Practitioner Ms. Su Baolan Arrested and Sent for Brainwashing in 2001 -- Her Body Found in River 12 Days Later (Photo)
By a Falun Dafa practitioner in Shandong Province
(Clearwisdom.net) Ms. Su Baolan was a 37-year-old Falun Gong practitioner from Anqiu City,
Shandong Province. In mid-October 2001, lawless officials from Shidui Town
Police Department, Anqiu City 610 Office agents and Anqiu City
Police Department personnel broke into her home and illegally
arrested her. They took her to the Anqiu City brainwashing class, held by
the 610 Office. Anqiu City 610 Office persecutors extorted 1,000 yuan
from Ms. Su's family. Twelve days later, her body was found in a small river in
Sanhe Village, 12 li [about 4 miles] from Anqiu City in Jinzhongzi Township. The
villagers buried it as an unidentified body. Her family did not learn about it
until much later. More than four years have passed, and the cause of Su Baolan's death is still
a mystery Ms. Su Baolan was born in 1964 and lived in Shirenpo Village,
Shidui Town, Anqiu City, Shandong Province with her husband's family. Her
parents lived in Xingshan Village, Wangjiazhuangzi Town, Anqiu City, Shandong
Province. Her mother Zhou Shufen, 64 years old, suffered from bone spurs in both
feet. She felt as if she was walking on pins and needles with each step. She
also had high blood pressure and cataracts. Her father Zhu Xiaoyou, 65 years
old, had spinal disc protrusion, which caused so much pain that he could not
sleep at night. They took lots of medications but the pain was not relieved. In 1996, their son Su Qingtai borrowed an uncle's copy of Zhuan
Falun after he saw that his parents were in great pain. All of their
symptoms disappeared after the old couple started practicing Falun Gong, and
they miraculously recovered. Their three daughters saw their parents' great
changes and also started to practice Falun Gong. The family lived a happy life. Su Baolan arrested by police, body found in river 12 days later After the persecution began in July 1999, police and 610 Office agents from
Anqiu City frequently threatened and arrested Su Baolan at her home and extorted
money from her. Su Baolan's husband was brainwashed and persecuted. He changed
from supporting his wife's practice to resenting it and viciously beat his wife. Su Baolan could no longer stay at home. She left in February 2001 and lived
in exile for six months. In mid-October 2001, Su Baolan went home to visit her
parents-in-law, her husband and her child. Officials from the Shidui Town Police
Department, from the Anqiu City 610 Office and from the Anqiu City Police
Department arrested her. They broke into her home and took her to the Anqiu City
610 Office Brainwashing Center. The Anqiu City 610 Office extorted 1,000 yuan
from her family. A dozen days later, Su Baolan's body was found in a small river in Sanhe
Village, which is 12 li [about 4 miles] from Anqiu City, in Jinzhongzi Township.
The body was on the bottom of the riverbed, in shallow water. Someone dragged
the body ashore and the local people immediately called the police. The police
arrived and took photos and they left after examining the body. The body was
left on the riverbank for three days. The villagers could no longer stand it,
and they buried it as an unidentified body. It wasn't until later that her
family got wind of the news. They went to Sanhe Village and dug up the body.
