(Minghui.org) Ms. Lu Sanxu, a Falun Gong practitioner from Zhangshu City, has been arrested again after having served both an illegal three-year sentence in prison and an illegal five-year sentence in a forced labor camp for refusing to renounce her belief.
Ms. Lu, 65, a former employee at a smelting plant, was arrested on September 2, 2017, and is currently detained at Yichun Detention Center.
Ms. Lu Sanxu
Details of Recent Detention
On September 2, 2017, Ms. Lu was at Zhangshu telling the locals about Falun Gong when she was arrested and taken to the police station. The police then ransacked her house and confiscated ten thousand dollars worth of her personal items and cash.
Ms. Lu was detained at the Zhangshu Detention Center and told that she would be detained for 15 days. However, after being detained for over 20 days, she was taken to Yichun Detention Center, where police threatened to sentence her to three years of imprisonment.
Previous Imprisonment and Forced Labor Camp
On October 27, 1999, Ms. Lu was arrested and detained at Beijing Third Detention Center when she went to Beijing to appeal. Liu Jianqiu from the police department in Zhangshu City took her back to the local detention center six days after she went on a hunger strike.
In early 2000, a guard grabbed a bunch of keys and threw them at Ms. Lu's head, causing her forehead to swell. To this date, there is still a mass on her forehead at the same location.
The people in charge of persecuting Falun Gong practitioners thought that Ms. Lu was the coordinator at the local practice site who took practitioners to Beijing. Because of this, they sentenced her to three years of imprisonment. On January 18, 2000, she was sent to the provincial women's prison.
At the prison, Ms. Lu was handcuffed for one month when she requested to do the exercises and refused to wear the prison uniform. She went on a hunger strike and was handcuffed to a bed inside a solitary cell, where six guards would pry open her teeth and force-feed her.
When Ms. Lu refused to do forced labor, the guards ordered the inmates to hang her in mid-air at the room entrance, where it was the coldest.
At the end of October 2002 when Ms. Lu's term was up, the police and staff from the local 610 Office deceived her and took her to the women's labor camp in the province. She was sent to labor camp for three years because she refused to renounce her faith.
At the labor camp, when Ms. Lu refused to watch videos or read books that slandered Falun Gong, the inmates beat her after tying a pillowcase to her head and holding her down on her bed.
In September 2003, the captain of the labor camp took Ms. Lu to a dark room filled with torture instruments and threatened her.
As she remained firm in her belief, the police put poison in her meals, causing her to feel thirsty, nauseous, and delirious five minutes after she ate the food. One month later, she was half unconscious and did not know how to clean herself when her menses came. She also put her hands in shoes and crawled on the floor, kicking the cell room and shouting to be released.
The guards in the labor camp laughed at Ms. Lu. The captain handcuffed her.
One day, Ms. Lu climbed out of the window and fell, resulting in a broken lumbar and injured feet.
She became clearheaded after she returned home in May 2005 and practiced Falun Gong again. However, staff from the 610 Office often went to her home to harass her, even breaking into her house three times without producing legal documents and confiscating Ms. Lu's Falun Gong books, MP3 player, and other personal items. Her husband was also forced to sign guarantee documents.
In June 2007, Ms. Lu was on the road when she was arrested by staff from the 610 Office and held in a detention center for seven days, before being sentenced to two years of forced labor camp.
Ms. Lu was subjected to military training and punishment while at the camp. She was also forced to do sweatshop labor and was sent to a solitary cell. When she went on hunger strikes to request to be released, she was force-fed.
Because she refused to give up her belief, her release date was postponed for over 20 days, and she finally returned home on July 12, 2009. Ms. Lu had difficulty getting along after her release, since she had no ID or pension payments.
Harm Suffered by Family Members
Because Ms. Lu was being persecuted in the labor camp and prison for over eight years, her family members also suffered financially, physically, and mentally. During that time, their home was ransacked five times, and many personal items such as Ms. Lu's MP5 player, MP3 player, recorder, and Falun Gong books were confiscated.
One night in April 2007, the police forced Ms. Lu's husband to lead the way to her mother's house and harass them, as Ms. Lu was there to take care of her mother. Due to the harassment, her mother's health deteriorated and she passed away in July 2012.
Ms. Lu's husband also suffered from tremendous pressure physically and mentally, causing him to become paralyzed. He passed away in April 2014.
Promising Life after Practicing Falun Gong
Before Ms. Lu practiced Falun Gong, she had stomach trouble for over ten years and stomach ulcers would come without warning. She had severe hemorrhoids when she was in her 30s and often had blood in her feces. She also had many other illnesses such as arthritis, mastitis, heart disease, bronchitis, etc.
Ms. Lu was laid off in 1990 and lost her only source of income. She was under tremendous stress and her health. However, in October 1996, she started practicing Falun Gong and her health improved and life again held promise again.
