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3.3 Mass Arrest of Falun Gong Coordinators around China on July 20 and July 21, 1999
3.3.1 Falun Dafa practitioners were detained in Hebei Province
Message received: July 21, 1999
Victims:
1 Nie Zheng 2 Feng Yan 3 Sheng Yan 4 Liu Yajie 5 Lin Baozhang 6 Lu Caixia 7 Cui Yulan 8 Yang Jianbo
Location of incident: Langfang, Hebei Province, China
Description:
About 3:00am, Dafa practitioners Nie Zheng, Feng Yan, Sheng Yan, Liu Yajie, Lin Baozhang, Lu Caixia, Cui Yulan and Yang Jianbo were detained. Their houses were confiscated. About 9:00am some practitioners went to the city government asking for the release of the innocent practitioners and the return of Falun Dafa material. Nobody has been released till now
3.3.2 Sixty two Falun Dafa assistants in Tianjin were under constant surveillance
Message received: July 21, 1999
Victims: Over 400 Falun Dafa practitioners
Location of incident: Tianjin, China
Description:
Sixty-two Falun Dafa coordinators were arrested in Tianjin. These 62 practitioners were under constant surveillance recently. Right now, the police are taking further steps against the assistant people at various practice sites in Tianjin.
3.3.3 Contact persons in Hefei detained
Message received: July 21, 1999
Victims:
1. Guo Jinglan couple,
2. Bi Xiaojun,
3. Chen Jianxian
Location of incident: Hefei, Anhui Province, China
Description:
Guo Jinglan couple, Bi Xiaojun, and Chen Jianxian are detained in the same detention center. They were interrogated. Since that afternoon, the practitioners have been to the Provincial government to make an appeal in succession. Presently, the managers of various workplaces are holding meetings about the Falun Gong incident and have not taken any further actions yet.
3.3.4 Falun Dafa practitioners were detained in Baoding City
Message received: July 20, 1999
Victims:
1. Zhang Manhong
2. Yu Xianmin
3. Fang Heming
4. Huo Jitian
5. Tian Yongsheng
6. Tang Guihong
7. Li Jinhu
8. Yu Rui
Location of incident: Baoding, Hebei Province, China
Description:
At about 3:00 am, practitioners Zhang Manhong, Yu Xianmin, Fang Heming, Huo Jitian, Tian Yongsheng, Tang Guihong, Li Jinhu and Yu Rui were detained by local police. Their houses were ransacked.
3.3.5 Falun Dafa practitioners detained in Cangzhou City
Message received: July 20, 1999
Victims: 7 Falun Dafa practitioners
Location of incident: Cangzhou, Hebei province, China
Description:
4:00 o’clock in the morning, police confiscated seven houses of Falun Gong contact persons. Master Li’s pictures were smashed, their desks in their workplaces were also searched and the Falun Dafa materials were taken away.
3.3.6 Falun Dafa practitioners were detained in Tangshan City and properties were confiscated
Message received: July 20, 1999
Victims: Zhang Xiuzheng
Location of incident: Tangshan, Hebei Province, China
Description:
The city police department Lubei branch detained Zhang Xiuzheng and confiscated her properties.
3.3.7 Falun Dafa coordinators were detained in Zhangjiakou City
Message received: July 20, 1999
Victims: The Falun Gong coordinator in Zhangjiakou
Location of incident: Zhangjiakou, Hebei Province, China
Description:
In the morning the police detained the coordinator of the Assistant Center.
3.3.8 Falun Dafa coordinators were detained in Harbin City
Message received: July 20, 1999
Victims:
1. Li Hongkui
2. Zhang Shengjie
3. Li Xiubo
4. Wu Hongzhu
5. Wu Wenfang and other practitioners
Location of incident: Harbing, Heilongjiang Province, China
Description:
In the early morning (about 2 o’clock), a few people from the police department and detention center detained the 5 coordinators of Harbin Falun Gong Assistant Center: Li Hongkui, Zhang Shengjie, Li Xiubo, Wu Hongzhu and Wu Wenfang. They confiscated their houses and took away all Falun Dafa books and materials. The detained Falun Gong practitioners in Harbin were kept in the underground anti-airaid shelter in Taiping district. On July 22, some Dafa practitioners went to the government office to explain the situation and ask them to release the practitioners. It turned out that the government arranged a large number of armed police in big trucks to wait for them, and take the practitioners to the stadium. Policemen registered them, and asked their work units to take the people back according to the registration information. Some practitioners were detained over 10 hours and did not get released until the dawn of July 23. Police officers together with people from work units began suppressing the practitioners. On July 23 about 4:30 in the morning, practitioners began to practice Falun Gong at the practice site. As soon as they started, they were told by other practitioners that police had detained over twenty practitioners in the other practice site. They had to disperse. Many practitioners were then fired by their workplaces. Their Dafa books were taken away.
