Persecution Caused Daughter's Mental Collapse - Mother Brings Suit Against Persecutors
(Clearwisdon.net) Related Stories: - Dafa Practitioner Ms. Zhu Xia from Sichuan Province Suffers Mental Collapse Due to the Persecution
COMPLAINT Plaintiffs: Ms. Nie Qinghui, 70, born on August 4, 1934, is of Han nationality, and is
the mother of the victim, Zhu Xia. Her address is No. 1, Entrance 3, No. 4
Building, No. 5 Jinrong Lane, Guangrong Residential Section, Chengdu City,
Sichuan Province. Mr. Wang Xiao, born April 24, 2000, is the son of the victim, Zhu Xia. His
address is No. 1, Entrance 3, No. 4 Building, No. 5 Jinrong Lane, Guangrong
Residential Area, Chengdu City, Sichuan Province. Defendants Zhang Xiaofang, female, is around thirty five years old, and is head of the
No. 7 Section of Nanmusi Female Forced Labor Camp in Sichuan Province. She lives
in the labor camp's residential quarters. He Yuanfu; male, Han nationality, head of the "610 Office" in
Guangrong Residential Section in Chengdu City, Sichuan Province. The head of Guranrong Police Station, Jinniu District, Chengdu City, Sichuan
Province, and all police officers in that station. All staff members working at the following brainwashing centers: Pengzhou
City, Pi County of Chengdu City, and Xinjin County of Chengdu City. Charges: Statement of facts: On October 1, 1999, the newspaper Business Morning in Chengdu City
claimed Falun Gong to be a "XX cult" in a report that was written
purposely to defame Falun Dafa. The couple Wang Shilin and Zhu Xia went to the
newspaper to explain the facts about Falun Gong. Zhu Xia, who had been pregnant
for several months at that time, and her husband were illegally detained for 15
days by police who charged them with "disturbing social order" simply
because they wanted to have a calm chat with the news editors to set the record
straight and obtain a retraction of the fabricated report. As a result of their
efforts, which were not against the law, the police took notice of them and
targeted them for persecution. Around the 2000 New Year's Day, in accordance with the Constitution and
Appeals Regulations, Zhu Xia and her husband Wang Shilin went to Beijing to
appeal for Falun Gong. Zhu Xia, still pregnant, was illegally detained at Xindu
Detention Center and Wenchuan Taiyangdao Detention Center, and was later put
under house arrest in her hometown in Arbei Region of Sichuan Province for over
ten days. When she was released and had returned home, she was immediately put under
close surveillance by Guangrong Police Station personnel. Li Hong, police
officer/registrar, ordered Zhu Xia to sit in the police station reception room
all day long, from 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Zhu Xia was not allowed to go home for
lunch. Except for going to restroom, she was not allowed to walk around. People
knowing the situation said, "Not eating all day long may not be a problem
for an adult. But the child inside the mother needs to eat!" The police
forced her to skip the daytime meal for two weeks. Finally, the head of the
police station, Du, gave permission for Zhu Xia to have lunch at home. When the Spring Festival came, Zhu Xia was still not allowed to stay at home.
Her mentally ill father, whose condition was brought on due to his being
persecuted during the Cultural Revolution, also has heart and lung problems, and
was home alone during the Chinese New Year. One month prior to the baby's birth,
Zhu Xia was finally allowed to stay at home. However, the police still didn't
leave her alone, though. Without any legal cause, the local police continued to
monitor Zhu Xia and her mother, tracking their whereabouts. Even going to
grocery stores required a report to them. The authorities deprived Zhu Xia and
her family members of all their personal freedom and subjected them to great
mental pressure. Whenever so-called sensitive dates arrived, such as the Spring Festival and
New Year's Day, while other families enjoyed the holidays, Zhu Xia's family
would have a hard time. The local police kept coming to their home and ordering
them to write the statement to indicate they would give up Falun Dafa
cultivation. The Jinniu District "610 Office" persecutors held
brainwashing classes to force people to give up their beliefs. They even
threatened to send them to a forced labor camp if they persisted in their
belief. For refusing to write a "Guarantee Statement," Zhu Xia's
mother had twice been sent to a brainwashing class for several months. Just about 20 days after Zhu Xia gave birth, the head of Guangrong Police
Station and the registrar police officer, Li Hong, started to come to her home
to harass her. They threatened Zhu Xia and told her if she refused to give up
her belief, her child could be sent to an orphanage. Later the local police
tried all kinds of ways to abduct Zhu Xia and her mother and send her severely
ill father to other relatives in Arbei Region. They didn't succeed because of
Zhu Xia's whole family strongly opposed it. In December 2000, Zhu Xia's husband, Wang Shilin, was unlawfully arrested by
personnel from Xinhuaxilu Police Station. When Zhu Xia paged her husband, the
police tricked her into coming to the police station with the ruse that her
husband had a car accident. When Zhu Xia went to the police station, showing no
scruples, the police tied her up and interrogated her for hours. But they didn't
get any information from her. After that incident, Guangrong Police Station enforcers started to monitor
and harass her family around the clock. Police cars were seen at all the
entrances to her home. Guangrong police forbade Zhu Xia's family to go outside
of their home, and her entire family lost their personal freedom. When Zhu Xia
attempted to go out with the baby and her mother, they were taken to the police
station. The police characterized their actions against the family as,
"This is a conflict against an enemy and the fight to live or die!"
