(Minghui.org) In the past several months, Weifang City Police Department has been monitoring Falun Gong practitioners suspected of being involved in installing satellites that receive New Tang Dynasty TV programming. [Note: This US-based TV network broadcasts uncensored news exposing the Communist regime's human rights abuses.] Mr. Li Deshan from Gaomi City, Shandong Province, was one of the practitioners they arrested and interrogated.
On August 15, 2013, Mr. Li received a phone call from a Gaomi City Domestic Security Division officer, Sun Lizhong, asking him to go to the Domestic Security Division. Mr. Li refused, telling the officer that it was too hot to go out.
At noon that day four police officers broke into his home and arrested him. They confiscated six computers, a printer, and twenty picture frames.
The police held Mr. Li in a basement of the Weifang Police Department and interrogated him. He was shown videos they had taken of him while he was under surveillance. He was also shown statements that they had obtained from other people who knew him. They accused him of participating in Falun Gong activities and installing satellite dishes that receive New Tang Dynasty Television programming, although these actions are not actually against the law.
He was then taken to the Weifang City Detention Center.
For over six months, the Weifang City Police Department has been monitoring several practitioners. They followed them by tracking them through their cell phones. They also listened to their cell phone conversations. When the practitioners held meetings the police photographed and took videos of them. Then they were arrested and their homes were ransacked.
The statements from the practitioners' that had been interrogated were used to threaten other practitioners to obtain more information from them.
Mr. Li refused to betray other practitioners, and maintained that he had committed no crime. This led to his continued detainment at the Weifang Detention Center.
The Weifang Detention Center where Mr. Li was held
The building holding Mr. Li
