(Minghui.org) Today's news from China includes incidents of persecution that took place in 25 cities or counties in 11 provinces, where at least 36 practitioners were recently persecuted for their belief.

1. [Jinzhou City, Liaoning Province] Mr. Zhou Yonglin and Wife Ms. Sun Jiping Taken to Prison
2. [Changchun City, Jilin Province] Ms. Jing Fengwei Officially Arrested
3. [Hefei City, Anhui Province] Ms. Li Yuelan Held in Detention Center
4. [Baoding City, Hebei Province] Ms. Zhao Hongyan and Ms. Li Ronghua Held in Detention Center
5. [Daqing City, Heilongjiang Province] Five Practitioners Released on Bail
6. [Dalian City, Liaoning Province] Ms. Lei Huixin Held in Custody for One Month
7. [Huludao City, Liaoning Province] Cases against Ms. Gao Hua and Mr. Wang Yandong Turned Over to Procuratorate
8. [Ziyang City, Sichuan Province] Ms. Chen Zufang and Ms. Yang Benxiu Arrested
9. [Jilin City, Jilin Province] Ms. Zhan Fengying and Ms. Zhao Yuqin Harassed
10. [Yanji City, Jilin Province] Mr. Li Huzhe Taken to Brainwashing Center
11. [Huzhu County, Qinghai Province] Ms. Liu Yongxiu Held in Detention Center for Over 30 Days
12. [Chengdu City, Sichuan Province] Ms. Lin Suliang Held in Detention Center
13. [Benxi City, Liaoning Province] Mr. Wu Chengjun Tried
14. [Linshui County, Sichuan Province] Ms. Liu Guihua Harassed
15. [Pengzhou City, Sichuan Province] Ms. Lei Yunqiong Arrested
16. [Handan City, Hebei Province] Case against Mr. Zhang Junjiang Turned Over to Procuratorate
17. [Beijing] Mr. Zhang Chengguo Arrested
18. [Chaoyang City, Liaoning Province] Ms. Meng Hongmei Detained
19. [Beijing] Ms. Gong Ruiping Held in Detention Center
20. [Laizhou City, Shanghai Province] Practitioner Zhan Arrested
21. [Xichang City, Sichuan Province] Political and Legal Affairs Committee Set Up Brainwashing Center to Persecute Practitioners
22. [Yantai City, Shandong Province] Mr. Yu Haiyong and Wife Ms. Wang Xuemei Tried
23. [Suining City, Sichuan Province] Several Practitioners Harassed
24. [Lingyuan City, Liaoning Province] Mr. Jia Qinggui and Wife Xiao Lin Arrested
25. [Lanzhou City, Gansu Province] Mr. Guan Ziping Harassed Continuously
26. [Xinxiang City, Henan Province] Mr. Lou Gan Harassed

1. [Jinzhou City, Liaoning Province] Mr. Zhou Yonglin and Wife Ms. Sun Jiping Taken to Prison

Mr. Zhou Yonglin, 69, from Linghai City, was taken to the Panjin Prison on July 14, 2021. The Jinzhou Women’s Detention Center and the Linghai Court ignored his wife Ms. Sun Jiping’s life-threatening condition. They took her to the Shenyang Women’s Prison, which refused to admit her.

The couple was arrested on January 20, 2021, for talking to people about Falun Gong. In the detention center, Ms. Sun’s health quickly deteriorated and her life was in danger. She was taken to the Jinzhou Central Hospital for blood transfusion.

The couple was tried via video link by the Linghai City Court on March 15, 2021. On March 22, the court refused to deliver copies of the verdicts. Trial judge Xu Bing, notified the couple’s family that their cases were sent to the Jinzhou Intermediate Court.

On March 26, the Jinzhou City Intermediate Court upheld the Linghai City Court’s judgments that Mr. Zhou and Ms. Sun were each sentenced to five years in prison, and each fined 10,000 yuan.

After the couple was sentenced, the Social Security Bureau suspended their pensions in April.

2. [Changchun City, Jilin Province] Ms. Jing Fengwei Officially Arrested

Ms. Jing Fengwei was arrested by officers from the Jincheng Police Department in the Changchun Automobile Industry Development Zone on July 15, 2021. She was officially placed under arrest on July 26. She is being held in the Changliu Detention Center in Tonghua City.

3. [Hefei City, Anhui Province] Ms. Li Yuelan Held in Detention Center

Ms. Li Yuelan was arrested and her home was ransacked on July 3, 2021. She was officially placed under arrest on July 17. She is being held in the Hefei City Women’s Detention Center. A camera was installed outside the door of her home, and someone was assigned to follow her whenever she went out.

4. [Baoding City, Hebei Province] Ms. Zhao Hongyan and Ms. Li Ronghua Held in Detention Center

Ms. Zhao Hongyan and Ms. Li Ronghua from Yi County are being held in the Qilizhuang Detention Center.

5. [Daqing City, Heilongjiang Province] Five Practitioners Released on Bail

Ms. Yu Wei, Mr. Biao Fanwei, Ms. Ma Qingyun, Ms. Zhu Xiaoyan, and Mr. Xing Defu were arrested on June 10, 2021. They were all released on bail on the evening of July 9 after each was extorted over 1,000 yuan.

