Chongqing Practitioner Ms. Wang Yan Persecuted

Ms. Wang Yan, 33, a Falun Gong practitioner from Chongqing, was a teacher at Yubei District Experimental Junior High School in Chongqing City. She began practising Falun Gong in October 1996.

Ms. Wang Yan works hard, and she has been recognised as a good teacher. Since the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) began its persecution of Falun Gong, she has been subjected to brutal torture.

The CCP set up a brainwashing centre in Yubei District in July 2000. CCP officers found out that Ms. Wang had delivered Falun Gong articles to fellow practitioners, so she was arrested and taken to Shuangfeng Police Station and persecuted for two days. The officers demanded to know where the articles came from, but Ms. Wang refused to tell them. Later, they took her to a brainwashing centre for 15 days and then she was taken to a detention facility in Yubei District.

In late December 2000, Ms. Wang Yan was sentenced to four years by Yubei District Court because she and other practitioners made and hung banners exposing the persecution of Falun Gong. In Yubei District Detention Centre, Ms. Wang Yan was ordered to do hard labour, making special medical bags. During April 2001, Ms. Wang was forced to wear heavy shackles for one month because she did the Falun Gong exercises. In October, a guard tortured her for a week by handcuffing her with one leg between her arms. Later, Supervisor Zhang used a special small-sized handcuff to handcuff her for a month. It inconvenienced Ms. Wang in her daily life. Later, Ms. Wang Yan caught a heavy cold and became very weak, but because she firmly believed in Falun Gong, this illness disappeared. Later, an older woman told the deputy director that Ms. Wang's health was poor, so the guard took off the handcuffs. Ms. Wang later realised that practising Falun Gong and speaking out for justice for Falun Gong are not crimes. She appealed for justice to the court, but the CCP officers refused her appeal.

In early 2002, Ms. Wang and other practitioners were sent to Yongchuan Women's Prison. In the prison, inmates were ordered to monitor her around the clock, and she was not allowed to talk with others. Because she helped to deliver Falun Gong articles to a new practitioner, her luggage was searched and then Officer Li Xiaouan gave Ms. Wang a warning. About three months later, Ms. Wang was assigned to the first prisoners' team. She was forced to do heavy labour for over ten hours a day. Due to this, Ms. Wang barely had time to rest.

In May 2002, CCP officers slandered Falun Gong at a meeting, but practitioners who were in the meeting shouted, "Falun Gong is good." The practitioners were then beaten and scolded, and some of them were locked up in small cells. Ms. Wang demanded to be released but the police wanted her to admit in front of all the prisoners that she was wrong. She refused. The officers forced her to wear the prisoner uniform and ordered her to admit she was a prisoner or she would not be allowed to use the toilet or visit with family members. Later, Ms. Wang began a hunger strike to protest this treatment. The officers still ordered her to clean the stairs of the ward. After a few days, Ms. Wang protested this treatment. Later, she was ordered to stand in front of a wall until 11:00 p.m. or midnight, when other prisoners returned from working. Ms. Wang's legs were swollen due to the prolonged torture. A prisoner who said something in Ms. Wang's defence received a warning from the guard.

Later, the prisoners took Ms. Wang to a hospital. While in the hospital, Ms. Wang's parents, relatives, and a fellow practitioner from Chongqing went to see her. But the officers refused to allow them to see her. Then Ms. Wang underwent brainwashing. Her mind and body suffered serious harm.

The CCP persecution of Ms. Wang Yan has caused her family great suffering and pain.

In September 2004, personnel from Yubei District 610 Office¹, the Shuangfeng Police Station and a vice-chancellor of the school took her home from the prison. She was dismissed from her job. She later left home to avoid further persecution. The CCP officers did not give Ms. Wang an ID card. It is very difficult for Ms. Wang to live or find a new job without an ID card.

We ask people to pay attention to Ms. Wang's plight. Please help us to stop this persecution.

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/2008/5/21/178900.html