Issued by Clearwisdom Net

On February 27, 2008, the 610 Office in Dehui City, Jilin Province, the police arrested more than ten Falun Gong practitioners and illegally detained them in Dehui City Detention Center.

In January 2008, seven more Falun Gong practitioners in China were verified to have died as a result of persecution and torture. Six of them were women, three over the age of 50, and three died in January. Since July 20, 1999, when the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) began to persecute Falun Gong, at least 3,127 practitioners have died as a result of the persecution. Information about these persecution deaths came to light in spite of the media blockade in China and has been verified through unofficial channels.

This is the ninth year of this systematic, brutal persecution of Falun Gong practitioners. Nine years ago, despite the benefits Falun Gong brought to the Chinese people and society as a whole, former head of the CCP Jiang Zemin started the persecution because there were more Falun Gong practitioners than the number of people in the Communist Party. This large scale persecution has caused millions of Falun Gong practitioners to lose their jobs, homes, families, and has caused young practitioners to be expelled from schools. As a result of the persecution, tens of thousands of practitioners have become disabled or have been tortured to death. Some practitioners' organs were forcibly removed for sale while they were still alive and their bodies cremated to eliminate the evidence. This has taken place all over China and documented in 31 provinces, directly-controlled municipalities and autonomous regions.

Today, in the name of preparing for the Olympics, which is supposed to promote world peace and human rights, the Communist regime has instead intensified the persecution. On January 24, in Beijing's Chaoyang District, Chongwen District, Shunyi District, and other areas, police again forced their way into Falun Gong practitioners' workplaces or homes to arrest them and seize their possessions. On January 25, the police flooded the streets of Beijing, stopping vehicles and checking identification cards to try to find practitioners.

In March 2007, former Public Security Minister and current CCP Secretary of the Political and Judicial Committee Zhou Yongkang initiated a new round of persecution against Falun Gong. As a result, Falun Gong practitioners were arrested in droves, and the persecution of practitioners illegally detained in prisons, forced labor camps, and brainwashing centers was escalated. More practitioners have gone missing, been seriously injured, or even killed.Out of the seven newly verified death cases, two took place in Heilongjiang Province, two in Tianjin City, and one each in Hunan Province, Jiangxi Province, and Liaoning Province.

Chinese version available at http://minghui.org/mh/articles/2008/2/6/171900.html

On February 27, 2008, the 610 Office in Dehui City, Jilin Province, the Dehui City Police Department, and the Changchun City Police Department arrested more than ten Falun Gong practitioners in Dehui City and illegally detained them in the Dehui City Detention Center.

It was revealed that the Dehui City Police had secretly monitored and followed the practitioners for a long period of time before they carried out the arrest. On the evening of February 27, the police gathered in several groups, with every group containing 30 to 40 police officers. They ransacked the practitioners' homes, stole their personal property, and recorded them with video cameras while they were arresting them. Police from many districts participated in this criminal activity.

The arrested Falun Gong practitioners included Mr. Li Binqi, Mr. Zhang Shouping, Mr. Zhang Guiquan, Ms. Xiangzi (surname unknown), Ms. Liu Donghui, Ms. Wang Di, Ms. Hu Li, Ms. Xiaoyan (surname unknown), Ms. Wang Czhangying, Ms. He Wen, Ms. Li Zhenyu, Ms. Wang Dongmei, Ms. Sun Yuxia, and Mr. Dajun (surname unknown). It was revealed that these practitioners are being tortured inside the detention center. Further information is unknown.

Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Liu Mei, from Jinzhou City, was reported to the police while distributing truth-clarification materials and was illegally sentenced to one year of forced labor. Ms. Liu Mei is imprisoned at the Masanjia Labor Camp in Shenyang City. She is suffering from a relapse of old diseases and convulsions caused by the torture she has suffered. The warden has prohibited her family from visiting her because she refuses to renounce Falun Gong.

Ms. Liu Mei

Ms. Liu Mei, 58, is a retired worker from Jincheng Paper Mill. Prior to practicing Falun Gong she contracted tricuspid stenosis, and also suffered dizziness, hypertension, and convulsions. Due to her ailments, she was not able to do housework. In 1995 Ms. Liu started to practice Falun Gong and experienced an improvement in her health. Gradually she could do her housework independently. She is known by everyone at the Jincheng factory district as a good person.

On the evening of October 3, 2007, Ms. Liu Mei was distributing truth-clarification materials to people. She was spotted by Song Lifang (female, Chinese Communist Party Secretary of the Tiexin Street Administration Office in Jincheng District). Song followed Ms. Liu Mei all the way to her home and reported her to the authorities. On the morning of October 4, 2007, police officers Yang Xiaochun (male), Li Donghong (female), and Zhang Chunlin (male), from the Jincheng Police Department went to Ms. Liu's home, arrested her and ransacked her home. After they took Ms. Liu to the police department, they again forced their way into her home and illegally confiscated her family's property. They took all the Falun Gong books, truth-clarification materials, tape recorder, MP3 player, and a flashlight and left the home in shambles. That same day, policeman Wang Jinfeng from the Jincheng Police Department went to the home of Ms. Liu Mei's 80-year-old mother to harass her, asking her if she practiced Falun Gong.

On the same evening, Ms. Liu Mei was taken to the Jinzhou Municipal First Detention Center and was illegally imprisoned. On October 10, 2007, she was taken to the notorious Masanjia Labor Camp to serve a one-year sentence. During the persecution against Ms. Liu Mei, the police extorted 6,000 yuan from her family. When Ms. Liu Mei had a physical examination at the labor camp, she was diagnosed with hypertension and so the labor camp refused to take her. Two policemen from the State Security Division of Linghai City and police officers Yang Xiaochun and Li Donghong from the Jincheng Police Department used their influence to force the labor camp to accept Ms. Liu. On October 20, 2007, Ms. Liu's family visited her and discovered that her previous diseases had all returned. She suffered from convulsions, dizziness, heart disease, and leg pain, which caused great concern to her family.

Masanjia Labor Camp forces Falun Gong practitioners to work up to 16 hours every day. These long hours are exhausting, causing their entire bodies to ache. During the New Year's celebration, the persecution became worse because the wardens were afraid that Falun Gong practitioners might have Master's articles, and therefore they frequently searched practitioners' personal belongings.

On February 25, 2008 when Ms. Liu Mei's family came to Masanjia Labor Camp to see her, Warden Huang Haiyan (female) told them over the phone that Ms. Liu Mei was still firm in practicing Falun Gong so her family was not allowed to visit her. Her family reluctantly left Masanjia Labor Camp without seeing Ms. Liu.