(Minghui.org) The police in Ankang City, Shaanxi Province, arrested a retired teacher in June 2015 for filing a lawsuit against Jiang Zemin, the former head of the communist regime.
Ms. Luo Changyun detailed in the criminal complaint how the local authorities persecuted her and her family.
Officers arrested her on June 23, 2016, and ransacked her house. It's not known whether or not she has been released.
Ms. Luo has been arrested over 20 times between 2000 and 2014. She was incarcerated in a forced labor camp three times for a total of six-and-a-half years. She was sentenced to a five-year prison term in 2008.
Below is her account.
2001: Tortured in the Shaanxi Women's Forced Labor Camp for 18 Months
The police took me to a detention center in December 2000. Then I was illegally detained in 2001 for 18 months in a forced labor camp.
The authorities in the forced labor camp transferred seven practitioners and me to the Shaanxi Women's Forced Labor Camp, where we had to do hard labor. We decided to do the Falun Gong exercises, and guards and 10 thugs beat all of us.
After I lost consciousness, I was handcuffed to a door. They left me like that for seven days. The guards extended my time by five months. I was transferred to another brigade, where I was beaten.
One night, four inmates crawled onto my cot. One of them stepped on my neck, while another stuffed a dirty rag into my mouth. They tied me down on the bed and beat me.
I also was beaten because I refused to answer roll call. When I complained to the captain of the brigade, I was handcuffed to a bed frame for 20 hours.
When practitioners, including me, went on a hunger strike to protest the abuse, we were force fed with a saline solution and beaten with a baton.
All of the practitioners were transferred to the first floor in April 2002. One of the practitioners was beaten, while a dozen practitioners and I were made to stand facing a wall for 24 hours. Then, I was beaten and taken to a solitary cell. I was released in August 2002.
2004: Three Years of Forced Labor
A domestic security officer and some of his associates arrested me at work. I was given three years of forced labor in April 2004. Several months later, I was transferred to the Shaanxi Women's Forced Labor Camp. I had to work 18 hours a day. I was allotted a small piece of steamed bun at mealtime and was not allowed to purchase food and daily items in the prison store.
Because of the torture, my blood pressure rose and I was released in June 2006.
2007: Two Years of House Arrest
Within less than a year, I was arrested again for distributing Falun Gong informational materials. After a month in a detention center, I was put under house arrest for two years in May 2007.
2008: Five-Year Term and Appeal Denied
Ankang City police officers arrested me in Guangzhou City in June 2008. They confiscated the $3,500 that my daughter had just given me and took me to the Guangzhou Detention Center. I was then transferred to Ankang, where I was tortured until my blood pressure rose again.
I was secretly sentenced in the Hanbin District Court to five years. The Ankang City Intermediate Court denied my appeal.
I was transferred to the Shaanxi Women's Prison in April 2009, despite my life-threatening hypertension. The night I arrived at the prison, a guard ordered six people to force feed me with unknown drugs. I struggled and bent the spoon. They then decided to inject me with a drug, and I soon passed out. While I was unconscious, they cuffed my right hand to the top bunk, which left a deep cut.
I was force fed with unknown drugs three times a day, and two inmates were assigned to monitor me around the clock. They beat and verbally abused me if I refused to read books defaming Falun Gong. I was injected with drugs or beaten. Family visits were denied. I was released in February 2013.
By the time I returned home, I was traumatized and emaciated. My eyesight was blurry, and my fingers were gnarled. My father had passed away, my mother was bedridden, and my husband had divorced me.
Most Popular Teacher
I am a 61-year-old retired English teacher. Before I became a practitioner, I suffered from a number of ailments and was in excruciating pain. Daily doses of medicine was what kept me alive.
Someone gave me Zhuan Falun, the main book of Falun Gong, in 1997. I read it and found the answers to many questions in my life. Shortly after I learned the practice, all my ailments disappeared, and I felt full of energy.
My students respected me and their parents treated me like family. Even when I was in a forced labor camp, my students voted me as their favorite teacher.
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Background
In 1999, Jiang Zemin, as head of the Chinese Communist Party, overrode other Politburo standing committee members and launched the violent suppression of Falun Gong.
The persecution has led to the deaths of many Falun Gong practitioners during the past 17 years. More have been tortured for their belief and even killed for their organs. Jiang Zemin is directly responsible for the inception and continuation of the brutal persecution.
Under his personal direction, the Chinese Communist Party established an extralegal security organ, the “610 Office,” on June 10, 1999. The organization overrides police forces and the judicial system in carrying out Jiang's directive regarding Falun Gong: to ruin their reputations, cut off their financial resources, and destroy them physically.
Chinese law allows for citizens to be plaintiffs in criminal cases, and many practitioners are now exercising that right to file criminal complaints against the former dictator.
