(Minghui.org) Today's news from China includes incidents of persecution that took place in 12 cities or counties in 7 provinces, where at least 26 practitioners were recently persecuted for their belief.
Mr. Guo Chunhuai was given a one-year-and-six-month prison term and fined 5,000 yuan by the Xihe District Court on September 28, 2020. His family appealed.
Mr. Sun Zhuanjian and his wife Ms. Zhao Yanli were arrested at home on October 1, 2020.
Ms. Yu Lisha was arrested on September 29, 2020. She is being held in the Harbin City No. 4 Detention Center.
Ms. Wang Zengling from Gezipu Village, Huangshanpu Town, Yishui County, and Ms. Liu Yexin from Buzi Village were reported to the police when they distributed Falun Gong materials in Cuijiayu Town on the morning of September 29, 2020. They were arrested by officers from the Cuijiayu Police Station. Their home was ransacked. It is not known where they are held.
Ms. Jiang Haiying in Qingshan District had been held in the local detention center for over two years. She returned home on December 1, 2016.
After returning home, she was repeatedly harassed at home by people from the local Political and Legal Affairs Committee, the Domestic Security Division, the Comprehensive Management Committee, the police station, the neighborhood committee and other departments. Sometimes she was harassed through phone calls.
Eight of those people went to Ms. Jiang’s home and harassed her on August 21, 2020. They told her to sign a guarantee statement renouncing Falun Gong. She refused.
Mr. Sheng Fuhua has been harassed by people from the Fengtai Town Political and Legal Affairs Committee in Ninghe County since September 2020.
He was harassed at home on October 4. He was pressed to write the guarantee statements. He was threatened that if he did not write he would be arrested.
Eight officers from the Fengtai Town Police Station went to his home and harassed him and attempted to arrest him on October 8.
Mr. Li Jintang, Ms. Shan Xiaoya, and He Shun were also harassed during this time.
Four or five people including the Party secretary of Songling Town went to Ms. Wang Qingru’s home and harassed her on July 10, 2020.
Hao Feng, a residential police officer, and Han, a police officer, went to her home and harassed her on August 11.
Guan Yutao, director of the police station, and Hao went to her home on the afternoon of September 29. They photographed her and demanded that she “transform,” and sign paperwork. She refused their demands.
Ms. Wang Ruimei and Ms. Cui Shiyun, both in their 70s, were reported to the police when they talked to people about Falun Gong on August 28, 2020. They were arrested by three officers from the Chengli Police Station. Their homes were ransacked, and their Falun Dafa books and photos of the founder of Falun Gong were confiscated. Both practitioners returned home that afternoon.
Ms. Xie in Yanjiang District was arrested about 10 days ago.
Ms. Sun Shuqin, Ms. Ma Cuixian, Ms. Zhao Shufeng, Ms. Liu Shuwen and Ms. Sun Huifen were constantly harassed recently by officers from the Ninghe Town Police Station, Ninghe District.
Mr. Liu Zhirong (80 years old) and Ms. Li Suzhen (in her 70s), both in Chongqing, Mr. Qin Youfu (81 years old) and Ms. Lei Xingmin (50 years old), both in the Banan District, were arrested by a lager group of unidentified people when they were studying Falun Gong teachings together at Ms. Li’s home on July 22, 2020.
Those people confiscated all of Ms. Li's Falun Dafa books and personal belongings from her home. They also confiscated a computer and other items from Ms. Lei’s home. The four practitioners were taken to the Shiyou Road Police Station in Yuzhong District. They were interrogated until 3 a.m.
Ms. Lei and Ms. Li were taken to the hospital on the morning of July 23. Both practitioners failed their exams. At 6 p.m. that day, Ms. Lei and Ms. Li were given a residence surveillance permit, and they returned home.
Ms. Peng Xia was held in the Huailai County Brainwashing Center for 20 days. After her family signed the guarantee statement, the brainwashing center sent her home for the Mid-Autumn Festival, which was on October 1, 2020. Five days later, she was taken to the Dahuangzhuang Brainwashing Center.
Ms. Jin Hong was arrested by Li Yubin, an officer from the Tiexi District Domestic Security Division, for handing out Falun Gong informational calendars on December 4, 2019. She was held in the Shenyang City Detention Center and sentenced to four years in prison in September 2020. She appealed to the Shenyang City Intermediate Court.