Forty-three-year-old Zhu Guilin has been detained several times for practising Falun Gong and informing people about the true nature of Falun Gong. She was once sent to the People's Hospital in Shimen County to be injected with some unknown drugs.
Ms. Zhu, from Shimen County Changde City Hunan Province, has been detained in the Baimalong Forced Labour Camp in Zhuzhou City for two and a half years. On April 8th her term was up but the Baimalong Forced Labour Camp still didn't release her.
On the morning of April 9th, Zhu's mother, brother and sister-in-laws went to Baimalong Forced Labour Camp to visit her.
Ms. Zhu came out with other people's support and was not able to walk by herself. Seeing her daughter like this, her mother couldn't help crying. A policeman in the reception room came forward to stop her mother because family members are not allowed to cry. But Ms. Zhu's mother still couldn't help her tears.
There were bruises all over Ms. Zhu's head, hands, wrists, elbows, knees and legs. She was so emaciated that she was a bag of bones. Not long after they met, several policemen came out and one of them bellowed: "You are not allowed to cry!" Zhu Guilin's sister-in-law asked the policeman not to speak so fiercely because Ms. Zhu's mother had heart disease and high blood pressure and couldn't stand such bellowing.
Facing such insolence from the police, Ms. Zhu's relatives said: "Zhu Guilin believes in Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance and practises Falun Gong. She hasn't committed any crime. But you people tortured her like this. And you don't even allow us to cry." Seeing the relatives arguing with them, the police became even more harsh: "If your family continue like this, I will stop your meeting right now." Ms. Zhu's mother held her daughter's hand firmly and wouldn't let go. Several policemen came forward to forcibly drag her mother away. Worried that her mother might have a heart attack, Ms. Zhu's sister-in-law stopped the police. But the policemen turned around to face the sister-in-law, and dragged her by her hair. Another wrenched her arm behind her back and another pinched her neck. The buttons on her clothing were torn off. Several policemen dragged the sister-in-law from upstairs to downstairs. Two policemen then lifted her up and dropped her outside the gate of the forced labour camp. Her head was swollen.
Next, several policemen grabbed Ms. Zhu's mother and dragged the seventy-year-old along the ground until she fainted.
At the time there were still other people in the reception room. The police of Baimalong Forced Labour Camp were this harsh and brutal to the family members in full view of the public. You can imagine how brutal and barbaric they would be to Falun Gong practitioners inside the prison.
In August 2000, Zhu Guilin went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong. Police from the Public Security Bureau in Shimen County brought her back to her hometown and detained her at Shimen Custodial Station for four months. Her family was fined 3000 yuan1 before she was released.
In February 2001, the 610 Office2 in Shimen County forcibly took Zhu Guilin from her home to the detention centre, where she went on a hunger strike to protest the persecution. Tan Chunping from the 610 Office sent her to the Psychiatric Department of the People's Hospital and had her injected with an unknown drug that damaged her central nervous system, causing her to become mentally disoriented. But the 610 Office framed Zhu by saying that her dementia was a result of practising Falun Gong. After one month of torture in the hospital, Zhu was put into the detention centre again. Because of the effects of the unknown drug, she could neither sit nor stand and she was extremely weak. She was released only when she was at the brink of death three months later.
On October 8th, 2004, police arrested Zhu Guilin again and ransacked her home. Zhu was sentenced to two and a half years in a forced labour camp and was sent to the Baimalong Forced Labour Camp in Zhuzhou City. International human rights organisations have expressed concern over the Baimalong Forced Labour Camp for its brutal persecution of Falun Gong practitioners. About one thousand family members of Falun Gong practitioners submitted a joint letter asking for the international community to publicly investigate and stop the inhumane treatment of Falun Gong practitioners by the forced labour camp. Zhu Guilin suffered from severe tortures for not co-operating with the "transformation3" process at Baimalong Forced Labour Camp. She was prevented from sleeping for three days. In July 2005, Ms. Zhu was beaten until she fainted in the forced labour camp and was sent to the emergency department of the No 2 People's Hospital. From January to March this year she went on a hunger strike for two months, during which time she was force fed several times and injected with unknown substances. Under instigation of the police, the inmates who oversaw her slapped her in the face while she was connected to an intravenous drip. Her left wrist was damaged and scarred. Her hands were swollen and cold. After so many years of torture, Ms. Zhu is disfigured and emaciated.
The forced labour camp used the intravenous drip as an excuse to confiscated the living allowances her family had given her several times, totalling 600 yuan.
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.
3. "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://www.minghui.ca/mh/articles/2007/4/12/152636.html
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