Practitioner Ms. Fu Rufang from Chongqing Reduced to Skin and Bones and Loses Two Teeth at a Forced Labour Camp in Less than a Month

Ms. Fu Rufang is an employee of the Tongnan Disease Control Centre in Chongqing. On April 8th, 2005, when she was on a trip to her hometown, Ms. Ru was followed and arrested. She refused to eat for eight days and won her way out of the detention centre. On May 22nd she was again suddenly arrested and once again sent to Maojiashan Forced Labour Camp in Chongqing. In less than one month, she had lost two incisors and had become emaciated and extremely weak as a result of persecution.

On June 2nd, Fu Rufang's husband Zhou Licheng went to the labour camp to deliver clothes and cash but did not see her. On June 18th, Ms. Fu's sister and sister-in-law heard that she was in critical condition in the labour camp. The following day, they rushed to Chongqing. At Maojiashan Women's Forced Labour Camp, they requested to see Ms. Fu. The camp guards refused their request. Li (female) told them that the camp did not receive visitors on Sundays and that they would have to wait until June 28th to see her, because Ms. Fu would have to be "reformed" before they could see her. Fu Rufang's sister said, "We came here from far away and have spent over one hundred yuan on travel. If we cannot see her today, could we see her tomorrow? We could also talk with her on the phone. We just want to hear her voice so we can set our hearts at rest." Li still refused their pleas. Fu Rufang's sister-in-law said repeatedly, "We heard she would not eat, so we came here to persuade her to eat." Li then called her team. The head of team four and another person came out.

Fu Rufang's sister-in-law told the team head she was the person in the past to persuade Fu Rufang to eat. She also talked about Fu Rufang's family situation. The head of team four wrote down her cell phone number and asked them to wait for a message before seeing her.

On the 22nd of June, the head of team four called Fu Rufang's sister-in-law to visit her. The next day, her sister-in-law and nephew went there together to see Fu Rufang. When they arrived at the camp gate, guard Li said, "You have come back again. Who told you to come?" Her sister-in-law explained and showed her the phone number, so Li called the head of team four. Li said to Fu's sister-in-law, "We have made a phone call to the Tongnan Police Department. They said Fu Rufang's whole family practise Falun Gong and they should not be allowed to see her. Only her sister-in-law is not a practitioner, so she can see her."

Fu Rufang's sister-in-law waited there for over one hour and then saw Fu Rufang coming out with the help of two "monitors." Another one followed behind. When her sister-in-law saw Fu Rufang, she was shocked. Her face looked pale, without any colour, she could not stand steadily, and her body had become so thin. She also looked smaller than before. Her sister-in-law asked the team head right away, "How could she become like this?" He said, "We heard you were coming today. We saw her condition was a bit better, so we told you to come to see her. Her condition was much worse previously."

Fu Rufang wore blue shorts and a short sleeved, flower-print shirt. This is the labour camp uniform. Her arms and legs were purple and blue. Her legs, particularly the outer area of her left calf, had three one-inch bruises, no doubt caused either by beating or by kicking. Her right arm also had several bruises that looked like needle marks from IV drips. Two top left incisors were missing. Ms. Fu said they were pried out during forced-feeding, during which she almost died. Fu Rufang did not have much energy to speak. The team head let her sister-in-law try to persuade her to eat and said, "I am doing you a favour by telling the truth. If you do not eat, you will starve to death; nobody will take any responsibility, and you will be said to have caused your own death from not eating." Fu Rufang said that the authorities had assigned four inmates to monitor her. She was not allowed to do the Falun Dafa exercises, and they would beat her if she did.

Fu Rufang's husband had delivered a bag of clothes and 200 yuan¹ cash on June 2nd. However, when they visited Fu Rufang on the 23rd, she still had not received those items. The 200 yuan had already been written off against her camp account, and she even owed several hundred yuan. Her sister-in-law squeezed out 50 yuan from her travel expenses to deposit in Fu Rufang's account. She asked the police not to deduct them from her account and to allow her to buy something to eat. In the labour camp they do not allow people to deliver food or living expenses. Everything has to be paid for. Sometimes they deduct expenses without the person's consent. The products sold at the camp store are excessively overpriced and are of inferior quality.

