Below is a true story regarding the savage, ruthless persecution of a Falun Gong practitioner, Ms. Wang Zhijun, who betrayed her conscience and changed from being an honest and good person to assisting her persecutors in slandering Falun Gong and persecuting practitioners. She doesn't have the courage to admit to the tortures she suffered because of the coercion and pressure asserted on her by her tormentors.
Wang Zhijun lived in Zhangjiakou City, Hebei Province. The perpetrators from the Laoyazhuang Police Station, the Shisanli Detention Centre, the Maludong Police Station, the Gaoyang Forced Labour Camp and the Party Committee from the Yanxing Machinery Factory in Hebei Province are responsible for this tragedy.
On December 8, 2001, Wang Zhijun's husband was savagely beaten and abducted by perpetrators when posting leaflets exposing the persecution in Ningyuan Village. He was sent to the Laoyazhuang Police Station. When Wang Zhijun went to the police station in the evening and asked for her husband, the police first lied and denied that her husband was held there. Then they said, "Come back tomorrow and then you can take him home."
Ms. Wang went back the next day and saw her husband handcuffed to a Tiger Bench. (1) His face was black and blue, the area around his eyes was black and his lips were severely swollen. One officer asked Wang Zhijun for details about her husband's workplace, "If you tell us, we'll release him." However, when she did tell him, the officer refused to release her husband. She asked, "How come you aren't keeping your word?" The officers said, "That's how we treat you practitioners; we just lie to you!"
Wang Zhijun persisted in demanding her husband's release. The police detained her, in violation of the Chinese Constitution and conducted a body search of her. They took the key to her home and over 40 yuan (2) in cash. They escorted her home and ransacked the family's dwelling. When Ms. Wang picked up a picture of Teacher Li that the police had thrown on the floor, they struck her face several times, until she saw stars and had ringing in her ears. They tore up her clothes. They turned her home upside-down and took away all the Falun Dafa materials in the home. They also stole a TV set, three recorders, one VCD player, the family's bank account books and their wedding photos.
The police took Wang Zhijun back to the police station. At first, they lied to her and threatened her, trying to get her to reveal the source of the Dafa materials. As she refused to tell them, the perpetrators verbally abused and beat her. They shocked her head and neck with electric batons. Li Gang, the political head, gagged Ms. Wang with a scarf by tying it tightly across her mouth. He spread her arms apart and forced her to wrap her arms around a bench. Then he handcuffed her hands so that she could neither stand nor sit. One evening, two or three police officers tortured Wang Zhijun for more than two hours in the snow and tried to make her give up her belief.
The police tortured Wang Zhijun many times and sent collaborators (3) to brainwash her. Once, the head of the police station, political head Li Gang and six police officers beat and kicked Ms. Wang until she lost consciousness. The next day, December 17, 2001, the perpetrators sent her and her husband to the Shisanli Detention Centre.
Wang Zhijun held a hunger strike to protest the unlawful persecution at the detention centre. The police ordered inmates to drag her outside the office, where they pinched her nose shut and pried open her mouth before force-feeding her with a concentrated salt water solution. She struggled and the salt water went into her nose, and her clothes were soaked. Another time, when she studied the Falun Dafa teachings with several other practitioners, officer Guo pulled Ms. Wang out, pushed her to the ground, stepped on her head and ordered several inmates to search her.
Her family couldn't bear to stand by while Wang Zhijun and her husband were being tortured, so they invited the police officers to sumptuous meals at their expense. The police extorted over 10,000 yuan from the family, and the detention centre authorities extorted a 300 yuan "food fee" before the couple was released around January 7, 2002. Wang Zhijun's legs were black and blue. The police extorted another 5,000 yuan before returning the bicycle, appliances and other items they took from Wang Zhijun's home.
From then on, the police often threatened and continued to take financial advantage of Wang Zhijun and her family. Furthermore, they often went to the home of her parents to harass and intimidate them. The perpetrators from the Yanxing Machinery Factory, Wang Zhijun and her husband's workplace, also ordered her family to keep an eye on the couple and threatened severe punishment, including dismissal from their jobs, if they didn't comply.
In order to resist the persecution, Wang Zhijun went to Tiananmen Square to tell the world that Falun Dafa is great. She was beaten and kicked by plainclothes police in Beijing and was sent to a detention centre in Beijing. Because she refused to be photographed, the police officers grabbed her hair and banged her head against a wall. She was sent to a police station in Zhangjiakou City. Political head Deng Daping interrogated Ms. Wang. Deng Daping and officers forged a "fine" slip in the amount of 10,000 yuan and forced Wang Zhijun to sign it. They laughed hysterically when they got the signature. Then they transferred Wang Zhijun to the Shisanli Detention Centre. Within a few days, she was sentenced to three years of forced labour and was sent to the Gaoyang Forced Labour Camp.
