Issued by Clearwisdom Net

On the night of April 23, 2008, the police in Changsha City arrested Falun Gong practitioner Ms. He Xianggu at her home and took away her personal belongings including a computer. On April 24, she was transferred to Changsha City Detention Center. This is the eighth time Ms. He Xianggu was arrested. Since the persecution of Falun Gong began in 1999. She had been detained twice in mental hospitals three times in forced labor camps.

On the morning of March 18, 2008, Mr. Sun Pinghua was arrested by the police in Yueyang City, Hunan Province. He was interrogated under torture for several days and nights while in detention.

On the night of April 23, 2008, the police from Wujialing Distrcit, Changsha City arrested Changsha City Falun Gong practitioner Ms. He Xianggu at her home. After they arrested her, they ransacked her home. Her personal belongings, including her computer, were taken away. On April 24, after being held in illegal custody for 24 hours, she was transferred to Changsha City Detention Center, also known as Changqiao Detention Center. This is the eighth time Ms. He Xiangguu has been arrested and jailed since the persecution of Falun Gong began in 1999 by the Chinese Communist Party. Ms. He had been detained twice in mental hospitals three times in forced labor camps.

Ms. He Xianggu is 47 years old, and works as a nurse in the emergency room at Hunan Province Maternal and Children's Hospital. Before she started practicing Falun Gong in 1998, she suffered from left vertebral artery insufficiency. She often couldn't walk steadily, experienced dizziness, vomited, and required bed rest for long periods of time. She took medicine for years but it did not cure her. At the end of 1997, she accidentally broke her right ankle It did not heal properly, forcing her to use a walking stick. In April 1998, Ms. He started to practice Falun Gong. She followed the teachings of the book, Zhuan Falun, practiced the exercises, and cultivated her heart to be a good person. Gradually, she stopped suffering from dizziness, she got rid of her walking stick, and her body became healthy again. The principles of "Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance" helped her think of others in every possible way. During this period of time she worked at a restaurant in Shenzhen City, and the owner of the restaurant told her, "You practice Falun Gong but you are not like what they say on TV. I see that you require yourself to be a good person. It's my pleasure to have you as my employee."

In December 1999, Ms. He Xianggu was illegally arrested and detained for 15 days because she went to Tiananmen Square in Beijing to clarify the truth. After 15 days, with the support of the Disinfection Health Department of Hunan Province, the then secretary of Hunan Province Maternal and Children's Hospital, Mr. Wu Shifan, sent Ms. He to the Mental Hospital of Hunan Province. She was injected with some type of drug which caused her whole body to become stiff and she had no strength at all. She wanted to stand up when she sat down, and she wanted to sit down when she stood up; she couldn't stay calm. She also felt nauseated and vomited. Ms. He Xianggu was detained at the mental hospital for two months.

After being released from the mental hospital, Ms. He was constantly harassed in her everyday life. In the second half of 2000, Ms. He's personal locker at her workplace was pried open, and her book, Zhuan Falun, was stolen. This incident resulted in her being detained again at the mental hospital, this time for more than three months.

On April 13, 2001, Ms. He Xianggu was forced into getting a divorce. On the day after the divorce was finalized, Hunan Province Maternal and Children's Hospital transferred her from the mental hospital to a local motel, where she was put under 24-hour surveillance by 2 people at a time. During this period, Ms. He was taken to a detention center. While she was under the custody of her employer, she constantly faced verbal assault. One of the people in charge of the Maternal and Children's clinic once yelled at Ms. He, "If you insist on practicing Falun Gong, I will make sure you have no family, no son, no husband, no job and no money!"

In order to resist the persecution, Ms. He Xianggu left her former employer in June 2001. She went to Shenzhen City, and found a job in a restaurant as a dishwasher in Buji Town. She was arrested again in May 2002 when she returned to Changsha City to visit her son. This time, she was illegally sentenced to one and a half years at a forced labor camp. At the Baimalong Labor Camp in Zhuzhou City, Ms. He Xianggu started a hunger strike to resist the persecution. She faced all kinds of verbal assaults, force-feedings, intravenous injections, etc. After being on hunger strike for 160 days, her vital signs were barely present. She was then taken back to her original home in You County, Zhuzhou City, Hunan Province on November 20, 2002.

Approximately ten days after she returned home, she lost two thirds of her hair and her whole body was swollen, especially below the knees. The skin was stretched and looked polished. She had diarrhea 7 or 8 times a day, and had to crawl on all fours if she was walking uphill. She maintained her faith and went on to practice Falun Gong, then a month later, she fully recovered and her body returned to normal.

During the Chinese New Year in 2003, Ms. He Xianggu returned to her hometown and clarified the truth about Falun Gong to her friends and relatives. Someone who didn't know the truth about the persecution reported her to the authorities, and she was arrested. After going on a hunger strike without water, she was released in 7 days.

