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Summary of Key Persecution Facts

Name: Huang Haiyan(黄海燕)
Gender: Female
Age: About 40
Address: Wuhan City, Hubei Province
Occupation: Vendor
Date of Most Recent Arrest: May, 2012
Most recent place of detention: Hewan Forced Labor Camp(河湾劳教所)
City: Wuhan
Province: Hubei
Persecution Suffered: Detention, forced labor education, hung from handcuffs, torture, forced slave labor, sleep deprivation, denied visitation.

Ms. Huang Haiyan's one-year term ended on May 15, 2013. Her family looked forward to having her home again. However, her term was secretly extended for another year.

On the morning of May 15, 2013, Ms. Huang's husband went to the Hewan Forced Labor Camp to pick her up. He was told that someone had already picked her up, and to go home and wait for further information. Her husband left. Afterward, he learned some information online, from a friend, that Ms. Huang Haiyan's term had been extended for another year and she did not leave the camp at all. It was reported that she was detained with an extended term because she refused to be “transformed.”

Back in May of 2012, the Wuhan Domestic Security officers arrested Ms. Huang Haiyan because she was distributing Falun Gong materials in her store. She was first sent to the Wujiashan First Women's Detention Center. She was then secretly sentenced to one year in a forced labor camp. She was held in the Gushaoshu Drug Rehabilitation Center in Hankou and transferred to the Hewan Forced Labor Camp in Wuhan. Ms. Huang did not give up her beliefs and so she was tortured, and her family was not allowed to visit her.

At the end of last August, Ms. Huang was subjected to another round of torture in the Hewan Forced Labor Camp. Due to the extreme brainwashing tactics the guards used on her, for a while she was confused. Upon becoming clearheaded, she wrote a long letter to the team leader in charge and clarified the truth about Falun Gong. This only resulted in more torture. The guards handcuffed her hands onto a bed. Her arms turned black. In order to prevent her from speaking the truth about Falun Gong, the guards ordered the detainees to stuff dirty socks into her month for more than four hours, until her face turned black. When the socks were taken out, Ms. Huang continued to speak out. She was tied to a water pipe for the next several days.

Ms. Huang was also forced to do slave labor. She worked from early in the morning until late into the night. She tied sacks up with linen ropes. She could not go to sleep until she finished the work. The long-term hard labor left her hands covered with wounds.

Learning Falun Gong and Telling Others about the Persecution

Ms. Huang Haiyan, in her 40s, came from Huashan, a suburb of Wuhan. She and her husband ran a small business. They started from scratch and worked very hard. When the business grew better and better, they moved the entire family to the city. They rented a shop for selling liquor and tobacco, and their business did very well. Later on, Ms. Huang was fortunate to learn Falun Dafa. She became more and more candid and straightforward as she came to understand Dafa. She introduced Dafa to her customers.

Before practicing Falun Gong, Ms. Huang Haiyan did not have a good relationship with her mother-in-law. When she first started to practice, her mother-in-law didn't understand her and tried to keep her from studying the Fa, practicing the exercises and clarifying the truth. Later, her mother-in-law had a heart attack. Ms. Huang told her mother-in-law to recite “Falun Dafa is great” and “Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is great.” Her mother-in-law recovered. Since then, her mother-in-law no longer interferes with her practice in any way. Their relationship has greatly improved.

Repeated Arrests

In 2008, Ms. Huang Haiyan's daughter attended a summer student camp which was organized by Chen Man and other Falun Gong practitioners. After Chen Man and other practitioners were arrested by the domestic security agents. Her daughter was also harassed by the authorities. The school teachers exerted pressure on Ms. Huang Haiyan. Ms. Huang gave the principal the DVD: “Traveling Heaven and Earth Through Wind and Rain” and hoped this would help the principal to learn the truth. However, she was detained in the local police station for 15 days.

This time Ms. Huang was arrested again because she told people about Falun Gong in her store. The whole family was threatened. Her mother-in-law had a heart attack and was hospitalized. No one took care of the store. The police even instigated the landlord to force Ms. Huang's family to withdraw the lease. Their intention was to completely cut the family's living income.