Zhao Guirong and Gou Zhengxia from Xianyang, Shaanxi Again Detained

While practitioners Zhao Guirong and Gou Zhengxia were distributing informational materials about Falun Gong in Weicheng District, Xianyang City on July 4th, they were reported to police and then taken away to Wenlin Road Police Station by officers from the National Security Team of Weicheng Police Branch in Xianyang. At night, police officers, as well as another individual named Zhao from the security section, broke into Ms. Zhao's home and confiscated Falun Gong DVDs, Falun Gong informational materials, and Falun Gong books.

Ms. Zhao Guirong, 59, is retired from a travel agency at North Ave., Xianyang, Shaanxi Province. She went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong on December 29th, 1999, and tried to tell Beijing authorities about the benefits that she gained from the practice. In response, the police forcibly handcuffed her hands behind her back. After learning where she was from, the police sent her to the Shaanxi Province Office in Beijing. She was then sent to Shaanxi Province Women's Forced Labour Camp. While she was talking with people about Falun Gong on November 5th, 2001, Ms. Zhao was again arrested, this time by Liu Zhiyong, an officer from the 610 Office (an organisation of special agents just for persecuting Falun Gong) of Xianyang Police Branch. She was taken to Qindu District Detention Centre and then sent to Shaanxi Women's Forced Labour Camp to serve a two and a half year term.

On September 20th, 2005, while Ms. Zhao and Ms. Gou Zhengxia were distributing Falun Gong informational materials in the residential area of the No. 2 Cotton Mill in Xianyang, they were reported to the authorities. On September 23rd, they were sent to Shaanxi Women's Forced Labour Camp for three years.

Ms. Gou Zhengxia, 54, is retired from Xianyang Electrical Factory (also called Kunlun Company) in Shaanxi Province. On November 5th, 2001, at around 8:00 p.m., officers Liu Zhiyong and Zhang Runzhi from Xianyang 610 Office, along with others, broke into Ms. Gou's home to search it. They confiscated Falun Gong materials, a tape recorder, and an exercise tape. They took Ms. Gou to Qindu District Detention Centre. She was later sent to Shaanxi Women's Forced Labour Camp to serve an eighteen-month term.

Ms. Gou was arrested again on September 20th, 2005. She held a hunger strike, but at the direction of a female guard, was shoved down to the ground by a drug addict and forced-fed brine. She was sentenced to two years in the Shaanxi Women's Forced Labour Camp on September 23rd. The night of her sentence, she was beaten by drug addict Ren Xiaoqin, again at the direction of a female guard. She was not allowed to sleep at the camp, and was forced to do manual labour 12 hours per day. She was sometimes deprived of sleep for several days in a row. She was released on July 30th, 2007. Personnel from the court and the 610 Office went to her home shortly after her release and harassed her.

Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2011/7/8/243590.html