Middle School Teacher Ms. Rong Cunling Sent to a Forced Labour Camp Three Times in Three Years

For refusing to renounce her belief, Ms. Rong Cunling, a Falun Gong practitioner from Qianan County, Jilin Province, was seized by the police again on July 16th, 2008, the same day she finished a one-year term in a forced labour camp. Lu Rongfeng, head of the Suizi Town Police Station in Qianan County, and other officers arrested her. Ms. Rong was sent to the Hezhuizi Forced Labour Camp in Jilin Province on July 31st, 2008. This was the third time that she was sentenced to forced labour within three years.

Ms. Rong Cunling, 53, was a teacher at the Suizhi Town Middle School. On April 20th, 2006, Li Yanbo from the Qianan County's Domestic Security Division and about six police officers conducted a search on Falun Gong practitioners' homes in Suizhi Town. Ms. Rong was arrested and taken to the county detention centre. Later, she was sentenced to one year of forced labour.

On June 11th, 2007, officers from the Domestic Security Division of the Qianan County Police Department and Sun Taiyu from the Suizi Town Police Station forcibly took Ms. Rong away from her home. She had just been home for 40 days after serving one year of forced labour. In July 2008, she was once again sentenced to one year of forced labour and sent to the Hezhuizi Forced Labour Camp.

On July 16th, 2008, Ms. Rong's family went to the forced labour camp to pick her up, after they were notified of her release. However, Lu Rongfeng, the head of the Suizi Town Police Station, and other policemen had taken her directly to the Qianan Detention Centre. They also injected her with unknown drugs. Because Ms. Rong refused to write a guarantee statement to denounce Falun Gong, she was again sentenced to one year and nine months of forced labour. She has been detained in the Heizhuizi Forced Labour Camp ever since.

During her detention, Ms. Rong's husband passed away from an illness. Her father-in-law suffered a stroke because of this family tragedy and is unable to take care of himself. Rong Cunling's son had to quit his job to take care of his grandfather.

Rong Cunling suffers from inhuman treatment in the labour camp. She is forced to work like a slave and is beaten, tortured with electric shocks, and deprived of sleep when she refuses to work. Currently, Ms. Rong is very weak.

Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2009/5/15/200934.html