(Minghui.org) Today's news from China includes incidents of persecution that took place in 22 cities or counties in 9 provinces, where at least 80 practitioners were recently persecuted for their belief.

1. [Fushun City, Liaoning Province] Ms. Wang Jiemei Persecuted During Detention
2. [Dalian City, Liaoning Province] Ms. Zhou Yanbo’s Case Submitted to Court
3. [Weihai City, Shandong Province] Mr. Li Wenbo Detained for Six Months
4. [Hefei City, Anhui Province] Mr. Yang Yajun Arrested and Detained
5. [Wuhan City, Hubei Province] Ms. Jin Qiuzhen and Ms. Tian Huifang Persecuted
6. [Chengdu City, Sichuan Province] Shui Qionghua Arrested
7. [Weifang City, Shandong Province] Case against College Student Ms. Li Hui Submitted to Procuratorate
8. [Baoding City, Hebei Province] Ms. Shi Chunlai Detained
9. [Tianjin] Mr. Liu Xiangyan Harassed
10. [Beijing] Ms. Zhang Guizhi Harassed
11. [Baoding City, Hebei Province] Ms. Cui Xiugai Arrested
12. [Da'an City, Jilin Province] Ms. Wang Huan Harassed
13. [Mishan City, Heilongjiang Province] Luo Libin Faces Trial
14. [Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province] Ms. Shi Rongsu Harassed
15. [Harbin City, Heilongjiang Province] Wu Lihua and Jia Zhiqiang Arrested
16. [Xichang City, Sichuan Province] Eight Practitioners Arrested
17. [Shanghai] Sun Shaofang Arrested
18. [Pingquan County, Hebei Province] Three Practitioners Harassed
19. [Harbin City, Heilongjiang] Ms. Yao Hongli Detained for Refusing to Sign Three Statements Document
20. [Jiujiang City, Jiangxi Province] Ms. Qin Hongying and Ms. Wu Lumei Missing
21. [Baoding City, Hebei Province] Mr. Mi Yuan Arrested
22. [Beijing] Ms. Zhang Shuxia and Her Housekeeper Arrested
23. [Yinchuan City, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region] Eleven Practitioners Harassed Between January and May 2021
24. [Fuping County, Hebei Province] Ms. Fan Zhen Placed Under Residential Surveillance
25. [Pingquan City, Hebei Province] 15 Practitioners Harassed
26. [Tonghua City, Jilin Province] Six Practitioners Harassed
27. [Tianjin] Ten Practitioners Harassed

1. [Fushun City, Liaoning Province] Ms. Wang Jiemei Persecuted During Detention

Ms. Wang Jiemei from the Gaowan area in Fushun City was arrested on February 11, 2021 and was placed in criminal custody on February 24, 2021. She has now been indicted by the Economic and Technological Development District Procuratorate in Shenyang City.

Ms. Wang has been detained in the No. 1 Detention Center of Shenyang City, and on May 30, 2021 will have been detained for 100 days. Her family members have been to the Gaokan Police Station, the Economic and Technological Development District Procuratorate, and the Hunnan District Police Department in Shenyang City. They requested that the case be dropped, but their request was denied.

Ms. Wang has now developed stroke symptoms, with numbness in her body and high blood pressure of 170.

2. [Dalian City, Liaoning Province] Ms. Zhou Yanbo’s Case Submitted to Court

Ms. Zhou Yanbo is still detained in the Yaojia Detention Center. Her case has been submitted to the Pulandian Court.

3. [Weihai City, Shandong Province] Mr. Li Wenbo Detained for Six Months

Mr. Li Wenbo was arrested by officers Liu Jie and Qin Xiaoding from the Weihai Domestic Security Division on January 5, 2021. His home was ransacked and many of his Dafa books and cash were confiscated. Ms. Sun Jing and her older sister Ms. Sun Yan (non-practitioner) were arrested at the same time. Mr. Li Wenbo was a worker in Ms. Sun Jing’s factory. The three were detained in the Wendeng Detention Center.

