(Clearwisdom.net) On August 17, 2007, Falun Gong practitioners Ms. Tan Xiuying and Ms. Zhang Haiqin from Shijiazhuang City were illegally arrested. They are now being held in the No. 4 Division of the Shijiazhuang City Forced Labor Camp. Ms. Tan Xiuying was sentenced to one and a half years of forced labor. The length of Ms. Zhang Haiqin's forced labor term is unknown.

According to insiders, when Ms. Tan went out to clarify the facts of the persecution before her arrest, a man in his forties approached her and began to communicate with her. He condemned the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and decided to quit the evil CCP and its affiliated organizations. Also, he said that he wanted to learn the truth about Falun Gong, read the books and do the exercises. Ms. Tan Xiuying believed him and gave him her phone number.

Later on he phoned Ms. Tan to ask for copies of the Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party and Zhuan Falun. He also said that he wanted to go to Ms. Tan's home. Because Ms. Tan's mother strongly opposed his visit, it did not take place. On August 17, he phoned Ms. Tan again and said that he wanted her to teach him the exercises. Because he is of the opposite sex, Ms. Tan asked practitioner Ms. Zhang Haiqin to go with her. After meeting with him, they were led to a narrow alley. Ms. Tan thought there was something strange about this. She noticed that as soon as he made a gesture, three or four plainclothes officers pounced on them. Ms. Tan tried to resist the attack, but was bruised in the process.

The same day of her arrest, several dozen officers from the Qiaodong District Police Department in Shijiazhuang City broke into Ms. Tan's house and ransacked it. As soon as head officers Wang Wei and Zhao Xin entered her home, they ordered the others to search each room and all the corners, including the balcony, kitchen, and toilet. They confiscated a portable computer, a CD recorder, an all-in-one copy-scanning machine, a printer, a satellite TV reception system, and some copies of Falun Gong materials. In addition, they extorted 3,600 yuan in cash from her. (Later, when her family went to get the confiscated things back, the authorities returned 3,200 yuan and a receipt that included a 160-yuan "washing" fee and 400-yuan bedding fee.)

Ms. Tan Xiuying was held at the No. 2 Detention Center in Shijiazhuang City. Twenty days later, Ms. Tan was sentenced to one and a half years of forced labor and taken to the No. 4 Division of the Shijiazhuang City Forced Labor Camp.

Ms. Zhang Haiqin was also sentenced to forced labor.

Ms. Tan Xiuying was subjected to torture twice while in that detention center. At the first interrogation session, to prevent her from shouting "Falun Dafa is good," "Truthfulness-Compassion-Tolerance is good," "Quit the Party, the Youth League and Young Pioneers to secure your lives," female guard Yan Lingxia grabbed Ms. Tan's cheeks, making them red and swollen. When Yan Lingxia worked at the No. 1 Detention Center in Shijiazhuang City, she always beat Ms. Tan Xiuying when she was held there.

Ms. Tan Xiuying did not cooperate and held their so-called "note" during the second interrogation session. Therefore, a large guard from the No. 2 Detention Center savagely hit Ms. Tan on the chin. She was stunned and tumbled to the ground. She got dirty, her chin turned blue and red from being struck, and blood trickled from the corners of her mouth and tongue. That evening at roll call, the practitioners in her cell explained her situation to the guard on duty, but the guard disregarded it. Ms. Tan was dizzy all night. She still felt that way a week later when she was transferred to the forced labor camp, and she also had pain in her left ear.

September 30, 2007

Posting date: 10/9/2007
Original article date: 10/9/2007
Category: Eyewitness Accounts
Translated on 10/4/2007
Chinese version available at http://minghui.org/mh/articles/2007/10/1/163673.html

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