Although her face, corner of the mouth and part of her nose were distorted, and
there was a wound with stitches and thread on her head, the family still
recognized Su Baolan from her clothing and facial features. According to witnesses, one police officer whispered to another police
officer while they took pictures and examined the body that the dead person was
a Falun Gong practitioner. At the time of Su Baolan's family finding the body, her father and younger
sister Su Baoyun were being held at a labor camp against the law. Her mother and
sister Su Baoli were living in exile to avoid persecution. Her brother was
attending university in Jinan City. None of her blood relatives knew about her
death; only her in-laws faced this sudden blow. The Anqiu City 610 Office then
tried to get this incident out of the way by offering Su Baolan's husband 20,000
yuan. He didn't want to take the money and wanted to seek justice, but the
wicked Party would not let him. Even now, the cause of Ms. Su's death is still a
mystery. Su Baolan's death is a taboo subject for the local police, the 610 Office and
Su Baolan's husband. They are also afraid of other people bringing it up. Su
Baolan's sister was later arrested and held at a detention center. An official
from Anqiu City, Li Shenghua, wanted to know whether she had probed into her
sister's death. Su Baolan's father, then in his 60s, savagely beaten and sentenced to three
years of forced labor After the persecution began in July 1999, Su Baolan's father Su Xiaoyou, who
was in his 60s, was detained many times. Because he persisted in practicing
Falun Gong, he was sentenced to three years of forced labor on November 17, 2000
and was held at the Changle Forced Labor Camp. The guards and inmates there
tortured him, and he almost died. On December 1, 2000 the labor camp officials sent all Falun Gong
practitioners to Division 2, which included two groups. Su Xiaoyou was sent to
Class 2, Group 2 of Division 2. Eight inmates jumped on him and stripped him
naked. They held him to the ground with his face touching the concrete floor.
Some inmates held his head, some held his arms and legs, and the rest took turns
lashing him with a home-made whip. This whip is a triangular belt tied to a wood
stick with metal wire, and a leather belt with a metal buckle on top. The
inmates whipped him, from the knees up to the neck. A hole would appear wherever
these belts touched the flesh, as the metal buckle would penetrate the flesh.
The inmates demanded to know after every few lashes, "Are you still going
to practice [Falun Gong]?" If he answered yes, they would whip him even
more sadistically. When the flesh in one location was completely reduced to a
pulp, the inmates would switch to another place on the body and start whipping
again. They repeatedly whipped him systematically from the knees up including
the thighs, the buttocks, the lower back, the shoulders and the neck. They broke
one leather belt, and the triangular belt was covered in flesh and blood. Not a
single piece of intact flesh could be found on Su Xiaoyou's entire back. After three years of being out of the forced labor camp, Su Xiaoyou still has
scars from the whipping clearly visible on his back. Repeated detention In the past seven years, Su Xiaoyou's whole family was groundlessly detained,
fined, sent to a labor camp and had their home ransacked. The oldest daughter Su
Baolan died. The father, the second daughter Su Baoyun, and the youngest
daughter Su Baoli suffered from brutal persecution. Su Xiaoyou's wife Zhou
Shufen opted to leave home to avoid persecution. The whole family has endured
more than words can describe. On July 20 and July 22, 1999, when the persecution first began, Su Zhaosheng,
the former Party secretary of Xingshan Village, and Han Fuben, the former head
of the Wangjiazhuangzi Town Police Department, arrested Zhou Shufen and Su
Xiaoyou. They transported them to the Wangjiazhuangzi Town Police Department
where the elderly couple was held for eight days. On August 29, 1999, Han Fuben
arrested Su Baoli and detained her at the Wangjiazhuangzi Town Police Department
for ten days. Su Baoli was breast-feeding her infant at the time. On October 11, 1999, Su Xiaoyou and Su Baoli were again arrested. On the
third day after their return home, six family members decided to travel to
Beijing to appeal for justice for Falun Dafa. The group included the old couple,
their three daughters and the five-year-old grandson. They were arrested at
different times in Beijing, sent back to Anqiu City and held for 50 days.
Officers from the Anqiu City Police Department extorted 2,400 yuan from Su
Qingtai, Su Xiaoyou's son, who was then a university student in Jinan City. When the couple went home, they found seals on their door and a changed lock.
