Persecution Suffered by Chen Anrui While He Was Alive

Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Chen Anrui lived in Quanhe Village, Baoquan Town, Anqiu City, Weifang District, in Shandong Province. On August 3rd, 2006, he died while trying to rescue two elementary school students who were drowning in a water reservoir. Mr. Chen was 65.

Falun Gong practitioner Chen Anrui

For a long period of time Chen Anrui was persecuted by the Chinese Communist Party and local policemen for insisting in his belief of "Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance". He was subjected to repeatedly having his house ransacked, being arrested, sent to detention centres, subjected to forced brainwashings, and torture. Over the years, Chen Anrui was fined a total of 7,000 yuan¹.

Chen Anrui started to practise Falun Gong in 1998 and gained tremendous physical and mental benefits. On July 20th, 1999, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) began to persecute Falun Gong. In July 2000, Chen Anrui went to Beijing to appeal on behalf of Falun Gong. After that, his daughter also went to Beijing to appeal on behalf of Falun Gong. When she was in Jinan City, she was stopped, escorted back, and detained in the police station of Baoquan Town. When Chen Anrui went to the police station to request a release for his daughter, he was also arrested. After extorting 2,000 yuan from their family, the police released them both.

On March 11th, 2005, Chen Anrui was arrested by four policemen from Anqiu City and Baoquan Town, and his home was ransacked. He was detained in the Anqiu City Detention Centre for more than twenty days. During that period, he was tortured by guards for the purpose of extracting confessions, and he was also subjected to forced brainwashings. After the police extorted 5,000 yuan from his family, Chen Anrui was released.

After his release from the detention centre, both his mental and physical health were damaged. He was absent-minded, skinny, and weak physically. After several months he slowly recovered. He solemnly declared on the Minghui website [Chinese version of Clearwisdom.net] that all of his words and deeds while under duress from the persecution were against his will, and that they were annulled.

On August 3rd, 2006, two elementary students from Quanhe Village were taking baths in the Quanhe Reservoir. They accidentally slipped into a deep region of the reservoir and started to drown. Chen Anrui did his best to rescue them. He pushed the two students ashore, and after he finished pushing the second one to shore, he was unable to make it up himself due to complete exhaustion and drowned.

Note

1. "Yuan" is the Chinese currency; 500 yuan is equal to the average monthly income of an urban worker in China.

Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.ca/mh/articles/2007/7/11/158647.html