(Clearwisdom.net) In September and October 2007, police officers from the National Security Team of the Muling City Police Department; the Second Police Station of Muling City, Hexi Township Police Station; and the Xiachengzi Town Police Station arrested five practitioners and put them in the Muling City Detention Center. The five practitioners have been on a hunger strike to protest the detention and persecution and are now extremely weak. They are in dire condition.
Ms. Gao Yuqing and Ms. Zhang Xiulan are villagers from Erzhan Village, Hexi Township. They were arrested on September 25, 2007, by four police officers. The two women had been clarifying the truth about Falun Gong. The police were led by Li, a team leader from the Hexi Township Police Station.
Lu Yonghe, a practitioner from Xiachengzi Town, was arrested in late September by police from the National Security Team of the Muling City Police Department, led by Zhou Xinsheng.
Ms. Song Xiuyu, 67, is a retired school doctor of the Third Middle School in Muling City. On the evening of October 10, 2007, she was arrested by Cui Xingguo from the National Security Team of the Muling City Police Department, Sun Delong from the No. 2 Police Station, and another police officer.
Ms. Zheng, 78, was arrested on October 11, 2007, by policemen from the National Security Team and the No. 2 Police Station.
