(Minghui.org)
Name: Piao Taishu (朴太淑)
Gender: Female, age 40
Address: Changchun City, Jilin Province
Occupation: Unknown
Date of Most Recent Arrest: July 2012
Most recent place of detention: Changchun City Women's Forced Labor Camp (长春女子劳教所)
City: Changchun
Province: Jilin
Persecution Suffered: Detention, forced labor, beatings, long-term standing, interrogation by torture, hanging by handcuffs, electric shock, stretching torture, locking up in a small cell, forced slave labor, denied visitation.
Ms. Piao Taishu is a Falun Gong practitioner of Korean ethnicity and has twin girls aged ten. She was arrested while telling people about Falun Gong and the persecution. She was considered an anonymous person for one year at the Changchun City Women's Forced Labor Camp because she refused to reveal her name. The guards used many forms of torture to persecute her, including beatings, long-term standing, interrogation by torture, hanging by handcuffs, electric shock, torture by stretching, long-term detention in a small cell, forced silence, strenuous labor for ten hours per day, denying communication with her family, and forcing her to provide ideological reports twice a month, which resulted in beatings if her thoughts were not inline with the guards' requirements.
Ms. Piao refused to give blood when she arrived at the forced labor camp. Wang Yugang, an officer from the Construction Square Police Station in Changchun City, along with Dong Wei and Zhou Zhanhong, medical workers from the forced labor camp, and two escorts, forcibly withdrew blood from her finger. The next day, Zhu Dan, the director, personally used electric rods to shock Ms. Piao, especially focusing on the top of her head. Her ears ring continuously from the torture.
In August 2013, guards Zhang Xiaohui and Jin Lihua, and the deputy director, directed two assistants to handcuff Ms. Piao's hands tightly, and hang her from the top railing of a bunk bed. They used two electric rods to simultaneously shock her, and she developed a mass of bruises. They extorted a confession from her by torture and she revealed her name. Zhang Xiaohui contacted the provincial 610 Office in September 2013, to be an accomplice in brainwashing Ms. Piao and torturing her by stretching. In addition, guard Jin Lihua has often boxed Ms. Piao's ears.
Ms. Piao was not allowed to see her husband after being forced to reveal her identity. Her mother was unwell, so her mother asked her younger sister's husband, who doesn't practice Falun Gong, to visit her. He traveled to the camp from her hometown in Meihekou, which is far away from the forced labor camp. The labor camp refused to allow him to see her, saying that they only allow next of kin to visit.
Her husband came but the forced labor camp refused him as well, and didn't even inform her. Quite the contrary, as Zhu Dan, the director, lied to her and said her relatives had never visited.
Ms. Piao demanded that the labor camp review her case, but they paid no attention. Her family was never notified, and was denied visitation. With no other options, the family hired a lawyer. Guard Wu Yunxiu only permitted Ms. Piao to tell the lawyer whether she wanted to have a reconsideration or not. He also threatened the lawyer's safety.
On the next day after Ms. Piao saw the lawyer, Jin Lihua gave orders to hang her by one handcuffed hand from the guard rail on the upper birth of a bunk bed for over 50 hours.
The Chinese New Year is the most important holiday in China, and it is a time for families to gather together. Ms. Piao submitted a public request to Li Hong, the deputy director, that she wanted to see her husband, but guard Zhang Xiaohui opposed this, so Li Hong didn't inquire further.