(Minghui.org) Today's news from China includes incidents of persecution that took place in 27 cities or counties in 11 provinces, where at least 92 practitioners were recently persecuted for their belief.

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1. [Dalian City, Liaoning Province] Mr. Ma Yan Sentenced to Prison
2. [Zhumadian City, Henan Province] Ms. Yan Weibin Taken to Prison
3. [Harbin City, Heilongjiang Province] Seventeen Practitioners Arrested
4. [Dalian City, Liaoning Province] Ms. Wu Chun Sentenced to Prison
5. [Harbin City, Heilongjiang Province] Several Practitioners Harassed
6. [Chaoyang City, Liaoning Province] Ms. Yin Xiuzhi and Ms. Chen Suying Abused in Prison
7. [Beijing] Case against Ms. Fu Xiuqin Brought to Court
8. [Qingdao City, Shandong Province] Mr. Jin Yongxin Developed Symptoms of Cerebral Hemorrhage Due to Persecution
9. [Weifang City, Shandong Province] Four Practitioners Arrested
10. [Chaoyang City, Liaoning Province] Ms. Wu Arrested
11. [Macheng City, Hubei Province] Three Practitioners Arrested
12. [Handan City, Hebei Province] Ms. Han Zhimei Detained
13. [Mudanjiang City, Heilongjiang Province] Three Practitioners Arrested
14. [Xinyang City, Henan Province] Ms. Ding Zerong Detained
15. [Hefei City, Anhui Province] Case against Ms. Jiang Zhaoying Turned Over to Procuratorate
16. [Daqing City, Heilongjiang Province] Several Practitioners Arrested
17. [Hanchuan City, Hubei Province] Three Practitioners Tried
18. [Yantai City, Shandong Province] Several Practitioners Arrested
19. [Beijing] Ms. Wang Yuhong Harassed
20. [Xianyang City, Shaanxi Province] Ms. Zhao Guirong Held in Custody
21. [Jilin City, Jilin Province] Ms. Yan Shuqing and Jiang Detained
22. [Emeishan City, Sichuan Province] Ms. Shen Guixiang Detained
23. [Kunming City, Yunnan Province] Ms. Yan Jinxiang’s Home Ransacked
24. [Weifang City, Shandong Province] Ms. Yang Xueqin Harassed
25. [Harbin City, Heilongjiang Province] Ms. Zhang Fenglian Arrested
26. [Suifenhe City, Heilongjiang Province] Ms. Wang Yanhong Arrested
27. [Hunchun City, Jilin Province] Ms. Ji Jun Taken to Brainwashing Center
28. [Beijing] Ms. Xia Chunfeng Followed
29. [Shanghai] Ms. Fan Hua Arrested
30. [Beijing] Several Practitioners Harassed
31. [Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province] Several Practitioners Harassed
32. [Songyuan City, Jilin Province] Several Practitioners Harassed
33. [Beipiao City, Liaoning Province] Ms. Wang Haixia Arrested
34. [Qinhuangdao City, Hebei Province] Mr. Guo Hongshan Arrested
35. [Yushu City, Jilin Province] Ms. Bai Chunxiu Harassed

1. [Dalian City, Liaoning Province] Mr. Ma Yan Sentenced to Prison

Mr. Ma Yan from Lushun District was sentenced to four years and ten months in prison by the Ganjingzi Court on June 3, 2021. He has appealed.

2. [Zhumadian City, Henan Province] Ms. Yan Weibin Taken to Prison

Ms. Yan Weibin was reported to the police on July 16, 2020, for talking to people about Falun Gong. She was arrested and her home was ransacked. She was tried for a second time and sentenced to seven years in prison by the Yicheng District Court in November 2020. After receiving the verdict on December 9, 2020, Ms. Yan’s family appealed to the Zhumadian Intermediate Court, which subsequently upheld the original verdict.

