Su Wei and Qing Xiuying of Beijing Sent to Forced Labour Camp

Name: Su Wei & Qing Xiuying
Gender: Female
Age: Unknown
Address: Beijing
Occupation: Unknown
Date of Most Recent Arrest: September 11th, 2009
Most recent place of detention: Beijing Women's Forced Labour Camp
City: Beijing
Persecution Suffered: Forced Labour, Beatings, Torture, Home Ransacked

On September 11th, 2009, Beijing Falun Gong practitioners Ms. Su Wei and Qing Xiuying were arrested by policemen from the Chaoyang Sub-bureau, Beijing, and detained at Chaoyang Detention Centre. Currently, they are being held in a forced labour camp.

Su Wei was sentenced to two years and six months of forced labour, and detained at the Beijing Women's Forced Labour Camp. Between September 11th, 2003 and September 11th, 2009, Su Wei served two forced labour sentences, for a total of five years. This is her third time in a forced labour camp. Su Wei once suffered inhuman torture at the Masanjia Forced Labour Camp, and was just released from that camp this past February, but she was arrested again by Chinese Communist Party (CCP) personnel on September 11th. As a result, her 85 year-old mother became ill, and family members all suffered from her absence.

Beijing Changping practitioner Qing Xiuying was sentenced to two years of forced labour, and will be taken to the Beijing Women's Forced Labour Camp in one week.

Qing Xiuying began practising Falun Gong in 1997, and benefited physically and mentally; her breast cancer was completely cured through practising. She became continually healthier over time, more kind, and all her neighbours knew that she was a good person. During the Cultural Revolution, the CCP made her into a "counter-revolutionary", "bad element"; therefore, she frequently received criticism, then lost her job and source of income. Later, she married a disabled person, and experienced difficultly maintaining a livelihood. Now, her child has married and she has a one year-old grandchild. Her son and daughter-in-law are both unemployed and live under difficult conditions; the entire family depends on her disabled husband's meagre retirement pension.

In order to replenish living expenses for the family, Ms. Qing found a simple job next to her home, and had only worked for two months when CCP officials arrested her. On September 11th, several policemen from the Chaoyang Sub-bureau, two policewomen in uniform, and several plainclothes officers (plainclothes policemen are often used to arrest practitioners), came to her office and forcibly took her away.

Ms. Qing tried to reason with them and said: "What about Falun Gong? Falun Gong is good!" Several policemen immediately beat her, to prevent her remarks from being heard. The neighbours were unable to continue watching, and one elderly person asked, "How can you policemen beat people?" However, the officers still forcefully arrested Qing Xiuying. Afterwards, two policewomen watched her while several policemen ransacked her home, and confiscated Falun Gong materials exposing the persecution, and Falun Gong books.

Qing Xiuying was sentenced to two years of forced labour, and officials do not allow her family to visit, informing them: "You can't see her until she transforms¹; Falun Gong is different from other offences, she must transform first." Qing Xiuying's husband is disabled and not attended by anyone; there is also a 70 year-old grandmother at home who is very worried, and the whole family is suffering.

Note

1. "Reform or Transform" Implementation of brainwashing and torture in order to force a practitioner to renounce Falun Gong. (Variations: "reform", "transform", "reformed", "reforming", "transformed", "transforming", and "transformation")

Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2009/10/18/210614.html