Elderly Ms Quan Huiping of Hunan Province Suffers Persecution for Seven Years - Husband Dies Unjustly

My name is Ms. Quan Huiping, and I am a retired employee of the Jiangbin Machine Factory in Xiangtan, Hunan. During the seven years since the persecution began on July 20th, 1999, I have been arrested, detained, locked up and kept in a forced labour camp over a dozen times, only because of my belief in Falun Dafa.

Before practising, I used to be very ill. December 20th, 1996 is the date that I will never forget. On this day, I was fortunate enough to get to know Falun Dafa. I practised according to "Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance," and all my diseases disappeared. I was given a second life.

After the Jiang Zemin regime began to persecute Falun Dafa on July 20th, 1999, I no longer had a peaceful life. The Dahualing Police Station and my factory’s security section continuously harassed me and forced me to quit my job.

I had to leave home, and in August 1999, my husband and I went to live with my older sister at her home. A few days later, Dai Qunxing from the Dahualing Police Station made a special trip to Changde. He forcibly took my husband and I to the brainwashing centre, and compelled me to hand in my Dafa books. He also threatened my family and kept us from walking out of the Jiangbin Machine Factory. The entire time he was around us, we were monitored closely.

On December 11th, 1999, I went to Beijing with several fellow practitioners to appeal for justice for Falun Gong. We arrived at Tiananmen on the 16th. Police deceived us into getting in a car and locked us up in an iron cage. Police beat male practitioner Xiao Wang and knocked out his teeth. At the sight of this, I grabbed a bag from Xiao Wang that contained Dafa books and banners and held it in my arms. The police said, "Hand over the bag, so the young person (Xiao Wang) won’t suffer." Then the police forcefully took the bag from me and tore the books. I shouted, "Falun Dafa is great! Falun Dafa is a righteous practice!"

Before they detained us in an iron cage, the police searched our bodies and forced a young pregnant lady to take off her clothes, leaving her only in her underpants. Also nearby, an air force colonel was detained in an iron cage. The police pointed a gun at him and interrogated him four times. Each time he was beaten unconscious and then revived. Some practitioners with us had their hands injured by the handcuffs the police put on them.

I was sent to the Xiangtan Office in Beijing and some people came to pick us up by air, even though that was totally unnecessary. They simply wanted to turn it into a vacation. Liu Guoxiong from the Dahualing Police Station even brought his wife and another person named Zhang from the Public Security Bureau. We had to pay for all of their expenses, including meals and a few hundred yuan¹ for medicine, costing us 6,000 yuan in total. On December 19th, 1999, they escorted me to the local detention centre and held me for fifteen days.

When I came out of the detention centre on January 1st, 2000, the police brought my family to the security section of the Dahualing Police Station. Factory Office chief Wang Changyuan and Dai Shengyun pounded the table and cursed at me. They did not allow me to speak and forced my family to watch me. The police threatened my family members to condemn me and force me to write the guarantee statement². The police then said that if my family members did not agree to this, they would not let me go home. My younger daughter was frightened and bought Liu some gifts, and only then was I released. After that, I no longer received a pension. I was arrested on major holidays and politically sensitive days, and I was supervised by two people. The persecution was even extended to my family members.

On April 6th, 2000, several fellow practitioners and I practised the exercises together. At around noon, Dai Qunxing from the Dahualing Police Station led eight people to seize me, forcibly taking me to the drug rehabilitation centre and detained me for fifteen days. In there I had to wash clothes, cook meals, wash dishes, clean the toilets, and clean the floors for over ten people.

I wrote an appeal letter in May 2000 and was reported on when I went to photocopy the letter. I was arrested and detained for fifteen days.

My husband and I went to Beijing to appeal on December 28, 2000, but we were caught on the train. I refused to tell them my name, so I was tortured in the basement of the Hunan Office in Beijing. I was then transferred to the Chang Hospice of the Changsha Furong Office. I was sent back on December 31st. Later, I went to my older sister’s home. The police issued a warrant for my arrest and looked for me everywhere. I was arrested on February 25th and sentenced to eighteen months of forced labour on March 28th, 2001.

At Baimalong Forced Labour Camp, I was mentally tortured every day by over ten people.

I was released in advance on October 9th, 2001, with the help of a fellow practitioner. I published my solemn declaration on the Minghui website on October 16th and declared that under the high pressure in the labour camp and deceit, all my words and actions that did not comply with Dafa were null and void. I went to the Dahualing Police Station and the factory’s security section on October 18, and declared the "transformation²" void.

