Ms. Wang Caixia from Lanzhou City Suffers Eight Years of Persecution

Wang Caixia began cultivating in Falun Gong in January 1996. At that time, she had been recently laid off, and was depressed over her marriage problems. As a result, her health deteriorated. Not long after cultivating in Falun Gong, her moral character and physical condition began to improve drastically. Many of her diseases including tracheitis disappeared. She found a good job and gave birth to a healthy baby girl in 1998.

However, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) launched its persecution of Falun Gong in July 1999. In order to appeal for Falun Gong and its founder, Mr. Li Hongzhi, Ms. Wang travelled to Beijing in October 2000. She was beaten by plain-clothed policemen on Tiananmen Square, and was imprisoned in the Taoshuping Detention Centre in Lanzhou for two weeks.

In April 2001, Ms. Wang was abducted by the Chengguan Division of the Public Security Bureau. At the First Detention Centre in Lanzhou, she was imprisoned in the Fourteenth Team and subject to inhumane torture. Ms. Wang began a hunger strike to protest against the persecution, but was beaten up by convicts under the instigation of a police team leader surnamed Tian and another policeman Zhang Lingling. She was pressed down on the floor by several convicts, her jaws pried open and the convicts began to use chopsticks and metal spoons to force apart her teeth. After being brutally beaten, she was force-fed brutally until she almost passed out. Then, the prison doctor forced thick saline solution into her stomach, which almost killed her. However, Ms. Wang maintained the compassion of a cultivator and told the convicts about the goodness of Falun Gong. Some of the convicts even wanted to learn Falun Gong after learning the facts.

After nearly four months of detention and torture, Ms. Wang developed severe scabies in the damp and dirty environment of the detention centre. Policeman Wei Dong from the Chengguan Division's 26th Section extorted 2,000 yuan¹ from her father before releasing her. Throughout her detention, Ms. Wang's child often cried silently in loneliness. After Ms. Wang returned home, her child also contracted scabies and both of them suffered severely. In August 2001, Ms. Wang's husband could not handle the great pressure and demanded a divorce. Citing Ms. Wang's practice of Falun Gong as an excuse, the Weiyuanlu Courts gave the the 3-year-old child's alimony rights to her husband. Thus, Ms. Wang lost her daughter and was deprived of her income.

Even then, the CCP henchmen still harassed her at home. Ms. Wang was forced to leave her home. But they would not stop, they went to her child's kindergarten, and tried to force the kindergarten teacher to say that her child was sick in order to try to deceive her into coming forward. The kind hearted teacher refused. In September 2002, policemen followed the child back to Ms. Wang's parents' home and broke in to demand Ms. Wang's whereabouts.

On October 1st, 2004, the 26th Section of the Chengguan Division dispatched a large number of people and surrounded the Wang home for two days around the clock. They used all kinds of methods to threaten Ms. Wang's parents. Because of the parents' persevering resistance, their plan to abduct Ms. Wang failed.

In August 2005, when Ms. Wang's former husband brought her child to register at an elementary school, he was told by the principal that the Public Security Bureau was searching for Ms. Wang and if she visits her child in school, the school will report her to the authorities immediately. Policemen at the school even threatened that if he covered up for her, he would be abducted too.

As she was coming home from work in mid-May, 2007, Liu Bailin, Liu Tongchang and a gang from the Landa Police Station, Weiyuanlu Police Station and the local 610 Office followed Ms. Wang and took her to the Gongjiawan Brainwashing Centre. She was immediately handcuffed on one of the bunk beds on the first floor for three days straight. Ms. Wang started a hunger strike to protest against the abduction and on the fifth day, she was cuffed onto another bed for four days and three nights and force-fed by policemen Sun Qiang and Yang Wentai's gang.

In November 2007, policeman Qi Ruijun imprisoned Ms. Wang in an isolated room. Each isolation room is only about eight square metres, and there are about twenty of them in total. The room has no windows, no heating, and is tightly sealed, damp and dark. There is a squat bowl and sink in the room. All the doors are metallic and about a metre above the doors, there are a whole range of uneven metal bars used for hanging cuffs. Ms.Wang, together with three other practitioners were hung on the metal bars facing the room with their backs against the metal door. Besides letting them down during the three meals every day and one toilet break at around 11 p.m., they were hung up for the rest of the time. Their arms and hands all became swollen as a result.

Ms. Wang was steadfast in her belief of "Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance." Due to her family's rescue efforts, Ms. Wang was released after being hung for two weeks. By then, her legs, arms and hands were paralyzed. The torture she suffered at Gongjiawan Brainwashing Centre - from force-feeding, squatting with cuffs, cuffs around her back and the psychological torture, lasted about seven months.

While Ms. Wang was imprisoned, her mother suffered emotionally, to the point that her life was hanging by a thin thread. Her young daughter became emaciated after losing her mother, and her grades in school plunged. She did not even dare to reveal her longing for her mother, and could only write behind Ms. Wang's photo, "I miss Mum, my Mum is the best Mum in the world." Ms. Wang's manager and colleagues also missed her and hoped for her release.

Thanks to her family's insistence and strong requests, Ms. Wang was released in late 2007. However, Liu Tongchang, Liu Bailin and Wu Jianqiang's gang from the Landa Police Station demanded that Ms. Wang's father and brother will be implicated. By then, Ms. Wang's arms had already become paralyzed from the cuff-hanging torture. Even so, Liu Tongchang and Liu Bailin's gang from the Landa Police Station refused to stop, and threatened her to force her to renounce her belief in Falun Gong, otherwise, her brother would lose his job. Every two or three days they would go to Ms. Wang's parents' place to harass and threaten them. Ms. Wang's elderly parents had to live every day in fear. Ms. Wang was forced to leave home and was not able to take care of her severely sick mother and her young daughter. Once again, she was forced to abandon her home to avoid arrest.

Gongjiawan Brainwashing Centre: 136 Gongjiaping Beilu Road, Qilihe District, Lanzho City
Qi Ruijun (Secretary) :86-931-286001

Note

1. "Yuan" is the Chinese currency; 500 yuan is equal to the average monthly income of an urban worker in China.

Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2008/4/25/177201.html