(Clearwisdom.net)

Ms. Luo Linfeng is a Falun Gong practitioner from the Jiangyang District, Luzhou City, Sichuan Province. Because she persistently practices Truthfulness-Benevolence-Tolerance, she has been persecuted.

Ms. Luo Linfeng is 62 years old and has only an elementary school education. Her family lives in the Wuxingcun Village, Lantian Town, Jiangyang District, Luzhou City, Sichuan Province. Before 1998, she suffered from various illnesses including cerebral thrombosis, mid-ear infection, chronic inflammation of the gallbladder, rheumatism, stomach problems and more. Ms. Luo was unable to work and had been to many hospitals seeking cures. Without income, though, she did not have any money and could not afford treatments without borrowing money. Her family sold rice and other things to raise the money. They also had to borrow a lot of money from relatives and friends, but her illnesses were not cured. Later she heard that practicing Falun Gong could cure illnesses. Ms. Luo started practicing Falun Gong and all her illnesses gradually disappeared. She was again able to work on the farm and do housework.

Jiang Zemin started the persecution and banned Falun Gong on July 20, 1999. Suffering from this unreasonable persecution, practitioners went to Beijing to tell the national leaders the truth about Falun Gong. The police arrested Ms. Luo as soon as she arrived at Tiananmen Square. They took her to the Luzhou liaison office in Beijing and detained her. When Li Chengjun, who is the Party Secretary of the CCP's Huayang People's Commune Committee, and personnel of the Mianhuapo Township Party Committee came to the liaison office, they searched the practitioners, took all their cash, and scolded them. They then sent Ms. Luo and other practitioners to the Luzhou City Detention Center where they tried to force them to "transform."

Ms. Luo was imprisoned in the detention center for three months. The police and local officials failed to force the practitioners to give up their belief. They fabricated lies and said that practitioners came to Beijing to disrupt social order and interrupt public transportation. Ms. Luo was sentenced to one year of forced labor and was transferred to the Huangjinshan Detention Center. There she and Liu Shuhua were forced to work in the kitchen and feed the pigs. They also had to deliver food to the cells, sweep the floor, and get boiling water. These two practitioners had to do nearly all the work at the center. They had to work for more than twelve hours each day without any breaks, except for the little sleep they were allowed. Their living conditions were inhuman and the center's personnel still scolded them.

After Ms. Luo's one year term of forced labor was over, she returned home. Soon after her return, Wu Dequn, the secretary of the Lantian Town women's federation came to her home and tried to compel her to write a "guarantee statement." Ms. Luo firmly refused. Then Wu Dequn forced her husband to write the statement. Because he feared that they would detain her again, he wrote the statement on her behalf and under pressure. When the local officials learned that Ms. Luo refused to give up practicing Falun Gong, they put her under continuous surveillance.

At midnight on December 22, 2002, the village cadres, Yu Zepei and Li Guangming, used the excuse that Ms. Luo had connections with other Falun Gong practitioners and brought several people with them, including a 610 Office official, Gao Xiang from the Lantian Township police station and the Party Secretary of the Lantian Township. They banged on her door and forced her to open it. After they went inside, the party cadres scolded and threatened her. That evening it was snowing and very cold. These cadres took Ms. Luo and her husband to the police station and left them to sit there for several hours. Her husband was shivering due to the cold.

For no reason and with no legal procedure, they forced Ms. Luo to go back to the Sanhuashan Detention Center. They detained her there for two months. Later, they sent her back in a vehicle. The secretary of the township women's federation Wu Dequn again tried to force her to write the "guarantee statement" using the excuse that the government had bailed her out. Ms. Luo firmly refused. Wu Dequn then threatened that if she refused to write it, she would have to pay 600 yuan for living expenses for the two month she was detained at the Sanhuashan Detention Center. Otherwise, they would not release her. That day, they also informed her family to pick her up. They then forced her husband to write a guarantee statement and an "acknowledgement of the debt" for the 600 yuan that they imposed on her.

After Ms. Luo returned home, the Communist Party cadres of the village constantly monitored her. She lived in terror all day long. They did not allow her to have the freedom a citizen is guaranteed by law. Yu Zepei, Li Guangming, Lantian Township Party Secretary Ren, and Gao Xiang of the police station are the main ones who persecuted Falun Gong. Yu Zepei received retribution for his deeds last year.

Ms. Luo Linfeng was detained, fined and robbed of her personal freedom simply because she wanted to have better health and to cultivate her mind. She did not do anything wrong. Then who is actually violating the law? According to articles 35 and 36 of the Constitution, Ms. Luo's practicing Falun Gong is legal. Going to Beijing to appeal is every citizen's right guaranteed by law. Therefore sentencing Ms. Luo to forced labor is illegal persecution. These acts of the people involved must be investigated.