(Clearwisdom.net) Falun Gong practitioners and husband and wife Zheng Xujun and Su Nan from Beijing are being detained at the Masanjia Forced Labor Camp in Liaoning Province. Zheng Xujun is forced to take on heavy work in the men's camp. The couple was illegally arrested on February 26, 2008 at their home in Changping, Beijing. Zheng Xujun was sentenced to two and a half years of forced labor, and Su Nan was sentenced to two years. Because Su Nan refused to sign the monthly report, she was beaten on October 8 and October 27. Zhao Guorong (team leader of the 1st Division), Zhang Liang (a section chief), Gao, and team leader Zhao beat her on October 8, 2008. They electrically shocked her hands and throat. Zhao Guorong and team leader Xiao Li beat her with hard plastic sticks on October 27, 2008. They pushed her down to the floor and kicked her, causing her to bleed from the mouth.
Mr. Zheng Xujun started his PhD program in 1996 and was sent to a joint research program at the University of Liverpool in England in January 1999. After he returned from England, he was compelled to stop his PhD studies and was forcibly brainwashed. In March and November 2000 he was arrested for mailing and putting up truth-clarification materials. CEPRI then dismissed him from university. People from CEPRI then changed his address to a non-existent one and kept his registration in the security department of CEPRI, turning him into an "illegal resident." Mr. Zheng has thus been deprived of the most basic citizen's rights.
At the end of 2001, he was sent to the "Beijing Legal System Training Center," a brainwashing facility, where he suffered abuse for more than six months. He was locked in a tightly sealed room. Fluorescent lamps lit the room twenty-four hours a day, and armed police officers took turns monitoring him around the clock. Later on he was sent to a forced labor camp for a year and a half, in addition to the six months at the brainwashing center. Mr. Zheng Xujun was detained for a total of over two years.
Zheng's wife Su Nan worked for the People's Liberation Army's General Armament Department. Her department segregated her in confinement for five months in July 1999 because she appealed for Falun Gong. Her CCP membership and military status were canceled in 2000 for her belief.
In September 2000, she and two other practitioners went to appeal in Beijing. Two residents at Mafang Village, Qinghe, Beijing reported them, which led to their arrest. They were detained at the Haidian Detention Center, and they were later transferred to the 7th Division of the Beijing Police Department and then sent back to the Haidian Detention Center. The Haidian District Court sentenced her to three years in prison. Su Nan went on a hunger strike for 27 days at Haidian Detention Center to demand her release. During that time she was forced to stand outside in the wind and snow for a whole day after being on hunger strike for over ten days. The same night she almost died. Since then her hands become pale whenever it is cold, and her bones ache. She has not had her menstrual cycle since then and has become physically very weak.
Su Nan was later severely abused and tortured at the Sichuan Women's Prison and then at Chuanxi Women's Prison in Sichuan.
In a meeting at the Chuanxi Women's Prison, political commissioner Zhang and prison ward head Wang publicly claimed, "Falun Gong is nothing. A practitioner dying is like a dog dying. Spending 50 yuan to take you out to be cremated can be counted as you committing suicide."
They instigated the inmates to shout slanderous slogans. When more than ten practitioners shouted, "Falun Dafa is good," they were sent to solitary confinement cells and tortured there. Su Nan was sent to a solitary cell and was "tied with ropes." This torture involves the following: the ropes are soaked first and then the practitioner is tied up from the wrists all the way to the shoulders then to the back and the neck. The arms would soon lose circulation, as the ropes dried out and tightened. After half an hour to an hour the person might lose consciousness. It might cause death after two hours. Prison warden Wang had killed a male prisoner using this torture method. As soon as the practitioners become unconscious, guards loosen the ropes. When practitioners awaken again, they get tied up again.
Su Nan was handcuffed and locked to a window higher than her neck. She was only loosened three times - when using the restroom and ten minutes each time when it was time to eat. She was cuffed for 24 hours a day. When she was on hunger strike, she was only let go when they force-fed her and when using the restroom once at night. She was forced to stand day and night there. After 11 days, her hands were cuffed at her back to the window. She had to bend forward and could not stand up straight. She was extremely weak on the 15th day, and her whole body was swollen. She often lost consciousness, but the guards still did not call the doctor.
Once when Su Nan had one hand tied to the window, she nearly died. The inmates called the prison doctor, and she was sent to the emergency room at the Yaan District Hospital.
The perpetrators at the Chuanxi Prison forced the practitioners who refused to give up the Falun Gong practice to run on the playground. When the inmates were tired they took turns to rest, but practitioners had to keep running. When they could not run anymore, they were beaten and kicked, so they had to keep running until they collapsed. Some were sent to the emergency room. One older practitioner was tortured to death after only one month of incarceration there.
Su Nan has returned home but has been very weak physically. She cannot raise her arms. Even so, the authorities sentenced her to two years of forced labor.
Because CEPRI had canceled Mr. Zheng's registered address, he could not lead a normal life. The CEPRI authorities refused to let Zheng Xujun have his doctoral dissertation passed, so he is unable to obtain his PhD.
On March 20, 2008, domestic security agents from Changping and agents from the Xisanqi Police Station broke into the couple's home and ransacked it. They sent the couple to the Changping Brainwashing Center for a month. Persecutors there (including section chief Lian, Dong, collaborator Gao Ruihua and Dong Fu) abused many practitioners. They forced practitioners to watch slanderous videos. If practitioners remain persistent in their belief, they are sentenced or subjected to forced labor.
On April 19, 2008, the couple was transferred from the Changping Brainwashing Center to the Changping Detention Center. On May 19, 2008, the couple was sentenced to two and a half years of forced labor. In June 2008, they were sent to Masanjia Forced Labor Camp and have been persecuted there. Su Nan's relatives tried to visit her, but the guards denied their request. Su Nan is being forced to work at the camp's shop under abysmal hygienic conditions, laboring from 6:30 a.m. until 8:00 p.m. She is often beaten while working.