The Whole Family of Dafa Practitioner Wang Zideng from Laiwu City, Shandong Province Is Subjected to Persecution (Photos)
(Clearwisdom.net) I have known Wang Zideng for a long time. Several
days ago I heard Wang Zideng was illegally arrested again. Prior to 2000, Wang Zideng and his wife operated a small business at the
Guansi Market in Laiwu City. Their daughter Wang Jing was in high school and
their son Wang Xin was two years old in 2000. Wang Zideng and his family began
practicing Falun Gong in 1994. He is kind and honest, and Mrs. Wang is very
warm-hearted. Particularly after they learned Falun Gong, they conducted
themselves according to Truth, Compassion, Tolerance. One thing I remember most vividly took place back in 1998. A customer left a
brown bag on Wang Zideng's stand. When Wang Zideng saw the bag, the man had
already left. Wang Zideng put it away to prevent it from being taken by thieves.
Soon, the man returned, extremely upset. He told Wang Zideng the items in the
bag would determine the fate of a factory. He described the appearance and color
of the bag, and seeing he gave the right description, Wang Zideng took out the
bag and asked if it's the correct one. The man was pleasantly surprised! Wang
Zideng then asked him the content of the bag and the man said, "Over
200,000 Yuan in cash, over 100,000 Yuan in receipts and one cell phone."
Wang Zideng opened the bag in front of the man and checked the amount of money
inside. It was the correct amount, so he gave it to the man. The man was so happy and excited that his bag was unconditionally returned to
him, he took out two stacks of cash and said, "My dear friend: you just
have to take this money. If this bag had fallen into the hands of any other
person, there is no chance I would get it back. I never imagined there are good
people like you in this world! If I had lost something else, maybe I would get
it back, but all this bag contained was cash!" Wang Zideng kindly said,
"I just did what I was supposed to do. I can't take your money." The
man tried to give him money but Wang Zideng firmly refused to take it. Other
customers and vendors said, "I can't believe there are good people like
this in the world!" Wang Zideng not only treated his customers with honesty, he was the same with
other vendors and business competitors. He conducted himself according to Truth,
Compassion, Tolerance and mediated many conflicts. Private business owners must
pay an annual 3,000 Yuan taxes and 1,700 Yuan administration fee. Wang Zideng
was always among the first ones to pay taxes. The Wang family were known as
law-abiding citizens. The officials from the tax bureau said, "You are such
good people. Even if we closed the market, we won't ban you!" 2. Persecution after July 20, 1999; Wang Zideng and family compelled to leave
home After Jiang's group began persecuting Falun Gong on July 20, 1999, Wang
Zideng and his family suffered numerous unjust acts against them. First he was
forced to close his business, and in late 2000 he was compelled to leave home.
His daughter was illegally sentenced to two years of forced labor in April 2001
when she turned 16 years old. She was sent to the Jiangshuiquan Women's Forced
Labor Camp in Jinan City. Wang Zideng's sister Wang Hui and brother-in-law Yin
Yuxin were sentenced to three years of forced labor. Wang Shujie, Mr. Wang's
niece, died at age four as a result of the family being repeatedly harassed and
frightened by police during the persecution. After July 20, 1999, Su Guojian, a person named Laiwu, the then-deputy head
of the Guansi Police Station in the Laicheng District, along with policemen Tian
Yugang and Bi Yusi, pressured the Commerce and Industry Bureau to throw Wang
Zideng out of the market. When Wang Zideng went to the CIB to pay taxes in late
2000, the head of CIB said to him, "I know you are a good person and that
you will not write a Guarantee Statement to give up Falun Gong, but I'll still
let you keep your spot in the market as long as you change your name." Wang
Zideng thought not renting a market spot to Dafa practitioners is discrimination
and persecution. He thought Dafa practitioners must live an open and dignified
life and should not change their names, wherever they are. As a result, Wang
Zideng was removed from the market around November 2000. The first arrest took place on the second birthday of Wang Zideng's son Wang
Xin. On July 19, 2000, Wang Zideng's family gathered around to celebrate the
little boy's birthday. Wang Zideng's sister-in-law Han Xiuli, who was not a
Falun Gong practitioner at the time, was also present with her
two-years-and-four-months-old daughter Wang Shujie. Suddenly, police officers
Tian Yugang, Shao Liyong and others from the Guansi Police Station blocked Wang
Zideng's door and tried to open it with a master key, but when they couldn't
open the door with the key, they broke the door down. A dozen police officers
rushed inside, while another dozen waited downstairs. Four of five officers pushed Wang Zideng to the ground. Some stepped on his
head and some on his feet, while others put handcuffs on him. They took him to
the police station and then to a detention center, in violation of Chinese laws.