Zhu Xia and her family had been detained, arrested, beaten, and they suffered
all kinds of abuse and mistreatment under the persecution, for a long period of
time. They had no place to redress such injustice. They had reported their
situation to the related government branches and asked them to stop the
persecution. Instead, the situation didn't improve, but became worse, and the
police persecuted her and her family more viciously. On New Year's Day in 2001, Zhu Xia went to Beijing with her eight-month-old
baby to appeal. She was arrested and suffered beatings. The police struck the
baby with their police baton once and on another ocassion, the police whipped
the baby with a belt causing it to scream in pain. After she was sent back to
her home town, Guangrong police tried all kinds of methods on a daily basis to
force her to renounce her belief in Falun Dafa. He Yuanfu from the local
"610 Office" made all kinds of arrangements to monitor her. When Ms.
Zhu left home, several people would follow her, even all the way to her mother's
home. On any dates that were considered to be sensitive due to public holidays
or political gatherings, there were police cars at the gate and police officers
monitoring their movements at their back door. In early March 2001, the neighborhood committee office informed Zhu Xia that
she must attend a brainwashing class. To avoid further persecution, Zhu Xia had
no other way but to leave home. But on April 11, when Zhu Xia she was found and
arrested. Local police sent her to a detention center, but the detention center
refused to accept her since she needed to breastfeed the baby. Police officer Li
Hong tried hard to have her admitted, but failed. They had to send her home.
Almost thirty police were dispatched to monitor her. Although Zhu Xia's family
suffered endless persecution, they still treated those who monitored them with a
kind heart. Every day they would prepare two thermos bottles of hot water (a
sign of hospitality in China) and benches for them. They clarified the truth of
Falun Gong to them and told them of the persecution they suffered. However, as
soon as her baby was one year old, Zhu Xia was arrested. Zhu Xia was held at Ningxiajie Detention Center for four months, during which
time she was forced to wear handcuffs and shackles for an entire month, which
made her feet and hands swell severely. He Yuanfu from the local "610
Office" prepared the charges against her, in order to send her to do forced
labor. During the investigation, many of the charges were found to be untrue.
For example, the accusation of her having overseas contacts had been fabricated
out of thin air. Because of lack of evidence, eventually her sentence was
changed to one and half years of forced labor. After Zhu Xia was sent to Nanmusi Female Forced Labor Camp in Zizhong, Zhu
Xia's mother approached He Yuanfu at the local "610 Office" many times
to ask him to pass some clothes and money to her daughter. He Yuanfu always
found excuses to refuse or to fool the old lady. For example, on a Friday
morning in the middle of July of 2002, He Yuanfu said he would go to see Zhu Xia
the next Monday, but on the afternoon of that day he sent someone to inform Zhu
Xia's mother that he would have meetings for several days and couldn't go to the
camp after all. However, the next Tuesday, when Zhu Xia's mother went there
again, she saw him sitting in his office. There were no meetings. Zhu Xia was subjected to even more inhumane mistreatment, torture, and
persecution at Nanmusi Female Labor Camp. According to witnesses who had been in
the labor camp, starting in May 2002, the labor camp resorted to diabolic
torture methods to try to force Zhu Xia to give up her faith. The tortures were
so cruel that even after reading the description of the tortures, we may still
have no way to fully understand the pain that the victim experienced, both
physically and mentally. The following are merely several examples of torture
that were used in the labor camp, from which we can see the abject cruelty of
the tortures in the labor camps during the time of "the best human rights
era in China," as Jiang's regime has claimed, and the true nature of the
reforming (brainwashing) imposed upon Falun Gong practitioners in the manner
described as "a gentle breeze and a mild rain." Example 1: Zhang Xiaofang, No. 7 Division chief of Nanmusi Female Labor
Camp in Sichuan Province ordered two drug addicts to stuff Zhu Xia's mouth with
a dirty rag, and then dragged her over the rough, gritty, gravel and
sand-covered ground. When she was dragged to where an electronic monitor was
placed, they stopped dragging her and started to laugh and chat, because they
were afraid of being seen on the monitor. After passing through the monitored
area they would resume the dragging. When one group of them became tired,
another group took over. The badly bruised skin on Zhu's hips and legs were full
of sand and gravel and covered with blood. Even when seeing that Zhu Xia's life
was in danger, persecutor Zhang still did not stop. Instead, she changed torture
methods, and ordered more than a dozen inmates to simultaneously attack Zhu Xia.
