Falun Gong practitioner and economist Ms. Gong Xingcan, who worked in the Deyang City Postal Bureau of Sichuan Province, has been arrested several times and sentenced to forced labour twice for practising Falun Gong. She was arrested again on April 26th, 2006 and has been imprisoned since then.
Ms. Gong Xingcan was born in 1971 and has a college degree. Her two forced labour sentences left her incarcerated for four years. The following describes her experiences under persecution.
Appealing for Falun Gong and arrested
Ms. Gong went to Beijing to appeal for justice for Falun Gong on December 9th, 1999. Qianmen Police Station agents arrested her. Wang Qisheng, deputy Deyang City Police Department chief, took her to the Deyang City Liaison Office in Beijing. Postal Bureau official Xiao Kaigui of Deyang City then took her back to Deyang. The Postal Bureau charged her more than 2,000 yuan1 for the round trip from Deyang to Beijing. Hong Qi and Zeng Guangcheng, Deyang City State Security Division heads, arrested Ms. Gong and detained her for 15 days.
Later, the Postal Bureau officials complied with orders from 610 Office2 agents and sent Ms. Gong to a brainwashing centre. Ms. Gong was detained there for two months and subjected to brainwashing eight hours a day. Postal Bureau deputy chief Gan Bin was in charge of her brainwashing. Other officials in the Postal Bureau, including Zhang Lianghua and Tian Jia, were also involved. The heads of various sections and also some employees of the Postal Bureau were also involved in the brainwashing. Ms. Gong was deprived of basic freedoms. She was held in the door guard's office during working hours. Door guard Mr. Liu's wife Jin Kangcai was assigned to keep her under surveillance. She was paid 10 yuan every day for watching Ms. Gong's every move, including going to the toilet. She was to report any situation to the authorities immediately and also to report on Ms. Gong's activities. The Bureau eventually stopped the brainwashing and monitoring, because Ms. Gong needed to take care of her seriously ill husband in the hospital.
Meanwhile, the Bureau handed out punitive measures to Ms. Gong. Her monthly salary was reduced from 1,000 yuan to 200 yuan, and most of her 1999 bonus was cancelled. While her husband was hospitalised, officers from the city 610 Office, the Tianshan Street police station, the Postal Bureau and the city Financial Bureau--her husband's workplace--came to the hospital and threatened him. They told him that if Gong Xingcan goes to appeal for Falun Gong again, he would be implicated and lose his job. The Postal Bureau and 610 Office officials also took away Gong Xingcan's identification card.
Constantly harassed, arrested and imprisoned
In the summer of 2000, 610 Office agents arrested Gong Xingcan from her home and took her to Huaxia Hotel. While there, policemen Hong Qi and Chen Zhi forced her to attend a brainwashing workshop held by policeman Yan Dengshan from the Xinhua Forced Labour Camp in Mianyang City. A TV station videotaped the brainwashing workshop and broadcast fake news, saying that many practitioners gave up Falun Gong during the workshop.
Before the 2002 New Year , the city 610 Office issued an order, demanding all workplaces in Deyang to make sure that Falun Gong practitioners stay at home during the New Year holiday. Police officer Yang from the Tianshan Street Police Station came to Gong Xingcan's house, ordering her to promise to stay home. Gong Xingcan refused to open the door for them. Yang tried to arrest Gong Xingcan and called for backup to force open Ms. Gong's door. Later, officials from her husband's workplace acted on behalf of Ms. Gong's family and tried to help her. Finally, the police relented and left. The whole process went on from 9:00 p.m. until after midnight. Ms. Gong and her husband were not able to sleep the whole night.
During the 16th Chinese Communist Party Congress, the 610 Office agents ordered the Postal Bureau to call Gong Xingcan twice every day to make sure she stayed at home. Security personnel Ye Daiqing, Kan Jinlun and Zou were assigned to make the calls. If Ms. Gong didn't answer the phone, they would report it to the Tianshan Street Police Station, and officers and the street committee head Zhu would immediately go to Ms. Gong's house. The police officers who arrived at Gong Xingcan's house to harass her included Liu Heng, Lai Jiong and Tan Dingduan.
Different forms of persecution
Gong Xingcan was sentenced to a two-year labour camp sentence on April 6th, 2002 for explaining the facts about Falun Gong to people and for putting up posters about Falun Gong.
On April 6th, 2004, Gong Xingcan refused to sign papers regarding her release. Jindong State Security Division officials ordered the Bureau only pay her low living expenses and also to withdraw her living expenses for about half a year during her forced labour period.
