After Being Persecuted for Over 10 Years, Farm Owner in Inner Mongolia Arrested Again

Name: Hao Ping (郝平)
Gender: Female
Age: 40s
Address: Qujiagou Village, Chengjiao Township, Hongshan District, Chifeng City, Inner Mongolia
Occupation: Former owner of a farm business
Date of Most Recent Arrest: March 8, 2012
Most Recent Place of Detention: Dongcheng Detention Center in Hongshan District (红山区东看守所)
City: Chifeng
Province: Inner Mongolia
Persecution Suffered: Detention, illegal sentencing, imprisonment, forced labor, brainwashing, beatings, torture, electric shock, sleep deprivation, hung up, solitary confinement, force-feedings, denial of restroom use, home ransacked

(Minghui.org) Ms. Hao Ping, a Falun Gong practitioner from Hongshan District, Chifeng City, Inner Mongolia, was illegally arrested on March 8, 2012, by four police officers from the Hongshan District Domestic Security Division and Tienan Police Station, who broke into her home.

Ms. Hao is currently detained in the Honghsna District Dongcheng Detention Center.

Because of her faith in Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance, Ms. Hao was previously arrested in 2001. In 2002, she and her husband were given heavy sentences for exposing details of how Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Zhao Yanxia died from force-feedings while in detention.

Ms. Hao and her family operated a farm that had once earned a local “Best Enterprise” award. Due to the persecution, however, this once prospering entrepreneur became penniless.

Kindhearted Family

Ms. Hao Ping's household included her son, her husband, Liu Fuan, her mentally retarded older brother, and a destitute elderly man who they had taken in.

The couple were highly acclaimed pig breeders, and their achievements were even reported on TV. There were several hundred pigs on their pig farm, and the couple also bred pedigreed dogs.

After Ms. Hao and Mr. Liu started to practice Falun Gong, they became kind and considerate. Ms. Hao's second brother, Hao Gang, is mentally retarded. Because her brothers and sisters refused to take him in, the couple brought Hao Gang home and took care of him for several years.

The couple also helped a handicapped youth. Xiao Tian had gone to Tianjin City to work and then returned to Chifeng City, but had no money to get home. It was winter, but he was dressed in thin clothes and cloth shoes. Ms. Hao and her husband let him stay with them throughout the winter.

One year, during the coldest time of the year, Ms. Hao's husband went up a mountain and saw an old man curled up inside a dilapidated house. The roof had caved in, and the house was filled with snow. The old man was filthy and kept shivering. He could not even straighten his back. Mr. Liu brought him home, and the whole family treated him as though he was an elderly member of their family. Gradually, the old man could straighten his back and walk well, and he regained healthy weight. The couple took care of this man, Wang Zhanjiu, for seven or eight years. When Ms. Hao was arrested, to protect him from being persecuted, the family bought him a blanket, a bowl, clothing, and other necessities, gave him 5,500 yuan, and sent him to his old home. Several months later, the old man came back, saying that this was his home. Soon afterward, however, Mr. Liu was also arrested, and the old man was too frightened to come back thereafter.

Husband and Wife Arrested

On the morning of January 19, 2001, Hongshan District police surrounded the Hao family's backyard. One officer climbed over the wall and jumped into the yard, holding a baton. The police ransacked the house, damaging a table and scattering grains and flour everywhere. The family's tape recorder, video player, radio, telephone, printer, and other electronic devices, as well as their books, were confiscated.

The police forced Ms. Hao into the police car without any warm clothes or even shoes. She was detained in the Hongshan District Detention Center. On April 10, 2002, guard Deng Liyan ordered the seven detained practitioners—Ms. Zhao Yanxia, Ms. Hao, Ms. Zhang Fengxia, Ms. Geng Xiulan, Ms. Wang Weihua, Ms. Zhao Shuzhen, and Ms. Duan Shufen—to recite the prison rules. When Ms. Wang refused, Deng shocked her with an electric baton.

The seven practitioners went on a hunger strike to protest the persecution. Around April 16 or 17, guards brutally force-fed them.

Division head Qiu Xuedong mobilized over 100 male convicts to torture the seven practitioners. The practitioners were individually bound to chairs, with their hands cuffed behind their backs. The convicts held their heads, hands, legs, and thighs, then force-fed them cornmeal soup. Ms. Zhao Yanxia was the first one to become unconscious. Qiu Xuedong ordered the convicts to drag her into the corridor, leaving her there unattended. The other six practitioners continued to be force-fed. They were only allowed to return to their cell after they were tortured beyond recognition.

After more than half an hour, a convict went to check on Ms. Zhao. She had already died. Then someone came into the detention center to give her an injection, and her body was taken to the hospital in a car. Later, it was brought back to the prison. Subsequently, officials lied to Ms. Zhao's family, saying that she had suffered a heart attack and was sent to the hospital for emergency treatment but could not be saved. Later on, to cover up the facts of Ms. Zhao's death, the detention center announced that she had been sent home on medical parole.

Torture re-enactment: Force-feedings

When Ms. Hao's husband, Mr. Liu Fuan, went away on business after his wife's arrest, the police issued a warrant for his arrest. Upon his return, Mr. Liu went to the police to ask why he had become a wanted man. The police arrested him and demanded he pay a huge sum of money in exchange for his release on bail. By this time, the pedigreed dogs he bred at home had disappeared, and the pigs and ducks had died of hunger while he was detained. Mr. Liu lost tens of thousands of yuan as a result.

