Name: Wu Suqin (武素琴)
Gender: Female
Age: Unknown
Address: Jiyuan City, Henan Province
Occupation: Unknown
Date of Most Recent Arrest: June 7, 2010
Most Recent Place of Detention: Xiaolangdi Brainwashing Center
(小浪底洗脑班)
City: Jiyuan
Province: Henan
Persecution Suffered: Detention, home ransacked, forced labor,
sleep deprivation, bound with shackles, shocked with electric
batons, brainwashing.
(Clearwisdom.net) Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Wu Suqin was illegally arrested in June 2010 and detained in Jiyuan City Detention Center. That October she was detained in Xiaolangdi Brainwashing Center for almost five months. She had been arrested and detained at the Jiyuan Detention Center the previous year, and was tortured and made to perform forced labor.
On December 9, 2009, soon after Ms. Wu Suqin arrived home, her door was kicked open and she was arrested. A group of plainclothes police broke into her home, including officers Xie Hongwu, Miao Dongming and Chen Guohui from the National Security Team of Jiyuan Public Security Bureau, as well as police from Yaqiao Township. They ransacked her home, stole a portrait of Falun Gong's founder Master Li Hongzhi, a music player, Falun Gong books, and other items. Ms. Wu was detained in Jiyuan Detention Center.
In the detention center, a guard forced Wu Suqin to perform labor, making medicine boxes used in hospitals. Female guard Zhao Na intentionally increased Ms. Wu's workload, and told prisoners Liu Zixian, Liu Hongjin, and others to watch her. If she slowed down a little, Liu Zixian would hit her hands with a plastic hanger. Ms. Wu's hands became bruised, and her fingers were so swollen that she could not even bend them. The police guards always aimed for higher production, and appointed the inmate in charge of the cell to keep Ms. Wu from sleeping. They forced her to work nights continuously, which resulted in headaches and fatigue. She could not complete the extra work, so Zhao Na commanded prisoners to put heavy shackles on her and forced her to walk three rounds in the yard. As a result, her feet were ripped up, covered with blood and the flesh torn. Her legs were swollen and she could barely walk.
Torture re-enactment: Heavy shackles
The guards forbade Ms. Wu Suqin from talking or moving around. She was forced to continue laboring. Ms. Wu suffered both mentally and physically, resulting in her condition deteriorating. Her ability to work also decreased. Zhao Na put her into a closed room alone and used an electric baton to repeatedly shock her in seven or eight rounds. Ms. Wu's whole body was bruised and injured, and she lost the ability to walk. Ms. Wu Suqin was tortured for 35 days in the detention center and eventually released.
Torture re-enactment: Shocked with an electric baton
Ms. Wu Suqin was working in a roadside flower field in Zhicheng Town, Jiyuan on June 7, 2010. A police car pulled up next to her, and then several officers led by Xie Hongwu forcibly grabbed Ms. Wu and pushed her into the car. They took her to Yaqiao Township Police Substation, and then to Tiantan Hospital, where they forced her to have a physical exam. The result showed that she had very high blood pressure. Despite her condition, Xie Hongwu, Miao Dongming, Chen Guohui, and others still forcibly sent her to Jiyuan Detention Center. The detention center refused to take her, but the group of officers left her there and quickly departed.
Ms. Wu continued to suffer in the detention center. When officials discovered that Wu Suqin had helped a new prisoner, they increased her work quota by 50 extra medicine boxes a day.
On October 12 of the same year, Jiyuan Political Judiciary Committee Secretary Li Gang, local 610 Office director Zhao Nianbo, and Liu Tianguo lied to Ms. Wu about her being released, and instead transferred her to the Xiaolangdi Brainwashing Center from the detention center. She was detained there for five months and suffered even more. During the brainwashing sessions, Falun Gong practitioners were forced to watch CCTV's “Focus” program, as well as TV programs made by the Chinese Communist Party which slandered Falun Gong. They included the staged Tiananmen Square “self-immolation,” as well as other propaganda. CCP officials ordered practitioners to swear at the founder of Falun Gong, and write pledges not to practice. They also forced practitioners to learn and practice another qigong based on animal movements. They threatened Wu Suqin's family and tried to use them to force Ms. Wu to give up her belief under enormous pressure.
Those involved in the persecution of Ms. Wu:
Wang Lixin, Deputy Director of the Public Security Bureau:
86-13949690888 (Cell) 86-391-6693389, 86-391-6291876
Zhao Nianbo, Deputy Secretary of the Political Judiciary Committee:
86-13782758811 (Cell), 86-391-6633611 (Office), 86-391-6638811
(Home)
Li Gang, Jiyuan Political Judiciary Committee Secretary
