Name: Tang Mingbi (唐明碧)
Gender: Female
Age: 64
Address: Hechuan District, Chongqing City
Date of Most Recent Arrest: July 31, 2008
Most Recent Place of Detention: Jiangbei Shimahe Women's Forced Labor Camp (石马河女子劳教所)
City: Chongqing
Persecution Suffered: Forced labor, brainwashing, beatings, torture, extortion, detention
(Clearwisdom.net) Ms. Tang Mingbi started practicing Falun Gong in 1997. She used to suffer from many illnesses, including rheumatoid arthritis, gastritis, chronic shoulder pain and she had problems with her eyes. These ailments all disappeared soon after she started practicing. Moreover, her personality also changed, as she has become very cheerful and was always considerate of others.
Since the Chinese Communist Party started persecuting practitioners on July 20, 1999, Ms. Tang has been arrested many times by agents from the Hechuan District 610 Office in Chongqing. She has been sentenced to a forced labor camp twice, held in a detention center six times and sent to brainwashing centers five times.
On March 23, 2000, Chen Li, an officer from the Heyang Police Station in Hechuan, arrested Ms. Tang at her home and took her to the Hechuan Meat Processing Plant Brainwashing Center. She was detained there for five days. Lan Qifeng and several other officers from the Hechuan Domestic Security Division later arrested Ms. Tang and sent her to the Hechuan Detention Center for 15 days. They also forced her family to pay 1,000 yuan before releasing her.
Chen Li and officers from Heyang Police Station broke into Ms. Tang's home on January 21, 2001, arrested her and took her to the Dongjintuo Brainwashing Center. Detained practitioners had to sign a statement that the self-immolation incident on Tiananmen Square was true. When Ms. Tang refused to sign, they then tried to force her family to sign, but none of them would. She was detained there for 15 days.
Zhang Xiangqiang and other officers from the Heyang Police Station arrested Ms. Tang at her home on August 21, 2001. She was taken to the Hechuan Domestic Security Division, where she was asked if she was still practicing Falun Gong. She said, “Of course. Falun Gong is such a good practice.” Lan Qifeng then slapped her in the face hard several times. He cursed her and shouted, “I'll beat you to death and throw your body into the river. The central government gave us secret instructions a long time ago: Any practitioner who is persecuted to death will be regarded as having committed suicide.” Ms. Tang replied, “You police beat good people in broad daylight, but you don’t know that celestial beings are watching you. Good will finally be rewarded and evil will meet with retribution.” Lan Qifeng became exasperated upon hearing those words. He picked up a mop, wiped the floor and his shoes with it, then shoved it into Ms. Tang's mouth and secured it there. He then handcuffed Ms. Tang between two chairs. Lan Qifeng and Zhang Xiangqiang whipped her with a wire tube until she had lacerations all over her body. They interrogated her for a whole day and didn't give her any food or water.
Lan Qifeng and several other officers took Ms. Tang to the Hechuan Detention Center that night. A month later, they sent her to the Maojiashan Women's Forced Labor Camp for one year, and did not inform her family.
Zhao Wenli and officers from the Hechuan Domestic Security Division broke into Ms. Tang's home on February 2, 2003. They arrested her and took her to the Hechuan Detention Center, where she was detained for 27 days.
On July 16, 2003 Zhao Wenli and Chen Li contacted Ms. Tang and told her to go to the Heyang Residential Community Office. When she arrived there, they tried to get her to sign a guarantee statement not to practice Falun Gong anymore. Ms. Tang refused to sign. Chen Li and two others then grabbed her hands and forcibly took her fingerprints.
Zhao Wenli, Chen Li and other officers broke into Ms. Tang's home on April 20, 2004 and dragged her out to the courtyard. A neighbor shouted, “She is a good person. Why are you arresting her?” Chen Li replied, “She practices Falun Gong.” They pushed her into a police car and took her to a brainwashing center in the Shizi Seniors Home on Nanjin Street in Hechuan. She was detained there for 95 days.
On the morning of December 25, 2004, Zhao Wenli, Jiang Yun and four officers arrested Ms. Tang and took her to the Shizi Seniors Home Brainwashing Center. When they searched her cell, they found a copy of Minghui Weekly and a hand-written copy of Hong Yin. She was then transferred to the Hechuan Detention Center, where she was detained for 15 days. They then returned her to the brainwashing center. Ms. Tang resisted the brainwashing and refused to sign any documents. She was sent to the Nanshan Brainwashing Center in Chongqing, where she was detained until March 31, 2006, when the brainwashing center was closed down.
Six unidentified people dragged Ms. Tang into a car with no license plates while she was walking in the street on the morning of July 31, 2008. She was taken to the Hechuan Domestic Security Division, where she was searched and had her belongings confiscated. They took her to the Hechuan Detention Center the same night. Ten days later, Ms. Tang was sentenced to one year of forced labor and was taken to the Jiangbei Shimahe Women's Forced Labor Camp in Chongqing. Her family were not informed of her whereabouts and only found out where she was through their own inquiries. When her family members went to the labor camp to see her, guards Su Chang, Jia Zheng and others turned them away.
