Former Deputy Head of Finance Suffers Nine Years of Imprisonment

Name: Wu Jingjun
Gender: Female
Age: 40
Address: Unknown
Occupation: Former deputy head of finance in a lighting import & export company, subordinate of the Jiangxi Province Economic and Trade Department (now the Commerce Department)
Date of Most Recent Arrest: September 10th, 2010
Most Recent Place of Detention: Nanchang No. 3 Detention Centre
City: Nanchang
Province: Jiangxi
Persecution Suffered: Electric shock, sleep deprivation, forced labour, beatings, hung up, imprisonment, solitary confinement, force-feedings, extortion, interrogation, detention, denial of toilet use

Ms. Wu Jingjun began to practise Falun Gong at the beginning of 1999. From March to October 2000, she went to Beijing many times to appeal for Falun Gong and, as a result, suffered brutal torture. In January 2001, she was reported to the police for distributing leaflets exposing the persecution of Falun Gong in Fengxin City. She was first held at Fengxin Detention Centre, then moved to Nanchang No. 3 Detention Centre, and finally sentenced to three years of forced labour in June 2001. She was released in June 2004.

Ms. Wu went to Guixi City, Jiangxi Province, to distribute Falun Gong materials and put up posters with the words "Falun Gong Is Good" on them in September 2004. Again, she was reported and taken to Yingtan Detention Centre by Guixi Domestic Security Division personnel. They sentenced her to three years of forced labour. In October 2007, her term at Jiangxi Province Women's Forced Labour Camp was extended for a month. In December 2007, officers from Tangshan Police Station took Ms. Wu to Nanchang No. 3 Detention Centre for handing out materials exposing the persecution of Falun Gong. She was released after conducting a hunger strike. On January 8th, 2008, over ten officers from Tangshan Police Station broke into her home. They took her to the forced labour camp for two years of forced labour.

Over the past nine years of persecution, Ms. Wu has had no income or insurance. She has suffered enormous harm physically. She often has headaches, overall weakness, and shortness of breath. On September 10th, 2010, she was explaining the facts about Falun Gong on a bus when she was arrested by officer Li of Chaonong Police Station. The police took her to Nanchang No. 3 Detention Centre. Liu, the director of the police station, physically abused Ms. Wu on the way to to the detention centre.

The following is some of what happened to Ms. Wu at each place she was held:

Jiangxi Province Women's Forced Labour Camp

In Jiangxi Province Women's Forced Labour Camp, Ms. Wu was locked up in the guard chamber for five months. The guard chamber was a small, dark room less than 10 square metres. She was hardly ever allowed to leave the room and was monitored by drug offenders for a long time. She was not allowed to practise the Falun Gong exercises or talk to other Falun Gong practitioners. In order to resist the persecution, Ms. Wu went on hunger strikes more than ten times, and suffered barbaric force-feeding each time. She was handcuffed to the bed with her arms and legs stretched out. She was not allowed to use the toilet and was restrained on the bed for such a long time that the area was stained with her urine and feces. Others were not allowed to clean her.

When she went on a hunger strike in April 2003, officer Hong Chuanghua (now the head of Division 1) dragged her by ther hair from the third floor to the guard chamber on the first floor. Officer Deng Jian (now the deputy director) punched Ms. Wu in the head. During her hunger strike in March 2005, the labour camp director at that time, Song Bo, force-fed her, causing her to vomit. During the next hunger strike, police officer Shi Qiongying punched Ms. Wu in the head.

She was force-fed in the labour camp many times. Even though her entire body was covered in blood and vomit, she was not allowed to wash up. There were many times when she had to sleep in her own urine for several nights. Force-feeding tubes were shoved into her stomach many times, causing continuous vomiting and convulsions. Even the prisoners who were assigned to monitor her were taken aback by the methods that the doctor was using. The police said that the purpose of such abuse was to "save" her. The doctors involved were Liu Hua, Huang He, Dr. Ding, and Zhong Xiaolan.

Beaten and Tortured in Beijing

Ms. Wu went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong in April 2000 and was beaten by police at the Tiananmen Public Security Sub-bureau. Four to five officers beat and stomped on her. They dragged her and two other practitioners to a basement, where they tortured them with the "flying airplane" method. They also kicked them and beat them with police batons.

In October 2000, Ms. Wu tried to stop the police from beating an elderly fellow practitioner. The police retaliated by ripping out a handful of her hair and slapping her in the face, causing her lips to swell. Later she was detained at Chongwen Detention Centre in Beijing, where doctors force-fed her. When the doctor was unable to insert the feeding tube into her nose, he pried open her mouth and forced the tube into her oesophagus, causing her to continuously vomit blood. Later, the police were afraid that she might die in the detention centre, so they released her. When she was again locked up at Pinggu Detention Centre, she suffered torture and brutal force-feeding once more, and police stole the 200 yuan¹ she had on her.

The Guixi Domestic Security Division

Ms. Wu went to Guixi in 2004 to distribute materials explaining the facts about Falun Gong. She was arrested by police from the Guixi Domestic Security Division and taken to Yingtan Detention Centre. Seven to eight officers from the Domestic Security Division interrogated her and deprived her of sleep for three days. When the assistant commissioner of Guixi Public Security Bureau first started to interrogate her, he asked her to call him "Big Brother." Later, when he was not getting the results he wanted, he turned hostile and threatened her, "I'll let you sit for now, but after a while I will make you stand, and then after another while, I will make you kneel to me. I will destroy your reputation and torture you until you can't take it any longer." When she was being held in Yingtan Detention Centre by brigade chief Po Xinkai, she conducted a hunger strike to protest the persecution, so police officer Wang Fei repeatedly pinched her face.

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/2010/10/14/231010.html