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My daughter Liu Shuqin, son-in-law Wang Xinzhong and
their daughter Wang Bo were arrested, beaten and taken to forced labor
camps
many times for refusing to renounce the practice of Falun Gong. They
are firm in
their belief in Truthfulness, Compassion and Tolerance.
Liu Shuqin lost control of her bowels due to torture, and it took her quite some time to recover after returning home. Wang Xinzhong's eyes were bloodshot and he could not move his back because of the beating. Even young Wang Bo was sentenced to three years of forced labor and finished college under close police supervision. Meanwhile, the police continued to harass them after they returned home. The family saw no other alternative but to go into hiding in the Northeast.
They still had no reprieve. They were arrested again on July 27, 2006. So far, they have been detained for over four months. They were subjected to a court trial and were told that a sentence would be handed down soon. To our dismay, it is impossible to find a lawyer who would ask for a non-guilty verdict when representing Falun Gong practitioners.
We have heard that attorney Gao Zhisheng of Beijing, who holds up justice, has been arrested by police because he represented practitioners. We also understand that his wife and children are being monitored by police. I am almost 90 years old, yet I have not seen or heard of such injustice and unreasonableness. I hereby appeal that more lawyers stand up and defend justice, resist the evil, and help my daughter's family!
We were not notified of their arrest, and we tried in vain to get information regarding their whereabouts and if their lives were in danger. Some kind-hearted people told us that the entire proceedings and detention are kept in secret.
When the news could no longer be hidden from us, the police told us lies. They claimed that my family members would be released after over 20 days of "re-education" in a brainwashing center. They claimed that they would be bailed out by their employers. The police assured us that we could expect them home soon.
Then, out of the blue, we received a phone call asking us to bring clothes to the detention center. They were detained a long time ago. We have yet to receive any official notification. Meanwhile we heard rumors that Wang Bo and her mother were in poor health because of a hunger strike. Then we heard that Wang Xinzhong was hospitalized for emergency treatment. We also heard that Wang Bo was injected with sleep inducing drugs in order to give her intravenous injections more easily. My granddaughter was already suffering a great deal mentally for several years when police kept her under surveillance. We worry that she might become mentally disoriented from the sleep inducing injections. Isn't this ruining my granddaughter?
Finally we received more reliable information after hearing all kinds of rumors. My family's cases were transferred to the Chang'an District Court. We hurried there and found out from the bulletin board that the trial would be held within three days. We attempted to hire an attorney, but as soon as they heard that it meant representing Falun Gong practitioners, nobody wanted to take the cases.
The trial was held as scheduled, without a defense lawyer. Wang Bo and her mother looked very thin, and Wang Xinzhong looked even worse. He required help just to stand up.
The judge said that several thousand truth-clarifying fliers were confiscated when their home was ransacked, and therefore they would receive a heavy sentence. We heard informally that the sentence for someone who had less than 1,000 such fliers would be between three and seven years. Tell me, how long would someone be sentenced if he was found with several thousand fliers? My daughter and her family are well known as good people, how can they sentence good people and send them to prison?
All kinds of fliers and brochures are handed out on the street. We often receive those. A lot of them are for healing and fake medicines, but no one takes those people to court. Meanwhile, practitioners who live by the principles of Truthfulness, Compassion, and Tolerance receive guilty verdicts, and they are arrested, beaten and detained. To our horror, we also heard that some practitioners had their organs removed while they were still alive. How come it is against the law to appeal against wrongdoings by handing out fliers?
If there were no persecution of Falun Gong, there would not be any printing or distribution of fliers. Before 1999, no one heard of practitioners sending out fliers. Isn't the harassment, arrest and torture of practitioners by police the reason why fliers are printed? Aren't they speaking out against the injustice? They have no other way out but to print fliers and appeal everywhere.
No lawyer will represent Falun Gong practitioners. Over 40,000 yuan were confiscated from us, and no family visits are being allowed. I have no choice but to appeal in a public letter for the rescue of my daughter's family.
The presiding judge at the court promised that we can claim the 41,000 yuan. However, when we asked the judges for our money, they refused with a number of excuses. They claimed that the funds couldn't be returned without my daughter and Wang Bo's signature. Also, my request to visit my daughter was denied. Then, they claimed that the funds are still held by the police who arrested my family members and have not been turned over to the court. The judges have requested the return of the funds but there is no guarantee. They asked us to claim the money. Then we also heard that the cost for the judges would run to more than 10,000 yuan. I'm truly confused by how this could be happening. Can the courts ruling be ignored by its own members, and if so, how can anyone believe in this justice system?
I hope that people will step forward to help my daughter's family as soon as possible!
Grandmother of Wang Bo: Han Lingrong 86-311-88963656
Ms. Song Weijuan is from Nantong City, Jiangsu Province. She was illegally sentenced to ten and a half years in prison because she continued practicing Falun Gong. Now detained at the Nanjing Women's Prison, she is extremely weak from the long-term slave labor and mental torture, and she hasn't received any rest or medical treatment at all. Below is a recount of her brutal persecution during the past few years.
Born in 1961, Ms. Song teaches at the Nantong City Health School. In 1996, she began practicing Falun Gong and started the practice following the principle of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance. She works responsibly and has been awarded the titles of "Advanced Teacher" and "Outstanding Teacher."
Since the illegal ban of Falun Gong in China began on July 20, 1999, Ms. Song has been undergoing unimaginable physical and mental torture. When the persecution began, her son was in primary school and was only ten years old. Now seven years have passed and the child should be in college, yet his mother is still subjected to persecution. Since his second year in an advanced-placement junior high school, the boy was forced by the police to discontinue his studies.
After July 20, 1999, Ms. Song Weijuan went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong, but was detained there unlawfully. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has persecuted her ever since.
