Kidnapping, Extortion, Persecution Throughout Society

• Dafa Practitioners' Children Are Also Victims of Jiang Zemin's Persecution

  2003-09-02
  Their unjust detention forced them to leave behind their eighty-four year old mother and three young children (the youngest is still in elementary school). The new term is near but the three children are facing the grim possibility of leaving school because their parents are detained and they have no income.
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• Hebei Province Police Abduct and Cripple Falun Gong Practitioners

  2003-09-02
  The Public Security Bureau began removing citizens from their homes for incarceration and torture while attributing this round of state-sponsored terrorism to the accusation that these citizens were spreading SARS rumours. These local police then applied barbaric tactics aimed at coercing the practitioners into renouncing their freedom of belief. Following their torture, some practitioners have continued to suffer in a crippled state.
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• Tangshan City Dafa Practitioner Abducted Again After Being Severely Injured by Torture

  2003-09-01
  The police, wielding guns and using a hammer on the door, finally broke through around noontime. The door was completely destroyed. Disregarding his condition, the police carried him away, as his mother fell to the ground and cried out loudly. The police deceived his mother and took her into the vehicle and drove to the police substation. The surrounding residents all saw the polices' atrocities and felt very angry.
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• Authorities in Shandong Province Spend Large Amounts of Money for "Name Lists" to Persecute Dafa Practitioners

  2003-08-31
  In 2001, Longkou's Lower Dingjia Town Power Plant officials spent nearly one million Yuan to build a "610 Office" brainwashing centre. According to incomplete statistics, until now, nearly 400 Dafa practitioners have been detained and are being brainwashed there. Some practitioners have been illegally imprisoned for more than one year and still have not been released...Since 1999, they spent thousands of Yuan going to Tiananmen Square, and the National Appeals Bureau bought name lists of practitioners who went to Beijing to appeal.
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• Practitioner Life is in Danger after Being Abducted Several Times in Nanchang City

  2003-08-30
  They abducted her to Donghu District Police Department. Zhou Xiangfeng beat her arms and legs with a metal rod. To prevent Jiang Lanying from practising the Falun Gong exercises, political head Li put a stool on her legs and they then sat on the stool. They took turns to torture her for two days and nights. Later they sent her to a detention centre and her family was not even allowed to visit her. By the end of February 2003, Jiangxi Province Women's Prison authorities suddenly notified her mother to visit her in the Changzheng Hospital, a labour camp hospital. Her mother then learned that she had been sentenced to five years of imprisonment and that she had been on a hunger strike to protest the illegal sentence.
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• Authorities in Henan Province Again Issue Secret Orders to Intensify Persecution

  2003-08-30
  Recently, more secret orders for the persecution of Dafa practitioners were forwarded to various levels of government in Zhoukou City. They still follow the previous method of transmission: officials at higher level directly read the order that comes via fax, then destroy it and pass it on verbally.
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• FAW-Volkswagen Automobile Company Illegally Dismisses Employees For Practising Falun Gong

  2003-08-29
  FAW-Volkswagen Automobile Company, Ltd., located in Jilin City, Jilin Province, is financed and managed jointly by the China FAW Group and Volkswagen AG Germany. It has over 3,000 employees. Since July 20, 1999, this company has expelled over a dozen employees for practising Falun Gong.
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• Female Practitioner From Chenzhou City Missing for Over Two Years After Her Arrest

  2003-08-19
  While she was detained in Beijing, the Beijing police transported practitioners who peacefully appealed to remote mountains and valleys late at night. Some of them were beaten until they were bleeding all over or near death. The police then dug a pit to bury them alive (the purpose was to force them to tell their address). The mud already went up to her neck. The police abandoned those who still refused to tell their address. There are many people who were abandoned in remote mountains like that.
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• Police in Unmarked Car Arrive at a Village and Attempt to Arrest Dafa Practitioner without Any Legal Procedure

  2003-08-19
  Why did the township head and policemen take an unmarked car and try to arrest the practitioner without being noticed? They knew what they did couldn't withstand public scrutiny, but they still did it against their conscience in order to reach a targeted quota and achieve personal gain.
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• Huludao City Practitioner Abducted by Police; Young Daughter Missing

  2003-08-12
  Pei Guangxin's wife has been illegally arrested on over ten separate occasions, and has twice been sent to the notorious Masanjia Forced Labour Camp. Mr. Pei and his daughter, who was not even six years old at the time that her mother was taken, have become dependant upon each other during these past four years of hardship. Now Mr. Pei is also detained simply for refusing to give up his belief in "Truthfulness-Benevolence-Forbearance."
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• The Corruption at Handan City Police Station

  2003-08-10
  When she asked the police to release her husband, the police asked for 5000 Yuan. She had no way of finding that much money, since their home had been ransacked by the police several times, and she was forced to leave her job. Since the police didn't receive any money, they refused to release her husband, Liu Jun.
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• Yanshi City Falun Dafa Practitioners Endure Public Humiliation Through the Streets

  2003-08-08
  Finally, the men forcefully dragged them into a vehicle, and Zhi Yaobing shouted: "I will make you Falun Gong practitioners parade through the street with placards around your necks, and let you go down in history as a symbol of infamy." They wrote on the placards: "Whoever practises Falun Gong, will have his family broken up and die without sons." Under the 40 C (104 F) weather, these practitioners were forced to parade through all the streets in the village.
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• Lawless Police Openly Intimidate and Persecute Family Members of Falun Gong Practitioners

  2003-07-22
  After failing to get any information (their family members indeed did not know where they went), the police illegally detained one of the practitioner's daughter (a non-practitioner) at the end of June for more than 50 hours. Later the daughter's employer bailed her out. The police threatened, "If we cannot put the Falun Gong practitioners under arrest, we will not let their family members live a normal life and we will arrest all of them."
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• Appalling Abuse of Falun Gong Practitioners in Fujian Province

  2003-07-16
  Another seven have been sentenced to forced labour camps. There are 42 people being illegally detained as criminals, and 55 being illegally detained for "public security reasons." None of the practitioners who have been illegally detained have been spared from having their homes searched and their belongings confiscated by the police. The police have tried to extort money from them, anywhere from 31,000 Yuan to 2,000 Yuan. In total, the police have extorted nearly 100,000 Yuan.
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• Fear Of Exposure Causes Chatou Forced Labour Camp to Secretly Transfer Relatives of Australian Citizens to Sanshui Forced Labour Camp

  2003-07-05
  Zhou Xuefei, wife of Atlanta practitioner Lu Zhaohui, is being detained at the Sanshui Female Labour Camp. Xuefei is being forced to do long hours of intense labour, and make embroidery products for exportation. Because of being inhumanly tortured for the past two years, she has become nearly blind. Her family's request to bail her out for medical treatment was rejected. Now her life is in great danger.
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