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The Persecution of Ms. Wang Xiuxiang
Practitioner Ms. Wang Xiuxiang from Beitaishang Village, Xinzhuang Town, Zhaoyuan City, Shandong Province, is 60 years old. On July 20, 1999, she and a few additional practitioners went to Beijing together to appeal for justice for Falun Gong. Unfortunately, some evildoing persons from Xinzhuang Town took them back and tried to force them to give up the practice, intending to brainwash the more than 20 practitioners that had gone to Beijing. They made the practitioners watch news that slandered Falun Dafa, threatened them, and tried to force them to "reform." It was like that for more than 20 days.
On August 20, 1999, Xinzhuang Police Department officers deceived Ms. Wang Xiuxiang and other practitioners to appear at the police department but released them after three days of illegal detention.
In September 1999, police officers ordered Ms. Wang and other practitioners to appear at the township government. The officials interrogated them, asking if they still practiced Falun Gong and told them if they replied "Yes" they would be taken away. If the reply was negative, they could go home. Officers subsequently took Ms. Wang and Li Zhiling (now being held at the Wangcun Forced Labor Camp) to the Xinzhuang Police Department and held them there for 45 days, putting them together with Zhang Shuqin and Zhang Shuchun.
They deprived the practitioners of bathroom use and denied them a hot meal. Wang Xiuxiang's husband was hospitalized at that time. She had a few mu of apples ready for harvest and her livestock were left unattended. Political and Judiciary Committee CCP Secretary Li Shumin forced her and other practitioners to denigrate Dafa. Ms. Wang Xiuxiang was by then near mental collapse and she complied, committing wrongdoings toward Dafa. After paying 5,000 yuan in extortion money she was released. The money was never returned.
In early 2000, she went to Beijing again, but Zhaoyuan County authorities took her back and held her at the Xingzhuang Police Department where quite a few practitioners had been incarcerated. Ms. Wang was compelled to dig toilets and do other dirty work. The police also handcuffed her, Yang Hongju, Wang Shugui, Mao Fulian (now in Jinan Prison), and Yang Jinrong (also in Jinan Prison). They affixed their handcuffs to a truck and hung big signs around their necks, with two policemen holding up each one of them. They drove around Xinzhuang Town to display the practitioners.
The rest of the practitioners were released after being fined 5,000 yuan, but the authorities did not release Wang Xiuxiang. She went on a hunger strike to protest. They then tied her to a metal chair and force-fed her. A few days later she saw an opportunity and escaped. Two days later, they re-captured her and detained her for 35 days, then released her after extorting 5,000 yuan from her family.
The Xinzhuang Police Department agents started to run brainwashing sessions in February 2001. They took practitioners to the town or township government and made the practitioners watch TV programs that slandered Dafa all day long.
Police officers took five of the village practitioners away under duress and sent them to the Linglong Brainwashing Center at around 8:00 p.m. on May 30, 2001. Her family was severely impacted by this. Her husband shook from terror.
The Persecution of Practitioner Ms. Qu Hongxiang
Ms. Qu Hongxiang of Xiaoliujia Village, Zhangxing Town, Zhaoyuan City, Shandong Province, is a 52-year old farmer who began her cultivation journey in June 1996. Falun Dafa gave her a new life and made her physically and mentally healthy.
Since July 20, 1999, when Jiang Zemin began the savage persecution of Falun Gong, Ms. Qu Hongxiang has suffered for her continued belief in Falun Dafa. Jiang's minions subjected her to constant harassment and began searching for her Dafa books and trying to compel her to write guarantee statements.
Ms. Qu went to Beijing to appeal for justice for Falun Gong in November or December 1999. She was arrested once she arrived at Tiananmen Square and was sent to her local government liaison office in Beijing. The police authorities subjected her to a body search, forbade her from speaking, and beat her the moment she opened her mouth. Then she was sent back to her hometown.
The authorities transported 48 practitioners all together and put them in the office complex courtyard of the Criminal Team of the local police department. The police beat them once they got off the bus. They beat them to ground, then pulled them up and beat them down again. The policemen beat them as they rolled on the ground.
