Ms. Xu Hui From Jinzhou City, Liaoning Province Arrested; Family Members Prohibited from Visiting Her
(Clearwisdom.net) Ms. Xu Hui, a practitioner from Jinzhou City, Liaoning Province, was
illegally arrested on July 20, 2007, after displaying a banner in
support of Falun Gong on Tiananmen Square. She is currently imprisoned in the
notorious Masanjia Forced Labor Camp in Liaoning Province. Her son, Cai Chao,
was also arrested. Over the ensuring four and a half months, Ms. Xu's husband
has gone to Beijing three times and Masanjia twice, but he has not been able to
meet her. Her family is very worried about her. On July 20, 2007, Ms. Xu Hui and her son, Cai Chao, went to Tiananmen Square
to display a truth-clarification banner that read "The Chinese
Communists Are Harvesting Organs from Living Falun Gong Practitioners." The
two also shouted, "Stop persecuting Falun Gong practitioners!" This
magnificent demonstration attracted hundreds of people until policemen on
Tiananmen Square pinned them to the ground, took them to the Tiananmen Public
Security Bureau, and later transferred them to the Dongcheng District Public
Security Bureau in Beijing. Two weeks later, Ms. Xu's family went to the Dongcheng District Public
Security Bureau. The person in charge of Ms. Xu was Cao Yongzhi. Ms. Xu and her
son were already imprisoned in the Dongcheng Detention Center at that time. On
August 7, her family went to the Dongcheng Detention Center. Cao Yongzhi met
with them and refused to let them visit with Ms. Xu. They were only allowed to
look at her and her son from several dozen meters away. Cai Chao's father could
only see half of his son's swollen red face from afar and could not say anything
at all. Ten days later, Ms. Xu's husband went to visit them again to give them
clothes and food and to see if Ms. Xu was really imprisoned there. This time,
however, Cao Yongzhi refused to let him see them at all. Another two weeks passed, and Ms. Xu's family called Cao Yongzhi many times.
Cao told them that she was no longer at Dongcheng, but said that he "didn't
know" where she had been taken. Her family was very worried and called the
Dongcheng Detention Center. The Detention Center said that "these two
people are really not here now," they "did not know" where the
pair had been taken, and to contact the Public Security Bureau again. Ms. Xu's family called Cao Yongzhi again, but he refused to answer. They
called Cao's superiors and asked, "How can Cao not know where two people
have been taken when he is the person responsible?" Cao's superior instead
asked him to wait. Ms. Xu's family became even more worried and kept on calling
Cao, but Cao simply refused to answer. One day Cao finally answered and said
that Ms. Xu and her son had been taken to the Tuanhe Labor Camp Dispatch Center.
However, when her family arrived, the receptionist still refused to let them
meet with her. In October, Ms. Xu and her son were taken to Masanjia Forced Labor Camp. On
October 15, her family went to Masanjia to visit, but was again refused, because
Ms. Xu refused to be "transformed." Her husband left behind some
clothes with the labor camp, but when the guards opened up the registry, they
could not find Ms. Xu's name. This made her family even more doubtful and
anxious. Her husband said that they just needed to see her once and would be
content, but the officials still refused. When asked why, they said that it was
because Ms. Xu refused to be "transformed." Her husband also went to Masanjia to visit his son, Cai Chao. The Sixth Big
Team guards said that the province was conducting an inspection and asked him to
come back later. When he later returned at around 4 p.m., they still refused to
let him visit his son, for the same reason--that he refused to be
"transformed." On November 15, when Ms. Xu's family went to Masanjia again, not only were
they not allowed to see them, but the labor camp officials also extorted money
from them, claiming it was needed for "force-feeding" Ms. Xu. Her
family refused to pay. (The previous time they left 400 yuan for Ms.
Xu, the authorities confiscated it.) Her husband did not get to see Ms. Xu and
went then to the Sixth Big Team. After a series of pleadings, he was allowed to
see Cai Chao. The skin on the fingers of his right hand had all peeled off, and
one finger on his left hand was swollen and festering. Even so, the guards
continued to make him to do forced labor. Ms. Xu Hui's father is already 93 years old and has been hospitalized for a
very long time. He really needs his daughter to take care of him. Cai Chao's
grandmother is 87 years old. After hearing that her only grandson was in a
forced labor camp, her health deteriorated, and she could no longer live without
help. Ms. Xu's husband has been unemployed for many years and does not have any
income. Moreover, he is also sick. In the months that Ms. Xu and her son were
persecuted, he could only survive through injection and drugs. He survived on a
several hundred yuan pension that his mother receives every month. Related articles: http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2007/8/16/88640.html
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