65-Year-Old Ms. Fu Shaozhen Imprisoned for Three Years

Name: Fu Shaozhen
Gender: Female
Age: 65
Address: Room 702, Building 51, Beihu Community, Jianhan District
Occupation: Retired worker of E'chengdun Market in Jian'an District
Date of most recent arrest: December 25th, 2007
Most recent place of detention: Baofeng Road Women's Prison in Wuhan
City: Wuhan
Province: Hubei
Persecution suffered: Detention, imprisonment, sleep deprivation

Ms. Fu Shaozhen, an elderly Falun Gong practitioner, was released from prison on December 25th, after three years of detention. While she had only a few white hairs at the start of her detention, all of her hair was white upon her release. Her back was also bent 90 degrees, and she had to be carried home by her youngest daughter.

Ms. Fu was arrested by officers from the Nanhu Police Station while handing out Falun Gong leaflets exposing the persecution about in the Nanhu Supermarket near Nanhu Garden in the Wuchang District, Wuhan City, on December 25th, 2007. She was sent to the Wuhan City No.1 Women's Detention Centre. Documentation of the arrest was produced later by the Wuchang Police Department. Ms. Fu was secretly sentenced to three years of prison by the Wuchang District Court on October 8th, 2008, and subsequently transferred to the Baofeng Road Women's Prison. Because she refused to give up her belief in Falun Gong, she was deprived of sleep—being allowed to sleep only from 2:00 a.m. to 5:00 a.m. daily—and was verbally abused in the prison.

Ms. Fu's colon disease and other illnesses had disappeared shortly after she began practising Falun Gong. She became physically healthy, as well as kinder, more tolerant, and more considerate of others, through the practice.

After the Chinese communist regime launched the persecution of Falun Gong in 1999, Ms. Fu was detained and mistreated numerous times for explaining the facts about Falun Gong to people, including at the following places: the Wuhan City No.1 Hospital Brainwashing Centre (formerly known as the Wuhan City Jianghan District Preliminary Brainwashing Centre), the Jianghan District Welfare Home Brainwashing Centre, the Erzhigou Women's Education Detention Centre in Dongxihu, the No.1 Women's Detention Centre, the Erdaopeng Brainwashing Centre in Jianghan District, and the Hewan Forced Labour Camp in Wuhan City.

In 2001, guards at the Hewan Forced Labour Camp tortured her so severely that she suffered a serious nervous breakdown; only then did they release her. Not long after her return home, she decided to leave home to avoid further persecution. She has been unable to return home since 2001.

Related report:

http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2008/2/22/94668.html

Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2011/1/12/234806.html