The Facts of the Persecution of Falun Gong -- February 10, 2008

Issued by Clearwisdom Net

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The police in Jiamusi City abducted Ms Qiu Yuxia and her daughter Ma Duo. Due to Ms Qiu's health condition, the police released her after extort money from her family, but the 610 Office still jailed Ma Duo and attempted to send her in forced labor camp.

Ms. Qiu Yuxia and Daughter Ma Duo Arrested by 610 Office Agents in Jiamusi City
 

At 6:50 a.m. on December 13, 2007, Teng Yan, deputy chief of Changhong Police Station, Jiamusi City, Heilongjiang Province, along with two police officers broke into the home of Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Qiu Yuxia.

They arrested Ms. Qiu Yuxia, and took away her home computer, printer, CD writer, VCD player, 2000 yuan in cash, a bank deposit book and deposit receipts (amounting to 30,000 yuan), her ID card and salary deposit card. At around 10:00 a.m. that morning, Qiu Yuxia's daughter Ma Duo was arrested while at work at China Mobile Communication Company. At 3 o'clock that afternoon, both women were sent to the detention center.

This is what happened when their family tried to find them:

On the morning of December 18, 2007, Qiu Yuxia's family went to Jiamusi City Police Department. A female police officer received them. She told them to go to the work unit that had made the arrest, Changhong Police Station. When they arrived there, they were told to report to the main station, and had to go back again.

On December 29, the family was contacted and told to go to Changhong Police Station. The detention center had performed a physical examination of Qiu Yuxia and found her blood pressure to be very high. They were worried that her condition would soon be critical, and so ordered the family to pay 20,000 yuan for her release. If they paid the full amount asked, she would supposedly be released at 3 p.m., and if they only paid 10,000 yuan, she would not be released until 6:00 p.m. No matter what, their whole purpose was to extort money for her release. Negotiations lasted all night, until midday the next day, when they finally accepted 1,000 yuan.

On January 4, 2008, the family again went to the police station to ask for the property confiscated by the police. After a long argument the police finally returned some of the items including the deposit book, VCD player, ID card and salary card.

The next morning, Ma Duo's family went to the suburb police branch to ask about her, and told them that she had been detained for over 20 days. They told the police that it is not wrong to be a good person and she should not be detained in jail. Director Wang told her family, "Go to the Procuratorate or find an attorney for her." One person at the station said Ma Duo was arrested because she was "Falun Gong." On January 14, the family was told by an insider that the 610 Office planned to issue heavy sentences to all detained Falun Gong practitioners. Ma Duo met the requirements and they were planning to arrest Qiu Yuxia again.

At 9:00 a.m. on January 21, 2008, a male relative of Ma Duo went to ask about her at the 610 Office of Jiamusi City Government. The office was locked and he had to wait outside for a hour. When an official by the name of Yin came, he asked for Liu Yan, the director of the 610 Office. He told the official that whenever he asked at the police station about Ma Duo, he was told to go to the 610 Office, because they were the ones who determined what happened to her. However, Yin insisted he didn't know anything about Ma Duo. According to him, when cases involved Falun Gong practitioners, the police and procuratorate directly handled things whether it was jail sentencing or sending them to a forced labor camp. The relative asked him: "What is your 610 Office in charge of then?" but Yin avoided the question.