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Persecution Renders Young Woman Paralyzed from the Waist Down (Photo)
(Clearwisdom.net) I was born in a peasant family, but I became an
excellent student when I was studying at the Nursing Class of the Advanced
Medical School of Changchun City, Jilin Province. After graduation, I landed a
job at the Dehui City People's Hospital. During my school years in Changchun, I began to practice Falun Gong. In July
1999, Jiang Zemin launched the brutal persecution against Falun Gong. On
November 4, 2001, after an informer reported a group of us, the Zhenxing Police
Station arrested us. The police officers said plainly, "Yes, we are doing
this for the sake of money. For every Falun Gong practitioner we arrest, we'll
get 500 Yuan [equivalent to the average monthly salary in China]. We'll
go to a restaurant to celebrate as soon as we send you away." That night,
we were sent to a detention center and interrogated. Because I did not cooperate
with them, officer Ge Xuquan beat me severely. He knocked me down several times,
and then grabbed my hair, pulled me up and continued to beat me. There were
bruises all over my body. Then he wanted to handcuff me but couldn't find his
handcuffs, so he forcefully twisted my arms behind my back. Later I was sent to
the Detention Center of Dehui City, and they imprisoned me there for forty days.
After I was released, I returned to Dehui City People's Hospital for work. As
soon as I arrived, however, the Dean of the hospital, Fan Changsheng, told me,
"You can go home now, and you will not be paid." His only reason for
laying me off was that I continued to practice Falun Gong. When the police van arrived at my village, about three dozen villagers came
to see me. Seeing my emaciated state and paralysis, they were outraged. My
next-door neighbor noticed that on the four-hour trip home, I had been lying
down merely on a slab of cracked wooden board, with only a bed sheet beneath me.
She said angrily, "Even just laying a quilt on it would have been helpful.
The police officers aren't treating us like human beings!" The van continued on to the Detention Center of Dehui again. Awaiting me
there were the head of the detention center Liu Yuhu, "instructors"
Wang Renbiao and Liu Chunxia, a prison doctor named Li Yazhou, and three
inmates. The assistant head of the Political
Security Office Zhang Qingchun walked up to tell me that he was from Chalukou
Township. I recalled that it was him that had followed my fellow practitioners
and me in the Chalukou Township. On the fifteenth day after I returned home, four officers from the Political
Security Office of Dehui City again came to my village to pick me up for
interrogation. After word got around that the police had come again, my
neighbours all came to my house, worried that I would be further persecuted.
Afraid of their crimes being exposed, however, the police officers shut the door
and blocked any of the villagers from entering our house. In addition, they
broke into my brother's room without showing a search warrant. One neighbor said
angrily, "The policemen have lost their minds. The girl was persecuted to
this extent, yet still they won't leave her alone." Because of the way the
policemen treated me, in addition to my very weak health, my body twitched and I
could hardly breathe. When I regained consciousness as a result of the
neighbors' help, the policemen had all disappeared. |