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Police in the Wutongqiao District of Leshan City, Sichuan Province Force a Six-months Pregnant Practitioner to Have an Abortion
(Clearwisdom.net) Since the suppression of Falun Dafa started on July 20, 1999, police and officials of the Wutong 610 Office have carried out
arrests of Falun Dafa practitioners, ransacking their homes, extorting money, and even forcing women practitioners to go through abortion. Corrupt
officials have taken the extortion of money as a shortcut to riches. For over five years, they have confiscated a large number of Falun Dafa books and
many other materials then sold these items to a former schoolmate of Li Zuo, a Wutong State Security officer, for profit. Each Falun Dafa practitioner
would be fined thousands or even tens of thousands of yuan. Around October 2002, a Falun Dafa practitioner surnamed Zhang was arrested and taken into custody. Zhang's work unit was forced to post bail in
an amount of over 100,000 yuan. This is more than seventeen times the average worker's annual income in China. Other practitioners who were not able
to pay the arbitrary fines were cruelly tortured and then sentenced to prison. A young peasant from Guanying Town in Wutong was put through all sorts
of torture, and then forced to eat an infamous "entree" for a whole month in the Wutong Detention Center - the "Hundred Treasure
Congee" - which is made by mixing spit and phlegm into prison meals. A young pregnant woman from Shawan District was forced to abort her
six-month-old unborn baby without her family being notified. The woman was then sentenced to seven years in prison. In November 1999, when the police
were ransacking the home of an elderly teacher, they did not spare searching the bed on which her daughter was recovering during her maternity leave.
The daughter, who is not a practitioner, had just given birth to her child and she has not yet recovered from the mental trauma of that day. For over five years, despite a shortage of police officers, officials at the Wutong 610 Office still mobilized people from various organizations to
follow, monitor and arrest Falun Dafa practitioners who posted Falun Dafa truth-clarifying signs and raised public awareness about the persecution. On the afternoon of November 26, 2004, Wutong police and members of the 610 Office broke into practitioner Ms. Mao Xiuzhen's home and arrested
Ms. Mao and two other women, Ms. Fei Yulian and Ms. Hou Guangxiu. All the three practitioners are in their fifties or sixties. On December 1, Ms. Hou's
husband, Mr. Ren Wenqing, was also arrested. It has been reported that the couple is being held at the Wutong Detention Center. More details are under
investigation. Relevant telephone numbers: Country code: 86; city code: 833 December 7, 2004 |