Call to Rescue My Mother Ms. Chen Zhenping

The last time I saw my mother was in March 2009. It was in the meeting room of the Xinxiang City Women's Prison in Henan Province, and we were being monitored by two female guards. I knew that our conversation was restricted. Touching my mother's cold, cracking hands and looking at her emaciated face and livid skin, I felt very distressed. I realised that she must have suffered a lot during the past several months and that I must try my best to rescue my mother, Ms. Chen Zhenping.

My mother was in poor health when she was young. In 1995 an examination discovered a large hysteromyoma and advanced liver cancer that were deemed incurable, and this led her to lose her last hope for life. Then one day an aunt gave her a Falun Gong book entitled Zhuan Falun at the park. This wonderful book changed the lives of my mother, my sister, and me. Just several months after my mother started practising Falun Gong, all her diseases disappeared, and she became increasingly benevolent.

On July 20th, 1999 the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) started persecuting Falun Gong throughout the entire nation. My mother then regularly told people, who had been misled by the government propaganda, the facts about Falun Gong and exposed the persecution. She was arrested many times for her belief. Her latest arrest was on July 9th, 2008, when the local police arrested her and sentenced her to eight years of imprisonment on December 15th, 2008. I was also arrested with my mother when I was very young. I am currently homeless and can't return to my home. The following is the ten-year history of my family's hardship due to the persecution.

My Mother was Persecuted and Sent to a Forced Labour Camp Twice

I was only eleven years old at the time, when my mother took me to distribute materials exposing the persecution of Falun Gong on the bus, but she was taken to the Beixia Street Police Station in Zhengzhou City, Henan Province by a retired policeman. The police subsequently ransacked our home and took away cash, a DVD player, recorder, and other things. My mother was later given one and a half years of forced labour, and was sent to Shibalihe Women's Forced Labour Camp in Zhengzhou City. She was forced to do slave labour for more than fifteen hours daily, including making wigs and carpets, and she suffered various methods of cruel torture. My sister and I had to depend on each other for survival at home, but the police often went to my house to threaten us during that period. I was often crying.

In March 2002 the police again arrested my mother, and they took her to the Zhongyuan District Detention Centre because we had distributed truth-clarifying materials in the park. She went on a hunger strike for more than one month to oppose the persecution. She was not released until she was on the verge of death.

On May 4th, 2002, my mother and I went to Beijing to display a banner stating Falun Gong is good. Tiantan Police Station officers forcibly dragged us to the station. The police dragged my mother so ferociously that her back was bleeding. I was only twelve years old at that time, but the police used smoke to irritate my eyes, they slapped my face, and threatened and taunted me.

Several days later, we were transferred back to Zhengzhou City and detained at the Wanqing Resort Brainwashing Centre. We were severely beaten and subjected to mental cruelty there. The persecutors subjected us to around-the-clock brainwashing. Almost every night I heard awful screams from fellow practitioners in the next room and from rooms in the distance. The police even put psychotropic drugs into the meals of Falun Gong practitioners.

Five days later, my mother and I went on a hunger strike. Ten days later, I was taken out by my sister, but my mother remained at the brainwashing centre for more than a year. I was pretty much pulled down by the hunger strike, and I was too weak to talk. Due to my being deprived of sleep, I became absent minded and couldn't go to school right away. After I returned home, the 610 Office¹ monitored us more closely. They kept almost everything about me under watch, including the materials I looked for in the bookstore, where I went with friends on the weekend, and the greetings cards and letters that my friends sent to me during the holidays. They delayed and opened my personal letters, and they kept dogging my tracks. This abnormal life brought my mind great pressure and fear. It caused me to become unsociable and eccentric, to be sleepless through the whole night, and to have a rapid decline in my academic performance. I lost interest in doing anything, and I totally lost the happiness and life that a child deserves.

After my mother was detained at the brainwashing centre for more than a year, she was sent directly to the Shibalihe Women's Forced Labour Camp in Zhengzhou City, where she was again severely mistreated. Due to the multiple, savage forced-feedings, my mother emerged with the symptoms of myocardial infarction, and her teeth were chipped by the tools they used during the forced-feedings. She lost a significant amount of weight and there were bruises everywhere on her body as a result of the torture. Officials from the labour camp were afraid of her dying there, so they let my sister take her home.

Four plainclothes agents kept an around the clock watch on my home, and continued to do so for over five years. During that time, my home seemed like a prison. Every day when I left my home, I had to face their frightening looks, and I worried that they would break into my home to arrest my mother again.

Mother Arrested Before the Olympic Games and Sentenced to Eight Years in Prison

In 2008, the CCP wantonly arrested Falun Gong practitioners under the pretence of the Olympic Games. At 5:30 p.m. on July 9th, 2008, my mother was arrested and taken away by many officials including head Ding from the Huayuan Road Police Station, head Cheng from the Domestic Security Division, and Li Xinjian and Tao Wenyue from the 610 Office. My home was again ransacked.

