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Falun Gong Practitioner Ms. Dai Zongzhen on the Brink of Death from Abuse at the Wangcun Forced Labor Camp, Shandong Province
(Clearwisdom.net) Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Dai Zongzhen from Weifang
City, Shandong Province was arrested on April 18, 2007. She was sent to the
Wangcun Forced Labor Camp where she has been severely abused. One source
indicated that due to the mistreatment she had to endure, her previous illnesses
such as heart disease recurred, and she is on the brink of death. While
incarcerated at the labor camp, Ms. Dai's family tried to visit her five times,
but their requests were rudely denied. Ms. Dai Zongzhen, 52, is an employee of the Weifang United Front Work
Department. She suffered from serious heart and kidney disease before she began
practicing Falun Gong. The doctor said her heart could stop beating at any time.
Her kidney disease made her unable to work a normal schedule. She needed
frequent hospitalization. She was mentally weak when facing pressure (as
happened once in July 1999, when police officer Wang Huaiyan interrogated her
intensively, making her suffer a mental collapse). In addition, Shanghai
hospital doctors diagnosed her as having gynecological problems as well. Ms. Dai
began Falun Dafa cultivation in 1995. Soon her illnesses disappeared and she
became more dedicated in her work. Ms. Dai is well known as a very kind person. After the persecution of Falun Gong began on July 20, 1999, Ms. Dai Zongzhen,
her husband and child remained determined in their belief. They went to Beijing
to request justice for Dafa several times and as a result were harassed and
persecuted by persons from their workplace and from police at different levels. As a result of the persecution,the family became homeless and went through
great tribulations. The Weifang National Security Team and Police Department
personnel illegally arrested Ms. Dai Zongzhen on April 18, 2007 at
7:00 p.m. on her way back to a rented home. Then the police ransacked her home
and took away a TV set, a DVD player, a computer, Falun Dafa books and about
8,000 yuan cash. Police seized Ms. Dai's daughter Wang Peng and her
brother Dai Zongqiu that same day. Following a one-month detention, the local perpetrators from the 610
Office took the three of them to the Wangcun Forced Labor Camp, where Ms.
Dai was detained in the No. 3 Division of the Women's Camp. Wang Peng was
detained in the No. 2 Division of the Women's Camp. Dai Zongqiu was detained in
the Men's Camp. Ms. Dai's relatives have tried five times during the last six months to visit
her in the Wangcun Forced Labor Camp, but the family's visitation rights were
denied. The labor camp officials found different reasons to forbid the family
visits. In the end of September, Ms. Dai's two aunts and one uncle (all in their
seventies) traveled 75 kilometers in rainy weather to visit Ms. Dai in the labor
camp. The labor camp officials still refused their request. One guard tried to
cover up the persecution that Ms. Dai has suffered, saying, "Dai
Zongzhen did not practice Falun Gong well; her practice didn't heal her
illnesses. Her illnesses recurred. She cannot even get her own food." The family became even more worried after they heard this. They knew the
state of Ms. Dai's health before she started cultivation. A doctor once warned
the family that Ms. Dai's heart could stop beating at any time. Ms. Dai's sister and several relatives went to the labor camp on October 9
and asked to see the critically ill Ms. Dai. They petitioned the officials to
immediately release Ms. Dai, but were not even permitted to see their loved one.
Their request for Ms. Dai's immediate release were also denied. The family asked
to meet with the labor camp leaders, but that request was denied as well. A
deputy political head even commanded the staff in the office to make the family
leave. The family worried so much about Ms. Dai Zongzhen. They wrote many letters to
the Wangcun Forced Labor Camp officials, to the Weifang 610 Office and to the
Police Department, requesting Ms. Dai's release, but never heard back. We appeal to all kind-hearted people around the world to lend your help and
urgently pay attention to rescuing Ms. Dai Zongzhen and all the other imprisoned
practitioners! We want the Communist regime to release them immediately!
Posting date: 11/4/2007 |