(Clearwisdom.net) Ms. Zhang Lieju is a teacher from the Douhuti Primary School, Gongan County, Hubei Province. Because she is steadfast in practicing Falun Gong, she was persecuted often by "610 Office" personnel, police and some former workplace cadres. Many times she was on the verge of death. She was taken forcibly to mental hospitals and injected with drugs that damage the central nervous system. She became disabled, yet the depraved people claim that they cured her!

The "610 Office" in Gongan County, Hubei Province is a government organization that persecutes Falun Gong. For several years, policemen led by Liao Xuesheng have committed atrocities against Falun Dafa and its practitioners. They are responsible for one death, six people being jailed, more than a dozen people being held in forced labor camps and many people being tortured in mental hospitals. They intended to force practitioners that follow "Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance" to renounce their belief through torture. Chen Xueliang, Yang Zhengfa, Hu Shiyang and others became the core of those who persecuted Falun Dafa and practitioners. They actively supported the unlawful actions by the "610 Office."

Policeman Liao Xuesheng personally instructed Zhou Liangqing and other police officers to make arrests, and organized three times the so-called brainwashing sessions. Practitioners were arrested at all times during the day. Some were arrested at midnight when they were asleep, some were making dinner or lunch at home and some were involved in conducting business. Every time, when the police arrested about seven or eight practitioners, they pocketed the practitioners' money. The lawless personnel had armed police officers help them persecute practitioners. They forced practitioners to watch television productions that slander Falun Gong. Chen Gang and Yuan Changjie were the force behind the detention center guards forcing practitioners to listen to the brainwashing material.

In order to keep their positions and gain bonuses, the "610 Office" officials violated the law. They ignore their conscience and keep punishing practitioners who do not compromise. They often use handcuffs and foot shackles on practitioners. Such instruments are generally used only for death row inmates. They beat and kick practitioners, tie them onto boards, brutally force-feed them, send them to mental hospitals to be tormented and injected with nerve-damaging drugs.

Ms. Zhang Lieju has suffered inhuman persecution. Because she appealed for Falun Gong in Beijing, she was illegally sentenced to one year at forced labor camp. Shayang Farm (forced labor camp) refused to accept her. Therefore, she was detained in a detention center for more than a year. Furthermore, she was not released after she had served her term. Zhang Lieju began a hunger strike, but was taken forcibly to a mental hospital for further persecution. In the neurology department of the People's Hospital, a group of policemen instructed the medical personnel Wu Wei and Li Benyu to tie her tightly to the bed. They wanted to make sure that she could not move her hands and feet. They injected her with medicine that damage the central nerve system. The dosage was several times higher than what is medically allowed for those suffering from severe mental disorders. Zhang Lieju was tied to the bed for five to six hours daily. She lost control of her bowels and bladder, her mind was not clear and she was frightened and restless. Her entire body itched as if ants were biting her. She felt nauseated upon seeing food and had showed severe symptoms of being poisoned.

During the force-feeding sessions, the police often beat her body and pried her mouth open with tongs, cutting her mouth. She was locked up and abused around the clock.

The "610 Office" police often went to the hospital and threatened Zhang Lieju. Policeman Chen Yude once visited the hospital. Upon hearing that Zhang refused to take their drugs, Chen ordered the doctor to use electrotherapeutics, and said, "If she dies, the hospital won't be responsible." The inhumane persecution caused Zhang to be on the brink of death many times. Zhang could not take the medicine for three days and vomited continuously when given medication. She was emaciated and unable to take care of herself. Her arms were painful and stiff. At one time in the detention center, she lost lots of blood through her mouth while sleeping. The inmates were frightened and did not dare to be in the same cell with her.

Zhang Lieju, a young primary school teacher, was tortured into disability by those depraved people. The "610 Office" personnel even announced that they had cured her! Zhang's 70-year-old mother heard her life was in danger, so she requested to see the daughter. However, the "610 Office" policemen extorted 500 yuan (1) from her. She had a difficult time getting that much money together, as her income was earned by picking cotton in the countryside. She saw her daughter only once. The officials even extorted nearly 20,000 yuan from Zhang's work unit. They claimed that Zhang had been going to appeal in Beijing.

The Constitution of China provides citizens with the right to appeal, and freedom of speech, belief and assembly. However Falun Gong practitioners that practice "Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance" are framed and wrongfully accused. The officials forbid people from explaining the facts about Falun Gong. They deprive the practitioners of their right to belief and have taken away their human rights and human dignity.

