(Minghui.org) The police in Chifeng City, Inner Mongolia have been harassing Ms. Yu Zhanhua’s husband since August 2019, after she was forced to live away from home to avoid being arrested for her faith in Falun Gong.
Falun Gong, also known as Falun Dafa, is an ancient spiritual and meditation discipline that has been persecuted by the Chinese Communist Party since 1999.
Ms. Yu decided to go into hiding shortly after she was released after 51 days of detention in early June 2019. She had developed a severe heart problem following her arrest on April 22, 2019 and was still in serious condition when released. The police, however, frequently called her husband and asked him to urge his wife to go to the local police department to fill out some paperwork. Suspecting that the police were setting up a trap to arrest her again, Ms. Yu left home despite her poor health.
In August 2019, Liu Caijun, an officer from Ongniud Banner Domestic Security Division, found Ms. Yu’s husband at his workplace and demanded that he reveal her whereabouts. He refused.
The police called him again weeks later and asked him to go to the police department. When he went there, they forced him into an inmate’s uniform and handcuffed and interrogated him. They also took away his cellphone to look for his contact history with Ms. Yu. The police threatened him with serious consequences if he covered up for Ms. Yu.
Ms. Yu’s husband was summoned to the police department on April 7, 2020. The officers examined his cellphone again. They also asked for information about his siblings, the names of their children, and where he had gone in the prior few months. They forced him to wear an inmate’s uniform again during the interrogation.
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