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Recent Persecution of Practitioners in Quzhou County, Hebei Province
(Clearwisdom.net) Deputy Police Chief Zhao Baozhu, in Quzhou County, Hebei Province is in charge of persecuting
Falun Dafa practitioners. Since June he has been directing the police in all villages and townships
to madly persecute practitioners. Police in Huaiqiao Village illegally ransacked practitioners' homes and arrested them under the
direction of the village police Chief Bu Liankun. Police turned practitioner Ms. Li Qiaolian's home
upside down, kidnapped her, and illegally sentenced her to two years in a forced labor camp. Ms. Li Meilian has been illegally arrested several times and was forced to stay away from home to
avoid further persecution. The police stationed people outside her house to watch for her. They
threatened her family and extorted money from them. The police declared: "We'll send her to the
labor camp when we catch her." Practitioner Ms. Bu Lianzhen was illegally arrested and detained at the town hall by town
government personnel using "SARS" as an excuse. They also ransacked her home. Telephone number of Huaiqiao Village Police Station: 86-310-8732110 In the middle of the night on June 6, 2003, Mr. Guan Zhidong, a practitioner at Songzhuang
Village in Nanliyue Township, was awakened by the thunderous noise of a wall collapsing. The police
from Dahedao Police Station had tumbled down the wall of his home to break in. They forcibly carried
him away in a police car. On June 8, they sent him to Handan Labor Camp for a year of forced labor.
On June 16, under the direction of Chief Tian Lianhe, the police from Dahedao Police Station went to
Guan's house again and forcibly dragged his wife (also a practitioner) away. She was taken directly
to Shijiazhuang Labor Camp. Due to her strong righteous thoughts, the labor camp found her
"unfit" for admission upon physical examination. After every attempt to persuade the labor
camp to take her had failed, the police reluctantly took her back. They detained her in the police
station for three days and extorted 200 Yuan* from her. Dahedao Police Station Chief: Tian Lianhe Recently, Houcun Town Police Station police have been arresting practitioners day and night,
following the lead of Station Chief Niu Mingtang and Li Bin. One day in June 2003, the police
kidnapped two practitioners and took them directly to Shijiazhuang Labor Camp. But the labor camp
refused to take them because they were running a fever when being admitted. The police forced the
practitioners to have their temperatures read again with the thermometers wrapped in a wet towel.
The practitioners told the doctor about it and the doctor refused to admit them. The police
reluctantly took them back but continued to detain them at their local facility. The two
practitioners then went on a hunger strike in protest. The police forced fed them and tortured them.
Later they escaped using their righteous thoughts. At 1:00 a.m. on June 18, 2003, the police came to the village and attempted to kidnap a
practitioner. The police arrived on two motorcycles, broke into the practitioner's house, and
carried the practitioner away. The wife, seeing what had happened, went to the top floor and yelled:
"Help! Robbery!" The neighbors heard the call and came to help her, one carrying a bat in
his hand. The villains dropped the practitioner and fled. Nanliyue Township Police Station recently used various means to arrest practitioners. They
kidnapped a practitioner who was working in a field and planned to send him to Handan Labor Camp for
a year. But their car broke down so they could not do it. The practitioner's brother (a
non-practitioner) sought help and got him released on bail, but was extorted of 5,000 Yuan. The family of another female practitioner, who had been illegally detained nine times in the
past, had been harassed on numerous occasions, and was being extorted of 1,000 Yuan. The police
threatened putting her into a labor camp for two years. The police also took away the family
portrait under the pretext that they needed it for identification purposes. The practitioner was
forced to stay away from home. The police are still trying to capture her. Under the direction of the Station Chief Gou Zhixiang of Anzhai Town Police Station, the police
there have been very aggressive lately, concentrating on arresting Dafa practitioners. So far, seven
practitioners have been illegally arrested. The police also went to practitioners' homes many times
to extort money from them. Among the seven practitioners, one was extorted of 3,000 Yuan after the
police failed an attempt to put her into a labor camp. Three have escaped using righteous thoughts.
The remaining three were being taken around by the police, trying to find a detention center that
would take them. After being rejected by the detention center in their county, they took them to
other counties. Practitioners in the village reported the situation to the party secretary and the
director of the village. They went to the township office and asked for the release of the
practitioners: "These practitioners were only doing cultivation exercises to improve their
health. They did nothing wrong. They should be allowed to go home." But the police station
still insisted on detaining them. Responsible parties: Quzhou County Deputy Police Chief: Zhao Baozhu, cell phone: 86-13930016191 * Yuan is the Chinese currency. The average monthly salary of an urban worker in China is 500
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