Older Practitioner Ms. Wang Qinglan, a Farmer in Jilin Province, Persecuted for the Past Twelve Years

Name: Wang Qinglan
Gender: Female
Age: 62
Address: Yaolinzi Village, Jiangnan Township, Fengman District, Jilin City
Occupation: Farmer
Date of Most Recent Arrest: July 17th, 2010
Most recent place of detention: Brainwashing Centre in Xiaoguang Village No. 4 Community Welfare House
City: Jilin
Province: Jilin
Persecution Suffered: Interrogation, extortion, brainwashing, home ransacked, detention, solitary confinement

Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Wang Qinglan has been persecuted by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) for the past twelve years. She has been tortured in Huashanlu Police Station of Jiangnan Township, the Jilin City No.1 Detention Centre, the Zhuque Mountain Brainwashing Centre in Fengman District, and the Xiaoguang No .4 Community Welfare House in Shahezi Township, Fengman District.

On February 1st, 2001, together with other Falun Gong practitioners, Ms. Wang went out to distribute leaflets exposing the persecution of Falun Gong. She was reported by Hu Xiangguo, party secretary of Yaolingzi Village, and Li Zonghan, village head. They called Wang Jin, deputy township head, and Zhang Shimin, a local policeman, and two other policemen to arrest Ms. Wang. They detained her at Huashanlu Police Station and tortured her, and only released her after they had successfully extorted three thousand yuan¹ from her.

On August 1st, 2001, Wang Jin, and Zhang Yuedong, party secretary of the township, went to Ms. Wang's husband to threaten him. Due to the pressure, her husband was angry at her and shouted at her. Zhang asked Ms. Wang to sign statements to give up practising Falun Gong, but she refused. Communist Party officials then extorted another one thousand yuan from her family. Days later, Wang Jin, Zhang Shimin, and Sun and Zhao, section heads of Fengman District Police Department, forcibly took Ms. Wang away and sent her to Jilin City Hospital for a physical exam for entrance into a forced labour camp. However, she did not pass the exam. Sun attempted to extort another three thousand yuan from her family, but did not succeed.

On September 20th, 2001, Wang Jin, director Sun of the Fengman District 610 office (an organisation of special agents just for persecuting Falun Gong), and a driver deceived Ms. Wang and brought her to the Zhuque Mountain Brainwashing Centre. She was forced to watch TV programmes put together by the Communist Party, which were full of propaganda about Falun Gong. She was detained for twelve days, and extorted out of 550 yuan.

On November 14th, 2004, Xu Hongwei, deputy director of Huashanlu Police Department, Zhang Shimin, and three other policemen broke into Ms. Wang's home and ransacked it. They found some Falun Gong leaflets exposing the persecution, and she was interrogated about the source of the materials. But Ms. Wang refused to cooperate with them. She was later detained in Fengman District Police Department. Wang Yan, a policeman, tortured her there. He took photos of her and took her fingerprints by force. She was later sent to Yueshanlu Detention Centre. The police forced her family to pay several thousand yuan, promising to decrease her sentence from three years' imprisonment to one-year's imprisonment and one-year's probation.

During the 2008 Beijing Olympics, Qin Jicheng from the Jiangnan Township 610 Office, and six policemen from Huashanlu Police Station went to Ms. Wang's home, and wanted to send her to the brainwashing centre. She refused to go with them. They asked her husband to watch her, and stop her from going anywhere. During the next few days, policemen came to her home to harass and monitor her until the Olympics were over.

Around 6:00 p.m. on July 17th, 2010, when she was working on the farm, seven policemen from the Huashanlu Police Department forcibly carried her into a car, and sent her into the brainwashing centre in Xiaoguang Village No. 4 Community Welfare House. Personnel there forced her into solitary confinement, and asked two people to watch her. They tried to force her to sign statements to give up practising, threatening that if she refused to sign, she would be sent to a forced labour camp. Four days later, she did not pass the physical exam for entrance to the labour camp. However, the brainwashing centre refused to release her. Eight days later, she successfully escaped.

Over the past twelve years, Ms. Wang Qinglan has suffered torture several times. Her family has suffered financially and psychologically. In total, they have been extorted out of more than ten thousand yuan. Her children constantly worry about her.

Note

1. "Yuan" is the Chinese currency; 500 yuan is equal to the average monthly income of an urban worker in China.

Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2011/6/8/242150.html