(Minghui.org) The police had been following Mr. Chen Jianping for a long time. They hid in cars with tinted windows and found out that he went to a store owned by practitioner Ms. Yang Xiaohua.
They watched the store and saw practitioners Ms. Huang Qiuzhen, Ms. Tong Ruyi, and Ms. Xie (first name unknown) enter the store. The police then followed Ms. Huang to the apartments of Mr. Shao Qingming and Ms. Ren Huifang.
Wang Hanqiao, deputy mayor of Xianning City, Hubei Province, and very active in the persecution of Falun Gong, ordered the city police to follow and monitor practitioners and later to arrest them and confiscate their personal property.
Cheng Lebin from the Wenquan Police Department and Chen Huilong from the Chalukou Police Station broke into Mr. Chen's apartment on February 24, 2014. They searched the place without a warrant and confiscated a printer and computer.
The police took Mr. Chen first to a detention center and then to the Banqiao Brainwashing Center on March 1. Mr. Chen is still incarcerated and being tortured in the brainwashing center.
After Mr. Chen was arrested, the police searched Ms. Huang's apartment and harassed Ms. Yang, Ms. Tong, Ms. Ren, Mr. Shao, and Ms. Xie.
The vehicles used by the police were a black sedan, plate number: e (Hubei Province) L0Q767, and a gray van, plate number: e (Hubei Province) LIF776.
