Early in the morning on August 11th, 2006, Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Zheng Rongchang from Baoding City, Hebei Province was forced from his home and taken to the Xiaobailou brainwashing centre, organised by the 610 Office1.
At around 5:45 a.m., Mr. Zheng Rongchang was about to feed their rabbits. Suddenly, a gang of plain-clothes police stormed in, did not show any ID, violently forced him into their vehicle, dropped his shoes, broke his belt, and took him to Chengguan Town Police Station. They didn't even let him put a shirt on.
Mr. Sheng Rongchang requested his shoes and belt, but no one cared. Police then took him to the Xiaobailou brainwashing centre in Baoding City, without any legal procedures.
Mr. Zheng lost his personal freedom, is forced to go through brainwashing sessions under the guards' close monitoring. He is followed no matter if he is eating, sleeping, and even using the toilet. As soon as he wants to do the exercises, someone will stop him immediately. He is forced to watch videos that slander Falun Gong, or listen to fabricated nonsense in order to force him to write the "four statements2". The guards threatened his family members that if he refused to accept the brainwashing within 15 days, he had to pay all the costs, and would be sent to a labour camp.
One afternoon, the Li County 610 Office Head Xu Yonggang (male) came to Xiaobailou, and said to Mr. Zheng Rongchang, "You were raised by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), and you are against the CCP. You must be mentally ill, and I want to lock you up in the mental hospital."
Mr. Zheng Rongchang's wife sufferers from mental illness, and cannot do farm labour or house chores. With Mr. Zheng Rongchang locked up in the brainwashing centre, the fields are untended, the crop of cotton is neglected, and the rabbits are left with no one to feed them. Their daughter had to quit her newly-found job to take care of the family. Their family has suffered a huge financial loss.
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. "Four Statements": Practitioners are coerced under brainwashing and torture to write the "four statements" as proof that they have given up their belief. Created by the 610 Office, they consist of "a letter of repentance," "a guarantee" to never again practise Falun Gong, a "Dissociation Statement" to declare a dissociation with Falun Gong and promise not go to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong, and a list of names and addresses of all family members, friends and acquaintances who are practitioners.
Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2006/10/8/139659.html
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