The Persecution of Ms. Liu Hongxia in Jilin City, Jilin Province

Ms. Liu Hongxia began practising Falun Gong in 1998 while she was living in Jilin City, Jilin Province. After she started practising, she became healthy, happy, and energetic. After the the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) began persecuting Falun Gong on July 20th, 1999, Ms. Liu was detained twice, and the CCP attempted to brainwash her three times because she refused to give up her belief.

On April 12th, 2005, several police officers stormed into another practitioner's house where Ms. Liu and other practitioners were gathered. She escaped arrest, but the police grabbed her handbag with all her IDs and e-books. After this happened, she became homeless and destitute.

At around 10:00 a.m. on July 14th, 2006, as Ms. Liu was selling her wares at the Jilin City grocery wholesale market, a few plainclothes officers came to arrest her. They pushed her down to the ground and twisted her arms. She asked, "Why are you arresting me?" They didn't say anything because many people in the shopping centre came forward to stop them and more and more people gathered around them. A businessman questioned, "Don't you people have any heart? Why are you taking advantage of a weak little woman? What did she do that is against the law?"

One of the arresters said, "You're not allowed to interfere with this. She's a murder suspect." Everyone in the crowd was shocked, so Ms. Liu Hongxia said, "I didn't kill anyone--they're lying." She kept struggling with them and they injured her. More and more onlookers tried to prevent her arrest. More officers were called into the shopping center and she was forced into a police vehicle and taken to the Shanqian Police Station, Longtan Sub-bureau, Jilin City.

When they got to the station, Ms. Liu was thrown on top of a bed in the on-duty police office. By this time, she had lost all of her energy and was very tired from all the verbal abuse the police had hurled at her. In the afternoon, she was taken to another office but wasn't questioned. However, the police officer there had another person do the writing, and said, "In dealing with Falun Gong, we don't have to abide by the law. The crowd in the shopping centre could have been all rounded up if they went too far interfering with official affairs. As for you, Ms. Liu Hongxia, if you cooperate a little better, you'll be detained only a few days. Otherwise, you'll be getting a month's detention."

At around 3:00 p.m., Ms. Liu was taken to the Longtan Sub-bureau and told to put a fingerprint on a document that claimed she had a large quantity of Falun Dafa CDs and tapes. She rejected this allegation, saying, "I don't have that kind of stuff."

At around 5:00 p.m., she was transported to the Jilin City Detention Centre, where guards noticed that she wasn't able to walk normally and she was covered in bruises, so they gave her a physical exam. The results showed that her heart was a bit abnormal so they refused to admit her. Officers from the Shanqian station had a "little talk" with them off site and when they returned, they forced Liu Hongxia to swallow a pill that caused her to lie down on the sofa for a while. At around 7:00 p.m., they had three inmates carry her to the cell upstairs where she was detained for a month.

On the morning of August 14th, Ms. Liu was asked by the police from the Shanqian Police Station and from the Longtan Sub-bureau to sign a notice of release. They said, "Liu Hongxia, if you sign this, we'll release you and let you go home," to which Ms. Liu said, "I'll have to read it first." She moved the purported "Notice of Release" from the top and found a 15-month forced labour notice underneath. She asked, "On what grounds are you sending me to a labour camp?" and refused to sign it. However, the person from the sub-bureau said, "It's alright if she doesn't sign--handcuff her hands behind her back." Ms. Liu was then taken directly to Heizuizi Women's Forced Labour Camp.

In the labour camp, Ms. Liu was continually pressured by brigade captains Ren Feng and Liu Lianying, and guards Jia Hongyan and Liu Shuxia. They wanted her to write the so-called three statements¹, but she refused to cooperate with them, so she wasn't allowed to have a daily opportunity to wash up. On top of that, she was locked in a confined cell for 80 days straight and became infested with scabies. Her family members weren't permitted to see her even though they had to travel very far back and forth from Changchun City to Jilin City. The cotton clothing and cotton shoes that they had brought for Ms. Liu were withheld from her by the prison guards. She wasn't even allowed to buy things like sugar, beans, or canned salted vegetables.

On September 10th, 2007, Ms. Liu Hongxia passed out in the toilet and she was carried back to her bed. According to the prison doctor, she had serious malnutrition, low blood pressure, and low glucose. The doctor told the guards to give her some sugar water to drink every hour. Ms. Liu said, "Because of our belief in Truthfulness, Compassion, and Forbearance, we're being imprisoned here. We have lost our individual freedoms and the basic right to eat. They are depriving us of our rights and health.

In September 2007, because she did not write a "prison diary," Ms. Liu was detained for two more days. October 15th, 2007 should have been the day she was released. At around 10:00 a.m., she asked a guard, Lang Cuiping, whether her family members had arrived yet but she received a negative answer. At around 2:00 p.m., guard Liang told her to get ready and said that the 610 Office² people were there. As Ms. Liu walked to the gate entrance, she saw her family members alongside two unknown people whom she thought might have been 610 Office personnel. She didn't talk to the two strangers and left with her family. Later, she found out that those two people were from the North Xinghua Street Office, in the Songjiang District of Jilin City, close to where her new residence is located.

Changchun Heizuizi Women Forced Labour Camp:

Operator: 86-431-85384312
Ext. 6101, Director Ma
Ext. 6102, Director Guan
Ext. 6103, Director Fan
Ext. 6104, Director Zhao
Ext. 6105, Director Tian
Ext. 6106, Director Meng
Brigade Captain Ren Feng: 86-13578712306 (Mobile)
Brigade Captain Liu Lianying: 86-13578712108 (Mobile)

Jilin City-Longtan Sub-Bureau-Shanquian Police Station Director Yan Jiafu: 86-13019162255 (Mobile)

Related article: http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2006/12/13/80819.html

Note

1. "Three Statements": Practitioners are coerced under brainwashing and torture to write "Repentance Statement," "Guarantee Statement" or 'Dissociation Statement" as proof that they have given up their belief. In the statement, the practitioner is forced to admit remorse for practising Falun Gong, promise to give up Falun Gong, and never again associate with other practitioners or go to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong.

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://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2007/11/5/166006.html