(Clearwisdom.net) Practitioners Gao Dongdong and Liu Xinli are a couple from Zhongbailou Village, Pingshan Town of Pingshan County, Hebei Province. On the morning of July 21, 2008, just before the Beijing Summer Olympic Games, seven or eight people from the Pingshan County 610 Office, the Pingshan Town government and the radio and TV broadcasting bureau, broke into Ms. Liu Xinli's home. They confiscated a satellite receiver, Dafa books and other personal belongings. Ms. Liu was arrested and sent to the Pingshan County Detention Center. On August 11, 2008, she was sentenced to one and a half years of forced labor and taken to the Zhijiazhuang Forced Labor Camp.
The couple, Gao Dongdong and Liu Xinli, started to practice Falun Gong in the winter of 1997. After the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) started to persecute Falun Gong on July 20, 1999, this couple and other fellow practitioners wanted to appeal for Falun Gong in Beijing. They rode their bikes to Beijing but were intercepted at Gaobeidian by local police officers. The next day, they were sent back to the Pingshan County Police Department. The police took away the money they carried with them and Ms. Liu's bike was confiscated as well. After the police extorted 300 yuan from their family members, the couple was released.
On January 11, 2000, Gao Dongdong, Liu Xinli and several other practitioners once again went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong. They arrived at Tiananmen Square but were arrested and detained at the Tiananmen Police Station. Later, they were taken back at midnight by three policemen from the Pingshan Police Department, including Xiao Shuilong. They were handcuffed to the stairs for five hours. The next day, Wang Qengting, the head of the county 610 Office, interrogated the couple. Their money was taken away, and they were sent to the county detention center. They were released after having 4000 yuan extorted from them.
On August 3, 2001, Liu Xinli and two other practitioners went to distribute truth-clarifying materials in the Jingziyu Village of Beije Township. They were reported to the police and thus arrested. Later, police officers Feng Jingfang and Xiao Shuilong from the county police department sent Liu Xinli to a brainwashing center for interrogation. They handcuffed her to a tree, both arms stretched around the tree, for three days and nights. Later, she was sent to the county detention center. Liu Xinli was sentenced to four years in jail and detained in the No.2 Hebei Province Prison. She was released in August 2005.
May 16, 2009
