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Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Zheng Xiaohua was tortured in the Baimalong Labor Camp in Zhuzhou City, Hunan Province until she could not take care of herself, and she was released only when her life was in danger. She died on May 17, 2006.
Ms. Zheng Xiaohua was a Falun Gong practitioner who lived in Qiyang County, Yongzhou City, Hunan Province. Before she started cultivating Falun Gong in 1998, she suffered many medical conditions such as kidney stones, an ectopic pregnancy, and Budd-Chiari Syndrome, causing her to always be very thin and dependent on medicine. After practicing Falun Gong, all her ailments were gone, and she gave birth to a child in 2001.
In October 2002, Ms. Zheng Xiaohua carried her daughter with her to Beijing to appeal, and was arrested on Tiananmen Square. Local policemen took her back and detained her in the detention center, where she was beaten by prisoners and abused badly. In February 2003, she was sentenced to 18 months of forced labor and locked in the Baimalong Labor Camp in Zhuzhou City, Hunan Province.
Inside the camp, Ms. Zheng Xiaohua was threatened by her monitors and tortured by not being allowed to sleep. She was forced to stand facing the wall, forced to sit on a small stool, and punched and kicked at will, resulting in severe mental and physical damage. Her old sicknesses recurred, causing her whole body to swell and her skin to turn very yellow. The Camp Administration put unknown drugs in her meals, and said the drugs were for healing. But Ms. Zheng Xiaohua's condition worsened after she took them, and she could not take care of herself.
In October 2003, because they were afraid that she would die in the
camp, the camp administration let her family pick her up to shed the
responsibility. Her family sent her to the hospital to be rescued, but
the hospital refused because there was no hope. Although her condition
got a bit better after returning home, she still died on May 17, 2006
due to the severe mental and physical damage she sustained in the labor
camp.
Ms. Wang Yunjie from Dalian City, Liaoning Province was illegally arrested from work in 2002. She was sentenced to forced labor. Ganjingzi District Police Department agents from Dalian City pronounced the sentence and took her to the Masanjia Forced Labor Camp. The guards barbarically tortured her, which resulted in ulceration of her breasts. She died in July 2006.
The following two pictures show Ms. Wang Yunjie after she was handcuffed, hung up, and shocked with electric batons at the Masanjia Forced Labor Camp. After a while, some parts of her body ulcerated. (Graphic content, viewer discretion advised: Photo 1, Photo 2)
Ms. Wang was selling wares at a market at 3:00 p.m. on May 14, 2002 ,when two police officers and two security officials from Paoyazi Police Station in Dalian City arrested her. She was taken to Ganjingzi District Police Department at midnight and was held in a small sheet metal shed, along with a dozen other Falun Gong practitioners. Ms. Wang was taken to the Yaojia Detention Center the next morning. On June 4, 2002, the authorities sent her to the Masanjia Forced Labor Camp, where she was told she had been sentenced to two years of forced labor.
In the five months between June 5 and mid-November 2002, guard Wang Xiaofeng, head of Group 1; guard Shi Yu; and others tortured her savagely. Ms. Wang Yunjie was exposed to the scorching sun in the clothes-drying field outside for nearly 20 days, followed by more than 30 days of detention in a dark and damp restroom, from 4:30 a.m. until past midnight each day. She was also forced to stand and squat. She was then locked in the boiler room, a triangular storeroom, and a basement for nearly four months. Once, guard Shi Yu grabbed Ms. Wang's hair and kicked her to the floor. The torture became more severe.
A "reform" team from Liaoning Province Police Department came to the labor camp on December 3, 2002. They started another round of ruthless torture that lasted nearly one month.
The "reform" team is made up of fierce male guards from different labor camps and jails. Among them, Sun, deputy head of the police department, and Guo Tieying, the former head of the Benxi Drug Rehabilitation Institute, were the most vicious. The first day they locked Ms. Wang in a separate room, ordered two inmates to watch her, and refused to let her sleep. They forced her to stand in a corner. The next day, they handcuffed her behind her back to a chair. In the evening they put a motorcycle helmet on her head. The guards also got a chair and a basin of cold water. They poured the cold water over her if she nodded off, followed by relentlessly hitting the helmet with chopsticks. The tortures that followed were worse.
