(Clearwisdom.net) Ms. Hou Youfang was a physics teacher at Xipo Middle
School in Jinchang City, Gansu Province. The Gansu Province No. 1 Labor Camp,
7th Division, is where she was persecuted to death on November 29, 2002; she was
only 48 years old. Below is additional information regarding her case. Ms. Hou Youfang Ms. Hou was born on March 20, 1954. She was recognized as an outstanding and
excellent teacher for several years. When she went to Beijing to appeal for
justice for Falun Dafa in February 2000, she was illegally arrested
and escorted back to Jinchang City by a policeman from the Chengjian Police
Station and the principal of her school, Huang Jisheng. She was held in the
local substance abuse center for two weeks. When she was released, her husband,
Niu Xianglin, divorced her. School principal Huang Jisheng would not allow Ms. Hou to resume her teaching
duties. He arranged instead for her to work in the cafeteria. She had to carry
buckets of water for the use of 80 to 90 people, do custodial work, and gather
coal. She was not allowed to wear gloves even though her hands had many open
wounds that bled. Another perpetrator in the persecution was Zhang Xueyou.
School authorities gave Ms. Hou 200 yuan for subsistence living
expenses. She was forced to pay 6,000 yuan for being escorted back from Beijing,
and she had to pay the teacher who taught her class. In total, she was charged
16, 000 yuan. The school authorities attempted to force her write a
Guarantee Statement. They threatened to take her house away if she
refused. They tried to deceive her by saying that, if she wrote her statement
not to practice Falun Gong, they would give her back her salary and her house
and let her return to teaching. In June 2001, Hou Youfang was arrested and held in the local detention
center. The director of the detention center, Hu Dengping, force-fed her and
beat her so badly that she was covered with bruises. One of the perpetrators was
one of her students who could not face her and hid behind a door. Ms. Hou was arrested again the same year when she handed out
truth-clarification materials at Jinsanjiao Market and was reported.
After she was released, she had no place to go--she was divorced, and her
children refused to take her in. She had no choice but to stay at a fellow
practitioner's home. The school authorities and the police from Chengjian Police
Station followed and monitored her closely. When she once clarified the truth in public, they attempted to arrest her and
shove her into a car. Because there was a large crowd witnessing the event, they
had to give up arresting her in public and just followed her. When Ms. Hou went
to another practitioner's place, officers from the Chengjian and Guangzhouroad
Police Stations and staff from the Education Committee surrounded the house,
broke in, and arrested her. She was tortured mercilessly in Chengjian Police
Station, where they hung her up by her handcuffs, tied her down on a tiger
bench, and subjected her to other tortures. However, Ms. Hou was able to
escape with her righteous thoughts. Homeless, she went to Minqin County and continued clarifying the truth. She
was arrested by the local police, tortured, and sent back to Jinchang City. In August 2001, Hou Youfang was sentenced to two years of forced labor.
Before she left for the camp, one unnamed official announced: "No matter
what you do, make sure you keep her in the labor camp." Police officer Cai
Jianjun took her to the labor camp. Because of her long-term persecution, Ms.
Hou was extremely weak, with migraine headaches, vertigo, and severe scabies.
She was taken to the Gansu Province No. 2 Labor Camp but refused admittance due
to her poor health condition. They took her to another labor camp and she was
refused for the same reason. We do not know what officer Cai Jianjun said to the
Gansu Province No. 1 Labor Camp officials, but they finally agreed to accept Hou
Youfang. Cai Jianjun said, "According to our leader, we'd rather that she
die in the labor camp than for her to leave." Wu Ruimei, a guard at the labor camp, instigated other inmates into beating
and verbally abusing Hou Youfang. Wu also stole money that fellow practitioners
had given to Ms. Hou. The labor camp guards used all types of torture on her. Ms. Hou Youfang died on November 29, 2002, as a result of torture and
relentless persecution. Fellow practitioners were witnesses that Ms. Hou Youfang
had been beaten so severely that her arms and ribs and pelvis were fractured.
The perpetrators included Zai Wenqin, the leader of the labor camp division, the
labor camp hospital, and the camp Education Department.
Posting date: 1/29/2008
Original article date: 1/29/2008
Category: Eyewitness Accounts
Translated on 1/16/2008
Chinese version available at http://minghui.org/mh/articles/2008/1/10/169986.html