Authorities in Chongqing Suburb Harass Falun Gong Practitioners for Upholding Their Faith

(Minghui.org) Since April 2022, the authorities in Changsha Town under Kaizhou District, Chongqing have been carrying out another round of harassment of local Falun Gong practitioners. In an attempt to force them to sign statements to renounce their faith, the authorities threatened to terminate the practitioners’ family members’ jobs, deny promotions at work or school admission, or bar them from joining the military.

One officer told the practitioners that their superiors were taking the initiative very seriously and they are paying close attention to how successfully they "transform" the practitioners. The officer revealed said that the Kaizhou District Political and Legal Affairs Committee would come in August to hear their work progress and then those of Chongqing Political and Legal Affairs Committee would come a month later.

When pressuring the practitioners, the police claimed that once the practitioners signed statements renouncing Dafa, they would remove them from the blacklist and would not harass them anymore. But if the practitioners didn’t comply, they would keep coming back and their supervisors may also come to talk to them directly.

Some practitioners’ family members were pressured by the local officers to sign statements on behalf of their practitioner family members, but without their knowledge. But the Kaizhou District Political and Legal Affairs Committee didn’t approve this and ordered the practitioners to sign the statements themselves. They also ordered the police to videotape the practitioners as they signed the statements.

In addition, officials in Changsha Town have, since August 4, blasted propaganda against Falun Gong over outdoor loudspeakers every morning, noon, and evening. They threatened to arrest and imprison those who didn’t cooperate with the government’s “education campaign.”

On August 30, the Changsha Town government and Kaizhou District Political and Legal Affairs Committee commenced a brainwashing session at the Changsha Hotel to target practitioners who had failed to “transform”. Those who have been taken there include Ms. Xu Shuying, Ms. Xu Huahui, Ms. Li Minggui, Mr. Gui Benshan, and Ms. Guo Chunfang.

Li Liao of the Kaizhou District Political and Legal Affairs Committee and Zhang Xiaorui, an officer of the Changsha Town Appeals Office, are known to be giving brainwashing lectures there.

Perpetrators’ contact information:

Liu Qiang (刘强), secretary of Chongqing Political and Legal Affairs Committee: [phone]Wang Wei (王伟), director of Chongqing 610 Office and deputy director of Chongqing Police Department: [phone]Li Liao (黎燎), officer, Kaizhou District Political and Legal Affairs Committee: [phone]Zhang Xiaorui (张校瑞), officer, Changsha Town Appeals Office: [phone]

(More perpetrators’ contact information is available in the original Chinese article.)