Gong practitioners on the morning of July 4th, 2012, without informing the practitioners' families or attorneys. The six practitioners were among more than 20 practitioners from Qixia City who were arrested between August 29th and 30th, 2011. Several of the arrested practitioners were tortured while they were detained. Several practitioners who were released were threatened with prison sentences if they failed to pay extortion money. -
Ms. Zhang Guijun, Former Teacher at Shenyang Institute of Physical Education, Sentenced to Eight Years; Whereabouts Unknown
2012-08-10Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Zhang Guijun, about 40, was arrested at her home in Beijing on June 9th, 2011. The police ransacked her home and took many of her belongings away. The belongings included her personal laptop, a portable hard drive, an mp4 player, a USB drive, about 800 DVDs, her mobile phone, a Falun Gong banner, an estimated 700 bills of cash with information about the Falun Gong persecution written on them (it is unclear exactly how much money was taken because her family has not seen her since she was arrested), a printer, a DVD writer, a letter seal, and her work computer. Ms. Zhang was sentenced to eight years by the court. Ms. Zhang's family members still have no clue about where she is being detained. -
Practitioner Ms. Kang Shufeng from Dezhou City Arrested, Police Extort Money from Her Family
2012-08-10On April 23rd, 2012, Ms. Kang Shufeng was handing out informational materials about Falun Gong when she was followed and taken to a police station. Ms. Kang was interrogated by police officer Zhang Hongqi in the Decheng Police Station. During the interrogation, another policeman Wang Wenjun threatened that if she did not give them the information they wanted, the police would arrest her son. Ms. Kang was taken to detention. On April 28th, the police station ordered Ms. Kang's family to pay them 500 yuan as a fine and 800 yuan as guarantee money, before she was released. -
Neighbours Try to Bail Out Falun Gong Practitioner Arrested by Police
2012-08-10Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Dong Lianzhu is a resident of Nanliutun, Tangshan City, Hebei Province. On the morning of June 9th, Mr. Dong was arrested by six to seven police officers from the Nanliutun Police Station. The police also took away his personal belongings, including a car, bank cards, a laptop, and a printer. Mr. Dong enjoys a good reputation among the neighbours who tried to stop the police during the arrest. After that, they went to the police station on their own initiative intending to bail out Mr. Dong; however, the police rejected their request and detained Mr. Dong at the No. 2 Detention Centre of Tangshan. -
Two Female Falun Gong Practitioners from Tangshan City Arrested, Three Children Left Without Guardian
2012-08-07On June 9th, an officer from the Public Security Bureau in Tangshan City brought seven public security officers from Luan County with him and together they broke into the apartment of Falun Gong practitioners Ms. Zhang Fengxian and Ms. Shen Shulan. These people did not wear any uniforms and claimed they needed to verify the practitioners' temporary registration. Thereafter, they arrested these practitioners, who had to leave their three children behind. -
Over a Dozen Falun Gong Practitioners Arrested in Tangshan, Hebei Province
2012-08-07A massive arrest of Falun Gong practitioners took place on June 9th in Tangshan City, Hebei Province. At least twelve practitioners were arrested or harassed. Over twenty police officers arrested Falun Gong practitioners Cao Yinxin and Cao Guoyi. Police also searched their homes. A 70-year-old female Falun Gong practitioner with the surname of Wang was arrested in Xizhan of Tangshan City while she was telling people the truth about the persecution of Falun Gong. -
Mr. Liu Zhaofu Arrested and Sentenced to Jilin Prison
2012-08-03Mr. Liu Zhaofu's wife Ms. Shi Xiuzhen was arrested at home by officers from Xinzhan Police Station in Jiaohe on March 18th, 2008. Mr. Liu managed to escape and had to leave home to avoid persecution. Ms. Shi was tortured and sentenced to six years in Jilin Province Women's Prison. Police ransacked their home several times in an attempt to find Mr. Liu's whereabouts. -
Kindergarten Owners Zhou Hongbo and His Wife Wang Fujuan from Daqing City Detained
2012-08-03Falun Gong practitioners Mr. Zhou Hongbo and his wife Ms. Wang Fujuan are owners of a family-run kindergarten centre. They treat children with patience and responsibility, and the children's academic scores have greatly improved after they attended the couple's school. Parents are eager to send their kids to their centre. Such highly regarded teachers have been persecuted many times by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) for their belief in Falun Gong. The couple has recently been detained again. -
Min Changchun, an Alumnus of Wuhan University, Sentenced to Five Years in Prison
