CCP officials and enlisted private citizens are going door-to-door to practitioner's homes, confiscating property, forcing people to sign various documents, and arresting and imprisoning others. Some families are extorted for money.
Hebei Province: Hengshui City 610 Office Persecute Falun Gong Practitioners before the Olympic Games
While the 2008 Beijing Olympics is fast approaching, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is using the excuse of "security for the Olympics" to illegally arrest and detain Falun Gong practitioners, ransack their homes, and confuse the general populace with lies and deceit, in an attempt to cover up the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners.
Recently, the Hengshui City 610 Office of Hebei Province has sent secret documents to every county, city, district and department under its direct control, which are then passed down to every township, town and department under their direct control. These documents are orders for personnel to investigate, monitor and arrest Falun Gong practitioners.
In recent days, Jing Chunhua, Hengshui Municipal Party Committee Secretary in Hebei Province, called a meeting with chief leaders from every unit, and ordered them to strengthen surveillance of Falun Gong practitioners. They were threatened that if any unit has practitioners going to Beijing and Qinhuangdao [to appeal for justice for Falun Gong] during the Olympics, the chief leader will be removed from office.
Accordingly, Hengshui City CCP officials began to harass and arrest Falun Gong practitioners, and forced practitioners into brainwashing centers and detention centers for persecution. Recent cases of harassment and persecution of Falun Gong by the Hengshui City 610 Office and other CCP personnel are as follows:
On May 30-31, 2008, a group of people from the Anping Town Government Police station, Anping County, Hebei Province arrived at every village in Anping County, and led by village cadres, went to Falun Gong practitioners' homes, forcing them to fill out information, including their name, age, and occupation on a pre-printed list, which states, "I guarantee I will not to go to Beijing before the Olympics."
At around 10:00 a.m. on May 31, Jia Erxing, a villager from Qianzhuang Village, Anping County led four people to every Falun Gong practitioner's home in the village. They harassed the practitioners, claiming it was due to orders from the top to strictly control Falun Gong before the Olympics and have them sign a guarantee statement. Jia Erxing did not even let off an older lady who is illiterate, and his aunt whom he met on the road. If practitioners were not home during the day, they forced practitioners' family members to sign the guarantee statement instead.
On June 11, staff from the Hengshui City 610 Office and Domestic Security Team arrested Jing County Falun Gong practitioner Zheng Aiju, and ransacked his home. the Hengshui City 610 Office and Domestic Security Team carried out persecution of practitioners in Wangchang Township, Zaoqiang County. They arranged township government staff to make up a team of two people in each village to investigate Falun Gong practitioners, to check if they have a satellite receiver, and to order them to write a guarantee statement, etc. Domestic Security Team personnel set Wangchang Township as their focus. The Wangchang Township government also actively cooperated with the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners. They arranged two township government staff members per village to check on Falun Gong practitioners to see if they had a satellite receiver, and force them to write guarantee statements, etc. Chengguan Town government officials forced local Falun Gong practitioners to sign a "joint guarantee statement." Township and town police stations in Encha, Jiahui, Xintun and other areas arrested practitioners found to have satellite receivers and truth-clarification materials in Xiaozhang Town and Wangchang Township, and extorted amounts ranging from 6,000 to over 10,000 yuan from practitioners.On the morning of June 30, 2008, Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Zhang Xiuling of Hengshui City, Hebei Province was arrested by Hengshui City Development Area police for clarifying the truth. After 5:00 p.m. that evening, police rushed into her home to conduct a search. Her neighbor (also a Falun Gong practitioner) Sun Sumei stopped to see what was happening. The police asked her if she practiced Falun Gong, and also ransacked her home, confiscated Falun Gong books and other items, and illegally arrested Zhang Xiuling and Sun Sumei. They are now detained at Hengshui City Detention Center.
On July 1, 2008, police from the Domestic Security Team, Hengshui City Police Department, arrested Falun Gong practitioner Sun Yinmei of Zhengzhuang, Liangwa Township, Anping County.
At noon on July 3, 2008, approximately nine police officers, led by Raoyang County Police Station assistant commissioner Fan Yanhong, arrested multiple Falun Gong practitioners. According to them, "Other cases require evidence for arrest, but no evidence is needed for Falun Gong. We will release them after the Olympics."
Falun Gong practitioners in Shen County and Jing County were also harassed and persecuted.
This recent round of persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in Hengshui City is under the direct command of the Municipal CCP Committee and the City 610 Office, carried out by the Domestic Security Team of Hengshui City Police Department. Government agents in every county and district, 610 Office, and police officers are closely following along with the persecution.