(Minghui.org) Police in Macheng City, Hubei Province illegally arrested many Falun Gong practitioners on the evening of June 20, 2012. They include Mr. Xiong Youyi, Ms. Xu Zhenge, Jiang Zhengxiang from Zhongguanyi Town, Hu Xiuzhen from Chengdong and Chen Danshu from Qiting Town. Ms. Xu has since returned home. Another practitioner, Ms. Zou Guixiang, has had to leave home to avoid further persecution.

Police forcibly enter Mr. Xiong Youyi's home

Around 20 officers from the local 610 Office, Domestic Security Division and the Gulou Police Station surrounded Mr. Xiong's home in Shenjiazhuang, Gulou District in Macheng at around 9:00 p.m. on June 20, 2012. The person who led the officers to Mr. Xiong's home was 32-year-old Liu Jianjun, the secretary and accountant at Shenjiazhuang. However, Liu stayed in the police car and did not go with the officers to Mr. Xiong's home.

When Mr. Xiong went to answer the door, the officers forced their way into his home and ransacked it. They confiscated his computer, a printer, a satellite dish and 2,000 yuan in cash. They even had the audacity to order Mr. Xiong's daughter-in-law to go and borrow some bags from their neighbor in order to carry the things they were confiscating. However, the neighbor refused. Mr. Xiong was then taken to the Macheng Detention Center.

Ms. Zou Guixiang forced to leave home to avoid further persecution

Li Jiede, commander of the Social Order Protection Division of the Macheng Police Department, led six plainclothes officers to Ms. Zou's residence at Xinqu, Songjiawan in Macheng at around 9:00 p.m. on June 20, 2012. Li tried to get Ms. Zou to go with them to the police station to answer some questions. Ms. Zou refused to go.

Ms. Zou tried to tell the police the facts about Falun Gong and let them know that good deeds are rewarded and that bad deeds will meet with retribution. She did not cooperate with them, so the officers threatened to take her husband for questioning instead. Ms. Zou would not let them take him, and said that she would shout to get her neighbors' attention if they tried to do so. With no other option, the police left and told her to report to the police station the following day. When the officers went to Ms. Zou's home again the next day, she had already left home to avoid further persecution.

Ms. Zou, in her 50s, is a retiree from the silk reeling plant. She used to suffer from colon cancer before she began practicing Falun Gong. She has been persecuted many times because of her belief, and was once taken to Wuhan Shizishan Drug Rehabilitation Center, where she was tortured and forced to do hard labor. As a result, she still has a numb and cold feeling in one of her legs. At that time, her husband had to take care of their family and his hair turned white because of the constant worrying.

Ms. Xu's brother forced to pay a 3000-yuan fine

Plainclothes officers from the local 610 Office, Domestic Security Division and Huangjinqiao Police Station tried to arrest Ms. Xu Zhenge, a doctor at the Lingyuan Village Health Hospital, on the evening of June 20, 2012. When Ms. Xu's brother, an official of the village, tried to stop them, officers told him that they only wanted to take her for questioning and that she would be able to return home immediately afterward. Ms. Xu told her brother that they were lying, but while he was thinking about what they had said, several police forced Ms. Xu into the police car and took her to Huangjinqiao Police Station. They claimed that she had put up flyers about Falun Gong. When Ms. Xu's brother went to the police station, he was forced to pay 3000 yuan and sign a guarantee statement before they would allow Ms. Xu to return home.

Officers from the 610 Office in Macheng met with members of the residential committees where the practitioners live on the morning of June 25, 2012, to talk to them about setting up a brainwashing center there.