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The Changchun Police and Justice Department Attempt to Illegally Sentence a Paraplegic
(Clearwisdom.net) Ms. Tian Yuan, who lives in the Shuangyang District,
Changchun City, Jilin Province, has been a paraplegic for 12 years. In 2002, she
went to Beijing in a wheelchair to appeal for the right to practice Falun Gong.
The local 610 Office and the police department regarded her as the
main person to be monitored. In March 2004, over 20 policemen arrested and
incarcerated her. On March 14, 2005, six persons from the police department and
the Procuratorate suddenly came to Ms. Tian's home, and claimed that
they were going to arrest her for handing out information about Falun Gong. Ms. Tian Yuan, 37 years old, lives in unit 602, building No. 2, of the Limin
Residential Area, in the Shuangyang District of Changchun City. She is a former
doctor from Jilin Province's Jilin City Children's Hospital. Her breastbone was
damaged in an accident, and her body below her arms suffered from paralysis.
After the accident, she could no longer move and was without sensations.
Confined to a wheelchair for many years, her body became very weak and she had
many illnesses. In May 1999, by accident, she came across Falun Gong and started
to practice it. Soon all her illnesses were gone and she understood the purpose
and meaning of life. Though she was still in a wheelchair, her body and
appearance seemed the same as other people, and she had a rosy complexion, even
better than others. All who had seen her previously were very surprised. As Falun Gong was illegally persecuted, in late February 2000, one day before
the opening of the National People's Congress, Ms. Tian went to Beijing in her
wheelchair to appeal for the right to practice Falun Gong. This shocked the
staff of the local Liaison Office in Beijing and the local authorities. The
local "610 Office" and the police department regarded Ms. Tian as the
main person to be strictly monitored. As Falun Gong truth-clarifying
materials were found in her home twice, the authorities incarcerated her mother
three times, and illegally sentenced her to two years of forced labor. Each time
she broke out with the help of righteous thoughts. On March 8, 2004, the persecutors instigated over 20 policemen to forcibly
bring Ms. Tian, in her wheelchair, to the custodial center. That same night she
started a hunger strike having no food or water, as a means to protest. Five
days later she broke out of the custodial center with the help of righteous
thoughts. People were quite shocked when the head policeman, Chen Yantao, died suddenly
at the age of 39, the same night she was incarcerated. The local policemen
understood this to be a case of retribution (It is a common belief in China that
good is rewarded with good and evil meets with retribution), and were quite
shocked. Since then, whenever the police sent people to her home to monitor her
on any of the so-called sensitive dates, they no longer dared to
touch her. On the morning of March 14, 2005, six people from the police department and
the Procuratorate suddenly came to Ms. Tian's home. The leader, Zhang Xiaoyan,
said that the Procuratorate was going to arrest her for publicly distributing
material about Falun Gong. This time the said they came to get a written record.
Ms. Tian refused to answer any questions that they asked her. They left after
hurriedly writing down several words. The Shuangyang District of Changchun City, Jilin Province: March 18, 2005 |