(Clearwisdom.net) Ms. Wang Zanmei, 60 years old, lives in No. 18, Qinglongnan Street, Qixian County, Henan Province. She had polio when she was a child and could not move her left leg at all. She had great difficulty walking and fell down five to six times a day. About 15 years ago, she was in a car accident and her left leg received a comminuted fracture (a fracture in which the bone is splintered or crushed). After two major surgeries, she could not bend her knee and had to use crutches for two years. Afterwards, Ms. Wang got heart disease. Her brain did not receive enough blood and she lost feeling in half of her body. She went to the hospital for a brain scan and was diagnosed with cerebral thrombosis. She really did not have the courage to live any more.

Ms. Wang began to practice Falun Gong in 1998. She has become healthy and has recovered from all her ailments through practicing Falun Gong. She used to not be able to bend her knee, but now she can sit in the double lotus position (double leg crossing) for two hours. Although she still walks with a limp, she can walk fast. She takes the initiative to do all the domestic chores. She also goes out frequently to be a baby-sitter in order to help with her household expenses.

After July 20, 1999, Ms. Wang Zanmei felt distressed at seeing Jiang's regime persecute Falun Gong. In order to enable more people to become healthy, to help everyone in China learn the truth, and to tell the government how wonderful Falun Dafa is and that everything about Falun Dafa is beneficial to the nation and the people, she went to Beijing in November 2000. She was arrested at Tiananmen Square and was "illegally detained" for 18 days. She was then sent back to the local public security department and detained there for more than a month. She was not released until January 6, 2001 and was illegally fined 3,000 yuan.

In the afternoon on January 18, 2001, when she was cooking dinner, the police from the National Security Team of County Public Security Department again illegally arrested her through trickery. Her son said at that time, "Please let my mother celebrate the New Year at home." The police replied that she could not stay unless they paid 5,000 yuan.

Her family had just paid a 3,000-yuan fine, and only 12 days later the authorities wanted to extort another 5,000 yuan. Her son did not have that much money, so the police accused her of "disturbing the public order" and detained her for a long time.

After 45 days of illegal imprisonment, she was transferred to the detention center. The police handcuffed her and practitioner Lixia together by the hands for 30 days. During this time, Ms. Wang needed help eating and going to the restroom. Later on, she was sentenced to three years in the forced labor camp.

Ms. Wang was extremely weak due to torture in the detection center, so the forced labor camp refused to accept her for fear of having to take responsibility for her condition. She was locked up in the detection center until May 25, 2005. The police released her after extorting another 500 yuan.

On August 12, 2001, when she was working in the night market, Yang Yumei, the director of the local police station in Qi County, and other police officers arrested her and took her to Qi County. Yang Yumei instigated the police to put Ms. Wang together with three male criminals dressed only in their underwear and locked the door. She resisted very strongly and eventually they opened the door, but they sent her to stay with another two men the whole night.

On July 19, 2002, the Qi County Court illegally tried Falun Dafa practitioners Li Junxia, Geng Hongli and Yang Hongren. On that day Ms. Wang Zanmei was an observer in the court. About an hour after the session started, the police suddenly started arresting people in the court. They grabbed Ms. Wang's clothes and dragged her outside. She did not know why the police did this. She started shouting, "The bandits are arresting innocent people. Falun Dafa is good! Falun Dafa is the righteous Fa!" Later on, the police admitted that the reason they arrested people was because they were afraid of practitioners sending forth righteous thoughts in court. The 610 Office and the police arbitrarily detained three practitioners for 15 days.

After Ms. Wang was released, she wrote a letter to the Qi County Court saying, "Who gave you the right to kidnap innocent people from the courtroom?" She sent the letter to both the Qi County Court and the public security department. However, the public security department plotted to arrest her again. To avoid further persecution, she was forced to become destitute and homeless for more than a month.

In the middle of the night on September 26, 2002, when Ms. Wang was sleeping at home, she heard loud knocking on the door. When her husband opened the door, six or seven men rushed into the house. They neither wore uniforms nor had any formal documents. They were just like bandits searching Ms. Wang's house and confiscating her property. They dragged her away and locked her up in Qi County Detention Center.

In the detention center, Ma Shaozhong from the political department, along with a large man, beat and kicked her violently and stole her Dafa book. While in the detention center, Ms. Wang was brutally tortured by police officers Ma Shaozhong and Xu Canjun. After half a month, she was transferred to the County Police Station.

Because she refused to cooperate in the county police station, she was handcuffed together with another four practitioners. The police used three heavy foot shackles (each shackle is over ten kilograms) to chain the four practitioners together.

The practitioners' legs were swollen because of the extremely cold weather. They wrapped small towels around their ankles to reduce the pain, but the cell leader Zhu Yu threw their towels away. In addition to these hardships, every day they had to face and listen to the policemen's insults and verbal abuse. Even in the face of such cruel treatment, the practitioners stood by the principle of "Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance" and kindly clarified the truth about Falun Dafa to the police.

At 5 p.m. on October 17, 2003, while Ms. Wang was looking after her aged and sickly uncle and aunt, Director of the local police station in Qi County Yang Yumei led more than 10 policemen and suddenly broke into her uncle's house. They searched Ms. Wang's house and confiscated her property. She was again arrested, accused of so-called "disturbing the public order," and imprisoned for 50 days. She was soon sentenced to forced labor and sent to the Shibalihe Women's Forced Labor Camp in Zhengzhou City. However, the forced labor camp refused to receive her due to her poor health.

For several years Ms. Wang tried to submit an appeal about the long-term persecution she was being subjected to. She went to the upper level department of Kaifeng Political and Judiciary Committee at 2 p.m. on September 13, 2004. Kaifeng Political and Judiciary Committee personnel tore up her appeal on the spot and handcuffed her in the office. Later, the Qixian County Political and Judiciary Committee 610 Office took her away and angrily threatened, "We have to sentence you." Ms. Wang was held in Qixian County Detention Center and persecuted. Her family members were not allowed to visit her or send clothes to her. She was released after being on a hunger strike for eight days.

On December 6, 2005, the 610 Office of Kaifeng City tricked her into going to the police department, where she was arrested. She was sentenced to one and a half years of forced labor and taken to the Shibalihe Women's Forced Labor Camp in Zhengzhou City.

During the past six years, Ms. Wang has been arrested by the 610 Office and the public security department several times, illegally detained, and sentenced based on fabricated evidence for more than one year. She suffered cruel torture and inhuman maltreatment. Every time she was arrested, her family was damaged spiritually, physically, and economically. Each time, her mother came down with a serious illness due to the angst and stressed placed on her by her daughter's arrest.