(Minghui.org) Five people in Sanhe City, Hebei Province, were harassed in late November 2023 for their faith in Falun Gong, a spiritual discipline that has been persecuted by the Chinese communist regime since 1999.

Staff members from the Sanhe City Residential Committee called the families of Ms. Zhao Shuying and Ms. Zhang Haifeng on November 21, 2023, asking for two photos of each woman to be added to the police database. It’s not clear if the practitioners’ families complied or not.

Dingshengdong Police Station officers went to Ms. Xie Baofeng’s home on November 23, 2023, and videotaped. They even entered a bedroom to look at her husband to see if he was indeed as she claimed—bedridden for over three years.

That same day, Ms. Liu Jing was also harassed by officers from the Dingshengdong Police Station. The police questioner her mother, who is 83 and blind and has difficulty sitting up, for half an hour.

Dingshengdong Police Station officers also harassed Ms. Li Junzhi’s daughter at her store, asking her if her mother, who is in her 80s, still practiced Falun Gong.

Cao Aibo, the current chief of Dingshengdong Police Station, also actively took part in the persecution when he worked at the Sanhe City Domestic Security Office between 2011 and 2020. He became an instructor at the Xinggongdong Police Station in 2021, before being appointed as the chief of Dingshengdong Police Station in recent months. He continues to persecute the practitioners in his jurisdiction, likely to gain political capital for further promotion.