[Minghui Net] To clarify the true facts regarding the persecution of Falun Dafa, fifteen practitioners from Langzhong went to appeal in Beijing in January 2000. They were intercepted by the police and staff from the Langzhong representative office in Beijing. All of these practitioners were subsequently sent back and detained for two weeks in criminal detention. Jiang Zemin's followers in the local municipal government, along with police, demanded that every practitioner's family pay 5,000 Yuan to 20,000 Yuan (The aveerage yearly income ranges from 2,000 to 6,000 Chinese Yuan depending on the area) to bail out the practitioner while waiting for the sentence. The police forced those families that did not have enough money to pay for the bail to obtain a loan. Within less than six months of bailing out all practitioners, the police confiscated all the bails/bonds by fabricating charges against practitioners one after another. In June of 2000, practitioner Peng Shuzhen contacted the city council about a reporter Chen Yong's false and slanderous report on Falun Gong, and asked the city council to clarify the fact. For this, Peng was arrested. Her husband Song Lihan asked the police to release his wife, but instead got arrested and detained. During an illegal search of the practitioner's house, the police Hu Tianjiong, Wangqi, He Guanghua and others took away all the cash and deposit certificates. The vicious police then forced the bank to approve them to withdraw 10,000 cash from the family's account. When he refused to sign his name on the receipt, Song Lihan was brutally beaten by police Liu Menghua. In October 2000, practitioners Zhao Xueying and Zhao Yingfang were illegally arrested and detained for two weeks. At same time, their families were forced to hand in "fines" ranging from 5,000 Yuan to 10,000 Yuan. Practitioners' houses were also illegally searched. In December 2000, practitioners Zhao Xueying, Ran Huande, Ren Yuqing, Liu Xingyu and Peng Shuzhen went to Beijing to appeal. They were arrested, sent back to their hometown and detained by the local police. The police demanded that each practitioner pay 5,000 Yuan as a fine. Those who paid the fine were not sentenced to a term in the labor camp. Those who didn't were all sent to a labor camp.
In January 2001, the police once again secretly and illegally arrested more than 20 practitioners. Using the excuse of holding brainwashing classes, the police forced every practitioner's work unit to pay 1,000 Yuan as "tuition". The work unit took this amount of money out from the practitioner's salary. On the second day of practitioner Li Yufang's arrest, the police asked her family to hand in 4,000 Yuan as bail. After practitioner Li was set free from the detention center, her work unit was forced to pay 1,000 Yuan in "tuition". Among those who were arrested, some of them had already stopped practicing Falun Gong, but they were sent to the detention center anyway and forced to pay 1,000 Yuan each in "tuition" in exchange for freedom. Practitioners Da Jianying and Du Zimin were clerks in the City Council and City Government. They were arrested and sentenced to one year in a labor camp. Both of them were forced to hand in 1,000 Yuan "tuition". The police even took 2,000 Yuan in cash from Du Zimin's salary from January through May to pay the bail of last year.
Policeman Hu Tianjiong said, "What we want precisely is to cut off your financial income so that you have no money for food and die from it!" Under police's vicious threats and brutal mistreatments, many practitioners' families were broken down. Some have nothing to live on after their monthly income of a little over 100 Yuan was taken away.
The above facts are evidence of those vicious people who abused the power and extorted money from people by any possible means. They are nothing more than a bunch of shameless robbers without any conscience.
