(Minghui.org) At least 46 Falun Gong practitioners in Changchun City, Jilin Province were arrested between mid-April and mid-May 2024. April 19 and May 10 saw the most arrests, with 16 on each day.
According to insiders, the mass arrests were orchestrated by the Jilin Province Political and Legal Affairs Committee (PLAC) and its subordinate Changchun City PLAC and 610 Office. The PLAC and 610 Office are both extrajudicial agencies tasked with overseeing the persecution of Falun Gong. Most of the arrests were carried out by the Erdao District Police Department and its subordinate police stations. A few remaining arrests were conducted by police agencies in Lyuyuan District and Nongan County.
This latest round of persecution of practitioners in Changchun came ahead of the 25th anniversary of Falun Gong practitioners’ peaceful appeal outside the state council’s appeals office in Beijing on April 25, 1999. The communist regime has been known for intensifying its persecution of Falun Gong practitioners around sensitive dates.
Out of the 46 arrested practitioners, 28 remain in custody at the time of writing. The remaining 18 practitioners were released after various lengths of detention. Some were released on the day of their arrests, while others were held for days or weeks before being released.
Two other local practitioners were also targeted but not arrested. Ms. Zhang was sick when the police came so they left without taking her away. Ms. Ge Mingbo was not in when officers from a police station under the jurisdiction of the Erdao District Police Department broke into her home on April 19, 2024. They searched her house and garage and told her husband that they had been monitoring her for about five days. They said they were also tasked with helping another group of officers to arrest other practitioners after raiding Ms. Ge’s home.
This PDF file lists information about the 46 arrested practitioners, including when they were arrested, by which agency, and their current case status and detention location (if known). The police stations without reference to any jurisdiction are all in Erdao District.
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