Additional Persecution News from China – March 29, 2021 (20 Reports)

(Minghui.org) Today's news from China includes incidents of persecution that took place in 17 cities or counties in 11 provinces, where at least 26 practitioners were recently persecuted for their belief.

1. [Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province] Ms. Zheng Yingying’s Appeal Denied
2. [Chengdu City, Sichuan Province] Mr. Liu Wei and Ms. Ai Chaoyu Face Second Hearing
3. [Shanghai] Ms. Wang Shizhen Faces Trial
4. [Jiaohe City, Jilin Province] Three Practitioners Face Trial
5. [Zhuzhou City, Hunan Province] Ms. Liu Chunqin Imprisoned
6. [Xian City, Shaanxi Province] Ms. Lei Xiaoli Arrested
7. [Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province] Ms. Xu Xi’nu Arrested
8. [Jining City, Shandong Province] Ms. Li Hui and Mr. Qi Yong May Have Been Arrested
9. [Linyi City, Shandong Province] Liu Hongzhao’s Case Submitted to Court
10. [Yantai City, Shandong Province] Ms. Jiang Xiju Detained
11. [Dalian City, Liaoning Province] Zhang Cui Faces Trial
12. [Chengdu City, Sichuan Province] Ms. He Junhua Detained
13. [Wuhan City, Hubei Province] Ms. Liu Rongfen and Ms. Wu Caiju Harassed
14. [Jiamusi City, Heilongjiang Province] Ms. Xu Xiuwen Detained
15. [Wuhan City, Hubei Province] Ms. Xu Yulan Harassed
16. [Chaoyang City, Liaoning Province] Ms. Wang Chunfen Arrested
17. [Tonghua City, Jilin Province] Ms. Feng Xianzhi and Ms. Li Xiaoxia Harassed
18. [Hefei City, Anhui Province] Ms. Tang Juzhang Transferred to Prison
19. [Mishan City, Heilongjiang Province] Dong Minghui Detained
20. [Meishan City, Sichuan Province] Ms. Zhu Qunhua Harassed

1. [Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province] Ms. Zheng Yingying’s Appeal Denied

Ms. Zheng Yingying, 69, was arrested by officers from the Jinsha Police Station when she was waiting for a bus in the Jinshazhou Bus Station on March 21, 2020. The officers checked her identity card and found that she was a practitioner. She was sentenced to two years and six months in prison and fined 5,000 yuan by the Liwan District Court on December 29, 2020. She appealed to the Guangzhou City Intermediate Court. The Court affirmed her sentence on March 15, 2021.

2. [Chengdu City, Sichuan Province] Mr. Liu Wei and Ms. Ai Chaoyu Face Second Hearing

Mr. Liu Wei and his wife, Ms. Ai Chaoyu, had a virtual court hearing on March 9, 2021. The court in the detention center did not have a chair or microphone. Communication was through a pager mounted on the wall. Their lawyers, Li Guisheng from Guiyang City and Zhao Qing from Beiing, asked the judge to provide chairs and a microphone for their clients. But the judge claimed that the court had no power over the detention center. Mr. Liu and Ms. Ai stood for several hours during the hearing. The second hearing is scheduled at 1:00 p.m. on March 30, 2021.

3. [Shanghai] Ms. Wang Shizhen Faces Trial

The first hearing against Ms. Wang Shizhen, 69, will be held in the Fengxian Court on March 30, 2021.

She has been held at the Pudong Detention Canter since April 15, 2020. She was charged in November 2020. Her attorney requested to review her case files in March 2021, but a clerk at the Fengxian Court said they were not available since they were in the intermediate court. Her attorney was only notified a few days ago that the case files were available for review.

4. [Jiaohe City, Jilin Province] Three Practitioners Face Trial

Ms. Wang Meihua, Ms. Li Yanfeng, and Ms. Mu Qin will be tried by the Shulan City Court on April 9, 2021.

They were imprisoned in the Jilin City Detention Center on March 3, 2021. Guards extorted 3,000 yuan from each of them. Ms. Li was released because of her poor health.

5. [Zhuzhou City, Hunan Province] Ms. Liu Chunqin Imprisoned

Ms. Liu Chunqin, 46, was arrested in May 2020. The Lusong District Court sentenced her to four years in prison and fined her 5,000 yuan on November 6, 2020. She has appealed. The appeals court affirmed the lower court's sentence in December 2020. She was imprisoned in the Hunan Province Women’s Prison on March 1, 2021.

6. [Xian City, Shaanxi Province] Ms. Lei Xiaoli Arrested

Ms. Lei Xiaoli was arrested by officers from the Dalianhuachi Police Station on March 25, 2021. Her home was ransacked. She placed a Falun Gong flyer on a bank ATM machine in January 2021. A security guard found it and reported it. Police identified her through the surveillance system.

7. [Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province] Ms. Xu Xi’nu Arrested

Ms. Xu Xi’nu was arrested by unidentified persons on March 25, 2021. Her daughter was phoned that night and told to pack clothing for her mother. When a person came to pick up the clothes the next day, the daughter asked who he was, where he worked, and where her mother was. He said he did not know anything. It is suspected that Ms. Xu is being held at the Haizhu District Brainwashing Center.

8. [Jining City, Shandong Province] Ms. Li Hui and Mr. Qi Yong May Have Been Arrested

Ms. Li Hui, in her 60s, and Mr. Qi Yong, in his 40s, disappeared two months ago. It is suspected that they were arrested.

