Parents Illegally Detained in Forced Labour Camp, 10-Year-Old Son Left Unattended

Recently, Falun Dafa practitioners Mr. Luo Yulin and Ms. Meng Qingwen, a married couple from Dezhou City, Shandong Province, were detained in forced labour camps. Their ten-year-old son Luo Daming was once again deprived of his family.

Ms. Meng Qingwen, 35, is a practitioner from Dezhou City, Shandong Province. Her husband Luo Yulin, also a practitioner, was an employee at a Demian Group Ltd. textile plant in Dezhou City.

On December 15, 2004, police from the Jianshe Police Station of the Decheng Police Sub-Bureau in Dezhou City arrested Ms. Meng when she was distributing leaflets exposing the persecution. At about 7 p.m., local police broke into her home and ransacked it.

When the police arrived, her husband Luo Yulin and their 10-year-old son Luo Daming were eating dinner. The police broke into their home without a permit or a warrant, searched the entire house, and confiscated their Falun Gong books and some leaflets exposing the persecution. Mr. Luo was arrested and taken to the Dezhou Detention Centre, and their ten-year-old son was left alone at home, in tears.

The next day, they searched Mr. Luo's office at work and found a public letter that he had written to the company manager. In the letter he told how in 2001, the company leaders had set up an illegal private court that had detained him for two months, so that he could not go home. In addition, the company also had assisted the police in sending Mr. Luo to a forced labour camp for three years.

Three days later, on December 18, the Decheng Police Department issued warrant of detention for Mr. Luo, but it had no signature or specified dates for detention. The reason for the warrant was "disruption of the social order." The police arrest good people who believe in the principles of Truthfulness, Compassion and Forbearance, break into private homes, ransack their houses, and then charge them with "disruption of the social order!"

About two dozen police officers from the Decheng Police Department searched Mr. Luo's home again on December 21 and 22. The village cadres assisted the police in illegally breaking into Mr. Luo's home.

Ten days later, they arrested Ms. Meng, and police from the Decheng Police Department sent both Ms. Meng and Mr. Luo to forced labour camps again. Ms. Meng is serving a two-year term at Jinan Women's Forced Labour Camp, while Mr. Luo is being detained in the Wang Village Men's Forced Labour Camp.

When the police took Mr. Luo to the Wang Village Men's Forced Labour Camp, they learned that he had kidney problems and three other illnesses. His health condition would normally have disqualified him from acceptance in a labour camp, so the labour camp guards took the opportunity to blackmail the four people (two from his work unit and two from the Decheng Police Department) who had brought Luo Yulin in. The guards stated, "According to the regulation, we are not supposed to accept him. Since you are bringing him here without prior permission, we have to charge you 1,000 yuan (1). In order to complete their mission of incarcerating Mr. Luo, the four collected the 1,000 yuan and gave it to the guards.

There were no signatures from Ms. Meng or her husband on the labour camp detention notices, only the fingerprints of her ailing and mentally incompetent 84-year-old mother-in-law. Two policemen from the Decheng Police Department had broken into the home of Mr. Luo's parents. They had grabbed the mother's hand, pressed her fingers on Ms. Meng's labour camp detention notice, and quickly disappeared. That was how they had "dealt with legal matters with due process."

Both Ms. Meng's and Mr. Luo's workplaces helped to persecute them. Ms. Meng's boss was a young man in his mid-twenties, who used to serve in a Beijing Armed Police unit and had persecuted many practitioners who had gone to Tiananmen Square to appeal in 2000 and 2001. He trapped Ms. Meng by using an informant, who had talked to her and pretended to be interested in knowing the truth about Falun Gong. The informant had watched CD's exposing the persecution in her home. Three days later, Ms. Meng was followed, arrested, and her home was ransacked.

Mr. Luo's work unit also helped police agents many times. They not only assisted in getting him detained and sent him to a forced labour camp for three years, but they also helped send another male practitioner, in his thirties, to a forced labour camp.

Ms. Meng was arrested and detained in a forced labour camp for one year in 2001, while her husband was detained for three years in Wang Village Forced Labour Camp. Their son, Luo Daming, was only six years old then, and he lost the care and love of his parents for that time. Daming is ten years old now and his parents are again in labour camps.

Ms. Meng's parents are both in their seventies. Her mother has heart problems and is in need of care. Mr. Luo's parents are both in their eighties and are in need of even more care. These elderly people can hardly take care of themselves, let alone care for a 10-year-old grandchild. Good people following the principles of "Truthfulness, Compassion, and Forbearance" are persecuted, and the whole family is forced into an extremely difficult existence.

Partial list of work units and persons responsible for persecuting Luo Yulin and Meng Qingwen

Decheng Police Sub-Bureau, Dezhou City
Wang, the head of the bureau and also the deputy chief of the Dezhou Police Department
Dezhou City Jianshe Police Station
Dezhou City Development Zone Police Station
Demian Group Yadelian Textile Company Ltd, Dezhou City (originally the No. 1 Textile Company):

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/2005/1/2/92685.html