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Ms. Wu Yunrui, a Respected and Conscientious Provincial-Level Government Official, Is Sentenced to a Second Four-Year Prison Term for Practicing Falun Gong
(Clearwisdom.net) Ms. Wu Yunrui, born in 1956, assumed the position of deputy mayor of Bozhou
City, Anhui Province in 1990. She was highly respected for her conscientious
work and her incorruptibility. In 1995, she was appointed the deputy director of Anhui Provincial Tourist
Bureau based on her outstanding achievements. She has kept herself upright,
especially after 1996 when she began to practice Falun Gong. She behaved
according to the standard of "Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance."
A food company manager once commended her, saying "She brings a positive
attitude in our city." Afterwards, when the police searched her home, only
7,000 yuan ($875) was found. One policeman said, "We searched
the home of an honest and upright official!" Sentenced to four years imprisonment for appealing for Falun Gong In December 1999, Ms. Wu went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong, and was
arrested on December 26 in Tiananmen Square. The next day, the Anhui Provincial
Tourist Bureau withdrew all of her administrative duties without conducting any
investigation or giving any chance for her to appeal or file a complaint. An
article criticizing her appeared in the headlines of Anhui Daily on
December 28, 1999, which also referred to the massive persecution of Falun Gong
practitioners in Anhui Province. It is said that Gao Weiqing, the then-director
of Anhui Provincial Tourist Bureau, was liable for the persecution of Ms. Wu
Yunrui. Ms. Wu Yunrui was sentenced to four years imprisonment thereafter, and
detained in Anhui Provincial Woman's Prison in Su County, where she was deprived
the right to see her mother and other family members. Only her sister and son
were allowed to see her. Ten inmates were designated to monitor her 24 hours a
day, and she was forbidden to talk to others. Otherwise, the person whom she
talked to would be punished by the police. Even the policemen themselves were
not allowed to freely talk to her. During her jail sentence, she wrote a letter to Wang Taihua, the Secretary of
Anhui Provincial Party Committee, to disclose the illegal and unfair treatments
she experienced, but she never got a response. Her family hired an attorney for
her, but the prison rejected the request from the attorney to contact her. Persecuted to mental disorder In September 2003, the jail authorities launched a campaign to forcibly
"transform" Falun Gong practitioners, which was led by Kong XX,
section head at Anhui Provincial Forced Labor Bureau, Gong XX, the deputy
director of the jail, and Ma XX the CCP secretary of the prison. They threatened
that the Falun Gong practitioners who refused the "transformation"
would be pressed to commit suicide, and then the blame would be shifted to Falun
Gong. They said beating to death would also countIt is said that Ms. Wu Yunrui
experienced beating for two days in that campaign. In the afternoon of the
second day, she was beaten into a coma, and when she regained consciousness she
suffered from a mental disorder for three months. In the winter, other detainees
wore thick clothes, while she still put on a T-shirt, since she lost the ability
to feel the cold. Her parents-in-law visited her after the beating. They said
that Ms. Wu showed visible bodily deformation, blue discharge ran from her eyes
and she had no eye response. After her release she recovered a little bit, but
still suffered a relapse occasionally. She only improved after several months'
care by her family. Sentenced to four years in prison again At about 10:00 p.m. on October 10, 2004, when Ms. Wu was eating in a
restaurant in Bozhou City with Falun Gong practitioners Zhang Junru, Xu Cuihua,
Dong Hong, etc, they were approached by the police and arrested. She was sentenced to four years in prison again, and has served the term in
Bo County Woman's Jail (also called Bozhou City's Woman Jail) for two years. An
insider says that she is in poor health. The details of the persecution have yet
to be investigated. Presently, Ms. Wu Yunrui's home is under strict surveillance, and the
telephone is also tapped. Xia Xiurong and his wife, Falun Gong practitioners in
Bozhou City, were arrested and are still detained just because they helped Ms.
Wu's mother to buy some food. September 15, 2006 |