Mr. Li Wenbo and Ms. Sun Yan have now been detained for nearly six months. Ms. Sun Jing was allowed to be bailed out for medical treatment after her blood pressure rose to over 200 and she was detained for two and a half months. Ms. Sun Jing was under travel restriction and was not allowed to leave her current residential location.

Their case has been transferred from the Procuratorate to the Rongcheng Court.

4. [Hefei City, Anhui Province] Mr. Yang Yajun Arrested and Detained

Mr. Yang Yajun, around 50, is an investigator in the Energy Conservation and Comprehensive Utilization Division of the Department of Economics and Information Technology of Anhui Province. He was arrested around April 2021 and is currently being detained in the Hefei City Detention Center.

5. [Wuhan City, Hubei Province] Ms. Jin Qiuzhen and Ms. Tian Huifang Persecuted

Ms. Jin Qiuzhen was forcibly taken from her son’s home in Shengli Street, Jiang’an District at around 1:00 p.m. on May 22, 2021. A group of people tricked her into opening the door. They rushed in and forcibly carried her to the police car downstairs. Ms. Jin was taken to the Jiang’an District Brainwashing Center. She was allowed to go home on May 26, 2021 because her blood pressure was as high as 240.

Ms. Tian Huifang is still being detained. Further details are unknown.

6. [Chengdu City, Sichuan Province] Shui Qionghua Arrested

Shui Qionghua (gender unknown) from Wenjiang District was reported to police for talking to people about Falun Gong, and was arrested by officers from the Jiaolong Police Station in Shuangliu District on the morning of May 13, 2021. She is currently detained in the Shuangliu Detention Center.

7. [Weifang City, Shandong Province] Case against College Student Ms. Li Hui Submitted to the Procuratorate

Ms. Li Hui, 19, is a freshman in the Weifang Nursing Vocational College. She has been detained in the Weifang City Detention Center for more than 40 days. Her case has been submitted to the Qingzhou City Procuratorate.

8. [Baoding City, Hebei Province] Ms. Shi Chunlai Detained

Ms. Shi Chunlai lives in Liangyu Village, Yaozhuang Township, Mancheng District. She was contacted a few days ago and told to go to the local police station to discuss the truth-clarifying materials that local police confiscated from her home last year. She refused to go.

The police later talked to her family members. Pressured by her family members, Ms. Shi went to the Yaozhuang Township Police Station on the morning of May 27, 2021. She did not return home. The next day it was learned that she had been taken to the Mancheng District Detention Center.

9. [Tianjin] Mr. Liu Xiangyan Harassed

Mr. Liu Xiangyan works in the Dagang Oil Field. He was summoned to the Gangxi Police Station at around 12:30 p.m. on May 25, 2021. The officers pressured him to sign the three statements, which he refused. He was not let go until midnight that day.

Mr. Liu was summoned again to the police station on May 26, 2021. He still refused to sign the three statements. Two officers even forcibly held his hand and tried to press his fingerprint on the paper, but they failed. Mr. Liu developed sickness symptoms in the police station and was taken to Haibin Hospital. He was found to have heart rhythm and abnormal blood pressure issues, and was then allowed to go home.

10. [Beijing] Ms. Zhang Guizhi Harassed

Ms. Zhang Guizhi was harassed at around 11:00 a.m. on May 28, 2021. Officer Wu Nan and Xiao Liu from the local residential committee tried to photograph her.

11. [Baoding City, Hebei Province] Ms. Cui Xiugai Arrested

Ms. Cui Xiugai, a retired teacher, encountered a police officer when talking to people about Falun Gong on the street and was arrested by officers from the Chengguan Town Police Station at around 2:00 p.m. on May 28, 2021.

12. [Da’an City, Jilin Province] Ms. Wang Huan Harassed

Ms. Wang Huan is a teacher at the No. 2 Elementary School of Anguang Town. The Da’an City Political and Legal Affairs Committee pressured the Da’an City Education Bureau, which in turn pressured the school where Ms. Wang works. On May 24, 2021, the school principal demanded that Ms. Wang sign the three statements otherwise face serious consequences, and implicate the school and the education bureau as well. Ms. Wang refused to cooperate.

