Zhu Junxiu from Chengdu City Sentenced to Eight Years of Imprisonment

Zhu Junxiu, former auditor of the National Tax Bureau of Qingyang District, Chengdu City, was arrested by the Chengdu City Public Security Department's Jinniu Division under false charges in October 2005. Since then, she has been imprisoned in the Detention Centre of the Chengdu City Public Security Department. Recently, Zhu Junxiu was illegally sentenced¹ to eight years of imprisonment by the Jinniu District Court. When the verdict was announced, Zhu Jiuxiu was already unable to walk normally and had to be carried into the courtroom.

Even though we are not very sure what kind of brutal torture befell Zhu Junxiu, what we do know is that Zhu's body is currently very weak and that she is on the brink of death.

Since the persecution of Falun Gong began in 1999, Ms. Zhu Junxiu has suffered many years of persecution. In 2000, when Falun Gong came under attack, Zhu went to Beijing to appeal to the government. The Public Security Bureau arrested and detained her. Without any reason, or opportunity for her to explain, she was deprived of her rights to appeal to the government and dismissed from her job.

Under these circumstances, unable to appeal through normal means, Zhu Junxiu was again arrested by the Public Security Department while explaining the true situation of Falun Gong to locals at the end of 2000. She was sent to the Nanmu Temple Women's Labour Camp in Zizhong City along with criminals and drug addicts for a year, where she suffered numerous physical and psychological torture. She was forced to stand upright facing the wall for dozens of days without rest, was not allowed to speak, and was imprisoned in her jail cell for long periods of time and not permitted to move.

Not long after she was released from labour camp, the local policemen tried to barge into her house after she explained the truth to her neighbour. Zhu Junxiu refused to open the door and was kept in her house for several days at home by the police. Faced with no choice, Zhu tore up the sheets on her bed, tied them into a rope and slid down from the 7th floor. She was severely injured when she fell.

When her injury barely began to improve, Zhu was tricked by the Xiaojia Village Police Station. Both Zhu and her husband were arrested and imprisoned. This imprisonment brought huge damage to Zhu's body. She was subjected to brutal beatings and physical interrogation. She was not allowed to sleep for nine days and nine nights with strong lights shining directly at her eyes - whenever she closed her eyes, she would be beaten immediately. Towels stained with polluted, dirty water were used to pull up her eyelids and the dirty water squeezed into her eyes. Her head was covered with a plastic bag until she almost passed out before the bag was removed. She was subjected to these tortures over and over again.

Zhu Junxiu underwent a hunger strike to protest against the persecution and suffered force-feeding inside the prison. She was tortured to the brink of death before the police allowed her family members to bail her out and await trial. Zhu's body never recovered all along these eight, nine months of brutal persecution. She could not see things clearly for a prolonged period of time. She also fainted several times. Her husband was sent to labour camp for three years, and two of his family-run factories and construction companies were destroyed by the Public Security Department. She lost more than 10 million yuan² as a result, not to mention the decades of hard work by her husband that were ruined overnight. 200,000 yuan cash owned by Zhu was also confiscated by the Jinniu Public Security Department. Between September and October 2005, Zhu tried to ask for the money back from the Jinniu Public Security Department, but she was arrested and now is sentenced to eight years of imprisonment.

What Zhu Junxiu has faced over the past few years is a real life depiction of the brutality of the Chinese Communist Party's persecution of Falun Gong and Falun Gong practitioners. It is an example of the numerous victims who suffered under the evil policy of "bankrupt them financially, defame their reputations, and destroy them physically."

Note

1. Illegally arrested: Contrary to what former Chinese leader Jiang Zemin, who initiated the persecution, and the Chinese Communist Party would like the world to believe, practising Falun Gong is NOT illegal in China. Although the Public Security Department issued an unconstitutional set of restraints on the practice at the onset of the persecution in 1999, no laws have been passed by the only legislative body in China, the People's Congress, banning Falun Gong or granting the police the authority to arrest Falun Gong practitioners for practising the exercises or distributing flyers. For a more complete discussion of the illegality of the persecution of Falun Gong, please refer to the article "The Ban on Falun Gong—A Dictator's Whim, Not the Rule of Law". (Variation: "illegally sentenced")

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.org/mh/articles/2006/3/17/123027.html