Additional Persecution News from China – July 31, 2021 (17 Reports)

(Minghui.org) Today's news from China includes incidents of persecution that took place in 16 cities or counties in 10 provinces, where at least 27 practitioners were recently persecuted for their belief.

1. [Hefei City, Anhui Province] Case Against Ms. Zhang Taozhi Sent to Court
2. [Dalian City, Liaoning Province] Mr. Xia Yuanxin Forced to Reimburse Pension
3. [Tianjin] Five Practitioners Arrested
4. [Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province] Ms. Zheng Yingying’s Pension Suspended
5. [Tonghua City, Jilin Province] Ms. Cao Shulian Taken to Prison
6. [Beijing] Ms. Zhang Jie and Husband Mr. Xing Guoqing Brought to Court
7. [Tianjin] Mr. Meng Jie’s Wife Ms. Ma Yi in Critical Condition
8. [Hengshui City, Hebei Province] Several Practitioners Harassed
9. [Jingmen City, Hubei Province] Ms. Pei Hong Held in Detention Center
10. [Changchun City, Jilin Province] Ms. Yang Li Develops Illness in Detention Center
11. [Jixi City, Heilongjiang Province] Ms. Wang Shulan Detained
12. [Changsha City, Hunan Province] Ms. Ye Hui Held in Detention Center
13. [Pengzhou City, Sichuan Province] Ms. Tang Guanglan Harassed
14. [Lanzhou City, Gansu Province] Mr. Jia Jianhuai and Wife Xiao Hongmei Detained
15. [Linghai City, Liaoning Province] Ms. Xu Guohua and Ms. Xu Suqing Arrested
16. [Wuhan City, Hubei Province] Case Against Mr. Liang Yi Brought to Court
17. [Pingshan County, Hebei Province] Ms. Liu Shucui Arrested

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1. [Hefei City, Anhui Province] Case Against Ms. Zhang Taozhi Sent to Court

In early July 2021 Ms. Zhang Taozhi’s family received a notice that her case was sent to the Shushan Procuratorate. Cui Donghai in the prosecution section took up the case. Within 10 days or so, charges were brought up against her in the Shushan District Court.

Ms. Zhang was arrested and taken to the Wanghu Police Station in the Baohe District on April 12, 2021. She was placed in criminal detention the following day. Her home was ransacked.

2. [Dalian City, Liaoning Province] Mr. Xia Yuanxin Forced to Reimburse Pension

Mr. Xia Yuanxin from Jinzhou District was forced to pay back 220,000 yuan in pension payments he received while serving a seven year prison term in Dongling Prison from August 2013 to March 2019. This caused huge financial difficulties and was an emotional blow as well.

3. [Tianjin] Five Practitioners Arrested

Mr. Sun Manyuan, Mr. Sun Yida, Mr. Li Changhai, Ms. Wang Shuxiang, and Li Hefeng (gender unknown) from Yanzhuang Village were arrested on July 29, 2021. They were taken to the Wuqing Detention Center by officers from the Huanghuadian Police Station.

Mr. Sun Manyuan’s blood pressure readings were high. They pressured him to take medicine, which he refused to do. Later he was released.

4. [Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province] Ms. Zheng Yingying’s Pension Suspended

While waiting for the subway at the Jinshazhou Station in Baiyun District on March 21, 2020, Ms. Zheng Yingying, 69, was arrested by officers from the Jinsha Police Station.

Ms. Zheng was sentenced to two years and six months in prison and fined 5,000 yuan by the Liwan District Court on December 29, 2020.

On July 23, 2021, the Haizhu District Social Insurance Fund Management Center issued her a “Notice on Recovering Social Insurance Benefits.” It listed two points:1. Ms. Zheng was required to return pension payments of 53,613.17 yuan she received between April 2020 and April 2021 to the Labor and Social Security Center of Chigang Street, Haizhu District, within 5 working days.2. Starting from May 2021, her pension benefits will be suspended.

5. [Tonghua City, Jilin Province] Ms. Cao Shulian Taken to Prison

Ms. Cao Shulian, 58, was arrested and held in custody for six months. She was secretly tried by the Liuhe County Court and sentenced to seven years in prison. She appealed, but the original verdict was upheld. She was secretly taken to the Changchun Women’s Prison on April 29, 2021. Family visits have so far been denied.

6. [Beijing] Ms. Zhang Jie and Husband Mr. Xing Guoqing Brought to Court

It was reported that the cases against Ms. Zhang Jie and her husband Mr. Xing Guoqing from the Fengtai District were brought to the Fengtai District Court on June 28, 2021.

7. [Tianjin] Mr. Meng Jie’s Wife Ms. Ma Yi in Critical Condition

Mr. Meng Jie’s wife Ms. Ma Yi, from the Hexi District, is in critical condition due to ongoing persecution against herself and her husband.

Mr. Meng was released from Binhai Prison, where he endured extensive abuse from prison guards. The community residential committee personnel, local police officers, local judicial office officials, and community management staff members have harassed his wife Ms. Ma, which made her extremely nervous. In the early morning hours of July 23, 2021, she lost consciousness. After rescue, Ms. Ma remains in a coma in the intensive care unit (ICU), and her life is in imminent danger.

8. [Hengshui City, Hebei Province] Several Practitioners Harassed

Mr. Du Wenqian, Ms. Chuai Huahui, Mr. Wang Jinling, and Mr. Wang’s wife Ms. Xin Mingru were harassed by officers from the Hezhuang Township Police Station, Taocheng District, around July 20, 2021.