13. [Mishan City, Heilongjiang Province] Luo Libin Faces Trial

Luo Libin (gender unknown) will be tried in court.

14. [Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province] Ms. Shi Rongsu Harassed

On May 26, 2021, an officer from the Chengqu Police Station in Zanhuang County made a harassing call to Ms. Shi Rongsu first, and then to Ms. Shi’s husband after Ms. Shi did not answer the phone. The officer asked about Ms. Shi’s information.

Officer Gao Shaobin from the Chengqu Police Station called Ms. Shi at around 12:00 p.m. on May 29, 2021. He told Ms. Shi that he received a list of the Falun Gong practitioners from the provincial authority. The practitioners on the list were requested to sign a guarantee statement. He needed to stop by her home to take a photo and make a video.

15. [Harbin City, Heilongjiang Province] Wu Lihua and Jia Zhiqiang Arrested

Wu Lihua (gender unknown) and Jia Zhiqiang (gender unknown) from the Shuangcheng District were arrested by officers from the Minzhu Police Station on the morning of May 29, 2021 for talking to people about Falun Gong.

16. [Xichang City, Sichuan Province] Eight Practitioners Arrested

More than 30 police officers showed up when seven practitioners had gathered to read the Falun Gong teachings at Wu Wenxiu’s home on May 12, 2021. The officers conducted body searches and took out everything from the practitioners’ purses and bags. They put the items on the ground and took photos of them. They also confiscated the practitioners’ money. They then ransacked Wu Wenxiu’s home and confiscated Zhuan Falun, Minghui Weekly, the photo of Falun Gong's founder, and other items.

Besides the seven practitioners, including Zhang Yuancui, Wu Wenxiu, Luo Congwen, Wen Bangsu, Yang Dan, Yin Fazhen, and Granny Huang, the police also arrested Ms. Mao Shuyu at her home.

Eight practitioners were interrogated in the Chuanxing police station. They were pressured to sign a statement promising not practice Falun Gong and not to distribute truth clarification materials. The practitioners refused. Five of them were released at around 4:00 p.m. that afternoon after they signed with their fingerprints.

17. [Shanghai] Sun Shaofang Arrested

Sun Shaofang (gender unknown) was followed after Sun left work. Sun was arrested at his/her home on May 21, 2021.

18. [Pingquan County, Hebei Province] Three Practitioners Harassed

Three practitioners including Mr. Yu Hanying, Ms. Gao Jinglin, and Ms. Yu Shumei, were harassed at their homes on May 28, 2021. Yu Daqiang, head of the Taitoushan Police Station, and another officer came to the practitioners’ homes to take some photos. The reason they came was the so-called “return visit” requested by the “Zero-out Campaign.”

19. [Harbin City, Heilongjiang] Ms. Yao Hongli Detained for Refusing to Sign Three Statements Document

Ms. Yao Hongli was pressured to sign the three statements by officers from the Railway Police Station and the Railway Domestic Security Division on May 6, 2021. After Ms. Yao refused to comply, she was taken to the No. 2 Detention Center of Harbin City. She has not yet been released.

20. [Jiujiang City, Jiangxi Province] Ms. Qin Hongying and Ms. Wu Lumei Missing

Ms. Qin Hongying was supposedly released before the Chinese New Year of 2021. However, no one has seen her yet.

Ms. Wu Lumei should have been released from the Jiangxi Province Women’s Prison in Nanchang City in November 2017. Other practitioners have continually asked about her, but no one has seen her or heard from her.

21. [Baoding City, Hebei Province] Mr. Mi Yuan Arrested

Mr. Mi Yuan from the Mancheng District was arrested by four officers from the Yaoshan Police Station around May 20, 2021. He was released later because of his high blood pressure, which was measured to be as high as 250.

22. [Beijing] Ms. Zhang Shuxia and Her Housekeeper Arrested

Ms. Zhang Shuxia and her house helper were arrested by officers from the local police station and the Haidian District Police Department on April 6, 2021. They have since been detained in the Haidian District Detention Center.

