Note: The following is a shortened version of a longer and more detailed article that appeared on the Minghui.org website (Chinese version of Clearwisdom.net).
Falun Dafa practitioners Ms. Zhang Jianxin and her husband from Ershilipu Village, Baoding County, Hebei Province, began practising Falun Gong in 1995.
The village party secretary, Fu Linlu and the township party secretary, Ma Wenku along with others arrested Ms. Zhang and took her to the Wangdu Detention Centre in September of 1999 for three months. They also extorted 4000 Yuan1 from her family. Meanwhile, her husband, daughter-in-law and younger sister were imprisoned for a few days and everyone had an additional 500 Yuan extorted from them.
In December 2000, Ms. Zhang Jianxin and several fellow practitioners held up banners with "Truthfulness, Compassion, and Tolerance are good" at Tiananmen Square in Beijing. They were beaten by six plainclothes policemen, then imprisoned and inhumanly tortured at the Haidian police station in Beijing. Twelve days later, the township party secretary of discipline and inspection, Li Keqin imprisoned Ms. Zhang in the Wangdu Detention Centre for one month and extorted 500 yuan from her before her release. Ms. Zhang's husband was brutally beaten in the Wangdu Detention Centre after they seized him in Tiananmen Square.
Ms. Zhang and her husband were imprisoned until February 2001. Township party secretary Ma then sent them to the 610 Office2 to be brainwashed.
In July 2001, Ms. Zhang, her husband and her sister were detained in the detention centre and persecuted once again by the chief of the 610 office, Shang Hongzhi for four months. Afterwards, they were send to a forced labour camp for one year. Ms. Zhang's husband and her sister were imprisoned by people of the 610 Office for one month.
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.
Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2007/7/30/159838.html
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