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Ms. Hu Xingyu from Sichuan Province, 78, Has Been Jailed Ten Times
By a Falun Dafa practitioner from Sichuan Province
(Clearwisdom.net) Ms. Hu Xingyu, 78 years old, is from Shuitang Village,
Panlian Town, Miyi County, Sichuan Province. She has been incarcerated ten times
for practicing Falun Gong, once in a detention center for ten months, where she
was forced to run and stand in a very uncomfortable position. She was also hung
up. To try to frighten her, policemen once tied her up and forced her to stand,
lined up with the death-penalty criminals when the criminals were executed. Ms. Hu had many diseases before practicing Falun Gong. She was a lay Buddhist
and used to live in a temple. Since she was ill, she had to go home for
recovery. Later, somebody introduced Falun Gong to her. After cultivating Falun
Gong, all of her illnesses vanished. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) launched the persecution of Falun Gong in
July 1999. Ms. Hu and other Falun Gong practitioners held a cultivation
experience sharing conference in Binghaiba on October 27, 1999. They were
reported and illegally arrested by policemen Xiang Jinfa, Yang Zihua,
Zhou Lin, Liao Hongbin and Chai Faxiang. They were jailed in an office in the
police department. It was very cold that night, and the practitioners were only
wearing thin clothing. Police officer Chai Faxiang purposely opened the windows.
Ms. Hu was very cold that night. She was released the next morning. On November 20, 1999, Ms. Hu went to Beijing to appeal for justice for Falun
Gong. Department of Political Security Chief Xiang Jinfa fined her 200 yuan.
In December 1999 she went to Beijing again, and was arrested and jailed in the
police department for one month. A few days after her release, Deputy Mayor Wang
Zhengming from Panlian Town and several other officials deceived her and placed
her in a brainwashing center for further persecution. During a brainwashing
session, policeman Chen Youjun made Ms. Hu clean the street. In the daytime she
was forced to read a lot of articles slandering Falun Gong and its founder.
Policemen from Panzhihua, Zhang Bolin and Liu, and a police officer from Miyi,
Xiang Jinfa, came to the brainwashing center to monitor Hu Xingyu. Ms. Hu was
tortured for more than ten days. The Panlian Town government officials took away
her rights to her agricultural field. Her son had to pay them one hundred yuan
to get the land back. In July 2000, the chief of Shuitang Village Xu Chaoyou and a person named
Yang Tinghe held a series of brainwashing sessions to persecute Falun Gong
practitioners. Practitioners had to run in circles for one hour every morning
and afternoon. After running, they were forced to stand for another hour. Xu
Chaoyou watched them. Ms. Hu was too old to keep up, yet Xu Chaoyou still forced
her to run. In the daytime, the policemen forced the practitioners to read a lot
of articles that slandered Falun Gong and its founder. They made Ms. Hu stay
awake for two whole days. Since Ms. Hu refused to sign a "guarantee
statement", she was sent to a brainwashing center in Panlian Town, where
she was forced to run in circles and remain standing for long periods of time.
She was forbidden to sleep or lie down for two days. She could only crouch or
stand. Police officer Chen Youjun forced Ms. Hu to clean the street. She was
jailed in the brainwashing center for three days and fined 300 yuan. On December 14, 2000 Ms. Hu placed some posters in public places, which
clarified the truth about Falun Gong. On December 17, policemen Yang
Zihua, Rao Xianwen, Li Xuesong and Chai Faxiang went to Ms. Hu's house and took
her away. While in the police department, Ms. Hu was locked in the hallway for
one hour. Policemen forced her to stand in a very uncomfortable position during
the interrogation. Chai Faxiang struck her in the head and pulled on her ears.