Ms. Yan was taken to the Xinxiang Women’s Prison in early May 2021.

3. [Harbin City, Heilongjiang Province] Seventeen Practitioners Arrested

On June 10, 2021, 17 Falun Gong practitioners in the Nangang District, the Daoli District, the Daowai District, the Xiangfang District, the Songbei District, and the Shuangcheng District in Harbin were arrested, harassed, and their homes were ransacked by police.

The 17 practitioners are: Mr. Hou Haichao, Mr. Zhang Zhi’an, Mr. Ren Yulin, Ms. Ma Shuhua, Ms. Wang Chunyan, Mr. Hou Xicai, Tuo, Mr. Zhao Kai, Liu, Yan, Mr. Sun Jian, Mr. Li Jiwu, Mr. Chang Guofu, Ms. Wang Jingping, Ms. Wang Jingli, and two elderly female practitioners.

They were interrogated at No. 111 Gongsi Street in the Nangang District by personnel from the Harbin Railway Transport Procuratorate on June 10.

Of the above 17 practitioners: Mr. Hou Haichao, Mr. Zhang Zhi’an were released; Mr. Ren Yulin, Ms. Ma Shuhua, Ms. Wang Chunyan, Mr. Hou Xicai, and Tuo were officially placed under arrest and are being held in the Harbin City Detention Center; Mr. Zhao Kai’s laptop, Falun Dafa books, and other items were confiscated. Mr. Zhao is being held in the Daoli Detention Center.

Ms. Li Yuzhen and Ms. Liu Lijuan are missing. Cui Xiuqin was harassed at home by the Jianguo Police Station.

4. [Dalian City, Liaoning Province] Ms. Wu Chun Sentenced to Prison

Ms. Wu Chun from the Lushun District was tried and sentenced to one year in prison by the Ganjingzi Court on June 3, 2021.

5. [Harbin City, Heilongjiang Province] Several Practitioners Harassed

Two officers from the Fangtai Town Police Station, Hulan District, went to the home of Mr. Zhang Honggang and his wife Ms. Liang Jibo in March 2021. They asked the couple if they still practiced Falun Gong. Mr. Zhang clarified the truth to them. They did not listen to him and left in a hurry.

The Fangtai Town government Party secretary went to the couple’s home and harassed them on April 6.

About 10 days later, two officers from the police station went to the couple’s home again. They told Mr. Zhang to add them to his circle of friends in WeChat, a popular social media app. The two officers wanted to enter the room to harass Mr. Zhang’s mother, but the couple stopped them.

Two officers from the police station went to the home of Mr. Zhang Zhi and Ms. Duan Yaying in May 2021, and told the couple to invite them into their friend circles in WeChat, on the grounds of anti-fraud measures.

Staff members from the Fangtai Town government went to Ms. Liu Li’s home on April 6 and asked her if she still practiced Falun Gong.

Officers including team leader Ya Wen, from the Yuanye Police Station, went to practitioner Gong San’s home at noon on May 27, 2021. Gong and spouse were not at home. Officers forced their daughter to sign three statements, otherwise they would not leave.

6. [Chaoyang City, Liaoning Province] Ms. Yin Xiuzhi and Ms. Chen Suying Abused in Prison

Ms. Yin Xiuzhi and Ms. Chen Suying are being held in the No. 7 Ward in the Liaoning Women’s Prison.

Ms. Chen developed tuberculosis due to the persecution and was transferred to a hospital prison ward, where she stayed for two years. She returned to the No. 7 Ward around October 2020 and is currently being held in the No. 2 Team.

Ms. Chen tried to do the exercises and called out, “Falun Dafa is good!” in the workshop. Li Yunxia, one of the inmates who were assigned by prison authorities to closely monitor practitioners, pressed Ms. Chen to the ground and sealed her mouth with tape. Ms. Chen is now locked up in a cabin in the police office on the second floor, and two inmates have been arranged to watch her every day.

