Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Li Honglan, 41, lives in Huangliu Village, Huangkou Town, Tianjin City. After the persecution started in July 1999, the local officials started persecuting Li Honglan. Between 1999 and 2003, officers from the Wuqing District Detention Centre, the Cuihuangkou Town Police Department and the village Party officials, including Ma Xueyi, Ma Hongwu, Xiao Guangchen and Xiao Wenyu, constantly harassed Li Honglan at her home. They ransacked her home, detained her, fined her and tortured her. They electrically shocked her through a wired telephone, force-fed her, slapped her face and forced her to stand in a military posture. They tried to make Li Honglan give up her belief in Falun Dafa.
Li Honglan started practising Falun Gong in June 1997. She learned the meaning of life through practising Falun Dafa. She conducted herself according to Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance, and her family lived in harmony. She and her family were severely oppressed during the persecution.
On September 8th, 1999 Li Honglan went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong. She returned home on the evening of September 9th and was summoned by personnel from the Cuihuangkou Police Department. Lu Jian, deputy head of the police department, and police officer Yang Yongli vehemently slapped her face. The next morning, police officer Wang Shoucheng shocked her with electric batons for over thirty minutes. Afterwards, he made her squat without moving. He said, "I'll make you squat like this until you collapse and die."
On September 10th, Li Honglan was sent to a brainwashing session held at the Cuihuangkou Town government and was detained there for seven days. She was forced to read Dafa-slandering articles and write so-called "understanding" statements.
Late at night on September 16th she was charged with "jeopardising the social administrative order" and detained at the Wuqing District Detention Centre for fifteen days. Authorities from the Wuqing District Detention Centre refused to release her at the end of fifteen days. They detained her for another ten days under the same false charge. They explained that they were afraid she would go to Beijing during the October 1st national holiday to appeal for Falun Gong. Ten days later they still refused to release her and claimed because she went home nine days early after being detained on July 19th, 1999, she must be detained for nine more days. She was eventually released on October 25th. The detention centre authorities extorted 576 yuan1 from her before letting her go, which means they charged 14 yuan for each day of detention.
More than 100 practitioners are held at the detention centre. Each cell holds between 15 and 19 practitioners. The practitioners cannot turn over when sleeping because the room is overcrowded. After 34 days of detention, Li Honglan was sent to the Cuihuangkou Town Police Department About eight practitioners were held at the police department. The practitioners are forced to stand against a wall or be subjected to brainwashing each day.
In October 1999, local officer Cui Weixian confiscated Li Honglan's ID and never returned it. After July 20th, 1999, Cui Weixian and security officer Ma Hongwu often harassed her at her home. They pressured the division officials to "reform 2" her. Xiao Guangchen, secretary of the Bureau's Party Committee and Ma, the village head, often phoned her and disrupted Li Honglan's life.
On August 19th, 2000, Li Honglan went to Cuihuangkou Town to tell the facts of Falun Dafa to people who had been misled by the government propaganda and expose the persecution. Persecutors Ma Wenqiang and Qi Junzhen reported her. Three days later, police officers Cui Weixian, Du and three others broke into Li Honglan's home. They didn't show their IDs and ransacked her home. They took many Dafa materials and took Li Honglan to the police department. On August 22nd, she was detained at Wuqing District Detention Centre and was held there for thirty days. She was extorted 420 yuan upon release.
During the detention, the centre authorities took Li Honglan and Liu Chengjun, also a practitioner, to the Wuqing District Party School Brainwashing Centre. The perpetrators designated a specific seat to a practitioner who is to be "reformed." Liu Liang, secretary of the Cuihuangkou Town Political and Judiciary Committee, police officer Cui Weixian and head of the Cuihuangkou Town Women's Committee sat next to the practitioners. Many security officers stayed inside and outside of the conference room. They played videos that slandered Dafa. The practitioners were later sent to the Wuqing District Detention Centre.
On December 16th, 2000 Li Honglan's family took her home. Ma Hongwu, the village security officer, also went to her home. He said to Li Honglan and her family, "The town government said you can't come home. You have to go to the brainwashing session held by the town government." Then he took her to the brainwashing session. More than ten practitioners were already being held there. They were forced to clean the building including the staircase, pull weeds and unload merchandise on a daily basis. In the evening they were driven into the courtyard without any warm clothes on. Each practitioner was taken to a room on the third floor with the lights off, where about five perpetrators viciously beat the practitioners and demanded that they give up Dafa practice. Zhang Shushan, Liu Hongsheng, Gao Bochen and Chen Yuhua were among those who beat the practitioners.
