The Persecution of a Family: Husband Tortured to Death, Wife Forced Into Homelessness and Imprisoned, Children Harassed (Photo)
By a Falun Dafa practitioner in Laishui county, Hebei province
(Clearwisdom.net) Ms. Liu Yumin's husband Mr. Wu Yanshui died on May 20,
2001 as a result of persecution. Immediately after his death, authorities from
the Laishui county government demolished her house to widen Dongda Street. With the house demolished, Ms. Liu Yumin and her two young children became
homeless, having to go from one place to another. During these desperate times, policemen from the Laishui County Public
Security Bureau in Hebei Province, with policeman Dai Chunjie as their leader,
hunted for Ms. Liu and her two children everywhere. One night in 2002, the
police climbed the wall, crossed the courtyard, pried a window open and broke
into the temporary housing of Ms. Liu and the children. Ms. Liu Yumin didn't
even have time to put on her shoes when the police broke in and arrested her.
Her little girl wailed and screamed in protest, but the police grabbed her and
shouted, "If you scream one more time, we will take you too!" Their father died because of torture and their mother was now arrested. The
little boy and girl had to quit school and find jobs. The boy was hired at a
store in Beijing. When the police from Laishui County Public Security Bureau
found out about it, they pressured the store owner to fire the young boy. The
owner complied and fired him. Now the boy had no income. The girl worked in a
hair salon, but the police found out about that too. They often went to harass
the girl at the hair salon, putting her under a lot of pressure. Since the
Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) persecution Falun Gong on July 20, 1999, the two
children have been living in fear. For seven years, the young girl has been
reluctant to go home. She was afraid of sleeping alone at home. She was
frightened when she heard someone knocking on the door. She was also frightened
to see any car parked in front of her home. On July 26, 2006, Ms. Liu Yumin, who had only recently returned home, was
arrested by policeman Dai Chunjie from Laishui County Public Security Bureau's
Political and Security Division, head of the local "610" Office Wang
Fucai, and a group of policemen. 1. Ms. Liu Yumin Was at Death's Door After the First Round of Torture Ms. Liu Yumin was a schoolteacher in Dongguan Village, Laishui County. She
won the Excellent Teacher of the Year award several times and was well known as
a virtuous wife and nurturing mother. After getting into middle age, she
suffered from headaches, insomnia, cerebral ischemia [lack of oxygen to the
brain], stomach disease, arthritis and heart disease. She sought medical
treatment everywhere, but nothing helped. On her worst days, she collapsed and
went into shock. Her ailments prevented her from holding down a job. In 1996,
she started practicing Falun Gong. As she continued to study Falun Gong's
teachings, practice the Falun Gong exercises and live by Falun Gong's principles
of Truthfulness, Compassion and Forbearance, all the ailments were cured without
any medical treatment. Falun Gong gave her a new lease on life. She went back to
school and worked very diligently. Her family, upon seeing this, also began to
practice Falun Gong. The entire family was living a happy life. Since July 20, 1999, the evil CCP and Jiang Zemin's gang have been madly
persecuting Falun Gong and Falun Gong practitioners. In April 2000, policeman
Dai Chunjie arrested Ms. Liu Yumin because she persisted in practicing the Falun
Gong exercises on a public square. She was illegally imprisoned in the Laishui
County Detention Center. On April 7, 2000, she was transferred to a large forced
brainwashing center in the Laishui County CCP School. The center was operated by
Mr. Sun Guijie, Mr. Zhang Haili, Mr. Liu Yaohua, Mr. Li Zenglin, Mr. Dai Chunjie,
as well as the local Procuratorate and People's Court. Mr. Cui Jikun used to be
Deputy Head of the Laishui County People's Court. Cui Jikun ordered policemen to
tie her up. Cui Jikun stood with his hands on his waist and stared fiercely at
Ms. Liu Yumin. He shouted, "Will you practice Falun Gong?" Ms. Liu
replied, "I will." Cui Jikun slapped her and shouted in rage,
"Drag her to the basement! I don't believe I cannot make you renounce Falun
Gong." They dragged Ms. Liu Yumin to an old basement and forced her to kneel down.
