Zhuolu County Authorities Arrested and Extorted Funds from Practitioner Ms. Zhou Jianzhen

Ms. Zhou Jianzhen is a Falun Dafa practitioner who worked in the Zhuolu Middle School in Hebei Province and received the Honour of being a City-Level Excellent Teacher. Because she told people, who had been misled by the government propaganda, the facts about Falun Dafa and exposed the persecution, she was arrested. Those responsible included Chang Ruitian, male, the Director of the County Education Department; Wang Dalei, male, the Deputy Director of the County Education Department; Lu Changming, male, the Principal of the Zhuolu Middle School; and Li Ziming, male, from the County 610 Office¹. Ms. Zhou has been held in the Zhangjiakou Brainwashing Centre for almost eight months. In the process of trying to rescue his wife, Ms. Zhou Jianzhen's husband had about 30,000 yuan² extorted from him by the local 610 Office and people from the Zhuolu Middle School.

According to those from Zhoulu Middle School who know the details, the school has retained Ms. Zhou Jianzhen's salary for the past eight months, amounting to at least 16 to 17,000 yuan. The school claimed that it was charged as a fine. The school also extorted another 1,200 yuan from Ms. Zhou Jianzhen's husband, claiming that it was used to supplement the salary of the education personnel sent from the school to accompany Ms. Zhou.

Ms. Zhou Jianzhen and her family were fined 2,500 yuan by the local 610 Office and 4,600 by the brainwashing centre. In an effort to rescue his wife, Ms. Zhou Jianzhen's husband had 400 yuan extorted from him by Zhao Xuan, male, county Chinese Communist Party (CCP) member and Director of the County 610 Office, who used the excuse of dining out. The county 610 Office CCP cadres Li Ziming, male, and Ban Zhiyong, male, extorted money from her husband twice for a total of 2,000 yuan for "dining out." Out of that 2,000 yuan, Li Ziming spent 300 yuan on prostitution. Li also claimed that he needed to borrow some money to try to extort an additional 1,500 yuan from Ms. Zhou Jianzhen's husband, without giving him a receipt. Because of these repeated fines, however, Ms. Zhou Jianzhen's family was experiencing severe financial difficulties and could only borrow 500 yuan to hand over to Li. Li did not give up his demands until Ms. Zhou's family begged. Not counting what the CCP members forced Ms. Zhou's family to pay for "accompanying education personnel," as well as other expenses, the amount directly extorted from Ms. Zhou Jianzhen alone reached 30,000 yuan.

Ms. Zhou Jianzhen used to make a comfortable living, but now, due to CCP persecution, her family's living conditions have become very difficult. As an excellent teacher at the city level, simply because she has faith in Truth-Compassion-Tolerance, she has been tortured by the CCP and is now suffering from illegal detention, brainwashing, beating and cursing.

At present, Zhuolu Middle School personnel are still persecuting practitioner Ms. Zhou Jianzhen.

Note

1. "The 610 office" is an agency specifically created to persecute Falun Gong, with absolute power over each level of administration in the Party and all other political and judiciary systems.

2. "Yuan" is the Chinese currency; 500 yuan is equal to the average monthly income of an urban worker in China.

Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2006/2/23/121471.html