(Clearwisdom.net)

Ms. Wu Yunrui, born in 1956, assumed the position of deputy mayor of Bozhou City, Anhui Province in 1990. She was highly respected for her conscientious work and her incorruptibility.

In 1995, she was appointed the deputy director of Anhui Provincial Tourist Bureau based on her outstanding achievements. She has kept herself upright, especially after 1996 when she began to practice Falun Gong. She behaved according to the standard of "Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance." A food company manager once commended her, saying "She brings a positive attitude in our city." Afterwards, when the police searched her home, only 7,000 yuan ($875) was found. One policeman said, "We searched the home of an honest and upright official!"

In December 1999, Ms. Wu went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong, and was arrested on December 26 in Tiananmen Square. The next day, the Anhui Provincial Tourist Bureau withdrew all of her administrative duties without conducting any investigation or giving any chance for her to appeal or file a complaint. An article criticizing her appeared in the headlines of Anhui Daily on December 28, 1999, which also referred to the massive persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in Anhui Province. It is said that Gao Weiqing, the then-director of Anhui Provincial Tourist Bureau, was liable for the persecution of Ms. Wu Yunrui.

Ms. Wu Yunrui was sentenced to four years imprisonment thereafter, and detained in Anhui Provincial Woman's Prison in Su County, where she was deprived the right to see her mother and other family members. Only her sister and son were allowed to see her. Ten inmates were designated to monitor her 24 hours a day, and she was forbidden to talk to others. Otherwise, the person whom she talked to would be punished by the police. Even the policemen themselves were not allowed to freely talk to her.

During her jail sentence, she wrote a letter to Wang Taihua, the Secretary of Anhui Provincial Party Committee, to disclose the illegal and unfair treatments she experienced, but she never got a response. Her family hired an attorney for her, but the prison rejected the request from the attorney to contact her.

In September 2003, the jail authorities launched a campaign to forcibly "transform" Falun Gong practitioners, which was led by Kong XX, section head at Anhui Provincial Forced Labor Bureau, Gong XX, the deputy director of the jail, and Ma XX the CCP secretary of the prison. They threatened that the Falun Gong practitioners who refused the "transformation" would be pressed to commit suicide, and then the blame would be shifted to Falun Gong. They said beating to death would also countIt is said that Ms. Wu Yunrui experienced beating for two days in that campaign. In the afternoon of the second day, she was beaten into a coma, and when she regained consciousness she suffered from a mental disorder for three months. In the winter, other detainees wore thick clothes, while she still put on a T-shirt, since she lost the ability to feel the cold. Her parents-in-law visited her after the beating. They said that Ms. Wu showed visible bodily deformation, blue discharge ran from her eyes and she had no eye response. After her release she recovered a little bit, but still suffered a relapse occasionally. She only improved after several months' care by her family.

At about 10:00 p.m. on October 10, 2004, when Ms. Wu was eating in a restaurant in Bozhou City with Falun Gong practitioners Zhang Junru, Xu Cuihua, Dong Hong, etc, they were approached by the police and arrested.

She was sentenced to four years in prison again, and has served the term in Bo County Woman's Jail (also called Bozhou City's Woman Jail) for two years. An insider says that she is in poor health. The details of the persecution have yet to be investigated.

Presently, Ms. Wu Yunrui's home is under strict surveillance, and the telephone is also tapped. Xia Xiurong and his wife, Falun Gong practitioners in Bozhou City, were arrested and are still detained just because they helped Ms. Wu's mother to buy some food.

September 15, 2006