(Minghui.org) It has been 22 years since the Chinese Communist Party started the persecution of Falun Gong and the former head of the regime at that time, Jiang Zemin (former head of the communist party), ordered that “Falun Gong be eliminated in three months.” Practitioners have worked tirelessly ever since to share the goodness of Falun Gong and raise awareness of the persecution, including to those who persecute them.
Facing Harassment with Righteous Thoughts
A practitioner in Wuhan City, Hubei Province, was reading a Falun Gong book at home on July 27, 2021, when several police officers showed up at her door. When she refused to open up, they called a locksmith and broke in. All of her Falun Gong books were confiscated. The officers also attempted to take the photo of Falun Gong’s founder but relented when the practitioner firmly protested.
She was taken to the Liyuan Police Station, where the officers started to slander Falun Gong. To stop them, the practitioner stood up and looked into one officer’s eyes. He soon turned around and left. Another one came in but then left and the room was quiet.
When the police told her to sign the interrogation record, she refused to comply, even when they threatened to submit her case to the procuratorate. She was released and taken home that evening.
“I Won’t Sign It—for Your Sake”
Ms. Liu Chunshen, in her 70s, is retired from the Xiaanning City Commercial Bank in Hubei Province. Seven plainclothes officers harassed her at home on August 20, 2021.
One of them asked her, “Do you still practice Falun Gong? Have you installed satellite TV? Come with us to the entrance of your residential compound.”
Ms. Liu refused to leave. It was clear to her that they were planning to arrest her.
The officers then put Ms. Liu and her husband into different rooms and asked them questions.
During the interrogation, Ms. Liu’s husband had a heart attack, but the police still ordered him to sign a document they handed him. Ms. Liu rushed into the room and said to her husband, “Do not sign anything you haven’t read.”
The officers who interrogated Ms. Liu also ordered her to sign some documents. She said, “I can’t sign this—for your sake. It would be evidence that you persecuted me.” They didn’t say anything and left.
“Don’t Follow in the Footsteps of Those Executed by the Communist Party”
Zhang Wei and Jia Huan from the residential committee visited Ms. Gao Suling of Xi’an City, Shaanxi Province, on August 23, 2021. They asked her if she was still practicing Falun Gong and then said, “If you sign a form to renounce it, we will remove your name from the blacklist and never bother you again.”
Ms. Gao told them the facts about Falun Gong and that many officers who served the Party during the Cultural Revolution were executed by the Party itself after the campaign ended. She urged Wei and Jia not to follow in their footsteps. They left without saying anything.
“We Will Not Comply Even if You Offer Us Gold”
Ms. Chen Guimei and her husband from Jucheng Town, Pingding County, Shanxi Province, were harassed several times in September and ordered to renounce Falun Gong.
On September 15, 2021, when the town government officials couldn’t find Ms. Chen’s husband by phone, they went to where he worked and ordered him to sign documents slandering Falun Gong and to give up his faith. He refused to comply.
Four days later, the chief and associate chief of the township police department, the deputy director of the county judicial bureau, and the deputy mayor of Jucheng Town went to Ms. Chen’s home and attempted to take her and her husband to a brainwashing center hosted in a hotel. They promised them that they would not only get to stay in the hotel for free and get free food, but they would also get paid.
The husband refused, saying, “We will not go even if you offer us gold.”
At 8 p.m. that evening, village secretary Li showed up and tried to persuade the couple to go to the brainwashing center. He said, “The government does not allow anyone to practice Falun Gong. We have no choice—it’s our job. You just have to go through the formality.” Ms. Chen firmly refused to comply.
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