Huaihua City Authorities Arrest Eight Practitioners

(Minghui.org)

Several practitioners from Huaihua City, Hunan Province, were arrested and detained in October 2013.

Officers from the Huaihua City 610 Office, the Domestic Security Division, and the police station arrested Ms. Li Shirong, Ms. Peng Xiaomei, Ms. Yang Guiai, Ms. Zhou Aihua, Ms. Xue Baoyu, Ms. Gan Qiaoying, Ms. Yang Yanduan, and Ms. Yang Dongyue in October 2013. The whereabouts of Ms. Gan and Ms. Yang Yanduan are still unknown.

Yang Tao from the Huaihua Brainwashing Center found Ms. Li Shirong talking to people about Falun Gong and the persecution near the brainwashing center on the afternoon of October 1, 2013. Yang and other officers from the Hutian Police Station arrested her. She was taken to the police station and illegally detained for two days.

Ms. Peng Xiaomei was arrested around 9 p.m. on October 5, 2013, when she was putting up truth-clarification posters. She was taken to the Chengdong Police Station and then transferred to the Huaihua City Detention Center where she was detained for ten days.

Officers from the Chengdong Police Station arrested Ms. Yang Guiai again on the morning of October 6, 2013. Ms. Yang went home that day.

At noon on October 12, 2013, Ms. Zhou Aihua and Ms. Xue Baoyu were reported and arrested by about nine officers from the Pukou County Police Station for talking to people about Falun Gong. They were taken to the county government and then transferred to the County Detention Center by Yang Te, deputy director of the 610 Office, and Tang, captain of the Domestic Security Division.

Ms. Zhou and Ms. Xue went on a hunger strike in the detention center. Their relatives, knowing that they had been arrested, asked the 610 Office and the Domestic Security Division to release them. They were released two days later.

Officers from the Xinhuang County 610 Office, the Domestic Security Division, and the Police Department arrested Ms. Gan Qiaoying , Ms. Yang Yanduan , and Ms. Yang Dongyue on October 23, 2013. Ms. Yang Dongyue was released that afternoon; the whereabouts of Ms. Gan and Ms. Yang are unknown.

Parties involved in the persecution of Ms. Deng: Yang Tao (杨涛), section chief of the 610 Office: [phone] Hutian Police Station: [phone], [phone], [phone], [phone] Jingzhou County 610 Office:[phone] Shang Wanhu (商万虎), director of the Jingzhou County 610 Office and deputy secretary of the Political and Legal Affairs Committee:[phone] Xinhuang County 610 Office: [phone], [phone] Li Xinming (李新民), director of the Xinhuang County 610 Office: [phone] Tao Jiangmei (陶江美), deputy director of Xinhuang County 610 Office:[phone]