Older Falun Gong Practitioner Ms. Cong Peilan from Chifeng, Inner Mongolia Arrested

Name: Ms. Cong Peilan
Gender: Female
Age: In her 50s
Address: Chifeng, Inner Mongolia
Occupation: Unknown
Date of Most Recent Arrest: August 21st, 2011
Most Recent Place of Detention: Yuanbaoshan District Detention Centre
City: Chifeng
Province: Inner Mongolia
Persecution Suffered: Detention, torture, forced to stand in snow, placed on national wanted list

Ms. Cong Peilan, a Falun Gong practitioner from Yuanbaoshan District, Chifeng, Inner Mongolia was arrested by local police the night of August 21st. Ms. Cong was forced to leave her home in 2004 to avoid persecution. Because Yuanbaoshan District Domestic Security Division police could not find her, they put her on the national wanted list in 2009. Ms. Cong is currently detained at Yuanbaoshan District Detention Centre.

Ms. Cong is in her 50s. She used to suffer from over 20 diseases. After she started practising Falun Gong, all her diseases disappeared; even her severely bowed legs became straight.

Ms. Cong has been persecuted by the Chinese Communist Party since July 20th, 1999. She was brutally tortured in prison for two years. Zhang Haiqing, head of the Yuanbaoshan Detention Centre, forced ten practitioners, including Ms. Cong, to stand in snow without winter clothes on January 1st, 2001. Ms. Cong only had pajamas on. Her fingers were frozen. Within several minutes after she was brought back inside, her fingernails and fingers ruptured. Three days later, the skin on her fingers as well as her fingernails fell off and yellow pus dripped from them. The next day, guards forced several practitioners, including Ms. Cong, to wash their dirty laundry.

Five plain-clothes officers from Yuanbaoshan District Domestic Security Division broke into Ms. Cong's house at 10:00 p.m. on July 19th, 2006. Several of them knocked on the door and attempted to arrest Ms. Cong. Nobody was home, so the police ransacked the house.

The police from Yuanbaoshan District Domestic Security Division, the 610 Office (an organisation of special agents just for persecuting Falun Gong) and the local police station constantly harassed Ms. Cong, so she had to leave her home in 2004 to avoid persecution.

Wu, head of the Xilutian Police Station, led officers to arrest Ms. Cong at night on May 28th, 2009. She was able to run away. Then the police put her on the national wanted list.

Responsible personnel:
Wang Heran, Feng Xiaohu, Zhang Zhigang, and Wang Yanjun, Yuanbaoshan District Domestic Security Division

Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2011/8/28/246002.html