(Minghui.org) Ms. Huang Qiuzhen, in her 50s, lives in the Wenquan District in Xianning City. She was arrested on November 7, 2013, by plainclothes officers. She is now being held in a brainwashing center inside the Xianning Drug Rehabilitation Center.
After Ms. Huang left her house at around 8 a.m., she ran into four plainclothes officers. One of them asked her, “Do you know Huang Qiuzhen?” Ms. Huang replied, “That's me.” The person then said, “Let's go to your home.” Ms. Huang said, “We can talk here. I still have things to do.” She was immediately arrested.
The four officers include Zhang Huilong, deputy director of the Chalukou Police Station, and Zou Yu from Xianning City Police Department.
The police also went to Ms. Huang's home at about 11 a.m. to ransack it. They left a big mess when they were done.
Ms. Huang's husband past away a year ago, and her father-in-law past away several days ago. Ms. Huang's arrest has made life difficult for her 80-year-old mother-in-law, who now has to take care of herself.
Forced Labor Camp Re-labeled a "Drug Rehabilitation Center"
The Xianning Drug Rehabilitation Center where Ms. Huang is being held used to be a forced labor camp. After the labor camp system in China received a lot of adverse international attention this past year, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) announced the abolishment of labor camps. According to Levi Browde, executive director of the Falun Dafa Information Center, the CCP abolishment of labor camps is an attempt, “to make an apparent change on the surface to help bolster its image, while behind the scenes, it's business as usual.”
Although many labor camps have closed, there are some that “close down” by simply changing the name on the front of the building, such as the case of the Xianning Drug Rehabilitation Center. The purpose of the brainwashing center is to “transform” practitioners in the Xianning area.
Practitioners are forced to watch videos that defame the practice and to write a guarantee statement to renounce Falun Gong. Each practitioner is closely supervised by two monitors.
