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Dafa Practitioner Lu Weidong and His Parents in 60s Are Detained in Shanghai
By a Shanghai Dafa practitioner
(Clearwisdom.net) On November 28, 2004, Lu Weidong, a Falun Dafa
practitioner from Hongkou District of Shanghai City, was detained by police from
the Baoshan District while he was clarifying the truth about Falun Gong in that
area. He is now being held in the Baoshan Detention Center. At 8 pm that same night, local policeman Li Rongxi, from Jiaxing Police
Station of Hongkou District, led policemen Shen Yongdong, Yan Chunhai and others
from Baoshan District to Lu Weidong's home and searched his place. Though
nothing was found, they still forcibly detained Lu Weidong's parents. When they
showed their arrest warrant with the charge "disturbing social order,"
Lu Weidong's parents called on them to explain what crime they had committed.
They said, "We have been staying at home and doing nothing illegal. Where
on earth did the crime of disturbing social order come from?" Hongkou
police had nothing to say in reply but still unjustly detained them for 15 days.
When the police later showed them the arrest warrant again, it had been changed
to "using a religious group to disturb social order." However, when Lu
Weidong's parents inquired about filing a lawsuit against the police, the police
answered, "No lawsuits are allowed." While Lu Weidong's parents were in the detention center, nobody was in his
home. It was reported that police from Jiaxing Police Station of Hongkou
District took a locksmith to Lu's house and tried to unlock his front door.
After failing at that, they wanted to break in through the window but attempt
was also unsuccessful. Jiang Zemin, the instigator of the persecution of Falun Gong was recently
staying in Shanghai. Some political figures in the city, especially Jiang's
sister's son Wu Zhimin, who is the secretary of the Shanghai Political and
Judiciary Committee and the head of the Shanghai City Police Department, led the
Shanghai 610 Office, Shanghai State Security Department, Shanghai City Police
Department, and the street associations and other related units to persecute
Dafa practitioners with great brutality. In each of the districts of Shanghai,
many people have been arrested under various pretexts. Many of them have been
sent to jails or labor camps. As people in the Community Office and the
Association of Local Citizens in Baoshan disclosed, "The 'higher
authorities, in order to spur people to catch Falun Gong practitioners, declared
that anyone can get a promotion to one salary-grade higher and get a reward of
five thousand to twenty thousand yuan if he captures a Falun Gong practitioner.
As far as we know, Shanghai police once offered a reward of only fifty thousand
yuan for the capture of a serious killer." In a subdivision of Yangpu
District, a large sign was even erected saying "let Falun Gong have no
place to stand." We appeal to the international community to pay close attention to the
situation in Shanghai where people's human rights are being wantonly violated
and Dafa practitioners are being severely persecuted. We appeal to human rights
organizations in the international community to investigate those persons in
Shanghai who have committed crimes against Dafa practitioners. Baoshan District Office: 86-21-36071625
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