Ms. Yin was held in the No. 9 Team. She did not cooperate during daily body searches and refused to go through the gate for the security check. Prison guards arranged for two inmates to carry her through the security gate every day. Sometimes she was carried from the workshop all the way to the fourth floor of the cell by four inmates.

Inmates found it tiresome and an extra burden. They would deliberately drop her to the ground, bump her against the stair rails, or stretch her arms vigorously. Every time after the inmates carried her, the others noticed that she had to curl up her shoulders and arms in pain. Prison guards and inmates also yelled at her from time to time.

One day, the ward officials told all the prisoners to sit on the board to study in their cells, but Ms. Yin sat on the bed. After she was spotted, deputy section head Zhou of the No. 7 Ward scolded her loudly. The others later noticed that she was laying on the ground. It's believed that the prison guards ordered the inmates to pull her off the bed.

7. [Beijing] Case Against Ms. Fu Xiuqin Brought to Court

Ms. Fu Xiuqin was arrested by officers from the Sanjiadian Police Station, Mentougou District, in July 2020. She was released on bail for one year. During this period, the officers went to her home and harassed her many times. They collected her fingerprints and blood samples. They videotaped her, photographed her, and questioned her while taking notes. Officers verified and recorded the items confiscated from her home, and listed these items in a thick notebook as evidence for follow-up persecution.

Ms. Fu’s case was turned over to the Mentougou District Procuratorate in 2021. Her lawyer demanded that the prosecution be withdrawn, which the procuratorate ignored. Prosecutor Zhang Xiaokai brought her case to the Mentougou District Court.

The court told her family members who were responsible for her bail, her lawyer, and Ms. Fu to go to the court on the afternoon of June 15.

8. [Qingdao City, Shandong Province] Mr. Jin Yongxin Developed Symptoms of Cerebral Hemorrhage Due to Persecution

Mr. Jin Yongxin was persecuted in the Jinan Prison for not giving up his belief in Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance. He is now suffering from hypertension and cerebral hemorrhage symptoms. His family members asked for medical parole, but the prison guards disagreed.

9. [Weifang City, Shandong Province] Four Practitioners Arrested

Ms. Feng Changli was arrested by officers from the Chengxi Police Station, Changle County, on the afternoon of May 18, 2021. Ms. Qin Xiaoli, Ms. Sun Xuefen, and Mr. Gao Peng were also arrested by the officers.

Mr. Gao’s current whereabouts are unknown. The other three practitioners were taken to the Changyi Detention Center on the morning of May 20 by eight or nine officers led by Song Tao, head of the Domestic Security Division, and Wu Qiang, a police assistant.

The three practitioners failed the physical examination, and the detention center refused to accept them. On the evening of May 20, all three practitioners were released on bail after their families were each extorted a deposit of 5,000 yuan.

10. [Chaoyang City, Liaoning Province] Ms. Wu Arrested

Ms. Wu was arrested by officers from the Xiangyang Police Department on June 11, 2021. The officers ransacked her home and confiscated her Falun Dafa books and a printer. She was released that day.

Later, when she was about to board a train on her way to her son’s home, her national ID card was checked at the train station. The security officers searched her bags and saw that she carried paper bills with Falun Gong facts. Her home was ransacked again.

11. [Macheng City, Hubei Province] Three Practitioners Arrested

Ms. Wu Zhengmei, Ms. Hao Yinrong and Ms. Bao Mingxiang were arrested by officers from the Zhongyi Police Station on the evening of June 14, 2021. They are being held in the Macheng City No. 2 Detention Center.

12. [Handan City, Hebei Province] Ms. Han Zhimei Detained

Ms. Han Zhimei and two other practitioners in their 70s were reported to the police for talking to people about Falun Gong on June 16, 2021. They were arrested by officers from the Huaguanying Police Station. The officers ransacked their homes that day. They did not find anything they were looking for in the two elderly practitioners’ homes. Both elderly practitioners were released that evening.

