Ms. Wang Haiqing of Anqiu City, Shandong Province, Sentenced to 12-Year Term and Tortured in Prison

Name: Wang Haiqing
Gender: Female
Age: 48
Address: Anqiu City, Shandong Province
Occupation: Formerly an employee at a flour plant
Date of Most Recent Arrest: May 11th, 2008
Most recent place of detention: Shandong Women's Prison
City: Jinan
Province: Shandong
Persecution Suffered: Detention, extortion, brutal beatings, injury from force-feeding, home ransacked, death person’s bed, iron chair, trial, imprisonment.

Ms. Wang Haiqing started practising Falun Gong after the persecution of Falun Gong by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) started in 1999. Because Ms. Wang persisted in her faith and in telling people the truth about Falun Gong, she was sentenced to12 years in prison. Currently, Ms. Wang is being brutally abused and persecuted in Shandong Women’s Prison.

Ms. Wang Haiqing used to be employed at a flour manufacturing plant. A decade ago the flour plant went bankrupt, and Ms. Wang has been unemployed ever since. Shortly after she started practising Falun Gong, the congenital heart disease that she used to have was cured. She regained her health and benefitted greatly both physically and mentally from practising Falun Gong.

Starting to Cultivate Falun Gong at the Peak of the Oppression

After the CCP started the persecution of Falun Gong in July 1999, Ms. Wang, who at the time had not started to cultivate yet, was deeply struck by the determination of many Falun Gong practitioners in appealing to the Central Government despite the oppression by the totalitarian regime. At the same time, she was very perplexed: what force had caused the Falun Gong practitioners to do this? In order to answer that question, she sought out the Falun Gong book Zhuan Falun.

Arrested for Hoisting a Banner

In April 2000, Ms. Wang hoisted a banner saying “Falun Gong Is Good” on Tiananmen Square. She was arrested and sent to a facility in the Anqiu City Beijing Office designated for detaining Falun Gong practitioners. She was handcuffed to a radiator. The next day Ms. Wang was sent back to the Anqiu City Detention Centre. Her family had 2,000 yuan¹ extorted from them. Two months later, she again went to Tiananmen Square to hold up a banner. She was again arrested and sent back to the Anqiu City Detention Centre where she was beaten and kicked by police.

Arrested for Giving Out Flyers

One night in August 2000, Ms. Wang rode her motorcycle to give out Falun Gong fliers in Zhucheng City. She was arrested and savagely beaten several times by Zhucheng police officer Cao Jinhui, Zhucheng Detention Centre deputy head Wang Zonghe, and criminal Zhao Fengyi. They hit her face until it was purple and blue. A handful of her hair was pulled out by Cao Jinhui, and her motorcycle was confiscated.

On the third afternoon, Ms. Wang was taken to the Anqiu City Police Bureau by police officers Cheng Shuping and Li Shenghua from the the Political Security Unit. Cheng Shuping, Dong Shulin, Liu Jinlai, Li Shenghua, Liu Lingchun, and Li Jian (a chauffeur) interrogated and brutally beat her. She was then detained at the Anqiu Detention Centre for 32 days of continued torture. During this period, she was force-fed by police officers Cheng Shuping, Zhang Yuanting, and accomplices nurse Ge Huiqing and Wang Kun from Anqiu City People’s Hospital. She was tied to an iron chair. The heartless abusers inserted a tube through her nose, then pulled it out. They put did this several times until there was blood over her nose and the tube, and Ms. Wang passed out several times.

On August 26th, 2002, while giving out fliers, Ms. Wang was again arrested by officers Ge Jiang from the Anqiu City Police Bureau. She was tortured until she was comatose, skin and bones, and was only able to lie on the ground. The head of Anqiu City’s 610 Office (an organisation of special agents just for persecuting Falun Gong), Wang Ziqing, also instigated collaborators² Song Tingshan and Wang Yingmei to pressure Ms. Wang to give up cultivation. During this time, Ms. Wang’s family had 32,000 yuan extorted from them.

