(Clearwisdom.net) Ms. Guo Boqing, 41 years old, has been an employee at the Chemical Engineering Corporation in Chenzou City, Hunan Province. She started to practice Falun Gong in April 1998 and because she refused to give up her belief in "Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance", she has been detained five times for a total of six years. Currently, she is being detained in the Tiziling Detention Center in Chenzhou City.
1. Encountering Dafa and Unexpectedly Finding a Way Out of Desperation
In 1998, Guo Boqing was just over 30 years old and had suffered from various diseases during the last four years. She had hyperthyroidism, heart disease, septicaemia, and was emaciated and seriously dehydrated. One day in April, her husband took her to the Guangzhou Military Medical College and consulted a professor, who told her: "You have many diseases and the symptoms are not mild. I can give you some medications, but they could counteract one another. It is hard to tell what effects they might have, and you won't be able to afford the medical cost." Upon hearing that, she and her husband were both in despair. The professor introduced Falun Gong to them and gave them some examples of patients who had incurable diseases but gained a new life after they practiced Falun Gong. Guo Boqing listened enthusiastically and could not wait to practice Falun Gong. After about two months, all of her illnesses disappeared without treatment, and the whole family was overjoyed. They were very appreciative of the Teacher of Falun Gong for saving her life. Her relatives and colleagues were all surprised to see her newfound health. "Practicing Falun Dafa has meant everything to me," she told them sincerely.
2. Firmly Practicing as Disaster Approaches
In July 1999, the persecution of Falun Gong started in mainland China. Falun Gong practitioners were faced with huge pressure and had to decided between practicing or not practicing. Even under this pressure, Guo Boqing chose to practice Falun Gong without any hesitation and remained steadfast in her belief.
General Manager Huang Yonglan at her workplace disregarded the huge physical and spiritual benefits Ms. Guo had gained from practicing Falun Gong and vigorously followed the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and Jiang's regime to persecute Falun Gong practitioners. From 1999 to 2001, she instructed Guo Boqing's local branch manager to only pay her 200 yuan for living expenses, and they did not provide any receipt for her deducted wages.
In 2000, Huang Yonglan actively cooperated with the local 610 Office and police officers, and sent people to deceive Guo Boqing into leaving her home. They then illegally arrested her and detained her at the No. 2 Detention Center in Chenzhou City for two months. While detained, Guo Boqing was slapped in the face and only allowed to buy daily necessities once a month, while other prisoners could buy items four times a month. From February to April 2001, Huang Yonglan colluded with the 610 Office and police officers in Chenzhou City and Beihu District to sent Guo Boqing to the Nitrogenous Fertilizer Factory in Yongxing County, where she underwent brainwashing in a totally enclosed facility for three months. Every day, four men and four women threatened and tried to coerce her with different tricks, but they were not able to make her give up her belief.
Guo Boqing continuously clarified the truth to people who mistreated her, and told them that Falun Gong had given her a second life. During that period of time, Huang Yonglan repeatedly caused trouble for her and clamored viciously on different occasions, "I must send her to jail. We'll see how capable she is then."
According to insiders, in February 2001, Huang Yonglan called the 610 Office and police officers in Chenzhou City and Beihu District and requested that they sentence Guo Boqing. Since her verbal requests were ignored several times, she submitted a written request.
Soon thereafter, Guo Boqing was again detained at the No. 2 Detention Center in Chenzhou City for 18 months. She was forced to wear foot shackles and was beaten cruelly. At the end of December 2001, the Beihu District Procuratorate appealed to the local court, and the trial was held in January 2002. Guo Boqing was sentenced to four years in prison. She was sent to the Changsha Women's Prison on September 12, 2002, but was rejected because she did not pass a health examination. After Huang Yonglan learned about this, she instructed workshop director Chen Jian, personnel of the detention center and police officers from Beihu District to send Guo Boqing to the Changsha Women's Prison on September 18, 2002. Chen Jian was instructed by Huang Yonglan to give a big envelope with money in it to the prison authorities, and then Guo Boqing was jailed for four years.
Guo Boqing refused to denounce Falun Gong while in prison, and she was locked up in confinement for a month. She was tortured with the method called "wearing a sword" continuously for eight hours. The strict discipline team forced her to write reports about her thoughts almost daily. She conducted a hunger strike for three days to protest the unreasonable persecution and her maltreatment. She was compelled to work and make slave labor products. During her prison term, she had to peel over 32 kg of broad beans and make mats for nine beds.
Guo Boqing was released four years later in 2006, and both of her legs were injured as a result of the torture she was subjected to in prison. Even though she was released, she could not escape being monitored by personnel from the security department of her workplace and even from her husband's workplace (Chenzhou City, General Machinery Factory), as well as from the residential committee office. She was deprived of the right to work, and when she requested that her company return the payment of over 2,000 yuan they had withheld, they refused. Because her husband was laid off from sentry duty, her family had no financial resources, so she had to do menial work to maintain a livelihood and send her son to school.
3. Arrested Again for Clarifying the Facts
Even in this difficult situation, Guo Boqing tried her best to tell people the facts about the persecution of Falun Gong. She told people to remember that "Falun Dafa is great," "Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance are good," and that they will have a good future if they positioned themselves well.
On July 25 at around 11 a.m. over ten thugs hired by the Public Security Sub-bureau in Beihui District broke into the home of Guo Boqing and intended to arrest her, claiming it was for "maintaining social order," because someone found Falun Gong truth-clarification material in the Chenzhou City General Machinery Factory, where Guo Boqing worked. She was not at home, so they went to her workplace to arrest her and took her house keys from her. In the process of searching her home, they ransacked everything and her personal items were thrown everywhere. They tore down Teacher Li's portrait from the wall and stepped on it, and confiscated all the Falun Dafa books and materials. They also confiscated a TV, VCD player, radio, cassette player, MP3 player and more.
When they were about to complete the ransacking, a person in charge (possibly from the National Protection Unit of the 610 office or Public Security Sub-bureau in Beihui District) showed up. At that point, several people violently pushed Guo Boqing into a police car and took her to the Xiameiqiao Police Station. They interrogated and tortured her there for nine hours continuously.
After 9 p.m., Guo Boqing and two other Falun Gong practitioners who had been arrested one day earlier were cuffed together with handcuffs and sent to the Tiziling Detention Center in Chenzhou City. Members of the National Security Unit in Chenzhou City and the Public Security Sub-bureau in Beihui District, as well as detention center policemen tortured the practitioners.
Huang Yonglan, General Manager at the Chemical Engineering Corporation in Chenzhou: 86-13807352651(Cell) 86-735-2830016(Home)
Jiang Yonghui, Deputy Director of the Public Security Sub-bureau, Beihui District, Chenzhou City: 86-13807354598(Cell)
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