The Persecution of Falun Gong Practitioner Zhu Xianzhi from Henan Province
(Clearwisdom.net) Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Zhu Xianzhi is from Yanshi
City, Henan Province. Ms. Zhu was illegally sentenced to a seven-year jail term
on March 1, 2005. She started a hunger strike to protest the persecution and was
brutally force-fed through a tube, causing her tremendous suffering and a 4 cm
hole in her lungs. At present, Zhu Xianzhi is still illegally detained in Huaxia
Hotel, Yanshi City. Her weight has dropped from over 50 kg to a little over 30
kg. She has difficulty breathing and is on the verge of death. Ms Zhu Xianzhi is 45 years old and a practitioner from Tangsengsi Village,
Goushi Town, Yanshi City, Henan Province. Because she believes in
"Truthfulness- Compassion--Tolerance" and practices Falun Gong, she
was sent to a brainwashing class many times by the 610 Office of the
Yanshi Politics and Law Committee. Once she was sent to a forced labor camp. On
January 20, 2003, she was released from the forced labor camp. On March 6, 2003, Zhu Xianzhi was arrested from her home and sent to a
brainwashing class held in the Yanshi Hotel and administered by the Yanshi City
610 Office. The following people were involved in her arrest: Han Guoqing, the
head of the municipal 610 Office, Zhang Baomin, a police officer from the
political security section of the city's police department, Ma Xianwu, the head
of the town 610 Office, two staff members from the General Administration Office
and police officers from the town police station. With powerful righteous
thoughts and the help of Master, Zhu Xianzhi escaped and became homeless. On September 28, 2004, when she was on her way home from work, Zhu Xianzhi
was arrested by plain-clothed police and sent to the Heizhuang Detention Center
in Zhengzhou City. During her two weeks of detention, Zhu Xianzhi sustained a
hunger strike. Finally she was sent back to the Yanshi Detention Center. 1. Leather whips, shackles and handcuffs On October 12, 2004, when Zhu Xianzhi was sent to the Yanshi Detention
Center, she was immediately put in big shackles and some specially made
handcuffs (made of a flat steel bar that forms a circle to fit the wrist and is
then locked by twisting a steel wire pin). The cuffs prevented her hands from
moving at all. On the afternoon that she was first sent to the cell, the guard, Zhu Guizhi,
gathered all the inmates together and told them that no one was allowed to talk
to Ms. Zhu, not to have pity for her, and that if she talked to others, they
should beat or kick her. At some point, Zhu Xianzhi's family sent her a warm bed cover, but until
then, she only wore a light shirt and a pair of light trousers. In addition,
because she was on a hunger strike, she was put into shackles and handcuffs that
were chained together, which made her unable to move her four limbs. She was
only able to sit, freezing, with her whole body trembling. On the night of
October 13, Zhu Xianzhi was unable to sleep at all due to the cold. She told the
patrol people about her situation but they did not help her. On October 15, four
male inmates, including Mou Xiaolei and Mou Shaomin, carried Zhu Xianzhi to the
open field inside the detention center and held her to the ground. They lashed
her six times with a leather whip. The next day, she was whipped five more
times. Every time after she was whipped, under the watch of the inmate Shi Yina,
she would be forced to stand up straight, and was not allowed to sit or lean
against a wall. Because of being on a hunger strike, wearing shackles and
handcuffs, and being freezing cold, Zhu Xianzhi was trembling and unable to
stand stable. Even in such a situation, she was still forced to do two night
shifts like that. Around 8 a.m. on October 18, the political head Xu gathered all the people
for a meeting and claimed that Zhu Xianzhi did not follow the prison rules and
refused to do counting when being called. He ordered four prisoners to carry Zhu
Xianzhi outside and give her ten whippings. The next day when the policewoman,
Zhu Guizhi, found out that Zhu Xianzhi still refused to do counting when being
called, she ordered another six whippings. Zhu Xianzhi was forced to wear handcuffs and shackles from the time she was
sent to the detention center. Half a month later, the torture had caused her
four limbs to be numb. She also suffered from a fever and extreme pain. She
couldn't sleep at night and was still forced to do two night shifts. Zhu Xianzhi started to resume eating because of her poor health condition.
Then they forced her to work and do night shifts. She had to get up at 6 a.m.
and work until 10 p.m. or midnight. Because of her poor health condition, Zhu
fainted several times and felt pain on her lower back, feet, hands and arms. She
had several fevers, coughed and experienced dizziness. The head of the detention
center, Guan Jinxiang, said to her: "You are sick and can't work. Many
others are sick as well. What are we to do if they all refuse to work? We have a
rule that if one can't work, one has to wear shackles." Therefore, on
December 13, Zhu Xianzhi was put in shackles weighing over 5 kg. One week later, Zhu Xianzhi's condition worsened, and she asked that the
shackles be removed. Guan Jinxiang asked her whether she wanted to work. She
said she was unable to. Guan immediately turned around and left. Half a month
later, Zhu Xianzhi felt dizzy and vomited, and her cough became worse. She asked
that the shackles be removed. Guan asked her again whether she would work. Zhu
Xianzhi said, "My health is so poor. I am indeed unable to work." Guan
said, "Then keep wearing them," and left. Zhu Xianzhi's condition
worsened day-by-day. She was not able to walk straight and kept falling down.
