China ramps up persecution of Falun Gong with a vengeance

226 Falun Gong Practitioners Targeted for Their Faith in February 2021

According to information collected by Minghui.org, 100 Chinese citizens were arrested and 126 were harassed in February 2021 for their faith in Falun Gong, a spiritual discipline that has been persecuted by the Chinese communist regime since 1999.

Also reported in February 2021 were an additional 94 arrests and 249 incidents of harassment that took place in 2020. Another 64 arrests and 65 harassment cases in January 2021 were also confirmed in February, bringing the total incidents of arrest and harassment in the first month of 2021 to 267 and 215, respectively.

Among the 100 confirmed arrests in February so far, 67 remain in custody. A total of 74 of both the arrested and harassed practitioners had their homes ransacked. In particular, Ms. Li Yanxia of Guangdong Province had her laptop, cellphone, over 20,000 U.S. dollars, 5,000 Chinese yuan, and car keys confiscated during her arrest on February 8.
Among the arrested practitioners, 2 were in their 60s, 12 in their 70s, and 1 in her 80s. Of those harassed, 7 were in their 60s, 8 in their 70s, and 6 in their 80s, with the oldest being 86.

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