They tied her arms behind her back with a length of rope and pulled it upwards.
In the past, many Falun Gong practitioners' arms were fractured or became
permanently paralyzed as a result of this torture. The pain was excruciating and
the torture usually lasted many hours or days. This went on from noon to about
8:00 p.m. Finally her arms were released. She was brought upstairs and thrown on
a long bench. She looked frighteningly pale. Her hair was disheveled and covered
with dust. Her eyes were tightly shut. Her lips were dry, cracked and bleeding. Because Ms. Liu went into a state of semi-consciousness for a sustained
period of time, Sun Guijie and other policemen released her after extorting
2,200 yuan from her family. After a few months, there were still dark purple
bruises on her hip and thighs and the severely bruised skin was as tight as a
drum.
2. Her Husband Mr. Wu Yanshui Tortured to Death Ms. Liu Yumin's husband Mr. Wu Yanshui was also a Falun Gong practitioner.
Because he refused to give up practicing Falun Gong, Dongguan Village Mayor Mr.
Wu Shangrong, Deputy Town Mayor Mr. Wang Jinlong and Deputy Secretary Mr. Meng
Xiaochun summoned Mr. Wu Yanshi to the town offices under false pretenses. They
imprisoned Mr. Wu on September 28, 2000. After extorting 2,000 yuan from him,
they transferred him to a detention center. On December 27, 2000, they hung
signs on Mr. Wu Yanshui's front and back and paraded him through the streets to
insult and humiliate him. Next he was transferred to another detention center.
There he suffered psychological torture, physical abuse and long hours of forced
labor. He was on the verge of physical and mental collapse. Mr. Wu Yanshui Mr. Wu Yanshui was a tall and well-built man. After four months of torture,
he became very ill. Under the circumstances, Ms. Liu Yumin repeatedly went to
the Public Security Bureau, demanding them to release her husband immediately
for medical treatment. But Dai Chunjie told her, "I am about to transfer
him to a forced labor camp." Secretary of the Disciplinary Committee Mr.
Sun Guijie said, "We don't release Falun Gong practitioners like him for
any reason." Secretary of the Political and Legal Committee Mr. Liu Yaohua
even demanded a 20,000-yuan ransom. Mr. Wu Yanshui's physical condition worsened. On March 30, 2001, the police
saw that Mr. Wu was really dying, so they finally agreed to release him.
However, they extorted 5,000 yuan as a fine before the release. Wu Yanshui had
lost the ability to walk. His entire body was swollen. His legs were numb and
paralyzed. He could no longer see. He couldn't eat and his heart was failing. He
also suffered incontinence. Although Mr. Wu Yanshui was released, they did not
stop the persecution. The police from the township government and the village
committee often broke into Wu's family's home and harassed them. Mr. Wu Yanshui
died on May 20, 2001. His little girl kept pulling on the doctor's hand and
cried. "Please save my daddy! I am still a child. I can't live without my
daddy!"
3. Their House Was Demolished; Ms. Liu Yumin Was at Death's Door Repeatedly
As a Result of Torture After Mr. Wu Yanshui's death, Laishui County began to widen the roads and
demolished his home. Although Mr. Wu Yanshui's wife and children had become homeless, Laishui
Public Security Bureau, Laishui County Education Bureau, and the Laishui Town
Education Committee did not stop their persecution against Ms. Liu Yumin.