On the evening of December 16th, 2000, Li Honglan was taken to a room on the north side of the third floor. Five perpetrators told her to kneel. She refused, and they kicked her until she collapsed on the floor and cursed at her.
On the evening of December 17th, 2000, Li Honglan and practitioner Zhang Xuelian were detained inside the conference room on the second floor. Overseers Zhang Shushan and other government officials forced Li Honglan and Zhang Xuelian to stand in a military posture facing the heating pipes, with their hands on the hem of their pants and their backs straight. The perpetrators put a book on each practitioner's head and hit the practitioner if the book slanted. Li Honglan stood there until she lost consciousness.
On the evening of December 18th, 2000, the persecutors took Li Honglan to a dark room on the third floor where five persons, including Li, Meng Qingyong, the secretary of the Party Youth Committee and Chen Yuhua were standing. One person told Li Honglan to kneel and she refused. The persecutors kicked her and beat her. They grabbed her hair and slapped her across her face until she saw stars and her cheeks were swollen. They pushed her into the yard to expose her to the freezing weather. This lasted until early morning the next day. On December 29th, Gao, the deputy secretary of the town Party committee, and Liu Liangqiang, secretary of the Political and Judiciary Committee, demanded that each practitioner give their opinion on Falun Gong and slander Falun Gong . On December 31st, 2000, the division secretary bailed the practitioners out after the practitioners' families each paid 3,000 yuan "guarantee" money. The money was never returned.
In January 2001, Lu Jian, deputy head of the police department, and police officer Cui Weixian broke into Li Honglan's home once again. Without presenting any ID, they ransacked her home and confiscated two Dafa books. They took her to the police department and electrically shocked her with a telephone. They forced her to take off her socks and tied both ends of the electric wire to her big toes before they cranked the telephone. Li Honglan confronted the police about the torture. Lu Jian and Cui Weixian slapped her face and said, "You are tortured because you gave people leaflets exposing the persecution." They held her at the police department for seven days, during which time she remained at the police department during the day and returned home at night. They didn't find any incriminating evidence against her, so they finally let her go home.
At around 1:00 p.m. on September 11th, 2002, Wang Shuwang, the new deputy head of the police department, and police officer Cui Weixian led eight officers and broke into Li Honglan's home. They entered the yard and locked the door. They barged inside the home and ransacked it. Li Honglan confronted them and tried to stop this criminal act. Wang Shuwang ordered two officers to watch her and not allow her to move. The police continued to ransack her home. During this time, practitioner Gao Ling arrived to visit. The police then opened the door. They pulled Gao Ling inside and locked the door behind her. They asked her why she was visiting Li Honglan. They didn't find anything they wanted, and the neighbours denounced them. Nevertheless, they took Li Honglan to the police department. Wang Shuwang forbade Li Honglan's relatives to call her husband to inform him about her arrest and the ransacking.
On the evening of September 13th, the police officers sent Li Honglan, who hadn't eaten or consumed any fluids for two days, to the Wuqing District Detention Centre, to be held for thirty days. They charged her with "disrupting the social order and jeopardising the social administration." Li Honglan held a hunger strike at the detention centre to protest the persecution and requested unconditional release. On the seventh day of her hunger strike the detention centre authorities force-fed her through a thick tube inserted into her nose and stomach. Cui Zonghai, the political head, doctors Cheng and Ji, and several others took part in force-feeding. She was released after forty days of a hunger strike. She was extorted out of 420 yuan and more than 50 yuan for a "medical fee" upon her release.
On March 18th, 2003, Cui Weixian and his assistant Mao went to Li Honglan's home again. Cui Weixian tricked her into going to the police department and later sent her to Wuqing District Detention Centre. On the seventh day, the district hospital sent a group of doctors to force-feed her until her nose bled and she vomited for a long time. She was released after eight days of detention.
Note
1. "Yuan" is the Chinese currency; 500 yuan is equal to the average monthly income of an urban worker in China.
2. "Reform or Transform" Implementation of brainwashing and torture in order to force a practitioner to renounce Falun Gong. (Variations: "reform", "transform", "reformed", "reforming", "transformed", "transforming", and "transformation")
Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2005/12/2/115632.html
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