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Songbu Police Call Theft and Extortion "Helping and Coaching"
(Clearwisdom.net) Police at the Songbu Police Station in the city of
Macheng, Hubei Province, has imprisoned hundreds of Falun Gong practitioners
during the last two years. Of these, ten were sentenced to labour camps, one
died, and over one hundred have been subjected to long-term detention. The
police there have extorted more than 200,000 Yuan from practitioners. Each time
they arrested a practitioner, they collected a fine ranging from 3,000
Yuan to 10,000 Yuan.
When Practitioners do not cooperate with such evil acts of persecution, the
police resort to torture, employing iron rods, whips, clubs, etc. In addition
they have ransacked practitioners' homes, openly committing robbery. They give
their actions a glorified name-- "Helping & Coaching." Last
February, for example, when practitioner Yang Qingbo was arrested for going to
appeal to the central government, every single police officer from the police station
came to ransack Yang's home. They illegally confiscated Yang's Taxi (worth
50,000 Yuan) - the only source of livelihood for the household - as a fine, and
Yang Qingbo was taken away from the family, to be sent to "reform through
hard labour" for two years, throwing the family's life into extreme
difficulty and chaos.
In August 2000, practitioner Luo Kaizhen and his family went to Beijing to
appeal. The whole family was thrown in jail for six months, during which time
the police searched and ransacked Kaizhen's home, stealing rice, wheat seeds,
cooking oil, etc. They even sent his wife away for two years of "labour
education." In August 2000, practitioner He Xingcheng was illegally
imprisoned for distributing Dafa materials. The police threatened He's family
and relatives, extorting 9,000 Yuan in cash from them. This is what is called
"Helping & Coaching" in what Jiang Zemin refers to as "the
best period of human rights in China."
List of offenders:
Songbu Police Station: Telephone 86-713-2062324
Chief Officer: Li Jiede
Vice Chief: Xu Zhiwen
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