Instead, they escalated their persecution. They arrested her at her temporary
residence without any valid legal cause or a warrant. They climbed the wall and
jumped into the house from a window they had broken. When they took away Ms. Liu
Yumin from her two young children, they didn't give her a chance to even
properly dress. She was taken away barefoot and in her underwear in the middle
of the night. The two young children were alone with no one to look after or
provide for them. They didn't release her until she was dying. She was so
emaciated that even close acquaintances couldn't recognize her. Such an illegal arrest, imprisonment and torture took place a few times after
Ms. Liu Yumin's husband passed away. Each time they didn't release her until she
was dying. After Ms. Liu Yumin was released in July 2003, she still had to lean
on another person when she walked. But shortly after her release, her daughter
told her secretly that there were people watching her outside her home. She had
no choice but to become homeless again, and went into hiding to avoid further
persecution. While she was away, her children suffered much harassment. The police often
went to their home and harassed the children. The police would climb the wall,
cross the courtyard, pry open a window and enter the house. The police ransacked
their home and scattered their clothes and personal belongings around and even
in the courtyard. The police claimed they were looking for the entrance of the
basement, if there actually was one. The police would put the boy's arms behind
his back and press his body against the ground to prevent him from talking or
moving. With no one providing for them, the two children had no choice but to
try to find a job. After the police knew about their jobs, the police went to
the children's workplaces to ask for their mother's whereabouts. The boy's boss
fired him due to pressure from the police. Their relatives also suffered from the police's threats. Thugs from Laishui
County Education Bureau and Laishui County Political and Security Division
threatened to have Ms. Liu Yumin's niece fired from her work if she did not try
to locate Ms. Liu Yumin. The niece gave in to the police's threat and went to
many relatives' homes to look for Ms. Liu Yumin. The police tapped into all of
Ms. Liu Yumin's close relatives' telephones and contacted all the relatives she
had approached. The police also broke into Ms. Liu Yumin's two younger sisters'
homes, putting them under a lot of pressure and refusing to let them live in
peace. 4. Ms. Liu Yumin Arrested and Imprisoned Again At around 1:00 p.m. of July 26, 2006, about a dozen plainclothes policemen
pried open the door of Ms. Liu Yumin's home. They looted a notebook computer and
Falun Gong truth-clarification flyers. Dai Chunjie from the Political and
Security Division and Wang Fucai from the 610 Office hurried to the
scene to arrest Ms. Liu Yumin. She had just returned home to her children after
having been on the run from the police. Unfortunately, she fell again into the
hands of the police. Mr. Zhao Xiliang and Ms. Cao Xiaoling were also arrested.
On July 27, 2006, Mr. Zhao Xiliang's wife Ms. Liu Jinhua and her two
granddaughters went to the Public Security Bureau to ask the police to release
Mr. Zhao Xiliang, but the police beat them and detained them for 15, 6 and 7
days respectively. More details are yet to be collected. Ms. Liu Yumin is now imprisoned in Laishui County Detention Center. Mr. Wang Fucai, Chairman of Laishui County "610" Office:
86-312-4532190 (Office), 86-312-4526973 (Home), 86-13932231936 (Cell) Mr. Sun Jinbo, Secretary of Laishui County: 86-312-4527588,
86-13503228995 (Cell) Mr. Suo Baogui, Vice Secretary of the Political and Legal Committee:
86-312-4530536, 86-312-2323726 (Home), 86-13803262256 (Cell) Mr. Tian Qingzhu, Mayor of Laishui County: 86-312-4522880 (Office),
86-312-5028038 (Home), 86-13313028988 (Cell) Mr. Sun Guijie, Secretary of Laishui County Political and Legal Committee:
86-312-4522004 (Office) Mr. Liu Yaohua, Secretary of Laishui County Public Security Bureau's
Discipline Committee: 86-312-4523766 (Home) Laishui County Public Security Bureau's Operator: 86-312-4522219,
86-312-4522220 Public Security Bureau's Chief Mr. Peng Hongzhi: 86-312-4523689 Chairman of Political and Security Division Mr. Dai Chunjie: 86-13930218895
(Cell) Detention Center: 86-312-4523534 Chengguan Police Station: 86-312-4522225
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