(Clearwisdom.net) Note: The following is a shortened version of a longer and more detailed article that appeared on the Minghui.org website (Chinese version of Clearwisdom.net).
Ms. Yin Guizhi, from Shengli Oilfield in Dongying City, Shandong Province, began practicing Falun Gong in 1997, and was subsequently cured of numerous illnesses. Seeing these amazing changes, Yin's husband and parents also started to practice. After the persecution began on July 20, 1999, Yin Guizhi's husband gave up the practice due to overwhelming pressure. Yin Guizhi had gone to Beijing to appeal in October 1999, where she was arrested and returned to Dongying, then held there for 15 days. She was subjected to brainwashing and was extorted of 1,500 yuan. Her husband also lost his job, and his salary and bonus were slashed.
The police arrested Ms. Yin again in the spring of 2001, and detained her for more than a month at a brainwashing center. After her release, eight officers ransacked her home on the evening of February 27, 2002, and took her to a prison located inside the Gudong Oil Extraction Factory, where she was subjected to two weeks of brainwashing, and extorted of more than 6,000 yuan. They subsequently sent her to the Shandong Province Legal Education Center, a major brainwashing base, to be held for more than a month, followed by one year in a forced labor camp. Her father, devastated by repeated persecution, developed cerebral paralysis and died in 2006.
The government had withheld Yin Guizhi's husband's salary and bonus since March 2002. His father was ill but Yin Guizhi couldn't afford medical treatment for him, and had no choice but to take her husband's parents back to their hometown. Their son, who was in the eleventh grade, left home and roamed the streets to avoid the constant harassment from officials.
Ms. Yin Guizhi's term expired in March 2003, but the authorities refused to release her and extended her sentence by two weeks.
