Senior Elementary School Teacher in Chongqing Persecuted for Ten Years

Name: Jiang Dejun
Gender: Female
Age: 65
Address: Unknown
Occupation: Senior Elementary School Teacher
Date of Most Recent Arrest: July 30th, 2008
Most Recent Place of Detention: Chongqing Municipal Women's Forced Labour Camp
City: Chongqing
Persecution Suffered: Forced labour, brainwashing, beatings, torture, extortion, home ransacked, interrogation, detention

On July 30th, 2008, a few days before the Olympic Games in China, police officers Tang Yuangui from the Hechuan District State Security Section in Chongqing and Xiong Ping from Nanjin Street Police Station in the Hechuan District arrested Ms. Jiang Dejun on the street. They took her to a detention centre. They ransacked her home and confiscated a set of Falun Gong lecture tapes to use as evidence to sentence her to a year and a half of forced labour. Ms. Jiang was put in Chongqing Municipal Women's Forced Labour Camp. She was forced to do slave labour and undergo brainwashing tactics.

On January 29th, 2010, Ms. Jiang returned home. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officers not only kept interfering in her life, but also hired unemployed people to follow and monitor her.

On August 27th, 2010, Ms. Jiang went to visit one of her relatives. Two unknown individuals followed her. They asked the security guard there, “Who lives here? What's their relationship with Ms. Jiang Dejun?” They also ordered the security guard to call them when Ms. Jiang left. This created a lot of pressure on Ms. Jiang's relatives and interrupted their regular lives.

Ms. Jiang has practised Falun Gong since February 1998. She has been imprisoned in detention centres several times in the past ten years.

Imprisoned for More Than a Month in 2000

In March 2000, several officers from Nanjin Street Police Station arrested Ms. Jiang at a class without an arrest warrant. They detained her in Nanjin Street Management Office for two weeks. On July 6th, 2000, she was again arrested and detained by Nanjin Street Police Station officers. She was held in the detention centre for over three weeks.

The Police Pull Her Ears and Step on Her Legs in 2005

In January 2005, after some loud speakers were set up on the street to broadcast the truth of Falun Gong in the Hechuan District, the police started a campaign of massive arrests. Lan Qifeng, Tang Yuangui, Jiang Guanglian, Zhao Wenli, Feng Yun and other policemen from the Hechuan District Domestic Security Team arrested Ms. Jiang Dejun on January 19th, 2005. They interrogated her at the Hechuan Police Department for an entire night. They handcuffed her and forced her to sit on the ground. During the interrogation, Qi Lanfeng viciously pulled her ears while cursing her. Jiang Guanglian repeatedly stepped on her legs, with great deliberation. Her whole leg was bruised and purple, but luckily no bones were fractured. Bearing the great pain, she kept telling the police that Falun Gong practitioners were good people that cultivated Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance.

The next day, Ms. Jiang was taken to Hechuan District Detention Centre. The police interrogated her every few days, trying to find out who had hung the speakers. When their interrogations did not yield any answers, Feng Yan swore and slapped Ms. Jian in the face.

After detaining her for over three weeks, the police told her family to pay 3,000 yuan¹ to bail her out. But after they got the money, Lan Qifeng and Zhao Wenli took Ms. Jiang to Nanjin Street Brainwashing Centre in Hechuan.

On October 27th, 2005, Wu Jianjun, director of Heyang Management Office in the Hechuan District, and other two people strip-searched Ms. Jiang in the brainwashing centre as an insult. They found a Falun Gong book in her room and used it as an excuse to imprison her in the Hechuan District Detention Centre for another 15 days. Afterwards, they took her back to the brainwashing centre. Since she didn't give up her belief and refused to write the Three Statements to denounce her Falun Gong practice, she was taken to Nanshan Brainwashing Centre in Chongqing in December 2005. She was not released until March 2006.

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/2011/4/22/239389.html