Extortion

• Officials in Hebei Province Extort Over Five Hundred Thousand Yuan from Falun Gong Practitioners

  2004-11-12
  From July 30, 1999 to November 30, 2003, officials in Baoding City, Hebei Province extorted a total of 501,900 Yuan from Falun Gong practitioners. "610 Office" head often ordered Falun Gong practitioners to give him money, food, and other items. In addition, these officials organized many campaigns to search practitioners' homes and send practitioners to brainwashing classes. When they arrested any practitioners, they first questioned the practitioners about their financial circumstances, then extorted money from the wealthier practitioners and sent the poorer practitioners to a labour camp or long-term imprisonment.
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• 17-Year-Old Ms. Zhang Tongtong Detained for Brainwashing -- Authorities Extort Huge Sum From Her Family to Secure Her Release

  2004-10-08
  Ms. Zhang Tongtong, 17 years old, is a Falun Dafa practitioner from Shandong Province. On July 20, 2003, she went to Beijing to appeal to the government on behalf of Falun Gong and was arrested and sent to a brainwashing centre. The police told her father to bring fifteen thousand yuan in exchange for her release; otherwise, Zhang Tongtong would be sent to Jinan Forced Labour Camp for two years. Her father managed to borrow the money and her family is now deeply in debt.
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• Practitioner Li Jiangang, Is Abducted Right Before His Wedding

  2004-07-05
  Mr. Li Jiangang of Shandong Province, was abducted a few days before his wedding. On April 24, 2004, while driving, he was suddenly stopped and apprehended by Weifang National Security agents. The next morning police attempted to abduct his fiancee and her mother. Fortunately they escaped. The wedding money that they had saved and put aside was taken when the National Security policemen ransacked the apartment.
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• Illegal Extortion in the No. 1 Female Forced Labour Camp of Shandong Province

  2004-05-24
  The No. 1 Female Forced Labour Camp of Shandong Province not only mentally and physically tortures Falun Gong practitioners, but also uses many means to extort money from them. The following are some cases of the forced labour camp extorting Falun Gong practitioners' money. To "help and educate" (brainwash) one practitioner, he/she is charged 3,000 Yuan. This is not forced labour, but one who is "helped and educated" has no personal freedom. Usually, these brainwashing sessions last from twenty days to three months.
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• Shandong Province Corrupt Captain, Zhu Pengde, Committed Crimes of Extortion and Torturing Dafa Practitioners to Death

  2004-05-05
  Zhu Pengde, 50 years old, is the captain of the political security brigade of Zhucheng City's Police Department in Weifang Region, Shandong Province. In order to be able to move up in his career, he has done all he can to initiate and participate in plans to persecute Falun Gong practitioners. Zhu Pengde made a specialty out of capturing and detaining Dafa practitioners in Weifang's liaison office in Beijing, he used his political power to extort large sums of money from practitioners' families for his own personal enrichment, ranging from 1,000 Yuan up to 10,000 Yuan. Zhu Pengde is also one of those officials who is directly responsible for deaths of practitioners in Weifang.
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• Slave Labour and Disguised Extortion in Detention Centres in Hubei Province

  2004-05-05
  Detention centre guards in Wuhan, Hubei Province force detainees to do slave labour in their prison cells. For example, in Xiangfan City No. 1 Detention Centre, they force the detainees in their cells to produce medicine boxes, and to assemble elementary and preschool textbooks. The detention centre enforcers also collect tainted money. Not only do the slave labourers not get a single penny; but on top of that, some detainees are forced to pay 20 Yuan in "accommodation and meals fees" for each day they are locked up.
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• The Crimes of Zhao Zhenguo and the Shulan City Policemen at the Coal Mine Plant

  2004-04-15
  Zhao Zhenguo persecuted Dafa practitioner Ms. Wang Pengying cruelly. Wang Pengying's husband had died from an accident at work and she was leading a difficult life, supporting herself and her young son. Zhao Zhenguo knew that she was too poor to extort money from her, so he targeted her elder sister by telling her to deliver him 500 yuan as the condition for releasing Wang Pengying. On payment more money was demanded again and again until Wang Pengying was sent to the Heizuizi Forced Labour Camp in Changchun City because she could not afford to pay the so-called fines.
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• Police Wrongfully Accuse Practitioner of Printing Anti-Revolutionary Flyers in Hunan Province

