Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Repeatedly Persecutes Elderly Fujian Woman for Practising Falun Gong

Name: Chen Saiyu
Gender: Female
Age: 75
Address: Xiapu County, Ningde City, Fujian Province
Occupation: Unknown
Date of Most Recent Arrest: June 26th, 2011
Most recent place of detention: Unknown
City: Unknown
Province: Fujian
Persecution Suffered: Detention, harassment, home ransacking, brainwashing, imprisonment, forced to stand for a long periods of time, sleep deprivation, forced labour, extortion.

Ms. Chen Saiyu, 75, is a resident of Xiapu County, Ningde City, Fujian Province. She started practising Falun Gong in 1998, and her five illnesses subsequently disappeared. She has since 1999 been repeatedly persecuted by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). In 2001, she was arrested and taken to a brainwashing centre for one hundred days. In 2002 and 2003, she was twice forced to leave her home to avoid the persecution. In 2005, she was sentenced to three years and tortured at the Fujian Women's Prison. Before she was released from the prison in 2008, she was taken to a remote village in Qingliu, Fujian Province and brainwashed there. On June 26th, 2011, she was again taken away.

The following is her statement.

Five Illnesses Cured, Three Parties Benefited

My name is Chen Saiyu, and I am 75 years old. More than thirty years ago, I was forced to retire early because of several illnesses. I had five different illnesses and had to see the doctor every month. In 1998 I started practising Falun Gong. I gradually got healthier, and all the illnesses I had just disappeared. For the past twelve years, I have not seen a doctor nor gone to a hospital. I also haven't taken any tonics. I just eat whatever my family members eat. I take it easy and my vision returned to how it was when I was young. I no longer need my glasses. I can even clearly see insects that are smaller than ants. I look younger and am energetic. No one can tell my true age.

I believe that Falun Gong benefits three parties: 1. The nation benefits. For the past twelve years, I did not need to see any doctors, and I have saved the country hundreds of thousands of dollars in medical costs. 2. My children benefit. Since I became healthier after practising Falun Gong, I no longer bothered my children with taking care of me. 3. The world's people benefit. I try my best to be a good person in society, and don't compete with others. Whenever I come across conflicts, I look inside to find my own problems, and I don't fight or curse back.

Unjustly Detained When I Made a Legitimate Appeal

On July 20th, 1999, the Chinese Communist Party started the persecution of Falun Gong. I was thinking, “It's such a good practice, so why are we common people not allowed to practise? What did Falun Gong do wrong? Falun Gong gave me good health, and made my family harmonious.” Everyone says that we should give back for whatever blessings we receive. So when they started to persecute Falun Gong, and when I heard people curse Falun Gong, I really wanted to step forward to say something fair for Falun Gong. So on July 19th, 2000, I went with some fellow practitioners to Beijing to say some just words for Dafa. The next day, I was stopped at the Beijing Railway Station by officers from the Political and Security Section of the Xiapu County Public Security Bureau. I was prevented from going to the national appeals office, and I was taken back and detained for ten days.

Arrested and Held in a Brainwashing Centre for Over One Hundred Days

I have since been continuously harassed and unlawfully searched by agents from the CCP 610 Office (an organisation of special agents just for persecuting Falun Gong). In October 2001, the Xiapu 610 Office set up a brainwashing centre in a village called Shuimokeng. The purpose was to force Falun Gong practitioners to give up their cultivation. This group of people wasted a large amount of tax-payer's money. Many government officials drove over for free meals whenever the meals were ready.

I remember that on October 16th, at 3:00 p.m., Biyun, who was the Party secretary general of the Zhongcheng Street Neighbourhood, asked to me go immediately to Shuimokeng Brainwashing Centre. I told him that my son and daughter-in-law both went to Guangzhou for medical check-ups, and I had to take care of their daughter who went to school, so I could not go. As a result, Biyun called over three groups of people, from Songcheng Town, the police station, and the street neighbourhood committee. This big group of people took me away without saying anything. Biyun also called the police to break down my door. Half of the door lock fell to the floor. All the door locks in the house were broken and the doors would not close. There was no one else was at home at the time, and this evil group of people pushed me to the floor and dragged me dozens of yards to the door of the Hebian grocery market. They then threw me into their vehicle and drove away.

The witnesses didn't know what on earth this old lady had done to cause so many people to come and arrest her. Xu Bin cursed Falun Gong out loud, and then the people understood. No matter how evil these people were, force can never change a person's heart. I didn't give in for a single day after I was arrested and taken to the brainwashing centre. Lin Xiaoxian, the brainwashing centre monitor, came to talk to me, continually trying to force me to be brainwashed until the last few days prior to the brainwashing centre being dismantled. One night at 9:00 p.m., he came to my room, cursing Falun Gong and me. At 10:00 p.m., Lin Xiaoxian received retribution and had a heart attack and was sent to the hospital. The next day, the other people were afraid and they released me.