In late June 2000, Ms. Song was arrested again and sent to a forced labor camp for eighteen months. She was savagely tortured at the Judong Women's Forced Labor Camp in Jiangsu Province. Moreover, she was subjected to brainwashing by former practitioners who had gone astray. Almost every day, Ms. Song suffered humiliation, revilement and various newly invented torture methods. The police deprived her of sleep for several consecutive days. Failing to make her turn against Falun Gong, a group of five to six policemen shocked her with high-voltage electric batons simultaneously, until she was covered with injuries and on the brink of death. During her year and a half of incarceration there, the police in the Judong Forced Labor Camp persecuted her every single day.
In late 2001, Ms. Song's term was up, but in lieu of releasing Ms. Song, the 610 Office staff sent her directly to the Langshan Brainwashing Center in Nantong City. After several months of detention, misled by collaborators' wicked theories and deviant ideas to give up sentimentality toward Master, Ms. Song was eventually "reformed" and released. After returning home and studying the Fa, she quickly realized her serious mistake. So many tribulations and suffering hadn't deterred her determination in the practice, yet the lies from those collaborators were able to defeat her. She felt too ashamed to live and felt so much pain that she didn't eat or sleep for five whole days. However, she rectified her path quickly and returned to the wave of validating the Fa and saving people.
In November 2002, Ms. Song was arrested a third time while distributing truth-clarification materials. She was locked up in the Nantong Detention Center. After getting out by using righteous thoughts, she went to borrow some money from an acquaintance but was reported. Later, the police hung her up by her handcuffed wrists and beat her. For eight days and nine nights, they tortured her and even broke bones in her toes. Some police even held her down to the ground and stuffed her mouth with toilet paper soaked with menstrual blood.
In court, Ms. Song defended for herself openly and uprightly, but still received an illegal sentence of five and a half years. Even worse, the police falsified new documents and gave her ten and a half years in prison instead, on the grounds that she "didn't have a good attitude."
Currently Ms. Song is detained at the No. 6 Ward of Nanjing Women's Prison. The practitioners resisting "transformation" are subjected to all sorts of mental torture there. A guard named Huang Fengying was particularly vicious. She used to be in charge of persecuting the Falun Gong practitioners there. She had many ways to cruelly torment people. She even boasted that since she became a policewoman, she had never met anyone whom she could not subdue. Prisoners in the No. 6 Ward are all afraid of her. As soon as they see her, they become very scared. On one occasion she personally beat practitioner Huang Lijun almost to death because she would not give up practicing Falun Gong. She has also ordered and connived with two collaborators, Dong Jing and Wang Xiaoqing, to violently beat Huang Lijun. Moreover, Huang Fengying often openly humiliated and abused practitioners who refused to be "transformed." Any show of resistance and she would torment practitioners as a way of entertainment. Practitioners who were divorced because of the persecution or who are still single could also become her target. Huang Fengying's working language is very malicious and base.
While in the No. 6 Ward, Huang Fengying has urged Ms. Song's husband to divorce her. But all her malicious plots have ended up in vain. She then made threatening phone calls to Ms Song's home and her child's school. The harassment scared the young boy so much that he simply couldn't continue his studies, but had to hide at home. When their family friends brought food to him, he did not dare to open the door and almost collapsed. Consequently a very smart boy has lost his education.
Before she started the practice, Ms. Song Weijuan suffered from heart disease and other illnesses, but she fully recovered thereafter. However, due to long-term persecution in the labor camp, she had a relapse of her heart disease. Since she kept on practicing Falun Gong, the police forced her to do sewing jobs on a streamlined coordination production system. When she was too weak to work and needed a break, Huang Fengying abused her and subjected her to an hour-long standing punishment. Even other prisoners working nearby were intimidated by the scene. As a result, Ms. Song's health deteriorated and she fainted. In the past, Falun Gong practitioners had been persecuted to death in the Nanjing Women's Prison and the police always kept an eye on Ms. Song. If someone went over to see her, they would be reported and rebuked by the prison guards.
In late 2005, Ms. Song's father could no longer stand the suppression and died of illness. Before his death, he was not able to see his daughter. Now Ms. Song's mother, who is over 80 years old is left at home and she cries because she doesn't know if she will be able to see her daughter again before she dies.
The Nanjing Women's Prison authorities would stop selling personal
necessities and force longer work hours on prisoners or practitioners
who showed
even a little disobedience. In winter, they forced practitioners to
stand still
in a windy passageway. In the summer, they forced practitioners to run
in the
blazing sun until someone collapsed. The police sometimes arbitrarily
canceled
family visit time or took away a practitioner's right to monthly
communication
with relatives. Moreover, they hung practitioners up with handcuffs,
locked them
up in small cells or applied all sorts of other methods of torture.
Because of
her brutal persecution of Falun Gong practitioners, Huang Fengying was
promoted
to become the deputy head of Ward 3.
Note: The following is a shortened version of a longer and more detailed article that appeared on the Minghui.org website (Chinese version of Clearwisdom.net).
Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Zhao Jihua, 40, lives in Dalian City, Liaoning Province. She was arrested in her hometown in Chengwu County, Shandong Province twice, and detained and sent to Wangcun Labor Camp for two years of forced labor. In late 2005, Ms. Zhao went back to her mother's home in Chengwu County, Shandong Province again. She was arrested when she was clarifying the truth. She held a hunger strike to protest the persecution and was brutally force-fed, losing her front tooth as a result. She was detained for eight months, all the while refusing to accept the brainwashing. The 610 Office had her sentenced to six years in prison, and she is now locked in the Jinan Women's Prison. She is forced to perform heavy labor every day and endure mental and physical hardships.