China: 101 Falun Gong Practitioners Arrested in February 2019 Alone

The Chinese Communists make life just miserable for these poor people. People are sentenced to 10 years for putting u a little poster or talking to people about Falun Gong.

According to information compiled by Minghui.org, 101 Falun Gong practitioners in China were arrested and 86 were harassed for their faith in February 2019.

Among them, 35 practitioners had their homes ransacked; 61 remain in detention at the time of writing.

Falun Gong, also known as Falun Dafa, is a spiritual discipline based on the principles of Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance that has been persecuted by the Chinese communist regime since 1999.

With strict information censorship in China, persecution cases cannot always be reported in a timely manner, nor is all the information readily available.

Eleven of the targeted practitioners in February 2019 were above 65 years old, including an 85-year-old woman in Heilongjiang Province, who was arrested for distributing informational materials about Falun Gong. One 77-year-old retired doctor in Guizhou Province was held and interrogated for eight hours at a train station after security personnel checked his identification and discovered that he practices Falun Gong.

The targeted practitioners come from 21 provinces and centrally-controlled municipalities. Jilin, Liaoning, and Heilongjiang Provinces all had double-digit arrests, while the remaining provinces and regions had single digit cases.

Harassment of practitioners intensified in February prior to the National People's Congress meeting held in Beijing on March 5-15.

[link to en.minghui.org]