(Clearwisdom.net) Ms. Qi Suqin, 35, lives in Pangjapu Village, Xiahuai
Town, Pingshan County, Hebei Province. The other villagers knew her family for
their poor health. Her father's legs and wrist caused him constant pain, and he
also had a stomach condition. He was thin and weak. He never stopped taking
different medications to try to cure his illnesses. Ms. Qi's mother was also
weak and took medicine on a daily basis. They spent most of their money trying
to treat their illnesses. Their circumstances were strained.
Fortunately, in 1997 the whole family began practicing Falun Gong. They conduct
themselves according to the principles, "Truthfulness, Compassion and
Tolerance." The family became free of health problems and never again took
medicine. Their living conditions greatly improved. However, the Chinese
Communist Party authorities forbid people from practicing Falun Gong and won't
let people live a better life. In 1999, the CCP regime started the savage
persecution of people who cultivate themselves according to "Truthfulness,
Compassion and Tolerance."
In August 1999, Ms. Qi Suqin planned to go to Beijing to appeal and
clarify the truth about Falun Gong. She was arrested on her way to
Beijing and taken to a big yard in Shijiazhuang City. With many other
practitioners, Ms Qi was left out in the direct sun. Then she was sent back to
Pingshan to a police station. Because she and other practitioners refused to
give up their belief, they were put in a detention center overnight.
Xiahuai police station head Wang Xintang and village official Zhang Taishan went
to Ms. Qi's home to conduct a search and confiscated Falun Gong books, exercise
tapes, and other items. Then they detained Ms. Qi for two weeks and extorted 300
yuan from her without providing a receipt.
In December 2000, she went once again to Beijing to appeal. She was arrested and
taken to the Huairou Detention Center where she and many other practitioners had
to stay in the yard outside. Everyone had to wear a numbered piece of cloth on
his or her back. Her number was 1033. Then the guards searched everyone. They
used force to remove practitioners' clothes and searched them individually. If
they found a practitioner carrying something [the guards did not like], they cut
up or tore their clothes apart. They also arbitrarily beat the practitioners.
Later on, the guards locked a dozen people in a small room that had only one
large metal board bed. The only pass-way connected to the bathroom was about one
person wide. If practitioners refused to eat the food they provided, the guards
would throw the food into the room. At night, if the guards discovered
practitioners doing the exercises, they would order people to bring several
basins of cold water to throw on the practitioners. Water ran all over the bed.
The guards then turned on a fan to freeze the practitioners. In the winter, the
radiator in the room was cold.
Someone named Fu from Xiahuai Town eventually transferred Ms. Qi to Pingshan in
the Beijing reception center. (Ms Qi saw another practitioner there, Mr. Feng
Hongming from Bailing Village. He had been severely beaten. He sat on the floor
and was handcuffed to one of the legs of the bed.) From there, she and other
practitioners were returned by vehicle to the Pingshan County Police department.
She wasn't wearing handcuffs because the authorities had run out of them. Ms. Qi
escaped in the dark as the vehicle drove through the countryside.
The same night, Xiahuai Police Station officials dispatched people to arrest
Ms. Qi's father and bring him to Pingshan. They also went to her relatives'
homes to search for her but couldn't find her. The village authorities proceeded
to keep her home under surveillance. Xiahuai Town Marshal Chen Yuefeng, CPC
Committee Secretary Zhao Zhengfang ,and officers from the local police station
went to Ms. Qi Suqin's home to harass her family, over and over again. They also
attempted to extort 2,000 yuan from them. Ms. Qi's brother paid them 1,200 yuan
he had earned from his hard labor in the brick kilns. The officials said it was
not enough, so they confiscated and drove his tractor away, saying once the
balance of 800 yuan was paid, he could have his tractor back.
Ms. Qi's family tried their best to borrow money and eventually collected the
800 yuan with great difficulty. They finally got the tractor back, but didn't
get a receipt for the 800 yuan. Later, Pinshan Police Department agents extorted
another 1,000 yuan from them without providing a receipt.
Pinshan Police Department agents also brought Pinshan TV station photographers
to Ms. Qi's home to make a video. They said the family lives in such poor
conditions because they practice Falun Gong.
Once, Xiahuai administrators dispatched a dozen people in the middle of the night to break into Ms. Qi's home, arrest everyone in the family, and take them to the town's administration office. Ms. Qi's mother was in custody for six days before she was released.
