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Summary of Key Persecution Facts:
Name: Wang Sufang(王素芳)
Gender: Female
Age: 60's
Address: Fushun City, Liaoning Province
Occupation: police supervisor
Date of Most Recent Arrest: December 5, 2013
Most recent place of detention: Nangou Detention Center(南沟看守所)
City: Fushun
Province: Liaoning
Persecution Suffered: Detention, heavily shackled, tiger bench, illegal sentencing, imprisonment, brainwashing, force-feeding, beatings, fired from workplace and suspended pension
Ms. Wang Sufang was a police supervisor in the education office of the Fushun City Police Department in Liaoning Province. She was recognized as an outstanding police officer. She used to suffer from multiple illnesses, but after she started to practice Falun Gong in March, 1999, she returned to good health.
Ms. Wang has been arrested and detained multiple times for practicing Falun Gong. She was arrested again on December 5, 2013 and held in the Nangou Detention Center.
Most Recent Arrests
Ms. Wang was arrested by Xie An from the Fumin Police Station on the afternoon of December 5, 2013 because she was distributing Falun Gong calendars on an overpass at Xiyi Road in Xinfu District, Fushun City. She is being held in the Nangou Detention Center.
She was arrested in front of the underground market on Jiefang Road by two officers from the Zhanqian Police Station at around 4 p.m. on August 9, 2012. She was held in the Nangou Detention Center and released unconditionally on August 22 after she went on a hunger strike to protest the arrest.
Tortured in the Liaoning Women's Prison for Two Years
Ms. Wang was arrested and taken to Ward No. 1 in the Liaoning Women's Prison in March 2003. Guards Wang Jian, Wu Hong and Li Zhe tried to brainwash her and force her to renounce Falun Gong. They also assigned inmates Yu Xiuqin and Liu Lixin to torture her.
When she went on a hunger strike to protest the persecution, guard Li Zhe ordered inmates Yu Xiuqing and Liu Lixin to force-feed her. She asked Li Zhe why he ordered prisoners to torture her. Li Zhe then scaled back the torture. Then, she reported the torture to Captain Xia Ru and officer Lu Yan, telling them that these crimes would be exposed sooner or later.
Guards Wang Jian and Li Zhe brutally beat Ms. Fang Guiyun, fracturing her leg.
Ms. Zhao Junfang. a Chinese medicine doctor was also brutally beaten by prisoners on orders from Li Zhe.
Inmates Zhang Yingchun and Zhu Yajing dragged Ms. Zhao to a storage room and brutally beat her. She called for help unsuccessfully. After she left the storage room, her face was covered with bruises and her leg was injured. Ms. Wang Sufang wrote an article about the torture and gave it to Captain Xia Ru, exposing the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in that prison.
Ms. Wang was released on February 19, 2005. On her return she was fired by her workplace and they stopped her retirement annuity.
Arrested and Sentenced to Prison in 2001
After the persecution of Falun Gong started in 1999, Ms. Wang clarified the truth to people, using her personal experience as an example of the benefits gained from practicing Falun Gong.
She went to Beijing to appeal for the right to practice Falun Gong in 2000. She was arrested and held for seven days by the Fushun City Police Department.
She went again to Beijing in November 2001 to appeal for the right to practice. She was detained again. She went on a hunger strike and clarified the facts of Falun Gong to the police. She was released after thirteen days.
However, fifteen days after she returned home, she was arrested by Hao Jian'guang and others from the Fushun City Police Department, and held in the Fushun City Detention Center. She was arrested because an unknown person had written “Falun Gong is Good! Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is Good!” on a river bank in the city.
Other practitioners arrested at the same time include, Ms. Peng Jie, a small business owner; Ms. Fang Guiyun, employed at the Fushun City Electric Plant; Mr. Sun Yanming, employed at the Fushun City Excavator Factory; and Ms. Xu Guiqin, an official from the Fushun Daily newspaper.
Ms. Peng, Ms. Fang and Mr. Sun were tortured. The torture methods included brutal beatings, splitting the legs, hanging up in the air, tying with rope and electric shocks.
Torture reenactment: Victims legs are split into 180 degree angle
During the detention in the Fushun City Detention Center, guard Zhao Chunyan handcuffed Ms. Wang Sufang with a shackle that weighed 24 kilograms and guard Cai Ang tortured her on the tiger bench.
Torture reenactment: The tiger bench
The Shuncheng District Court sentenced Mr. Xue Xinglong to a twelve-year prison term, Ms. Peng Jie to seven years, Ms. Fang Guiyun to six years, Mr. Sun Yanming to six years, Ms. Xu Guiqin to three years and Ms. Wang Sufang to three years.
Related article:
http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2013/12/30/抚顺市公安局干部被无理拘留-律师被恶警殴打-284904.html
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