(Minghui.org) Nine arrests, two forced labor camps terms, brutal torture, and force-feeding–these are just some of what Ms. Lu Caixia, a schoolteacher from Langfang, Hebei Province, was put through by the Chinese communist regime simply because she practices Falun Gong.
Her family was not spared, either: her 18-year-old son was forced out of school and tortured in a forced labor camp, her brother Lu Chenglin was choked to death while being brutally forced-fed, and her sister Lu Fengling was sentenced to ten years in prison.
Ms. Lu has filed a criminal complaint against former Chinese dictator Jiang Zemin, who she holds responsible for inflicting such suffering upon her family through his persecution of Falun Gong.
She mailed her complaint to the Supreme People's Procuratorate on June 6 and to the Supreme People's Court on June 9, 2015.
“Outstanding Teacher”
Ms. Lu Caixia started practicing Falun Gong in July 1995. Praised by her supervisors, colleagues, and students and their parents, she was named an “Outstanding Teacher” at the school. Seeing how she improved, her two younger sisters and younger brother also took up the practice.
However, their lives were turned upside down when Jiang Zemin launched a violent campaign to eradicate Falun Gong in China in July 1999.
Tortured in Langfang Detention Center
On April 21, 2000, the police took Ms. Lu from her school to Langfang Detention Center after she refused to give up Falun Gong. She was fired from her job three days later and detained for over 50 days.
In one torture session, six or seven practitioners were handcuffed together behind their backs and forced to sit in a circle back to back. Officers chained their cuffs tightly to a ring anchored to the ground; if one person moved, it would cause excruciating pain to everyone's wrists.
The practitioners sweat profusely and shook in pain, but they tried not to move for fear of hurting the others. When the pain became unbearable, they cried out and screamed. By the time they were released and taken back to their cells, everyone's hands were numb, badly swollen, and black and purple.
Beaten by Police in Bazhou Detention Center
One day, because two practitioners in a neighboring cell did the Falun Gong exercises, more than a dozen male officers came and brutally beat the female practitioners.
“They struck our faces repeatedly. Two officers would hold our arms while other officers grabbed our hair and slapped our faces. Ms. Zhang Ruihua, in her 60s, was beaten to the ground; Ms. Kang Baofeng passed out from the beating. All of our faces were red and swollen,” Ms. Lu recounted in her complaint.
Violent Brainwashing in Labor Camp
Ms. Lu was arrested again on May 9, 2001, in Shenzhen and sentenced to three years of forced labor. She was taken to Sanshui Women's Forced Labor Camp in Guangdong Province.
When she refused to participate in brainwashing sessions, officers beat her and did not allow her to use the restroom.
One night, she was forced to watch a propaganda video that demonized Falun Gong. In front of hundreds of detained practitioners, she suddenly stood up and shouted, “We didn't break any law. They should give back our freedom. Falun Dafa is good!”
Wang, the head of a brigade, and several collaborators pounced on her, punched and kicked her, pulled her hair, and tried to cover her mouth.
“They pushed me into the corridor and dragged me by my collar from the first floor to the third floor. I nearly choked to death,” Ms. Lu recounted.
She went on a hunger strike many times to protest the abuse. Her health was seriously damaged, and she developed high blood pressure and cerebral arteriosclerosis. She was finally released on bail.
Force-Fed for Two Months
Ms. Lu was again arrested on December 13, 2004, and taken to Langfang Brainwashing Center. She was threatened and abused, and later sentenced to three years in Tangshan Forced Labor Camp.
Ms. Lu went on a huger strike and was brutally force-fed every morning for two months.
“I was tied to a chair by more than a dozen police officers and force-fed. I had become extremely emaciated, and my blood pressure was high. I became weaker and weaker. I was lying in bed and found it hard even to use the toilet,” recalled Ms. Lu.
For fear of liability for her critical condition, the labor camp released her. She was held there for 100 days.
Younger Brother Killed During Force-Feeding
Lu Chenglin, Ms. Lu's younger brother from Yichun, Heilongjiang Province, was sentenced to two and a half years of forced labor in July 1999 and detained in Yichun Forced Labor Camp, where he was beaten, hung up, deprived of sleep, and held in solitary confinement.
“My younger brother went on another hunger strike around the 2001 New Year. On the fourth day, he was taken to a bathroom by seven or eight people for force-feeding. They used a shoe brush to pry open his mouth and broke his teeth. His mouth was full of blood, and he choked to death,” Ms. Lu recalled. He was 38 when he died.
Mr. Lu Chenglin was the only son in the family, and his death was an enormous source of pain and agony for their mother.
Younger Sister Sentenced to 10 Years in Prison
Ms. Lu Caixia's younger sister, Ms. Lu Fengling, was arrested on June 19, 2001, and sentenced to ten years in prison.
She was held in a detention center for over a year before being taken to Taihang Prison in Mancheng, Hebei Province, on September 30, 2002.
At the detention center, she went on hunger strikes to protest her illegal detention. Once, she was tied to a metal chair for three days straight and not allowed to use the toilet.
At Taihang Prison, Fengling again went on hunger strikes. She was often beaten, forced to stand still for long hours, and verbally abused and humiliated.
Once, she was deprived of sleep for four days and forced to accept an intravenous infusion. She was tied to a bed board on the floor and could not move from the painful position for 40 hours.
In 2004, Fengling was transferred to the notorious Shijiazhuang Prison until she was finally released.
18-Year-Old Son Almost Killed in Forced Labor Camp
Ms. Lu's son, Mr. Yan Sitong, was forced to leave the Affiliated Middle School of Tianjin Art College in September 1999. He was under 18 at the time.
On the night of September 30, 2000, while he was visiting his aunt, police officers forced their way into the home and arrested him. At the Langfang Police Station, they struck his face and thrashed it with a steel ruler until his face became numb and swollen.
They also beat Sitong with a broom handle until he was covered with bruises. He was then forced to kneel on the concrete floor on injured knees for a long time.
Later, he was taken to Wanzhuang Forced Labor Camp in Langfang. The injuries on his wrists and knees festered and bled.
To avoid liability for his critical condition, the labor camp released him. He was too weak to walk and had to be carried out on his father's back.
On May 9, 2000, he was recaptured in Shenzhen when he went to visit his mother. He was taken back to Wanzhuang Forced Labor Camp, where he went on a hunger strike and was brutally force-fed.
The guards tied him on a wooden board. A plastic tube was inserted into his stomach and left there for two weeks. Due to the poor conditions in the labor camp, he was covered with scabies and became extremely skinny.
He drifted in and out of consciousness, and his condition was critical. Only then did the labor camp allow his father to see him.
When his father saw him in such miserable condition, he burst into tears and begged the police to release his boy. One officer said, “Even if he dies, he has to die in the labor camp. We've already prepared a death statement for him.”
Husband Endured Enormous Pain and Suffering
Even though Ms. Lu's husband, Yan Jilin, is not a Falun Gong practitioner, he witnessed the abuses inflicted upon his loved ones and endured enormous pain and suffering himself.
Over the past 16 years, his home was searched and ransacked again and again. His family was extorted by police numerous times. His loved ones were repeatedly arrested, detained, imprisoned, brutalized, and tortured. He himself was harassed and threatened time and time again. All of this took a toll on his health.
Mr. Yan says that, as a citizen, he has the right and obligation to uphold the Constitution and speak out for justice and for his loved ones. He urges the Supreme Procuratorate to investigate Jiang Zemin's criminal responsibilities over the persecution of Falun Gong and bring him to justice.
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 in the past 16 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.
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