Upon arrival, guard Liu Huili ordered her to take off all her clothes and threatened to have her beaten by inmates if she didn't obey. Liu Huili went through all of Wang Zhijun's belongings, including her feminine hygiene products. She took away Ms. Wang's food, detergent and other daily use items. Guard Zhao Yanping secretly interrogated Wang Zhijun and she beat, kicked and threatened her because Ms. Wang refused to cooperate with her.
On one occasion, two inmates dragged her to a corner of the toilet and violently kicked her abdomen until she bled and experienced great pain. Wang Zhijun refused to recite the labour camp policies, so Zhao Yanping handcuffed her and hit her with a folding fan. She also tried to confuse Wang Zhijun with lies.
The guards sent four collaborators to tell Wang Zhijun twisted lies and read Dafa-slandering articles for nine days. The collaborators took turns brainwashing her around the clock, until she was at the brink of a complete mental shutdown. Guards Ma Li and Zhao Yanping said to the collaborators, "You can go ahead and torture her if she is stubborn." Wang Zhijun suffered physical abuse as well as tremendous psychological stress, and finally wrote the Three Statements (4) against her conscience.
Around October 1, 2002, when government officials inspected the Gaoyang Forced Labour Camp, the guards told Wang Zhijun to write the following words: "Beating does not happen at this labour camp," as a testimony. Wang Zhijun was clearheaded at the time. She told the inspectors that beatings do take place at this labour camp. Ma Li and male guard Liang Baoke scolded her for speaking the truth. The perpetrators intensified the brainwashing and persecution against her, and Wang Zhijun had a nervous breakdown. She changed into a completely different person and started to help the perpetrators to persecute other practitioners. Guard Liang Baoke slapped Xu Suxia, a determined practitioner in her 50s. Liang shocked her with electric batons, leaving egg-sized blisters on her hands, and guard Zhang Yanyan kicked her. Wang Zhijun then tried to persuade Xu Suxia to renounce Dafa. In 2003, she took part in many programmes that attacked Teacher Li and Dafa. Once, when a reporter interviewed her at the labour camp and asked whether the use of torture existed, she could not admit to what she had suffered in detention and said no.
Tortured by her conscience, Wang Zhijun lived in anguish and despair. She finally became bedridden. The labour camp authorities told her family to take her home. Guo Hai, the head of Organization Division from her workplace, and police officers coerced her to write another guarantee statement to break away from Dafa. They repeatedly ordered her to write reports about her thoughts [against Dafa]. Li Shuquan, the head of the factory and Gao Shanlu, the Party secretary, sent people to spy on her.
Once, Wang Zhijun's husband lost all feeling in his legs and collapsed at work. He was very ill because of the tortures he had suffered at Gaoyang Forced Labour Camp. Wang Zhijun applied for a leave of absence in order to take care of her husband, and perpetrators Huang Jie, Gao Shanlu, Guo Hai and others forced her sixty-plus-year-old father to monitor her.
Related phone numbers:
Laoyazhuang Police Station:
Li Gang, political head: 86-13503137505 (mobile phone)
Ma Yunqi, police officer
Deng Daping, former political head at the Maludong Police Station, currently works at the Nanzhan Police Station.
Note:
(1) "Tiger Bench": Prisoners are forced to sit on a small iron bench that is approximately 20 cm (6 inches) tall with their knees tied together. With their hands tied behind their backs or sometimes placed on their knees, they are forced to sit straight up and look straight ahead without movement for long periods of time.
(2) "Yuan" is the Chinese currency; 500 yuan is equal to the average monthly income of an urban worker in China.
(3) "Collaborators": Former practitioners who have turned against Falun Gong under brainwashing and torture. They are then made to assist in brainwashing and torturing practitioners.
(4) "Three Statements": Practitioners are coerced under brainwashing and torture to write "Repentance Statement," "Guarantee Statement" or 'Dissociation Statement" as proof that they have given up their belief. In the statement, the practitioner is forced to admit remorse for practising Falun Gong, promise to give up Falun Gong, and never again associate with other practitioners or go to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong.
Chinese version available at http://minghui.org/mh/articles/2005/3/21/97773.html
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