Name: Peng Xiumin
Gender: Female
Age: 55
Address: Unknown
Occupation: Unknown
Date of Most Recent Arrest: July 21, 2010
Most Recent Place of Detention: Kaiping Forced Labor Camp in Tangshan City (唐山开平劳教所)
City: Qinhuangdao
Province: Hebei
Persecution Suffered: Detention, interrogation, imprisonment, forced labor, physical restraint, forced to stand for long periods of time, beating, forced injections/drug administration, force-feedings, harassment by police
(Clearwisdom.net) Ms. Peng Xiumin is a Falun Gong practitioner from Qinhuangdao City, Hebei Province. She was illegally arrested and sentenced to forced labor in 2010 for clarifying the facts about Falun Gong. Below is her account of what she endured in her own words:
1. Illegally Arrested and Force-Fed Unknown Drugs
On July 21, 2010, a fellow practitioner and I clarified the facts [about Falun Gong] to workers at a construction site in Qinhuangdao City. Officers from the Industry Park Police Station, including Zhou Haitao and Tao Aimin, arrested us. We were interrogated and searched. The police took away our truth-clarifying materials. Later we were detained in the No. 2 Detention Center of Qinhuangdao City for 10 days.
During the detention, guard Zhou Haitao and four or five other guards took me to a police hospital to force-feed me unknown drug(s). Four guards held me down on the bed. They held my head, held me down on the bed, pinched my legs, and struck my hands. One guard pinched my nose shut with his fingers. They forced my mouth open to pour in the unknown drugs. My legs and arms were still black-and-blue 10 days later.
2. Subjected to Forced Labor
After 10 days in the detention center, officials from the Industry Park Police Station and the municipal 610 Office sent me to Kaiping Forced Labor Camp in Tangshan City to serve a one-year term. During the medical evaluation upon arrival there, I was found to have high blood pressure and a hearing problem, so the labor camp officials did not want to accept me. However, the police forced the labor camp officials to take me.
During my detention in the labor camp, I was watched 24 hours a day by the inmates. I was forced to do slave labor for 15 and a half hours each day, from 5:30 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.
My mother-in-law, who is over 80 years old, fainted and had to be sent to the hospital after learning that I had been sent a forced labor camp for one year. My father was frightened and couldn't eat or sleep well. My husband and son were affected as well.
3. Forced to stand straight for many hours
In order to get a reduction of her prison term, inmate Wu Shuangyan reported practitioners to the division head, Yan Hongli, on March 10, 2011. Yan instructed guard Wang Wenping to mistreat four of the practitioners. I was sent to Wang Wenping's office and was forced to stand straight for many hours. Liu Jie and Wang Yifeng kicked and yelled at me if I didn't stand straight.
Practitioner Ms. Han Xinlin was put into solitary confinement for 192 hours. Both of her hands were cuffed to a chair, and her mouth was sealed with tape. She was deprived of sleep and the right to use the restroom.
4. Brutally Force-fed
Practitioner Ms. Xu Aihua and I started a hunger strike to protest the mistreatment. However, on the seventh day of the hunger strike we were brutally force-fed. Around 2:30 p.m. on March 17, 2011, guard Wang Yanhua ordered me to go to the on-duty office. After I refused her request to stop the hunger strike, doctor Wang was called in. Several guards, including Wang Yanhua, Wu Shuangyan, Han Zunfen, Li Jie, and Li Kaifang, held me to a chair. I called out, "Falun Dafa is good!" They covered my mouth with a cloth belt. Han Zunfen and Wu Shuangyan pulled my arms behind the chair, and Liu Liying stepped firmly on my feet. The doctor then jammed a tube up my nose, which made it impossible for me to breathe. A bag of salt water was poured into my stomach through the feeding tube. I felt burning in my stomach. Then I was fed a bowl of egg soup through the tube. My stomach was filled to the point of bursting. I had a hard time breathing. The next day, one of my teeth fell out. I had an unbearable headache and felt unwell for several days thereafter.
Re-enactment: Force Feeding
I was released from the labor camp on July 18, 2011, but I continued to suffer harassment from police. Two officers from the Beihuanlu Police Station came to my home and told me to go to the police station on August 26, 2011.
