(Minghui.org) Today's news from China includes incidents of persecution that took place in 18 cities or counties in 9 provinces, where at least 49 practitioners were recently persecuted for their belief.

1. [Huludao City, Liaoning Province] Mr. Zhang Chongyue Passes Away Due to Persecution
2. [Wuwei City, Gansu Province] Ms. Guo Yulian Passes Away Due to Persecution
3. [Anqiu City, Shandong Province] Ms. Bai Yuyun Harassed
4. [Maoming City, Guangdong Province] Three Practitioners Harassed
5. [Lanzhou City, Gansu Province] Ms. Cui Chengxiang’s Family Frequently Harassed
6. [Tangshan City, Hebei Province] Ms. Zhang Xiuyun and Mr. Zhang Guochen Harassed
7. [Qixia City, Shandong Province] Ms. Qiao Ruirong’s Home Ransacked
8. [Qingdao City, Shandong Province] Ms. Liu Xia and Ms. Xu Xiuyun Harassed
9. [Guangshui City, Hubei Province] Ms. Huang Yanling Detained
10. [Yichang City, Hubei Province] Ms. Chen Facui Held in Detention Center
11. [Beijing] Four Practitioners Officially Arrested
12. [Changchun City, Jilin Province] Ms. Yu Aili Held in Custody
13. [Fushun City, Liaoning Province] Ms. Han Yufeng Placed in Criminal Detention
14. [Daqing City, Heilongjiang Province] Ms. Song Liqin Sentenced to Prison
15. [Fuxin City, Liaoning Province] Seven Practitioners Arrested
16. [Nanchong City, Sichuan Province] Ms. Huang Zhiping Faces Trial
17. [Shaoguan City, Guangdong Province] Ms. Lin Caimei Arrested
18. [Tianjin] 18 Practitioners Harassed

1. [Huludao City, Liaoning Province] Mr. Zhang Chongyue Passes Away Due to Persecution

Mr. Zhang Chongyue from Xingcheng City passed away on August 7, 2020. He was 40 years old.

Mr. Zhang was tried secretly by the Suizhong County 610 Office and the Suizhong County Court on May 12 and 13, 2008. He was sentenced to 10 years in prison. Two years after returning home in 2018, he passed away. He is survived by his wife, two daughters, and a ninety-year-old mother.

2. [Wuwei City, Gansu Province] Ms. Guo Yulian Passes Away Due to Persecution

Ms. Guo Yulian, 80, from Xuxin Village, Shuangcheng Town, Liangzhou District, passed away on August 22, 2020.

Since the CCP started to persecute Falun Gong in 1999, Ms. Guo was sentenced twice to prison. Her prison terms added up to nearly ten years. She was also detained many times.

Ms. Guo was sentenced to one year in prison, to be served outside prison in January 2020. Since then the judicial department and her town’s judicial office personnel repeatedly harassed and intimidated her. She passed away on August 22.

3. [Anqiu City, Shandong Province] Ms. Bai Yuyun Harassed

Ms. Bai Yuyun was harassed at home several times by Huiqu Town Judicial Office personnel in April 2020.

The Domestic Security Division’s 610 Office repeatedly called her and harassed her in May, 2020. They told her to sign paperwork, and threatened her that she would be detained if she did not sign. Ms. Bai refused to cooperate with any of their demands.

4. [Maoming City, Guangdong Province] Three Practitioners Harassed

Police officers went to Ms. Chen Shaoqing’s home in Meihua Town and harassed her at the end of August 2020. They took down a calligraphy writing from the wall. They told her to sign paperwork, but she refused.

Ms. Chen Lianqiong received a phone call from the director of the local neighborhood committee around August 20, 2020. She was told to go to the neighborhood committee to sign paperwork, but she did not sign.

Mr. Liang Yuansheng received a phone call from the local neighborhood committee at the end of August 2020. He was told to go to the neighborhood committee to sign paperwork, but he did not sign. Four or five people from the neighborhood committee went to his hometown in Gaozhou City countryside around August 26 and demanded that he sign paperwork, but he refused.

5. [Lanzhou City, Gansu Province] Ms. Cui Chengxiang’s Family Frequently Harassed

Recently, a group of people from the local neighborhood committee harassed Ms. Cui Chengxiang, her son, and daughter-in-law in Anning District from time to time. This disrupted their lives and caused the family and their neighbors anxiety.

The series of harassment are as follows:Seven people came to her home at around 2:30 p.m. on August 21.Four or five people came to her home on August 24.Four or five people came to her home and stayed from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. on August 25.Four or five people came to her home and stayed from 9:40 p.m. to 12 a.m. on August 27.Ms. Cui’s son was forced to go to the neighborhood committee and the No. 29 Residential Management Office.Four people came to their home and stayed from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. on August 29.Four people (three women and a man) came to their home and stayed from 8 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. on August 31.

Every time a group of people knocked and pounded on their door. They wanted to freeze her bank account and impound her private property. They kept pressuring her to sign paperwork. They contacted her son around the clock. They have also been constantly monitoring her.

6. [Tangshan City, Hebei Province] Ms. Zhang Xiuyun and Mr. Zhang Guochen Harassed

Ms. Zhang Xiuyun and Mr. Zhang Guochen from Liyuan Town, Kaiping District, were harassed respectively by people who claimed to be from the Liyuan Town government on August 28, 2020.