When Mr. Liu went to visit Ms. Hao in prison, he learned the truth about Ms. Zhao Yanxia's death.

On July 19, 2001, Hongshan District police came to Mr. Liu's house and tricked him into going to the police station. He was then taken to prison.

To cover up the truth about Ms. Zhao Yanxia's death, Hongshan District Court then illegally sentenced Ms. Hao and her husband, as well as Ms. Geng Xiulan and Ms. Shang Shuqin, who had already been released, to jail. Their sentences varied from five to seven years.

Ms. Hao Ping Tortured in Detention Center and Prison

Following her arrest, Ms. Hao was tortured in the detention center. Her hands were cuffed in front or behind her back. She was also hung up by the handcuffs, with her wrists bearing the weight of her entire body. The guards slapped her face until it was red and swollen and shocked her with electric batons. She was also not allowed to wear warm clothes in the freezing cold.

Ms. Hao went on hunger strikes many times to resist the persecution. Twice she nearly died from force-feedings and was even kicked by the guards while they force-fed her. On one occasion, a group of male convicts mixed raw corn flour with cold water and forcefully fed her half a basin of the raw flour. This caused her to experience stomach pain and become dizzy. One night, a guard called her out of the cell and a group of convicts lifted her up and took her to solitary confinement. They shoved her down onto an iron bench, bound her hands and legs with iron chains and beat her with electric batons. In the cold night, she was not given any food or water. She was also not allowed to sleep, go to the toilet, or wear warm clothes. For more than 20 hours, she suffered from hunger and cold. Her entire body became numb.

Later, Ms. Hao was transferred to the Inner Mongolia No. 1 Women's Prison in Hohhot. For several days and nights, as a form of torture, she was not allowed to sleep and was forced to stand. If she made even a slight movement, she was kicked and beaten. She went on a hunger strike to protest the persecution and refused to wear the prison uniform. The guards then stripped off her clothes, leaving her wearing only a pair of shorts, and made her sleep on the cold cement floor. After three days of being tortured in the prison, she could not walk properly. She was also often verbally abused by prison inmates and not allowed to have contact with anyone.

On July 30, 2004, Ms. Hao could not get out of bed because of stomach pains. At 9 p.m., inmate Li Ying pulled her down from her upper bunk bed. As a result, Ms. Hao's hip was fractured, and she could not move her back or arms. Li Ying then slapped her in the face until she became unconscious. Ms. Hao was left laying on the ground for four days.

Child Forced to Quit School

Ms. Hao's 13-year-old son was traumatized by the arrest of his parents. He had no one to take care of him and often suffered from dizziness and headaches. The school demanded school fees, and because he could not borrow any money, he was forced to quit school twice. In the end, he had to stop attending school and look for work.

Once Ms. Hao's son slipped and fell while working. His finger was fractured and bled profusely. A kindhearted young man took him to the hospital to fix the injury.

Whenever it was Chinese New Year, Ms. Hao's son would hug his mentally retarded uncle and cry. There was nothing to eat at home, and they had no proper clothes to wear. His uncle became as stick thin.

After his parents were arrested, their son survived on money he earned from selling recycled materials. He used the money to buy rice and cooked porridge to feed himself and his uncle. There was no heat in their home, and at one point the frozen water pipe burst. Very quickly, all three rooms in the house were flooded. Ms. Hao's retarded brother ran to a relative's house 6 miles away and knelt down, begging the relative to come and help save the house.

In just a few years, the walls of the house collapsed, and three pig sties fell down. As a direct result of the persecution, the family business was ruined.

Family Repeatedly Persecuted and Harassed

Mr. Liu Fuan was supposed to be released from prison on September 18, 2006, after being persecuted for over five years in detention. However, upon his release, he was immediately arrested by the 610 Office agents and taken to a brainwashing center. The 610 Office then demanded that his son pay 2,500 yuan. His son went everywhere to borrow the money and gave the extortion fee to the 610 Office, so that his father could be released.

Two years later, Ms. Hao was finally due to be released from prison. The city 610 Office threatened to send her to a brainwashing center. Ms. Hao said, “You have persecuted our family until now, and we have nothing left. What do you still want from us?” When the perpetrators saw that they could not extort any more money from them, they let her go.

As a result of many years of persecution, Ms. Hao was in bad health, but she still had to work as a nanny to make ends meet. Due to her weak condition, she injured her back at work and was in great pain. Her legs also hurt as if they were broken. Subsequently, she could not walk, work, or even dress herself. Yet the police continued to harass her. Once when they came to her home, she said, “We have no food at home, and none of you care about this. Why are you coming here to harass those who seek to be good citizens?” The police had nothing to say and left.

Now, just as the family was beginning to recover, the police arrested Ms. Hao again.

Parties involved in the persecution:

Dai Yingtang, head of Hongshan District Police Department in Chifeng City, Inner Mongolia,head: [phone] ext. 3001 (Office), [phone](Home), [phone]
Bao Gang, deputy head: [phone] ext. 3003 (Office), [phone] (Home), [phone]

Please refer to the original Chinese article for additional contact information of those involved in the persecution.