3.3.9 Falun Dafa coordinators were detained in Daqing City
Message received: July 20, 1999
Victim: Wang Jinglin
Location of incident: Daqing, Heilongjiang Province, China
Description:
Wang Jinglin, the coordinator of Daqing Falun Gong Assistant Center were detained by police at about 11:00pm. Many practitioners spontaneously went to the city government to ask for releasing the detained practitioners. There came more and more people.
3.3.10 Falun Gong practitioners were detained in Jiamusi City
Message received: July 20, 1999
Victims:
1. Gao Xiang
2. Ma Xuejun
3. Li Yong
Location of incident: Jiamusi, Heilongjiang Province, China
Description:
About 3 o’clock in the morning, Falun Gong practitioners Gao Xiang, Ma Xuejun and Li Yong were detained by the city police and didn’t get released until about 7:00pm.
3.3.11 Falun Gong practitioners were detained in Mudanjiang City
Message received: July 20, 1999
Victims:
1. Kang Yuncheng
2. Sun Lizhu
3. Song Weiru
4. Gao Xiuling
5. Leng Guiqing
6. Zhang Keming
7. Song Weiru
8. Yu Zonghai
9. Jiang Chunmei
10. Jin Youfeng
11. Jiang Guizhen
Location of incident: Mudanjiang, Jilin Province, China
Description:
About 30 Dafa practitioners in Mudanjiang city including Kang Yuncheng, Sun Lizhu, Song Weiru, Gao Xiuling, Leng Guiqing, Zhang Keming and some coordinators from other cities were detained by police in the early morning on July 20. Most of them were released before noon but Song Weiru, Yu Zonghai, Jiang Chunmei, Jin Youfeng and Jiang Guizhen were still under police custody.
3.3.12 Falun Gong practitioners were detained in Huangshi City
Message received: July 20, 1999
Victims: Li Zhang and five others
Location of incident: Huangshi, Hubei Province, China
Description:
At about 3:00am in the morning, Li Zhang, the local coordinator and 5 other Falun Gong practitioners were detained by police. Their Dafa books were taken away.
3.3.13 Falun Gong practitioners were detained in Suizhou City
Message received: July 20, 1999
Victims: Falun Gong practitioners
Location of incident: Suizhou, Hubei Province, China
Description:
Around 4 o’clock early in the morning, ten-carloads of police detained dozens of practitioners at the practice sites. They ransacked the practitioners’ houses.
3.3.14 Falun Gong practitioners were detained in Wuhan City
Message received: July 20, 1999
Victims:
1. Cheng Shugui
2. Liu Zujia
3. Wang Xiaming
4. Mo Chou
5. Jiang Changlin
6. Xu Yuzhang
7. Tan Jiali
8. Zhang Changming
9. Ming Tiaosheng
10. Feng Yuejing
11. Zhang Aizheng
12. Wang Shuiying
13. Hu Jianhua
14. Lan Lijun
15. Xun Xianjun
and others
Location of incident: Wuhan, Hubei Province, China
Description:
At 6:00pm, a curfew was imposed upon the area around the Province Government Building. Armed police blocked all the entry roads. Falun Gong practitioners stood side by side and hand in hand along the passenger road outside the building. They stood there quiet-ly with no slogans. They did not block the traffic, but the police did not allow passengers or cars to pass. Around 7:00pm, the police began to disperse the practitioners. Police stopped the passing public transportation buses and asked the passengers to get off, and then they took the practitioners into the buses. They forced the practitioners to some schools at Sanzhen in Wuhan to register and then the practitioners were released. Some of the practitioner went home although some did not want to.
