The Facts of the Persecution of Falun Gong -- September 29, 2007

Issued by Clearwisdom Net

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Three Falun Gong Practitioners from Same Family are Unlawfully Detained
 

On August 11, 2007, Ms. Yuan Dongnan Falun Gong practitioner from Changde City, Hunan Province was illegally arrested by Chenzhou City Police and is currently illegally detained in the 1st Detention Center of Changde.

Just one month later, on September 11, 2007, her husband practitioner Liu Xianglin was illegally arrested in Changsha City and his whereabouts are currently unknown.

Ms. Yuan Dongnan is in her 30s. She started to practice Falun Gong in 1999. On November 6, 2002, she was illegally arrested by Changde policemen and not long after this she was able to get out of the prison. After this, she became homeless in order to avoid being illegally arrested at home and could not go back home.

On August 11, 2007, Yuan Dongnan was illegally arrested by the police from Changde and Chenzhou nearby the house that she leased in Chenzhou City, Hunan Province. Her personal stuff, the computer and the printer were taken away by the policemen. Yuan Dongnan was sent to Changde from Chenzhou and secretly detained in the 1st Detention Center of Changde. During the detention period, her family was looking for her everywhere. Her family finally received notice of the arrest some 3 weeks later.

According to the news from the detention center, Yuan Dongnan hadn't cooperated with any "interrogation or questioning" from the beginning to the end and was very firm. Yuan Dongnan has been seriously persecuted because she did not give up her faith.

Just a month after Yuan Dongnan was illegally arrested, on the night of September 11, her husband, a Falun Gong practitioner named Liu Xinglin was surrounded and attacked by three plainclothes policemen in a hospital in Changsha city and was thrust into a car with a plate of Yue B(translator's note: Yue means Guandong province). Nobody knows where he is currently at.

Yuan Dongnan's mom, 58 year old Song Zhezi, is a retired female employee from the Eastern suburb supply and sale company. Because she did not give up practicing Falun Gong, she had been illegally detained in Changde City Detention Center and Baimalong Labor Camp in Zhuzhou City. She is currently detained in Hunan Province Women's Prison and has been seriously tortured there. Her privately owned shop was destroyed and her bank savings are frozen.