Dandong City: Over a Dozen Falun Dafa Practitioners Abducted in 2004

(Clearwisdom.net) In Dandong City, Liaoning Province, police from the Dandong Public Security Bureau's Section One have detained over a dozen Falun Dafa practitioners since early 2004. They have established a pattern of operation in which they use master keys to open the door locks of practitioners' homes and enter like bandits, usually at around eleven o'clock at night while the practitioners are sound asleep. Since January 2004, they have abducted many practitioners after searching their homes in this manner. The following are details of the arrest and persecution of several practitioners in Dandong City:

Mr. Xu Yanfeng is a thirty-three-year-old engineer at the Shuguang Cheqiao Manufacturing Plant. On the morning of January 29, 2004, he had just arrived for work at the plant when police from Dandong Public Security Bureau's Section One abducted him. His home was searched, his property confiscated, and he was held at the detention center.

Mr. Sui Yongyan, in his fifties, is a computer expert for a construction company. On April 4, 2004, while clarifying the truth, he was arrested and his home was searched. The police even went to his workplace and confiscated his computer there. Mr. Sui is currently being held at the local detention center where he is being tortured in an attempt to force him to renounce Falun Dafa.

Mr. Cheng Yuanyi is a fifty-five-year-old employee of the Dandong Electric Utility Bureau. On March 10, 2004, the Dandong Public Security Bureau's Section One police went to Mr. Cheng's home and asked him to accompany them to the station, deceiving him and his family by saying they just wanted to ask him a few questions. However, the moment he arrived at the Section One office, he was immediately detained. They violently interrogated him and then went back and searched his home. Cheng Yuanyi tried to clarify the truth to them and called out, "Falun Dafa is good!" The police then took him to the detention center where they tortured him.

Ms. Zhao Hong'e is a teacher in her thirties at Fuchun Elementary School. On May 8, 2004, the Dandong police abducted her. A large group of policemen searched the home of Zhao Hong'e's parents as well as that of her elder brother. Finding nothing, they went to Fuchun Elementary School and began interrogating and threatening the little children there, forcing them to inform on one another and to tell whether their parents were practicing Falun Gong. The parents who were revealed to be practitioners then had to hand in their Falun Dafa books to the police. The entire school was forced to stop classes while all this took place, creating a horrifying atmosphere for the children. As a result, Zhao Hong'e could not return to her home. She has a good reputation as an excellent teacher, and the children she has taught have become very good students. Her class was rated as the top class in the school. Ms. Zhao saw nothing wrong with teaching her students to be good people by following "Truthfulness, Compassion and Tolerance." Her students' parents even went to the school as a group to ask for Zhao Hong'e to be released and become their children's teacher again, but the police refused. Instead, they tortured Ms. Zhao. On May 24, 2004, at about 11:00 p.m., three unknown persons broke into Zhao Hong'e's home and searched it. Her family was also persecuted; at the same time that Ms. Zhao's home was being searched, neighbors were awaked by the noise of police officers breaking down the doors of Ms. Zhao's parents' home.

On May 21, 2004, Mr. Song Zhengdong was abducted, along with several other practitioners, and taken to a forced labor camp where they were tortured.

Officers from the Dandong Public Security Bureau's Section One also abducted Ms. Wang Lian, a Falun Dafa practitioner in her thirties. They searched her home and detained her at a forced labor camp, where she was tortured.

Ms. Yang Huizhen is a sixty-year-old doctor. On the evening of May 24, 2004, Yang Huizhen and her daughter were abducted. Cao Yujia, Yu Deqing and Sa Lixia, followed by several other Section One police officers from the Dandong Public Security Bureau, broke into Dr. Yang's home and searched it. At the time, only she and her bed-ridden husband were at home. Facing the policemen's violence, Yang Huizhen did not give in. She called out, "Falun Dafa is good!" However, she was abducted, taken to the detention center and tortured. At about ten o'clock the same night, Yang Huizhen's daughter, Zhang Chungang, was also abducted, taken to the detention center and tortured.

Mr. Kan Jun is around thirty years old. On June 15, 2004, police officers from the Dandong Public Security Bureau's Section One searched his home but found nothing. Nevertheless, Mr. Kan was abducted from his home, taken to the detention center and tortured.

Since 2004, over a dozen practitioners have been abducted and inhumanely persecuted at forced labor camps. Section One officers have also abducted other, unnamed practitioners by using the master keys to the door locks of their homes. Since July 20, 1999, there have been many practitioners in Dandong City receiving this kind of persecution.

For the past five years, under the instigation of the Dandong Municipal Government, the Political and Judicial Commission and the "610 Office," police have been persecuting Falun Dafa practitioners, many of whom have been detained in the local detention center and sentenced to forced labor camps. Others have been abducted and sent to brainwashing classes. The followers of the Jiang regime physically and psychologically torture the practitioners by the most inhuman means. There are still many other practitioners who have had to leave home and become homeless and destitute in order to avoid the persecution and to avoid risking the implication and persecution of their families and associates.

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