2012-08-03In May 2012, Mr. Min Changchun, a Falun Gong practitioner from Zhongxiang City, was secretly given a five-year sentence in Wuhan City. He has been incarcerated in Shayang Fanjiatai Prison. This was the third time that he was sentenced. Out of the last 13 years, Mr. Min was in a prison for four years, where he was persecuted until he was in critical condition, and in a forced labour camp for one and a half years. He was arrested and savagely beaten four times by the First Division (National Security Division) of the Wuhan Police Department. -
Practitioners and Their Family Members Arrested in Hegang City, Heilongjiang Province
2012-07-27Since June 2012, police in Hegang City, Heilongjiang Province, and the Domestic Security Division have seized several Falun Gong practitioners including Niu Huijie, her daughter, and her daughter's fiancee (who is not a practitioner), as well as another couple, Ms. Song Guiping and Mr. Qiao Zhenbin, who are both practitioners. The brainwashing centre officials asked Ms. Niu whether practised Falun Gong. She replied that she practised occasionally for health reasons. They said that, since she was a practitioner, she had to stay in the brainwashing centre. -
Jilin Police Harass Numerous Falun Gong Practitioners
2012-07-27On the night of May 29th, 2012, the Jilin Police Department had a joint action to harass and arrest numerous Falun Gong practitioners. According to the information provided by the insiders, the Jilin Provincial Committee and the Politics and Law Committee intended to persecute Falun Gong practitioners in the name of protecting the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) Eighteenth Conference. Mr. Li Wenjun and his mother, Ms. Feng Fengyun were taken away from their home by police on the night of May 29th. The police broke into their home and took away a computer, all the Falun Gong books, over a thousand yuan, a charger for an electric power cart, DVDs, etc. -
Cao Dong Arrested Again in Beijing, Less than One Year after His Release from Prison
2012-07-24Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Zhang Yisu returned home from work on June 8th, 2012. The moment she unlocked her door, seven to eight police officers moved in quickly and broke into her home. The officials were actually looking for Mr. Cao Dong, who was staying temporarily at her home. Mr. Cao was previously arrested and sentenced to five years in prison after he met with the vice president of the European Parliament and informed him about the brutal persecution suffered by him and his wife, along with other local practitioners. -
Eighty-Year-Old Woman Sent to Brainwashing Centre; 60-Year-Old Sent to Forced Labour Camp
2012-07-24Ms. Li Tuomin, in her 80s, is a resident of Chaoyang District in Beijing. She was reported by someone hired by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and then arrested by police while she and another Falun Gong practitioner were distributing materials exposing the persecution of Falun Gong on the afternoon of April 25th, 2012. On May 11th, Ms. Li was arrested again at home by the officers from the 610 Office and sent to a brainwashing centre. Ms. Wang Xiaoli, a 60-year-old Falun Gong practitioner, was arrested at home on January 13th, 2012 and sentenced to two years and seven months of forced labour in March. -
Curtain Shop Owner Ms. Hong Meishuang Arrested Again by Rizhao 610 Office
2012-07-20Ms. Hong Meishuang is a Falun Gong practitioner from Rizhao, Shandong Province. Since the Communist regime started persecuting Falun Gong in July 1999, she has been arrested, harassed and persecuted by the local 610 Office (an organisation of special agents just for persecuting Falun Gong) several times. Since May 1st, following the orders of the Donggang District 610 Office, officials from the neighbourhood Party committee have attempted many times to force her to go to the Zhangqiu Brainwashing Centre in Jinan. After unsuccessfully attempting to make her go to the brainwashing class for two months, Rizhao 610 Office officials started to become more aggressive and on June 27th arrested Ms. Hong on the street and took her to the brainwashing centre. -
In Persecuting Good People, the Authorities Break the Law and Try to Extort Funds from Their Victims
2012-07-17On the morning of May 21st, 2012, police arrested Ms. Zhang Huimin and Ms. Deng Gezi, two Falun Gong practitioners from Gutouzhuang Village in Xiong County, Hebei Province, and took them to the station. That afternoon the women were transferred to the the Anxin County Detention Centre. Shortly afterward police took Ms. Zhang and Ms. Deng to Shijiazhuang Women's Forced Labour Camp. All the officers accompanied the practitioners, because they intended to divide the bonus money. It had been announced that, for each practitioner sentenced to forced labour, the participants would receive 30,000 yuan.
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