Falun Gong practitioners Qin Yueming and Wang Xiuqing from the Jinshantun District of Yichun City, Heilongjiang Province ran a waste collection business prior to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)persecution of Falun Gong. Qin Yueming followed the principles of Truthfulness-Benevolence-Forbearance in doing business, was diligent and honest, did things with integrity, and subsequently their business became increasingly prosperous. His wife also began to practise Falun Gong due to his positive influence, and developed better relationships with her in-laws.
After the CCP began persecuting Falun Gong on July 20th, 1999, CCP officials targeted Qin Yueming's family. First, Mr. Qin was given a three-year forced labour camp sentence. Not long after his release, he was sentenced to an additional ten years. On February 26th, 2011, he was persecuted to death in Jiamusi Prison. Wang Xiuqing was detained five times; three of which resulted in forced labour camp sentences, and one of which led to being taken to a brainwashing centre.
Their two daughters watched the continuous harassment, arrests, and detainment of their parents as they grew up. Their oldest daughter Qin Rongqian was detained for one month when she was 14 years old. Both daughters were forced to leave school and find jobs to support their family.
Qin Yueming was sentenced to three years of forced labour, and then served a ten-year sentence.
In October 1999, Wang Zhiqian, a practitioner from Yichun, went to the police station to ask officials to return the Falun Gong materials confiscated by police. The police responded by detaining him. On October 18th, practitioners' representatives Qin Yueming and Lu Chenglin and others went to the district government office to talk to some government leaders, with the intent to explain the facts about Falun Gong and ask for the practitioners' unconditional release. The officials refused to release the practitioners, and instead arrested those practitioners who went to appeal. Practitioner representatives Qin Yueming, Lu Chenglin and others were held at the Jinshantun Detention Centre.
On the morning of October 20th, Falun Gong practitioner Qin Yueming and others were sentenced to three years of forced labor based on false charges of “disturbing public order” and “inciting disturbances.” They were detained at the Yichun Forced Labour Camp.
In May 2002, Jinshantun District government officials ordered police to arrest some practitioners who had been previously released, including Qin Yueming and Wang Xiuqing. They were held at two different detention centres and their home was ransacked. Following orders from police station director Cui Yuzhong, and head of the local 610 Office (an organisation of special agents just for persecuting Falun Gong) Meng Xianhua, police verbally abused Qin Yueming, beat him, tortured him on a tiger bench1, and hung him up (using a rope tied around his neck, and wrapped tightly around his shoulders and arms). The multiple, brutal torture sessions resulted in several bone fractures to Mr. Qin's legs and ribs. Afterwards he could not walk. Eventually, he was given a ten-year sentence, and was detained at Jiamusi Prison.
Brutal Torture of Qin Yueming at Jiamusi Prison
From April 25th-26th, 2004, branch district head Liu Wei, and Jia Qiming, political instructor from the No. 1 Team, No. 4 Prison District of Jiamusi Prison ordered inmates to persecute practitioner Qin Yueming for five consecutive days, including with sleep deprivation. They removed his clothes and poured cold water on his body.
In June 2007, Jiamusi Prison escalated its persecution of Falun Gong practitioners. They wouldn't allow practitioners to leave their floor, receive visitors or call their families. On June 14th, prison political instructor Cai Jinhai of the No. 4 Prison District found materials exposing the persecution of Falun Gong held by Mr. Qin. With the consent of Prison District head Wang Jingbao, he tied Mr. Qin Yueming to the hallway door. Officer Li Zenan from the No. 1 branch of the Prison District kicked him several times. Qin Yueming called out, “Falun Gong is good!” The guards finally took Qin Yueming down after an extended period.
Jiamusi Prison Escalates Persecution, Tortures Qin Yueming to Death
Jiamusi Prison officials held a meeting in February 2011, with the intent of escalating the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners even further. The prison director claimed that they would increase the rate of “transformation”[forcibly renounce Falun Gong] to 85%, and established a persecution management team.
