Couple from Qinhuangdao City Suffer Severe Persecution -- The Experience Leaves Their Young Child Traumatized

Mr. Dong Junming, a Falun Dafa practitioner in Qinhuangdao City, Hebei province, is a staff member in the Beishan branch of Hebei Teachers' University of Science & Technology [abbreviated as the University in the following text]. Formerly, the University was Qinhuangdao Vocational Management School of the Coal Industry. Mr. Dong was a retired army officer. He began practising Falun Dafa in 1998 and found that the practice improved both his mind and body.

In October 2000, Mr. Dong went to Beijing again. In Tiananmen Square, he saw several young men beating a lady whose face was covered with blood. He shouted, "Stop beating that lady!" Several spectators joined in and shouted, "Stop beating that lady!" Mr. Dong then shouted, "Falun Dafa is good!" Several plain-clothes policemen assaulted him and dragged him to a police car. The local police station took him back, and he was illegally detained again in a Detention Centre in Qinhuangdao City for a month.

One day in June 2001, Mr. Wei, a former political instructor [1] from the Second Detention Centre in Qinhuangdao City, and his colleague went to Mr. Dong Junming's workplace. They said that they wanted to find out more about his situation in the detention centre. Mr. Dong honestly answered their questions about what went on in the detention centre. After hearing Mr. Dong's account, they attacked him, punching him more than twenty times. Mr. Dong's face was swollen and he bled profusely from the mouth.

In early July of 2001, the leaders in Mr. Dong Junming's workplace summoned him to a meeting, but Mr. Dong knew that the police were waiting to arrest him, so he was forced to leave his home. A few days later, he was discovered and arrested by the Beidaihe branch office of the Qinhuangdao City Police Station. The policemen and Mr. Zhou Lianguo, former Section Chief of the Political Security Section of the 2nd Division of Qinhuangdao Police Station, led two teams and ransacked Mr. Dong's home in Qinhuangdao City and his temporary dormitory in the Beishan Branch at the University. They searched and ransacked his dormitory without anyone from his family present, which is an illegal act. Lv Guangxin of the Security Department in the University signed the confiscation list in Mr. Dong's place. Many things were taken. The police sent Mr. Dong to the Qinhuangdao City Police Station, where they beat him and "tied the ropes" [2] on him three times. Mr. Dong's arms were numb and not fully functional for about one year after the torture.

In the spring of 2002, the leaders in Mr. Dong's work place came to him again, trying to force him to give up his practice of Falun Dafa. He was not allowed to go home on weekends, and the University helped the local "610 Offices" [3] by getting some former practitioners who turned against Dafa to try and brainwash Mr. Dong. They tried in vain for a few days, and then locked Mr. Dong in a guest room at a hotel in Baitaling, Qinhuangdao City to continue the torture. Mr. Dong was not released until several days later.

In June 2003, the 610 Offices in Qinhuangdao City and the Police Stations in Shanhaiguan of Qinhuangdao City arranged a large-scale arrest of Falun Gong practitioners. Mr. Dong Junming was arrested again and sent to the notorious Tanshan Hehuakeng Labour Camp in Tanshan City, Hebei Province. At the end of March 2004, Mr. Dong was bailed out for medical treatment due to his poor condition.

Mr. Dong Junming's wife, Ms. Wang Shumei, is also a Falun Dafa practitioner. She was staying at home to take care of their young child. When her husband left home to avoid arrest in 2002, the University leaders appointed a guard in the Security Department to stake out Mr. Dong's home. One morning in late September of 2002, Ms. Wang was pushing her bicycle with her child on it to go out when the guard from the Security Department of the University detained her. After a while, a white car came and a policeman, representing the Qinhuangdao 610 Office, got out of the car. He ordered Ms. Wang to send her 3-year old child to her parents-in-law's home in a village in Tanshan City because he planned to send Ms. Wang to Changli Brainwashing Centre for two weeks during the "16th Meeting of the People's Congress".

