(Minghui.org) In late September 2012 Li Kunnan, deputy chairman of the neighborhood management committee of Changjiang Street in Kunshan City, and several subordinates visited Ms. Li Jinan. They told her, “Just like the World Expo in 2010, you are not allowed to leave Kunshan during the 18th National Congress. We will monitor you around the clock.”
Ms. Li, 58, used to be a teacher and government official. She holds a graduate degree and was known in the community as someone who quietly helped a student in poverty for many years.
Shortly after Li Kunnan's visit, Ms. Li's neighbors noticed that a surveillance camera had been installed inside the apartment building. This caused an uproar from the building's residents and the camera was subsequently removed. Soon after, the camera was re-installed but removed later after the residents found out. Several days later, a surveillance camera was installed for the third time, by the stairwell.
The authorities started monitoring Ms. Li a few years ago when several surveillance cameras were installed around the building. The details were reported on the Minghui website.
Just after the third surveillance camera was removed, officers from the Kunshan Domestic Security Division and 610 Office dispatched a large number of agents to harass Ms. Li on November 1. They monitored her around the clock. They arranged on-duty rotations, where officials from the neighborhood committee would monitor her during the day, and officers from the police station would monitor her at night. The security guard of the residential committee and officers from the police department also assisted in the monitoring. Altogether more than 30 people participated in this effort.
As soon as Ms. Li left home, someone would follow her closely. If the person lost a little ground, the person watching the surveillance camera at the police station control room would notify him and urge him to close in on Ms. Li.
During the World Expo in 2010, Ms. Li was monitored for over seven months. A large number of people were employed to do this, and they had to record her daily movements in a prepared notebook. If anyone refused to participate in the surveillance, they would be threatened with dismissal, and so were forced to do it. Even when Ms. Li went to the public bathhouse to take a shower, two men were assigned to stay at the entrance.
When Ms. Li went to the elementary school to take her granddaughter home after school, the person assigned to monitor them would follow her closely. Ms. Li's granddaughter has been followed around by these people since she was six, during the time of the World Expo, creating a great deal of stress for the little girl. How could Ms. Li explain all of this to her granddaughter? Those assigned to monitor Ms. Li's granddaughter were blatant, since intimidation was part of the purpose. When the child returned home, they would stay at the front door. The child is now in the third grade and continues to be followed.
Ms. Li harassed and persecuted many times
Ms. Li was once a government official. In 1993, she started to financially assist Hong Gang, a poor child, from Linyi County in the Yimeng Area of Shandong Province. At that time Hong was in second grade. Ms. Li helped him financially and frequently wrote letters to him. Every letter she wrote to him was accompanied with a postage-paid return envelope. Their ten years of interaction was a treasured experience for both of them.
In November 2002, Ms. Li was illegally sentenced for practicing Falun Gong and lost contact with Hong Gang. The next year, he was admitted to a university with excellent grades. As soon as he received the notice of admission he wrote a letter to Ms. Li, but his letter was returned to him as “undeliverable.” When he entered university, he was thinking of Ms. Li more and more. He told a reporter about his story and the reporter wrote an article entitled “Where are you, kindhearted teacher Li,” for the March 27, 2006 edition of Kunshan Daily to try to help Hong Gang find Ms. Li.
Ms. Li was released from prison in May 2006, but officers from the local 610 Office and police strictly monitored her activities. She was forced to become homeless to avoid further persecution.
When Ms. Li returned home in May 2009, the local police publicly installed surveillance cameras around her apartment. Even her kitchen and restroom were not spared from the surveillance. The police also installed a camera for the neighboring building and a searchlight was aimed at the entrance to her building. Local government officials also hired her neighborhood committee, security guards in her community, and neighbors to participate in the monitoring. As soon as Ms. Li stepped out of her home, special agents would follow her closely.
Ms. Li's mother, in her 80s, traveled a long way to Kunshan to visit her daughter on April 18, 2010. When she got off the train she was quite shocked and scared, as a large group of people were following Ms. Li to the train station. Whether they went out to buy groceries or just for a walk, agents were constantly following them.
On April 24, 2010, Ms. Li accompanied her mother to Jinxi on a tour of the area. The large group of agents drove a vehicle there to follow them. Even when they went for a shower, the agents would dispatch a person to the bathhouse to watch them. This exerted a huge amount of psychological pressure on Ms. Li's mother.
The next day, Ms. Li's mother went to Shanghai to visit a relative, so Ms. Li accompanied her to the train station. The agents following them called the police, and as a result, many agents from the 610 Office and domestic security division rushed to the train station to prevent Ms. Li from leaving. They stated that she would be arrested if she tried to leave. Her mother had to leave Kunshan alone with tears in her eyes.
Officers from the 610 Office and domestic security division are still harassing and harming Ms. Li and her family members.
Related article:
“The Persecution of Government Worker Ms. Li Jinan, Known for Her Kindness and Generosity”
http://en.minghui.org/html/articles/2010/5/25/117379.html
Those responsible for the persecution:
Ye Kunnan, deputy head of Kunshan City Changjiang Street Office
Yu Huilin, director of Xihe Community
Gu Huikang, deputy director of Xihe Community
Xia (Surname) deputy director of Xihe Community
