Ms. Sun Jingping, 63, Incarcerated in a Brainwashing Centre

Ms. Sun Jingping is a Falun Gong practitioner in the Jiangan District, Wuhan City, Hubei Province. When she accompanied a practitioner's family to the Jiangan District Court on April 30th, 2010, to file an appeal for the other practitioner, Judge Wu Shanrong called in police. Hu Shaobin and Zhang Jian from the Jianan District 610 Office (an organisation of special agents just for persecuting Falun Gong) and Luo Lin from the Jiangan District Domestic Security Division soon arrived to arrest her. They took her to Shenjiaji Brainwashing Centre in the district, where she is still being held.

Ms. Sun, 63, has been arrested and detained twice before. The first time was on December 23rd, 2000, when she went to Beijing to appeal for the right to practise Falun Gong. When she saw police officers beating practitioners who were unfurling banners reading "Falun Gong Is Good" at Tiananmen Square, she walked up to the officers and questioned their behaviour. The police dragged her inside a police car and drove her to the Tiananmen Square Police Station. She was later transferred to the Haidian District Detention Centre, where a male guard bombarded her with punches and kicks. The guards ordered all female practitioners to strip off all their clothes and jump around. Whoever refused was subjected to brutal beatings. None of the cells was heated even though it was late December in Beijing and very cold. Everything was cold--the food, the water, and the bed. One week later Ms. Sun Jingping was transferred to Wuhan City's Liaison Office in Beijing.

Ms. Sun was arrested for the second time on February 2nd, 2001, while she was eating with a few former classmates in a restaurant. The police took her to an abandoned house and interrogated her using torture. Since she refused to answer their questions the way they wanted, they kicked her in her crotch. The police handcuffed her and drove her back to her home. They confiscated her Falun Gong books and cash before taking her to the Xima Police Station. They handcuffed each hand to one side of a metal chair and left her freezing in a room with all the windows open overnight. The next morning they took her to the Wuhan City Women's Centre and kept her there for 15 days before transferring her to the Baibuting Brainwashing Centre in the Jiangan District.

Ms. Sun Jingping was at the Baibuting Brainwashing Centre for nine months. Every day two women kept a close eye on her around the clock. They did not let her speak with any other detained practitioners and did not let her study the Falun Gong teachings or practise the exercises. They made her watch and listen to slanderous programmes on the radio or DVDs and read slanderous messages on banners. They put her a confined cell whenever they felt like it. They also deprived her of sleep and made her stand facing the wall.

Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2010/6/28/226115.html