Wife Arrested, Husband Dies after Living in Fear

Ms. Liu Qiuzhen, a resident of Liutuo Village, Wangdou County, Hebei Province, started practising Falun Gong at the beginning of 1999.

In 2008, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) feverishly arrested Falun Gong practitioners across the country before and during the Olympic Games. At noon on July 17th, 2008, Zhu Junle, director of the Hanzhuang Town Police Station, arrested several practitioners including Ms. Liu and took them to the police station.

At the police station, Zhu Junle did not say anything. Instead he belittled, slapped, and kicked the practitioners. In addition, he claimed that the practitioners had exposed him on the Internet (his name had been posted online on a list of persecutors of Falun Gong). "I am not afraid," he said. He took them to Wangdou Detention Centre at 6:30 p.m.

The practitioners were harshly treated in the detention centre for 15 days and endured inhuman torture. CCP members then took them to a brainwashing centre, holding them there for more than seven weeks.

Ms. Liu's husband, who was timid and did not practise Falun Gong, was pressured psychologically. While his wife was imprisoned, he had a breakdown and could not eat or sleep. He often cried in the middle of the night and did not want to go to work during the day. He asked others to find some way to free his wife, but was not successful. In the end, he tried to influence those in charge of her case and spent more than 5,000 yuan¹. Only after he did that was Liu Qiuzhen released.

From then on, her husband seemed to live in fear. Any disturbance and he would threaten her. When she went out on business and did not return by a certain time, he got nervous and was afraid she had been arrested. He died of a heart attack on April 16th, 2010.

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://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2010/5/28/224448.html