“Internally, the public security bureaus all have quotas [for
persecuting Falun Gong practitioners]. If you ‘re-educate’ one, you get
rewarded a certain amount of money; if you sentence one to jail, another
amount is rewarded. The public security bureaus all have it listed on
their performance boards.”
Such boards keep track of officers’ so-called “political
achievements” so that they can get rewards or promotions according to
the number of arrests they make.
China expert Ji Qing, who is based in Washington D.C., said these
high dollar figures suggest the Chinese Communist Party’s persecution of
Falun Gong is not supported by the Chinese public, and can only be
sustained through monetary bribes.
Earlier this month, human rights activist Chen Guangcheng revealed in a video addressed to CCP leader Wen Jiabao
that local authorities in his native Shangdong province spent over 60
million yuan ($9.5 million) to keep him and his family under house
arrest.
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