Ms. Wu Shunzhen from Nanjing City Arrested and Tortured Again

On the evening of July 23rd, 2009, Ms. Wu Shunzhen, from Nanjing City, Jiangsu Province, was arrested by police from the Huaqiao Road Police Station while she was telling people the facts about Falun Gong in Xinjiekou. The second morning she was sent to the Nanjing Detention Centre. It is said that Wu Shunzhen, who is 55 years old, had already been followed by the police for three days.

While upholding her right to practise Falun Gong, Ms. Wu Shunzhen has been persecuted continuously by Chinese Communist Party (CCP) authorities. She was once detained in the Nanjing Brain Hospital, the Qinglongshan Mental Hospital, the Nanjing Detention Centre, the Jurong Women's Forced Labour Camp in Jiangsu Province as well as the Nanjing Women's Prison.

On November 29th, 2002, Wu Shunzhen was sentenced to three years by people from the Guanghua Road Police Station. In November 2003, she was sent to the third team in the Judong Women's Forced Labour Camp in Jiangsu Province, which persecuted Falun Gong specifically. Police there immediately forcibly brainwashed Wu Shunzhen for two months, attempting to brainwash her with videos denouncing Falun Gong.

In order to brainwash Wu, in February, May and November, 2004, people in the forced labour camp detained her in the Kong Building three times. Police and inmates took turns torturing her 24 hours a day. Their various methods of torture included electric torture, standing, squatting, being frozen, not being allowed to use the toilet, not allowing them to sleep in a bed for over 30 days, being threatened with snakes and scorpions, having her hair pulled, being bullied by policemen, being beaten by policewomen (Ding Hui and Zhang Yan) and inmates in turn, having her hair pulled off in two large areas, and having her back burnt by mosquito incense and candle oil. She was wounded in over twenty places and her right eye was beaten until swollen.

Policemen exhausted their methods but could not achieve their goal. They put her into a mental hospital to be persecuted, but still failed to brainwash her. Then they detained Wu Shunzhen on the third floor to be watched over more closely. She was watched over by two inmates and was not allowed to have contact with anybody else or step out of the jail. She was forced to stay inside even for eating and going to the toilet.

The policewomen who persecuted Wu Shunzhen in the Judong Women's Forced Labour Camp include Cao Chunmei (in the third division), Hong Ying (instructor), Zhou Ying (team leader), Ding Hui, Wang Hongmei, Zhang Yan, Chen Dongli, Zhao Jinli. It also includes policemen in the Fangqiang Forced Labour Camp, who are Zhou (team leader), Jiang (team leader), Sun Jiabo, Chen, Ge, and Cai. The people responsible for persecution in the Provincial Forced Labour Bureau include Tang Guofang and Li Yunjun. Inmates that participated in the persecution who are also detainees there, include Wang Ling, Li Yun, Li Xiaoning, Song Chunmei, Zhai Liping, Jin Xiaohong and Pan Jianwen.

In 2006, before her release date, policemen in the Third Team required Wu Shunzhen to write a statement to give up Falun Gong, but Wu refused. Policemen then tortured her fiercely again, using cruel methods. Wu went on a hunger strike but was detained for several more months.

Four months after being released, Wu Shunzhen was arrested by the 610 Office¹ on July 20th, 2006, and was detained in the Nanjing City Detention Centre. In August 2007, she was sentenced for two years by the Baixia District Court in Nanjing City and was detained in the Nanjing Women's Prison.

Now Wu Shunzhen has been arrested again by the CCP. Nobody is able take care of her mother who is in her eighties. She and her husband had divorced a long time ago.

related article:

http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2007/11/13/91322.html

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://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2009/8/1/205697.html