6. [Dalian City, Liaoning Province] Ms. Lei Huixin Held in Custody for One Month

Ms. Lei Huixin from the Pulandian District was arrested by officers from the Nanshan Police Station on June 25, 2021. The day before her arrest, she was coaxed into taking a physical examination. Her detention was supposed to be 15 days, but she has not yet returned home.

7. [Huludao City, Liaoning Province] Cases against Ms. Gao Hua and Mr. Wang Yandong Turned Over to Procuratorate

The cases against Ms. Gao Hua and Mr. Wang Yandong were turned over to the Lianshan Procuratorate by the Suizhong County Procuratorate on July 26, 2021.

8. [Ziyang City, Sichuan Province] Ms. Chen Zufang and Ms. Yang Benxiu Arrested

Ms. Chen Zufang and Ms. Yang Benxiu, both in their 80s, from Yueyang Town, Anyue County, were arrested while talking to people about Falun Gong on July 19, 2021. They were taken to the No. 3 Police Station.

The officers grabbed their hands and forced them to fingerprint twelve sheets of paper. They did not know what was printed on these sheets. The two elderly practitioners have returned home.

9. [Jilin City, Jilin Province] Ms. Zhan Fengying and Ms. Zhao Yuqin Harassed

Ms. Zhan Fengying, in her 80s, was harassed by Yang Duan, a staff member of the Xinjilin Community Management Office, in mid-July 2021. Yang told Ms. Zhan to register with an update of her situation, which she refused. Yang used his cell phone to take pictures of her regardless of her refusal.

Officers Wang and Xue from the Longtan Police Station broke into Ms. Zhao Yuqin’s home with a copy of Zhengjian Weekly on July 22 and asked if the weekly publication was hers. They walked directly into her room, but she stopped them. When the officers asked if she still practiced Falun Gong, she said yes.

10. [Yanji City, Jilin Province] Mr. Li Huzhe Taken to Brainwashing Center

Mr. Li Huzhe was arrested by three officers from the Gongyuan Sub-district Police Station on July 20, 2021. He was again taken to the Rujia Hotel Brainwashing Center. He returned home on July 28.

11. [Huzhu County, Qinghai Province] Ms. Liu Yongxiu Held in Detention Center for Over 30 Days

Ms. Liu Yongxiu has been held in the Huzhu County Detention Center for over 30 days. Her family members were not allowed to visit her. They were also not allowed to bring in money, clothes or other personal items for her.

12. [Chengdu City, Sichuan Province] Ms. Lin Suliang Held in Detention Center

Ms. Lin Suliang from the Xinjin District was arrested on the morning of July 9, 2021, for telling others about Falun Gong. She was held in the Pidu District Detention Center. Her family members were not allowed to visit her.

13. [Benxi City, Liaoning Province] Mr. Wu Chengjun Tried

Mr. Wu Chengjun was arrested on October 15, 2020, and tried by the Huanren County Court on July 21, 2021.

14. [Linshui County, Sichuan Province] Ms. Liu Guihua Harassed

Around 10 a.m. on July 23, 2021, officers from the Linshui County State Security Division called and urged Ms. Liu Guihua to go home immediately, saying that water leakage from upstairs flooded her home. Ms. Liu called her daughter-in-law and asked her to go there and take a look. It turned out that there was no water leakage. Her daughter-in-law contacted the person who called Ms. Liu. He said he was from the state security department and wanted to locate Ms. Liu.

On July 26, Ms. Liu received another call. When she asked who the caller was, the person said it was Hu from the state security department.

Ms. Liu has been arrested and taken into custody nine times. She was sentenced to prison twice, and each time for four years.

15. [Pengzhou City, Sichuan Province] Ms. Lei Yunqiong Arrested

Ms. Lei Yunqiong, an employee of the Pengzhou Huaqing Factory, was arrested near the passenger bus terminal on July 29, 2021.

16. [Handan City, Hebei Province] Case against Mr. Zhang Junjiang Turned Over to Procuratorate

Mr. Zhang Junjiang from Quzhou County was arrested on July 28, 2021. He was placed under criminal detention for 29 days. The county police department turned his case over to the county procuratorate, seeking to officially place him under arrest.

On July 29, the lawyer hired by Mr. Zhang’s family to uphold justice went to the Quzhou County Detention Center and met with Mr. Zhang through WeChat video.

17. [Beijing] Mr. Zhang Chengguo Arrested

Mr. Zhang Chengguo was arrested at home by several officers including Wu Gang from the Huilongguan Police Station in Changping District on June 3, 2021, for distributing Falun Gong materials. The officers ransacked his home and confiscated a printer, two Apple computers, a cell phone, and printed materials. His family has not been allowed to meet with him so far. He is now being held in a detention center.

18. [Chaoyang City, Liaoning Province] Ms. Meng Hongmei Detained

Ms. Meng Hongmei was recently arrested by officers from the Qianjin Police Department. She was detained for 10 days.