One of Ms. Wang Yunjie's breasts ulcerated from electric shock. Two guards had held electric batons and shocked her breasts with them. Then they forced her to stand for a whole night. The next morning guard Guo Tieying asked Ms. Wang who she would follow. She said, "I'll follow the Teacher of Falun Gong." Guo Tieying called two guards and several inmates over. They tore a bed sheet into strips and tied her legs into the double-crossed sitting position. They also tied her hands and eventually tied her hands and legs together, so that she was in the shape of a ball. They then hung her up by her handcuffs behind her back. After a long time of being hung up and being handcuffed, Wang Yunjie could no longer straighten her back or sit up.
She became very weak from the long-term torture, and yet she was still forced to work after she returned to the group. She had to make paper flowers and other articles that were exported to foreign countries. Four months later she was transferred to Squadron 2, Group 1. Another two months later, the guards saw that Ms. Wang could barely sustain herself and thought she might live for another two months at most, so they hastily told her family to pick her up and also demanded 2,000 yuan from her sister. That was in April 2003.
After returning to her home in Dalian City, Ms. Wang Yunjie's wounds
ulcerated due to the brutal tortures at Masanjia Labor Camp and became
more and more serious. She passed away several days ago, in July 2006.
Brief introduction to the family
My name is He Yanchen. I am an international refugee relocated by the United Nations Refugee Agency. I will never forget May 11, 2006, the day when I stepped on the soil of a beautiful and free country--New Zealand. First, I want to thank the United Nations Refugee Agency and the New Zealand government for their help.
I am fortunate because I have finally obtained freedom, while countless Falun Gong practitioners in China are still incarcerated, tortured and even having their organs harvested while still alive, and their bodies are cremated by the Communist regime to destroy the evidence.
My whole family practices Falun Gong. My mother is Zhang Hanwen, a nurse at the Zhenzhou University Hospital. My father He Sanpu used to be a division official at the Henan Province Propaganda Bureau. He had worked diligently for more than two decades at the provincial government. My grandfather used to work at the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Central Disciplinary Inspection Committee and was in charge of setting up the Henan Province Disciplinary Inspection Committee. After the CCP started persecuting Falun Gong on July 20, 1999, my father persisted in his belief in Truth-Compassion-Forbearance. Because of that, Fan Qinchen, deputy CCP Henan Province Committee Secretary, personally arranged for my grandfather to be transferred from his post at Henan Province Propaganda Bureau into the Henan Province Daily News agency. Eventually the Communist regime threw him in prison. The Communist regime put me in prison three times for practicing Falun Gong. I escaped from China after living in exile for nearly three years before asking for protection from the United Nations Refugee Agency.
My father He Sanpu disappeared
My father He Sanpu went to work on July 14, 2000 but he did not return home. That was the last time I saw him at home. After his disappearance, officers Li Xinjian, Tao Wenyao and Li from the Jinshui District Police Department in Zhenzhou City ransacked my home. They refused to tell me my father's whereabouts, or whether or not he was dead or alive. My mother and I knew nothing of his situation.
We went to all the custody centers, prisons and other places where most Falun Gong practitioners are held. We saw my father's name at the No. 1 Detention Center of Zhenzhou City, but we were never allowed to meet with him. He was transferred after 48 days, and we again lost track of him.
My father sentenced to two years of forced labor
We asked many people before finding out that my father had been sentenced to two years of forced labor. He was held at the Baimiao Labor Camp in Zhenzhou City for one week. My mother and I immediately went to the labor camp with some clothes for him.
I then saw him for the first time since his disappearance. The detainees were doing heavy manual labor and turning over sand for casting iron. Then a man walked up to me. I looked at him carefully and finally recognized my father. He used to be strong and healthy, but at that point he was skin and bones. His hands were deeply bruised by the coarse sand. I lost control and cried loudly. My father tried to comfort me by saying, "Don't worry! Everything is gong to be fine. Listen to your mom at home and be strong."
We couldn't talk too much because of the guards' presence, but we understood each other, and I knew my father's determination. He hoped I would stay firm with my belief and never compromise under any dictatorial power or temptation for personal interest. Because my mother and I practiced Falun Gong, the guards unreasonably denied any further visits with my father. I often stood outside the labor camp's high wall and hoped a miracle would happen, and I would be able to see my father.
My mother and I again went to Beijing to appeal on December 29, 2000, and to demand the release of my father. We were held at the Chaoyang District Detention Center in Beijing for nearly one month. The police took my mother back to Zhenzhou City and sent her to a brainwashing center. She was sentenced to two years of forced labor for refusing to write articles to slander Falun Gong. She was sent to the Shibalihe Women's Forced Labor Camp in Henan Province. Her sentence was extended by three months because she refused to give up her belief.
