Name: Guo Shuhui (郭树辉)
Gender: Male
Age: about 40
Address: Unknown
Occupation: Government official

Date of Most Recent Arrest: May 2004
Most recent place of detention: Chaoyanggou Labor Camp in Changchun City (长春朝阳沟劳教所)

City: Changchun
Province: Jilin
Persecution Suffered: Imprisonment, fired from job, brainwashing, extortion, home ransacking, forced labor, interrogation, beatings

(Clearwisdom.net) Mr. Guo Shuhui used to be an official at the Unified Front Department of Dongguang County, Hebei Province. Mr. Guo benefited tremendously from Falun Gong and conducted himself according to the principles of Truth-Compassion-Forbearance. He received two awards and the title "Outstanding Individual" from the county government. Nevertheless, the persecutors haunted him for a decade for his belief in Falun Gong.

He was illegally arrested many times and decided to leave his workplace for five years, to avoid persecution. He is on a police blacklist and is harassed on all of the so-called "sensitive" days.

Mr. Guo returned to his former workplace after the 2007 Chinese New Year, following six years of imprisonment and life in exile and asked for his job back. The town's Party secretary had been replaced, and the new secretary said he must ask for approval from the county 610 Office.

Following the police's unconstitutional detention of the volunteer Falun Gong assistant in Dongguang County on July 20, 1999, Mr. Guo went to the Beijing Appeals Office, to petition for Falun Gong. Police who took him to a brainwashing facility organized by the Traffic Bureau and the county 610 Office. He reluctantly agreed to give up Falun Gong under pressure. Zuo Dexing, Dongguang County Political and Judiciary Committee Party secretary and 610 Office head Hu Chaohua were responsible for the persecution.

Mr. Guo wrote letters to the State Council Appeals Office and the county government in early 2000 to explain the facts about Falun Gong. Officials from the county police department's Politics and Security Section detained him for 45 days because he participated in a Chinese New Year reunion party with past classmates who were also practitioners. Official Huo Xingchi and others ransacked his home and took one video camera and several Falun Gong books. They photographed and fingerprinted him at the detention center and forced him to write a guarantee statement, to renounce his belief. His parents were forced to pay a 4,000 yuan "guarantee fee" and he was released on bail. Mr. Guo was then sent to work as an entry-level employee at the poorest town's administration bureau.

The town government locked between ten and twenty practitioners from several villages in a garage in January 2001 to prevent them from going to Beijing. Mr. Guo Shuhui wrote letters to the town officials and requested the release of these practitioners. He wrote letters to the county Politics and Security Section in February 2001 and requested removal of his "on bail awaiting interrogation" status. Officials from the county Special Case Task Force [created to persecute Falun Gong] went to his workplace and arrested him, took him to the county detention center and held him there for 32 days. They also ransacked his office and took his tape recorder and other private belongings. The persecutors subsequently rummaged through his home. His family bribed the Politics and Security Section with 1,000 yuan [to secure his release]. Detention center officials extorted another 3,000 yuan and an additional 400 yuan "food fee" before Mr.Guo was released.

While in detention, he was forced to work ten hours a day for continuing to do the Falun Gong exercises. Officials responsible for the persecution include Wang Xijie, political secretary at the county police department and Zhao Fenlan, political head at the Guchu Police Station in Qin Village, Dongguang County.

Life in exile

Officials from the county Domestic Security Division took him away in September 2001. Officials from the county Traffic Police Division took him to a room and handcuffed him to a heating pipe. His family constantly talked to the police. Officials transferred him to Chengguan Town Police Station the next day. He broke free one night while going to the bathroom and lived in exile over the next three years. He also wrote letters to the police and the Party secretary at the government office where he worked and asked them to stop going after him.

Torture at detention center and labor camp

He posted some stickers with the words "Falun Dafa is good" at public locations in a county in Baishan, Jilin Province in May 2004. He did not notice the plainclothes State Security Division officers in the street. The officials waited until he finished posting the stickers to approach him.

The officials took him to a detention center where they interrogated him repeatedly and demanded to know contacts for local practitioners. The detainees assaulted him after receiving tacit approval from the guards. The head inmate in the first cell ordered him to stand against the wall and violently elbowed Mr. Guo's back, making him feel as if his back was going to break. At the second cell, the head inmate sadistically boxed his ears, causing temporary hearing loss. He recovered his hearing several days later. At the third cell, the head inmate beat him until he became disoriented. While he was at a detention center, police officers from Fusong Town ransacked his residence and took several thousand yuan cash and private belongings.

After five months at the detention center, police chief Guo told him they would release him if he gave the name of the real Falun Gong contact person. He said he did not know the contact person; therefore, he was sent to the Chaoyanggou Labor Camp in Changchun City.

He was held at a division headed by a so-called "reform expert" named Gao Zhilu who bombarded him daily with lies, sometimes until midnight. That put him under tremendous pressure. Two months later he was transferred to another division where he was forced to make plywood. Three months later, labor camp head Xu Xiaoming said at a conference that the "reform" rate must be 95 percent.

One night guard Li Dong ordered head inmate Xu Fumao from Nanguan Village, Changchun City and several other inmates to approach Mr. Guo Shuhui. They told him to sign a guarantee statement; otherwise they would follow instruction from division head Liu Aiguo. That individual stated that no measure is too extreme in reforming practitioners, since they would only have to write a statement of self-criticism if they "accidentally" killed him. They beat him when he refused to sign the document. He heard loud popping noises as blood streamed down his face, and his eyes were swollen shut. They also vehemently attacked his genitals with their knees. An hour later he could no longer endure and signed the statement.

According to practitioners previously held at this labor camp, "reform" is only the first step of psychological torment. Practitioners who have signed guarantee statements would have to report their thoughts periodically to the labor camp authorities who want to confirm they have truly "reformed." If the guards thought the "reform" was incomplete they would extend the sentence. Many practitioners would rather take a sentence extension than to write reports that further slander Falun Gong. The authorities call the refusal to betray one's conscience "rebound," meaning disqualification from sentence reduction. Mr. Guo Shuhui wrote thoughts related to how to be a good person in the future so as to avoid being called "rebound" and in an effort to leave the labor camp as soon as possible.