The Whole Family of Dafa Practitioner Wang Zideng from Shandong Province Is Subjected to Persecution

I have known Wang Zideng for a long time. Several days ago I heard Wang Zideng was illegally arrested again.

1. Honest and kind Wang Zideng

Prior to 2000, Wang Zideng and his wife operated a small business at the Guansi Market in Laiwu City. Their daughter Wang Jing was in high school and their son Wang Xin was two years old in 2000. Wang Zideng and his family began practising Falun Gong in 1994. He is kind and honest, and Mrs. Wang is very warm-hearted. Particularly after they learned Falun Gong, they conducted themselves according to Truth, Compassion, Tolerance.

One thing I remember most vividly took place back in 1998. A customer left a brown bag on Wang Zideng's stand. When Wang Zideng saw the bag, the man had already left. Wang Zideng put it away to prevent it from being taken by thieves. Soon, the man returned, extremely upset. He told Wang Zideng the items in the bag would determine the fate of a factory. He described the appearance and colour of the bag, and seeing he gave the right description, Wang Zideng took out the bag and asked if it's the correct one. The man was pleasantly surprised! Wang Zideng then asked him the content of the bag and the man said, "Over 200,000 Yuan in cash, over 100,000 Yuan in receipts and one mobile phone." Wang Zideng opened the bag in front of the man and checked the amount of money inside. It was the correct amount, so he gave it to the man.

The man was so happy and excited that his bag was unconditionally returned to him, he took out two stacks of cash and said, "My dear friend: you just have to take this money. If this bag had fallen into the hands of any other person, there is no chance I would get it back. I never imagined there are good people like you in this world! If I had lost something else, maybe I would get it back, but all this bag contained was cash!" Wang Zideng kindly said, "I just did what I was supposed to do. I can't take your money." The man tried to give him money but Wang Zideng firmly refused to take it. Other customers and vendors said, "I can't believe there are good people like this in the world!"

Wang Zideng not only treated his customers with honesty, he was the same with other vendors and business competitors. He conducted himself according to Truth, Compassion, Tolerance and mediated many conflicts. Private business owners must pay an annual 3,000 Yuan taxes and 1,700 Yuan administration fee. Wang Zideng was always among the first ones to pay taxes. The Wang family were known as law-abiding citizens. The officials from the tax bureau said, "You are such good people. Even if we closed the market, we wouldn't ban you!"

2. Persecution after July 20, 1999; Wang Zideng and family compelled to leave home

After Jiang's group began persecuting Falun Gong on July 20, 1999, Wang Zideng and his family suffered numerous unjust acts against them. First he was forced to close his business, and in late 2000 he was compelled to leave home. His daughter was illegally sentenced to two years of forced labour in April 2001 when she turned 16 years old. She was sent to the Jiangshuiquan Women's Forced Labour Camp in Jinan City. Wang Zideng's sister Wang Hui and brother-in-law Yin Yuxin were sentenced to three years of forced labour. Wang Shujie, Mr. Wang's niece, died at age four as a result of the family being repeatedly harassed and frightened by police during the persecution.

After July 20, 1999, Su Guojian, a person named Laiwu, the then-deputy head of the Guansi Police Station, along with other policemen pressurised the Commerce and Industry Bureau to throw Wang Zideng out of the market. When Wang Zideng went to the CIB to pay taxes in late 2000, the head of CIB said to him, "I know you are a good person and that you will not write a Guarantee Statement to give up Falun Gong, but I'll still let you keep your spot in the market as long as you change your name." Wang Zideng thought not renting a market spot to Dafa practitioners is discrimination and persecution. He thought Dafa practitioners must live an open and dignified life and should not change their names, wherever they are. As a result, Wang Zideng was removed from the market around November 2000.

The first arrest took place on the second birthday of Wang Zideng's son. On July 19, 2000, Wang Zideng's family gathered around to celebrate the little boy's birthday. Wang Zideng's sister-in-law, who was not a Falun Gong practitioner at the time, was also present with her two-years-and-four-months-old daughter Wang Shujie. Suddenly, police officer from the Guansi Police Station blocked Wang Zideng's door and tried to open it with a master key, but when they couldn't open the door with the key, they broke the door down. A dozen police officers rushed inside, while another dozen waited downstairs.

Four of five officers pushed Wang Zideng to the ground. Some stepped on his head and some on his feet, while others put handcuffs on him. They took him to the police station and then to a detention centre, in violation of Chinese laws. They also sent Wang Zideng's wife and other family members and relatives to a detention centre. The two young children were taken to the police station. Han Xiuli was released because she was not practising Falun Gong. Her daughter was so frightened that she could not even cry.

Wang Zideng and his wife left the detention centre with the power of their righteous thoughts, and then they went into exile.

When Wang Zideng returned home on December 3, 2000, the police blocked his door. Although he and his wife escaped, his brother Wang Zike, his wife and their daughter Wang Shujie were taken to the police station.