Using the pretense of not adversely impacting the future of their children and their family members, these people try to force practitioners to sign documents that were prepared in advance to quit practicing Falun Gong.

7. [Qixia City, Shandong Province] Ms. Qiao Ruirong’s Home Ransacked

Sun Baoquan and Wang Renhua, officers from the Cuiping Police Station, broke into Ms. Qiao Ruirong’s home and ransacked the place on August 31, 2020. They confiscated all Falun Dafa books and photos of the founder of Falun Gong.

8. [Qingdao City, Shandong Province] Ms. Liu Xia and Ms. Xu Xiuyun Harassed

Five or six officers from the Changjiang Road Police Station, Development Zone, and Chen Yunzhang, director of security of Wutaishan Road Neighborhood Committee, went to the homes of Ms. Liu Xia and Ms. Xu Xiuyun on August 27, 2020. They asked the two practitioners if they were still practicing Falun Gong. Both practitioners answered, “Yes!”

An officer threatened Ms. Xu, “If you continue to practice, you will be taken to a forced labor camp.”

9. [Guangshui City, Hubei Province] Ms. Huang Yanling Detained

Ms. Huang Yanling was reported to the police when she talked to people about Falun Gong in the Development Zone on August 25, 2020. She was arrested by officers from the Development Zone Police Department. She was held in custody for four hours at the police department. Her home was ransacked.

On August 31, she was again arrested and taken to the Guangshui City Detention Center by the police.

10. [Yichang City, Hubei Province] Ms. Chen Facui Held in Detention Center

Ms. Chen Facui, retired employee of Yiling Hospital, Yiling District, was arrested on August 25, 2020. She is being held in the Wujiagang Detention Center.

11. [Beijing] Four Practitioners Officially Arrested

Mr. Zheng Yujie, Ms. Zheng Yanmei, Mr. Zhang Renfei, and Ms. Deng Jing from the Haidian District were arrested on July 19, 2020. They were interrogated by the Beixinqiao Police Station, the Hepingli Police Station, and the Criminal Police Team of Dongcheng District.

They were physically examined and held in the Dongcheng District Detention Center. They were officially arrested. The Legal Affairs Division of Dongcheng District Police Department and Dongcheng District Procuratorate were in charge of their cases.

12. [Changchun City, Jilin Province] Ms. Yu Aili Held in Custody

Ms. Yu Aili was held in the Changchun City No. 4 Detention Center.

Before she practiced Falun Gong, she had many illnesses, including a severe kidney illness, and had to stay home. After she began practicing, all her illnesses were resolved. She is now held in custody and unable to practice for a long time; symptoms of her previous illnesses resurfaced.

13. [Fushun City, Liaoning Province] Ms. Han Yufeng Placed in Criminal Detention

Ms. Han Yufeng from Yongling Town, Xinbin County, was arrested by Wang Yu, director of the Yongling Police Station, when she distributed Falun Gong materials on August 26, 2020. She was reported to the Domestic Security Division. She was placed in criminal detention.

14. [Daqing City, Heilongjiang Province] Ms. Song Liqin Sentenced to Prison

Ms. Song Liqin was tried by the High-tech Development Zone Court on July 28, 2020. She was sentenced to three years in prison.

15. [Fuxin City, Liaoning Province] Seven Practitioners Arrested

Ms. Zhao Cairong, Ms. Qi Yurong, Mr. Sun Yulin, his daughter Mr. Sun Yue, Ms. Zhang Yujie, her husband Mr. Liu, and their daughter Ms. Liu Jia in Fuxin Mongol Autonomous County were arrested on August 14 or 15, 2020.

16. [Nanchong City, Sichuan Province] Ms. Huang Zhiping Faces Trial

Ms. Huang Zhiping will be tried by the Gaoping District Court on the morning of September 3, 2020.

17. [Shaoguan City, Guangdong Province] Ms. Lin Caimei Arrested

Ms. Lin Caimei from Qujiang District was arrested by the Qujiang District Domestic Security officers on her way to a farmers market on the morning of August 23, 2020. She is being held in the Huanggang Detention Center. Her home was ransacked by the local Domestic Security officers, and her Falun Dafa books and printed materials were confiscated.

18. [Tianjin] 18 Practitioners Harassed

Since the Political and Legal Affairs Committee of the Communist Party of China launched the “zero-out campaign” (a concerted effort to force each practitioner on the government's “blacklists” to renounce Falun Gong) across the country, practitioners in various townships in Ninghe District were harassed by their brigade, neighborhood committee, and police station.

Practitioners were forced or induced to sign the guarantee statements renouncing Falun Gong.

The authorities threatened practitioners and their family members that if they did not sign, they would be dismissed from work, or it would adversely impact the education and employment of their children or grandchildren.

Since August 2020, those known to have been harassed include Ms. Liu Qiufang, Ms. Guan Xiuwen, Ms. Yue Junju, Ms. Zhao Huanru, Ms. Liu Juan, Ms. Yue Jingfeng, Ms. Feng Guomin, Ms. Feng Guoxiang, Mr. Wang Zhishuang, Ms. Yang Jinhua, Ms. Yu Wenxiu, Mr. Wang Shoufang, Ms. Ding Xiuzhen, Ms. Feng Jingling, Ms. Huang Yi, Ms. Yang Guirong, Mr. Zhai Xinhao and his mother-in-law.