From 3:00pm on July 20, about ten practitioners in Wuhan were summoned and later detained by police. As of the time of this report (22:00pm) nobody has been released. The coordinator, Xu yuyu, was detained by two policemen. Her daughter was at home waiting for her mother. The detained practitioners include Cheng Shugui, Liu Zujia, Wang Xiaming, Mo Chou, Jiang Changlin, Xu Yuzhang, Tan Jiali, Zhang Changming, Ming Tiaosheng, Feng Yuejing, Zhang Aizheng, Wang Shuiying, Hu Jianhua, Lan Lijun, Xun Xianjun and so on. Their families and relatives asked the police to release them, but were told that they would not be released unless they write pledges promising not to promote Dafa. The situation has become more serious. Practitioners practicing outside were also prohibited.
3.3.15 Falun Gong practitioners were detained in Changsha City
Message received: July 20, 1999
Victim: Gao Desi
Location of incident: Changsha, Hunan Province, China
Description:
At 4:20 in the morning, 8 people claiming that they were police from the police station of Yuelou District in Changsha went to the practitioner Gao Desi’s home and detained him. All Falun Gong books and videotapes of master Li’s lectures and all other materials were taken away.
3.3.16 Falun Dafa coordinator was detained in Changchun City
Message received: July 20, 1999
Victims:
1. Xu Yin
2. Lin Jinquan
3. Zhang Jiehui
4. Yu Zhongren
5. Shi uan
6. Zhang Shuxia
7. Li Xuejie
8. Zhang Shuhong
Location of incident: Changchun, Jilin Province, China
Description:
The major coordinator of Falun Gong in Changchun City, Xu Yin, was detained by police. The practitioners Lin Jinquan, Zhang Jiehui, Yu Zhongren, Shi uan, Zhang Shuxia, Li Xuejie and others were arrested by Department of Public Security. In the morning of July 20th, coordinator Zhang Shuhong’s home was ransacked. In the morning many police went to practitioners’ homes and claimed that the government had issued an order banning Falun Gong, declaring Falun Gong as an illegal organization, and group practicing was not allowed. More than three Falun Gong practitioners together are ”illegal”. One will take all the responsibilities if he/she ignores these warnings. Falun Gong practitioners in Nanjing city were given extremely unfair treatment.
Message received: July 20, 1999
Victims: 10 Falun Gong practitioners in Nanjing
Location of incident: Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China
Description:
Around 4:00am on July 20, Falun Gong practitioners in Nanjing city were given extremely unfair treatment. About 10 Falun Gong practitioners were detained from their homes or practice sites by the people who claimed to be police from Bureau of Public Security. The homes of these practitioners were ransacked and practitioners’ private property was taken away. It was reported that this action to Falun Gong practitioners was taken simultaneously in all parts of Jiangsu Province and was orchestrated by a vice provincial governor.
3.3.17 Falun Gong practitioners were arrested in Kunming City
Message received: July 20, 1999
Victims:
1. Xu Taiyun
2. Jiang Houqing
3. Chen Yan
4. Ma xianming
5. Wang Chengxiu
6. Zhou Ying
7. Lai Gaohua
8. Wang Lan
Location of incident: Kunming, Yunnan Province, China
Description:
About 6:00 in the morning, Xu Taiyun, Jiang Houqing, Chen Yan, Ma Xianming, Wang Chengxiu, Zhou Ying were arrested. Practitioners Lai Gaohua and Wang Lan were missing.
3.3.18 Falun Gong practitioners were arrested in Liaoning Province
Victims:
1 - 2 Chen Shasha, Liu Yantao and others from Shengyang
3 - 5 Wu baolun, Zhou Wenliang, Zhang Juzhen and others from Bengxi
6 - 10 Wang Zhongsheng, Song Wangshou, Lin Chengjun, Chen Jiuweng, Shang Yong, and others from Xingbing
11 - 12 Ji Long, Sui Lisheng and others from Qingyuan County
13 Chen Zhanshan and another practitioners from Wafangdian city
14 - 19 Wu Baolun, Zhou Wenliang, Wang Hongbin, Feng Xiaomei, Xie Zhengyuan and Xu Xinmu from Jingzhou district
16 Jiang Lei from Huairen County
20 - 22 Zhang Cuiping, Su Wei, Chen Zhihui and others from Fushun city
23 - 31 Yang Chuanjun, Yang Liying, Yang lianying, Tang Qiaoyun, Guan Shuqing, Li Fangjun, Yu Xiaode, Sun Haibing, Li Xinhui and others from Dalian
Location of incident: Liaoning Province, China
Description:
About 4:00am in the early morning, Bureaus of Public Security from eight cities in Liaoning Province arrested Falun Gong practitioners under the so-called charges of “gathering and creating disturbance.” All of the above listed practitioners were arrested. All of their homes were illegally ransacked.
