Name: Sun Yan (孙岩)
Gender: Female
Age: 60
Address: Panshi City, Jilin Province
Occupation: Unknown
Date of Most Recent Arrest: June 22, 2005
Most recent place of detention: Heizuizi Women's Forced Labor Camp (黑嘴子女子劳教所)
City: Changchun
Province: Jilin
Persecution Suffered: Home ransacked, interrogation, handcuffed behind the back, brutal beatings, detention, torture, forced labor, extortion, wages withheld.

(Clearwisdom.net) Practitioner Ms. Sun Yan was arrested on June 22, 2005 by several police officers from the Domestic Security Division and local police stations in Panshi City, Jilin Province. Because she refused to provide the source of her Falun Dafa books, the police beat her, causing severe injury to her ribs and right kidney. The police not only refused to provide her with medical treatment, but instead, they took her, in a severely injured state, to the Heizuizi Women's Forced Labor Camp in Changchun, and continued to persecute her for 18 months.

Ms. Sun Yan's body is now severely deformed due to the injuries sustained during the beatings. The officer who tortured and interrogated her is Gao Xuanri from the Domestic Security Division in Panshi City, Jilin Province.

Ms. Sun started practicing Falun Gong in 1997, and has benefited greatly from the practice, both physically and mentally. Facing the brutal persecution by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), she visited Beijing several times to appeal for Falun Dafa and clarify the truth of Falun Dafa to people. Because of this, she was arrested and detained multiple times.

At around 6:00 p.m. on June 22, 2005, seven to eight police officers from the Domestic Security Division and the Hongqiling Police Station in Panshi City, Jilin Province broke into Sun Yan's home. They held Ms. Sun down on the heater in the living room and didn't allow her to move. Several officers then started to ransack her bedroom. Her home was turned into a mess. The police confiscated her Falun Dafa books, a picture of the founder of Falun Gong, the key to her home, her cell phone, as well as several meditation mats.

Ms. Sun was taken to the Hongqiling Police Station. Gao Xuanri from the Domestic Security Division asked her who gave her the Falun Dafa books. She refused to answer him. Gao Xuanri said, "If you don't tell us, we will kill you. No one will know it, leaving you only to be bereaved by your family!" Gao Xuanri, who was very tall and strong, handcuffed Ms. Sun's hands behind her back. He then dragged her with his hand under her right ribs. He knocked her body against a wall several times. That same night, Sun Yan experienced symptoms of frequent urination. She requested multiple times to use the bathroom. The staff member on duty said, "Go to bathroom? No way!" On the second morning, the Panshi City Police Department transferred Sun Yan to the Panshi Detention Station.

She was forced to sit on a bench in the detention center. Her back was so painful that she couldn't sit straight. The police yelled at her, "What back pain? Sit straight!" Other inmates also pleaded for her, but the officers still didn't allow her to rest. Then she started to cough continuously. Once she started coughing, she felt tremendous pain in her back and chest. She wanted to hold her chest to relieve the pain, but when she touched the right side of her chest, she suddenly felt that her ribs on that side had collapsed. She immediately realized that the policeman Gao Xuanri not only injured her kidney (the frequent urination was due to the kidney injury), but also broke her ribs (the collapse of the right side of her chest and continuous coughing was because the broken ribs were irritating her lungs.)

Even though her back pain and coughing continued, the detention center personnel not only refused to allow her a checkup and treatment, but also, after one and a half months, she was taken to the Heizuizi Women's Forced Labor Camp in Changchun to serve an eighteen month term.

Sun Yan's right abdominal side gradually became deformed and protruding, starting in 2007. When she slept on her back, it felt like a stone was pressing on her back. She constantly felt back pain and her eyelids were swollen.

After Sun Yan was released from the labor camp, she was constantly harassed by local government personnel and the retirement office. Wherever she traveled, the harassment followed her. Because of this, Sun Yan could not return home. She ended up going to other cities to stay with her relatives.

Ms. Sun was persecuted multiple times. During the detention in the labor camp, her salary should have been collected by no one except her. However, Zhou Fangheng (director) and Zhang Jun from the local police department took Sun Yan's salary from Cao Wancheng (who was the CCP secretary of the retirement office). Then Li Shiku, from the Political and Judiciary Committee of Panshi City, took Sun Yan's salary from Zhang Jun. Zhang Jun was specifically in charge of the persecution of Falun Gong in the police department, and gave only two receipts to Sun Yan, which recorded a total of 13,000 yuan (at that time, her salary was only 400-500 yuan per month). The receipt only proved that Li Shiku took away her salary. When Ms. Sun Yan went to ask Li Shiku, he said he was no longer in charge of this, and he knew nothing about it.

Every time Sun Yan went to Beijing, several thousand yuan was extorted from her. The money was taken directly from the retirement office and spent on food, lodging, and gas for people in the local government's Liaison Office in Beijing, in Sun Yan's workplace, and by other people who arrested her. Some of them provided receipts, some only wrote the amount on a piece of paper, and some followed no legal procedure when they took the money. During the past several years, they took away about 20,000 yuan.