(Clearwisdom.net)
1. [Xi'an City, Shaanxi Province] Xi'an City and Hu County Public Security Bureaus Conspire to Illegally Arrest Falun Dafa Practitioners
On the evening of September 7, 2002, the Xi'an City Public Security Bureau, together with the Hu County Public Security Bureau, illegally arrested female Falun Dafa practitioners Feng Yayun and Yan Anfang in the western suburbs of Xi'an City. The number of Falun Dafa practitioners who were illegally arrested in other areas has not yet been determined.
2. [Fuxin City, Liaoning Province] Police Destroy the Fuxin City Falun Dafa Materials Center
On the morning of September 19, 2002, the police destroyed the Falun Dafa materials center in Fuxin City. There were five Falun Dafa practitioners present at the time. The police discovered the center after carefully tracing the materials back to their source. The lawless police who traced the materials also arrested those Falun Dafa practitioners who had left the homes to avoid persecution but who had still been doing Falun Dafa work.
3. [Langfang City, Hebei Province] Police Unjustifiably Search Passengers' Luggage and Handbags
Since July 20, 1999, the public security office in Langfang City has been obsessively persecuting Falun Dafa practitioners. Hundreds of Falun Gong practitioners have been illegally sentenced to labor camps, and countless more remain jailed in the brainwashing classes and detention centers. Typically, the police illegally ransack their homes and then fine them. Countless others have been forced to become homeless to avoid further persecution, breaking apart their families. Some of them were even driven to the point of mental collapse. Recently, the police again searched the long-distance buses that go between Langfang and Beijing. Each passenger's luggage and handbags were extensively searched in an effort to arrest the Falun Dafa practitioners who are carrying truth-clarifying materials.
4. [Langfang City, Hebei Province] Authorities Cut Off Falun Dafa Practitioners' Income
The authorities in Langfang City have issued a notice to all workplaces decreeing that those Falun Dafa practitioners who refuse to write a "guarantee letter" will not be issued their cost of living payments. [A "guarantee letter" is a statement declaring that he or she is remorseful for practicing Falun Gong, and guarantees not to practice Falun Gong again, not to go to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong and never again associate with any Falun Dafa practitioners.] This has been especially difficult for couples who both practice Falun Dafa.
5. [Dandong City, Liaoning Province] Dandong City Brainwashing Center Savagely Persecutes Falun Dafa Practitioners
The persecution of Falun Dafa practitioners in Dandong City Brainwashing Center continues to escalate. The guards use the criminal prisoners to severely beat Falun Dafa practitioners. They use all kinds of methods, including sleep deprivation, heavy labor, beating them with electric batons and confining them to tiny cells, attempting to force the practitioners to write so-called "guarantee letters." Some practitioners have been jailed in the tiny cells for long periods of time and have yet to be released.
6. [Changping County, Beijing] Police Besiege Falun Dafa Couple's Home
On the afternoon of September 23, 2002, the Director of Songyuan Police Substation in Changping County, Changping District, along with more than a dozen police officers in two police vans, drove to the No.14 Residential Building in the Ertiaofeng Mountain Mining District, Dongguang Village, Changping Town. The police chief personally climbed up into the window of a home and illegally arrested the practitioner couple who lived there, Yang Bingmei and Yang Xiuling. The couple refused to be taken away by the police. They began shouting from their balcony that the police were illegally arresting people, which caused a crowd to gather below. The couple exposed the evil and clarified the truth with the force of justice, so the police did not dare to arrest them. Since then, however, the Yang home has been kept under constant police surveillance. As a result, they have not been able to leave to go to work, and their son, a high school senior, cannot return home.
Wang Zhenhua is the Deputy Director of the Changping District in Beijing. She is also the head of the "610 Office." [The "610 Office" is an agency specifically created to persecute Falun Gong, with absolute power over each level of administration in the Party and all other political or judicial systems.] Another woman, Kang Li, is also a member of the Changping "610 Office" in Beijing.
7. [Jinchang City, Gansu Province] Police Conspire to Arrest Falun Dafa Practitioners During the Sixteenth People's Congress
According to inside sources, the Jinchang City Police plan to search and arrest all Falun Dafa practitioners. They have threatened to detain all of the Falun Dafa practitioners until after the Sixteenth People's Congress has concluded.
8. [Deyang District, Sichuan Province] Government Officials Threaten and Harass Falun Dafa Practitioners
Recently government officials from the villages to the workplaces, throughout all counties of the city, began a new round of brainwashing Falun Dafa practitioners and forcing them to give up their beliefs. While this has been done in the guise of "helping and educating" the practitioners, the real purpose is keeping watch on the practitioners, so as to threaten and harass them. Officials have said, "If you do not maintain solidarity with the central government, you will be dealt with harshly and fired from your jobs." Their attempts to force the practitioners to betray their belief in "Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance", however, have been in vain.
Recently, some movie theaters in the Deyang District have begun showing films that defame Falun Dafa, so as to poison the minds of the kind-hearted local people.
9. [Suizhou City, Hubei Province] Falun Dafa Practitioners Arrested
In a recent frenzy of activity, the Suizhou City Police began arresting Falun Dafa practitioners.
On September 22, 2002, female Falun Dafa practitioners Bao Deju and Deng Keying were arrested. Ever since then, these two practitioners have been on a hunger strike to protest. They are in imminent danger, suffering from shock, and are often comatose.