3.3.19 Falun Gong practitioners were detained in Jiangzhou City
Message received: July 20, 1999
Victims:
1. Li Yuxia
2. Li Yuxia’s husband
3. Wu Baolun
4. Zhou Wenliang
and others
Location of incident: Jiangzhou, China
Description:
Li Yuxia and her husband were detained. Their only child left at home. Wu Baolun, Zhou Wenliang and some other practitioners were also detained.
3.3.20 Falun Gong practitioners were detained in Jinan City
Message received: July 20, 1999
Victims:
1. Zhang Shouqiang
2. Liu Qingyu
3. Jing Guixia
4. Chen Huiping
5. Zhang Zhigang
6. Xu Jingliang
Location of incident: Jinan, Shandong Province, China
Description:
The coordinators of Jinan Falun Dafa Assistant Center, Zhang Shouqiang, Liu Qingyu, Jing Guixia, Chen Huiping, Zhang Zhigang, Xu Jingliang, etc., were detained. Their whereabouts are unknown. Liu Qingyu’s house was confiscated by the police.
3.3.21 The Falun Dafa coordinators were detained in Pinggu county, Beijing
Victims:
1. Lu Jianping
2. Liang Yucong
Location of incident: Pinggu county, Beijing, China
Description:
The local coordinators Lu Jianping and Liang Yucong were detained by police this morning. Their whereabouts are unknown.
3.3.22 Falun Gong practitioners were missing in Weifang City
Message received: July 20, 1999
Victims:
1. Li Tianmin
2. Li Tianmin’s mother
3. Li Tianmin’s father
4. Lou Hongmei
5. Li Penghong
6. Zhang Xiucai
7. Sun Xiaomei
8. Chen Xiangde
9. Dai Zongzhen
10. Tan Yongli
11. Tan Xinzuo
12. Duo Duanqun
13. Ding Li
14. Wang Xinmin
15. Ding Pengren
16. Li Xuewei
17. Xun Yujing
18. Liu Jianhua
19. Zhang Shouqiang
20. Zhang Zhigang
21. Jing Guixia
22. Liu Qingyu
23. Cheng Huiping
24. Zhang Yangfeng
25. Xu Chanbao
and other dozens of practitioners
Location of incident: Weifang, Shandong Province, China
Description:
By violating the government’s order and publishing articles attacking and slandering Falun Gong, Popular Science Forum, a magazine in Fangzi district in Weifang city, had caused the gathering of thousands of people. After the gathering subsided, the government of Weifang city did not answer the three requests raised by the representatives even after stalling for a long time. These three requests are: clarify the facts, return the justice, take back all the illegal publications of this magazine that have been issued and destroy them in public. The situation in Weifang became more rigorous. In the morning on the same day, practitioners in Weifang, Li Tianmin and his parents, Lou Hongmei, Li Penghong, and Zhang Xiucai, Sun Xiaomei, Chen Xiangde, Dai Zongzhen, Tan Yongli, Tan Xinzuo, Duo Duanqun, Ding Li, Wang Xinmin, Ding Pengren, Li Xuewei, Xun Yujing, Liu Jianhua and another dozen practitioners in Weifang were subpoenaed. They all are missing and their whereabouts were unknown as of the time of this report. The coordinators of Shandong Assistant Center, Zhang Shouqiang, Zhang Zhigang, Jing Guixia, Liu Qingyu, Cheng Huiping were missing around 4:00am on July 20. Also, all main routes in Weifang were tightly blocked. It was reported that Falun Gong practitioners, Zhang Yangfeng, Xu Chanbao from Changle County in Weifang were also missing in that morning.
3.3.23 Falun Gong coordinator was detained in Taiyuan City
Message received: July 20, 1999
Victims: Falun Gong practitioners
Location of incident: Datong, Shanxi Province, China
Description:
The coordinator in Datong city, Shanxi Province, was detained by Bureau of Public Security in the morning on July 20, and Dafa materials and computers were confiscated.
3.3.24 Two thousand Falun Gong practitioners went to the province government to appeal in Taiyuan City
Message received: July 20, 1999
Victims: Zhang Yonghong and thousands of other Falun Gong practitioners
Location of incident: Taiyuan, Shanxi province, China
Description:
Seven Falun Gong practitioners including Zhang Yonghong, the coordinator for Shanxi province, were detained by Taiyuan city police before dawn. Four to five coordinators of other assistant centers were also detained. About 500 Dafa practitioners went to the provincial government building and delivered the appeal letter.
