Mr. Liu Wen Arrested Delivering Milk, His Family in Difficulty

Name: Liu Wen
Gender: Male
Age: 47
Address: Banbidian Village, Dashiwo Town, Fangshan District, Beijing
Occupation: Farmer
Date of Most Recent Arrest: September 19th, 2009
Most Recent Place of Detention: A prison in Hebei Province (unknown)
City: Zhuozhou
Province: Hebei
Persecution Suffered: Electric baton shocks, forced labour, brainwashing, beatings, imprisonment, torture, physical restraint, extortion, home ransacked, interrogation, detention

Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Liu Wen is a registered resident of Dongyangfang Village, Baichigan Township, Zhuozhou City, Hebei Province. After his marriage, he moved to Banbidian Village, Dashiwo Town, Fangshan District, Beijing. He and his wife raise diary cows to support their daughter's college education. On September 19th, 2009, he took a bus to deliver milk and was stopped by a government employee at the Beijing Changgou Inspection Station. The official identified him as a Falun Gong practitioner after locating his name on a blacklist and took him to Dashiwo Police Station.

Public Security Bureau officials, including Chang Guanhua, ransacked Mr. Liu's home when no one was in. When his wife returned, she found the home in disarray and her daughter's insurance card missing. The same night, she went to the Fangshan District Detention Centre but was not allowed to visit her husband. She repeated her visits several times during the following days and around October 28th-29th, but was never allowed to see her husband. On November 2nd, 2009, she passed someone 100 yuan¹, who then told her that Mr. Liu was detained there.

Mr. Liu had previously been sentenced to three years of forced labour in 2000 and was detained at the Baoding City Balizhuang and Hehuakeng Forced Labour Camps in Tangshan City. At the Baoding Labour Camp he was subjected to violent brainwashing. The guards tied him to the dead person's bed² for 17 days, shocked him with several electric batons at once, hitting him in the armpits and in the genitals. In 2003, Mr. Liu was taken to a forced labour camp for the second time and released at the end of 2004. After he had been home for only one month, the Chengguan Town police in the Fangshan District arrested him again on January 10th, 2005, and took him to the brainwashing centre at the Fangshan District 610 Office (an organisation of special agents just for persecuting Falun Gong), located in Yuguanying Village, Liangxiang Town. He was tortured there for several months.

Liu Wen's wife has a heart condition and is home alone, having to take care of all the chores. Although he has already been detained for three months, Ms. Liu's family has not yet been allowed to visit him. Our sources report that Mr .Liu has been sentenced to prison again by the Zhuozhou City Court.

On December 26th, 2009, their daughter called from school and said that the school administration was forcing her to pay 8-9 thousand yuan in fees to be allowed to take certain exams. Mr. Liu's wife instantly developed heart problems and almost died that night. She was hesitant to tell her daughter what was happening, not wanting to create additional pressure for the child.

On December 27th, 2009, her daughter came home for a visit. She met officer Chang Guanhua at home, and found that her mother never heated the house although it was freezing. Chang asked why they did not heat the house, and the mother answered, "I have no money. We borrowed 30,000 to buy the cows, now my daughter needs 8-9 thousands yuan for school. It is snowing so hard, and Liu Wen's whereabouts are still unknown."

Note

1. "Yuan" is the Chinese currency; 500 yuan is equal to the average monthly income of an urban worker in China.

2. "Death Bed" torture: A practitioner is tied to a bed with his hands handcuffed above his head to the bed rails, and his legs tied with thin nylon ropes. The rope is then tightly wrapped around the practitioner's body and the bed, from his legs to his chest. The rope is wrapped so tightly that the practitioner has difficulty breathing and eventually loses consciousness.

Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2010/1/4/215663.html