(Minghui.org) Ms. Li Huaiying, 59, a Falun Dafa practitioner from Yangpu District, Shanghai, was arrested at her home on August 16, 2012. She was sentenced to one year of forced labor. On April 18, 2013, officials from 610 Office of the Yangpu District Police Department transferred her from the labor camp to a brainwashing center located at the Pingliang Park in Yangpu District.
At approximately 10:00 a.m. on August 16, 2012, Zhao Kuanyuan, an official from the Wuhuan Residential Community Office, went to Ms. Li Huaiying's home. He looked around, didn't say anything, then left. After a while, plainclothes police broke into Ms. Li Huaiying's home and ransacked it. She was arrested and taken to the Feihong Road Police Station.
Interrogation and Torture
Ms. Li was interrogated, and they demanded to know who gave her truth clarification materials and where she distributed them. They demanded that she guarantee in writing that she wouldn't tear down documents defaming Falun Dafa posted in the residential area.
Ms. Li told them the facts about Falun Dafa, hoped that they could understand the truth and treat Dafa practitioners kindly. However, those 610 Office officials refused to listen. They took turns interrogating her and didn't give her lunch and dinner.
Police officers took Ms. Li to the Yangpu District Detention Center. Four policewomen searched her body, tore off her clothes and demanded that she wear a prison uniform. She refused, so they covered her with a towel and threw her into a cell. On the following day, Ms. Li Huaiying went on a hunger strike.
She was transferred to the prison hospital and force-fed four days later. On the way to the hospital, they pulled her along by the handcuffs and it was very painful.
At the prison hospital, the nurses, who called themselves “angels in white,” force-fed her with methadone, a kind of synthetic narcotics used on drug users. An overdose could lead to drug addiction. They also injected unknown drugs.
The 610 Office sent officials to threaten her and said they would sentence her to forced labor if she didn't write a guarantee statement.
Several days later, doctors in the prison hospital worried that her life was in danger. Therefore, they called the head of local 610 Office. He claimed that he would release Ms. Li, but instead sentenced her to one year of forced labor.
Dismantlement of Forced Labor Camps a Farce
The Chinese authorities found it difficult to continue its forced labor camp system, and stated that is would dismantle the system in 2013. However, they then transferred practitioners to other penal systems to continue the persecution.
Officials from the local 610 Office of the Yangpu District Police Department transferred Ms. Li to a brainwashing center located at the Pingliang Park in Yangpu District. She was monitored around the clock and forced to watch and listen to propaganda materials that defame Falun Dafa. They pressured her to renounce Falun Dafa. Ms. Li refused and was released.
However, local 610 Office officials, police officers and officials from the Wuhuan Residential Community Office continue to break into Ms. Li Huaiying's home and harass her and her family. They assigned someone to monitor and follow her around the clock, turning a harmonious family life upside down.
