Older Falun Gong Practitioner in Jimo City, Shandong Province Arrested

At about 9:00 a.m. on June 16th, 2007, Cao Shihe, the head of Lingshan No. 3 Village, and village Chinese Communist Party (CCP) secretary Zhang Weiguang, along with Dong Quanqi, director of the Comprehensive Administration Office of Lingshan Town, and three police officers from Lingshan Police Station, led the way to Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Zhang Xiuying's house.

When they climbed into the fenced yard, Ms. Zhang Xiuying stayed in the house with her door closed. When she asked what they were doing there, Dong Quanqi said, "Somebody reported that you had distributed flyers." The police kicked the door but failed to get in, and then called Chen Yucheng, the director of the Lingshan Police Station. Chen ordered them to smash down the door.

Dong Quanqi and the others then broke into the house. They beat the old lady to the ground and dragged her to a police vehicle. Ms. Zhang kept shouting "Falun Dafa is good!" and was exposing the atrocity being perpetrated by the CCP regime. Later, the authorities searched Zhang's house and confiscated property, making a huge mess in her home. The kitchen range was destroyed and the windows were broken.

Another practitioner, Jiang Zhengfang from Lanbuwan Village, Lingshan Town, was arrested on the same day.

To date, the whereabouts of Ms. Zhang Xiuying is still unclear. Staff from the local government also began to harass her son, who operates a shop.

Since the persecution began on July 20th, 1999, Ms. Zhang Xiuying has experienced continuous persecution by the CCP. In December 1999, Ms. Zhang and several fellow practitioners went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong. Consequently, they were arrested in Beijing and repatriated back to Jimo City. They were locked up in a nursing home for further persecution. Thereafter, Ms. Zhang has been detained several times at the nursing home and detention centre for appealing for Falun Gong. During this period, she was beaten by Wu Hailong, the director of the Cultural Station of Lingshan Town, and Cao Shixun, the CCP secretary of the Lingshan No. 3 Village.

On March 4th, 2000, Zhang Xiuying and many other practitioners did group exercises together on a hill in Lingshan Town. At about 10:00 a.m., they were surrounded by fifty police officers from the Jimo City Police Station, and all of them were taken away. Some were sent to a forced labour camp, and Ms. Zhang and other practitioners were confined in the nursing home for twenty days.

In mid-2000, Ms. Zhang and several practitioners attempted to walk to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong, but they were headed off in Tianjin City. They were held in detention for two weeks and then repatriated to Lingshan Town.

Ms. Zhang then had to become homeless for nearly a year to avoid further persecution. After she got home, the local government attempted to arrest her again. On September 29th, 2002, Ms. Zhang and her son Fang Shaoliang were taken by Dong Quanqi to the Qingdao Brainwashing Centre, where she held a hunger strike for nearly two months. She was then transferred to Wangcun Forced Labour Camp of Zibo City for one more month of persecution.

In April 2004, Ms. Zhang Xiuying was arrested again when she distributed leaflets exposing the persecution. Subsequently, she was sentenced to two years of forced labour and sent to Zibo City's Wangcun Forced Labour Camp, where she was tortured for a long time just because she refused to renounce her belief.

Two years later, she was released, but she remained under surveillance by the CCP regime. On June 10th, 2007, three staff members from the local 610 Office¹ went her home and wanted to ask her some questions, but Ms. Zhang did not let them in. She exposed the persecution that the CCP regime had committed over the years to her and her family. When they left, they threatened, "We will be back to get you."

Relevant responsible persons:

Cao Shihe, head of No. 3 Village of Lingshan Town: 86-13864815481 (Mobile), 86-532-84533617
Zhang Weiguang, CCP secretary of No. 3 Village of Lingshan Town: 86-13964271308 (Mobile),
Dong Quanqi, director of the Comprehensive Administration Office of Lingshan Town: 86-532-84562039

Related article: http://www.clearharmony.net/articles/200707/40234.html

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/2007/7/14/158837.html