Ms. Wang went back home to store her bicycle. She went to her bedroom and locked the door. She told the guard, "I'm not going anywhere today. My child is too young to be separated from me. You have been harassing me since my husband left home..." The standoff lasted for about half an hour, until the policemen kicked down the door and swarmed into her home. Wang Xianzeng, head of the 1st division of the police station grabbed hold of Ms. Wang's hair and verbally abused her. The police snatched the frightened child from her and handcuffed her from behind. They dragged her to the living room and stuffed a towel in her mouth to silence her. Ms. Wang spit the towel out and Wang Xianzeng stuffed it into her mouth again, using a stainless steel soup ladle to push the towel hard into her mouth. They had ripped out a lot of her hair in the process, and blood dripped onto her clothes. Many neighbours watched in horror. The approximate date was September 30, 2002. Ms. Wang was sent to Changli Brainwashing Centre in Qinhuangdao City as a hostage because the police couldn't find her husband. Ms. Wang was not released until August 29, 2003.

During the 10-month illegal imprisonment, Ms. Wang Shumei went on hunger strike many times to protest the torture used to force her to give up her belief. She was force-fed [4] every time she went on hunger strike. Her nose bled profusely because of the rough and careless insertion of the force feeding tubes through her nose.

Ms. Wang's little girl was born in May 1999. Just a few months after her birth, she encountered this inhumane persecution that targeted tens of millions of innocent people. Her kind parents could not provide her with a stable environment simply because they refused to give up their belief in Falun Dafa, which teaches people to reach a higher moral standard and be good people.

Ms. Wang's 3-year old girl witnessed her mum's violent arrest, causing her severe emotional trauma. She screamed in her sleep and awoke from nightmares for more than three weeks. Every time she saw a car, she thought someone was coming to arrest her, and she was so frightened that she cried for her grandparents. She became afraid of strangers. Even when relatives from other cities came to visit her, she was frightened and screamed for grandma.

When Mr. Lv Guangxin from the Security Department of the University sent the little girl to her grandparents, they told him that they had no means to take care of her. Lv signed a written agreement with them to subsidize them 20 Yuan per day, but after a few days, Mr. Dong' parents no longer received any money. They were both in their 60's and had no income to support the child. They had to take the child with them to sell popcorn just to get by. Regardless of the weather, they went out at 6 am and came back home after dark all year long. When the child was sleepy, she rested on the small handcart. When someone wished to buy popcorn, the child had to sleep on the sidewalk. The little girl often complained that her legs hurt from the cold.

Mr. Dong Junming, Ms. Wang Shumei and their little child once had a warm and happy family. Because of Jiang Zemin's brutal persecution, they can't return to their own home and have been separated from each other. Now practitioners in many countries have taken Jiang Zemin and his accomplices to court with charges of genocide, torture, and crimes against humanity.

[1] Political instructor: In all government organizations in China, there is a political and ideological instructor, also called counsellor, whose duty is to monitor everyone's ideology, and make sure that no one in the organization has any ideology other than what CCP propagates.

[2] "Tied the ropes": a torture name. The police tie up the practitioner with a thin rope, circle the rope around his neck, and tie his hands behind his back. Then the police would use all the force they could muster to tighten the rope. The rope becomes tighter and tighter around the body of the practitioner, and makes it more and more difficult for him to breathe. The pain is so intense that the practitioner sometimes loses control of his bladder. There are instances when the rope was tightened enough to break a practitioner's arm.

[3] "610 offices": an agency specifically created to persecute Falun Gong, with absolute power over each level of administration in the Party and all other political and judiciary systems.

[4] Force-feeding: They force a tube down into her throat and then put mush or fluids down it. The tube closes off the airway into the throat and suffocates the victims. Because the food or fluid being forced down is not going down the normal way, it further closes the throat as the important initial swallowing muscles are bypassed and the body cannot sent it further down. Many have died from this type of force-feeding.

Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2004/4/18/72623.html