On January 20, 2001, Ms. Qu went to Beijing to appeal again, was arrested once she arrived and then officials from her local hometown police station took her home. Policemen Zhang Hai and Hou Xinzhou attempted to force her to write a guarantee statement that she would not go to Beijing again. She refused. The police held her there 15 days, then released her on February 3, 2001, after extorting 200 yuan from her. But on February 25, 2001, policeman Zhang Hai led five others to arrest nine practitioners, including Ms. Qu.
The practitioners were detained for almost 50 days and were made to do housekeeping work, but their family members had to provide their food. The police frequently beat and verbally abused the practitioners. One of them pulled out a hunk of Zhang Shuxiang's hair during a beating. Yang Songmei's nose and mouth bled from the beatings, and Wang Fenglan's face turned blue. Due to their family members' stringent requests for release, Ms. Qu and other practitioners were released after being extorted for money. Ms. Qu was also robbed of 1,000 yuan.
On the afternoon of October 26, 2001, police officer Zhang Hai went to Ms. Qu's home to arrest her, but she didn't open the door. The policemen climbed over the courtyard wall, lifted her out, and stuffed her into a police car. Practitioners Wang Haohong and Wang Fenglan were arrested at the same time in the same way. When Ms. Qu's family member learned about the arrest and went to the police station to ask for her release and asked the police why they arrested innocent people, Policeman Zhang Hai replied, "Because she practices Falun Gong. This is an order from higher echelons! You can appeal wherever you want." The arrested practitioners went on a hunger strike to protest. The family members demanded their release, which happened a week later.
On April 30, 2001 Ms. Qu Hongxiang and other practitioners went to a practitioner's home to share experiences but someone reported them. Many officers from the Zhangxing Town Police Station and the Songjia Town Police Station, under the leadership of chief Cai Ping from the city police department, arrived in more than ten police vehicles and arrested all of the 40 plus practitioners including Ms. Qu. The police beat and verbally abused them during an interrogation session. The authorities sent the practitioners to the city police department detention center in the late afternoon after handcuffing more than a dozen of them together and beating and otherwise abusing them. No bathroom use was allowed, no sleep allowed. Their daily food consisted of cornbread. They were taken back to their respective towns after 30 days and released after being fined 500 yuan each.
In 2001 Jiang's regime started to run a "brainwashing center." Ms. Qu would not give up her belief. The town's Political and Judiciary Committee Party Committee Secretary Liu Jiping and Deputy Secretary Wang Dexing looked for her and tried to arrest her. She had decided to go into exile to avoid further persecution. They went to her husband's workplace, a Gear Factory. They forced him to stop working and didn't allow him to find other work. Ms. Qu's husband was ordered to remain off the job for up to six months, beginning June 11, 2001. On September 30 at 11:00 pm, Deputy Head of the police station Kang Ning led a few agents to break into Ms. Qu's home and take her away. The next day, personnel from the city's 610 Office handcuffed Ms. Qu to a metal chair, used electric shock to interrogate her, and then sent her to a detention center.
Ms. Qu was restrained on a bed (there are iron rings on the bed) and immobilized. She was force-fed on the third day. Eight individuals held her down and forcibly inserted a tube into her nose. This lasted for more than a week. Then they sent Ms. Qu to Linglong Brainwashing Center, but the center refused to accept her because of her poor condition. They then took her back to her hometown and sent her into a hospital but released her after three days of strong requests from her family.
On August 16, 2002, three police officers blocked Ms. Qu's path as she had just stepped out of her home. She tried her best to resist. Her husband and her second brother stepped forward to stop them. Many people gathered to watch. Someone asked the police, "Why do you want to arrest her?" Officer Ren said, "Only because she practices Falun Gong." Ms. Qu escaped with everyone's help. Officer Ren didn't catch her, but called for more than a dozen agents. Deputy Head Xu took Ms. Qu's husband and her brother away and held them in a detention center for 15 days and ordered them to pay 650 yuan in "expenses."
In the past few years Ms. Qu's home became a virtual gathering place for local officials and policemen. They came every two or three days to harass her and her family. The policemen simply jumped over the courtyard wall whether anyone was home or not.