Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Zheng Shangbi in Xinhe Township, Miyi County, Sichuan Province has been persecuted by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) since July 20th, 1999. During the past seven years, she was arrested three times and detained in a detention centre and labour camp. Her home has been raided several times. Her Falun Gong books and personal belongings were stolen. Her family was often harassed and threatened and lives in great fear everyday.
On November 23rd, 1999, Ms. Zheng and other practitioners went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong and were arrested. Staff from the Panzhihua Liaison Office in Beijing escorted them to the train, where Zhou Lin from the Politics and Security Department of the Public Security Bureau in Miyi County was already waiting for them. As soon as they arrived in Miyi, Deputy Director of the Politics and Security Department of the Public Security Bureau Liao Hongbin and others handcuffed every two practitioners together with one set of handcuffs. All the twenty plus practitioners who had been to Beijing were handcuffed and paraded in humiliation through the streets. Then they were forced to stand for 17 hours in the office of the Politics and Security Department. They were not allowed to eat, drink, or use the toilet. After that they were detained for nine days and forced to write a guarantee statement (to give up Falun Gong). They were also fined 300 yuan1 each. After they were released, they were still monitored by the director of Xinhe Township, Li Honglin; security guard Rao Chaoyin; and village director Wang Zhuwu.
On December 15th, 2000, Li Anming and Yin Jitao from the township council went to Ms. Zheng's home and intended to arrest her because she had spoken out for justice, explained the facts about Falun Dafa and posted and distributed leaflets exposing the persecution on the previous day. However, they didn't succeed. On the morning of December 22nd, 2000, Yin Jitao went to her home again with a pair of handcuffs and took her the the local government office. In the afternoon, they took her to the the Politics and Security Department in the county in a police van. The policemen handcuffed several practitioners they had arrested to the iron baluster in the corridor. It was very cold in December. The policemen who watched them kept themselves warm with an electric heater while the practitioners were left handcuffed in the icy wind. They could neither squat nor stand, nor were they given any food or water for 24 hours. At about 11 a.m. the following day, Li Gang and Guo Qiang from the Politics and Security Department interrogated Ms. Zheng. They forced her to half squat in the horse-riding position. Then they tortured her to force a confession. Li Gang repeatedly slapped her face for a long time until he was too tired to continue. Zheng Shangbi's face became purple and swollen. As a result, she couldn't open her mouth for several days. The police also turned on the electric fan to blow cold wind on her. The policemen didn't send her to the detention centre until they had made her suffer all sorts of torture.
During her detention, Zheng Shangbi was often tortured. Once she and other practitioners were severely beaten by the head of the detention centre Wu Xueming, party secretary Liu Qizhao, and other police officers because they refused to recite the regulations of the detention centre. They were forced to stand with their heads against the wall. They were handcuffed and put into solitary cells. Liu Qizhao forced five practitioners to stand against the wall and beat them all over their bodies with a bamboo stick until the stick was completely broken. In January 2001, there was a public sentencing rally in Miyi County. More than ten Falun Dafa practitioners were tied up and each was escorted by two police officers to the rally. They were forced to stand together with the death row prisoners and watch the executions happening right beside them.
On April 11th, 2002, after more than one year of detention, Ms. Zheng and four other practitioners were escorted to Nanmusi Forced Labour Camp in Zizhong, Sichuan Province, by staff from the Politics and Security Department including Chai Fa, Chen Ying, Lin Hai and others. The head warden Zhang Xiaofang forced practitioners to watch videos and read books slandering Falun Gong. She also tried to force them to give up their belief in "Truth, Compassion, and Forbearance." She ordered hardened criminals to monitor and discipline them. The guards and criminal inmates used all sorts of different methods to try to "transform2" practitioners, including cursing; beating; forcing practitioners to stand, run, or squat for long periods of time; depriving them of sleep; and forcing them to do hard labour.
In the middle of the night on February 1st, 2005, more than 10 officials broke into Zheng Shangbi's home. They took away Zheng Shangbi's Dafa books, exercise music tapes, and leaflets exposing the persecution. Then they dragged her into the police van and took her to Binggu Police Station. Yang Bin and other police officers asked her whether she still wanted to practise Falun Gong. When she said, "Yes," they handcuffed her to the iron baluster until the next afternoon. Xu Xing and Mao Taining then detained her in the detention centre in Miyi. They took a photo of her and fingerprinted her against her will. She was detained for no reason for one month. On the day of her release, Yang Zhihua, Li Xuesong, and Zhou Lin from the Politics and Security Department forced her family to borrow 200 yuan and pay the penalty. They didn't release her until her family had paid the 200 yuan.
At about 9 a.m. on December 14th, 2005, 35 practitioners gathered at practitioner Guo Huibin's home to study the Falun Dafa teachings and do the exercises together. They were reported and more than 100 policemen and governmental officials rushed over in more than 10 police cars and trucks. They surrounded Guo Huibin's home. All 35 practitioners were tied with their hands behind their backs. Guo Huibin's home was almost turned up side down. All the Dafa books and leaflets exposing the persecution were confiscated, as well as a TV set, a video player, three cassette players, and an audio system. Guo Huibin, Feng Shifen, and Zhou Ying were detained in the detention centre in Miyi for 29 days. The other 32 practitioners were taken to Tounian Township and detained in the governmental department. They were brainwashed, forced to write guarantee letters to give up Falun Gong, and had to pay penalties. Zheng Shangbi's husband wasn't at home. However, the authorities didn't spare him. Staff from the national security department, the police station, the 610 Office3, and Xu Jian broke the door of their home and forced open all the cabinets and cupboards. They also took away all the Dafa books, audio and video tapes, a video player, two cassette players, two lights, two loudspeakers, five bags, and several hundred cash notes in bags.
Note
1. "Yuan" is the Chinese currency; 500 yuan is equal to the average monthly income of an urban worker in China.
2. "Reform or Transform" Implementation of brainwashing and torture in order to force a practitioner to renounce Falun Gong. (Variations: "reform", "transform", "reformed", "reforming", "transformed", "transforming", and "transformation")
3. "The 610 office" is an agency specifically created to persecute Falun Gong, with absolute power over each level of administration in the Party and all other political and judiciary systems.
Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2007/1/5/146221.html
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