The officers confiscated items from Ms. Han’s home. They told her to get a nucleic acid test, after which they would place her under 15 days of detention.

13. [Mudanjiang City, Heilongjiang Province] Three Practitioners Arrested

Ms. Wang Fengling from Ning’an City was arrested on June 10, 2021. She was released. Ms. Gao Shunting was arrested in May, and was later released. Mr. Zhang Tao was originally placed under criminal detention for 10 days, which was subsequently extended to 15 days.

14. [Xinyang City, Henan Province] Ms. Ding Zerong Detained

Ms. Ding Zerong from Jiangji Township, Huangchuan County, was arrested by officers from the Beicheng Police Station while distributing Falun Gong materials in the downtown area of Huangchuan County on June 5, 2021. She is being held in the county detention center.

15. [Hefei City, Anhui Province] Case against Ms. Jiang Zhaoying Turned Over to Procuratorate

Ms. Jiang Zhaoying, 68, and Ms. Liu Tifei, 76, from Luyang District, were arrested at home by officers from the Chengdong Police Station, Yaohai District, on January 21, 2021, on the grounds that both practitioners, in November 2020, talked to a young man about Falun Gong and gave him a USB flash drive with Falun Gong information. They were reported to the police. Ms. Liu was placed under residential surveillance by officers from the local police station.

The police station turned Ms. Jiang’s case over to the Shushan District Procuratorate at the end of April 2021.

16. [Daqing City, Heilongjiang Province] Several Practitioners Arrested

Ms. Zhao Liyan, Ms. Lu Shuhua, and Ms. Wang Ying were arrested by officers from the Dongguang Police Department, Longfeng District, on June 10, 2021. Their homes were ransacked. They were released that day. Ms. Zhao was released on bail.

Ms. Li Yuxia and her non-practitioner daughter were arrested by seven or eight officers from the police department on June 10. Ms. Li was released on bail and her daughter was released.

17. [Hanchuan City, Hubei Province] Three Practitioners Tried

Ms. Xiao Yanfang, Mr. Liu Yibo were tried at 9:30 a.m. which ended at 11:30 a.m. on June 16, 2021. Ms. Hu Hanjiao was tried after 1 p.m. which ended around 2 p.m. that day. The court did not announce the results of the trials. The practitioners were told that the collegiate panel would make an announcement after reviewing their cases.

18. [Yantai City, Shandong Province] Several Practitioners Arrested

Officers from the Laishan District Police Department arrested several practitioners on June 10, 2021.

Ms. Gong Yuanyuan was arrested at her daughter’s home. Her cell phone was confiscated. Ms. Sun Dongfang and her husband Mr. Chang were arrested.

Yang Fachang (gender unknown) was arrested. Yang’s cell phone was confiscated, and information in the phone was extracted. The officers coaxed more information out of Yang, who returned home on June 11 after being given a nucleic acid test.

Ms. Qiu Liying was arrested, forced to undergo a nucleic acid test, and released that day.

Yang (first name and gender unknown), Gao (first name and gender unknown), Ms. Sun Dingmei, and Ms. Sun Qiuhong were also arrested.

19. [Beijing] Ms. Wang Yuhong Harassed

Ms. Wang Yuhong from the Chaoyang District was placed under surveillance and harassed by local police officers and community management personnel for a long time, especially around the anniversaries of events that the Chinese Communist Party felt were sensitive to the regime’s stability. Recently, seven or eight people acted as crazily as gangsters. They were staked out in a gray van parked right in front of her house around the clock. Even her neighbors were frightened.

20. [Xianyang City, Shaanxi Province] Ms. Zhao Guirong Held in Custody

Ms. Zhao Guirong, 69, was arrested by officers from the Dianzhang Police Station while talking to people about Falun Gong at the Dianzhang farmers market on June 10, 2021. She is being held in the Caihong Police Department.