Forced to Leave Home Twice

The Lantern Festival in 2002 had just passed when I heard that they were still going to hold brainwashing sessions, and planned to use more severe brainwashing techniques on Falun Gong practitioners. So on the seventeenth of the first month in the Chinese calendar I was forced to leave home. At that time, I was 66 years old, and I became homeless for over one year. This is how I became homeless for the first time.

On May 7th, 2003 I was reported to the police for giving out materials exposing the persecution and CCP lies. At 6:00 p.m., Ou Xiaomin brought a group people to search my home and arrest me. Luckily I was not at home. Thanks to some good people’s protection, I escaped, but I was forced to leave home and became homeless for over two years, enduring all kinds of suffering. I could not return home until May 9th, 2005. This is how I became homeless the second time.

Sentenced to a Three-Year Term

On September 23rd, 2005, just a few days after I came home, since I was followed by police, I was arrested by Ou Xiaomin. When they were taking notes, they made up lies and framed me. As a result, I was sentenced to three years and jailed at Fujian Province Women's Prison.

I was first sent to the Rujian Team, which was the first stop at the prison for practitioners being persecuted. Day and night the police took turns attempting to brainwash me. They forced me to watch videos that defamed Falun Gong, and tried to force me to write the three statements to renounce practising Falun Gong, and force me to be "transformed" [forcibly renounce Falun Gong]. I refused to cooperate with them, so they took me out and punished me by making me stand for a long period of time, and deprived me of sleep. They forced me to recite the jail rules and I had to do the drills and line-up training even at my old age.

Since I refused to give up my belief, when they transferred me to the squadron, the police used a variety of means to persecute me. These officers wanted to benefit from torturing me so that they could get promoted. They forced me to read CCP books and forced me write my understanding to their satisfaction. If they weren't satisfied, they deprived me of sleep. We were allowed only five minutes to finish every meal. The jail purposely found some vicious prisoners to monitor me. They hired three persons to limit my activities, and they didn't allow me to talk to other practitioners. They constrained me even when I went out for labour, came back from labour, used the washroom, cleaned up, and washed the dishes. I was forced to do slave labour by day, and extra labour at night. I sometimes had to work on handcrafts until 11:00 p.m. or midnight.

Before Being Released, I Was Put in a Brainwashing Centre in a Remote Area

On April 16th, 2008, just before I was supposed to be released, since I was steadfast in my belief I was taken by an officer with the last name of Guo to a remote mountainous area in Qingliu, Fujiang Province. The 610 Office had set up a brainwashing centre, and started a new round of persecution of practitioners who hadn't given in. I was detained there for over seventy days, during which time I was subjected to a variety of tortures. I was forced to watch the TV programmes that were full of lies every night until midnight. I was then handcuffed and forced to sleep on the floor. At 6:00 a.m. when I got up, I was again forced to watch the slanderous videos. If I refused, I was handcuffed again. At noon when everyone else was taking a nap, I was forced to continue watching the videos. It was like this continuously for over seventy days.

The meals I was given had no salt or oil, and consisted of only 50 or 100 grams of food. Since I refused to co-operate, the officer with the last name of Guo wanted to stab me in the back, and he touched my vital points. She was cursing Falun Gong at the same time. The officer started to feel scared when she saw no effect in touching my vital points.

I said, “Falun Gong is good, and Falun Gong is righteous. The CCP prevents us from explaining the truth about Falun Gong. They fabricated and forced the offence onto us. Falun Gong is unfairly treated.” The guards forced me to sign the labour summary form and the prisoners form once per month. I refused, and they asked me “why?” I said that Falun Gong practitioners follow the principles of “Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance” to be good people. What is wrong with being good people? How can we become offenders?”

Before they tried to brainwash me, the police tried to convert me to Buddhism. I wrote them a note, saying, “It isn't wrong for me to take Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance as my teacher.” One day before I was released, I wrote a letter to the police, telling them that we are cultivators at this very special period of time. We have no temples, no churches, and we are not a religion like everyday people are familiar with. We know and cherish that Falun Gong is good. We see clearly that Jiang Zemin, [former leader of China and instigator of the persecution] is the chief criminal. I know in my heart that it isn't wrong to cultivate Falun Gong and walk on a righteous path.

Persecuted Continues after Being Released from Prison

The officers named Ou Xiaomin and Ruan Shixuan from Xiapu Domestic Security Division are still committing crimes against Falun Gong by not letting practitioners clarify the truth and let the world's people know the true facts. On the evening of June 26th, 2011, the policewoman Ou Xiaomin arrested my fellow practitioners and me for giving out Falun Gong DVDs. Our homes were searched and even the money in our wallets was taken.

Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2011/10/29/248452.html