My mother was sent to the Matougang Village Jinshui Police Department, in Zhengzhou City. She was then secretly transferred to the Zhengzhou City Detention Centre ten days later. Those detained there were forced to do 15 hours of forced labour daily, and they were forbidden from talking or using the rest room during that period. They usually held one position for more than ten hours, and were forced to make 2,000 to 3,000 lighters per capita every day. Many people's hands peeled layer by layer, which brought them burning pain at night. Many women there lost their menstrual cycle and much of their hair. Some criminal offenders couldn't tolerate the hard labour, and had mental collapses. These criminal prisoners even slit their wrists, jumped out of the building, and committed suicide by swallowing pins. Although my mother was already in her later fifties, she had to finish 3,000 lighters every day, the same quota as the younger detainees. Moreover, she suffered abuse and was severely beaten at any whim there.

The Jinshui District Court in Zhengzhou City secretly sentenced my mother to eight years of imprisonment. She was then sent to and detained at the No. 9 Ward of the Xinxiang City Women's Prison in Henan Province. This prison is also called the Xinxiang City Clothing and Shoe Factory, which is also the largest clothing and shoe factory in Xinxiang City. Officials there forced Falun Gong practitioners to work making clothes, shoes, and strings of beads. Practitioners often had to work for thirteen to fourteen hours, including into the night. They sometimes had to work continuously for several entire nights.

In order to hide this abuse, officials at the prison forbade anyone from visiting my mother, and recently they secretly transferred her to another prison district.

My Sister and I Are Wanted by Police

In 2004, my sister Ms. Jin Zhaoyu met her husband Tommi. She went to visit Tommi's family in Finland in July 2008. The day after she left was the day when my mother was arrested before the Olympic Games. In September 2008, my sister asked her friend to go to the police station to submit a single status certificate, but the request was refused because my sister was already "wanted" by police.

On January 4th, 2009, I went to the court to ask Judge Ren Yuanqu for my mother's judgement. He suddenly and unexpectedly (in public) pushed me down to the ground, severely beat me, tugged at my hair, trampled my chest and abdomen, and randomly kicked me. Several minutes later, he was pulled away by his female colleague. At that time, my whole body was in great pain and my mind went blank. I couldn't believe that a judge had actually brutally attacked me physically.

In early April 2009, I went back home to get some clothes. As soon as she saw me my neighbour told me to leave at once and not come back. She also told me that the police had come often asking for me during the past several months, and at times they were asking for me around my home every day. They also ordered the security person in my building to hold me if he saw me and to report to the police as soon as possible. So I returned to my apartment (where I hid) at once and didn't dare to go out. Every night, I was frightened when the neighbour's door was slammed or opened. Even a small sound would wake me up in the night. I was very nervous and almost had a complete mental collapse. Several days later, the plainclothes agents found my place.

I then left there and went to Guangzhou City. I bought an airline ticket to Kuala Lumpur. But when I went to the customs desk at Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport, two officials took me into an isolation room. They took away all my credentials and luggage, and told me that I couldn't leave. I tried my best to get away. I told a guard that I needed to use the restroom and would come right back. When I got close to the restroom, I saw that the official who took me into the isolation room was going to that room with several policemen, so I quickly ran out of the airport and took a taxi to escape.

Appeals from My Sister: Please Rescue My Mother

Under continuous appeals from my sister in Finland, many local media reported our persecution. Many parties and representatives also paid attention to this case. In addition, they signed a rescue letter and sent it to China. More and more organisations have responded, including Amnesty International, the Finnish government, human rights organisations, and the European Union. They have all sent letters of censure to China asking for the release of my mother Ms. Chen Zhenping.

This year, the largest newspaper in the north of Finland, Lapin Kansa, reported my mother's persecution and the inside story of organ harvesting by the CCP. Another newspaper reprinted this report.

The CCP policy toward Falun Gong is genocide: "Defaming their reputations, bankrupting them financially, and destroying them physically." During the past ten years of the Falun Gong persecution, my family and I were also persecuted for ten years. Since I was ten years old, I have suffered exclusion and discrimination from my teachers and classmates. They made personal remarks about me and denounced me in public. In addition, they reported to police my every move and wanted to expel me from school, and they even didn't give me my graduation certificate from elementary school. My sister subsequently tried everything she could and spent a lot of money to allow me to attend a middle school.

To people of conscience, please help rescue my mother Ms. Chen Zhenping. I have only a small wish that is to see my mother every day, and to practise Falun Gong, and cultivate Truthfulness-Benevolence-Forbearance with my mother.

Ms. Chen Zhenping is detained in No. 9 Prison Ward of the Xinxiang City Women's Prison. Phone number: 86-373-5092690

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Note

1. "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/2009/9/7/207892.html