The officers at the police station pounded on the table and cursed and shouted. The small girl, Wang Shujie, passed out for over half an hour. When she came to, she could not eat and would be frightened when hearing the slightest noise. She grew thinner by the day. In late 2001, Wang Zike and his wife took little Wang Shujie to major hospitals in Tai'an City and Jinan City. Wang Shujie never recovered and passed away around August or September 2002. When she died, she was 85 cm tall, the same height she attended Wang Xin's birthday on July 19, 2000. She had not grown at all during those two years. For details, please refer to "A Four Year-Old Girl Dies As a Result of the Persecution: Wang Shujie in Laiwu City, Shandong Province (photos)" at http://clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2003/6/4/36483.html.

Another person abducted at the same time was fifteen-year-old Wang Jing. She was sleeping in her room at the time and was awakened by the perpetrators in the living room. When the perpetrators realized there was someone in the bedroom, they barged in and carried her downstairs in her underwear. They even flipped up her sweatshirt until her mother stopped them. Wang Jing escaped along with her mother seven days later.

In March 2001, Wang Jing went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Dafa and was arrested. On March 27, 2001, the local police took her back and held her in a custody centre for one month, then they transferred her to a detention centre. When Wang Jing was 16 years old, the police in Laiwu sent her to the Jinan City's Women Forced Labour Camp for three years, where she was subjected to brainwashing and forced to do slave labour. Often she was only allowed two hours sleep. Because she was young and often lacked sleep and was exhausted, once when she was working on a sewing machine, the needle went through her finger and became stuck. Wang Jing was released after two years at the labour camp.

Prior to her stay in the labour camp, Wang Jing was in her senior year in high school, but the police threatened the school to expel her and forbid her to apply for college. Wang Jing was deprived of her right to an education and soon after was sent to the labour camp. The perpetrators at the labour camp exhausted all methods and forced Wang Jing to write a Guarantee Statement. Afterwards they planned to release her, but the officials from the Laiwu "610 Office" said, "Her parents have not been found. We can't let her go home." Wang Jing was therefore held at the labour camp for two years.

A 16-year-old girl like Wang Jing was supposed to study and enjoy time with her friends at school, but because of the persecution, she suffered two years of brutal torture at the labour camp.

3. Third abduction and persecution at the detention centre

Because Wang Zideng and his wife could not work and could not return home, they spent all their savings. Wang Zideng and his wife eventually returned home and sent their son Wang Xin to nursery. They didn't know the perpetrators had not loosened their grip.

Around 5:00 p.m. on August 5, 2004, about half a year after they returned home, Wang Zideng went to the nursery to pick up Wang Xin. Soon after Wang Zideng left the kindergarten, and when he was talking to an acquaintance, a dozen men wearing sunglasses and civilian clothes suddenly attacked him from behind. One man kicked the back of his knee and one man put his arm around Wang Zideng's neck and pulled him to the ground. The rest of the men carried Wang Zideng and threw him into a car about 200 meters away. Wang Zideng's son Wang Xin was pushed to the ground and cried. The teacher took Wang Xin back to the nursery and the head of the nursery eventually sent him to a relative's home.

Around 8 p.m. the same day, two police officer wearing black T-shirts knocked on Wang Zideng's home door. Only Wang Jing and six-year-old Wang Xin were home. They refused to open the door. The police tried to open the door with a key. The kids locked the door from inside so the police couldn't open it, so the police pounded on the door. The kids were scared and didn't make a sound. Around 11:00 p.m., more plainclothes police arrived, but after a while they left. Around midnight, the police shone a floodlight into Wang Zideng's home through the window, until around 5:00 a.m. Then they went back to the door and yelled and pounded on the door. The kids cried loudly. Around 10:00 a.m., three or four police officers, each holding a rubber club, climbed in through the bathroom window, opened the door and a group of police ransacked the home. They threw all the Falun Gong books on the floor and tried to take them away. Wang Jing didn't allow them to, so they left without the books. They even locked six-year-old Wang Xin in a room and interrogated him. Around 1:00 p.m., the police eventually left.

Even now, a police van numbered Lu S1026 is still parked outside Wang Zideng's residence around the clock, monitoring activities inside Wang Zideng's home.

The two children were so frightened they could not eat and grew thin. Wang Xin could not sleep at night and cried for his father. After his mother rocked him to sleep, within less than two hours he awakened from a bad dream and again cried for his father.

Wang Zideng is now being held at a local detention centre. Wang Zideng and other Dafa practitioners held a hunger strike and were force-fed. The guards put shackles on shirtless Wang Zideng and often locked him to a metal chair. The guards also had collaborators [former Falun Gong practitioners who went astray as a result of torture and brainwashing] attempt to brainwash Wang Zideng. They tortured him day and night in an attempt to make him give up his belief. They threatened to put him on trial if he didn't give in. Right now, Wang Zideng is still holding a hunger strike to protest the persecution. He is extremely emaciated, but his calves are severely swollen.

Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2004/9/25/85017.html