(Minghui.org) On September 27, 2013, the director of the Chaoyang Police Department in Liaoning Province gave orders for the distribution of a document entitled “20 To-do Projects for All Police Departments” to every police department in the city. One of those "projects" was for at least 112 Falun Gong practitioners to be arrested, charged, and sentenced.
This order follows on the heels of the secret instructions given on September 16 by Wang Mingyu, the Chaoyang City Communist Party Committee secretary, to the Chaoyang Police Department. Wang ordered them to “position yourselves carefully, enhance your pursuit efforts, and stick to the guideline 'just do it, don't talk about it'” when they persecute Falun Gong practitioners.
Li Chao, director of the Chaoyang Police Department, personally assigned an “arrest” quota to each station. He ordered the 21 stations citywide to arrest at least 112 Falun Gong practitioners in the Chaoyang area before December 15. This operation was organized by Hong Deming, chief of the Domestic Security Division.
When Wang Mingyu's secret order of September 16 was leaked by the international media, everyone in the Chaoyang city government was appalled, and Li Chao and Wang Mingyu were both horrified.
Li Chao then spread a rumor claiming that a man nicknamed “Yun Tian Fen Sheng” fabricated the news about Wang Mingyu online and that the police would investigate and make an arrest. He then issued his “20 To-do Projects for All Police Departments” to carry out Wang Mingyu's secret order under the guise of carrying out the action plans outlined at the “National Meeting of Police Chiefs.”
Not long after Wang Mingyu came to Chaoyang City, he ordered the arrest and imprisonment of two acquaintances who tried to clarify the facts about Falun Gong to him over the phone. He also accelerated the persecution of practitioners in the Chaoyang area. Under his direction, Li Chao once publicly claimed his intention to “severely sentence and strike against” Falun Gong practitioners at a meeting he organized on August 12 and 13, 2013. According to incomplete statistics, from January to the end of September 2013, 58 practitioners from the Chaoyang area were arrested under the instructions of Wang Mingyu.
The document also mentioned a plan to give anyone who appeals a hard time by mobilizing thousands of police officers. Wang Mingyu and Li Chao labeled those people who are being persecuted and have legally appealed to higher authorities as “illegal appellants.” They assigned Hong Deming to be responsible for “finding out who they are and how many and to collect evidence and materials against key appellants,” so that they could have them charged and sentences.
There is evidence that, since Wang Mingyu was appointed Communist Party Committee secretary and mayor of Chaoyang City, he has been involved in serious corruption and bribery. He put huge amounts of money into his pocket by falsely claiming that he managed government engineering and immigration projects.
Several corrupt officials were reported to the authorities and put under surveillance, but Wang Mingyu bailed them out. One official said when he was drunk, “Who dares to touch me? Wang Mingyu and another deputy mayor are my patrons.”
Wang Mingyu personally requested the transfer of Li Chao from Panjin City, whom the residents of Panjin called “especially fiendish,” and the police in Chaoyang call “especially worthless.” On one hand, Li Chao persecuted Falun Gong, on the other, he cracked down on those people who persecuted them in order to protect Wang Mingyu.
The relationship between Wang Mingyu and Li Chao is similar to Bo Xilai and Wang Lijun's, and they are doomed to suffer the same fate as Bo and Wang. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is full of corrupt officials like Wang Mingyu and Li Chao—how can it not collapse?
On September 18, 2013, Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Zhang Yuzuo was arrested by officers from the Jiaotong Police Department for distributing Falun Gong informational materials near the Dabai Building at the central market in Chaoyang City. Several police officers went to Ms. Zhang's home that day, ransacked it, and confiscated many personal items, including her Dafa books.
She was detained at the Chaoyang Detention Center for seven days. Gao Yang, the director of the Investigation Division, and officer Shi Lei of the Jiaotong Police Department fabricated false charges against her and submitted the case to the Chaoyang City Procuratorate on September 25. The Procuratorate saw this case as “key” and “critical” and established a committee on September 27 to speedily approve Ms. Zhang's arrest warrant. On September 30, the Procuratorate returned the case to the Jiaotong Police Department and requested that they supply additional evidence.
Ms. Zhang's husband worked in another city, and she took care of her 84-year-old mother-in-law. Her son attended high school and just underwent surgery, but has no one to take care of him. When Ms. Zhang was arrested, her mother-in-law and her son could neither sleep nor eat well and are in a very difficult situation.
Attorneys from Beijing have already pleaded three defenses during trials for Falun Gong practitioners in Chaoyang City. Professionals in the judicial system in Chaoyang City know that no law in China claims that the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners is legal.
No legal documents mention the word “Falun Gong,” including the document issued by the Public Security Ministry in 2005 (six years after the start of the persecution of Falun Gong), which names 14 “evil cults.” The persecution of Falun Gong was implemented by Jiang Zemin, who utilized the CCP's propaganda machine to carry out his bidding. Those who follow him in the persecution of Falun Gong are sure to be held accountable for their crimes.