Zhang Lieju was arrested during her appeal in Beijing. The police violently beat and kicked her, locked up in an iron cage, hung up and cuffed her hands behind her back, deprived her of sleep, tortured her with electric batons, beat her with police batons, deceived her and confiscated her property. After she was sent back to Gongan County, Jingzhou City, Hubei Province, she was again severely persecuted. Zhang went on a hunger strike for 14 days during the summer. Her stomach was on fire, and she became emaciated. She was then put into a tub of water for the entire day. After she got a little better, but was still on the brink of death, she was sent to the mental hospital for further torment.

Because she suffered brutal torment and persecution in mental hospitals many times, she managed to escape from the hospital so she could stay alive. These depraved hospital employees falsely claimed that she resisted arrest and that she had fled. They sent out a large group of people to capture her. Therefore, she became destitute and homeless to avoid further arrest. However she was reported in Jianli and arrested again. The "610 Office" gave financial rewards to people that turned in practitioners.

Chen Huamin, the former principal of Douhuti Primary School in Gongan County, actively arranged for the persecution by the Public Security Bureau and "610 Office" policemen, and prompted Zhang's family members to destroy Falun Gong books and Teacher's portrait. Chen falsely reported that Zhang Lieju practiced the exercises in the classroom, and deceived and threatened her family. He told them, "If you take her to the mental hospital, she may receive a medical release with a doctor's certificate and her sentence may be commuted." Chen Huamin's duplicity helped Zhang's family members to deceive Zhang to go to the Shashi District Mental Hospital. She was tied up, force-fed and injected with harmful substances. She was devastated physically and mentally. Chen Huamin even forged a fake mental illness medical record for Zhang and handed it to Gongan County "610 Office" police to try to obtain a reward. It was their excuse to persecute kind and innocent people. In addition, they spread a rumor that Zhang was mentally disturbed. Zhang Lieju tried to explain the truth to Chen Huamin, but Chen refused to listen. Chen Huamin dismissed Zhang Lieju from her duties and stopped paying her wages. He even refused to pay her the basic living expenses. He forced her to write the "Guarantee Statement" (2) on several occasions.

The "610 Office" also instructed the current principals Hu Ling, Hong Yun, Ma Ming and others to monitor Zhang Lieju. They also cooperated with the "610 Office" police many times and acted as the core in persecuting Falun Dafa practitioners. They tailed and reported Zhang time and time again. Some of them reported Zhang's situation to the "610 Office" twice daily, in the morning and at night. Once, when Zhang Lieju went to her mother's home, Hong Yun and others followed her and reported her to the police. Due to financial difficulty, sometimes Zhang picked cotton in the countryside, so people were sent to search for her. Zhang once went to the school and requested a job in 2002, but she was reported by Hu Ling and again kidnapped and taken to the detention center. She was detained for nearly two months and lost a lot of weight. She could not hold down any food and vomited as soon as she ate. Her life was in danger. "610 Office" did not want to take responsibility for her death, so they asked her family members to take her home. The detention center guard said that Zhang Lieju was disabled.

The school officials paid lots of money to the "610 Office" authorities to persecute her, instead of paying her wages. They said that the school stopped allocating wages for her. The school deprived her of the basic right to work and live. On January 16, 2004, during the Chinese New Year, a group of policemen led by Xiang Xiaoyang and Zhang Zuoyin, including many people from Hu Ling's side of the school, broke into Zhang's home, removed a portrait of Falun Gong's founder and force her into a brainwashing program.

The officials at the brainwashing center refused to allow people to say the Falun Dafa principles and speak out the words "Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance" or "Falun Dafa is Great," and they would accuse those who did so as being mentally ill. They forced Falun Dafa practitioners to watch propaganda television shows and movies that defamed Falun Dafa. If anyone refused, the authorities would tie them up and torture the practitioners, all in an attempt to force them to give up "Truthfulness-Compassion-Tolerance."

A group of officials monitored her and deprived her of sleep. They harassed her endlessly, and injected Zhang with harmful drugs that damaged the central nervous system again and again. As a result, her entire body bloated from the drugs and her mouth was distorted. However, the police team leader Tian Ming said, "Zhang Lieju, you got this way by practicing Falun Gong, don't die here and blame us." Their actions were so unspeakably evil! Zhang Lieju has been on the brink of death many times due to the inhumane torture she suffered. If she did not practice Falun Gong, she would already have died.

Note:

(1). Yuan - 500 yuan is the average monthly income for an urban worker in China.

(2). "Guarantee Statement" - A statement to declare that he or she is remorseful for practicing Falun Gong and guarantees not to practice Falun Gong again, not to go to Beijing to appeal, and never again associate with any practitioners.