(Minghui.org) At least nine residents in Yingcheng City, Hubei Province, have been harassed or arrested since June 2025 for exposing the Chinese Communist Party’s ongoing persecution of their shared faith, Falun Gong. The police acknowledged that they monitored the practitioners for some time before the harassment and arrest episodes.
Ms. Hu Suping just returned home at noon on June 10, 2025, when seven officers from the Silipeng Police Station, who were staked outside, seized her. They said that their surveillance cameras recorded her putting up self-adhesive stickers which had information about Falun Gong.
Agents from the Yingcheng City Domestic Security Office interrogated Ms. Hu at the police station. They threatened to establish a case against her and ordered her to sign a pre-prepared statement. She refused to comply and was released two hours later. The Silipeng Police Station officers resumed monitoring and shadowing her the next day.
In November 2025, officers from the Chengzhong Police Station spotted Ms. Li Juxiang, 77, and three other local practitioners (names unknown) in their surveillance cameras and raided the four practitioners’ homes. They did not arrest Ms. Li but put the other three at different detention facilities. To avoid being arrested, Ms. Li went into hiding and the police have been searching for her.
In January 2026, four practitioners were recorded talking to people about Falun Gong or distributing Falun Gong materials. Officers from the Chengzhong Police station broke into the home of Ms. Zhou Huanzhen, 77, on January 5, and confiscated a portrait of Falun Gong’s founder. They threatened her and ordered her to not go out again or she would face “consequences.” Three days later, officers from the same police station raided Ms. Zhou Yuxi’s home and confiscated her computer and other valuables. The police are still searching for the other two practitioners (names unknown) they saw in the surveillance videos.
Ms. Zhou Yuxi was put under close surveillance again starting on February 1, 2026. The Chengzhong Police Station dispatched agents to shadow her whenever she went out to do grocery shopping or run errands.