Guangdong Province Police Transfers Practitioner Ms. Zhang Lihong, Wife of a Hong Kong Citizen, from a Forced Labour Camp to a Brainwashing Centre

Three years ago my wife, Ms. Zhang Lihong, was in Lufeng City, Guangdong Province, taking care of our two young children, her blind mother, and her 80-year-old father. Owing to her belief in Falun Gong and for exposing the evil deeds of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), Shanwei National Security Team agents arrested her twice, on May 19th, 2004, and October 26th, 2004. Following the first arrest, my wife started a hunger strike to protest the unlawful detention. Due to local and overseas rescue efforts, the police released her after three days. Shanwei National Security Team agents did not follow any legal procedures during the second arrest and sent my wife immediately to the Sanshui Women's Forced Labour Camp for a three-year sentence, in complete violation of the Chinese constitution.

While my wife was detained and persecuted for three years, I exposed the CCP's crimes in Hong Kong with banners such as these

During these past three years, our two young children repeatedly asked me, "When will Mum come back?" Also, during these three years, her mother appeared to be severely mentally disabled, owing to the great shock from knowing her daughter had been arrested and sent to a labour camp.

After my wife's three-year term had ended, I called officials at the Sanshui Women's Forced Labour Camp on September 28th, 2007, and asked them about her release. The camp officials told me, "Zhang Lihong's term is finished. She is not here anymore." I was very surprised. If they had released her, why hasn't she returned home?

My persistent questions finally led to them telling me that they had reported her release to officials in Shaoguan City, where my wife's household is registered. As it turned out, agents from the Shaoguan City 610 Office¹, in cooperation with national security police, took my wife out of the labour camp and detained her again, this time in the Guangdong Province Legal System School, which is actually a brainwashing centre.

The person I contacted at the brainwashing centre told me shamelessly, "We brought your wife here for her own benefit. We will help her to improve her understanding!" They also forced her to sign a document that said she was voluntarily staying in the brainwashing centre for "study."

Related phone number:
Guangdong Province Sanshui Legal System School (brainwashing centre)
Head Peng Zhijian: 86-757-87775113

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.org/mh/articles/2007/10/18/164750.html