Some spat on her, some pulled her hands and feet, and others held her down and
beat her. They did not stop until they became tired from the beating and verbal
abuse. When Zhu Xia lost consciousness during the heat of the summer when the
temperature was as high as 38¡ãC [100¡ãF], they revived her by dousing her with
cold water. By now Zhu Xia was unable to stand up. Zhang called in a doctor and
ordered him to pick out the sand and gravel from her body, but there was no way
for the doctor to remove them. Zhang also demanded that Zhu Xia pay a large
amount of money for the medical treatment. Example 2: Zhang Xiaofang ordered the drug addicts to put a long bench on
the ground and then put bricks on the bench. She then forced Zhu Xia to sit on
the bench. After that, they placed bricks on Zhu Xia's legs. Zhang then had
someone sit on the bricks and rock back and forth. She also gagged Zhu Xia's
mouth so that no one could hear her painful screams. Example 3: Zhang Xiaofang often grabbed Zhu Xia's hair and then smashed
her head against a wall. While beating her, Zhang sneered, "I'll smash you
to death! I'll smash you to death! Nobody will know if I throw you into a ditch
in the mountains! I'll smash your head and give you a concussion! Make you go
mad!" When she became tired, she would tell the drug-addicts to take over.
One time Zhang's bracelet broke when she beat Zhu Xia. Zhang lied, saying that
Zhu Xia broke it and ordered Zhu Xia to pay for it. Example 4: There are many methods commonly used to torture practitioners
in the forced labor camp, such as forbidding practitioners to use the restroom,
bathe, do any kind of washing, change clothes, or change a feminine sanitary
pad. The guards ordered others to humiliate and verbally abuse the practitioner,
or exposed her to the scorching sun in the summer or the cold weather in the
winter. The practitioner was stripped naked and then doused with buckets of
dirty water, until soaking wet. She was only allowed to sleep three hours each
day, and sometimes was not allowed to sleep at all, but instead had to stand in
an "army corps" posture, facing the wall, for the whole night.
During the daytime, she would be forced to sit or stand in "army
corps" postures. When in the "army corps" sitting posture,
she was forced to sit on a plastic stool that was only 20 cm. high (eight
inches), keeping the feet together, bending the upper and lower legs in a 90
degree angle, making the upper body and the upper legs to form a 90 degree
angle, keeping fingers together and then putting the hands on the upper legs,
straightening the back, raising the head and showing no facial expressions or
mouth movement. Any mouth movement was considered as the practitioner reciting
Master's articles. The practitioner could not close her eyes, otherwise she
would be considered to be meditating. Moving any part of the body would result
in beating with spiked wooden clubs and batons, or punching and kicking. When a
practitioner was forced to sit in an "army cops" position, the members
of the Inmate-Discipline Committee, formed of male drug-addicts, would hold
spiked wooden clubs and electric batons, and watch over the practitioner. Being
tortured this way for just a short while would make the practitioner suffer from
intolerable pain in the hips and back. After sitting this way for several days,
her buttocks would be covered with ulcerous scabies, causing the practitioner to
feel extremely itchy and painful. When sitting or standing in the "army
cops" postures, the practitioner was forbidden to move at all or to even
blink her eyes. Zhang Xiaofang often walked back and forth in front of Zhu Xia. She
frequently incited inmates to beat, verbally abuse, or otherwise humiliate Zhu
Xia. If Zhu Xia moved even a little, Zhang would grab Zhu Xia's hair and smash
her head against a wall. To convince those former practitioners who had been
reformed (brainwashed) to fiercely beat Zhu Xia, the guard told the brainwashed
persons that the reformation was false, and they had failed to closely follow
the central government's orders if they did not follow orders and beat Zhu Xia
hard enough. Zhu Xia and other Dafa practitioners were often hung up in a big tree.