They also sent Wang Zideng's wife and other family members and relatives to a
detention center. The two young children were taken to the police station. Han
Xiuli was released because she was not practicing Falun Gong. Her daughter was
so frightened that she could not even cry. Wang Zideng and his wife left the detention center with the power of their
righteous thoughts, and then they went into exile. When Wang Zideng returned home on December 3, 2000, the police blocked his
door. Although he and his wife escaped, his brother Wang Zike, his wife and
their daughter Wang Shujie were taken to the police station. Four-year-old girl, Wang Shujie, who died as a result of the
persecution The officers at the police station pounded on the table and cursed and
shouted. The small girl, Wang Shujie, passed out for over half an hour. When she
came to, she could not eat and would be frightened when hearing the slightest
noise. She grew thinner by the day. In late 2001, Wang Zike and his wife took
little Wang Shujie to major hospitals in Tai'an City and Jinan City. Wang Shujie
never recovered and passed away around August or September 2002. When she died,
she was 85 cm tall, the same height she attended Wang Xin's birthday on July 19,
2000. She had not grown at all during those two years. For details, please refer
to "A Four Year-Old Girl Dies As a Result of the Persecution: Wang Shujie
in Laiwu City, Shandong Province (photos)" at http://clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2003/6/4/36483.html. Another person abducted at the same time was fifteen-year-old Wang Jing. She
was sleeping in her room at the time and was awakened by the perpetrators in the
living room. When the perpetrators realized there was someone in the bedroom,
they barged in and carried her downstairs in her underwear. They even flipped up
her sweatshirt until her mother stopped them. Wang Jing escaped along with her
mother seven days later. In March 2001, Wang Jing went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Dafa and was
arrested. On March 27, 2001, the local police took her back and held her in a
custody center for one month, then they transferred her to a detention center.
When Wang Jing was 16 years old, the police in Laiwu sent her to the Jinan
City's Women Forced Labor Camp for three years, where she was subjected to
brainwashing and forced to do slave labor. Often she was only allowed two hours
sleep. Because she was young and often lacked sleep and was exhausted, once when
she was working on a sewing machine, the needle went through her finger and
became stuck. Wang Jing was released after two years at the labor camp. Prior to her stay in the labor camp, Wang Jing was in her senior year in high
school, but the police threatened the school to expel her and forbid her to
apply for college. Wang Jing was deprived of her right to an education and soon
after was sent to the labor camp. The perpetrators at the labor camp exhausted
all methods and forced Wang Jing to write a Guarantee Statement. Afterwards they
planned to release her, but the officials from the Laiwu "610 Office"
said, "Her parents have not been found. We can't let her go home."
Wang Jing was therefore held at the labor camp for two years. A 16-year-old girl like Wang Jing was supposed to study and enjoy time with
her friends at school, but because of the persecution, she suffered two years of
brutal torture at the labor camp. 3. Third abduction and persecution at the detention center Because Wang Zideng and his wife could not work and could not return home,
they spent all their savings. Wang Zideng and his wife eventually returned home
and sent their son Wang Xin to kindergarten. They didn't know the perpetrators
had not loosened their grip. Around 5:00 p.m. on August 5, 2004, about half a year after they returned
home, Wang Zideng went to the kindergarten to pick up Wang Xin. Soon after Wang
Zideng left the kindergarten, and when he was talking to an acquaintance, a
dozen men wearing sunglasses and civilian clothes suddenly attacked him from
behind. One man kicked the back of his knee and one man put his arm around Wang
Zideng's neck and pulled him to the ground. The rest of the men carried Wang
Zideng and threw him into a car about 200 meters away. Wang Zideng's son Wang
Xin was pushed to the ground and cried. The teacher took Wang Xin back to the
kindergarten and the head of the kindergarten eventually sent him to a
relative's home. Around 8 p.m. the same day, two police officer wearing black T-shirts knocked
on Wang Zideng's home door. Only Wang Jing and six-year-old Wang Xin were home.
They refused to open the door. The police tried to open the door with a key. The
kids locked the door from inside so the police couldn't open it, so the police
pounded on the door. The kids were scared and didn't make a sound. Around 11:00
p.m., more plainclothes police arrived, but after a while they left. Around
midnight, the police shone a floodlight into Wang Zideng's home through the
window, until around 5:00 a.m. Then they went back to the door and yelled and
pounded on the door. The kids cried loudly. Around 10:00 a.m., three or four
police officers, each holding a rubber club, climbed in through the bathroom
window, opened the door and a group of police ransacked the home. They threw all
the Falun Gong books on the floor and tried to take them away. Wang Jing didn't
allow them to, so they left without the books. They even locked six-year-old
Wang Xin in a room and interrogated him. Around 1:00 p.m., the police eventually
left. They included Zhang Baode, Shao Shiyong, Tien Yugang and Tang Guangyun. Even now, a police van numbered Lu S1026 is still parked outside Wang
Zideng's residence around the clock, monitoring activities inside Wang Zideng's
home. The two children were so frightened they could not eat and grew thin. Wang
Xin could not sleep at night and cried for his father. After his mother rocked
him to sleep, within less than two hours he awakened from a bad dream and again
cried for his father. Wang Zideng is now being held at a local detention center. Wang Zideng and
other Dafa practitioners held a hunger strike and were force-fed. The guards put
shackles on shirtless Wang Zideng and often locked him to a metal chair. The
guards also had collaborators [former Falun Gong practitioners who went
astray as a result of torture and brainwashing] attempt to brainwash Wang
Zideng. They tortured him day and night in an attempt to make him give up his
belief. They threatened to put him on trial if he didn't give in. Right now,
Wang Zideng is still holding a hunger strike to protest the persecution. He is
extremely emaciated, but his calves are severely swollen.
Chinese version available at
http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2004/9/25/85017.html
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