(Minghui.org) A resident of Huzhou City, Zhejiang Province, was arrested for talking to people about Falun Gong while she was vacationing in Jiaozuo City, Henan Province. The police attempted to extort money from her family while she was detained. After they refused, the police submitted her case to the procuratorate. She is now facing prosecution for her faith.
Falun Gong, also known as Falun Dafa, is a spiritual discipline that has been persecuted by the communist regime since 1999.
Ms. Du Kejuan, who worked at the Sheraton Hotel in Huzhou City, was arrested on December 8, 2018, while she was visiting Yuntai Mountain in Jiaozuo City. She was arrested by Hongshixia Police Station officers after being reported for talking to people about Falun Gong.
While Ms. Du was being held in the Jiaozuo City Detention Center, the police traveled over 500 miles from Jiaozuo to her hometown in Longkou City, Shandong Province, and raided her house that had been rented out. Her apartment in Huzhou City, Zhejiang Province, was also ransacked.
A stack of small cards with information about Falun Gong printed on them and her Falun Gong books were confiscated and used as evidence against her.
The Jiaozuo City police contacted her family several times and demanded to meet with them in person to discuss her case. Her family insisted that she didn't violate any laws by practicing Falun Gong and refused to comply.
The police promised Ms. Du that she would be released if she signed a document. She believed them and signed the document without reading it carefully. She realized later it was a statement pleading guilty to the charge.
Ms. Du's family in Zhaoyuan City, Shandong Province, was informed by the Jiaozuo City Procuratorate on January 11, 2019, that her arrest had been approved.
During the Chinese New Year in early February, the head of Jiaozuo Domestic Security Division contacted Ms. Du's family again and implied that they could pay him in exchange for her release.
The family turned him down and demanded her release unconditionally. They also hired a lawyer to represent her.
When her lawyer attempted to visit her and review her case, he was told that the Jiaozuo City Procuratorate was re-organizing their case documents and that Ms. Du's document wasn't in their system yet.
Ms. Du's employment contract states that she can be fired if she is absent from work for seven days in a row. Since she has been detained for more than three months, she is worried that she might now lose her job.
