On April 28, 2002, dozens of residents came to the Cult Problems Prevention and Treatment Office of Beijing Municipal Government to report on the harassment they suffered from the harassing phone calls and mobile phone SMS made by overseas Falun Gong followers, and requested the government to strengthen their efforts in banning the cult organization Falun Gong.

Mr. Wang, the representative of Shougang Group in Moscow who lived in Tongzhou District told the reporter that he had just come back from Moscow. When he was working at home one day, the telephone in his family suddenly ringed. He picked up the telephone but heard nobody saying anything in a long time. Then there came the recorded phone message, saying that the suicide burning of Falun Gong practitioners on Tian'anmen Square was not true and that there was ongoing nation-wide mass slaughter of Falun Gong practitioners. The recorded phone message also contained many words that denounced the government.

At the beginning, Mr. Wang was astonished by the phone call, and got very angry at it later. He said that he did not believe in the paradoxical deceit of the Falun Gong followers but was very annoyed by harassing phone call because it had disturbed his normal life.

Director Li of the Xijiaominxiang neighbourhood committee of Xicheng District has also received such harassing phone call. In the meantime, many senior residents in that area have reported to her on similar harassing phone calls as well, complaining that such calls have seriously disturbed them. Ms. Zhao, who had helped the conversion of Falun Gong followers, has frequently received telephone threatening since last October, but these are "the final struggle of the Falun Gong addicts".

In the meantime, neighbourhood committees , subdistrict offices, CPC committee of subdistrict and other government bodies have become the targets of the harassing phone calls made by overseas Falun Gong followers.

 (Beijing Times, April 29, 2002)