23. [Yinchuan City, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region] Eleven Practitioners Harassed Between January and May 2021

Mr. Wang Xiangchen was taken from his home by four officers from the Beijie Police Station in Jinfeng District in mid-February 2021. He was pressured to sign a guarantee statement in the police station.

Ms. Liu Xiaofang, nearly 80, was arrested and taken to a police station in February 2021 for talking to a janitor about Falun Gong. When her family came to pick her up, the officers warned the family members to watch her closely.

Mr. Qin Yongshun and his wife Li Peihua were harassed at home by a deputy from the Huanghedonglu Police Station in the Jinfeng District and other officers on March 30, 2021.

Ms. Xu Yan and Ms. Dai Yuzhen from Lingwu City, and Ms. Li Shuxia from Yinchuan City were harassed before April 25, 2021.

Ms. Zhang Jiuxiang was harassed at home on the afternoon of May 11, 2021. Four people, including Tang Hong, head of the Helan County 610 Office, and Wu Yahui from the Desheng Police Station, came to her home. They claimed that the Political and Legal Affairs Committee requested that they randomly inspect the progress of the local “Zero-out Campaign.”

Mr. Zhao Yuhu and his parents were harassed by officers from the Xixia Development District Domestic Security Division including Ding Baolin on May 17, 2021.

Ms. Sun Yajuan was harassed at home on the afternoon of May 18, 2021. Ge Hongmei from the Xihuayuan Residential Committee and Li Zili from the Xihuayuan Police Station came to her home and claimed it was a “return visit.”

Ms. Chen Hua was harassed at home by Guan Libin, head of the Political and Legal Affairs Committee of Xingqing District on the morning of May 18, 2021.

24. [Fuping County, Hebei Province] Ms. Fan Zhen Placed Under Residential Surveillance

Ms. Fan Zhen’s home was raided by officers from the Fuping County Police Department on May 27, 2020.

Two plainclothes officers came to Ms. Fan’s home on the morning of April 20, 2021 and told Ms. Fan to sign on the list of items that they confiscated from her home last year. It would be handed over to the Procuratorate. Ms. Fan refused.

Ms. Fan was taken to the Shunping Procuratorate by officers from the Fuping Police Department on May 19, 2021. However, when they arrived there, the police officers just took some photos when Ms. Fan got out of the police car in front of the Procuratorate gate. She was then taken back.

The police officers came to Ms. Fan’s home on May 24, 2021 and told her to have a physical examination. They took her to the affiliated hospital of Hebei University and then directly took her to the Baoding Detention Center. However, she was denied admission after her medical report was handed over. She was released that afternoon.

Ms. Fan was placed under “residential surveillance” by the Fuping Police Department on May 26, 2021. She was charged with “undermining the implementation of the law.” The “punishment letter” did not state when the “residential surveillance” would end.

25. [Pingquan City, Hebei Province] 15 Practitioners Harassed

Ms. Chen Suhua was harassed at home by three or four people on the morning of May 12, 2021. When they attempted to take photo of Ms. Chen, she did not cooperate.

Ms. Gao Xiuqin was harassed at home by several officers from the Pingquan Police Station on the afternoon of May 12, 2021. They asked whether Ms. Gao still practiced Falun Gong and tried to take photo of her. Ms. Gao did not cooperate.

A few of officers from the Pingquan Police Station came to harass Ms. Wu Suqin at her home at noon on May 12, 2021.

Two officers from the Pingquan Police Station came to Ms. Sun Xiulan’s home on the afternoon of May 12, 2021. They asked Ms. Sun about her political status and whether she believed in a cult. Ms. Sun answered that she was just a regular person and didn’t believe in cults.

Ms. Zhao Yazhen received a harassing call from the Pingquan Town Police Station on May 11, 2021. She was asked questions such as where she lived, whether she was a member of CCP or its affiliated organizations, and whether she believed in a cult. Later the two officers came and tricked Ms. Zhao into taking a photo with them.