The evildoers from the Dahualing Police Station and the factory’s security section wanted me to write some bad things against my will so that they could record them. I refused to cooperate and was supervised around the clock.

On the morning of February 7th, 2002, several policemen from the Dahualing Police Station came to my home and attempted to arrest me. They tried to deceive my family by saying that they wanted to send me to the hospital, but left after my daughter took a stand against them. Later that night, policeman Li Sheng came to my home, saying that he only wanted to ask me some questions at the police station. He said it would only take half an hour. Of course, this was a lie.

Once I got there, the police locked me up. Unable to deal with the blow of my being detained once again, my husband passed away in the afternoon of February 9th.

When the police interrogated me in the detention centre, I said, "I practise Dafa. I have committed no crime, so I request an unconditional release."

I went on a hunger strike for sixteen days and was force-fed. A policeman surnamed Tan pried my teeth open with a bamboo stick in one hand, and lifted my cheek with the other hand, shouting that he wanted to kill me. He cursed at me while force-feeding me, and several prisoners held me down. I was detained until late March. I said to my daughter when she picked me up from the detention centre, "Let’s go to see your dad in the hospital." She replied, "Dad passed away on the second day after you were arrested." I was speechless, as the persecution had torn my family apart even more.

On October 1st, 2003, I went to Yijiawan to put up posters exposing the persecution, and someone reported me to the police. A policeman from the Yijiawan Police Station poured ice cold water on my head, and then tried to ignite a lighter on my hair, saying, "Too bad this is water and not gasoline." A young policeman viciously kicked me in the back. They refused to let me sleep that night. They tried to freeze me with the cold wind and did not allow me to use the toilet. Due to the torture, my whole body cramped up and I lost control of my bowels. Dai Qunxing from the Dahualing Police Station and staff from Yijiawan Police Station tried all sorts of ways to keep me in the detention centre. I became emaciated from the torture, but the police still refused to allow my family to visit.

I was sent to the forced labour camp on December 12th, 2003 to serve an eighteen month sentence. I did not pass the health check at the Baimalong Forced Labour Camp in Zhuzhou, and I could not stand up, so they hung me from the metal window bars. I shouted, "Falun Dafa is great." The police played a tape loudly and sealed my mouth with adhesive tape. They only let me down when they saw that my condition had worsened. The police later sent me to the detention centre, but I was not accepted. Finally, they took me to the Dahualing Police Station and notified my second son-in-law to carry me home.

After I came back, I resumed my practise and Fa study and recovered very quickly. However, the 610 Office³ members still came to harass and threatened me, "We can send you to forced labour camp at any time."

On March 11th, 2004, policemen Li Sheng and Dai Qunxing came to take me to the brainwashing centre, but I refused to open the door. They then found my daughter and tried to force her to allow them into our home, but she refused. Because she was intimidated by their presence, she and my son-in-law did not come home.

Policeman Li Sheng said that he would carry me out by force, but I firmly refused to cooperate.

They forced my youngest daughter to go a month without work and watch me at all times.

At about 7:00 p.m. on February 24th, 2005, a group of people came from the residential committee and the police sub-bureau. I recognised He Weixin and Zhang from the security section of the factory among the group. They ransacked my home and confiscated Teacher’s new articles. They returned in an hour but I did not open the door. They stayed there until midnight. The next day, they came to arrest me, but I refused to open the door again. Several policemen waited outside but left after a long time.

I went to my hometown in Sichuan on January 7th, 2006, to speak to people about the facts of Falun Dafa and visit my 95-year-old father. Policeman Dai Qunxing found out where I was heading and tried to stop me from leaving the house. I went to the train station and a taxi driver said, "I’ll take you. There is nothing wrong with Falun Gong. If you want to go to Beijing, I’ll drive you there." Under Teacher’s protection and fellow practitioners’ righteous thoughts, the police did not prevail.

Relevant people participated in persecution:
Dahualing Police Station former police officer Li Sheng: 86-13087322873 (Mobile), 86-732-5577513 (Home)
Hetang Police Station, Dai Qunxing: 86-13055141477 (Mobile), 86-732-5584851 (Home)
Jiangbin Security section chief Wu Jianguo: 13907324424 (Mobile)
Ning Jun: 13973290254 (Mobile), 86-732-5584040
Community centre chief Li Zhenhong: 13007329777 (Mobile), 86-732-5577072

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")

3. "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.ca/mh/articles/2006/7/8/132461.html