Elderly Practitioner Ms. Chen Xiuying from Mianyang Taken to Brainwashing Centre

Name: Chen Xiuying
Gender: Female
Age: 74
Address: Kechuangyuan Community, Mianyang City, Sichuan Province
Occupation: Unknown
Date of Most Recent Arrest: November 2nd, 2011
Most Recent Place of Detention: Wujia Brainwashing Centre
City: Mianyang
Province: Sichuan
Persecution Suffered: Detention, brainwashing.

Before Ms. Chen Xiuyang practised Falun Gong she suffered from insomnia, tracheitis and inflammation of the mouth. After she became a practitioner she regained her health and her illnesses disappeared. However, she was subjected to persecution and on July 11th, 2008, officers from the Chengjiao Township Police Station arrested Ms. Chen and took her to the Mianyang Detention Centre, where she was detained for one month.

On November 1st, 2011, Ms. Chen was celebrating her birthday at home with her children. Soon after they left at 9 p.m., someone knocked on the door. Ms. Chen thought that her children had come back for something and quickly opened the door. Several police officers rushed into her home and tried to take her away. Ms. Chen leaned towards a window and shouted, “There are bad people in my home! They are trying to take me away!”

Some of her neighbours quickly came to see what was happening, and one of them called her son. When her son returned to the house, he asked the police why they had come to an elderly person's home so late at night. An officer said anxiously, “She practises Falun Gong.” Ms. Chen's son replied, “What's the matter with practising Falun Gong? She was not very healthy and so practises Falun Gong to get fit. Which law does she violate?”

The police quickly left the house and went to see Zhang Zhiping, the head of the Residential Community. They then returned to Ms. Chen's home with Zhang. Zhang said to Ms. Chen, “Today is your birthday. Tomorrow you must come with me, and I guarantee to have you back home in three days.”

The next day, Zhang led officers from Kechuangyuan Police Station to Ms. Chen's home shortly after 9 a.m. They took her to Wujia Brainwashing Centre.

The head of the Women's Committee, Li Jiqiong and another member of the Women's Committee, Dang Cuilan worked in the brainwashing centre and were paid 100 yuan¹ per day for each Falun Gong practitioner they had detained there.

Note

1. "Yuan" is the Chinese currency; 500 yuan is equal to the average monthly income of an urban worker in China.

Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2011/11/11/249060.html