According to witnesses, the day after Su Xiaoyou's family went to Beijing, Su
Zhaosheng, the former Party secretary of Xingshan Village arrived with about
seven people. They pried open the lock and took a black-and-white TV, a
muller, a small pushcart, a motorcycle, several hundred yuan cash, and a
Certificate of Deposit due to be cashed in, worth 2,100 yuan. In late 1999, Su Zhaosheng cut off the electricity to Su Xiaoyou's home. When
Su Qingtai went home for the Chinese New Year he saw that the electricity had
been cut off. He went to Su Zhaosheng and asked to have it reconnected. Su
Zhaosheng then extorted another 1,000 yuan from Su Qingtai before restoring the
electricity. In June 2000, Su Xiaoyou again went to Beijing to appeal. Su
Zhaosheng again disconnected the electricity, and it has remained disconnected
up until this time. In March 2000, Han Fuben and Li Jingbo arrested the elderly couple and held
them at the Wangjiazhuangzi Town Police Department for 25 days. Repeated
detention and home ransacking could not make Su Xiaoyou's family give up their
belief in Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance. In June 2000, Su Xiaoyou and Su Baoli went again to Beijing to appeal. Police
arrested them at their arrival in Tianjin City and sent them back to the Anqiu
City Detention Center. The police checked all buses at all major intersections,
to prevent Falun Gong practitioners from entering Beijing. All passengers were
ordered to curse Falun Gong and its founder. Those who refused to do so would be
immediately arrested and held until the local officials came to claim them. At
Anqiu City Detention Center, father and daughter held a hunger strike for five
days in protest, and were then released. After they returned to Wangjiazhuangzi
Town, Han Fuben held them for another 28 days. In August 2000, Su Zhaosheng from Xingshan Village, Wangjiazhuangzi Town, Li
Jingbo and Zhang from the town's police department told Zhou Shufen and Su
Xiaoyou to report to the police department. The couple refused. Several minutes
later, Zhou Wen and several roughnecks from Wangjiazhuangzi Town went to the old
couple's home and burned three copies of Zhuan Falun in front
of everyone. They handcuffed the old couple with their arms behind their backs
and carried them into a police car, then detained the couple at Wangjiazhuangzi
Town Police Department. Later, they arrested their daughter Su Baoli, took her
to the same police department and held all three for 30 days. Then the police
sent Su Xiaoyou to the Anqiu City 610 Office brainwashing class for one month.
Because he refused brainwashing, he was sentenced to three years of forced labor
and was held at the Changle Forced Labor Camp. In the morning of March 15, 2005, Anqui police agents arrested Su Xiaoyou
from home and held him at a detention center for one month. Upon his release,
the Anqiu police extorted 3,400 yuan from his family. Su Baoli extorted out of more than 40,000 yuan and sent to detention in 2002
and labor camp in 2005 Zhou Shufen and Su Baoli held a hunger strike at the town police department.
They were held for 61 days and were released when they were on the brink of
death. Su Baoli left home because the officials frequently harassed her. On
October 28, 2002, about seven Anqiu police agents including Li Shenghua and Jia
Zaijun arrested her again and held her at the Anqiu City Detention Center for
over 60 days. The police extorted more than 30,000 yuan from Su Baoli's family. Su Baoli's
husband doesn't practice Falun Gong. He borrowed money from all kinds relatives
and friends but still came up short. He sold some wheat, the only valuable the
family had left, to get together more than 30,000 yuan, all of which the police
took! In the spring of 2003, Su Baoli was arrested and detained twice. In the morning of March 15, 2005, Anqiu police arrested Su Baoli from home,
held her at a detention center and tortured her for one month. The Anqiu police
extorted 10,000 yuan from her family. Then they sent her to the Wangcun Forced
Labor Camp in Shandong Province. The happy family headed by Su Xiaoyou and Zhou Shufen is now completely
destitute and broken after several years of ransacking, arrests, fines, forced
labor and other forms of persecution. Weifang City, Shandong Province is one of the areas in China where the
persecution against Falun Gong is most severe. It has so far been verified that
at least 119 Falun Gong practitioners in Weifang City have died from
persecution, which is the highest among all cities in China. The torture death
of Ms. Chen Zixiu, a 59-year-old Falun Gong practitioner, which was published in
the Wall Street Journal on April 20, 2000, took place in Weifang City.
Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Su Baolan of Anqiu City, Shandong Province
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