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Latest News from China -- July 27, 2004
(Clearwisdom.net)
1. [Huanggang City, Hubei Province] Jichun County Police Arrest Falun Dafa
Practitioners
Jichun County Party and government organizations at all levels in Huangguang
City, Hubei Province have drastically escalated their persecution of Falun Dafa
practitioners. It has been reported that party secretaries and leaders of
villages and towns have received instructions from higher authorities to
secretly keep a close eye on Falun Dafa practitioners.
At 11:00 p.m. on June 28, police arrested Falun Dafa practitioners Ms. Hu
Yunhua, Ms. Gong Xiaolan and Ms. Hu Jinzhi, who were trying to raise public
awareness of the persecution in Datong. The practitioners are being held at
Wuzhuang Detention Center in Caohe Town, Jichun County. As of July 6, they had
been on hunger strike for eight days.
2. [Inner Mongolia] Two Falun Dafa Practitioners in Yakeshi Arrested
Around May 28, De Shaochen and Zhu Dacheng, leading other officers from the
Forestry Police Department, suddenly broke into Falun Dafa practitioner Ms.
Huang Shuying's home. Facing arrest, Ms. Huang shouted loudly to resist her
abduction and her neighbors were alerted upon hearing the sound of toppling
furniture. In the end four fully armed police officers carried and pushed her
into a police vehicle. She has been taken to a brainwashing unit run by the
forestry bureau.
In addition, Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Liu Aihua was forcibly taken to the
Forestry Bureau Police Department. She had to remain there for over a month and
was released only after her family paid a deposit of 2,000 yuan (1). On June 27,
the police lured her and her family to the police department with the promise of
returning the deposit. Ms. Liu was arrested instead and taken to a forced labor
camp, where she is now serving a three-year term.
3. [Hulunbeier City, Inner Mongolia] Ms. Zheng Baozhen Arrested
On May 24, 2004, officers from the Public Security Division of the Hailaer
Railroad Branch Police Department in Hulunbeier, Inner Mongolia forcibly took
into custody Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Zheng Baozhen, an employee of the
Yitulihe Railroad Hospital, because she shouted "Falun Dafa Is Good" from her
home into the Yitulihe railroad station. She is being currently held at the
branch department's detention center. She has held a hunger strike protesting
her unlawful arrest.
Relevant telephone numbers: Qu Jingping, head of the Internal Security Section at the Hailaer Railroad
Public Security Division: 86-470-2225588 (office), 86-470-2227409 (home); Liu Tao, member of the Hailaer Railroad Public Security Division: 86-470-2225588 (office); Yang Wei, head of the Hailaer Railroad Public Security Division: 86-470-2223618 (office), 86-470-2223648 (home); Sun Guisheng, deputy head of the Hailaer Railroad Public Security Division: 86-470-2226658 (office), 86-470-2226558 (home);
4. [Nanchun City, Sichuan Province] Police Arrest Falun Dafa Practitioners
Ms. He Xiaohua and Ms. Li Xiaofang
On the evening of July 23, 2004, Falun Dafa practitioners Ms. He Xiaohua, an
employee of the No. 2 Weaving Factory, and Ms. Li Xiaofang, who lives on Honghua
Street, were arrested by police on a stake-out in Shunqing District, Nanchong
City, Sichuan Province. The two practitioners were hanging Falun Gong
truth-clarifying banners on Beigandao Street. They are possibly being held at
the Gaoping Detention Center.
5. [Lingyuan City, Liaoning Province] Falun Dafa Practitioner You Yongwang
Arrested
At noon on July 20, 2004, Tian Fulai from the Goumenzi Town Police Station in
Lingyuan City led Chen Zhi and other officers from the Lingyuan Sate Security
Unit to a coalmine, where Falun Dafa practitioner You Yongwang works. Four
officers forcibly carried You into a police vehicle. You is being unlawfully
held at the No. 1 Detention Center in Lingyuan City.
6. [Changchun City, Jilin Province] Falun Dafa Practitioner Ms. Sun Shufen
Inhumanely Tortured at Heizuizi Forced Labor Camp
Ms. Sun Shufen is a Falun Dafa practitioner who lives at the family quarters
of the Changchun No. 1 Autoworks. She was arrested by officers from the Nanguan
Police Station while distributing Falun Gong truth-clarifying materials in
Nanling Residential Area. She was first taken to the Changchun No. 3 Detention
Center in Shuangyang District and subsequently sentenced to one year of forced
labor at Unit 3 in Heizuizi Forced Labor Camp. Ms. Sun has remained steadfast in
her belief in Falun Dafa and thus has been enduring all sorts of inhumane
torture at the hands of prison guards and collaborators who betrayed their
belief in Falun Gong and assisted the persecutors.
(1) Yuan is the unit of currency in China, where the average monthly
salary of an urban worker is 500 yuan. |