The Persecution Suffered by Sixty-Plus Year Old Practitioner Ms. Zhang Peiying in Faku County, Liaoning Province

Practitioner Ms. Zhang Peiying is over sixty years old. She received many benefits after she began practising Falun Gong. Because she practices Falun Gong and lives her life according to Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance, she has been persecuted in recent years by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

On June 18th, 2001, a group of police from the Tuanjie Police Station in Faku County ransacked Ms. Zhang's home. Her home was turned upside down and her bed was ripped apart. The police confiscated all of her Falun Gong books, tape recorder and tapes. They even took her grocery bag with groceries and money inside, a notebook, and three bottles of liquor and an opened pack of cigarettes left behind when her husband passed away.

After the ransacking, Ms. Zhang was taken to Longshan Forced Labour Camp in Shenyang City and sentenced to forced labour for one year. She suffered greatly during that time.

In 2002, only a few days passed after Ms. Zhang returned home from labour camp before the police from Tuanjie Police Station started harassing her at home. This forced Ms. Zhang to leave home to avoid further persecution. During this time, her previous employer, Faku County Food Company stopped giving Ms. Zhang her pension.

In 2004, Ms. Zhang returned home one day. Her sister-in-law told her that the 610 Office¹ head Zhang Hongxi and the Political Section chief Ni Deqi had passed a message to her: If she returned, then they would stop harassing her and her pension would be restored. After hearing this, Ms. Zhang returned home on July 21st, 2004. Zhang Hongxi and Ni Deqi gave her the pension, but they deducted a thousand yuan² and didn't provide any reason. When Ms. Zhang asked Zhang Hongxi for a receipt, he said angrily, "I think you should be inside prison!" He pushed Ms. Zhang out the door.

In 2004, Zhang Hongxi led a group of police to once again ransack Ms. Zhang's home. They confiscated her mobile phone, tape recorder, copier and other items worth over ten thousand yuan. He personally took Ms. Zhang's pension booklet and withdrew one month of pension (three hundred thirty yuan) that same day without any paperwork. He took Ms. Zhang to the notorious Masanjia Forced Labour Camp, where she was sentenced to one year of forced labour.

In the labour camp, Ms. Zhang was subjected to brainwashing numerous times. Because she refused to give up Falun Gong, Ms. Zhang and another practitioner Ms. Sun Jiping were taken to a warehouse, handcuffed to shelves, forced to listen to tape recordings slandering Falun Gong and shocked with electric batons. Ms. Zhang was later taken to the "Strict Control Ward" and imprisoned in an isolated room. She was not forced to remain sitting on a small, backless stool for long periods of time.

To resist the persecution, Ms. Zhang and a few other practitioners took off their labour camp uniforms and refused to sit on the stools. Guards responded by torturing them one by one outside. In an office, Ms. Zhang was held down on the floor by over ten guards. They forced the uniform on and handcuffed her to a heating pipe. In the next three days, they repeated this to Ms. Zhang after breakfast. On the fourth day, Ms. Zhang fainted on the bed after her blood pressure increased. Guards then treated practitioner Ms. Dong Jingya the same way, handcuffing her from 7 or 8 a.m. to 7 or 8 p.m. Guard Ren Hongzan (male) was especially vicious in persecuting practitioners.

Faced with persecution from the CCP, practitioners went on a hunger strike to resist the persecution. On July 16th, 2005, after guards force fed Ms. Zhang, they poured a bowl of boiling water down her throat. This burned Ms. Zhang severely and she rolled on the floor for two to three hours. The guards who participated included Gao Yuntian (male), Doctor Feng and another guard surnamed Tu.

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.

2. "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://www.minghui.ca/mh/articles/2008/6/12/180119.html