Eleven Years of Persecution Leaves a Family of Five with Two Dead and Two Imprisoned

Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Peng Liang and Mr. Zhang Jingzhou were arrested in the early morning hours of December 13th. The arrest took place near Dongxihu District Court in Wuhan City. Participating in the arrest were plainclothes police officers who had staked out there. It was Mr. Peng's seventh arrest.

Mr. Peng Liang had a family of five who were all Falun Gong practitioners. During the eleven-year-long persecution, all five members of the family have been subjected to arrests, home ransacking, detention, brainwashing, and forced labour terms. Two of them have died as a result of the persecution, and one has suffered a mental breakdown.

Mr. Peng Min, the younger brother of Mr. Peng Liang, was severely beaten on January 9th, 2001 while he was held in the Qingling Detention Centre in Wuchang District. The police officers instigated criminal inmates to commit this crime. The beatings left Mr. Peng with a fracture of his limbs and spine, and he died at Wuhan City No.7 Hospital. Twenty-two days later, city and district 610 Office agents [an agency specifically created to persecute Falun Gong] took Mr. Peng's mother Ms. Li Yinxiu to a brainwashing facility, where she was beaten to death. Afterwards, the CCTV programme “Focal Point” broadcast lies and claimed that Mr. Peng Min “died because he had refused to see a doctor,” and Ms. Li Yinxiu, “died of a sudden stroke.”

The father, Mr. Peng Weisheng, was arrested five times, incarcerated in a brainwashing facility eight times, and sent to a forced labour camp twice for refusing to give up his beliefs. He suffered from a nervous breakdown as a result of being severely persecuted during his second detention in the Hewan Forced Labour Camp. He is currently held in the Yujiatou Brainwashing Centre in the Wuchang District.

Ms. Peng Yan, the younger sister in the family, was sentenced to three years in prison for remaining steadfast in her belief. While being held in the Wuhan City No.1 Detention Centre, guards tortured her twice with a death bed¹, totaling 39 days. She was later sent to the Wuhan Women's Prison, where she was subjected to all kinds of torture and physical abuse. In December 2001, former Hubei Province Police Department deputy head Zhao Zhifei was given a default judgment by a court in the U.S. following a visit there. He was charged for being responsible for the deaths of Mr. Peng Min and Ms. Li Yinxiu. Provincial and municipal level 610 Office agents instructed prison authorities to try all means possible to “reform” [forcibly renounce Falun Gong] Ms. Peng Yan, in an attempt to cut off the source of evidence that the court needed.

Such a peaceful and harmonious family was broken as a result of the Chinese Communist Party's
(CCP) brutal persecution. Three family members are still alive, but the father and older brother are still detained, while the youngest sister Ms. Peng Yan lives away from home to avoid further persecution.

Note

1. "Death Bed" torture: A practitioner is tied to a bed with his hands handcuffed above his head to the bed rails, and his legs tied with thin nylon ropes. The rope is then tightly wrapped around the practitioner's body and the bed, from his legs to his chest. The rope is wrapped so tightly that the practitioner has difficulty breathing and eventually loses consciousness.

Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2011/1/3/234429.html