On February 21st, several practitioners were detained by the police, led by Wang Lansheng, Qin Yueming, Fu Yu, Shang Xiping and Yu Yungang. On February 25th, guards took them to the prison hospital to administer force-feeding. Qin Yueming was carried to a toilet on the first floor. Four guards held his arms and legs, and another guard held his head. They forced him into a chair and then savagely pulled on his tongue with pliers, then pushed in a tube filled with milk and salt. Team leader of the training team Yu Yifeng, all of the team members, and prison doctor Zhao Wei were present. Two prison nurses administered the force-feeding, including Yin Hongliang. Mr. Qin cried out in pain. After the force-feeding, he was taken back to his cell, continuing to cry out due to the pain. Inmates monitoring him didn't sleep that night. During the night, an inmate went to talk to prison doctor Zhao Wei, who said, “How could they insert the tube into his lung?! They aren't given any medicine to subdue the pain... I have no idea how to handle that.” The next morning (February 26th), Mr. Qin died. Qin Yueming's family received a phone call from the prison that evening, with the notice: “Qin Yueming's death was sudden, but normal.” Mr. Qin was killed only five days after being detained by the police.
According to those who spent the time with Mr. Qin before his death, the guards beat him repeatedly, but he never gave up his beliefs, and this drew admiration from those around him. Throughout the torture he endured, he maintained a peaceful attitude and still treated those who beat him very kindly. He also persuaded them not to hurt others, as it would not be good for their futures. Prison life was extremely difficult and the conditions were very bad. Mr. Qin told his daughters not to save any money for him and that the six yuan2 given to him by the prison was enough. Even under these conditions, he donated 40 yuan to the Sichuan Earthquake rescue efforts. Despite his suffering, he was still considerate of others. He told the prison inmates how Falun Gong had changed him into a good person.
Wang Xiuqing (Qin Yueming's wife) Frequently Detained; Daughters Lived a Difficult Life
In December 2000, Ms. Wang Xiuqing went to Beijing to appeal to the government, and unfurled a banner with the words “Falun Gong is good” in Tiananmen Square. A group of officers immediately ran to her, grabbed the banner and began to beat her. She was taken to the Tiananmen Square Police Station, and underwent sleep deprivation for three days, because she wouldn't tell the police her name. Officers used electric batons to torture her. Later, she was taken to Xingtai City, Hebei Province. Ten days after she began a hunger strike, Ms. Wang was taken to Langfang City by another practitioner's relatives.
Mr. Qin Yumeing was sentenced in 1999 to a three-year forced labour camp term. Ms. Wang, on the other hand, was forced into homelessness after her brief detention. At the time, their older daughter was 11 years old and the younger one was nine, so they lived with their grandmother. Since their grandmother was not healthy and had no income, they had to live on vegetables from kindhearted neighbours. Their school principal interrogated them daily about their mother's whereabouts, and wouldn't allow them to go home until very late in the day.
In June 2001, Ms. Wang was arrested and taken to a media preparation centre in Langfang. Police handcuffed her to an iron chair for one night. One month after being held at the Langfang Detention Centre, she was taken to the Yichun Detention Centre. Her mother took their two daughters to the police station to ask about her, and out of desperation, knelt down before the police chief, begging for their release. The police chief ignored her request and sentenced Ms. Wang to two years in a forced labour camp. At the Harbin Drug Treatment Labour Camp, Ms. Wang protested for eleven days until the drugs she was given resulted in her developing heart problems. She was later sent home. At the same time, Mr. Qin Yueming was also sent home, and their family was finally reunited.
Unfortunately, their reunion did not last long. In May 2002, police arrested Mr. Qin again. Ms. Wang informed the police about the true nature of Falun Gong but they wouldn't listen. On the contrary, they arrested Ms. Wang, too, and then ransacked their home. Their younger daughter Qin Hailong was so frightened that she couldn't stop crying. Older daughter Qin Rongqian tried to step in, wanting to prevent the police from arresting her mother. Police dragged her away, threw her to the ground, and then kicked and punched her. They stomped on her hands and head. Police confiscated nearly 1,000 yuan from them. The younger daughter said, “That's our money. Don't take it away.” Officer Qi You struck Qin Hailong twice with a document container, knocking her unconscious. Police also confiscated their tape recorder and CD player. In the end, they also arrested older daughter Qin Rongqian.
Officers interrogated Ms. Wang at Jinshantun Police Station. They threw her to the floor, and then grabbed her hair and threw her head against the floor tiles, knocking her unconscious. The next day, Ms. Wang was taken to the Harbin Drug Treatment Labour Camp without appropriate legal procedures, making her continue her remaining term of 14 months from the previous detention. Meanwhile, 14-year-old daughter Qin Rongqian was also subjected to police torture and interrogation. They forced her to tell them the source of her father's Falun Gong leaflets exposing the persecution. When she didn't tell them, she was forced to stand all day, and was not given any food. They struck her face, causing dizziness, and she was physically and emotionally abused. Since she was still underage, officials fraudulently changed her age to 18, and held her in the detention centre for one month.
