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Repeated Torture Causes Practitioner Ms. Zhou Wenli from Shijiazhuang City to Suffer a Mental Collapse
Written by a practitioner from China
(Clearwisdom.net) Zhou Wenli worked at Ouyi Pharmaceutical Company of Shijiazhuang
Pharmaceutical Group in Hebei Province. She was twice taken to a brainwashing
center where she suffered severe torture and sleep deprivation. Subsequently,
she has suffered a mental collapse and has been hospitalized many times. Two
other practitioners who worked with her have also been tortured in a
brainwashing center. Ms. Zhou Wenli (also known as Zhou Wensheng) is about forty years old. She
worked at the third workshop in Ouyi Pharmaceutical Company. In the summer of
2002, she was sent to what was called a "Hebei Province Law Education
Training Center" ( a brainwashing center). During this time, her employer
was required to send two colleagues to monitor her 24 hours a day. Zhou had to
pay for these two people's salary and other expenses totaling about 3,000 Yuan
(1). Zhou Wenli was humiliated and deprived of freedom and sleep for at least
eight days. She was forced to watch propaganda that denounced Falun Gong and
forced to write a statement of "guarantee" to stop her practice of
Falun Gong. Later, her work unit learned that she still had not given up Falun Gong, so
they dismissed her. Then they forced her into the brainwashing center again.
Even before the session ended, she had been tortured to the point that she
suffered a mental collapse and was sent to a mental hospital. The medical
expenses amounted to 8,000 Yuan and her work unit only paid 1,000 Yuan. After
she recovered, they still did not allow her to work. Later Zhou Wenli was
repeatedly hospitalized due to mental trauma. In addition, the two other practitioners, Huang Huawei and Sun Jinghong, who
worked in the same workshop as Zhou Wenli were also taken to the brainwashing
center. Ms. Huang Huawei (around 45 years old) was forced to promise not to
practice Falun Gong and Ms. Sun Jinghong (around 40 years old) was forced to
leave her home to avoid further persecution. Ms. Sun's husband, an army doctor,
was also targeted. After he retired from the army, the local government refused
to arrange work for him. Before Sun Jinghong left home, her work unit had
decreased her salary to only over 200 Yuan per month. According to the latest
information Sun Jinghong has recently been arrested and again forcefully taken
to Hebei Province brainwashing center. Her current whereabouts are not known.
Her husband has sustained enormous pressure while having to take care of two
children. The work unit responsible for the persecution: Hebei Province Law Education Training Center (1)Yuan is the unit of currency in China, where the average monthly salary of
an urban worker is 500 Yuan. June 14, 2004 |