(Clearwisdom.net) The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) members from the Guangming Street Administration Office in Luyang District, Hefei City, Anhui Province, has made every effort to persecute Falun Gong practitioners living in this area.

In 1994, Ms. Wu Jingqing had to suspend her high school education because of her poor health. In May 2005, she began to practice Falun Gong. After only three months, her health was completely restored, allowing her to return to school.

Since the CCP persecution of Falun Gong began in July 1999, she and her family have been monitored, relentlessly harassed, and arrested.

At the end of December 2002, Ms. Wu was arrested during the CCP's 16th Representative Conference. While the police were ransacking her home, a Falun Gong CD was added to the list of confiscated items to fabricate evidence to persecute her. Then Liu Kegui, Head of the Gongdatang Community in Guangming Street, signed off on the itemized confiscation list. Ms. Wu was detained at the local detention center for almost seven months, during which time she was severely tortured. She had blood in her urine. The guard said publicly, "When you are about to die, we'll send you to the hospital and even if you die five minutes later, it will have nothing to do with us."

When Ms. Wu's family heard this news, they found Mr. Xu, Head of Guangming Street Office, and told him that she was being tortured and that her previous health problems had returned. Xu said, "It's none of our business, it's our superior's call." In May 2003, Ms. Wu finally escaped from the detention center. At that time, she was extremely thin, and it took her several months of practicing the exercises and studying the Fa to recover. However, CCP members of the street office often told her neighbors about her recent situation, with intent to persecute her again.

In 2004, Ms. Wu found a job in the Hefei Coal Design Institute. Soon, the Guangming Street Office stepped up the persecution. One day in the summer of 2004, Street Office Head Xu and Community Head Liu went to her house and tried to force her to a brainwashing center. Because her family prevented them from taking her away, Xu yelled at them, "If you don't let us take her away, we have lots of other ways to get it done!" The next year, Liu Kegui, Chen Chuanming, and other members from the street office went to her workplace and took her to a brainwashing center in the Xinhua Hotel in the Luyang District.

They used the brainwashing center not only for trying force practitioners to give up their cultivation but also for extorting money from their families and workplaces. Even when they turned in money, though, the local authorities wouldn't let the practitioners go. The private companies wouldn't turn in any money, but the state-owned institutions had no choice but to pay up. So, after the Guangming Street Office had Ms. Wu arrested, they thought they had found a source of revenue. However, they didn't get a penny. Not only that, they had to pay her brainwashing fee. As a result, the Guangming Street Office sent her to the Xinghua Street Office, saying that her workplace was located on Xinghua Street. In 2007, Wu Jingqing was dismissed from her job because of the constant harassment by the local authorities.

When members of the Guangming Street Office heard that Ms. Wu had lost her job, they harassed her even more frequently. They threatened her parents and inquired everywhere about her new place of employment. During the Olympics, Liu Kegui and others monitored Ms. Wu everyday. In June 2009, members of the Guangming Street Office continually threatened her parents and tried to force her to give up Falun Gong. They claimed, "If we can't make you stop, we will let the legal department handle it.

Ms. Guo Qiong, in her 30s, was employed by the Hefei Construction Bank. Before practicing Falun Gong, she had severe nerve function problems and suffered from insomnia. Soon after taking up the practice, her body rapidly healed. After the CCP persecution of Falun Gong began in July 1999, Ms. Guo was arrested many times and detained at the local detention center, brainwashing center, and mental hospital. At one point she was forced to leave home and go from place to place to avoid further persecution. Ms. Guo was once arrested and sent to the brainwashing center by members of the Guangming Street Office, and she was fired from her job. She couldn't escape harassment even when she moved to another place.

In 2004, Zheng Rongchun, the Party Head of the Guangming Street Office, along with a member of the community office, went to the Daximen Branch of the Construction Bank and took MS. Guo away. They lied to her, saying that they just wanted her for a meeting. When she refused to go, Liu and his companion dragged her into a small car parked by the side of the road and drove her directly to the brainwashing center in the Xinhua Hotel.

Ms. Guo was detained for one month at the brainwashing center. At that time, her father was suffering from cancer and her daughter was only a year old. Her husband had to take care of their child, care for her father, and work at the same time. After Ms. Guo got out of the brainwashing center, the local authorities still harassed her constantly, which led her to lose her job.

Several other practitioners were persecuted by the Guangming Street Office, including elderly Ms. Wang Xifeng, who lives close to the Provincial Education Institution. She is frequently harassed, even if she is looking after her seriously ill husband.

Persons at the Guangming Street Office responsible for the above incidents of persecution:
Head Zhang Rongchun: 86-551-2824311
Office head Zhu Xiangxin: 86-551-2835578
Party Secretary of the Community Liu Kexiang: 86-551-3550061
Deputy Secretary of the Community Chen Chuanming
Head of the Street Justice Center Chen Hui: 86-13965066868(Cell)