(Clearwisdom.net) Ms. Luo Meiling in Chicheng County, Zhangjiakou City, Hebei Province, served one year of forced labor. Her term ended on June 12, 2009. Her husband went to get her, but the camp refused to let her go and would not let her husband see her, using the pretext that she had not "transformed."
Practitioners Mr. Cui Zhining, also from Chicheng County, and Ms. Xu Yan of Huailai County finished their terms on June 25 and July 6, respectively. On June 25, the family members of all three practitioners went together to the camp to bring them home. The camp refused to release the practitioners because they had not "transformed." Camp officials would not let the families see them. On July 6, the families went again and the same thing happened.
During this time, many families in Tangshan City and Baoding City went to pick up practitioners who had completed their terms, but if the practitioners had not succumbed to the pressure and "transformed," the forced labor camp would not allow their families to visit them and extended the practitioners' sentences.
One of the family members asked a captain of Ward VI, "Is there a legal document stating that a term will be extended if one does not 'transform?'" The captain said that the decision was made by the camp and then accused the family members of making trouble. The family member said, "You arbitrarily extended their terms and did not even notify us. We were just asking you for the justification for detaining them and you say that we are making trouble. So are we not even allowed to ask?" A female captain of Ward VI also said, "Cui Zhining has not been performing well. He deserves to be detained for one more year." A family member said, "You arbitrarily extended their terms. We will sue." A male captain said defiantly, "Go ahead. We don't care what you do."
Both Mr. Cui Zhining and Ms. Xu Yang were suddenly arrested in their homes by local Communist Party agents and the police before the Olympics last year. Ms. Luo Meiling was arrested in the countryside when she told people, "Falun Dafa is good."
So far, the family members have gone to the labor camp three times. Each time, they had to travel about two thousand miles round trip. The travel expenses were considerable and it was quite a hardship traveling in the hottest days of summer, yet they are determined to continue their efforts until all of their family members are released.