  2004-04-06
  On May 10, 2000, because of distributing truth-clarification flyers, Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Zen Fanchun was arrested by Chief Officer Zheng Aimin. Zheng Aimin lied to the surrounding people, saying, "Zen Fanchun prints anti-revolutionary flyers." When Mr. Zen's father, sister-in-law and wife came to the police station to bring food to him, some practitioners were about to be sent to the county detention centre, and they protested against this. Zen's father was thrown to the floor and badly beaten.
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• Policeman Zhang Liang and His Accomplices Extort Money from Chongqing City Falun Dafa Practitioners

  2004-03-28
  On the third day, they took the sisters to a jail where Zhang Liang interrogated them. In front of another policeman Zhang said to them: "Your living or dying depends on what I say. As long as you are willing to pay, I can let you go with my one word." But how could they have any money? The 4,750 Yuan that Zhang took away was Fu Ruxian's retirement savings. Because they had no money, Zhang detained them for another 36 days.
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• Six Inner Mongolia Family Members Suffer Harrowing Persecution

  2004-03-28
  All six members of Mr. Tian Fujin's family from Tongliao City, Inner Mongolia, cultivate Falun Dafa and have become the main targets of persecution from the local lawless police. All six have been detained and sent to labour camps many times. Tian's wife, Liu Xiurong, filed an appeal against policeman Shao Jun for extorting money and harassment. Recently, Tian Fang, the eldest daughter of Mr. Tian, was arrested again when she went to prison to see her third sister and her father.
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• Exposing the Crimes of Liu Shijie, Leader of Gaoxin District National Security Brigade in Mianyang City

  2004-03-18
  Liu Shijie, of Gaoxin district police sub-bureau, Mianyang City, is an insidious and cruel person of about 50 years old....As soon as the persecution started, Liu Shijie immediately made arrangements to collect the names of Falun Gong practitioners, and forced them to be fingerprinted and photographed. He...instigated hatred in people who did not know the truth about Falun Gong, fabricated crimes to frame Falun Gong practitioners, and unjustly detained them.
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• Qinhuangdao City Police Send the Most Falun Gong Practitioners to Forced Labour Camps out of Five Regions in Northern Hebei Province

  2004-03-17
  Practitioners Ms. Zhao Huanzhen of Shanhaiguan and Ms. Yang Yuzhu of Qinhuangdao had to have limbs amputated due to this cruel torture. Many Falun Gong practitioners in Qinlong County have also lost their lives as a result. Among those who have died as a result of this senseless persecution are Mr. Hu Hexiang and Mr. Song Youchun. Practitioners in Shanhaiguan that have also lost their lives include Ms. Pi Jinghui of the Shanhaiguan Bulb Company and 45-year-old Ms. Hou Guimin of the Shanhaiguan dockyard.
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• Dabei Prison in Shenyang City Provides More Evidence of the Jiang Zemin Group's Crimes

  2004-03-14
  "Medical parole" from Dabei Prison Administration Bureau is, in fact, the excuse that the prison has used to extort money from Falun Gong practitioners' family members when the detained practitioners, during the persecution, lost significant body weight and were on the verge of death. They were threatened that if they did not cooperate, they would recall the Falun Gong practitioners and send the family members to prison.
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• Running the Campaign of Terror: "610 Office" Head Luo Gan's Role and Crimes in the Persecution of Falun Gong

  2004-03-13
  In April 2002, Luo Gan issued orders to the political and judiciary departments of Heilongjiang, ordering the arrest of 6,000 Falun Gong practitioners to be carried out within a period of three months. The police were told, "Don't bother with those that committed crimes, such as murder, arson or any other criminal offence." Practitioners released on medical parole, practitioners released after going on hunger strike, practitioners who refused to write pledges or who once went to Beijing to appeal again became the targets of arrest.
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• Crimes Committed by Liu Guansheng, Deputy Director of the Shanhaiguan Public Security Bureau in Qinhuangdao City

  2004-03-11
  For more than four years now, Liu Guansheng has served Jiang's regime in persecuting kind and innocent Falun Gong practitioners in Shanhaiguan, and he detained many Qinhangdao City practitioners in his Shanhaiguan Detention Centre. According to incomplete statistics only accounting for the Shanhaiguan District, Qinhangdao City, between 170 and 180 practitioners were illegally detained, brutally tortured and interrogated under torture as a result of his direct and indirect instructions.
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