After Five Years of Torture in Prison, Ms. Shi Dengling from Guizhou Province Has Been Arrested Again by Chinese Communist Party Authorities

Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Shi Dengling is from the Ergezai District, Guiyang City, Guizhou Province. For the past five years while imprisoned in Duyun Jail, Ms. Shi was brutally tortured for refusing to renounce her beliefs. She was recently released in September 2006. However, on December 25th, 2006, she was arrested again by the officials from the 610 Office¹, the local community committee and the police station. She was taken to the Lannigou Brainwashing Centre in Guiyang City for further persecution. Ms. Shi's young daughter and mother, who is still recovering from a serious illness, are grieving for her suffering again.

Ms. Shi was sentenced to five years of imprisonment by the Guiyang City authorities and was held at the Guizhou Province Jail. From May to August of 2003, Ms. Shi was confined for 70 days. During that time, she was tortured with the Death Bed² for a long period of time. On May 24th, 2004, the head of the ward, Yu Xinzhong, and guard Zhao ordered Wang Jiayu to monitor Ms. Shi. Towards the end of May until the beginning of July, they tried to forcibly brainwash her every day from 7:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. Later, they used the jail's library room as the new brainwashing location. After they sealed the windows and door with paper, they brutally beat her day and night, forced her stand facing the wall for long periods of time and constantly played video programmes that slandered Falun Gong. They only allowed her to sleep for two hours, from 4:00 a.m. to 6:00 a.m., sometimes even less. Even during the two hours of sleep, they still hung her feet from the upper rail of a bunk bed. On July 15th, 2004, Ms. Shi was taken to a hospital for emergency treatment because of the tortures she suffered and had to be hospitalised for a month.

Ms. Shi Dengling was recently released in September 2006. After coming home, she took care of her young daughter and mother, who became very ill after suffering intense mental pressure from Chinese Communist Party (CCP) authorities' intimidation. Ms. Shi was also fired by her company because she practises Falun Gong. In order to support her family, Ms. Shi had to go to many places to look for a job. Ms. Shi and her family have suffered mentally, physically and economically for all these years. After she returned home, the 610 Office from the Guiyang City Political and Judiciary Committee instigated the subdistrict office and the local community committee to closely monitor and harass her and her family.

On December 21st, 2006, the Sanjiaoxian Huilonglu Community Committee officials went to Ms. Shi's home and told her that they needed to talk to her at the local community committee centre. On December 25th, Ms. Shi went to the local community committee. The person in charge of the committee and the duty officer told her, "Your former case hasn't closed so the 610 Office from Guiyang City requests you to write a Guarantee Statement³. In order to clarify the truth about Falun Gong to them, Ms. Shi tried to share her experiences of the positive benefits she received from practising Falun Gong. However, the personnel at the community committee and the duty officer immediately called the 610 Office, the Ergezai Police Station and the plainclothes police from the Huaguoyuan Police Station in Guiyang City to take Ms. Shi away. They forcibly dragged her to an automobile as she shouted out, "Falun Dafa is good." Then they sent her directly to the Guizhou Province "Legal Education Training Centre" (Guizhou Province Lannigou Brainwashing Centre) for further persecution.

Presently, Ms. Shi's family members have gone to the Sanjiaoxian Huilonglu Community Committee many times and requested them to release her. However, the official from the community committee said, "She has been taken to the Lannigou Brainwashing Centre. Only when she is "reformed⁴" and writes a Guarantee Statement, can she be released."

The CCP uses deceptive means to publicly arrest good people who cultivate "Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance." In June 2006, led by the 610 Office head from the Qiannan County Politics and Judiciary Committee, Gou Dewei, the police deceived practitioners Ms. Liang Zhengfeng, Zhou Yun and others to leave their homes and then arrested them. They took the practitioners to the Guizhou Province Lanniguo Brainwashing Centre where they used inhuman methods to try to force practitioners to give up Falun Gong. So far, six months have passed since their family members have requested the authorities on numerous occasions to release their loved ones. However, the personnel from the 610 Office and the Lanniguo Brainwashing Centre threatened, "If they don't give up practising Falun Gong and write Guarantee Statements, they will not be released." Ms. Liang Zhengfeng and Ms. Zhou Yun were sentenced to "re-education through forced labour" in 2000. During that time, Ms. Zhou Yun was held at the brainwashing centre.

Those who persecute people who cultivate "Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance," will eventually have to pay for their crimes! In history, whoever persecuted a righteous belief never succeeded. Almost 2,000 years ago, the ancient Roman emperor Nero persecuted Christians. As a result, four plagues swept through the empire and left countless people dead, which contributed to the collapse of the Roman Empire! Who can escape from the historical trial?

Names and phone numbers of the related departments that have participated in persecuting Ms. Shi Dengling:

The Shujiazai Police Station: 86-851-5506431;
the Ergezai Duty Office: 86-851-3925627, 86-851-3930415, 86-851-3925719, 86-851-3925236, 86-851-3932926, 86-851-3933106, 86-851-3921700, 86-851-3928269, 86-851-3920423;
The Huilonglu Community Committee in Ergezai District: 86-851-5501739, 86-851-3928845;
The Guiyang City Lanniguo Brainwashing Centre: 86-851-3762696

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. "Death Bed" torture: A practitioner is tied to a bed with his hands handcuffed above his head to the bed rails, and his legs tied with thin nylon ropes. The rope is then tightly wrapped around the practitioner's body and the bed, from his legs to his chest. The rope is wrapped so tightly that the practitioner has difficulty breathing and eventually loses consciousness.

3. "Guarantee Statement": A statement to declare that one is remorseful for practising Falun Gong and guarantees not to practise Falun Gong again, not to go to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong, and never again associate with any Falun Dafa practitioners.

4. "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")

Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2007/1/5/146184.html