Chongqing Practitioner Mr. Zuo Guoqian Arrested Twice

Name: Zuo Guoqian
Gender: Male
Age: Unknown
Address: Unknown
Occupation: Unknown
Date of Most Recent Arrest: September 9th, 2005
Most recent place of detention: Xishanping Forced Labour Camp in Beipei District
City: Chongqing
Province: Sichuan
Persecution Suffered: Detention, home ransacked, extortion, forced labour, torture, beatings.

Mr. Zuo Guoqian, a resident of the Banan District, Chongqing City, used to suffer rheumatoid arthritis spondylitis. His spine hurt terribly and he couldn't turn over in bed. It took him more than two hours for a trip to the outhouse just outside his door. His condition was life threatening and he led a difficult and unhappy life. Mr. Zuo began to practise Falun Gong in May 1998. After just one month, all of his ailments disappeared.

After the persecution of Falun Gong began, on July 6th, 2005, several 610 Office [an agency specifically created to persecute Falun Gong] agents broke into Mr. Zuo Guoqian's home. They arrested Mr. Zuo and ransacked his home without a search warrant, taking Falun Gong books, leaflets exposing the persecution of Falun Gong and a cassette player.

Zuo Guoqian was detained in the Banan District Detention Centre for one month. During this period, he was forced to do long hours of labour, gluing medicine bags and other items, to make money for the detention centre. The living conditions were extremely bad. A room that normally accommodates eight people was overcrowded with up to 15 or 16 people.

On the morning of September 9th, 2005, Mr. Zuo Guoqian was sent to the Xishanping Forced Labour Camp in the Beipei District, Chongqing City and was detained there for one year. During that period, he endured numerous tortures.

The Xishanping Forced Labour Camp in Chongqing City sent newly-arrived Falun Gong practitioners to the group drill team for persecution, forcing them to wash clothes and dishes, and clean the toilets and bathroom. The other prisoners there are incited by the guards to beat or curse practitioners. Prisoners assigned to monitor practitioners stole the practitioners' money and credit cards for their personal use. As further torment and humiliation, the guards even limited the practitioners' toilet use, forced them to sit and stand for long periods of time and only allowed them two hours of sleep at night.

Mr. Zuo Guoqian was released on September 8th, 2009, after enduring severe persecution and torture.

Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.ca/mh/articles/2004/11/30/90383.html