Authorities Try to Prevent Ms. Su Dan from Filing a Lawsuit Against Shunyi Police Department

Name: Su Dan
Gender: Female
Age: 31
Address: Sixth Neighbourhood in Yulong Community, Shunyi District, Beijing
Occupation: Unknown
Date of Most Recent Arrest: February 20th, 2011
Most Recent Place of Detention: Beijing Women's Forced Labour Camp
City: Beijing
Persecution Suffered: Detention, interrogation, forced labour, brainwashing, beatings, torture, physical restraint, home ransacked, denied visitation rights

Ms. Su Dan was arrested by officers from the local police station and residential committee on February 20th. She was transferred to the Beijing Women's Forced Labour Camp on March 29th, where she was brutally beaten. Guards at the camp took Ms. Su to the hospital for medical treatment. She spent ten days there before being returned to the labour camp. She was put in the No. 4 Division and tortured again.

A lawsuit was filed by Ms. Su's family against officers from the Shunyi Police Department in Beijing for detaining her and seizing her property. The hearing was scheduled for 9:30 a.m. on July 13th, at the Beijing Women's Forced Labour Camp. However, when the lawsuit was first filed, it was decided that the hearing would be held in the Shunyi Court, but officials from the camp wouldn’t allow Ms. Su to attend. Officials from the court and the labour camp then agreed that the hearing should be held at the labour camp.

Members of Ms. Su's family, and her lawyer, arrived at Beijing Women's Forced Labour Camp at 8:30 a.m. on July 13th and waited for the trail at the entrance. When officers from the Shunyi Police Department and officials from the court entered the camp at 9:20 a.m., her family and lawyer were not let in. They waited outside for a long time, before someone told them that all available rooms were occupied because they were holding a reception for Zhu Xiaoli, the head of the camp.

At 10:30 a.m., a member of the court told Ms. Su's lawyer that the hearing had been cancelled because they did not have the facilities for holding a hearing, and that the time and location for the next hearing would be determined at a later time.

Related article:

http://www.clearwisdom.net/html/articles/2011/6/29/126333.html

Those responsible for the persecution of Ms. Su:
No. 4 Division of Beijing Women's Forced Labour Camp: 86-10-60278899 ext. 5401
Du Jingbin, head of division

Tang Jingjing, deputy head of division

Legal Justice Office: 86-10-69424072
Ma Haoyue, 33, official from the Legal Justice Office
Li Shuming, 28, representative from the Shunyi Police Department and deputy chair of the Legal Justice Office
Song Ying, presiding judge at Shunyi Court: 86-10-69434161, 86-10-69434164
Yang Guiping, judge at Shunyi Court

Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2011/7/16/244012.html