Luzhou City, Sichuan Province: Ms. Wu Houyu in Forced Labour Camp for the Third Time

Name: Ms. Wu Houyu
Gender: Female
Age: 41
Address: Huayang Township, Jiangyang District, Luzhou City, Sichuan Province
Occupation: Farmer

Date of Most Recent Arrest: March 25th, 2010
Most recent place of detention: Nanmusi Women's Forced Labour Camp
City: Zizhong
Province: Sichuan
Persecution Suffered: Detention, solitary confinement, sleep deprivation, denial of toilet use, beatings, forced labour.
Key Persecutors: Li Xi, Shu Lin

On March 25th, 2010, in Jinjingwan, Longmatan District, Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Wu Houyu told an orange vendor to remember that Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good. She was reported, and several officers from the Hongxing Police Station in Longmatan District, including Li Xi, arrested her. The police did not show any paperwork or ID, and did not identify themselves. Two male officers violently pushed Ms. Wu to the ground and then forced her into a police car. She was handcuffed and held in the police station for several hours. Around 11:00 p.m., Ms. Wu was transferred to Huangjinshan Detention Centre and held there for 15 days. On April 9th, she was secretly transferred to Nanmusi Women's Forced Labour Camp. This is the third time that Ms. Wu has been put into a forced labour camp.

The Hongxing Police Station never gave any detention notices to Ms. Wu's family. They did not tell them her whereabouts, or the cause for detention.

After Ms. Wu's family found out that she had been arrested and sent to the detention centre, they went there to see her. However, they were told that Ms. Wu had already been transferred to the forced labour camp. On April 11th, Ms. Wu's husband went to the police station and asked the case officer Shu Lin, "My wife was held in the detention centre for two weeks and we were not notified. She was transferred to a forced labour camp and we were still not notified. Why did you not notify us? This is illegal." Shu Lin said, "There are no rules saying that we must notify you. We can transfer people and then notify you. This is legal."

On April 12th, the police gave Ms. Wu's family a copy of the forced labour notification. It said that Ms. Wu told others about Falun Gong and she carried four cards that were printed with, "Falun Gong is good" and "Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good." These became the grounds for the one-year forced labour term.

After the Chinese Communist Regime began persecuting Falun Gong, Ms. Wu went to Beijing to appeal. She merely wanted to tell the government that Falun Gong is good. The Luzhou City 610 Office (an organisation of special agents just for persecuting Falun Gong) sent her to two years of forced labour. In 2007, near Wangshi Mall in Longmatan District, Ms. Wu talked to people about the beauty of Falun Gong and was again arrested by officers from the Hongxing Police Station and was sent to forced labour for one year.

Ms. Wu suffered brutal torture in the forced labour camps. Torture and abuse included long-term solitary confinement; brutal beatings; sleep deprivation; being forced to stand facing a wall for many consecutive days and nights; denial of toilet use; and not being allowed to wash herself or brush her teeth for long periods of time. In addition, seven or eight drug-addicted criminal inmates once dragged Ms. Wu across the hot pavement, causing severe injury; her feet, legs and hips were torn and bloody and her blood-stained pants were torn to shreds.

People who participated in persecuting Ms. Wu including case officers Li Xi and Shu Lin, personnel from the Hongxing Police Station, and personnel from the Luzhou City Forced Labour Camp Committee.

Case Officers from Hongxing Police Station:
Li Xi: 86-15892939166 (Mobile)
Shu Lin: 86-15883083812 (Mobile)

Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2010/4/18/221738.html