(Clearwisdom.net) The Department of Education officials in
Xiong County, Hebei Province ordered that all teachers and students
sign a statement to not practice Falun Gong. Furthermore, they
demanded that students and teachers sign their names on a red
scroll which had words written on it that denounced Falun Gong. In
order to comply with this order, some schools even forced small
children in first and second grade to sign their names. If the
children did not sign, they were not allowed to go home.
Personnel from some township governments in Xiong County harassed
Falun Gong practitioners multiple times. They forced the
practitioners to write statements promising not to practice Falun
Gong. They also pressured practitioners' family members.
The following is one example.
Ms. Wang Suxia is a practitioner in Dongzhuang Village, Zhanggang
Township, Xiong County. She started practicing Falun Gong in 1996.
Prior to cultivation, she was paralyzed and unable to take care of
herself. Falun Dafa gave her a new life. After cultivation, she
became more energetic and was even able to do heavy work. Moreover,
she became a very moral person. One day the shopping center
delivered an extra television to her home which was worth thirteen
hundred yuan. When she realized that the television was not
hers, she immediately returned it.
After the Communist regime began persecuting Falun Gong
practitioners, Ms. Wang Suxia was harassed and illegally arrested multiple times. In 2003, Zhang, deputy director of
Zhanggang Police Station, took Ms. Wang away from her home to the
Daxinbachang Brainwashing Center in the county. Ms. Wang was held
in the brainwashing center for seven to eight days. When her family
saw that she was persecuted to the point where they could no longer
recognize her and they requested to take her home, Shen, a
brainwashing center staff member, refused to release her. Finally,
when her family became increasingly worried that her physical
condition would get worse or she may even possibly become as sick
as she was prior to cultivation, the brainwashing center personnel
had no choice but to send her home.
In February 2004, it was very cold outside. Su Shiliang, Director
of County Domestic Security Division, came to Ms. Wang's home to
take her to the police station. She refused to go with them. As the
seven to eight men forcefully shoved her into the car, her clothes
were torn and her shoes and socks were pulled off. At the station,
she had to stand barefoot on the freezing floor. Due to the
extremely cold weather, her body shook. Police shocked her with
electric batons and forced her to kneel on an iron rod. She was not
released until four hours later.
Torture demonstration: Shocked by electric batons
Recently, personnel from Dongzhuang Village and the Zhanggang
Township Government went to Ms. Wang Suxia's home four times to
harass her. They demanded that she sign the statement to not
practice Falun Gong. She kept telling them how her physical
condition improved after she began practicing. Since they all live
in the same village, everyone knows how she became healthier after
practicing Falun Gong. However, they would not listen to her and
demanded that she go with them.
At the time, Ms. Wang Suxia's house was under construction.
Moreover, an aunt who supported the family financially had just
passed away, and she was about to hold her aunt's funeral. However,
the village party secretary threatened her, “My director wants to
see you. If you do not cooperate with us, you will be at risk.”
Because she had been persecuted so many times, Ms. Wang knew very
well how evil the CCP is. To avoid further persecution, she
tearfully had to leave her home. It was said that the next day
personnel from Village Party Branch and Township Government came to
her home and threatened her family, demanding that she write the
guarantee statement to not practice Falun Gong. Now she cannot
return home.
