(Minghui.org) A 46-year-old woman in Beian City, Heilongjiang Province, completed a five-year prison sentence in July 2007 for her faith in Falun Gong, a mind-body practice that has been persecuted by the Chinese Communist Party since July 1999.
Prior to her imprisonment, Ms. Sun Daoying was arrested two more times, also for practicing Falun Gong.
Two Earliest Arrests
Ms. Sun was detained at the Beian City Police Department for 15 days in November 1999, for going to Beijing to appeal for her right to practice Falun Gong. After that, she was transferred to a brainwashing center and ordered to write statements renouncing her faith. She was eventually released after about another month.
Ms. Sun returned to Beijing in January 2002 and unfurled a banner on Tiananmen Square bearing Falun Gong messages. A plainclothes officer pushed her down and took her to the Tiananmen Police Station, where she refused to disclose her identity or have her picture taken. The police put her in a cage, where many other practitioners were also being held.
At just past 4 p.m. that day, Ms. Sun, along with more than 20 other practitioners who also did not reveal their names, were transferred to the Pinggu District Detention Center in Beijing. She witnessed another female practitioner being savagely beaten. That practitioner’s clothes were torn and her face was bruised.
Ms. Sun was then taken to the Chengguan Police Station in Pinggu District. An officer there threatened to put her in a male inmates’ cell. She went on a hunger strike in protest and was force-fed. Several inmates pushed her down to the ground and inserted a rubber tube into her nostril. They then forced her to walk laps with the tube still in. Such force-feeding and walking happened once a day. She still refused to reveal her identify, and the police cuffed her hands to a metal door. But she was not deterred, and they eventually gave up. They drove her to a train station and left her there.
Sentenced to Five Years in 2002 and Abused in Prison
The Beian City Police Department launched a mass arrest of local practitioners on the night of April 17, 2002. Ms. Sun managed to escape and was put on the wanted list. Her family and relatives were harassed and their phones were tapped.
Ms. Sun was arrested by officers from the Acheng City Police Department while walking on the street in Acheng City, Heilongjiang Province on July 8, 2002. They beat her and put a plastic bag over her head. The bag also wrapped around her neck tightly. She struggled to breathe and tore the bag with her teeth.
The police dragged Ms. Sun to the restroom and held her down in a sink used to clean mops. They sprayed her face and body with high-pressure ice water, before turning on two fans to blow cold air on her. One of the officers pricked her on the back with a thumbtack. The police then repeated the water-boarding torture one more time, and they also held her head down to almost touch her toes. She was in excruciating pain.
That night Ms. Sun was sent to the Harbin City Second Detention Center (known to locals as the Yaziquan Detention Center). The police interrogated her every day.
During one interrogation session, the police restrained her in a chair with her hands cuffed to the back the chair. They then tied the wire of a hand-cranked generator to her fingers. They turned the crank three times. Each time, electric current went through her body and the pain was unbearable.
Another time a guard suddenly slapped her in the face for no reason. Every time she heard the guards walking around the hallway with their keys jangling, her heart would clench in fear and she could barely breathe.
Ms. Sun was transferred to the Shuangcheng City Detention Center in the winter of 2002. The food there was extremely poor. She often saw sand in the meals, and the cornbread was never fully cooked. One month later she was sentenced to a five-year prison term and admitted to the seventh division of the Heilongjiang Province Women’s Prison.
The guards had Ms. Sun sleep in between two large bed boards. There was no designated sleeping spot for her on either board. Every morning she had to take her bedding to a warehouse storage, and then bring it back to the cell at night. It wasn’t until over two months later that she was assigned a 1.5-foot-wide spot in between two inmates. To prevent her from getting into their space, they put up wooden boards that sandwiched her. With no room to move, she had to sleep on her side, and struggled to get out of bed.
Ms. Sun refused to do hard labor in April 2003. Under the directives of captains Kang Yaling and Cui Yan, the guards and the inmates forced her to sit on a small stool from 6 a.m. to 8-9 p.m.
On April 14, 2003, prison political secretary Chu Shuhua led over 10 armed officers to order Ms. Sun and more than 40 other jailed practitioners to do hard labor. The practitioners refused to comply and were forced to sit on small stools for long hours.
On the night of October 16, 2003, Ms. Sun and more than 30 other practitioners refused to answer roll call, squat, or wear badges. They were forced to stand until midnight. Days later they were forced to stand until 10 p.m.
The prison launched another persecution round of jailed practitioners in late November 2003. Captains Kang and Cui, along with guards Wu Xuesong, Jiang Wei, and Lin Jia, instructed inmates Cui Xue, Xiao Lin, and Zhao Yueqin to drag Ms. Sun and other practitioners outside. Ms. Tie Junying did not run as instructed, and inmate Xiao slapped her in the face.
The inmates forcibly removed the practitioners’ winter coats, hats, and mittens, then forced them to stand in the freezing cold from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., and did not give them any food to eat.
Ms. Zheng Jinbo and Ms. Shen Jing’e were left inside and kicked by anti-riot police with their boots. The two women were then cuffed to a metal door frame.
Ms. Zheng Hongli collapsed on the ground in the freezing cold on the third day of such abuse. Ms. Sun, Ms. Chen Yunxia, and Ms. Liao Xiaolu refused to stand the next day. They were dragged downstairs from the fourth floor by the inmates. Ms. Chen’s head knocked on the railings and had became covered with bumps. Ms. Liao’s sleeves were torn off, and her hands were later cuffed behind her back. The two inmates who dragged Ms. Sun fell during the chaos, and the guards ordered her to cover the inmates’ medical expenses. She protested, and captain Kang relented.
Ms. Sun survived the endless abuse and was released in July 2007.
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