Additional Persecution News from China – July 3, 2021 (12 Reports)

(Minghui.org) Today's news from China includes incidents of persecution that took place in 11 cities or counties in 8 provinces, where at least 23 practitioners were recently persecuted for their belief.

1. [Shenzhen City, Guangdong Province] Ms. Ding Yao Officially Arrested
2. [Changsha City, Hunan Province] Mr. Wang Xiren Arrested
3. [Fushun City, Liaoning Province] Ms. Ma Shuqin Missing for 100 Days
4. [Tianjin] Zhang Lihong and Family Repeatedly Harassed
5. [Nanchong City, Sichuan Province] Ms. Chen Xiumei Harassed
6. [Baoding City, Hebei Province] Ms. Zhang Jinrong Harassed
7. [Laizhou City, Shandong Province] Mr. Liu Baoxin Taken to Brainwashing Center
8. [Shanghai] Five Practitioners Monitored
9. [Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province] Several Practitioners Harassed
10. [Jingzhou City, Hubei Province] Ms. Zhao Shouzhen Harassed
11. [Guiyang City, Guizhou Province] Ms. Liu Zuoxuan Harassed
12. [Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province] Mr. Jia Linquan Repeatedly Harassed While Riding the Train

1. [Shenzhen City, Guangdong Province] Ms. Ding Yao Officially Arrested

Ms. Ding Yao was arrested by officers from the Longhua Police Department on May 11, 2021. She was officially placed under arrest by the Nanshan District Procuratorate and is being held in the Bao’an District Detention Center.

2. [Changsha City, Hunan Province] Mr. Wang Xiren Arrested

Mr. Wang Xiren from the Yuelu District was arrested at home on June 11, 2021. He has been held in the Changsha City No. 1 Detention Center for over 20 days. His current situation is not known.

3. [Fushun City, Liaoning Province] Ms. Ma Shuqin Missing for 100 Days

Ms. Ma Shuqin, 70, from the Dongzhou District went to the Tawan area to distribute Falun Gong materials on March 26, 2021. She was arrested by officers from the Longfeng Police Station.

The police took Ms. Ma home that evening, ransacked the place, and confiscated her Falun Gong books and printed materials.

Ms. Ma’s relatives and friends went to two facilities where she might be held in custody to look for her but were told that there was no such person. Ms. Ma has been missing for 100 days.

Ms. Ma’s husband had heart surgery at the beginning of the year. The family is very worried. Her daughter went to the police station to ask about her mother’s situation, but officers at the police station ignored her.

4. [Tianjin] Zhang Lihong and Family Repeatedly Harassed 

Zhang Lihong (gender unknown) from Wulidian Village has been harassed several times since November 2020 by officers from the Chengguan Town Police Station, Wuqing District. The officers confiscated a Falun Gong book and two audio players.

Village Party secretary Ji Yongcheng, Zhang Guangyu, and police officers went to Zhang’s home again on June 25 and threatened Zhang’s child and other family members.

5. [Nanchong City, Sichuan Province] Ms. Chen Xiumei Harassed

A group of people from Lidu Town, Jialing District, went to Ms. Chen Xiumei’a home and harassed her at 10 p.m. on June 24, 2021.

For several days, these people knocked and pounded on the door of Ms. Chen’s home regardless of whether it was daytime or at night, disturbing residents on the upper and lower floors. Their rude behavior caused Ms. Chen’s neighbors to have a bad opinion of local officials.

6. [Baoding City, Hebei Province] Ms. Zhang Jinrong Harassed

Ms. Zhang Jinrong from Lujiazhuang Village, Yi County, was harassed at home in late June 2021 by three officers, including Sun Congzhi from the Chengqu Police Station. When they asked her if she had any Falun Gong materials at home, she said no.

They saw the New Year’s painting on the wall with the words “Falun Dafa is good! Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good!” They tore the painting off the wall.

7. [Laizhou City, Shandong Province] Mr. Liu Baoxin Taken to Brainwashing Center

Mr. Liu Baoxin was arrested at work by officers from the Wenchang Police Station on the afternoon of July 1, 2021. He was taken to the Dianzi Brainwashing Center.

