Rescue Falun Gong Practitioner Song Zhezi, Who Suffers Persecution in Changsha Women's Prison

Ms. Song Zhezi is a 57-year-old retired employee of the eastern suburb Supply and Marketing Cooperative in Changde City, Hunan Province. Because she persists in practising "Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance," she was secretly sentenced to four years imprisonment by the Wuling District Court in August 2004, and detained at Changsha Women's Prison in Hunan Province. The long-term persecution caused a mental collapse and seriously compromised her health. Her family went to visit her in February 2006, but was refused by the prison, which claimed that she did not obey the prison rules, so they cancelled her rights to be visited by family members.

Song Zhezi began to practise Falun Gong in late 1998, and obtained great physical and mental benefits. After Jiang Zemin's regime began persecuting Falun Gong in 1999, in order to validate the innocence of Falun Gong, she went to Beijing to appeal in April and October 2000. Only because she spoke the truth, refused to give up her belief in "Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance," she was locked up for one and a half years. Upon release and return home she was twice detained in succession at the Changde City No. 2 Detention Centre. On both occasions she was set free after six-day hunger strikes.

On July 12th, 2002, she was arrested at home and later sent to a forced labour camp. She suffered all sorts of torture at the Zhuzhou Baimalong Women's Forced Labour Camp (the Minghui website reported her experience of persecution on December 20th, 2004). She held a hunger strike for 86 days, which caused the forced labour camp officials to fear her imminent death. Consequently, they extorted over 8000 yuan¹ from her family, and reluctantly sent her home on December 5th, 2003.

At 9:00 a.m. on March 5th, 2004, the Wuling District 610 Office², Residents' Committee, Chengdong Office and Chengdong local police station sent four police cars and over ten policemen to surround Song Zhezi's shop front, where she was working. Then and there, she and her youngest son-in-law were arrested. What followed was a month-long detainment. On May 31st, she asked a tradesman to install an iron gate in the home. Even so, more than 20 policemen suddenly rushed into her home that afternoon, rummaged through her chests and cupboards, and confiscated her family's property. She was then again taken to the Changde City No. 2 Detention Centre.

In August 2004, Wuling District Court secretly sentenced Song Zhezi to four years in prison and forcibly sent her to Changsha Women's Prison. Because Song Zhezi refused to give up the practise, Changsha Women's Prison forced her to work long hours and frequently endeavoured to indoctrinate her with a steady diet of hate speeches slandering Dafa. They even compelled her to wear a prison uniform and memorise prison rules. The long-term mental torture caused a mental collapse and seriously affected her health. Her family went to visit her in February 2006, but were refused by the prison on arbitrary grounds that she did not obey prison rules. Her rights to be visited by family members had been cancelled.

For several years, the persecution caused great strain, which splintered Song Zhezi's family. Physical separation led to the abandonment of the family business valued at more than 100,000 yuan. Additionally, the Song's bank account was frozen. The eldest daughter was sentenced to three years in prison for practising Falun Gong and detained at Changsha Women's Prison, only to be released in November 2005, while a younger daughter is displaced from home to avoid the persecution. Her whereabouts is unknown.

All work units and evildoers who have participated in persecuting Song Zhezi (postcode of Changsha: 410000, postcode of Changde: 415000, postcode of Zhuzhou: 412000)

Hunan Province Women's Prison:
Deputy warden Zhao Lan: 86-731-2323878 (Home), 86-731-2323007 (Office), 86-13308498728 (Mobile).
Home address: No. 506, Cell No. 3, Building No. 10, Women's Prison Dorm
Prison Orientation Team: 86-731-2323710
Prison guards: Tang Qingyun, Long Yanhong, etc.
Education Section: 86-731-2323039
Chief: Ao Chunling 86-13975163288 (Mobile), deputy chief: Zhang Zhuo 86-13975868160 (Mobile)
Deputy chief: Liu Jiang
Prison Politics Section: 86-731-2323030

Hunan Provincial Women's Prison address: 528 Xiangzhang Ave., Yuhua District, Changsha City, Hunan Province
Mailing address: PO Box 2, Changsha City, Hunan Province, Zip code: 410004
Transport: take No. 2 bus to Beichong Reservoir (women's prison) or take No. 24 at the terminus of Dongtang No. 6 bus and get off at the women's prison
Hunan Provincial Prison Administrative Bureau (The higher authority of the women's prison)
Phone numbers:
Bureau chief and secretary, Liu Wanqing
Political commissar, deputy secretary
Deputy chief: Li Yunfeng (primary person in charge of the "transformation" work): 86-731-4592780 (Office), 86-13908463868 (Cell)
Penalty Execution Section: 86-731-4592632
Prison Politics Section: 86-731-4592630

Baimalong Forced Labour Camp in Baifeng District, Zhuzhou City, Hunan
Province
Postcode: 412000

Office: 86-733-8634800
Administration section: 86-733-8634811

Note

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

2. "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.

Chinese version available at http://minghui.org/mh/articles/2006/3/7/122257.html