9. [Linyi City, Shandong Province] Liu Hongzhao’s Case Submitted to Court

Liu Hongzhao (gender unknown) was arrested by officers from the Yishui County Chengqu Police Station and the Yinan County Police Station when Lui was driving on the afternoon of March 10, 2021. Liu is being held at the Linyi Hospital for quarantine.

Liu was arrested last year by officers from the Yishui County Chengqu Police Station. Liu was released on bail the next day. The officers extorted 10,000 yuan from Liu. Around February 12, 2021, people from the Procuratorate of Yishui County and Yinan County, as well as police stations, repeatedly called or harassed Liu at home. Liu’s case was submitted to the Yinan County Court.

10. [Yantai City, Shandong Province] Ms. Jiang Xiju Detained

Ms. Jiang Xiju was searched and arrested by two officers when she talked to people about the persecution of Falun Gong in the city on the morning of March 26, 2021. It is not known where she is being held.

11. [Dalian City, Liaoning Province] Zhang Cui Faces Trial

Zhang Cui (gender unknown) will be tried in the Ganjingzi District Court on April 6, 2021.

12. [Chengdu City, Sichuan Province] Ms. He Junhua Detained

Ms. He Junhua, 64, brought Falun Gong flyers to the Meian Vegetable Market in the Huayang area on March 11, 2021. A plainclothes officer grabbed her bicycle when she was leaving. A police car came. Three officers got out, took her bag from her bicycle basket, and dumped the contents of her bag on the ground. They told her someone reported her when she distributed Falun Gong flyers. They arrested her and took her to the Xiehe Police Station.

Officers ransacked her home and seized two copies of Zhuan Falun, several other books from the founder of Falun Gong, four players, over 50 keepsakes, and paper currency with Falun Gong messages worth dozens of yuan. That afternoon, the officers gave her a nucleic acid test in the Chengdu Hospital and a physical exam in the Shuangliu Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital. She was given six days of detention and taken to the Shuangliu Detention Center after 11:00 p.m. She was released on March 17.

13. [Wuhan City, Hubei Province] Ms. Liu Rongfen and Ms. Wu Caiju Harassed

Ms. Li Rongfen and Ms. Wu Caiju have repeatedly been harassed at home by clerks from the local Comprehensive Management Office and communities since March 2021. The clerks tried to force them to sign documents to renounce Falun Gong. They even threatened their family members that if they did not comply it would jeopardize their children's and grandchildren’s careers, jobs, and education. The clerks said harassment would continue until June 30 unless they signed the documents.

14. [Jiamusi City, Heilongjiang Province] Ms. Xu Xiuwen Detained

Ms. Xu Xiuwen was arrested by officers from the Qianjin Police Station when she was talking to people about the persecution of Falun Gong on the afternoon of March 26, 2021. Police ransacked her home and seized Falun Gong books, a picture of the founder of Falun Gong, a cell phone, and other items. She was given five days of administrative detention and is being held in the Jiamusi Detention Center.

15. [Wuhan City, Hubei Province] Ms. Xu Yulan Harassed

On March 9, 2021, Ms. Xu Yulan was told by her husband that village Party members were coming to videotape her. If she did not comply, the police would come. As they were talking, the village Party members came. She refused to follow their commands, and they left. The next day they phoned her husband and ordered him to come and meet them.

16. [Chaoyang City, Liaoning Province] Ms. Wang Chunfen Arrested

Ms. Wang Chunfen, 83, was stopped by plainclothes officers when she was talking to people about the persecution of Falun Gong on March 19, 2021. The officers showed her a picture, asked if it was her, and then ordered her to get into their car. She refused. They claimed they would take her home. She got into the car. They drove her to the Guangming Police Department instead.

Police interrogated her and gave her a detention warrant. She took it and tore it into pieces. Officers handcuffed her, drove her home, and ransacked the place. They tore down an art print from the wall and took it away.

17. [Tonghua City, Jilin Province] Ms. Feng Xianzhi and Ms. Li Xiaoxia Harassed

Ms. Feng Xianzhi was phoned by a clerk from her community on the afternoon of March 23, 2021. The caller asked if she still practiced Falun Gong and told her that if she said she no longer practiced, her name would be removed from the list. The caller claimed the message was from the Domestic Security Division. Ms. Feng refused to comply.

Ms. Li Xiaoxia was harassed at home by clerks from her community on the afternoon of March 23, 2021. They ordered her to report to the community office the next day. The community deputy director took out five papers and asked her to sign them. Each paper had words slandering Falun Gong and its founder. She refused.

18. [Hefei City, Anhui Province] Ms. Tang Juzhang Transferred to Prison

Ms. Tang Juzhang was held for ten months in the Hefei Women’s Detention Center. She was tried secretly. Her family kept inquiring about her status and finally learned that she was transferred to the Hefei Women’s Prison. Further details are unknown.

19. [Mishan City, Heilongjiang Province] Dong Minghui Detained

Dong Minghui (gender unknown) was arrested in the Harbin Railway Station by officers from the Harbin Railway Police Station while traveling to another city for work on March 8, 2021. Dong was taken back to Mishan City by officers from the Mishan Domestic Security Division and the Peide Town Police Station, as well as two Party members from Dong’s village. Dong’s home was ransacked. Dong is being held in the Mishan Detention Center.

20. [Meishan City, Sichuan Province] Ms. Zhu Qunhua Harassed

Ms. Zhu Qunhua was harassed at home by community clerks on the morning of March 26, 2021. They asked if she still practiced Falun Gong. They brought a camcorder, but she stopped them from videotaping.

It was learned that officers and community clerks phoned practitioners and their families and ordered the practitioners to sign papers.