The Postal Bureau's deputy head Zhang Lianghua has signed a contract with deputy bureau chief Ye Shaoyin, who was in charge of the persecution, and also with the City Bureau of Commerce, which tied Falun Gong practitioners' "reform3" rates to financial bonuses and Bureau employees' promotions. Under pressure from the 610 Office, the officials not only refused to pay Gong Xingcan's living expenses, but also suggested to the 610 Office to extend Ms. Gong's labour camp sentence. The City Bureau of Commerce announced a list of 29 Falun Gong practitioners working in Deyang's businesses and demanded the workplaces to assign specific people to closely watch them. The Bureau of Commerce also ordered the workplaces to sign contracts to tie Falun Gong practitioners' "reform" rates to financial bonuses and employee promotions.
Gong Xingcan has appealed to the city Labour Arbitration Committee for justice regarding the persecution she suffered at the workplace even after she resumed her work. The Labour Arbitration Committee accepted the case and pointed out that her workplace had violated labour laws if the facts were verified. The Arbitration Committee also notified the Postal Bureau for a hearing. The Postal Bureau then contacted the 610 Office to exert pressure on the Labour Arbitration Committee and force them to drop the case.
In the spring and summer of 2005, the police department assigned more officers to watch Gong Xingcan. Her every action was spied on. No matter where she went, and no matter what she did, she was watched. The police officers even recorded the time she came home and had dinner every day. Gong Xingcan once clarified the facts about Falun Gong to one of the officers and told him not to do these bad things anymore. The officer said that he had no choice because he needed to keep his job.
The brainwashing centre
On June 7th, 2005, 610 Office agents ordered Gong Xingcan's arrest. Involved in the arrest were policeman Liu Heng from the Tianshan Street Police Station, Postal Bureau official Ye Shaoyin, deputy office head Zhang Lianghua, and other people including Zhe Junfang, Zhang Pin, Bai Guang, Wang Gaoyun, Liu Xiaoxia and Chen Taiguo. They took Gong Xingcan to the brainwashing centre in Hexing Town, Guanghan City, which is called the "Science Education School."
In July 2005, the same Postal Bureau officers came to the brainwashing centre and threatened to fire Gong Xingcan if she refused to renounce Falun Gong.
In August 2005, State Security Division chief Wang Wenwu in Deyang City came to the brainwashing centre, trying to pressure Gong Xingcan into renouncing Falun Gong. He said, "We (the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) have prisons, armies and other state machinery. If you don't renounce Falun Gong, we will send you to prison."
At the end of August 2005, another outrage happened. Thugs knocked down the door and broke into Gong Xingcan's home. The people who did this were police officer Wang Wenwu, Liu Yue and Wu Guanghua from the Shenfang City 610 Office, officer Zhou Minjin from Jindong Police Station in Deyang, officer Zhou Bo from the brainwashing centre in Hexing Town, Liu Guirong, and officers from the city financial bureau in Deyang Zhao Jiashu and Zheng. They even pried open a safe and took all the money it held. Wang Wenwu even claimed that Ms. Gong Xingcan needed to pay the locksmith for breaking into her safe. Later on they went to Gong Xingcan's workplace to search her office but didn't find anything. Gong Xingcan's supervisor Zhang Pin was involved in the office search.
Arrested and sentenced to forced labour again
Since Gong Xingcan refused to renounce Falun Gong, she was sentenced to two years in a forced labour camp again. The court officials put down the wrong home address, workplace and ID number on the paper work for unknown reasons.
Gong Xingcan was badly tortured in the labour camp. The policemen forbade her to sleep and to use the toilet. One day before the policemen were about subject her to physical torture, Ms. Gong escaped the cell, jumped from the fourth floor and landed on the third floor. She broke one of her legs and was sent to a hospital. She escaped from the hospital and has since become homeless.
Ms. Gong was arrested in Leshan City along with another practitioner on April 26th, 2006. She is now locked up in the notorious Nanmusi Forced Labour Camp in Zizhong, which is known for brutally persecuting Falun Gong practitioners.
The persecution severely impacted Gong Xingcan's husband and parents. Her husband passed away under the huge mental pressure. The 610 Office fined and pressured her parents.
Phone numbers of government officials in Deyang City who have been involved in the persecution of Gong Xingcan:
Deyang Police Department:
State Security Division Chiefs: Wang Wenwu: 86-838-2511136, 86-13508008599
Hu Qingsong: 86-838-2511991, 86-13309029939
Chen Zhi: 86-838-2502399, 86-13908109399
Hong Qi, State Security Division chief at the Jinyang Police Department: 2513508 (Home), 2207370 (office)
Liu Heng, Tianshan Street Precinct officer: 13568229200
Deyang City Postal Bureau:
Ye Shaoyin, chief: 86-13980118177, 86-838-8996277, 2506923 (Office), 2501069 (Home)
Zhang Pin, Secretary of the CCP committee in the Postal Bureau, the Jinyang District: 86-13708109911, 86-838-8995559
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://minghui.org/mh/articles/2007/4/7/152311.html
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