Five months after agents from the Communist Party took my father away, they took my mother away, too, the only family I had left. On their way to take me to Zhenzhou City, the police car got in an accident and I suffered a head injury. A relative took me to nurse my wounds, but the police waited outside my relative's home around the clock.
I left my relative's home when I heard that the police were going to arrest me and send me to prison. That was the beginning of five years living in exile. I could no longer receive care from my parents and I could not return home. The police issued a public arrest notice for me, so I could not meet with my relatives or friends. It was dangerous for me to rent a place. I lived under tremendous psychological and financial pressure and didn't feel safe for one second while I was in China.
My father was savagely tortured at the labor camp. Because he exposed the Communist regime's lies and slanders about Falun Gong there, eight guards kicked him to the ground, pushed him down with their boots and tied up his hands and feet. They shocked the sensitive parts of his body with seven or eight high-voltage electric batons at the same time, which scorched his face and neck, creating the odor of charred flesh.
I went to my grandmother's home to eat a meal on July 6, 2001 while still living in exile. The police followed me and surrounded my grandmother's home. I jumped from the second floor window to escape the persecution and fractured both feet. My uncle told my father about my experience when he visited my father at the labor camp. My father went on a hunger strike to protest the Communist regime's persecution of the entire family. The guards again shocked him with electric batons and savagely beat him and extended his sentence by three months.
Officials from the Henan Province Daily News agency came to the labor camp and announced that my father had been expelled from the CCP and removed from all of his positions. Through this persecution my father and my family saw the true nature of the Communist Party.
My father was sent to a brainwashing center after his term in labor camp
My father didn't obtain freedom, even after two years and three months of detention at the labor camp. 610 Office agents and officials from the Henan Province Daily News agency took my father directly from the labor camp and sent him to a brainwashing center at the Wanqing Mountain Resort in the western suburban area of Zhenzhou City. They held him there for five months. I publicized this information on the Internet. People overseas made numerous phone calls to the Henan Province Daily News agency and demanded the release of my father He Sanpu. He was released unconditionally on December 31, 2002.
The persecution did not end there. My father was arrested from work four times and he was held in a brainwashing and custody center, where he was pressured to give up his belief. He was completely deprived of his personal safety and freedom. He didn't know when he would again face detention and torture. He wrote a resignation letter to avoid further harassment at work and went into exile.
The Henan Province Daily News agency and the "610 Office" issued a national arrest warrant for my father. They also published an article in the Henan Province Daily News saying they were after him. Both my parents were arrested in the street on July 11, 2005 by tailing police agents. My father was sent back to the Wanqing Mountain Resort, where he has been held for one year.
My father didn't violate any law. Only wanting to live by Truth-Compassion-Forbearance, he has to pay such a price. Of the past seven years of persecution, my father spent four years in prisons and brainwashing centers and lived in exile for 18 months.
I really miss my parents. Our family, once happy before the persecution, has not lived together for six years. I hope all justice-loving people can help us get together soon. I request the New Zealand Ambassador in Beijing to visit my father at the Wanqing Mountain Resort and urge the New Zealand government to rescue my father and help him come to New Zealand.
Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Liu Shuchun from Sihe Town in Yushu City, Jilin Province, has been cultivating Falun Gong sincerely and without wavering since 1996. It has benefited her body and mind. After July 20, 1999, she went to petition several times and has been mistreated several times.
On July 28, 2005, practitioner Ms. Liu Shuchun was arrested by local police officers Zhou Yongcun (male) and Wang Lai (male) from Sihe Station, and was going to be sent to the Yushu City Police Department. Ms. Liu Shuchun tried to talk to them, but was handcuffed and dragged into a car to be sent to the Yushu City Police Department.
After arriving at the Yushu City Police Department, police officers Zhou Yongcun and Wang Lai looked for someone to whom they could hand over Ms. Liu Shuchun to, but no one would accept her. Zhou Yongcun processed his own version of a detention report and it was barely put through by the Police Department. In the process, Ms. Liu Shuchun, over 50 years old, became unconscious from the dragging, the threats, and the intimidation by Zhou Yongcun and Wang Lai. Because she was unconscious, she was unable to protest her mistreatment and was illegally detained in the Yushu City Detention Center.
