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More Details Regarding Ms. Su Aigui, a Falun Gong Practitioner from Hubei Province Who Was Recently Persecuted to Death
(Clearwisdom.net) Ms. Su Aigui was a Falun Gong practitioner from Hushi
Township, Tianmen City. She started practicing Falun Gong before 1999. Prior to
practicing Falun Gong, Ms. Su suffered from several acute illnesses. After she
started practicing, her illnesses miraculously disappeared. For this reason, Su
Aigui always said that it was Master's grace that gave her a second life. After
the start of the persecution in 1999, she and her husband persisted in the
practice of Falun Gong. Because of this, the local police continuously came to
harass and interfere with the couple, to compel them to renounce the practice.
Under that situation, the couple had no choice but to abandon their home and
relocate. Ms. Su and her husband supported themselves by collecting and
recycling waste materials. As if making them homeless wasn't enough, the police
still sent out parties to search high and low for their whereabouts. In 2001, a police officer caught Ms. Su's husband on the street. He was sent
back to Tianmen City and imprisoned in the local detention center, where he was
brutally interrogated. Unable to bear the torture, he told them the whereabouts
of their temporary dwelling. Later, the police also arrested Su Aigui and
confiscated her Falun Gong books and truth clarification materials. On the second day of her arrest in the detention center, two policemen
interrogated Su Aigui as to where she had gotten the Falun Gong materials. When
Su Aigui did not reply, the police viciously hit her face and ear until she lost
consciousness. When Ms. Su regained consciousness, she firmly warned them that
she would expose their crimes. Those police officers thought that they could
intensify the punishment by imprisoning her in the "trumpet cell" [a
tiny cell where mobility is restricted to reform difficult prisoners]. When
the policeman tried to drag her into the trumpet cell, she caught onto his leg
and held on tightly without budging and boldly shouted: "This is not a
place for me to stay; I did not commit any crime to deserve this." Somehow,
even after a half-hour struggle, the police could not get her to let go. They
had no choice but to abandon the idea and send Ms. Su back to her cell. Several days after this incident, the 610 Office Chief Zheng Xianjie directed
several officers to relocate Ms. Su to the Pei Township Police Station and
confine her in a small house, where she was tied up and hung from the window
with only the tip of her toes touching the ground. In this position, seven to
eight police officers took turns beating and torturing her for an entire day,
trying to get her to talk. Su Aigui remained steadfast and resolute in her
belief in Master. She was unmoved and didn't reveal anything. From then on, the
police abandoned the idea of torturing her to force a confession. One day, the supervisor at the detention center ordered all the inmates to
get their hair cut and photographs taken. Su Aigui shared her understanding with
fellow practitioners in the prison that the requirement was meant for criminals,
and since they were not criminals, they should not comply with the request.
However, at the time of the photo session, some practitioners complied with the
request. Su Aigui became worried, so she spoke up: "Do not bow to the evil,
do not comply with the evil's request, do not compromise and promise anything to
the evil." When the police supervisor Li Qune tried to get her to take a photograph, Su
Aigui resolutely refused. Consequently, the police began hitting her with rubber
clubs; each lash would leave a bruise on her body. In this way, in front of
almost 200 people, Li Qune thrashed Mr. Su all over until her whole body was
covered with green and purple bruises. Finally, he dragged her in front of the
camera to have her picture taken. Su Aigui refused to comply by closing her eyes
in front of the camera. Without her cooperation, there was nothing they could
do. The police finally gave up. Unable to get anything out of her, after a month
of imprisonment, Su Aigui was released. Her husband, however, was sentenced to a
labor camp. Around the time of the Sixteenth National Congress in 2003, the authorities
feared that Su Aigui might go to Beijing to appeal. They had the police break
into her home at night. They abducted her and took her to the police station. At
the time of the abduction, Ms. Su's elderly 90-year-old mother-in-law was lying
in bed. Her 75-year-old disabled mother tearfully begged the police and said:
"Who will look after us, who will provide food and water for us after you
take her?" The police did not seem to care. Soon after arriving at the
detention center, Su Aigui began a hunger strike to protest her arrest. After a
few days, the police officers instructed several inmates to handcuff her to the
door panel and to force-feed her with vinegar and hot pepper water. She was
continuously beaten during the entire force-feeding process. The force-feeding
continued for six days. While facing this severe persecution, Su Aigui sternly
warned the perpetrators: "Whatever you have said and whatever deeds you
have committed, I do not acknowledge them, but none of the wrong deeds you've
done shall be forgotten!" After nine days of torture, the prison doctor
thought she could not live through a few more days, and only then did the
officers arrange for her to be sent home. After Ms. Su got home, her mother also became bedridden because of the shock
and trauma she went through, and she could not care for Su Aigui. As she
continued to maintain her Fa study and to practice the exercises, Ms. Su began
to recover. Unfortunately, however, because of the severe persecution, she had
difficulty eating. Her constitution remained weak, and Su Aigui died on January
7, 2005. Contact information - (Note: for home or office phone numbers, dial the country code + area code
before the number. For cell phone numbers, dial only the country code before the
number. Country code: 86, area code: 728) Tianmen City: 5222010, 5222555 (Public Security Bureau); Investigative
Services Department: 5223159 Town of Tianmen 610 Office's personnel telephone numbers: Public Security Department: City of Tianmen, Pei Township local police station phone numbers: January 19, 2005 |