(Clearwisdom.net) Dafa practitioner Ms. Yang Yuting from Dongli District, Tianjin was followed and arrested by the State Security Police in January, 2005. In the detention center, Yang Yuting and another practitioner, Ms. Zhang Xiujuan, went on a hunger strike to protest the unlawful arrest. Finally, Ms. Yang was diagnosed with a serious kidney disorder, so the police had to send her and Ms. Zhang back home.

After the persecution of Falun Gong started on July 20, 1999, Yang Yuting and her mother went to Beijing to appeal the injustices against Falun Gong, but they were taken back by Dongli District police sub-station officers and illegally detained for two weeks. Later, because Ms. Yang continued to practice Falun Dafa she was forcefully taken away from home and sent to a brainwashing class. She resisted cooperating with the evil's requirements to give up Dafa, and was finally sent to a labor camp for further persecution. After that, her mother was also imprisoned in Banqiao Labor Camp and even her young daughter, who was in primary school, was also taken to the police station a few times. The police harassed the family like hoodlums, using such methods as bending the gate, picking the lock, forcing their way in and ransacking the home. Yang Yuting's husband (who was not a practitioner) couldn't bear this excessive harassment and left home in 2002.

After a period of time, Yang Yuting was compelled to become destitute and homeless with her daughter, in order to avoid the constant harassment.

Ms. Yang was arrested again in January of this year. After she was released, even though her body was extremely weak and she needed to be in bed at home, the police still incited the residents' committee to continuously come and harass her. Worried about Yang Yuting's health, her mother wanted to sell their house in order to get some money, but the police threatened the real estate company and repeatedly withheld the payment. Yang's mother questioned why they acted like children and caused such difficulties in other's lives. After the payment was eventually made, the authorities intimidated the moving company into monitoring and reporting on them. The police continued the monitoring and harassment of the family at their newly rented house.

The family of three was compelled to become homeless again in April of this year and the daughter also had to drop out of primary school and leave town.

Recently it was reported on the Internet that the Tianjin police were incited by the Chinese Communist Party to intensify and expand the persecution of Dafa disciples in the area.

Aug 22, 2005

Posting date: 9/13/2005
Original article date: 9/12/2005
Category: Eyewitness Accounts
Translated on 9/4/2005
Chinese version available at http://minghui.org/mh/articles/2005/8/23/108987.html

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