When Ms. Liu Shuchun woke up, she felt she had no choice but to go on a hunger strike to protest. Guards and the Yushu City 610 Office Director Li Fenglin injected Liu Shuchun with an unknown drug, and then said that Ms. Liu was having a heart attack. Ms. Liu resisted, but was pushed down to the floor by 4 to 5 prisoners and was held by a 140-pound guard standing on her head. Ms. Liu was unable to bear the extreme pain and almost stopped breathing.
On the fourth day of torture, Ms. Liu vomited blood, but the torture did not stop. It lasted 12 days.
Even at her last gasp, guards sent Ms. Liu to Heizuizi Labor Camp in Changchun City, Jilin Province and attempted to sentence her to one and a half years of forced labor. The labor camp administration was afraid of being held responsible after seeing Ms. Liu’s condition and they didn’t accept her. Guards then sent Ms. Liu to Yinmahe Labor Camp in Jiutai City, Jilin Province, but she was also rejected there. At that time, Ms. Liu Shuchun woke from the lengthy and uncomfortable traveling. When the guards saw her awake, they decided to send her back to Heizuizi Labor Camp and attempted to detain her to do forced labor. However, the Heizuizi Labor Camp Administration didn’t accept Ms. Liu due to severe injuries.
On May 27, 2006, Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Li Xiuqin from Tangyuan County, Heilongjiang Province was arrested. She was detained for 48 days after that. She used to be very healthy after cultivating Falun Gong, but she became little more than skin and bones after only 48 days of detention; it's as if she has changed into a completely different person.
 Ms. Li Xiuqin used to be very healthy |
 Ms. Li Xiuqin, as thin as a skeleton after 48 days of detention |
Ms. Li Xiuqin is having difficulty walking because she is too thin.
State Security agents tried to send her to forced labor under such
physical conditions, but the Jiamusi Labor Camp refused to accept her.
State Security agents in Tangyuan County took her back to the detention
center, and then released her after two more hours of detention.
Ms. Ji Yingping, a Falun Gong practitioner from Jiamusi City, was arrested three times for persisting in practicing Falun Gong. She is now being held in the Women’s Prison of Harbin City. She is emaciated from the abuse that she has suffered.
On October 29, 1999, Ji Yingping was arrested from home for the first time. A local police officer, surnamed Cong from Changsheng Police Station, Dongfeng Branch of Jiamusi Police Department, went to her residence and asked her: "Are you still practicing Falun Gong? If you are, I’ll take you to the police station." Ji Yingping replied: "Falun Gong is wonderful. Why should I stop practicing it? I didn’t do anything wrong. What’s wrong with practicing Falun Gong?" Policeman Cong then forcibly took her to the police station. The police officer at the police station told her: "If you give up the practice, we’ll release you. If you still want to practice Falun Gong, we will send you to the detention center." Ji Yingping was then sent to the detention center because her reply was: "I will continue to practice Falun Gong." Ms. Ji was tortured for 43 days in the detention center. Her family sought to negotiate with Chen Wanyou of the Police Department numerous times. In the end, Ms. Ji’s family turned in 2,000 Yuan to get her released.
Ms. Ji was arrested for a second time on December 12, 2002 when she went to the Shunhelou area to look for a former classmate. Police from the Railway Police Station of Jiamusi City took her away when she was walking down the stairway. Later, she was transferred to Jiamusi Police Department. She was held in Jiamusi Detention Center for more than one month and sentenced to two years of forced labor. Because the results from her physical examination disqualified her from being held in the labor camp, the labor camp refused to accept her and communicated with Chen Wanyou of the Police Department about her case. Chen told them: "Put her here temporarily."
In the labor camp, Ms. Ji suffered severe persecution. She was once handcuffed in the "Carrying a Sword on the Back" position for 30 minutes. The cuffs cut into her flesh. Her hands were as swollen as two steamed buns. She could not raise her arms, nor could she dress herself. It was so agonizing that she could not go to sleep. Due to the torture she suffered in the labor camp, she was unable to walk. The labor camp authorities were afraid to take responsibility for her and sent her to a hospital for examination. She was diagnosed as having a thyroid gland malignant tumor. Even under such a circumstance, the Jiadong Police Station (where her case was handled) demanded her family to turn in money before she could be released. Ms. Ji’s family turned in 2,000 Yuan. On March 26, 2003, Ms. Ji returned home.
Ms. Ji was arrested for the third time on May 19, 2005 when she went to Zhang Qinghua’s home to see him off. When she knocked on the door, the police from Shunhe Police Station of Qianjin District, who had been hiding there, arrested her and took her to a detention center.