19. [Beijing] Ms. Gong Ruiping Held in Detention Center

Ms. Gong Ruiping from the Pinggu District is being held in the Nihe Detention Center in the Shunyi District. The No. 1 Case Handling Team of the Yuyang Police Station in the Pinggu District was put in charge of her case.

20. [Laizhou City, Shanghai Province] Practitioner Zhan Arrested

Practitioner Zhan (first name and gender unknown) was arrested at work and taken to a brainwashing center.

21. [Xichang City, Sichuan Province] Political and Legal Affairs Committee Set Up Brainwashing Center to Persecute Practitioners

Officers from the Xichang City State Security Division recently phoned Ms. Pang Sufen, Ms. Wu Wenxiu, and Ms. Song Pingxiu and said that the Sichuan Province Political and Legal Affairs Committee set up a brainwashing class for them to attend. Ms. Wu’s son received the call and said that his mother was old and weak and he would not let her go.

On July 14, 2021, Ms. Zhou Xianrong returned home from the detention center. Community management office staff members came and told her to attend the brainwashing class. 

Ms. Zhou, Mr. Huang Biao, and five other practitioners and their family members were sentenced to prison in December 2020. Ms. Zhou was sentenced to two years in prison and fined 8,000 yuan.

22. [Yantai City, Shandong Province] Mr. Yu Haiyong and Wife Ms. Wang Xuemei Tried

Mr. Yu Haiyong and his wife Ms. Wang Xuemei were tried by judge Yang Jianping of the Haiyang City Court.

23. [Suining City, Sichuan Province] Several Practitioners Harassed

Ms. Wang Yong’e (62 years old), Ms. Xie Bigui, and Ms. Liang Guilan (in her 60s) from Longping Township were recently harassed by Party secretary Liu Zhou, Yuan Bilin, and others from the Qingjingsi Community Management Office.

On the afternoon of June 30, Party secretary Liu called Ms. Wang’s husband and told him to tell his wife to wait at home. Community management staff members would come to his home to photograph his wife and have her sign guarantee statements. Ms. Wang’s husband pressured her to sign statements and have her photo taken, which she refused. Liu threatened, “If you don’t sign, your daughter’s job will be jeopardized.” When she still refused to sign, her husband yelled at her.

Around 9 a.m. on July 1, staff member Yuan and a person responsible for monitoring Internet content broke into Ms. Wang’s home again and pressured her to sign statements. She left her home when she saw the two people entering.

Ms. Liang was reported to the police by a villager when she posted Falun Gong posters on July 1. Party secretary Wang Renjun of Xiejiadian Village notified Ms. Liang to go to the village office to verify the incident. She went, and told them there was no such incident. She did not sign anything in the office.

24. [Lingyuan City, Liaoning Province] Mr. Jia Qinggui and Wife Xiao Lin Arrested

Mr. Jia Qinggui and his wife Ms. Xiao Lin from Lingyuan City, Liaoning Province, went to Lishan Township, Tonghai County, Yunnan Province, in October 2020, to visit their son who was doing odd jobs there. On the morning of October 21, more than twelve officers broke into their rented home and ransacked the place. They confiscated a copy of Zhuan Falun, printed materials, two MP3s, two cell phones, and four national ID cards. They arrested the couple and summoned the couple’s son and son-in-law.

The couple were given 12 days of detention, which were not enforced. Instead they were forced to leave Yunnan Province on November 4.

25. [Lanzhou City, Gansu Province] Mr. Guan Ziping Harassed Continuously

The secretary of the Xincheng Town Political and Legal Affairs Committee, the Party secretary of Xinwei Road Community Management Office, staff members of the Xincheng Town 610 Office, and officers from the Hekounan Police Station, in Xigu District, Lanzhou City, went to Mr. Guan Ziping’s rented home and harassed him on May 17, 2021.

They took Mr. Guan to the Qingshuiqiao Community activity room around 8 a.m. the following morning. They pressured him to write “Four Statements” renouncing Falun Gong. One of them threatened, “I can make a phone call to take away your job right away, and leave you wandering in the streets and homeless.” Later, they also threatened, “If you don’t ‘transform,’ it will affect the work and the employment of your family and the next three generations as well as your elderly family members.” They kept pressuring him to write the four statements. This went on until 2 a.m., when they left Mr. Guan on the street by himself. He had to walk from the Xigu District to his rented house in the Chengguan District.

At noon on May 19, these people went to Mr. Guan’s home again and pressured him to write the four statements. It lasted from noon until past 6 p.m. During that afternoon, they also called in leaders of Mr. Guan’s work unit and put pressure on him.

Since July, these people have visited Mr. Guan at his work unit again. They wanted to go to his newly rented house as well, which he refused.

26. [Xinxiang City, Henan Province] Mr. Lou Gan Harassed

Since June 2021, Guanchang Town government officials, village Party secretary, and the village Women’s Federation director visited or called to harass Mr. Lou Gan and his family from time to time. They pressured him to sign guarantee statements or a repentance statement. He firmly refused to sign any of these statements.

On July 28, the village Party secretary and the director of the Women’s Federation came to his home again and ordered Mr. Lou’s mother to pressure him to sign the statements.