(Minghui.org) The persecution of Falun Gong has intensified since February 2014 in Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province. In Xinhua District alone, more than 50 families have been tormented by police officers and/or community administrative staff.

Officers go to practitioners' homes and demand that they renounce their beliefs, and the entire process is videotaped. When the practitioners refuse, the officers confiscate their property and make various threats.

The Dongyun Police Station (one of the police stations under the supervision of the Yuhua District Police Department)

Numerous Arrests in March and April

Zhou Yongkang, Political and Legal Affairs Chief, started a pilot program in Hebei Province in 2012 to suppress domestic problems. After Zhou Benshun became the Communist Party Head in Hebei Province in 2013, he continued this policy and expanded the persecution by using Shijiazhuang as a test site.

Below is a summary of recent police harassment

At least 17 practitioners were arrested or harassed on November 15, 2013, for making calendars that contained information about Falun Gong. Police then arrested or further harassed 40 practitioners. Among them, seven were brought to court by the Shijiazhuang Procuratorate and are now set to stand trial.

Police Surround Home for 15 Hours

Mr. Wang Xiaofeng was one of the practitioners arrested on November 15. After police found out his sister-in-law, Ms. Feng Xiaomei, took care of his son, they began to pursue Ms. Feng.

When Ms. Feng’s son left for work in the morning, he was surrounded by more than 10 officers, who tried to grab his house key from him. He ran back inside his apartment building, but the officers followed him inside. Without showing any identification, they followed him upstairs. Ms. Feng's son blocked them at the apartment entrance and called the police. They tried to forced their way into the home despite not having a warrant.

Zhang, the Yuhua Domestic Security Division Head, soon showed up. He said that the officers were from the Dongyuan Police Station, the 610 Office, and the neighborhood committee. According to Zhang, the officers had been waiting outside for at least two hours.

The officers threatened several times to force their way in, which filled the family with anxiety. Ms. Feng's son was worried that his mother might be arrested, so he stayed at the door to block the police the whole day instead of going to work.

Ms. Feng usually took care of her nephew, and when 9-year-old boy saw the police at the door, he was too scared to enter and went back out to the streets instead.

Ms. Feng's mother, who is in her 70s, was also placed under great duress and became very ill.

The officers finally left a little after 8 p.m. At that point, they had surrounded the home for 15 hours.

Two days later, when Ms. Feng went to work, a black car without license plates was waiting outside her building. Several plainclothes police officers then grabbed Ms. Feng and stuffed her into the car. Her mother and nephew tried to stop them, but the car sped away.

Later, the family learned that the plainclothes officers were the newly appointed Dongyuan Police Station chief and some of his staff members. The officers returned later that day and demanded that the family open the door so that they could ransack the apartment. They left after the family refused to cooperate.

Ms. Feng was released later that evening.

Personnel responsible for the harassment and arrest:

Liu Zhipeng (刘志鹏), head of Shijiazhuang Political and Legal Affairs, 2 Puyuan Street, Shijiazhuang City, Hebei 050021 Liu Jian (刘建), Yuhua District Police Department chief: +86-311-86122691, +86-311-86122692, 2 Yaqing Street, Shijiazhuang City, Hebei 050000 Cui Zhenjun (崔贞军), Yuhua Road Police Station head: +86-311-85257600 Wen Dezhao (温德昭), Donghuan Police Station head: +86-311-85658110 He Jianxin (何建新), Dongyuan Police Station head: +86-311-85888946, +86-311-85809394