Ms. Li Qingyan received a harassing call at noon on May 18, 2021 when she was celebrating her 80-year-old mother’s birthday at a hotel in Pingquan City. After it was learned that she was not at home, the officer came to the hotel to take a photo of her.

Mr. Wang Tingzhong’s daughter received a harassing call from the Pingquan Town Police Station on the morning of May 11, 2021. The police officer told her that they needed to have a “return visit” with her father in order to remove her father’s name from the database.

Ms. Xie Guohua received a harassing call from the Pingquan Town Police Station in May 2021. The officer told her they needed to have a return visit with her.

Liu He (gender unknown) was harassed at home by an officer from the Pingquan Town Police Station in May.

Six practitioners including Hong Qi’e, Yuan Xiaolin, Yuan Xiaoqin, Wang Shuzhi, Ding Yufeng, and Xu Ruilian, were harassed at home on May 14, 17, or 20, 2021 respectively. Officer Zhu Guowen from the Daohugou Township Police Station came to the practitioners’ homes. He asked whether they still practiced Falun Gong and tried to take photo of them. The practitioners did not cooperate.

26. [Tonghua City, Jilin Province] Six Practitioners Harassed

Recently many practitioners were harassed by people from local communities, local police stations, and the Political and Legal Affairs committees.

Ms. Wang Guilan was threatened with having her subsistence allowance canceled and with losing her low-rent housing if she refused to sign the three statements.

Mr. Pang Zengde was pressured to write the three statements and was threatened with probation.

After being harassed multiple times, Mr. Pang Bo had to leave his home.

Ms. Sun Shufen was harassed at home by people from the local community and the Jiangdong Police Station. Due to the stress and fright, Ms. Sun was hospitalized.

Five people from the local community and the Xinzhan Police Station, including officer Wang Lijun, came to Zhang Chengye’s home. Zhang was not there, so they told his family to sign a statement on his behalf, but the family refused. Zhang received a harassing call from the local community in early May 2021 and was told to sign a guarantee statement. He refused to comply.

Ms. Ding Yan was harassed at home three times by officers from the Jiangdong Police Station. The first time was around March 2021. Two people from the Jiangdong Police Station and the local community came and told Ms. Ding to sign a guarantee statement, which she refused. The second time, five people from the local community came with the same demand. The third time, it seemed that the people were from the 610 Office. They did not say anything and just looked around a bit.

27. [Tianjin] Ten Practitioners Harassed

Mr. Zhao Jun from Baigutun Village was harassed at his home on May 11, 2021. Led by Zhang Yan, secretary of the village Party committee, several people from the Baigutun Town Police Station, the Baigutun Town Political and Legal Affairs Committee and the Wuqing District Political and Legal Affairs Committee including officer Qin Xinglong, came to Mr. Zhao’s home and threatened him to sign a statement, which Mr. Zhao refused. They stayed the entire day and searched every room in the house for Dafa books. They found only a media player, and confiscated it.

Mr. Wang Fengyan and Ms. Han Xiuhua from Baigutun Village were harassed by the same group of people in early May 2021.

Two officers from the Baigutun Town Police Station came to harass Mr. Zhao Tan and Ms. Zhou Jiguang in Xiaotian Village on May 13, 2021.

Qin Xinglong and two other officers from the Baigutun Town Police Station came to harass Liu Fuling (gender unknown) in Xiaozhaozhuang Village on the morning of May 13, 2021.

Qin Xinglong and other officers came to harass Ms. Liu Minhui and Mr. Ji Ruixing in Baigutun Village on May 15, 2021. They confiscated their Dafa books and their photos of Falun Gong’s founder from the practitioners’ home.

Qing Xinglong and village official Sun Fuhong came to harass Ren Xiaolan (gender unknown) in Baigutun Village on May 22, 2021. They pressured Ren to sign a statement and confiscated a photo of Falun Gong’s founder and a calligraphy with the words of Truthfulness-Benevolence-Forbearance. They took Ren to the local police station for interrogation.

Qing Xinglong came to harass Mr. Zhao Ke in the Xiaotian Village on May 22, 2021. Mr. Zhao was harassed again by village official Wu Jiang on May 26, 2021.