Mother Tortured, Police Send Homeless Child to Orphanage

Yu Yuejin is a 48-year-old mother from Harbin City, Heilongjiang Province. She was arrested by police because she practised Falun Gong and sent to Wanjia Labour Camp in Harbin City. Ms. Yu's husband is serving time in prison for an unknown reason. As a result, the police sent her four-year-old daughter to Nangang District Children's Welfare Centre (actually an orphanage) in Harbin City.

During her detention Yu underwent severe torture and ended up with heart problems; still, she was forced to do hard labour. Throughout all of this she desperately wanted to make sure her daughter was OK.

After Yu Yuejin was arrested, a police officer first took her four-year-old daughter to his own home, as Yu Yuejin's husband is also imprisoned. The police officer later sent her to Harbin City Children's Welfare Centre. Yu Yuejin missed her daughter very much. Due to her strong request, someone from the Wanjia Forced Labour Camp took her to the orphanage to visit her daughter. After she came back, she said her lovely daughter acted as if she were in a daze and could not recognise her, due to the serious mental trauma resulting from the sudden loss of her mother's care and the change in living environments.

After having contacted Harbin City Nangang Police Department (86-451-82324435) and verifying that Yu Yuejin's daughter had indeed been sent to the orphanage, the reporter called the only Children's Welfare Centre in Harbin City (86-451-86624717), identifying himself as Yu Yuejin's friend. The receptionist said that the orphaned girl was all right, but one had to contact the police if one wanted to pay a visit.

Reporter: We have heard that Yu Yuejin's daughter is here. How is she now?

Staff member: She is quite all right.

Reporter: Can we visit her?

Staff member: She was sent here by the police; this needs to be arranged by the police department.

Reporter: It seems she almost did not recognise her mother when her mother came to visit her; did she?

Staff member: It has been so long, and it is quite common that a child does not recognise her mother; but she knows that she has a mother.

It was reported on Minghui Net that as Yu Yuejin did not give up practising Falun Gong, policemen frequently tortured her. The guilty parties were Zhao Yuqing (deputy team leader), Yao Changfu (deputy team leader), Yang Guohong (deputy team leader), Jia Cuiyan and Zhou Muqi. The torture methods included: shocking with electric batons, forcing her to sit on electronic chair, slandering and threatening her and other abuses. Due to the torture, Yu developed a serious heart problem and high blood pressure. Under such conditions, Wu Hongxun, the division head of Wanjia Labour Camp still instructed the guards to force Yu to do hard labour. Yu Yuejin is currently detained in the labour camp, suffering both mental and physical trauma.

In the past five years, at least 18 Falun Gong practitioners have been tortured to death at the Wanjia Forced Labour Camp. In 2001 during the "Wanjia Tragedy" which shocked the whole world, three female practitioners died the same night. Minghui Net also published a detailed report recently about how practitioner Zhang Hong, a 31-year-old pharmacist from Harbin No. 4 Hospital, was tortured to death.