Disabled Practitioner Mr. Wang Anping Recounts the Persecution He Has Suffered Over the Past Twelve Years

Name: Wang Anping
Gender: Male
Age: 55
Address: Heishan Town, Meihekou City, Jilin Province
Occupation: Former employee at the Supply Section in the Meihe Coal Mine at the Liaoyuan Mining Bureau
Date of Most Recent Arrest: April 28th, 2008
Most Recent Place of Detention: Meihekou City Detention Centre
City: Meihekou
Province: Jilin
Persecution Suffered: Sleep deprivation, forced labour, brainwashing, beatings, torture, extortion, fired from work, physical restraint, home ransacking, detention

When I was 24 years old, prior to beginning to practise Falun Gong, in addition to suffering from heart disease, I lost my left hand when using dynamite for killing fish. I sustained a head injury, too, and had lingering symptoms. I constantly felt dizzy. Once at work the hydraulic prop fell down and injured my back. After that, my back felt numb and was painfully swollen for many years.

Fortunately I began practising Falun Gong in 1995. Soon after, my illnesses disappeared, and my temper was getting better. My wife also started practising. Our whole family benefited from Falun Gong.

After the nationwide persecution began on July 20th, 1999, I was arrested numerous times because I insisted on having my belief. My home was also ransacked many times. I was sent to a brainwashing facility, put into a forced labour camp three times, and fired from work.

The following is some of the persecution I have experienced in the last 12 years.

I went to Beijing with another practitioner to appeal to the government soon after the persecution began. Upon my return, my employers, the Meihekou Mining Bureau, subjected me to a "reform" [forcibly renounce Falun Gong] session. They attempted to force me to write “three statements” to renounce practising Falun Gong. I refused. While Security Section head Qi Guifang from the Meihekou Mining Bureau was on his way to take me to the Meihekou City Domestic Security Division's office, I fled. My wife and decided to leave home to avoid further persecution. We became destitute and homeless, and had to leave our two children alone at home.

Three months later I was fired from work and we had no income. Our son had to stop attending middle school.

Detained and Abused at the Meihekou City Detention Centre

Around September 1999, another practitioner and I again went to Beijing to appeal. Agents from the Beijing Police Department, officer Qi Guifang from the Meihekou City Domestic Security Division, and Meihekou Mining Police Department officials dispatched five police cars--about a dozen people-- to apprehend us. They suddenly broke into my home around 9:00 p.m. They handcuffed my wife and me and covertly detained us in a hotel in Beijing. The next day we were sent to the Meihekou City Police Department.

We spent three months in a detention centre. The guards instigated two criminals beat me. I lost one of my front teeth from the beating, and my body was bruised all over. They also made us perform forced labour. We had to start at 4:00 a.m. and work until 11:00 p.m. There was no rest time. We would be beaten if we could finish the quota. At night it was hard to get to sleep. As soon as I fell asleep, two prisoners who were monitoring me would beat me to wake me up. They would kick my head, back, and my feet very hard.

I was tortured so much that I had a mental breakdown and became withdrawn. My family paid Heishan Township Police Station head Dong Haifang 1,500 yuan¹ to release me.

Abuse at the Tonghua City Forced Labour Camp

On November 15th, 2000, Heishan Township Security head Jia Dianying led several people, including police chief Liu, to break into my home again. I was arrested and they took me to the Meihekou City Detention Centre. About three months later I was sent to the Tonghua Forced Labour Camp in Jilin Province and sentenced to a one-year labour term.

Every morning I had to sit in a classroom for brainwashing. I had to sit motionless on a small narrow wooden stool and listen to people slander and bring up false charges against Falun Gong and its founder Teacher Li. We would be brutally beaten if we moved a little. We had to sit until 11:30 a.m. every day.
After lunch we had to return to the “classroom” and were forced to watch TV programmes slandering Falun Gong. We had to start forced labour at 2:00 p.m. Often we were beaten, and in one instance my calves were severely injured.

Abused at the Chaoyanggou Forced Labour Camp in Changchun City

On November 24th, 2003, agents from the Meihekou Domestic Security Division and Panshi County Domestic Security Division arrived in four police cars at my home. They confiscated more than twenty Falun Gong books, eighteen videotapes, and several hundred yuan cash. They also searched several of my relatives. They arrested my wife, my children and me. We were detained in the Meihekou Domestic Security Division. My wife and I were transferred to the Meihekou Detention Centre that night.

Seven months later, police officers Zhao Qiang and Ji Jun sent me to the Chaoyanggou Forced Labour Camp in Changchun. I was sentenced to forced labour for two and a half years. While there, they poured cold water on me in the winter. I had to sit motionless on a small plastic stool to do forced labour. If I moved a little, I would be beaten with a stick, leather belt, or electric baton. We started at 7:00 a.m. and finished at 6:00 p.m. We would be beaten whenever we slowed down a little. I was released in May 2005.

Going from Place to Place, Destitute

Following my release I went to work at the Heishan Glue Factory. I worked harder than most people but for less salary. During this time, Meihekou City Domestic Security Division agents harassed me on numerous occasions.

On April 28th, 2008, Heishan Town Security head Guo Xiangzi led Meihekou Police Department deputy head Xu Xiangren, together with eight officers from the Heishan Township Police Station, to arrest me at home. Their beatings made me lose some front teeth, and several other teeth were loose. They confiscated my Falun Gong books and held me at the Meihekou Detention Centre. One month later I was sent to the Tonghua Forced Labour Camp, but the officials there refused to admit me. I was then held at the Meihekou Detention Centre. One month later I was sentenced to forced labour for one year.

Following my release in August 2008, local security head Guo Xiangzi and another person took turns to monitor me around the clock. The Heishan Glue Factory also fired me.

Once again I became destitute and homeless. I got a low-paying job in a mountain area in April 2009.
Several months later I went to another province and have lived there since. My destitute and homeless life has barely allowed me to make a living.

I hereby appeal to kind people with a sense of justice to pay attention to the Falun Gong practitioners who are suffering from persecution right now.

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://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2011/7/5/243430.html