21. [Jilin City, Jilin Province] Ms. Yan Shuqing and Jiang Detained

Ms. Yan Shuqing from Jiaohe City and practitioner Jiang who owns a beauty salon were arrested on June 16, 2021. They were detained. Further details are pending.

22. [Emeishan City, Sichuan Province] Ms. Shen Guixiang Detained

Ms. Shen Guixiang from Shuangfu Town was arrested by officers from the Jiajiang County Police Department on May 9, 2021, for sending Falun Gong materials to the police department. Her home was ransacked the following day. She is being held in the Quanfu Town Detention Center.

23. [Kunming City, Yunnan Province] Ms. Yan Jinxiang’s Home Ransacked

Ms. Yan Jinxiang, 83, was reported to the police for posting “Stop persecuting Falun Dafa” stickers on the evening of May 13, 2021. She was arrested at her home by officers including Duan Mingshun from the Xishan District Domestic Security Division at 10 a.m. on June 9. The officers ransacked her home and confiscated her Falun Dafa books, a computer, an audio player, TransFlash cards, U disks, Minghui Weekly, house keys, and cash.

Ms. Yan was taken to the Yongchang Police Station, where she was not given lunch or dinner. She was released after 8 p.m. that evening.

24. [Weifang City, Shandong Province] Ms. Yang Xueqin Harassed

Three people from the Wenhua Community Management Office, Hanting Sub-district, went to Ms. Yang Xueqin’s home on June 13, 2021. They told her not to go out to distribute Falun Gong materials. Ms. Yang clarified the facts about Falun Gong to them, they left without saying anything.

The director of the Hanting Sub-district Administration Office and another staff member went to Ms. Yang’s home and harassed her again at noon on June 15.

25. [Harbin City, Heilongjiang Province] Ms. Zhang Fenglian Arrested

Ms. Zhang Fenglian was arrested by officers from the Shangzhi Domestic Security Division on the morning of June 10, 2021. She is being held in the Harbin Detention Center.

26. [Suifenhe City, Heilongjiang Province] Ms. Wang Yanhong Arrested

Ms. Wang Yanhong was arrested by Domestic Security Officers who were staked out in the corridor when her child opened the door to go to school on June 17, 2021. These people also ransacked her home.

27. [Hunchun City, Jilin Province] Ms. Ji Jun Taken to Brainwashing Center

Ms. Ji Jun was arrested and taken to the Ying’an Brainwashing Center.

28. [Beijing] Ms. Xia Chunfeng Followed

Ms. Xia Chunfeng from the Chaoyang District has been monitored and followed around the clock, since June 15, 2021, by people hired by the Lijingyuan Residential Committee in Changying Town.

29. [Shanghai] Ms. Fan Hua Arrested

Ms. Fan Hua from Yantai City, Shandong Province, went to Shanghai to visit relatives in May 2021. While she was there, she posted Falun Gong informational stickers and was recorded by video surveillance cameras. She was arrested by officers from the Tianfu Police Station, Yantai City, at noon on June 16. It is not clear where she is being held.

30. [Beijing] Several Practitioners Harassed

Yan Yukun, a residential police officer in Xicun Village, Jinzhan Township, Chaoyang District, led a group of four people including Xicun Village security official Lu Sen to harass Falun Gong practitioners in the village as part of the “zero-out” campaign on June 8, 2021.

Practitioners known to have been harassed are: Ms. Kou Rumin, Ms. Pu Yuling, Mr. Zhou Baoyong, Ms. Dong Yuzhi, Ms. Ye Yuhua, and Ms. Cui Xiuli.

Even Ms. Zhang Peizhi, who is bedridden, was also harassed. Lu confiscated a copy of Minghui Weekly from her home and said that he would track down its source.

31. [Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province] Several Practitioners Harassed

From April 20 to May 20, 2021, officers from the Tianchang Town Police Station, Jingxing County, harassed Falun Gong practitioners as well as their family members.