Arrested while Picking Up Her Child from Kindergarten

On June 3rd, 2003, Ms. Wang Haiqing was on the way home after picking up her daughter when she was arrested. The arresting officers hit her in the face, and blood streamed out of her mouth. Her 6-year-old daughter was so frightened that she cried. The police took her house key and ransacked her house. They stole 1,000 yuan from her house and took Ms. Wang to the Anqiu City Police Bureau. Once they arrived at the bureau, four officers severely beat her for several hours. Ms. Wang became incontinent and her back was injured. She could not open her eyes or hold up her head. The next day she was taken to Changle County Detention Centre and tied up on the “death bed”³ for three days and nights until she was at the brink of death.

Family Suffered: Husband Arrested; Daughter Intimidated

In early November of 2005, police broke into Ms. Wang’s home. At the time Ms. Wang was not home, so they arrested her husband, who did not cultivate Falun Gong, and took different items such as a CD burner, printer, and computer. Before that, Ms. Wang was forced to leave home to avoid arrest for a long time.

On the night of November 2nd, 2007, the police pounded on Ms. Wang’s door and tried to break in. At the time only her 10-year-old daughter was at home. The girl was very frightened and was sobbing. The neighbours heard her and intervened to stop the police. The following day the police went to the little girl’s school and intimidated her into opening the door for them. They again ransacked Ms. Wang’s home and took away a CD burner and Falun Gong books.

Framed and Sentenced to 12 Years in Prison

On the morning of May 11th, 2008, Ms. Wang and several other practitioners were brutally arrested by Li Shenghua from Anqiu City Police Bureau, Dong Linfang from Chengbei Police Station, et al. Ms. Wang’s back was severely injured and she became incontinent. As described by onlookers, the police were very cruel in the arrest, and all the practitioners shouted together, “Falun Gong is good!”

After being imprisoned in the Anqiu City Detention Centre, Ms. Wang was handcuffed to an iron chair and was brutally force-fed, causing muscle atrophy and loss of feeling in her lower body. She had to lie on the ground and was unable to take care of herself. On September 23rd, Ms. Wang was carried into Anqiu City Court, which was controlled by the CCP, and was tried. On October 8th she received the judgment: she was sentenced to a 12-year prison term based on false evidence.

Persecution in Shandong Women’s Prison

After Ms. Wang was taken to Shandong Women’s Prison, the prison refused to accept her due to her muscle atrophy and loss of feeling in her lower body. Police officers Li Shenghua gave the prison 10,000 yuan, so the prison accepted her.

Ms. Wang was imprisoned in a concentration camp that specialised in persecuting practitioners and was tortured by policewoman Xue Yanqin in different ways. In order to force Ms. Wang to give up cultivation, the policewoman did not give Ms. Wang any winter clothing or bed covers, even in the coldest winters. However, Ms. Wang persisted in her faith and refused to give up.

Below is contact information for some of the people involved in the persecution:
Wang Ziqing, male, the second person to head the 610 Office of Anqiu City: +86-5364228659 (Home); +86-133963631535 (Mobile)
Cheng Shuping, male, formerly head of the Political Security Unit of the Anqiu City Police Bureau, currently the deputy head of the police bureau. He is the main instigator of persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in Anqiu City: +86-5364262329; +86-13805362668

Related article:

“Ms. Wang Haiqing Arrested and Brutally Tortured Mentally and Physically”
http://clearwisdom.net/html/articles/2008/9/11/100554.html

“Ms. Wang Haiqing from Shandong Province Is in Critical Condition As a Result of Being Tortured in Detention”
http://clearwisdom.net/html/articles/2008/10/3/101178.html

Note

1. "Yuan" is the Chinese currency; 500 yuan is equal to the average monthly income of an urban worker in China.

2. "Collaborators" (former practitioners, brainwashed against Falun Gong, made to assist in brainwashing and torturing practitioners)

3. "Death Bed" torture: A practitioner is tied to a bed with his hands handcuffed above his head to the bed rails, and his legs tied with thin nylon ropes. The rope is then tightly wrapped around the practitioner's body and the bed, from his legs to his chest. The rope is wrapped so tightly that the practitioner has difficulty breathing and eventually loses consciousness.

Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2011/12/15/250600.html