After two months of detention, Ms. Ji vomited blood due to the torture. On top of that, she fell ill and was extremely weak. Her family went to the city police department and the city 610 Office to demand her release. It was only after they made the request numerous times that the authorities agreed to take Ji Yingping for a physical examination. The diagnosis showed that Ji Yingping contracted tuberculosis and her tumor had turned malignant. They thus had to process a "waiting to be sentenced" document for Ms. Ji, but Ms. Ji was not released until July 27. Ms. Ji appealed to the Intermediate Court; however, the Intermediate Court kept the original judgment and re-sent Ms. Ji’s case to Qianjin District Court. They requested to transfer her to another prison and have her serve her sentence outside the prison. Judge Wang Li of Qianjin District Court went to find Ms. Ji’s family and told them: "Bring her to our court. She simply needs to sign a document which states that she will be transferred to another prison. Then she is free to go. There is no way I will deceive you." However, Ms. Ji was not allowed to come back after she went to the Qianjin District Court. Without consent from her family, she was directly sent to a detention center and then transferred to the Women’s Prison of Harbin City. When she was sent to the prison, the director refused to accept her. However, the police from the detention center who took her there, in particular a policeman surnamed Cui, insisted that the prison accept her.
Right now Ji Yingping is emaciated and has suffered several
severe illnesses, including tuberculosis. Her heart rate is over 100
per minute. She often has high fevers and her thyroid tumor is
swelling. Her family members have been to the prison to demand her
release many times, but were refused by the prison authorities each
time.
Falun Gong practitioner Ban Huijuan from Huadian City, Jilin Province became mentally disoriented after suffering prolonged persecution in Heizuizi Prison, Changchun City. Half a month ago her mother and son visited her at the prison. She had to be carried to the meeting place by two people and could no longer recognize her family. She spoke only broken words, and kept forgetting what she had just said as she continued to speak. By the end of the meeting, she still barely recognized her family. The guard said she was faking it.
On the surface one could not see any bruises on Ban Huijuan, but one could see that she had become extremely weak. Right now the details of the situation are not very clear.
Falun Gong practitioner Ban Huijuan and her husband Xu Guijun were arrested on June 3, 2002 by police from the Huadian City Police Department. Ms. Huijuan suffered through brutal interrogations from the political security team of the City Police Department. Three policemen tied her arms and legs onto the four corners of a bed and pasted wet paper on her face until she almost suffocated. They tortured her like this repeatedly. When the police saw that Ban Huijuan still would not give in, they shouted, "We’ll feed you aphrodisiacs, and find two thugs to rape you in the detention center." Afterwards, another 2-3 policemen entered the room and beat her severely. Ban Huijuan quickly passed out. The policemen poured cold water onto her head and then took off some dirty socks and stuffed it into her mouth so that she would not cry out loud.
Ban Huijuan and her husband were illegally sentenced to 12 years of prison. She is illegally detained in the Heizuizi Prison in Changchun City. Because she has been firm in her belief, the guards imposed severe torture on her. The guards usually tie steadfast practitioners down on beds, with each limb fixed to each bedpost.
My mother and I went to Beijing to appeal on behalf of Falun Gong in October 1999. We were detained in the local detention center for an entire year after coming back. We were both tortured to various degrees during that time. In the first month, officers fabricated materials to have us formally arrested, and told our lawyer that he was not allowed to enter a plea of innocence for us. We had solid faith in Falun Gong and totally believed with righteous thoughts that we were innocent. In the end, we were declared innocent by the court.
Unfortunately, we were still detained by the local police department. The local Procurator and lawyer said to us, "You are free." But the police said only if we wrote "guarantee statements" to stop practicing Falun Gong could we go, otherwise we would not be released.
Because we kept doing the Falun Gong exercises, I was handcuffed and shackled onto a wooden board for four months, and I was only let loose twice when they interrogated me. One would be disabled if prevented from moving for such a long period of time, but I was fine after they put me down from the board, which manifested our Master's might and the divine power of Falun Gong. Even the guards were amazed. The first time they interrogated me, I was fixed on the board for more than 20 days. They assigned people to support me while I was walking, but even with the biggest ankle shackles (for male prisoners) on, I felt that my body was very light and energetic.
My mother was fixed on a wooden board for seven whole days, and she was punched and kicked just because she kept doing the Falun Gong exercises and reciting Master's scriptures. They did not let up on her, even though she is over 60 years old.