Ms. Xu Xiuhua Paralyzed by Persecution at the Masanjia Forced Labour Camp

On April 15th, 2012, officers from Fuxin City Domestic Security and Haizhou Subdivision Xishan Police Station arrested Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Xu Xiuhua. On May 4th, she was secretly transferred to Masanjia Forced Labour Camp. Her family was not notified. The labour camp recently notified her family that she was paralyzed.

On April 15th, at around 6 a.m., Liu Siwei, the director of Fuxin Domestic Security, and Wu Zhongqi, the director of Haizhou Subdivision Domestic Security, and other police officers broke into Ms. Xu Xiuhua's home and arrested three members of her family. They confiscated over 6,000 yuan¹ in cash, a computer, and a mobile phone.

Shortly after that, Ms. Xu was sentenced to forced labour and transferred to Masanjia. The camp authorities refused to accept her at the time, so the police escorted her back to Fuxin Detention Centre.

On May 7th, when her family brought money to the detention centre for her, they were stunned to find out that she had been transferred to Masanjia Forced Labour Camp on May 4th.

Now they have been notified that, in less than two and a half months, the formerly healthy Ms. Xu Xiuhua is now paralyzed.

It is not yet known what kind of torture Ms. Xu endured in the labour camp, but in the 13 years that Falun Gong practitioners have been officially persecuted, Masanjia has been notorious for using all kinds of brutal tortures.

Around April 15th, massive arrests of practitioners in cities and counties in Liaoning Province took place. The Liaoning Political and Legal Committee ordered the arrests in preparation for the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) 18th Conference. The order was issued at the provincial level and passed down to each city, district, and county level Political and Legal Committee, which ordered the police departments and police stations to begin massive arrests of Falun Gong practitioners.

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