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Li Qingson and Zhou Xiuxia from Qian'an City, Hebei Province Suffer Frequent Persecution
(Clearwisdom.net) Note: The following is a shortened version of a
longer and more detailed article that appeared on the Minghui.org website
(Chinese version of Clearwisdom.net). Dafa practitioner Mr. Li Qingson worked for an agriculture company in Qian'an
City, Hebei Province, and his wife Zhou Xiuxia worked in a meat factory there.
On January 20, 2000, Mr. Li pointed out in a work unit meeting where people were
reading articles slandering Dafa, that everything written in the articles about
Dafa was fabrications and lies. Because of this he was detained for fifteen days
and fined three thousand yuan. His wife was forced to pay a fine of
one thousand yuan. On the morning of July 14, 2001, police officers came to search Mr. Li's
house and illegally arrested Mr. Li and his wife, taking them to the Qian'an
Detention Center. Mr. Li was held there for six months and then sent to
Hehuakeng Forced Labor Camp in Tangshan City for one year. His wife was
imprisoned in Qian'an Detention Center for almost one year before she was
released. On the afternoon of September 1, 2003, Mr. and Mrs. Li and their
five-year-old daughter were all illegally arrested. The next day,
family members retrieved the child from police custody. The couple was kept in
the detention center for one month and then transferred to a brainwashing
center. After enduring two weeks of abuse in the brainwashing center, one of Mr.
Li's eyes began bleeding from some unknown retinal problem. He was released upon
his family's strong demands. His wife, Zhou Xiuxia was kept in this brainwashing
center for another fourteen months. On the afternoon of August 28, 2004, police officers illegally arrested Mr.
Li at his home and sentenced him to two years in Hehuakeng Forced labor Camp in
Tangshan City. On October 25, 2005, when Mr. Li's family went to visit him in the forced
labor camp, his family saw a wound on his temple, which was swollen and oozing
pus. The family learned that the wound was the result of a brutal beating by the
criminals in Li's cell, instigated by the vicious prison guards. In the nine months since November 2005, when Mr. Li was transferred to Handan
Forced Labor Camp, he has not been allowed even once to have family visits or to
write or call his family. His family is very worried about his status. On the morning of June 1, 2006, Zhou Xiuxia was illegally arrested while
handing out truth-clarifying materials, and taken to Qian'an
Detention Center. After protesting by hunger strike for thirteen days, she was
sentenced to Kaiping Forced Labor Camp in Tangshan City for two years. |