Police in Chongqing City Hold Four-Year-Old Girl Hostage and Brutally Persecute Her Parents and Her Grandmother (Photo)
By a Falun Dafa Practitioner in Chongqing City
(Clearwisdom.net) Four-year-old Zhang Yuanyuan has been held hostage
by police officers in Chongqing for six months because her parents, Mr. Zhang
Hongxu and Ms. Wu Yongmei, both practice Falun Gong. Since the persecution of Falun Gong began in July 1999, the authorities have
detained the girl's parents repeatedly and sent them to forced labor camps. To
avoid further persecution, they were forced to leave home. Their child was left
in the care of her grandmother. The authorities then mistreated the girl's
grandma, who suffered dementia from the stress, leaving her unable to care for
her grandchild. Four-year-old Zhang Yuanyuan has been held hostage by police
officers in Chongqing for six months. She is still in police custody. Recently Yuanyuan's aunt telephoned Zhang Liang, the main person directly
responsible for the persecution against the family, to demand the return of her
niece. "You can get her back, but you have to go through our
procedures," answered Zhang Liang. It is not known what the procedures are. Taken Hostage for Half a Year While Her Parents Were Forced to Leave Home On January 1, 2004, four police officers from the National Security Brigade
of Tongnan County, Chongqing, rushed into a local kindergarten class and
abducted the four-year-old girl, Zhang Yuanyuan. A week before, at noon on
December 23, 2003, Zhang Liang, the head of the Brigade, and four other officers
broke into the girl's home to abduct her mother. Ms. Wu Yongmei was brutally
tortured so severely that she lost consciousness and was near death on several
occasions. She held a hunger strike for a total of fifty-four days to protest
against the persecution. Ms. Wu used to weigh 120 lbs., but under the
persecution she became skeletal and weighed only over 60 lbs. Worried that she
might die while in their custody, the officers ordered an inmate to carry her
home on his back. While still in an extremely weak and precarious health
condition, Ms. Wu was forced to leave home to avoid further persecutions. When Yuanyuan was only seven months old, Zhang Liang from the National
Security Brigade took her father, Mr. Zhang Hongxu, to the Xishanping Forced
Labor Camp and imprisoned him for two years. In the labor camp, prison officers
beat him up brutally, broke the bridge of his nose, knocked out his teeth, and
injured several ribs. Authorities illegally imprisoned Yaunyuan's father in a forced labor camp and
deprived him of his local residency status. In the beginning of 2002 when Yuanyuan finally saw her father after a very
long time, Officer Zhang Liang and officials from the local "610
Office" came to harass him and to abduct him once again. In October of
2003, Yuanyuan's father, Zhang Hongxu, was forced to leave home, as well. On the right is the 1,500-yuan (1) receipt dated October 19, 1999, from the
police who illegally detained and extorted money from Yuanyuan's grandma, Ms. Fu
Ruxian. Beijing Police Beat the Grandmother on the Head, Detain and Mistreat Her Yuanyuan's maternal grandmother, Ms. Fu Ruhuan, is 58 years old, and was born
in Shouqiao Township, Tongnan County, Chongqing. She now lives in Yuanyuan's
home at 29 Wachang Wan, Tongnan County, Chongqing. Before Ms. Fu began to practice Falun Gong, she suffered from many illnesses,
including serious bronchitis, late-stage tuberculosis, decade-long ear diseases,
and wrist fractures that didn't heal. She visited many major hospitals and
medical specialists without relief. She was forced to take more than 200 yuan
worth of medicines every month. After her savings had been exhausted, Ms. Fu
still suffered from pain and was unable to walk. A doctor once told her family
members, "There is no hope for her. Just feed her well." Fortunately,
Fu Ruhuan learned Falun Dafa in June of 1997. Six months later, her illnesses
disappeared one by one and in fact, she could even carry 80-pounds on her
shoulders. Stunned to see this change, her friends and neighbors asked her,
"What kind of miracle pills did you take?" "It's Falun Gong that
saved my life," Ms. Fu answered. On July 20, 1999, the former president Jiang Zemin launched the suppression
of Falun Gong and orchestrated the large-scale persecution of Falun Gong
practitioners. To appeal for Falun Gong, Ms. Fu Ruhuan went to Beijing. She left
home on December 22, 1999 and arrived at Tiananmen Square on the 24th.