In April 2003, after going through many difficulties, Hunan Province Maternal and Children's Hospital finally agreed to let her return to work, but they forced her to sign an agreement, and had people keep watch on her. Ms. He treated her job seriously and responsibly. The head of the nursing department even let her be in charge of the department's ambulance and first aid equipment. Regardless, some people in charge of Hunan Province Maternal and Children's Hospital still didn't allow her to practice Falun Gong, and didn't allow her to say that she had become a good person because of Falun Gong. If she persisted, they wouldn't give her regular job status back.

In September 2003, Ms. He Xianggu was arrested for the sixth time while she was passing out truth-clarification fliers. The hospital officials told the prosecutor to make sure to send her to a labor camp. Some hospital staff who were involved claimed, "I am not scared if I have to go to hell for this!" Facing persecution inside the labor camp again, Ms. He went on a hunger strike again. On the 28th day of her hunger strike, the guards pushed her into a chair and used braces, her sweater and her pants to tie down her wrists, chest, abdomen, thighs, and ankles. Two people held her shoulders from behind, another held her head, and one held her nose. Another person in front of her used a tongue depressor to open her mouth, and poured rice porridge into her mouth until her throat made strange sounds. They released the tongue depressor after she almost suffocated, and she vomited immediately afterwards. This torture continued for over 40 minutes. During the force-feeding, a young female guard sat on a table nearby and kept yelling and cursing. Later that day, during an intravenous injection, Ms. He Xianggu appeared to have heart failure: she had difficulty breathing, and her face and ears turned purple. She was taken to Zhuhua Hospital for emergency treatment.

On October 15, 2003, Ms. He Xianggu was taken home. After she returned home, she visited Hunan Province Maternal and Children's Hospital three times to request to return to work. She was yelled at by Zhang Cixiu (then CCP Secretary of the Hospital, now retired): "Get out! Get out of here now!" Thus, she visited the State Appeals Office of Changsha City in Kaifu District and was turned away. She wrote letters to the governor of Hunan Province, the mayor of Changsha City, and the chief executive of Kaifu District, but didn't receive any replies.

In April 2005, not long after she left a fellow practitioner's home, police officers illegally searched and arrested her after finding Falun Gong books on her. Ms. He was taken to the Baimalong Labor Camp in Zhu Prefecture, Hunan Province for the third time. After two months on hunger strike, she showed very weak vital signals and was taken home.

After going through so many difficulties, Ms. He Xianggu still uses what she learned from Falun Gong's principle of "Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance" to treat everyone and everything around her peacefully and compassionately. Her innocence, compassion and honesty proved the power of "Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance," and she received a compassionate response: She got her job back and now she has a good relationship with her son.

However, on April 23, 2008, Ms He Xianggu was arrested for the eighth time at her own home.

Note: Hunan Province Maternal and Children's Hospital has always participated in and supported the persecution of Falun Gong.

Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2008/4/28/177389.html

Mr. Sun Pinghua is a Falun Gong practitioner in his thirties. He is employed at a fertilizer factory in Yueyang City, Hunan Province. On the morning of March 18, 2008, while on his way to work, Mr. Sun was illegally arrested by Jiang Chao from Yueyanglou District Domestic Security Team of the city police department, along with personnel from a nearby police station.

On the afternoon of the same day, two police vehicles arrived at Mr. Sun's home and several people illegally rushed into his residence, stealing many items belonging to his family, including a computer used by a child for study.

While in detention, Mr. Sun Pinghua was interrogated under torture for several days and nights. According to people imprisoned at the same location, Mr. Sun Pinghua lost feeling in his left hand due to the torture.

Mr. Sun Pinghua's family went to the Yueyanglou Branch of Yueyang City Police Department and the detention center five or six times to visit him, but were not allowed to see him.

On April 15, Mr. Sun Pinghua's wife received a so-called notice of arrest from the police. The notice had an official seal from Yueyanglou District Police Branch, but lacked the signature of any personnel responsible for her case.

So for eleven Falun Gong practitioners are illegally imprisoned in various detention centers in Yueyang City. Those who are jailed in Yueyang City Detention Center include Mr. Sun Pinghua; Mr. Yao Dahua, an electrical engineer in his fifties; Mr. Hu Heping, in his fifties; Mr. Xue Zhongyi, in his forties; Mr. Zhou Yongbin, 32 years old; Mr. Ding Dongting, in his thirties; Ms. Fu Dongxiu, in her sixties; and Ms. Shen Chunfang, in her fifties. Also, Ms. Liu Bilian, in her seventies, is imprisoned in Huarong County Detention Center and Zhang Jian from Yunxi is detained in an unknown location.