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Recent Developments Concerning the Persecution of Dafa Practitioners in Hubei Province
(Clearwisdom.net) According to information received from Hubei Province,
on July 14 and 15, 2004, people in the Hubei Provincial Party Committee and the
Provincial Judicial and Public Security Committee called a conference. They
alerted all assistant secretaries of the local party committees who are in
charge of the judicial and public security, and the secretaries of local
judicial and public security committees throughout the province to attend this
meeting, which was convened specifically for the persecution of Falun Gong. Recently, the number of Dafa practitioners arrested in Hubei Province has
increased, and the provincial brainwashing center has also become more frenetic
in its persecution tactics. In an attempt to undermine Dafa practitioners'
righteous belief, personnel from the provincial "610 Office" (1) have
abducted, detained and sent Dafa practitioners to brainwashing centers in a
pre-arranged manner. The desks of the local "610 Offices" hold stacks
of forms for registering Dafa practitioners. Massive manpower and material and
financial resources have been mobilized. All the lower-level street and
residential committees have been busily involved in sending these forms to
different companies, institutions and work units for gathering Dafa
practitioners' data, including their basic circumstances, their behavior,
whether they were "reformed" (2) and the names of personnel assigned
to monitor them. Some of the work units have sent personnel to Dafa
practitioners' homes with plans to forcibly send them to brainwashing centers.
Some areas have empowered the police to use the implication system, which can
also be described as "guilt by association." This means that if any
institution or work unit finds any posted Dafa truth-clarification materials and
does not immediately erase or cover it over, and if the posted materials are
recorded on film, then the head of the institution or the work unit can be
immediately removed from his position by a verbal order. Notes (1) The "610 Office" is an agency specifically created to persecute
Falun Gong, with absolute power over each level of administration in the Party
and all other political and judiciary systems. (2) "Reformed" refers to a practitioner having publicly renounced
Falun Dafa. July 22, 2004 |