The Lunar New Year is near. My brother and I really do not know how to spend this year's New Year, because my mother has been arrested by the 610 Office1 of Laiyang City and detained for over half a year at Laiyang Detention Centre.
Our home address is No. 1 Longyan Road, Qingdao City. Our mother, Zhao Ruixiang, had all kinds of illnesses from an early age. From the time she was 39 she could not work any more. After she began practising Falun Gong when she was over 60, her illnesses disappeared. She kept our home in good order and had a harmonious relationship with the neighbours. My brother and I had no need to worry about her.
In July 2006, my mother went back to my father's hometown at Tan'gezhuang Township, Laiyang City in the Yantai District of Shandong Province to visit our relatives, but she was arrested by the Laiyang 610 Office. She has been detained in Laiyang Detention Centre for over half a year.
We tried to visit her several times, but the detention centre refused to let us see her and only allowed us to send money and clothes. The clothes that we sent to her had all the knots trimmed off and the elastic on her trousers pulled out. The elastic sewn in the trousers was cut at several openings with scissors. We don't know how she could wear those clothes on such cold days.
On November 10th, 2006, our mother was put on trial and we saw that she was wearing handcuffs in court. Torture and abuse had turned her into another person. Her face was pale, her hair was thin, her feet were shaking, and she could barely stand. She was almost deaf. Our mother was charged with helping a middle-school teacher, Zhao Hui, in Tan'gezhuang Township, buy a computer and a printer in Qingdao City.
After we enquired from many different sources, we learned that after my mum was arrested, the head of the Laiyang 610 Office, Wei Haibo, beat, tortured, and interrogated her. These evil people tried to cover up their crimes of beating and torturing my mum; they didn't hit her face but they did pull her hair, beat her head and ears and hit her ankles with sticks. She could not hear anything for half a month after they hit her ears. They tortured her severely, but the bruises could not be seen on the surface!
My mother helped other people buy goods that were sold in legal, state-run shops, which didn't break any law. It is not wrong to practise the Falun Dafa exercises and achieve better health and try to be a good person following Zhen-Shan-Ren ("Truth-Compassion-Tolerance"). It violates Chinese law to beat and detain someone like my mother! That is the illegal act! We sincerely appeal for help from people of justice inside and outside China to rescue my mum. All our relatives would sincerely appreciate your help!
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.
Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2007/1/29/147825.html
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