The Recent Acts of Persecution by the Mei County, Shaanxi Province 610 Office against Falun Gong Practitioners

On March 1, 2008, Mei County 610 Office agents and the police in Qi Township, Shaanxi Province illegally arrested Falun Gong practitioner Wang Hulin from Lei Village. They confiscated the family's satellite receiver. They also ransacked the homes of two others in neighboring Nanzhai Village and arrested Falun Gong practitioner Wang Yingxia. On March 3, 2008, the same group of police officers went to Nanzhai Village again and arrested Falun Gong practitioners Hou Honglin and his wife. While Hou Honglin was working in the field,  the CCP agents removed him from the field by force. They ansacked his home and confiscated his cell phones and other valuable belongings.

Mei County officials held brainwashing sessions in Tangyu. Wang Hulin had been sent there for brainwashing. He had gone to appeal for justice for Falun Gong in 2000, was intercepted at Zhuozhou, Hebei Province and returned to Mei County, where he was incarcerated in a detention center. He was made to perform three months of forced labor at the detention center's coal factory. The police later sent him to brainwashing sessions several times.

CCP authorities also ransacked Falun Gong practitioner Wang Qiansheng's home on March 1 and confiscated the family's satellite TV system. Mr. Wang Qiansheng was working out of town at the time, but the officials tracked him down at his workplace. The persecutors have tried to trap and intercept him. Mr. Wang is now forced to live away from home to avoid further persecution.