On the evening of September 23, 2002, several policemen stayed outside of Zou Jinglin's home until midnight, but did not succeed in arresting him. The following day, they went to his workplace to arrest him but did not succeed there either. Now this practitioner has been forced to leave home and go from place to place.
Practitioner Peng Huayun was abducted by plainclothes police at about 6:00 p.m. on September 26, 2002. To date, his whereabouts are still unknown.
10. [Tangshan City, Hebei Province] Police Say, "If They Answer That They are a Good Person, Then We Know They Must Be Practicing Falun Gong."
The police from Fenglun District, Tangshan City, Hebei Province hid outside of a Falun Dafa practitioner's home to keep him under surveillance, attempting to arrest those Falun Dafa practitioners who associate with him. They stayed there for several days without being able to arrest anyone. An elderly lady from the neighborhood was passing by there on her way home. When the police stopped her, the old lady did not have any identification with her, so the police wanted to take her away, assuming that she was a Falun Gong practitioner. Upon hearing this, her husband hurriedly came over and sternly asked the police, "What reason do you have to arrest her?"
The police said, "We are arresting Falun Gong practitioners."
The old man asked, "How do you know whether they are Falun Gong practitioners?"
The police replied, "We ask them, 'Are you a good person or a bad one?' If they answer that they are a good person, it's likely that they practice Falun Gong."
11. [Mengyin County, Shandong Province] Police Destroy a Falun Dafa Materials Center
Since August, the "610 Office" in Shandong Province have focused their persecution on practitioners in Mengyin County. Recently, elementary school teacher Li Guanlian from Longjiaquan Township, Qishui County, Shandong Province was arrested. She subsequently turned on her fellow practitioners, and soon afterwards, police discovered and destroyed a Falun Dafa materials center. Also, over a dozen Falun Dafa practitioners who had left their homes to avoid further persecution were arrested. Total losses to the materials center were estimated at over 40,000 Yuan [average monthly salary of an urban worker in China is 500 Yuan]. Confiscated items included a desktop computer and monitor, two laptop computers, a laser printer, an inkjet printer, a removable hard disk, a large quantity of Falun Dafa materials and some cash.
12. [Shuangyashan City, Heilongjiang Province] Chang'an Police Substation Arrests Falun Dafa Practitioner Sun Fengjie and Implicates Her Family
At about 6 p.m. on December 28, 2001, Zhu Weidong from Chang'an Police Substation in Shuangyashan City, along with several policemen, broke into Falun Dafa practitioner Sun Fengjie's home and ransacked it. They dumped the books from one of her schoolchildren's daypacks and trampled on it. When they tried to arrest Sun Fengjie, her husband, Li Gang, tried to stop them. In a stern voice, he said, "My wife practices Falun Gong and is a good person. I will not allow you to touch her." The policemen did not listen and proceeded to drag Sun away. Her children cried and grabbed onto their Mom's hand, trying to prevent the police from taking her away. When Li Gang stepped forward to stop them, the police arrested him too. Although he was not a Falun Gong practitioner, when the police were dragging him out of the door, he put his hands high over his head and shouted, "Falun Dafa is good! Falun Dafa is the righteous Fa." While Sun Fengjie was being transported to the forced labor camp, the police beat her, and she arrived with a nosebleed. She was released one week later. Her two children were detained until midnight before they were allowed to go home. After Li Gang was arrested, he was jailed for one month before being released. Prior to his release, however, policeman Ling Dawei tried to extort money from the family. Sun Fengjie's 70-year-old father was asked to meet with Ling in bitter cold weather on three different occasions before Li Gang was actually released, but after all kinds of difficulties, they finally brought him home.
13. [Harbin City, Heilongjiang Province] Police Desperately Arrest Falun Dafa Practitioners Before the Sixteenth People's Congress
The Jiang regime attempted to wipe out Falun Gong before the Sixteenth People's Congress convened. They had planned to check one family after another, from top to bottom, to locate and capture all of the Falun Dafa practitioners who had abandon their homes to avoid the persecution. They would try to force the captured practitioners to write a "guarantee letter" and attempt to forcefully brainwash them. By September 21, 2002, the authorities had already arrested six homeless Falun Dafa practitioners in the areas neighboring Xidaqiao [west-end bridge] in the Nangang District of Harbin City.
14. [Qingdao City, Shandong Province] Former Director of the Eastern Development District Liu Zhihuan and Other Practitioners Arrested in August
Liu Zhihuan, a 66-year-old male Falun Dafa practitioner from Qingdao City, is the former Director of the Eastern Development District in Qingdao City. On August 8, 2002, he was arrested at his home by officers from Badaguan Police Substation. His whereabouts are still unknown.
On the same day in Qingdao City, officers from the Fushan Police Substation arrested Jin Huimin, a female practitioner who is over 50 years old, at her home. She was sent to the Zibo Wangcun Forced Labor Camp.
In mid-August 2002, 24-year-old Zhang Li and 26-year-old Wang Lanxiang, both practitioners from Qingdao City, were arrested by officers from the Sulu Police Substation. Their whereabouts are still unknown.
15. [Tianjin] Police Arrest Practitioner Zhu Bo
Tianjin Falun Dafa practitioner Zhu Bo was arrested by the police from Beicheng District Public Security Bureau.