She had difficulty going to the toilet. Her feet were swelling. They finally
removed the shackles from her. 2. Brutal force-feeding Because of the persecution, Zhu Xianzhi's body was out of balance. She felt
oppression in her chest and had intense pain in her head. She couldn't eat for
consecutive days, so they started force-feeding her again, once a day. On the
first day, they filled her with flour soup. Later they filled her with very
salty flour soup, which made her vomit, and feel dizzy and weak. Two times after
being force-fed, Zhu Xianzhi had to go to the bathroom from 4 p.m. until 7 p.m.
with diarrhea. She also started to vomit blood. Every time when she was
force-fed, four or five people plus a doctor were involved. They would hold her
down to the ground in the open field outside. One held her legs; one held her
feet; one held her arms; and one covered her mouth with a wet towel. They would
fill her with salty flour soup from two half-full troughs that are approximately
20 cm in diameter. Zhu would convulse on the ground and would choke out almost
everything. They kept doing this, and even used an inflated air bag, which made
Zhu feel as though her heart and lungs were going to explode. Only after
spitting out the food did she feel better. The force-feeding would last ten to
twenty minutes. Afterwards, they would leave and Zhu would be vomiting and
having diarrhea. The next day they would perform the same procedure again. Zhu
Xianzhi kept vomiting blood and coughing for three or four nights afterwards.
Later, they gave her infusions, which lasted about three days, until they
couldn't inject the needle into her body any longer. Since then, Zhu Xianzhi would cough every night and was unable to sleep. She
asked for a medical examination and it was refused. The evil ruffians forced her
to work every day. The head of the detention center and police would scold her
if she refused to work. They would assign the work to others in the same cell if
she could not work, which triggered the inmates to bully and scold her. These
evil people would not allow her to close her eyes or cough. When she closed her
eyes, they would throw something on her head. Zhu Xianzhi suffered such
maltreatment every day until she was sentenced and sent to the Xinxiang Women
Prison on March 24, 2005. She was diagnosed with severe infectious pulmonary
tuberculosis and had a 4 cm hole in her lungs which was caused by the
forced-feeding. 3. Illegally sentenced to jail Zhu Xianzhi was extremely weak due to the persecution in the Yanshi Detention
Center. However, the Yansi Detention Center not only refused to give her a
medical examination but also rushed the court to sentence her. On March 1, 2005, the court held a hearing. There was neither evidence nor a
witness to support the so-called crimes claimed by the prosecutor. Zhu Xianzhi
didn't acknowledge any of the charges. Even the defendant lawyer said that there
was not enough evidence to convict her. However, the Xanshi People's Court
sentenced her on March 2, 2005, to seven years in jail. 4. Force-feeding medicine On March 24, 2005, when Zhu Xianzhi was sent to Xinxiang City for a physical
exam, she was found to have infectious pulmonary tuberculosis. The detention
center was told to take her back immediately, but they did not pick her up until
March 27. Zhu Xianzhi was held for another 10 days in the detention center. Her
condition worsened daily. She kept coughing up saliva and phlegm, day and night,
unceasingly. She was unable to sleep and had difficulty breathing. She was on
the verge of death. Her weight dropped from over 50 kg to a little over 30 kg. The Yanshi Detention Center refused to send her home. On April 8, Zhu Xianzhi
was sent to the Huaxia Hotel where many brainwashing classes were held. The
hotel had television monitors even in the restroom, and every day there were 14
to 15 people guarding her around-the-clock. Ms. Zhu's room would be locked
tightly at night with a stick against the door. Zhu Xianzhi protested being put in this hotel. They forcefully pulled her up
to the third floor. Zhu yelled out loudly, "Falun Dafa is good!" (At
that time, Zhu's throat was swelled so much that she almost couldn't speak). The
director of the Politics and Law Committee, Zhang Qinghua, promptly pushed her
into the room. He slammed her against the wall and tried to stop her from
yelling out because he was afraid that others might hear. He said, "Why
don't you hit the wall and kill yourself?" Because it was midnight and they
were afraid of being heard, they let her go. On the second and third days, the authorities force-fed medicine into Ms. Zhu
with the intention of improving her health slightly and returning her to jail.
The cost for the medicine was between 200 to 300 yuan per day. The hotel room
was 50 yuan per day. The total cost for 15 people's accommodation and food would
be over 1000 yuan per day. August 12, 2005
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