(Clearwisdom.net) On the afternoon of April 20, 2008, at about 5 p.m., two Falun Gong practitioners were brutally arrested in front of their young daughter. The incident occurred in Chaoyang District in Beijing, when Ms. Zhang Lianying and her husband, Mr. Niu Jinping, returned home from the market with their four-year-old daughter. They were arrested in their apartment building by several plainclothes police officers. About a dozen of them forced their way into their home to confiscate their property, taking away a computer, a mobile hard disk, an MP4 player, and three large boxes of Falun Dafa books.

According to eyewitness accounts, when Ms. Zhang Lianying and Mr. Niu Jinping were arrested, the plainclothes police pummeled and kicked them. Their bodies were covered with bruises. Their little girl was frightened and cried loudly. She now stays with her 78-year-old paternal grandmother.

The departments that participated in this arrest included the State Security Division of Beijing, the State Security Division of Chaoyang District as well as the Xianghe Garden Street and the Liufang Street local police station (86-10-64660050) and the 610 Office.