(February 3, 2000)

1. The Head of a Police Station Was Removed from His Post for Failing to Prevent Local Practitioners from Going to Beijing to Appeal

Several days ago, the head and the political instructor of the Niu-shi-kou police station of Chengdu City were removed from their posts and will be punished by high authorities because they failed to prevent local practitioners from going to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong.

According to sources, the authorities hope that pressuring different levels of government officials will enable them to intensify its persecutions against Falun Gong.

2. Bonus Was Revoked, Family Members Were Threatened

All the Falun Gong practitioners living close to Wu-gui-qiao of Chengdu City were required to attend the "transformation education" class held in the local police station. Practitioners were required to bring their living utensils with them and could not leave the police station 24hours a day. They have not met their family members for many days. A practitioner's son-in-law who is a soldier was threatened by the police station that if he could not make his mother-in-law give up Falun Gong, the police station would ask the army authorities to discharge him and send him back to his hometown.

For all practitioners living close to Wu-gui-qiao who had gone to Beijing to appeal, their villages revoked the yearly bonus of their family members including their children and grandchildren.

3. Kept in Police Custody for Uncertain about Whether to Go to Beijing to Appeal

Recently, Falun Gong practitioner Zhang Xiao-ying, an employee of the Factory of Seamless Steel Pipe of Chengdu City, was taken to the police station by the security section of her workplace only a few days later after she got released after 15 days of detention for going to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong. The police officer asked her whether she would continue to practice Falun Gong, she said yes. The police officer then asked her whether she would go to Beijing to appeal again. She said that she was not sure about that. The police officer then struck the table and roared, "Detain her for another 15 days."

4. Professor Hong Ji-rong Were Sentenced with Three Years of Forced Labor and Removed from Party

Falun Gong practitioner, Ms. Hong Ji-rong, who was a professor of Si-chuan University, was sentenced with three years of forced labor "education", and was expelled from the party shortly afterwards.

5. Doctor Went to Appeal; Clinic was Confiscated

Falun Gong practitioner, Doctor Miao, is living close to the Wu-gui-qiao. Her clinic was confiscated by the police department because she went to Beijing to appeal. She is now under criminal detention.

6. Reported By the Neighbor; Wife and Son Were Gone

Mr. Wang was living in the residential area of the Factory of Seamless Steel Pipe of Chengdu. After being reported by his neighbor, his son was sentenced to one and a half year of forced labor education and his wife had to attend the "transformation class" held by the police station for many days. In order to avoid more trouble, he had to move to another place far away from his workplace.

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