The policemen took off Ms. Hu's coat and directed two fans, blowing cold air, at
her. Chai Faxiang, Xiang Jinfa and a policeman from the county hung Ms. Hu up
for over half an hour so that her feet could barely touch the ground. They did
not give Ms. Hu any water to drink. Chai Faxiang locked her in a cold cell for a
night. Every day, policemen Yang Zihua and Zhou Lin subjected Ms. Hu to
interrogation. Before the 2001 New Year, policemen tied up all the Falun Gong practitioners
and took them to a place where the death-penalty criminals were executed. To
Falun Gong practitioners, the policemen forced them to line up with the
death-penalty criminals when they were being executed. Ms. Hu was held in the detention center for ten months. Because she persisted
in doing the Falun Gong exercises, political heads Liu Qizhao, Lin Hai, Hao
Wanfa, Fu Wenhui, Peng Yongchun, Chief Wu Xueming and Deputy Chief Zhu Chenglong
locked her up, pushed her against a wall and kicked her. Wu Xueming and Lin Hai
tortured Ms. Hu in this manner twice and each time, the torture lasted 30
minutes. Wu Xueming and Lin Hai locked her up five times when she tried to do
the exercises. Sometimes she was locked for three days, and sometimes for one
week. On October 5, 2002, policemen Xiang Jinfa, Yang Zihua, Zhou Lin, Li Xuesong
and Rao Xianwen searched Hu Xingyu's house and harassed her, since the CCP's 16th
Party Congress was in session. Ms. Hu opted to leave home to avoid further
persecution. The policemen searched for her in Xichang, Dechang and Huidong, and
arrested her and other practitioners in Huili. In Huili, policemen Zhou Lin and
Zhao tied Ms. Hu up and took her away through a remote secret channel in order
to avoid being seen by public. They jailed Ms. Hu in a police station for two
days. Chai took away 842 yuan that she had on her. On October 7, Xiang Jinfa,
Yang Zihua, Zhou Lin, Li Xuesong, Rao Xianwen and Zhao took Ms. Hu back to Miyi
County. In the police van, her hands were handcuffed, and her feet were
shackled. Because of the motion inside the police van, she got very carsick and
she vomited. They had not given her any food since the arrest on October 5. Hu
Xingyu was incarcerated in the Miyi County Detention Center for one month. On June 20, 2003, Falun Gong practitioners from Miyi County held an
experience sharing conference by a river in Salian. Since the policemen learned
about the conference beforehand, they stopped a lot of practitioners on a
bridge. Only about 60 practitioners were able to attend the conference. The
Salian Town police chief Tao Chunyun reported the conference to his supervisors.
Many policemen, including officers from Panzhihua City, were sent to the
conference site, where they beat the practitioners. Practitioner Zeng Guozhong
was beaten badly. His shirt was torn and he was pushed into the 12-foot deep
river. Policemen took practitioners' umbrellas and beat them with them. Tao
Chunyun was directing the beating. Policemen dragged practitioners to the road
and beat them there. Four police officers carried practitioner Song Chenghui to
the road. Practitioner Zhou Shenghui was also beaten badly. The policemen
arrested more than ten practitioners that day. The practitioners tried to stop the policemen from beating people. Dozens of
armed policemen arrived. During the two-hour-long conflict, the traffic was not
blocked. The policemen eventually blocked the traffic and stopped all the cars.
They videotaped the traffic jam and claimed that it was Falun Gong practitioners
who were blocking the traffic. The TV news in Miyi County broadcast this slander
that night. Actually, the truth was that policemen had dragged practitioners
onto the road and stopped all the cars. Seven practitioners were sentenced to labor camps. Zhou Shenghui was
sentenced to eight years; Song Chenghui was sentenced to four years; Wang
Yuanpin, three-and-a-half years; Zhang Hongyin, four years; Zhang Zhenghuan,
four years; Zhuang Delin, three-and-a-half years; Li Yinqi, three years. Many
practitioners were jailed in the detention center for one month. Ms. Hu and
seven other practitioners were taken to the Panlian Town City Hall by the
leaders of the CCP Committee in Panlian, Yan Jiqing and Wang Zhengming. The
officials verbally abused them for half a day before they were released. In December 2003 Ms. Hu was again arrested, in Salian Town. She was jailed in
the Binggu Police Station. Policeman Yang Zihua sent Ms. Hu to a detention
center. She was held for one month and forced to pay a 200-yuan fine. In December 2004, Yang Zihua and Zhou Lin searched Ms. Hu's house. They took
a set of Falun Gong cassettes and jailed her in the detention center for one
month, and forced her to pay a 400-yuan fine. On November 4, 2005, the directors of National Security Team, Yang Zihua, Li
Xuesong and several agents from the Panlian Police Department illegally searched
Ms. Hu's house again. They took away a copy of Zhuan Falun,
cassettes, a DVD player, a CD player, Master Li Hongzhi's portrait, some VCDs
and 2,000 yuan in cash. Ms. Hu was jailed in the Chengguan Police Station.
Policeman Tao Gang shackled her to the legs of a table in an uncomfortable
position. She could not sit down or stand up, which made her feet hurt badly for
several months. The policemen opened all the windows, letting the cold wind blow
on her. They kept Ms. Hu incarcerated for one month, and they never returned the
money they extorted from her. |