(Clearwisdom.net) At around 8 p.m. on December 21, 2008, officers from the Yaoshi Police Station arrested Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Zhao Suzhen of Xifuluo Township, Anguo City, Hebei Province, when she was distributing truth-clarification materials about Falun Dafa and the persecution. She was detained at the Anguo City Public Security Bureau Detention Center. After seven days, on December 27, she was taken to the Shijiazhuang Women's Forced Labor Camp for one year of forced labor.
On the night of September 14, 2006, Ms. Zhao Suzhen, her sister Zhao Suqing, and Ms. Qiu Jingrui and Ms. Qiu Yanting, both over 60 years old, were watching Falun Dafa lectures at home. Tian Xu, the Xifuluo Township Police Station director, and a police contingent broke into the private residence, handcuffed the ladies and took them to the police station. They ransacked Ms. Zhao's home and confiscated a TV, VCD, tape recorder and Falun Dafa materials. They also wanted to arrest Ms. Zhao Suzhen's mother. However, the lady's state of health was such that the police let her go. Ms. Zhao Suzhen and Ms. Zhao Suqing were handcuffed to a heating pipe.
With strong righteous thoughts, they were able to open the handcuffs and took the confiscated Falun Dafa material with them when they left. Tian Xu was angry and felt that he had lost face. He found Ms. Zhao Suzhen's 17-year-old son at school and took him to the police station. He kicked, punched and threatened the teenage boy with an electric baton and forced him to admit that he also practiced Falun Gong. Then, Tian Xu extorted 3,500 yuan before releasing him.
The police issued a warrant for the arrest of Ms. Zhao Suzhen and her sister and published it on Internet. The ladies then were forced to become homeless and destitute. During the Beijing Olympics, police again persecuted practitioners in the name of "safeguarding the Olympics." On the night of June 26, 2008, Anguo City police broke into the Zhao family residence by climbing over the exterior wall. Ms. Zhao Suzhen had already left home, but on the night of December 21, police found and arrested her.
