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Practitioner Zhou Zi Suffers Persecution at the Beijing Women's Prison
(Clearwisdom.net) The relative of a policeman who works at the Beijing
Women's Prison remarked in a casual chat that Dafa practitioner Ms. Zhou Zi was
brutally stepped on and kicked by the leader of the Tenth Prison Section, Zheng
Yumei, for refusing to wear a name tag. Afterwards, Ms. Zhou was transferred to
a strictly controlled unit for further persecution, under the "crime"
of "criticizing a police officer." When Zhou Zi protested and
requested an investigation into the matter by a prison administrator, the
administrator instead covered up for Zheng Yumei as a result of party
connections and corruption. Ms. Zhou is currently on a hunger strike to protest
the persecution. The relative of the prison police also commented, "The
prison prohibits such information from being released to the public. I do not
know any more, but the Women's Prison is truly dark and corrupt." More
details of this story follow: Dafa practitioner Zhou Zi, former teacher at the Beijing Technical
Instrumental School, was forced to quit her job in January 2000 for refusing to
give up her practice of Falun Gong. In July 2000, she was illegally
detained for a month after practicing the exercises outdoors. In January
2001, Ms. Zhou was arrested on Tiananmen Square while validating Dafa and was
illegally detained for half a month. In May 2001, she was forced to leave home
and live in exile in order to avoid further persecution. On March 27, 2003, Ms.
Zhou was illegally sentenced to seven and a half years of imprisonment by the
Haidian District People's Court. In July of that year, she was arrested and
taken away to the Beijing Women's Prison. In the Third Prison Section, Ms. Zhou suffered severe persecution after
refusing to be brainwashed and refusing to be "transformed". For six
months, she was only allowed to sleep for a single hour every day. She was also
prohibited from having family members visit and even from contacting them
through letters or by phone. A police officer surnamed Xu barked at Ms. Zhou,
"We have a ton of ways to 'transform' you." In the winter, Zhou Zi was
forced to stand while the perpetrators splashed cold water on her; in the
hottest period of summer, she would be brought under the sun and burnt until an
entire layer of skin fell off. Each time, Ms. Zhou would be forced to stand for
three days in a row. She almost fainted on several occasions, and both her legs
were severely swollen. Sometime in June 2006, Zhou Zi was transferred to the notorious Tenth Prison
Section for further persecution. A police officer shouted at her, "Since
you are against the Chinese Communist Party [CCP], we won't let you wear CCP
clothes," and he tried to forcefully remove her clothing. With the support
of several other practitioners, the policeman was stopped. In order to force Ms.
Zhou to be "transformed", they tried to use underhanded means. Not
only did they prohibit Ms. Zhou from sleeping, they prohibited everyone else in
the team from eating, sleeping, etc. so as to incite hatred against her on the
part of the other inmates. The authorities instigated the convicts to torment
Dafa practitioners, encouraging them to beat them and spit on them. Some Dafa
practitioners were severely injured from this abuse. Later, when the authorities
realized that they could not achieve their goal of forcing practitioners to
renounce Dafa, they made the entire team kneel down in front of Ms. Zhou to
force her into saying, "I will not practice anymore." They were told
that otherwise, they would not be allowed to stand up. From November 2005 to December 2006, Zhou Zi was imprisoned alone, with two
prisoners monitoring her. She was prohibited from seeing family members and
other Dafa practitioners. In late July, 2006, after Ms. Zhou refused to submit
to the demands of wearing a prison name tag and performing slave labor, the
leader of the Tenth Prison Section, Zheng Yumei, personally came up to her and
shouted, "I don't care if I even lose my job because of beating you."
She took off her police uniform and started beating Ms. Zhou brutally. Ms. Zhou
was then transferred to the strictly controlled unit and imprisoned in a small
cell. Zhou Zi began a hunger strike sometime around February 26, 2007, demanding
that the prison investigate and punish policewoman Zheng Yumei. Currently, the
Beijing Women's Prison has already begun a new round of persecuting
practitioners. Practitioners Li Guiping and Liang Zhansheng are also imprisoned
in the strictly controlled unit together with Ms. Zhou. Warden of the Beijing Women's Prison: Xing Hongjun, Phone: 86-10-60276688
Ext.8178, 8179 Tenth Prison Section, Phone: 86-10-60276688 Ext.8101 Beijing Women's Prison Address: 3 Runhe Lane, Huifeng Street, Qingfeng
Avenue, Tiantanghe, Daxing District, Beijing City |