(Clearwisdom.net) On December 4, 2008, when Zhang Ziwei, a ninth grade student, was reading truth-clarification materials about Falun Gong during a break at Zhongguancun Middle School in Haidian District of Beijing, a teacher named Long Hong saw this and confiscated the material. Long Hong also reported this to the principal, Xing Xiaoping, who then immediately contacted the police. That afternoon, more than ten officers from Zhongguancun Police Station and Haidian Police Department went to Zhang Ziwei's home and confiscated personal property. Ms. Cong Dawei, Zhang Ziwei's mother, was thus arrested and later sent to forced labor camp.
Ms. Cong's family hired a lawyer to represent her in appealing her forced labor term. In order to obtain details, the lawyer went to the Beijing Women's Forced Labor Camp to meet with Ms. Cong, but was refused by the labor camp officials. Before Ms. Cong's family visited her, the guards threatened them, warning them not to say anything unfavorable about her being "transformed," otherwise the meeting would immediately end and would be prohibited in the future. Her family was too scared to say anything, even when seeing Ms. Cong being forcibly "transformed," into such a poor health condition.
At the labor camp, determined practitioners are closely watched by inmates--either drug addicts or prostitutes. These practitioners are forced to sit on a bench all day, in attempts to force them to write statements giving up the practice. They are also deprived of sleep, the purchase of daily necessities and the use of the bathroom. As soon as Ms. Cong arrived there, she was monitored closely and asked to write statements opposing Falun Gong, otherwise the inmates who watched her were not allowed to sleep. Using this form of persecution, the labor camp officials stirred up hatred among the inmates and used them to aggravate the persecution. When Ms. Cong's family asked the guards why those inmates were not allowed to sleep, their response was, "This is because they [the inmates] need to watch her [Ms. Cong] closely so that she does not commit suicide." When seeing the deteriorating health of Ms. Cong, her family requested that they stop the forced "transformation" even if just temporarily, but this was abruptly refused by the labor camp officials.
When the police arrested Ms. Cong on December 4, 2008, they forcibly took her away. Since Ms. Cong did not yield, the police brutally beat her. At that time, Ms. Cong was in the middle of her menstruation cycle and because of this beating, she has not had a menstruation cycle for six months now.
The severe persecution has damaged Ms. Cong both physically and mentally. As a result, she has heart disease and high blood pressure. Nonetheless, she was sent to a two-year forced labor detention and detained at Beijing Women's Forced Labor Camp. Ms. Cong is currently detained in Division 8 and detailed information is not known.
Who could imagine that a middle school student giving a truth-clarification pamphlet to another student would precipitate this outcome--the police even arrested her mother and brutally beat her? Ms. Cong's husband is a renowned scientist who is in charge of critical scientific projects. With his wife arrested and his daughter afraid to go to school, he is very stressed and exhausted.
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