Name: Wang Xia (王霞 )
Gender: Female
Age: 56
Address: Unknown
Occupation: An employee from Division 293 of the Huadu
District Nuclear Plant in Guangzhou City
Date of Most Recent Arrest: May 6, 2011
Most Recent Place of Detention: Timian Brainwashing Center
(梯面洗脑班)
City: Guangzhou
Province: Guangdong
Persecution Suffered: brainwashing, illegal sentencing,
imprisonment, torture, fired from workplace, physical restraint,
home ransacked, interrogation, detention
(Clearwisdom.net) Fifty-six-year-old Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Wang Xia is an employee from Division 293 of the Huadu District Nuclear Plant in Guangzhou City. Chen Junwei (from her workplace 610 Office) and Yang (Deputy Party Secretary of Huadu District Police Department) arrested her on the morning of May 6, 2011 and sent her to the Timian Brainwashing Center.
This is the fifth time that Ms. Wang has been arrested. Below are details of the persecution she has been subjected to.
Ms. Wang began to practice Falun Gong in 1997. Since then, she disciplined herself according to the principles of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance. After witnessing the great improvements in her mind and body her family supported her practice.
After the communist regime began to persecute Falun Gong, Ms. Wang always remained steadfast in her belief. Agents from the Chengdong Police Station arrested her in October 2001 while she distributed truth-clarification materials. The agents ransacked her home and held her at a detention center. After the detention term expired two weeks later, the officials sent Ms. Wang to a drug addiction treatment center for further persecution. Her workplace officials forced her to watch Chinese Communist Party (CCP) propaganda videos in 2001 on the staged “self-immolation” incident. Ms. Wang took that opportunity to clarify that the incident was a fabricated story. She also told them about the wonderfulness of Falun Gong.
Officials took Ms. Wang to the Timian Brainwashing Center after the New Year in 2002. Because she refused to give up her belief, they then sent her to the Chatou Law Enforcement School in Guangzhou City. Later, they sent her to the Huangpu Brainwashing Center, the most notorious brainwashing center in Guangzhou City. Ms. Wang was severely tortured there, including being force-fed hot pepper water, having her head submerged in water, being tied to a chair with her hands restrained behind her back for long periods of time, and much more.
Torture re-enactment: tied up to a chair with hands behind the back
Torture re-enactment: head submerged in water
Agents from Ms. Wang's workplace 610 Office and the local police station went to her home in May 2003. They ransacked her home and illegally sentenced her to a forced labor camp with a term of one and a half years. When Ms. Wang visited her hometown about 20 days after her release, police found one piece of truth-clarification material on her during a body search. They sent her to the Sanshui Labor Camp with a term of two years. After the term expired, they sent her to the Sanshui Brainwashing Center and continued persecuting her for several more months.
Since the communist regime started to persecute Falun Gong more than 10 years ago, Ms. Wang has suffered tremendously for her belief, both in mind and body. Agents from her workplace 610 Office and local police station often came to her home to harass her, especially during the so-called “sensitive” dates such as the National Congress and the Political Consultative Conference, as well as the Asian Games. 610 Office official Chen Junwei once threatened her, “If you refuse to 'transform,' we will arrest you at anytime.” As a result, Ms. Wang had to go back to her hometown and live there for a period of time every year.
After Ms. Wang returned from grocery shopping on the morning of May 6, 2011, several plainclothes police arrested her again outside her home. The groceries and eggs were strewn all over on the ground. This was the fifth time Ms. Wang has been arrested.
Responsible people are Chen Weijun (from her workplace 610 Office) and Yang (Deputy Party Secretary of the Huadu Police Department).
Contact information:
Yang, Deputy Party Secretary of the Huadu Police Department:
86-20-36830883 (Office), 86-13602736139 (Cell)
Chen Weijun, 610 Office at Division 293 in Huadu District Nuclear
Plant