When Fu Rufang's nephew Zhang Hongxu went on a hunger strike that began on May 14th, 2001, at the Education Division of the Xishanping Labour Camp, policeman Tian Xin broke one of his incisors during a beating. Zhang also suffered from brutal forced-feeding. On the evening of October 24th, 2001, when he was practising the Falun Gong exercises in cell seven, he was brutally beaten, resulting in the fracture of the bridge of his nose. When he was released on March 19th, 2002, a local person named Liu Rongjian said, "Zhang Hongxu, you probably weigh only about 25 or 30 kilogrammes."

Fu Rufang's husband Zhou Licheng: 86-13072332726 (Cell)
Fu Rufang: 86-23-44559365 (Office), 86-23-4455936544552255 (Home), 86-13389653025 (Cell)

Work units and individuals who participated in the persecution:

Tongnan County Police Department
Tongnan Police Department Address: Zhengxing Street, Tongnan County (Zitong Town), Chongqing, 402660
Telephone Exchange for Tongnan Police Department: 86-23-44551129, 86-23-44551432 86-23-44551743, 86-23-44551330
Office of Tongnan Police Department: 86-23-44551138
Duty Office of Tongnan Police Department: 86-23-44551762

Head of Tongnan County Police Department
Yin Jianzhong: 86-23-44582001 or 86-23-44555178 (Office), 86-23-44556679 (Home), 86-13908348968 (Cell)
Deputy Head of Tongnan County Police Department
Wen Rong: 86-23-44582006 (Office); 86-23-44551228, 86-23-44552773 or 86-23-44551399 (Home); 86-13709428263 (Cell)

Tongnan County National Security Division: In 2000 it was called the First Section of the Police Department. Zhang Liang, male, in his 40s, was the section head. Zhong Ming was the deputy head. Later, the First Section became the National Security Division. After Zhong Ming retired, Zhang Liang has taken over. He is responsible for all the fabricated accusations and reports sent to his superiors, based on which practitioners were sentenced to forced labour or jail terms, and he has committed serious crimes. Zhang Liang said that Ms. Fu Rufang had widely reported on his deeds in 2004 and that this incarceration was his revenge against Fu Rufang.

Police Officers in the National Security Division: Zhange Liang, Li Hengyi, Luo Yonghong, Li Yonghong, Zhang Shimao, Liu Yong, Yuan Xueping, Shulin and Gao Xiang (deputy head who came recently in 2005).
National Security Division: 86-23-44582011(Office), 86-23-44552429 (Home)
National Security Division Head Zhang Liang: 86-23-44582011 (Office); 86-23-44552429 (Home); 86-23-44553568, 86-13709428300, 86-13709428301 (Cell)
Zhang Liang's phone number in the cafeteria: 86-23-44569059, 86-23-44900206 (Cell)

Tongnan County Disease Control Centre:
Yuan Nailiang, male, in his 50's, Head of Tongnan County Disease Control Centre, colluded with the National Security Division to persecute practitioner Ms. Fu Rufang and others in his work unit. 86-23-44559391 (Office), 86-23-44550292 (Home), 86-13389653001 (Cell)

Tang Shuxian, male, in his 40's, Office Manager of Tongnan Disease Control Centre, colluded with the National Security Division to persecute Fu Rufang and others. 86-23-44551189 (Office), 86-23-44551061 (Home), 86-13389653003 (Cell)

Note: Yuan Nailiang and Tang Shuxian are criminals and persecutors at Fu Rufang's work unit. They are responsible for sending Fu Rufang to the labour camp this time.

Administration, Maojiashan Women's Forced Labour Camp of Chongqing: 86-23-67851863

Address: 21 Wujiang Road, Jiangbei District, Chongqing, 400024
team four of Maojiashan Women's Forced Labour Camp of Chongqing: 86-23-67861870