Follow-up Report on "Mother Tortured, Police Send Homeless Child to Orphanage" (Photo)

(Clearwisdom.net)

This is the Wanjia Forced Labor Camp in Harbin City, Heilongjiang Province, where Yu Yuejin is detained. It is also one of the labor camps where Falun Gong practitioners in China are most severely persecuted.

Original article: Mother Tortured, Police Send Homeless Child to Orphanage

On October 18, 2004 The Epoch Times reported that Falun Gong practitioner Yu Yuejin, 48 years old, a resident in Harbin City, was arrested in March of 2003 for practising Falun Gong. Later she was sent to the Wanjia Forced Labor Camp in Harbin City for forced labor of three years. Here, Falun Gong practitioners are very cruelly tortured. Her four-year-old daughter was left unattended and was sent to Harbin City Children's Welfare Center (actually an orphanage) by the police from the Nangang District Police Department.

After Yu Yuejin was arrested, a police officer first took her four-year-old daughter to his own home, as Yu Yuejin's husband is also imprisoned. The police officer later sent her to Harbin City Children's Welfare Center. Yu Yuejin missed her daughter very much. Due to her strong request, someone from the Wanjia Forced Labor Camp took her to the orphanage to visit her daughter. After she came back, she said her lovely daughter acted as if she were in a daze and could not recognize her, due to the serious mental trauma resulting from the sudden loss of her mother's care and the change in living environments.

After having contacted Haibin City Nangang Police Department (86-451-82324435) and verifying that Yu Yuejin's daughter had indeed been sent to the orphanage, the reporter called the only Children's Welfare Center in Harbin City (86-451-86624717), identifying himself as Yu Yuejin's friend. The receptionist said that the orphaned girl was all right, but one had to contact the police if one wanted to pay a visit.

Reporter: We have heard that Yu Yuejin's daughter is here. How is she now?

Staff member: She is quite all right.

Reporter: Can we visit her?

Staff member: She was sent here by the police; this needs to be arranged by the police department.

Reporter: It seems she almost did not recognize her mother when her mother came to visit her; did she?

Staff member: It has been so long, and it is quite common that a child does not recognize her mother; but she knows that she has a mother.

It was reported on Minghui Net that as Yu Yuejin did not give up practising Falun Gong, policemen frequently tortured her. The guilty parties were Zhao Yuqing (deputy team leader), Yao Changfu (deputy team leader), Yang Guohong (deputy team leader), Jia Cuiyan and Zhou Muqi. The torture methods included: shocking with electric batons, forcing her to sit on electronic chair, slandering and threatening her and other abuses. Due to the torture, Yu developed a serious heart problem and high blood pressure. Under such conditions, Wu Hongxun, the division head of Wanjia Labor Camp still instructed the guards to force Yu to do hard labor. Yu Yuejin is currently detained in the labor camp, suffering both mental and physical trauma.

In the past five years, at least 18 Falun Gong practitioners have been tortured to death at the Wanjia Forced Labor Camp. In 2001 during the "Wanjia Tragedy" which shocked the whole world, three female practitioners died the same night. Minghui Net also published a detailed report recently about how practitioner Zhang Hong, a 31-year-old pharmacist from Harbin No. 4 Hospital, was tortured to death.

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