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Ms. Hao Qiuyan, Arrested and Held at the Hebei Provincial Brainwashing Center, Holds Hunger Strike in Protest
(Clearwisdom.net) Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Hao Qiuyan from
Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province, has been held at the Hebei Provincial
Brainwashing Center for almost three months. The policy at the Hebei Province
610 Office is to send practitioners directly to a forced labor camp
if they refuse to "reform" after brainwashing. Ms. Hao has been very
determined and is holding a hunger strike. She is only taking a little fluid. At 6:00 a.m. on January 17, 2005, Ms. Hao Qiuyan was abducted from home by
officers from the Hedong Police Station and sent directly to the Hebei
Provincial Brainwashing Center. They accused her of trying to find an attorney
for her husband Huang Wei. The Hedong Administration Office paid 10,000 yuan
to send a group of people to brainwash Ms. Hao. Ms. Hao's husband Huang Wei has been sentenced to another three years of
forced labor after his earlier three-year sentence expired. Her father-in-law is
76 years old and is suffering from diabetes. Her mother-in-law is 74. She has
undergone three heart surgeries and has to carry her heart medicine with her.
She travels between the labor camp and the brainwashing center to visit her son
and her daughter-in-law. Her grandson is only six years old and often cries
himself to sleep. The Persecution of Ms. Hao Qiuyan Ms. Hao is 34 years old and studied art design. She is a very honest and kind
person. She started to practice Dafa in the spring of 1995, along with her
husband Huang Wei. They were a healthy and happy family. In late 1999, Mr. Huang Wei was accused of an "unsuccessful attempt to
appeal" and was sentenced to three years of forced labor. His sentence
expired in late 2002. He was sentenced to another three years of forced labor on
April 13, 2004, because he "refused to accept the brainwashing." When
they arrested her husband, the authorities didn't follow any legal procedures.
Ms. Hao appealed for Mr. Huang for almost seven months, but the government
officials refused to listen to her. In late November 2004 she tried to hire an
attorney to defend Mr. Huang, but the court refused to accept her case. Ms. Hao left home after Huang Wei was abducted on April 13, 2004. She later
returned home in order to look for an attorney, and stayed home until the court
denied her appeal. While Ms. Hao was waiting for a response from the court, early in the morning
on January 17, 2005, when her father-in-law opened the door to go out for a
walk, several plainclothes police officers from the Hedong Police Station barged
in. Despite cries from her family, they abducted Ms. Hao in her slippers. They
sent her to "study" at the Hebei Provincial Legal Education Center,
which is actually the Hebei Provincial Brainwashing Center. The Persecution of Mr. Huang Wei Mr. Huang Wei, 36, worked as a sales representative at the Hebei Medicine and
Biology Engineering Company in Shijiazhuang City. Neighbors and colleagues all
liked him. According to his wife Mrs. Hao, he started practicing Falun Dafa in
the spring of 1995. He benefited from the practice both mentally and physically,
and was able to get rid of his smoking, gambling, drinking and other bad habits.
His temperament also improved greatly. His relationship with his wife and other
members of his family also grew more harmonious. After the persecution began,
however, Mr. Huang was charged with "unsuccessful attempt to appeal"
and sentenced to three years of forced labor in late 1999. In late 2002 Mr. Huang returned home. Towards the end of 2003, some of his
friends helped him start a business in wholesale medicine and clothing. He
partnered with a few other practitioners who were unemployed at the time. He
rented space in a tractor factory dormitory. The room doubled as a warehouse. On April 13, 2004, four policemen including Yang Yuliang from the Hedong
Police Station and Li Guoqiang from the Changan Police Department in
Shijiazhuang City, arrested Mr. Huang. They took him to the Hedong Police
Station and held him. The police ransacked Mr. Huang's warehouse and took
merchandise worth about 40,000 yuan. On the 38th day of his illegal detention, Mr. Huang received a
release warrant, but Wang Ping, Zhai Qingmin and other policemen from the Hedong
Police Station took him to the Shijiazhuang City Forced Labor Camp on June 4.
Mr. Huang didn't pass the physical exam, because his EKG and blood pressure
readings were outside the normal range. But the officers forced the labor camp
authorities to accept him. As of June 4, 2004, Mr. Huang Wei is been held in the Shijiazhuang Forced
Labor Camp, first in Division Two and later in Division Three. During his
detention, the guards isolated him and barred him from contact with the outside. Attorney Gao Zhisheng deeply sympathized with Mr. Huang and his family. He
took Mr. Huang Wei's case. On the morning of December 27, 2004, Mr. Gao Zhisheng
and another attorney went to three courts in Shijiazhuang City, all of which
refused to accept Mr. Huang Wei's case. On December 30, 2004, Mr. Gao wrote a
letter to the National People's Congress (NPC) and to Wu Bangguo, head of the
NPC, in which he reflected on the lack of conformity and absence of adherence to
the rule of law in the Chinese judicial system, and its violation of Falun Gong
practitioners' human rights, and he called for the NPC to pass laws to change
the current state of the judicial system. Mr. Gao said in his letter,
"While diligently trying to process the case concerning Huang Wei, I
discovered a phenomenon that circumvents and undermines completely the dictum,
'rule the country by law,' which is espoused, upheld, advanced and implemented
in all modern civilized systems. The most serious deadlock is within the
judiciary field. Their intention to operate outside established laws makes one
gasp in horror and puts one in despair. As an attorney and a Chinese citizen, I
can no longer remain silent!" The government not only refused to release Mr. Huang Wei after receiving Mr.
Gao Zhicheng's letter, they arrested and detained his wife, Mrs. Hao Qiuyan, and
threatened to arrest Mr. Gao if he had any further involvement in cases
concerning Falun Gong practitioners. Huang Wei's family Related work units and persons responsible: Hedong Street Office in Shijiazhuang City Shijiazhuang City 610 Office: |