Between April 21 and April 28, two officers harassed Ms. Qiao Wen in Gaojiazhuang Village four times, and harassed Ms. Xu Fenglin in the same village twice. When the two officers did not find the practitioners, they called their husbands and children, who could not handle the pressure. The two families’ normal life has been disrupted.

Two officers led by village official Yin Mosheng in Chouxihe Village went to practitioner Mo Tian’s home and harassed Mo on April 28.

Two officers went to the homes of Ms. Lu Xijin and another practitioner in April and asked them if they still practiced Falun Gong. The officers said that if they signed statements renouncing Falun Gong, their names would be removed from the CCP's blacklist.

Mr. Hao Guosheng was harassed at home by two officers including Lu Yulong on April 28 and May 23.

On May 20, two officers led by village official Hao Yinwen in Huanggou Village went to the homes of Mr. Chen Jirong and another person, who has since stopped practicing Falun Gong. The officers asked them if they still practiced Falun Gong, and pressured them to sign paperwork.

32. [Songyuan City, Jilin Province] Several Practitioners Harassed

Since the beginning of 2021, officers from the Changling County Police Department, staff members of various community management offices in Changling Town, and Party secretaries of various village committees have continuously harassed Falun Gong practitioners and their families.

Ms. Gao Fengmei was arrested and sentenced to three years in prison in 2015 for suing Jiang Zemin, the former head of the Chinese Communist Party.

After returning home, she has been harassed by phone calls from the village Party secretary, who also called her son. The village Party secretary told her to go to the brainwashing center, which she refused. They called her son again, and her son refused to help them. In June, they started a new round of telephone harassment, pressuring her to write the three statements, which she refused.

Residential police officers and community management personnel took turns to go to elderly Ms. Wang Shuqin’s home to harass her on June 3, 2021. They pressured her to sign the three statements, which she refused. Not giving up, they went to threaten her son, “If you don’t sign, it will affect your children’s college admission and military enlistment.”

In early June, Ms. Wang’s daughter Ms. Zheng Yafeng, a teacher at the Liushui Township Middle School, was also harassed. The Changling County Police Department instructed the school principal to put pressure on Ms. Zheng, keeping an eye on her every day just in case she went to Beijing.

33. [Beipiao City, Liaoning Province] Ms. Wang Haixia Arrested

Ms. Wang Haixia from Fuzhangzi Village, Xiguan Town, was arrested on May 27, 2021. The police ransacked her home and confiscated photos of the founder of Falun Gong, Falun Dafa books, and a cell phone.

Officers suddenly went to Ms. Wang’s home and arrested her again on June 11. They gave her a comprehensive physical examination. In the end, the detention center refused to accept her due to high blood pressure, and she was taken home that afternoon.

34. [Qinhuangdao City, Hebei Province] Mr. Guo Hongshan Arrested

Mr. Guo Hongshan was arrested, at 5 p.m. on May 27, 2021, by officers from the Haigang District Police Department and director Li Wentao and other officers from the Heping Street Police Station. Mr. Guo is being held in the Funing County Detention Center.

35. [Yushu City, Jilin Province] Ms. Bai Chunxiu Harassed

Acting Party secretary Bai Dabo of the Enyu Village, Enyu Township, went to Ms. Bai Chunxiu’s parents’ home in April 2021. He asked where Ms. Bai lived and what she was doing. He also asked for her phone number. Ms. Bai’s parents did not cooperate.

On June 16, secretary Bai led village security officer Che to Ms. Bai’s parents’ home again. Ms. Bai’s elder brother and his wife were at home. They told Ms. Bai’s older brother to photograph her when she returned and ask her to sign paperwork. They said that after the “zero-out” campaign, her name would be removed from the list and she could go wherever she wanted. Otherwise, it would be difficult for her to go out of town.