(Minghui.org) While preparing to travel to a foreign country, Ms. Chen Manxin not only had her home ransacked, valuable personal belongings and identification confiscated, but was also displaced from her home.
Ms. Chen Manxin is a Falun Gong practitioner from the Yanqing District in Beijing. She was planning to go on vacation to the United States in early December 2012. In order to get to the airport easily, she stayed at a friend's home. A few days before her flight, about seven police officers from the Beijing State Security Bureau broke into her friend's home to arrest her. Ms. Chen was out running errands and shopping at the time. The police officers illegally restricted her friend's freedom. She was not allowed to go to work, out to a restaurant, or to contact her family. Ms. Chen was displaced as a result.
Police officers from the Beijing State Security Bureau, the Yanqing County Police Department, and the Qinglongqiao Police Station in Haidian District went back to her friend's home the next day and confiscated all of Ms. Chen's identification and personal belongings, valued at nearly 100,000 yuan, including her passport, flight ticket, two bank cards, US$5,000, and more than 2,000 yuan in cash, along with her laptop computer. They also took some of her friend's belongings.
Ms. Chen's family went to the Yanqing Police Department, the Yanqing Police Department Domestic Security Division, the Yanqing Domestic Security Bureau, and the Yanqing 610 Office to ask for her belongings back, and requested that the officials of these departments stop persecuting her. The officials at these departments evaded responsibility and told the family that they didn't know anything about her case. Her family is now filing a case at the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection of the Communist Party of China against such unlawful actions.
Ms. Chen had been illegally sentenced to forced labor in July 2002 and April 2008. She was detained at the Beijing Women's Forced Labor Camp and Wuhan Women's Forced Labor Camp in Hubei Province.
