Name: Hou Jingfen (侯景芬)
Gender: Female
Age: In her 60s
Address: Xiong County, Hebei Province
Occupation: Unknown
Date of Most Recent Arrest: April 19, 2011
Most recent place of detention: Wenquancheng Police Station (河北省高碑店白沟新城管委会温泉城派出所)
City: Gaobeidian
Province: Hebei
Persecution Suffered: Detention, slaps to the face, extortion, beating, brainwashing, living under surveillance.

(Clearwisdom.net) On December 2, 2011, at around 5 p.m., Domestic Security Director Guo Junxue, along with a group of policemen, broke into Falun Gong practitioner Hou Jingfen's home and took away many Dafa books. Those people have been following her and monitoring her for the last 12 years and she has been arrested numerous times.

1. Cultivating Dafa, Obtaining Health and Becoming a Good Person

Hou Jingfen began practicing Falun Gong in 1998. She obtained a healthy body and her character and morality also improved.

She had various kinds of illnesses before her cultivation, such as Meniere's disease, chronic bronchitis, insomnia, severe arthritis of the knee, a bad back and generalized joint pain. She practiced different kinds of qigong without any relief; however after practicing Falun Gong, all of her illnesses disappeared.

Before cultivation she had a hot temper, particularly when she was right. When her neighbors occupied part of their hallway, she was very upset and cursed them out loudly for hours. The conflict between them intensified. After she began cultivation, she acted according to the the principles of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance and even offered firewood to her neighbor. The neighbor then also changed, stating: “Falun Gong practitioners are good people.” When the neighbor rebuilt their home, they left the place that they used to occupy.

Hou Jingfen is measuring herself according to the Fa and tries her best to be considerate of others. For example when she shopped and received extra change, she returned it immediately and the owners were very moved.

2. Appealing for Dafa

Hou Jingfen went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Dafa in 2000. After being arrested at Tiananmen Square, she personally witnessed the brutality displayed by police. One policeman threw a heavy punch to the face of an elderly woman and knocked out all her teeth. A young girl was beaten until her hair was all over her face and her clothes were torn. Hou Jingfen herself was kicked very hard and dragged to a police car.

Later on she was taken back to Xiong County and held in the township government building. The Party Secretary of the Discipline Committee was Guo Xiangdong and a guard named Zhao Qixue who slapped her face repeatedly. That night they also arrested Hou Jingfen's daughter and another elderly woman the next day. Hou Junfen was in detention for half an month and had 300 yuan extorted before they released her.

3. Held in the Xiong County Detention Center

On January 19, 2001, Hou Jingfen and her daughter were both arrested by Yang Xiao from the Police Department and held in the Xiong County Detention Center. Several more Falun Gong practitioners were also held there.

Yang Xiaotong ordered guard Shen Gangyi and others to drag practitioners out, hang them up with rope and beat and shock them with electric batons. Almost all the practitioners' arms were fractured due to the hanging. They spent their New Year in the detention center.

On January 25, 2001, Falun Gong practitioner Ye Dajun from Shilipu, was dragged back to her cell. She could not speak, her body was cold and she looked as if she were already dead. Hou Jingfen and other practitioners took care of her. After recovering and feeling better for two days, she was dragged out and beaten again until her arm was fractured. One month later, she was sent to a labor camp.

After a severe beating, one tall and healthy male practitioner, lost a significant amount of weight, became emaciated, had one arm fractured and had trouble walking.

Hou Jingfen was held for 81 days that time and was extorted out of 5000 yuan before she was released, and even her daughter was sent to a labor camp.

4. Held at Gegezhuang Brainwashing Center

In May of 2002, Hou Jingfen was arrested again and sent to the Gegezhuang Brainwashing Center, scaring her eighty year old mother into a panic. In the brainwashing center Ms. Hou was beaten by guard Wang Baoguo with a stick.

She was held for two months and was again extorted out of 2000 yuan before she was released.

5. Numerous Arrests and Extortion

In July of 2002, she was arrested again and taken to a detention center. Twenty days later she was released after being extorted out of 4000 yuan.

In March 2011, Hou Jingfen was arrested and taken to the Xiong County Police Department and forced to sign a so called “Guarantee Statement” to stop practicing Falun Gong.

On April 19, 2011, practitioners Hou Jingfen and Yang Yindi were arrested by Director Zheng Jiantao from the Wenquancheng Police Station. Yang Yindi was sent to a female labor camp in Hebei Province. Hou Jingfen was held for 10 days and then released.

In October 2011, the Domestic Security Staff confiscated her truth clarification materials on the street.

On December 2, 2011, Guo Junxue from the Domestic Security Division along with others raided Hou Jingfen's home again. They took away her Dafa books and followed and monitored her daily life.