(Minghui.org)
Summary of Key Persecution Facts :
Name: Liang Shufen (梁淑芬)
Gender: Female
Age: 48
Address: Tangshan City, Hebei Province
Occupation: Staff member of Tangshan Iron and Steel (唐钢)
Date of Most Recent Arrest: May 10, 2007
Most recent place of detention: Kaiping Forced Labor Camp (开平劳教所)
City: Tangshan
Province: Hebei
Persecution Suffered: Detention, home ransacked, brainwashing, beatings, extortion, forced drug injections, detention in mental hospital, interrogation by torture, forced labor, hanging by handcuffs, electric shock, shackling, living under surveillance
Falun Dafa practitioner Lian Shufen was on the staff of the Tangshan Iron and Steel Factory. When her baby was only seven months of age, she was illegally arrested and unjustly put in a mental hospital, where she was persecuted for five years.
Ms. Lian was arrested again in May 2007 and subsequently sent to a forced labor camp. She is now mentally and physically disabled as a result of the persecution to which she was subjected.
Before she began practicing Falun Dafa, Ms. Liang had several illnesses that did not respond to treatment. She began to practice in February 1998, and two months later, she already felt like a new person. Her illnesses were gone and her behavior changed to that of a kind person. She no longer cared about fame and fortune. She was admired by everyone who knew her.
Five Years of Persecution in Mental Hospital
The communist regime began openly persecuting Falun Gong in July 1999. Ms. Liang's factory administrators, Guo Baoxian and Fu Qingfu, persecuted Ms. Liang, who was at the time two months pregnant. She was held in a brainwashing center, and her home was raided many times. Just after the birth of her child, police officer Lu Yanjun, from the Jianshelu Police Station, broke into her bedroom and took her only Falun Dafa book.
When her baby was seven months of age, Ms. Liang went to Beijing to tell the world, “Falun Dafa is good.” She was arrested by local police on October 7, 2000. Police from Tangshan, Hebei Province, stationed in Beijing, searched her body and took her money.
Ms. Liang was handcuffed to a pipe and forced to squat. That night, the 610 Office personnel stationed at her factory, as well as staff members Liu Jinkui and Cao Junxiang, escorted her back to the factory, along with police from Tangshan. They fined her 5,000 yuan.
Zheng Wu, the Communist Party secretary of her factory, held her in a room in Tanggangxilou Dormitory, where she was monitored around the clock. Li Baojuan and others participated in brainwashing her; they slandered Falun Dafa and forbid her from feeding her baby or exercising. Ms. Liang was watched, even while using the bathroom, by male Communist Party member Fu Ruijun. She finally had a mental collapse and attempted to jump out of the building.
Ms. Liang was beaten by a male guard from her factory on October 13, 2000; her front teeth were knocked out, and her hair was ripped out. She was taken to the Tangshan No. 5 Mental Hospital the very next day by Cao Junxiang and Liu Jinkui.
Director Xu Jianguo, a female doctor, and a nurse shocked her with an electric needle, injected her with an unknown drug, and tied her up. She felt waves of pressure on her chest, lost consciousness, and nearly died.
The admnistered drugs caused Ms. Liang to be unable to hold up her head. Her tongue felt twisted, and she was unable to talk. Her family was forbidden from taking care of her, or even visiting. Ms. Liang was beaten by other patients.
Late, Ms. Liang was transferred to Tangshan Pilot Psychiatric Hospital. Again, her family was not allowed to visit or take care of her.
During the five years she was imprisoned, her factory only paid her 400 yuan per month, but paid the extensive medical bills for the hospital that was persecuting her.
Before Ms. Liang was released in September 2006, 610 Office agent Cao Junxiang forced her to write a guarantee statement, promising to give up her belief. After that, Ms. Liang began to practice Falun Dafa again, and recovered both mentally and physically.
Labor Camp Persecution
Ms. Liang distributed informational materials about Falun Dafa on a train on May 10, 2007. When the train arrived at Tianjinjinghai station, she was arrested. Police officers Cao Mo and Liu Yueqiang from Tianjing Railroad searched her, took her electronic book reader, and interrogated her.
Police did not allow her to sleep or eat, and the following day they raided her home. They also threatened her seven-year-old child, insisting that he tell them who he knew to be Falun Dafa practitioners. They told the child that he would be forbidden to attend school or play with other children if he did not cooperate.
Police officers Cao Mo, Liu Yueqiang, and Wu Changshun held Ms. Liang in Tianjin Railroad detention facility for over 50 days. At the orders of the guards, Hu Xiaoli and other inmates beat her and forbid her from exercising.
Police officers Cao Mo and Liu Yueqiang transferred Ms. Liang to the Tangshan No. 1 Detention Center on July 6. They took her money, 85 yuan, and then injected her with an unknown drug. She was forced to perform slave labor during the day.
Despite knowing her psychiatric history, Yuan Guoli from Tangshan Lubei District Police Subdivision and Song Xiaodong from Xinlizhuang sentenced her to one year of forced labor.
Song Xiaodong transferred Ms. Liang Shufen to Kaiping Forced Labor Camp on July 11, 2007. Her sister Liang Shurong requested that the labor camp release her sister after informing them of her history in the psychiatric hospital, but the labor camp refused.
Guard Wang Yanhua forbid Ms. Liang from exercising or talking, stuffed her mouth with a dirty rag, and sealed her mouth shut with tape. She was forced to write a "guarantee statement" to renounce her faith.
On August 3, 2007, Ms. Lian had another mental collapse, attempted suicide, and was sent to Kaiping Hospital for treatment. Doctor Liu Guijiang performed emergency surgery without notifying her family, and she was then hospitalized for observation.
Guards Wang Yanhua and Yan Hongli bribed the doctor not to notify the family and took her back to the labor camp to continue persecution. As soon as Ms. Liang entered the van, Wang Yanhua handcuffed her, despite the wounds.
Ms. Liang had stitches on the left side of her neck, her left hand was cuffed to the bed rail, her right arm was in a cast, and her legs were so weak that she could not walk for 90 days. Due to her mental state resulting from torture, she attempted suicide again, causing a cerebral hemorrhage. The labor camp did not want to take responsibility and released her on November 11, 2007, but they confiscated her diary.
Persecution During Olympics
During the Olympic Games in 2008, director Su from the Tangshan Iron and Steel Factory Police Station had Ms. Liang Shufen monitored around the clock.
Officer Dong Xingwang from the Fengnan District Qianying Township Police Station broke into her home on August 28, after receiving a report that Ms. Liang was out distributing informational materials about Falun Dafa. Five officers from the Yejituo Police station detained, beat and cursed at her. Her eight-year-old son came to look for his mother and cried and called for her, but the police refused to let him in.
Ms. Liang was then transferred to Qianan Detention Center for 15 days. A male guard named Yang hung Ms. Liang by her handcuffs, and beat and tortured her. She was also shackled, which resulted in the skin around her ankles being torn up from the shackles.
Ms. Liang appealed her case to the Lubei District Political Legal Committee in 2008. She heard nothing, and appealed again to Beijing in 2009 and 2010, but the appeals were suppressed by the Tangshan 610 Office, and the Tangshan Iron and Steel Factory 610 Office. Ms. Liang Shufen has been severely persecuted, resulting in multiple disabilities.
Related article: http://en.minghui.org/emh/articles/2008/9/3/100356.html
