By Dafa practitioner in Tianjin City

(Clearwisdom.net) The Nankai District Police Department of Tianjin City actively follows the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) regime’s evil policy of persecuting Falun Gong practitioners. On June 20, 2006, several Falun Gong practitioners in Tianjin City were arrested, including Ms. Wang Changhong and her mother Zhou Chengmin.

After the persecution began on July 20, 1999, Ms. Wang and her mother have experienced continuous persecution. In 1999, when Ms. Wang was a 17-year-old girl, she went to Beijing with her mother to appeal for Falun Gong. Both were taken back to Tianjin City and detained for two weeks. Later Wang Changhong was detained another fifteen days because she clarified the truth to her teachers. She was reported by her teacher in charge to the police, and was expelled by the school authorities as soon as she was released. In 2000, she again appealed in Beijing for her mother and for Falun Gong. Consequently, Ms. Wang and her mother were sentenced two and four year terms of imprisonments, respectively, and served these terms in Tianjin Prison.

In 2002, when she was supposed to be released, she was told that the term was extended for six months without any reasons. There is no legal protection for Falun Gong practitioners in jails and forced labor camps. Arrest and release are at the will of the CCP authorities. When Ms. Wang got back home, she found everything changed in her family. Her father was mentally traumatized when he learned that two of his beloved ones were in prison. Wang Changhong also had trouble finding a job because she did not have any diploma owing to being expelled from school. During that period, anyone who intended to offer her a job would be harassed by the Police of Nankai District in the name of "close ties to Falun Gong followers." So nobody dared to give her a hand.

The family finally reunified in 2004 when Ms. Zhou Chengmin was released. However the police began harassing them again. They are frequently under surveillance, monitoring and interrogation. On June 20, 2006, the mother and daughter were illegally arrested, and the police refused to release Ms. Wang and her mother, although they did not have any proof of their "guilt." Ms. Wang’s father was greatly disturbed psychologically, and it was said that he could be on the verge of death.

Ms. Wang Changhong and her family have experienced such terrible persecution just because of their belief in "Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance." We urge the international community to pay much attention to this family’s situation and help them live normal lives.

Posting date: 8/8/2006
Original article date: 8/8/2006
Category: Eyewitness Accounts
Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2006/7/23/133710.html

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