Younger daughter Qin Hailong remained home alone. Her father was sentenced to ten years imprisonment, her mother was taken to a forced labour camp, and her older sister was also detained. A kind practitioner sent her boxes of food-- noodles, cake, and eggs-- so that she could eat. Because her family practised Falun Gong, her friends didn't want to play with her. Because of what the CCP did to her family, she was afraid whenever she went home after school.
After her older sister returned home, the sisters lived together for four months. Some relatives took them to their hometown, but they had to drop out of school because they didn't have money for tuition. Without telling her family, the younger daughter went to Beijing to work when she was only 15 years old. After Ms. Wang Xiuqing returned home, she took her two daughters back home to live with her. In order to pay their debts, they all went to Harbin to work. They did different jobs such as welding, cleaning dishes in a restaurant, odd jobs in a furniture factory, etc.
On October 4th, 2007, Qi You from the Jinshantun 610 Office, along with three officers from Fendou Police Station, broke into Ms. Wang's home and arrested her. They ransacked her home and confiscated her Falun Gong books, TV, and CD player, and other items. Officials expended great effort to come up with “evidence” to force Ms. Wang to admit guilt. When Ms. Wang refused to cooperate with them, the officers beat her, and forced her to take fingerprints. Ms. Wang was sentenced to one year and nine months of forced labour, and taken to the Harbin Drug Treatment Labour Camp.
Her daughters were forced to leave home and travelled to find work. They lived frugally and worked hard to earn some money to support their mother and father. For the holidays, they also mailed some money to their grandparents on both sides. Once, they took a few days off and went to Jiamusi to visit their father in prison. It was a winter day, and the sisters were shivering from the cold. The prison officials wouldn't allow them to see their father. They had to stay in an Internet bar for one night. The next day, they cried and asked police to allow them to visit their father. Still, the police wouldn't allow them to see him. Saddened and disheartened, they had to leave.
In September 2009, Ms. Wang Xiuqing returned home, reuniting with her two daughters. However, on January 6th, 2010, Wang Xi, secretary Han, Qin Handong, Gong Fu and five additional officers from Fendou Police Station in Yichun went to the restaurant where Ms. Wang worked, and forced the chef to take them to Ms. Wang's quarters, where they arrested Ms. Wang. Qin Rongqian went to work early and wasn't aware of what happened. Ms. Wang was detained at the Yichun Brainwashing Centre of the Yichun Forced Labour Camp, and underwent brainwashing sessions for one month. Later, she learned that the police had a quota to meet, and went to Harbin to arrest her.
They continued working in Harbin, putting their hopes in Mr. Qin Yueming, because he was supposed to return one year later. They tried very hard to save money, and wanted to start up a small business when Mr. Qin was released from prison. They hoped for that day for nearly ten years.
However, on February 26th, 2011, Mr. Qin Yueming was persecuted to death. During that time, two other practitioners—Yu Yungang and Liu Chuanjiang—were also persecuted to death. When Mr. Qin Yueming's family came to collect the body, his body was covered with wounds, his lips were purple, and his nose had been bleeding. The prison lied to them, saying that he died of a heart attack. Before his death, Mr. Qin had been very healthy and didn't have heart disease. His wife Ms. Wang Xiuqing collapsed upon hearing the news and couldn't eat for three days. She spent each day in tears. They decided they would pursue justice for Mr. Qin, as they didn't want his wrongful death to go unnoticed.
At present, Qin Yueming's family, relatives and friends have submitted a complaint to the prosecutor, and have asked for a legal investigation of Yu Yifeng and others related to the case at Jiamusi Prison, for committing the crimes of dereliction of duty, abusing prisoners, and intentional homicide.
The experiences of Mr. Qin Yueming's family reflect only one tragic event of many in China, illustrating how the CCP has been brutally persecuting Falun Gong practitioners.
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http://clearwisdom.net/html/articles/2011/3/10/123724.html
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Note
1. "Tiger Bench": Prisoners are forced to sit on a small iron bench that is approximately 20 cm (6 inches) tall with their knees tied together. With their hands tied behind their backs or sometimes placed on their knees, they are forced to sit straight up and look straight ahead without movement for long periods of time.
2. "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/2011/4/18/239210.html
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