In August 2007, Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials in the local government in Shendian Township, Qushui Town, Jialing District, Nanchong City, Sichuan Province started a new round of persecution of Falun Gong practitioners because of the 17^th CCP Congress. They broadcast it to the entire town and encouraged the villagers to report Falun Gong practitioners. Local government officials declared that whoever reported a practitioner would get a 200 yuan reward; whoever turned in a Falun Gong poster would get a 100 yuan reward; and whoever found out about a Falun Gong gathering would get a reward of up to 1,000 yuan.

On August 9, practitioners Ren Guirong and Han Xianji clarified the truth about Falun Gong and explained the importance of quitting the CCP to Tang Shenghua, who lived in the 14^th Village. Tang Shenghua, however, lured by the temptation of rewards, reported the couple to authorities. As a result, Tang received the 200 yuan reward.

The next morning, together with Hu Chunhe from Qushui Town Security Office, Zhang Jian and one police officer from Qushui Police Station went to the residence of practitioners Ren Guirong and Han Xianji and told the couple to go to the police station with them. Ren and Han refused to follow them. Therefore, the officers called their "upper-level authorities" and collected some more officers (among whom were the township's CCP head Gou Ping and some others from the National Security Team at Jialing District Police Department). They forcibly searched Ren and Han's residence and then arrested Ren and Han, detaining them in the town government building. After interrogating the couple until late into the evening, the officers transferred Ren and Han to the local Nanchong City Police Department in Jialing District for 15 days.

When Ren and Han were just about to leave the detention center gate following their release, they were blocked by a police car belonging to officials from Qushui Town Police Station. Immediately, six or seven people rushed from the police vehicle and forcibly pushed Ren and Han into the vehicle. After that, Ren and Han were detained in the brainwashing center in Nanchong City and are still there.

On hearing this, Ren and Han's eldest son, who works out of town, returned. He found his parents' village head to ask for their release. However, the head said, "The upper-level authorities said to release Falun Gong practitioners only after the 17^th CCP Congress." Then their son went to the township government to request their release. Someone at the township government said, "Putting your parents in the brainwashing center costs us a large amount of money every month. We don't want to do it either." Then their son went to the brainwashing center, but the officers there told the son to go talk to his parents and persuade them to write a guarantee statement to give up practicing Falun Gong. They also tried to make the son write the statement for Ren and Han. Respecting his parents' rights, the son refused to cooperate with the officers.