(Minghui.org) A Qingdao City, Shandong Province resident had just stepped outside of her home at 10 a.m. on January 31, 2024 when three plainclothes officers seized her and stuffed her into a sedan. Two more agents then came, and together they drove Ms. Hei Yan, 54, to the Xinglong Road Police Station.
One of the officers revealed that he was deputy chief Zhang Shan of the police station. Another officer said he was surnamed Jin. The other three officers did not answer when Ms. Hei demanded to know their identities.
The five agents carried Ms. Hei to an interrogation room after they arrived at the police station. They restrained her in a metal chair and confiscated her house key. At 8 p.m., officer Wang Jingguo showed up. He appeared to be a leader, as an officer asked him what “crime” to write on the case against Ms. Hei. He replied, “Anything is fine.”
Wang, officer Guo, and a woman officer whose name was unknown drove Ms. Hei to the Pudong Detention Center. She refused to get out upon arrival, and they carried her inside. During the required physical examination, the three officers dragged her from one room to another. When it came time to draw her blood, the police pinned her down, with the woman officer sitting on her stomach and officer Guo stepping on her face, which swelled up badly as a result.
The in-house clinic at the detention center closed for the day before Ms. Hei’s physical examination was done. Officer Wang dragged her outside and kicked her a few times. He then called a supervisor, who gave the order to take her back to the police station.
Two hours after Ms. Hei’s arrest, four officers from the police station, only one of them in uniform, broke into her father’s home at noon. They flashed a piece of paper and said it was a search warrant. Ms. Hei’s father noted that it was a blank piece of paper with only an official seal on it. The police confiscated Ms. Hei’s Falun Gong books that she had stored in her father’s home.
Five officers, including Zhang, Jin, and Guo, drove Ms. Hei to the detention center at around 4 p.m. on February 1, 2024. This time they said there was no need to do a physical examination, as they had talked the detention center director into admitting Ms. Hei.
After they arrived at the detention center, the five officers stripped Ms. Hei into her undergarments. They called in two female guards, but it was unclear whether the guards had removed all of her clothes to force an inmate uniform on her. At around 10 a.m., they finally carried Ms. Hei into a cell. The inmates were startled to see three men carrying her inside. The next morning, Ms. Hei intended to do Falun Gong exercises, but was stopped by her cellmates, as they feared being implicated.
Ms. Hei was released on March 8, 2024 after 38 days of detention. This is not the first time that she was targeted for her faith. She was previously arrested multiple times and her mother, also a Falun Gong practitioner, died as a result of the persecution.
Past Persecution – Ms. Hei and Her Brother Both Divorced, Their Mother Diseased
Ms. Hei took up Falun Gong on July 11, 1998. Her mother also joined her in the practice. Her two brothers did not practice Falun Gong, but they supported her and their mother.
After the persecution began in 1999, Ms. Hei’s husband feared being implicated and divorced her. She was given full custody of their infant child.
Ms. Hei’s older brother was a police officer, and he was fired because of his mother and sister’s practice of Falun Gong. His wife, a civil servant, was forced to divorce him and given full custody of their child. He sought to have his job reinstated, but to no avail.
Ms. Hei and her mother, Ms. Sheng Xilan, were arrested on January 12, 2006 and taken to the Yunnan Road Police Station. Their Falun Gong books and materials were confiscated. The police also seized the 1,500 yuan cash that Ms. Hei had saved to cover her child’s living expenses. Despite her family’s repeated requests, the police never returned the money. They also took her to the Wangcun Labor Camp to serve an unknown term without her family’s knowledge.
Her mother, Ms. Sheng, later died as a result of the persecution. She was in her 70s.
The same Xinglong Road Police Station that arrested Ms. Hei in 2024 also arrested her on July 12, 2022. They pried her door open that day and damaged her lock. They confiscated all of her Falun Gong books, computer and two printers. Her family found a detention notice at her home saying that she had been put on criminal detention. She was released 39 days later, only to be harassed by the same police station in September 2023. She called various government hotlines to report the police harassment, but received no response.
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