Ms. Sun Ping from Shandong Province Arrested

Ms. Sun Ping was arrested on October 10th, 2009. She was also detained in a mental hospital in the year 2000, and has endured much harassment in the intervening years.

On the morning of October 10th, 2009, twenty officers from the Lixia Police Department and Keyuan Road Police Station broke into Ms. Sun Ping's home, arrested her, seized three truck loads of her personal belongs, including a computer, a printer, and other valuable household electronics. Police detained Ms. Sun at a secret location.

Ms. Sun has been repeatedly harassed since July 1999. In 1999, to prevent Ms. Sun from going to Beijing and appealing for her right to practise Falun Gong, the administration in the Shandong University of Traditional Chinese Medicine ordered Liu Jianmin, head of university security office, to detain Ms. Sun in a guardroom for more than two months. While in the guardroom, she was monitored constantly, guards even monitored her when she used the toilet. When she slept, even on the coldest nights, they did not allow her to use a blanket.

Sometime around October 2000, officers from the Lixia Police Department detained her at a brainwashing centre, where they beat her and extorted 10,000 yuan¹ from her.

Then, around November 31st, 2000, with the approval of Wan Xinlu, the president of the Shandong University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, police detained Ms. Sun in a metal hospital.

And, around March, 2001, Liu Jianmin and officers from the Keyuan Road Police Station detained Ms. Sun in a brainwashing centre again.

Ms. Sun is a single mother who raises her son alone. While she was detained, her teenage son was left at home alone without financial support, where he was traumatised by his mother's arrests. The home phone is tapped.

During the past ten years, officers from Jinan City repeatedly harassed Ms. Sun and her son. Zhang Huisheng, then director of the Keyuan Police Station repeatedly detained Ms. Sun at the police station, then extorted 3,000 to 5,000 yuan from Ms. Sun. If he could not get cash then he had it deducted directly from her salary. He laughed with other officers, "We eat well, and drink well. Get money from them (practitioners) when the money runs out. For those that don't pay, we just get it from their employers."

Liu Jianming, head of security office, Shandong University of Traditional Chinese Medicine: 86-531-82622186
Xiao Wenbing, director of Keyuan Road Police Station: 86-531-82940640
Liu Guorong, deputy director of Jinan City 610 Office: 86-531-82038103, 86-13969093610(Mobile)

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/2009/12/7/213787.html