Sometimes, when Zhu Xia heard miserable screams from the other practitioners who
were being tortured, she would rush out to try to stop the beating. After Zhu
Xia was taken back, the guards would torture her in the same way. If she staged
a hunger strike, she would be subjected to cruel force-feeding and other even
more barbaric torture. What Zhang Xiaofang did to Zhu Xia caused severe damage
to her physical and mental health. On October 27, 2002, Ms. Zhu's time in the labor camp was up, but He Yuanfu
and others from the "610 Office" in Guangrong community transferred
her directly from the labor camp to the Pi County Brainwashing Center for
continuing detention and brainwashing. She was tortured and detained there for
nearly six months. The brainwashing center forced Zhu Xia to say that the
paperwork that He Yuanfu had previously prepared before sending her to the labor
camp was correct. They tried to force Zhu Xia to write "a guarantee
letter" [indicating tbe practitioner is giving up Falun Gong practice],
otherwise they would forever detain her there. It was already the middle of
March when she was let out to go home. Ms. Zhu Xia, who originally weighed 60
kg. [132 lbs], was now very thin and unrecognizable. To achieve the goal
of continuously watching her, He Yuanfu arranged for Zhu Xia to work in an
activity center for senior citizens. On June 9, 2003, Zhu Xia suddenly disappeared. An investigation revealed that
He Yuanfu and others from the Guangrong Community "610 Office" had
abducted her. Later, a practitioner who had been detained in the Pengzhou
Brainwashing Center was able to prove that Zhu Xia had also been detained in
that brainwashing center. By then, due to the abuse she had endured from being
persecuted, Zhu Xia was unable to speak coherently and had become disoriented.
She often said things that did not make any sense, and showed symptoms of
delusion. However, instead of releasing her, He Yuanfu and others transferred
Zhu Xia to Pi County Brainwashing Center and Xinjin County Brainwashing Center
for further brainwashing and persecution. It was not clear when the transfers
occurred. They also paraded Zhu Xia through the streets and humiliated her.
These physical abuses, mistreatments, and mental torment aggravated her
symptoms. By April 2, 2004, when Zhu Xia was released and sent back to her home,
she still experienced symptoms of delusion. She kept crying, laughing, swearing,
pounding the door or the windows, relieving herself everywhere, tearing the
stuffing out of her quilt, and other odd behaviors. She often covered her head
with her hands and loudly screamed in fear, "Do you want to rape me?"
(Sadly, Zhu Xia's four-year old child has learned to repeat this sentence.) She
also said that she had not slept with anyone for over twenty years, and this was
something she could not bear, and she particularly disliked those dirty men.
When she spoke these things, she often cursed the following persons: Lu Zhonghua,
Wu Bo, Chen Ying, Zhao Wei, Liu Wei, and others. She also asked her mother to
call Wu Bo and others to ask them to behave themselves. From the reactions that
Zhu Xia showed after she had the mental collapse, it was most likely that she
was raped by the authorities when she was detained in the brainwashing centers.
She either had a collapse after the severe mental trauma as a result of the rape
or the trauma had caused her condition to become worse. Zhu Xia is now in a
state of complete mental collapse and her condition is very serious. This has
caused my whole family, relatives, and friends to suffer tremendously. We are in
deep sorrow and are very indignant over this situation. After consulting with many concerned people including law professors and
attorneys, we believe that as a Chinese citizen, Zhu Xia's legal and human
rights should be protected by the state and government's political and judicial
departments, as it is stipulated in the Chinese Constitution. According to
Chinese Criminal Law, the earlier mentioned defendants have committed severe
crimes! Zhang Xiaofang, in her position as the No. 7 Division chief of Nanmusi Female
Labor Camp in Sichuan Province, committed crimes while supposedly engaged in
enforcing the law. This woman incited others to mistreat Dafa practitioner Ms.
Zhu Xia, threatened her, and was personally involved in brutally torturing,
mistreating, and beating her. According to the Chinese Criminal Law, she
committed many crimes, including crimes of mistreating detainees, intentionally
hurting others, depriving citizens of their freedom of belief, humiliating
others, abusing her power, plus many other criminal deeds. According to the criminal law, the Guangrong Police Station chief and police
officers there have committed crimes of illegal detention, depriving citizens of
their freedom of belief, abusing their power, bending the law for personal
benefits, as well as crimes of obtaining confessions by violence, mistreating
detainees, intentionally hurting others, and the crime of invading others'
homes. According to the criminal law, He Yuanfu, head of Guangrong District
"610 Office" has committed crimes of abusing his power, slandering and
framing others, bending the law for personal benefits, as well as crimes of
abduction and illegal detention. According to the criminal law, staff members of the Pengzhou Brainwashing
Center, Pi County Brainwashing Center, and Xinjin County Brainwashing Center
have committed crimes of depriving citizens of their freedom of belief,
mistreating detainees, intentionally hurting others, and the crime of rape. We demand the Chinese government's law enforcing bodies uphold justice,
support the innocent people, and punish the above-named criminals according to
the law. Sincerely, Plaintiffs: Ni Qinghui and Wang Xiao July 22, 2004
- Practitioner Ms. Zhu Xia Suffers Mental Breakdown After Abuse and Probable Rape as a Part of Official Brainwashing (Photos)
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