(Clearwisdom.net) Ms. Qin Yanqiu is a 45-year-old postal employee in Taicang City. She and her husband, Shi Zehui, a teacher at Jianxiong College in Taicang, have been determined to cultivate in Falun Gong and have been persecuted as a result.
Before beginning their cultivation in Falun Gong, both Ms. Qin and her husband had serious illnesses and lived in hardship. They began to cultivate in October 1997 to improve their health. Their illnesses all went away soon afterwards, and they were excited to have regained their health. They worked hard and lived happily, and their family was filled with joy.
But the good times did not last long. On July 20, 1999, Jiang Zemin's regime suddenly began to persecute Falun Gong. Ms. Qin and her husband were shocked and could not believe it. They went to talk with their relatives and friends to tell them the facts relating to Falun Gong. They did not expect that as a result they would be arrested by police from the Taicang Police Department on December 2, 1999, and put in jail. Ms. Qin was jailed for two months, and Mr. Shi for ten months. Ms. Qin's seriously ill father was so worried about his daughter that he died very soon afterward. Before his death, her relatives appealed to jail authorities many times to let Ms. Qin visit her father one last time. Not only did they not inform Ms. Qin of her father's imminent death, the police department told her relatives that Ms. Qin did not want to see him because she practiced Falun Gong and needed to give up sentimentality. The police tried to incite hatred toward Ms. Qin and Falun Gong. Not being allowed to see her father for the last time turned out to be just the beginning of the miseries that followed.
After their jail terms ended, both Ms. Qin and her husband were fired from their jobs. With their son needing support and the loss of their income, they kept appealing to get their jobs back. But instead, Ms. Qin was sent to a psychiatric hospital in March 2000. The hospital record stated: "The police forced her to be admitted despite her normal psychiatric state because she believed steadfastly in Falun Gong." Although she was normal, because of her belief in Falun Gong, the hospital still forced her to take pills and shots that damaged her central nervous system.
After being released from the hospital, she continued to appeal for her job. She was sent to a forced labor camp on January 4, 2001, where she was detained for a year and three months. Because of her belief in "Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance," she was shocked with electric batons and exposed to the scorching sun for 18 days. She was deprived of sleep and overloaded with work. Beatings occurred routinely, but nothing swayed her. When the camp guards found that persecution did not affect her, they switched to deceiving her. Knowing how badly she wanted her job back, they promised her that as long as she "listened to the party" she would have her job back after her release. Hoping to be able to support her family, she agreed to the request. But nothing happened after her release. The Taicang Postal Service refused to restore her job. Meanwhile, her husband Mr. Shi had been sentenced to three years in a forced labor camp, and was serving out his sentence at the Dafeng Fangqiang Farm, leaving their young son at home alone.
This incidence woke Ms. Qin up. The CCP can never be trusted. She was more determined in her cultivation in Falun Gong, but more persecution awaited her.
When she went to the food market at around 6:00 a.m. on August 19, 2005, Chengzhong Police Station deputy chief Shen Wenbiao and two security guards arrested her. The Taicang Municipal Court determined on November 7, 2005 that Ms. Qin was guilty. The main offense was "handing out two copies of Clearwisdom Weekly," totaling eight pages. The other offenses were all fabricated. Ms. Qin rejected them all in the court. Judge Liu Liangkai repeatedly stopped her self-defense. During her concluding remarks, Ms. Qin only got to say one word before the judge yelled, "Shut up," pounded the gavel, and closed the session. On December 2, 2005, the court opened another session, only to close it in less than ten minutes, during which they sentenced Ms. Qin to four years of forced labor re-education. The offenses were the same as stated in the previous session, with the addition of "contempt of court," which called for heavier penalties.
The four-year forced labor sentence was unjustified, and the family members will appeal, but there is little hope that the courts will overturn the sentence.
Ms. Qin's sentence was illegal, unfair, and unreasonable. It will not be tolerated by heavenly principles. We urge those who are still doing bad deeds to learn the truth about Falun Gong. Do not blindly listen to the CCP's lies. We urge you to return to the right path as soon as you can. Do not become a scapegoat for Jiang Zemin's regime.