Residential officer Jia Yunfeng pressured Mr. Du and Ms. Chuai to sign commitment letters. Both practitioners refused to comply. Jia and another residential officer Li Liqiang went to Mr. Wang and Ms. Xin’s home with a questionnaire and gathered their family’s personal information.

9. [Jingmen City, Hubei Province] Ms. Pei Hong Held in Detention Center

Ms. Pei Hong, an employee of the Jingmen Petrochemical Branch, was arrested at work at the Yingde Gas Company by officers from the Duodao Police Station on June 30, 2021. The officers ransacked her home and confiscated a computer and a printer. No one was at home when the officers entered the place.

Ms. Pei is being held in the Jingmen City Detention Center. Except for allowing her family to bring in clothes and make deposits for her, the detention center has rejected all of her family’s other requests to visit or communicate with her.

10. [Changchun City, Jilin Province] Ms. Yang Li Develops Illness in Detention Center

Ms. Yang Li was held in the Changchun City No. 4 Detention Center. On July 24, 2021, she suddenly developed symptoms of a heart attack. Her face turned pale and she had difficulty breathing. Detention center guard Yan Zhuo dialed 120 for first aid. Ms. Yang was taken that night to the Patient Ward, which was located on the 6th floor in the Changchun Central Hospital.

Ms. Yang’s 74 year old mother-in-law Ms. Zhao Shanying, who was held in the patient ward, was transferred to the Changchun City No. 4 Detention Center on July 25. The guards claimed that family members could not be held in the same place.

11. [Jixi City, Heilongjiang Province] Ms. Wang Shulan Detained

An officer from the Chengzihe District Domestic Security Division, residential officer Song Xiaozhe, and others broke into Ms. Wang Shulan’s home, arrested her, and ransacked the place on July 7, 2021. They confiscated her Falun Gong books and photos of the founder of Falun Gong.

Ms. Wang was taken to the Jixi City Detention Center for five days of detention, during which she went on a hunger strike to protest the persecution. She went home on July 12.

12. [Changsha City, Hunan Province] Ms. Ye Hui Held in Detention Center

Ms. Ye Hui, 66, has been missing since June 2021. It was recently learned that she is being held in the Changsha City No. 4 Detention Center.

When a fellow practitioner went to her home in early June, she noticed that Ms. Ye’s door had a big hole in it and had been pried open, possibly by the police.

13. [Pengzhou City, Sichuan Province] Ms. Tang Guanglan Harassed

Mao from Pengzhou City Political and Legal Affairs Committee and Zhihe Town government staff members went to Ms. Tang Guanglan’s home, harassed her, and secretly photographed her on July 28, 2021.

14. [Lanzhou City, Gansu Province] Mr. Jia Jianhuai and Wife Xiao Hongmei Detained

Mr. Jia Jianhuai and his wife Ms. Xiao Hongmei from the Chengguan District were reported to the police while distributing information about Falun Gong in the Yangguang Residential Community on July 10, 2021.

At around 8 p.m. on July 12, when the couple returned home, they were arrested by five officers from the Tuanjie New Village Police Station, who were staked out in the stairway leading to their floor.

More than twelve officers ransacked the couple’s home and confiscated a laptop, a desktop computer, two printers, four cell phones, three U discs, six packs of printing paper, and their Falun Gong books.

On July 14, the couple was taken to the Taoshuping Detention Center. Four days later, Ms. Xiao was transferred to the Yuzhong County Detention Center. Nine days later, Mr. Jia was transferred to the Xincheng Detention Center.

On July 26, the couple was picked up separately by officers from the Huochezhan Police Station where their residential information was registered. The police station and the Sub-district Administration Office pressured the couple to sign printouts of “four statements,” which they refused. The couple returned home around 2 p.m. that day.

15. [Linghai City, Liaoning Province] Ms. Xu Guohua and Ms. Xu Suqing Arrested

Ms. Xu Guohua was arrested by several plainclothes officers who were staked out and followed her when she talked to people about Falun Gong at the Linghai Grand Market on July 26, 2021. The officers brought her back home and ransacked the place. They confiscated several Falun Gong books, and DVDs of lectures given by Falun Gong’s founder.

Afterwards, the officers took Ms. Xu to the Dalinghe Police Station for interrogation. When they asked her for the source of her Falun Gong books and CDs, she refused to answer. Ms. Xu was brought home by her family at around 4:30 p.m. that day.

On the afternoon of July 27, four or five plainclothes officers went to Ms. Xu Suqing’s home and ransacked the place. They confiscated her Falun Gong books, a computer, a printer, and printing paper. They took Ms. Xu and her non-practitioner husband away. Ms. Xu’s husband returned home around 9:30 p.m. that evening. Ms. Xu was taken to the Jinzhou City Women’s Detention Center around 10 p.m.

16. [Wuhan City, Hubei Province] Case Against Mr. Liang Yi Brought to Court

Mr. Liang Yi was arrested on February 4, 2021. He was placed under administrative detention for 34 days.

Mr. Liang was officially arrested by chief procurator Huang of the Hanyang District Procuratorate on May 10. The case was to be prosecuted on the grounds of his “harboring suspects.”

Liang’s family did not hire a lawyer, so the court appointed a defense lawyer whose last name was Guo. On June 18, lawyer Guo called his family and asked whether they were willing to pay the fine. His family refused to pay it.

17. [Pingshan County, Hebei Province] Ms. Liu Shucui Arrested

Ms. Liu Shucui was arrested by officers from the Chengguan Police Station while having breakfast at home on July 29, 2021. Ms. Liu was taken to the county hospital for nucleic acid and blood tests. She has now returned home.