(Clearwisdom.net) Prior to July 20, 1999 when the persecution started, Falun Gong practitioners in Shanghai had group exercises every week at the Bund next to the Huangpu River. Spies from the Shanghai National Security Bureau manipulated people from the sports commission, district Party committees and street committees to organize various waist-drum teams, fan-dance groups and exercise groups, to take turns interfering with the practitioners at the Bund. While practitioners quietly did their exercises, those people played drums in front of them. Some even danced in the middle of the practitioners’ exercise area to interfere with their morning exercises. Some fan-dancers even kicked the meditating practitioners intentionally while they pretended to dance.

One practitioner assistant asked them, “Why are you coming here to dance in front of Falun Gong practitioners’ exercise area? There is plenty of room over there. Wouldn’t you have more room if you went there?”

They responded, “We are not sure either. We received notification from upper management, who told us this is a very important political task.”

One practitioner took some pictures of them, which can serve as evidence of the CCP sending perpetrators to interfere with Falun Gong practitioners.