There were numerous plainclothes officers on the square looking to capture Falun
Gong practitioners. One of them asked her, "Do you know if Falun Gong is
good or not?" Hardly had Ms. Fu Ruhuan replied, "Good," then the officers on the
square swarmed towards her and beat her up. One of them viciously punched her
head. He even took a rest and then continued the beating. After the police
officers had beaten her almost unconscious, they dragged Ms. Fu to the police
car and took her to the Tiananmen Police Station for detention. Without giving
her even a drop of water, she was transferred to the Chongqing Office in
Beijing, who escorted her home on December 25. On December 26, 1999, Zhang Liang, the head of the National Security Brigade,
and Zheng Shiping, the head of the Shouqiao Township Police Station, took Ms. Fu
Ruhuan from Chongqing to the Police Department of Tongnan County. While swearing
at Ms. Fu, Zhang instructed a female officer to search Ms. Fu's body and steal
100 yuan, without giving any receipt. In the evening, they detained her in the
Tongnan Detention Center. Later, Zheng extorted 1,000 yuan from Ms. Fu's husband
in the name of transportation expenses. After imprisoning her in the detention
center for one month, they transferred her to a rehabilitation center and
imprisoned her for another four months. They finally released Ms. Fu after
extorting an additional 1,500 yuan from Ms. Fu's husband. As a result of the head injury from the police beatings in Beijing and the
duration of physical and mental persecution in the detention center, Ms. Fu
Ruhuan suffered partial memory loss after arriving home. Furthermore, Zheng
Shiping and Chen Shihai, the No. 1 and No. 2 heads of the Shouqiao Township
Police Station, together with other officials including Fu Guiying from the
Women's Association, Li Yingxiu, and Wang Dinglu, the ruling Party secretary of
the First Village, frequently came to Ms. Fu's home to harass her. Unable to
live at home normally, Ms. Fu Ruhuan moved away during the Chinese Spring
Festival of 2003 to Wachang Wan, Tongnan County, to live with her daughter, Ms.
Wu Yongmei, also a Falun Gong practitioner. On February 21, 2003, Ms. Fu Ruhuan and her older sister Fu Ruxian went
shopping together in the Jielong Bridge Bus Station Market in Tongnan County,
when Zhang Liang and his accomplices abducted them once again. Officer Li Hengyi
struck Fu Ruhuan's head in front of many shoppers and took the sisters to the
Police Department of Tongnan. As before, Zhang instructed a female officer to
body search Ms. Fu and they stole about 130 yuan. Then they escorted the sisters
to the Tongnan Detention Center. In the detention center, Ms. Fu Ruhuan held a hunger strike, together with
other Falun Gong practitioners. On February 26, Zhang brought in a woman to
force-feed them. She stuck a tube directly into Ms. Fu's nostril and started to
force feed her. As soon as the food was forced in, blood spurted out of the
tube. When the tube was pulled out, it was literally filled with blood. Since
then, Ms. Fu has been frequently coughing and spitting blood. In fact, she has
becomes extremely weak. She cannot live on her own and she must be assisted to
walk even to bathroom. Despite her terrible health condition, the authorities
imprisoned her for over forty days. When she was released, Zhang finally issued
a detention warrant that stated no specific detention dates; rather it stated
that Ms. Fu had been in detention for a duration of only fifteen days (as
opposed to the actual forty-some days). The detention warrant without any dates that Zhang issued after Fu Ruhuan had
been imprisoned for over forty days. After being released from the detention center, Ms. Fu Ruhuan could not live
without assistance. Her memory loss became more and more serious and she nearly
became a dementia patient. She was afraid of strangers. Whenever she heard any
loud voice, she would be so frightened that she would tremble all over. As for
the public toilet near her daughter's home that she used to be so familiar with,
she would forget how to get back home after going there. After her family
members taught her the front and back of a garment, she would still dress
herself incorrectly. In spite of Ms. Fu's mental sufferings, Zhang Liang keeps
pressuring the local officials to look for her in an attempt to further
persecute her. The following people are responsible for the persecution of Zhang Yuanyuan's
family: Zhang Liang, the head of the National Security Brigade of Tongnan County;
Zhang Shimao; Officer Li Hengyi; Zheng Shiping, the head of the Shouqiao
Township Police Station (presently retired); Chen Shihai, the No. 2 head of the
Shouqiao Township Police Station; Fu Guiying from the Women's Association; Wang
Dinglu, the ruling Party secretary of the First Village; Li Yingxiu from the
General Administration Office. Zhang Liang: 86-23-44582011, 86-23-44552429, 86-13709428300 (Mobile) National Security Brigade of Tongnan County: 86-23-44582011 Cai Pin, the head of the "610 Office" of Tongnan County:
86-23-44568968, 86-23-44551812, 86-23-44566068, 86-13808337398 (Mobile) Zhou Jun, Head of the Tongnan Pre-trial Detention Center: 86-23-44551286-13,
86-23-44571988, 86-13709428703 (Mobile) Huang Jincheng, head of the Tongnan Detention Center: 86-23-44582026,
86-23-44555345, 86-3709428631 Yin Jianzhong, Director of the Tongnan Police Department: 86-23-44582001,
86-23-44556679, 86-13908348968 (Mobile) Wen Yong, Associate Director of the Tongnan Police Department: 86-23-44582006
(Office), 86-23-44551228 (Home), 86-13709428263 (Mobile) Li Ping, Associate Secretary of Communist Party in Tongnan County:
86-23-44551729 (Office), 86-23-44551653 (Home), 86-13709428529 (Mobile) (1) Yuan is the unit of currency in China; 500 yuan is equal to the average
monthly income of an urban worker in China.
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