(Clearwisdom.net) Song Yanqun, an English teacher at Harbin Dade Japanese School, was arrested by Guo Wei, the head of the Shulan Police Department, along with other policemen on November 27, 2003 because of her belief in Falun Dafa. Song Yanqun's younger sister, Song Bin, was arrested at the same time. The director of Shulan Police Department, Xin He, and policemen Li Zhuo, Li Yaochen, Li Jiazhe and Wang Tingbai, interrogated Song Yanqun and her sister. They tortured them both by tying them on a tiger bench, pricking their ears and eyes with a thin nail, and feeding them mustard oil. Song Yanqun was illegally sentenced to prison for twelve years. She was transferred to the Heizuizi Women's Prison, where she was tortured on the "dead person's bed" and held in solitary confinement. As a result, Song Yanqun contracted severe tuberculosis and lost weight, dropping to approximately sixty pounds.

On May 23, 2006, Song Yanqun's parents went to visit Song Yanqun in Heizuizi Women's Prison, but the guards would not allow Song Yanqun's mother to meet with her. Song's mother called and asked the leader of the Education Team, Cao Hong, why she was not allowed to meet with her daughter. Cao said, "Because you practice Falun Gong." Song's mother said, "But I am her mother. Is there any law saying I cannot meet with my daughter?" Cao did not answer her question and would not allow Song's mother to see her.

Since December 2005, whenever Song's mother went to the prison, she attempted to talk with Cao Hong. She also called Cao Hong twice. However, Cao Hong refused to meet or speak with Song Yanqun's mother.

Song Yanqun's father has been allowed to meet with her. However, the prison guards have limited his visits to between seven to ten minutes (the official visitation period at the prison is thirty minutes). Even though Song Yanqun's father is not allowed the full thirty minutes, the monitor (inmate assigned to monitor Song Yanqun) who joins the persecution of Song Yanqun, always utilizes some of the meeting time. The monitor has tried to deceive Song Yanqun's father with statements such as, "There is humane management in the prison," "The guards follow the law," and "The guards treat prisoners better than family."

During one meeting, the monitor asked Song Yanqun to stand at attention when meeting with her father, and lied in front of Song's father. A guard named Yang told the monitor, "Listen to what Song and her father say." After the guard came back, the monitor told her that Song's father told Song to not be "educated." Song's father immediately asked the monitor, "Are you just trying to get yourself released earlier by saying this? I will sue you if you do this again!" That monitor answered at once, "I will not do it again." The guard stopped the meeting. Thereafter, the monitor rebuked Song Yanqun.

Posting date: 6/23/2006
Original article date: 6/22/2006
Category: Eyewitness Accounts
Translated on 6/3/2006
Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2006/5/31/129299.html

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