8. [Shanghai] Five Practitioners Monitored

Since May 25, 2021, Ms. Cong Peixi, Ms. Wu Koudi, and three other practitioners from the Yangpu District have been monitored by officers from the Changhai Road Police Station.

Two people were assigned to each of the early and middle shifts for monitoring. They staked out and kept an eye on the five practitioners at several designated locations. The five practitioners were followed when they went out. These people took photos of the practitioners and sent them to the police station.

9. [Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province] Several Practitioners Harassed

Mr. Wei Xiang, Ms. Deng Ling, and Ms. Pan Lizhu received phone calls from the Weishui Police Department on May 17, 2021. The officers asked the practitioners whether they still practiced Falun Gong and other questions. Their harassment disrupted the practitioners’ normal schedules.

Ms. Qi Lixia from the Weixinzhuang Village was also harassed by repeated phone calls from the police department on May 27.

Two officers from the police department went to the homes of Ms. Zhang Rongmei and Ms. Chen Yingying on May 20. Ms. Zhang was not at home at the time. They went to her home again on the evening of May 22.

Miao Yangai, (gender unknown) who lives in the county’s downtown area, was harassed at home by officers from the police department in May.

Three officers from the Wujiayao Township Police Station went to the homes of Mr. Qi Bucheng and Wang Junyue (gender unknown) in Baitupo Village in May and asked them if they still practiced Falun Gong.

10. [Jingzhou City, Hubei Province] Ms. Zhao Shouzhen Harassed

On June 30, 2021, six officers from the Douhudi Town Police Station, Gong’an County, went to the store run by Ms. Zhao Shouzhen’s son. After entering the store, they started taking pictures and asked if Ms. Zhao still practiced Falun Gong.

11. [Guiyang City, Guizhou Province] Ms. Liu Zuoxuan Harassed

In June 2020, community management personnel asked Ms. Liu Zuoxuan to fill out a form, which she refused. At the beginning of 2021, Ms. Liu clarified the truth to her neighbors and was listed as a primary surveillance target.

Ms. Liu was detained for 15 days in 2008 for distributing Falun Gong materials. She was harassed in 2015 for suing Jiang Zemin, the former head of the Chinese Communist Party. In April 2020, she was reported to the police for spreading the facts about Falun Gong and the persecution and was harassed at home by domestic security officers and community management personnel. Her family was also implicated and threatened.

12. [Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province] Mr. Jia Linquan Repeatedly Harassed While Riding the Train

Mr. Jia Linquan is from Pingshan County. Beginning in the spring of 2019, he took the train to go to Chang’an University in Xi’an City, Shaanxi Province, or to return home during summer or winter vacations. He was often questioned by police officers on the train who targeted him particularly.

Usually, the officers would come to him as soon as he sat down in his seat, and told him to take all his luggage and get off the train. People in nearby seats would look at him strangely. The officers would carefully search through all his luggage on the train platform, and sometimes they would body-search him. On one occasion, they wanted to see the pictures on his phone. None of the officers ever showed any documents or identified themselves.

The most recent encounter took place in the early morning hours of June 26, 2021. When Mr. Jia walked to his seat, an officer was sitting in his seat, waiting for him. After the officer confirmed his seat number, he asked Mr. Jia to show his national ID card to confirm his identity. After a while, another officer took him to a compartment at the head of the carriage for questioning. They told him, “Your ID card is different from those of others. It indicates that you are a primary target the authorities are concerned about.”

Since April 2019, Mr. Jia was harassed by the police officers each year when he took the train. During the first encounter, four police officers suddenly showed up on the train. All four officers wore gloves, as they would when investigating a crime scene. They searched his luggage, and videotaped the process. Because of this repeated harassment, Mr. Jia was put under huge psychological pressure.

In addition, on May 20, 2021, when Mr. Jia was on campus in Xi’an City, officers from the Chengguan Police Station in Pingshan County, Hebei Province, called him and his father at home in Hebei Province many times for no reason. He did not answer these calls. The officers made the calls using a pool of different cell phone numbers as well as landlines. On the afternoon of May 20, Pingshan County police made 17 harassing calls to him within 13 minutes.