(Minghui.org) This report presents recent cases of Falun Gong practitioners targeted for their faith in March and April 2024.
More than twenty plainclothes officers and community workers broke into Ms. Xu Rongfang’s home in the Nan’an District at noon on March 6 and arrested her and her eight guests, including Ms. Zhang Xiaorong, Mr. Xia Jiesheng, Ms. Li Shuyu, Ms. Jiang Zhongbi, Ms. Sun Lan, Mr. Shi Jihuai, Mr. Long Youliang, and Ms. Tan Yingyue.
The police did not show their IDs or produce a search warrant. They also refused to reveal their names. They confiscated Ms. Xu’s numerous Falun Gong books, three laptops, some Falun Gong informational materials, and more than 10,000 yuan imprinted with Falun Gong messages (one way practitioners in China raise awareness of the persecution).
Around 2 p.m. that day, the arresting officers turned over the eight guests (all of them Falun Gong practitioners) to the police stations in charge of their residential areas. The eight practitioners also had their homes raided, and their Falun Gong books and other valuables were confiscated. The police did not produce lists of the confiscated items as required by law.
All nine practitioners, eight of them in their 60s, were later released. Ms. Xu was put under house arrest for six months. The other practitioners faced constant harassment from the police after they were released.
Multiple practitioners in Weibin District, Baoji City were arrested on April 11, by officers from the Dongfeng Road Police Station in Jintai District, the Weibin District Domestic Security Division, and local community workers. They monitored the targeted practitioners for months before making the arrests.
Around 4 p.m. on April 11, a group of agents broke into Ms. Li Cuifang’s home and shouted that they were there to arrest 60-year-old Ms. Wang Guoyan, another practitioner whom they had monitored for a long time.
Ms. Wang was not at Ms. Li’s home and the police confiscated the latter’s laptop, printer, more than fifty Falun Gong books, a variety of Falun Gong informational materials, and over 2,000 yuan in banknotes printed with Falun Gong messages (a way practitioners in China raise awareness of the persecution).
The police did not arrest Ms. Li due to her poor health but summoned her son to sign her bail release form. Afterwards, the police went to 64-year-old Ms. Chai Xiufang’s home around 6 p.m. They confiscated her two laptops, Falun Gong books and cash. Her guests, including Ms. Liu Linzhi, 65, Ms. Xiao Bing, 76, the aforementioned Ms. Wang, and another elderly woman whose name was unknown.
Ms. Zhao Hongxing was arrested at home at around 9 p.m. on April 11. Five other practitioners, including a female practitioner, around 70 and from Guo Town, Baoji City, were also seized by police that day.
On April 17, the authorities in Cangzhou City and its subordinate Cang County launched a mass arrest of local practitioners:
More than 8 practitioners in the Yunhe District – Mr. Wang Jiasheng, Ms. Li Li, Ms. Wang Jiru, Ms. Wang Chaoying, Ms. Zhao (first name unknown), Ms. Li Shumei, Mr. Ge Hexian and his wife Ms. Liu Lili, as well as some practitioners whose names were unknown.
One practitioner in Xinhua District – Ms. Shi Rui was seized at work and taken back home for a raid.
Six practitioners in Cang County – Ms. Ma Fengrong from Guyue’an Village, Ms. Jin Yue from Chenyu Village, one married couple in Zhaoying Village (Mr. Ma Zhongling and Ms. Xiao Shurong), another married couple in Daduozhuang Village (Mr. Zhang Bingfeng and his wife).
Ms. Da Wenjun from Lyusi Village, Cang County had her home searched many times.
More than ten people from the Heshui Police Station and street committee in Xingning City, Guangdong Province broke into a local married couple’s apartment around 9 a.m. on April 19. The police also locked the entrance to the apartment building and did not allow anyone in during the three-hour-long raid of Mr. Li Zhuozhong’s and Ms. Liao Yuanqun’s home and the apartment building. It is unclear where the couple are being held.