During the day, about two thousand Falun Gong practitioners went to the province government to appeal and asked them to release the innocent Falun Gong practitioners. The spokesman of the government told the practitioners that they were executing the order from the Party Central Committee. About 7:00pm, the government called a large group of police and forced practitioners to get into a few big buses and took them to the stadium.
3.3.25 All Falun Dafa web pages were blocked and not accessible in Xi’an City
Message received: July 20, 1999
Victims: Falun Gong practitioners, Falun Dafa web sites
Location of incident: Xian, Shanxi province, China
Description:
The computer staff in the city was ordered to call a number or 110 (same as 911 in the U.S.) when they found a Falun Dafa web site. All Falun Dafa web pages were blocked and not visible.
About 6:00am, police appeared at all Falun Dafa practice sites. They took away banners, tape players and detained coordinators. The police did not release practitioners who refused to sign the paper indicating that they would not practice Falun Gong and would not act as coordinators. Dozens of practitioners were detained. Some of them were detained for more than 12 hours. By 7:00am there were about 500 practitioners gathering in front of the government building to appeal. Three young practitioners were detained. Their names were unknown.
3.3.26 Falun Gong coordinators were detained in Chongqing City
Message received: July 20, 1999
Victims: Falun Gong coordinators
Location of incident: Chongqing, Sichuan Province, China
Description:
In the morning Chongqing city police detained the coordinator of Chongqing Falun Gong Assistant Center and other coordinators. They also confiscated their properties.
3.3.27 Falun Gong practitioners were detained in Tianjin City
Message received: July 20, 1999
Victims:
1. Li Hong, female
2. Guo Baoqin, female
3. Chen Guiqin, female
4. Li Sheng, female
5. Liang Shunsheng
6. Wang Xueming, female
7. Song Wenkai
8. Zheng Li, female
9. Wang Xiuying, female
10. Ma Qin
11. Chen Jide
12. Xia Lihua
13. Yu defeng
14. Liu Xiaogui
15. Ju Xiling, female
16. Gao Baofeng, female
17. Meng Jingqin
18. Liao Wenyue
Location of incident: Tianjin, China
Description:
About 3:00pm, Tianjin police detained the following Falun Gong practitioners: Li Hong, Guo Baoqin, Chen Guiqin, Li Sheng, Liang Shunsheng, Wang Xueming, Song Wenkai, Zheng Li, Wang Xiuying, Ma Qin, Chen Jide, Xia Lihua and Yu defeng.
The night of July 19, 1999, Liu Xiaogui was detained. About 3:00am his house was broken into by the police in Nankai Branch. 8 people ransacked the house and took away Falun Dafa materials. The following practitioners were also detained that night:
Ju Xiling, Gao Baofeng from Hedong district Dieqiao area
Liao Wenyue from Hebei district Meng Jingqin from Nankai district Li Qinger from Hexi district Yang Jing from Beichen district Yang Hongzhe from JinGangHuaYuan Assistant Center at Hebei district
About 1:00am, 6 practitioners were detained by Ninghe County police and their houses was sealed. All Falun Dafa materials was taken away.
3.3.28 Falun Dafa coordinators were detained in Shijiazhuang City
Message received: July 19, 1999
Victims:
1. Duan Rongxin
2. Miao Yingzhi
3. Wang HongBin
4. Feng Xiaomei
5. Xie Zhengyuan
6. Xu Xinmu
Location of incident: Shijiazhuang, Hebei Province, China
Description:
At about 11:00pm on July 19, 1999, Duan Rongxin, Miao Yingzhi, the coordinators in ShiJiaZhuang Falun Dafa Main Assistant Center, were detained. At 4:30am on July 20, Wang HongBin, Feng Xiaomei were detained at their homes. About 5:00am, Xie Zhengyuan was detained, and at the same time, Falun Dafa practitioner Xu Xinmu, vice director of the Office of Human Resources in the Management Department in HeBei Province, was also detained. Xu Xinmu saw a document from the provincial Party Committee directing the local government to crack down on Falun Gong. This was against the opinion of the Party Central Committee and therefore he reported it to the Committee. He was detained for “revealing state secret.”
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