Name: Qu Shumei (曲淑梅)
Gender: Female
Age: 51
Occupation: Sales
Date of Most Recent Arrest: December 17, 2012
Most Recent Place of Detention: Yaojia Detention Center in Dalian City (大连姚家看守所)
City: Dalian
Province: Liaoning
Persecution Suffered: Sleep deprivation, forced labor, illegal sentencing, beatings, imprisonment, solitary confinement, torture, sexual assault, extortion, fired from workplace, physical restraint, hanging by handcuffs, dead man's bed, home ransacked, interrogation, detention
(Minghui.org) Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Qu Shumei from Dalian City was arrested at her home by Jiaojinshan Police Station officers on December 17, 2012. She has been held in the detention center for three months.
Ms. Qu's husband, Zhu Changbin, was part of the crew of the Dalian Ocean Shipping Company. She was a salesperson at Zhonghua Market. The couple started to practice Falun Dafa in 1996. Their colleagues, neighbors, and friends had only praise for them and their son.
After the CCP started to persecute Falun Gong supporters in 1999, Ms. Qu was sentenced to forced labor twice and detained six times. Mr. Zhu Changbin, her husband, was sentenced to 12 years in prison and is still in the First Prison in Shenyang City. His father got very ill from missing his son and knowing that his life is in great danger. Their son, who was only 15 years old when Mr. Zhu was arrested, has been taken care of by Mr. Zhu's parents.
Since the persecution began, Ms. Qu Shumei has been arrested and detained six times. She was also imprisoned for over four years and brutally tortured.
1. Detained for a Month for Appealing in Beijing
Ms. Qu went to Beijing to appeal on behalf of Dafa when the persecution began. She was arrested by the Xigang District Police Department in Dalian City, detained for a month, and had 36,000 yuan deducted from her salary. She was also fired from her job. The deputy head of the Political Security Section, Li Tijian, from the Xigang District Police Department, planned the arrest.
2. Imprisoned For Seven Months for Posting Truth-Clarifying Materials
On September 28, 2000, she was arrested by the Nansha Police Station for putting up truth-clarifying materials. In the police station, officer Li Zhenxia took her to a room and closed the curtain. Three men and one woman tortured her. They handcuffed her hands behind her back and hit her legs. Then they pulled the handcuffs up and down so that they dug deeply into her wrist. After the skin was worn away, the police handcuffed a different area. Ms. Qu was in so much pain that she could not stand up. Both of her hands were badly injured.
The police threw the Dafa books on the floor and ordered her to tear them up. Mrs. Qu firmly refused, and the police had to give up. They sent her to the Yaojia Detention Center and sentenced her two years of forced labor.
In the Dalian Forced Labor Camp, Ms. Qu Shumei endured the events of March 19, 2001. At around 9 p.m. that evening, the police made everyone stand up, hold their heads with both hands, stand with their legs separated, and bend over 90 degrees. They put words slandering Master and Dafa in front of every practitioner and hung posters slandering Dafa on all of the doors. They also broadcast the lies that slandered Dafa. They used electric batons to shock any practitioners who bent their legs, no matter how young or old they were. The police and prisoners brutally beat Ms. Qu. She went on a hunger strike to protest. They put her in a separate room and watched her. After that, she started to have blood in her stool and a high fever. Her condition was critical. In April 2001, the forced labor camp released her on bail for medical treatment afraid. By then, she had been tortured for seven months.
3. Ms. Qu Shumei Detained, Her Husband Sentenced to 12 Years In Prison
Ms. Qu Shumei's husband, Zhu Changbin, was 34 when the CCP stated to persecute Falun Gong. He was suspended from duty after he came back from abroad. His employer ordered him to write the guarantee statement to give up Falun Dafa if he wanted to get back to the ship again. Mr. Zhu Changbin refused to give up his belief and was not allowed back on the ship anymore.
In March 2001, officer Li Zhenxia from the Nansha Police Station broke into Mr. Zhu's home and arrested him. They ordered him to write the guarantee statement, but he would not. Then they detained him in the Yaojia Detention Center for 15 days. Those in the Nansha Police Station who participated in persecuting Mr. Zhu included chief Li Zhenmin, political instructor Yu Jingchuan, and police officers Mao Pu'an, Li Zhenxia, and Lin Song.
In April 2001, police officers Mao Pu'an and Li Zhenxia saw Mr. Zhu and Ms. Qu walking back home after going shopping. They asked the couple whether they still practiced Falun Gong and threatened to summon Zhu Changbin to interrogate them if they still did. For their safety, the couple had to leave their home and rent another place.
On the morning of April 22, 2002, a few plainclothes police and other officers broke into the couple’s residence, ransacked it, and took over 100,000 yuan in cash and a bank book worth 110,000 yuan. Officer Yuan Zhiming from Shahekou District Police Department in Dalian City ransacked their home. The couple was detained in the police station for two days and one night. The police beat them, interrogated them, and didn't give them any food. Later they were transferred to the Dalian Detention Center.
Ms. Qu always refused to cooperate with the evil's requests. She refused to wear the prisoner's vest, recite the prison rules, stand facing the wall, or have her photo taken. She also went on a hunger strike to protest the persecution and asked to be released unconditionally. During the interrogation, she warned the police that it was illegal to persecute Falun Gong practitioners, illegal to detain them, and illegal to interrogate them. On June 3, she was released after 43 days.
During the 2003 Chinese New Year, Mr. Zhu was sentenced to 12 years in prison and incarcerated in Dabei Prison in Shenyang City. On December 19, 2007, he was transferred to the 13th Prison District, First Prison, Shenyang Prison City, and has been there ever since.
4. Sexual Assault, the Death Bed, and Other Forms of Torture in Dalian Forced Labor Camp
Just one month after Ms. Qu was released, one noon in July 2002, the local community committee personnel came to her home to pry. Several police officers then broke into her home, pushed her down and handcuffed her behind her back without any explanation. She resisted and her child cried and asked the police, “What crime did my mom commit? Why are you treating her like this?” The police pushed the child away and lifted Ms. Qu into the police vehicle and took her to the Dalian Forced Labor Camp.
She was placed in solitary and locked in an iron cage. She was handcuffed and the cuffs were hung up over her head. Her arms were stretched to the extreme. Her legs were spread open with only her toes barely touching the ground. She was hung up for two days and nights and was not allowed to sleep.
Once, the officers told the prisoners to tie Ms. Qu's arm, waist, and one leg to the railing and force open her other leg 180 degrees. Then they kicked her lower body, used a wooden stick to beat her, pinched and twisted her breasts, dragged a rope across her lower body back and forth very hard, poured pepper powder in her eyes, poured pepper powder on her bleeding lower body, stuffed a mop in her mouth and lower body, and pushed her untied leg up and down very hard. They tortured her repeatedly. They also tied her and practitioner Wu Yueju on the death bed. At the end of February 2003, Ms. Qu was released after seven months' of brutal torture. She was severely injured.
5. Brutally Tortured in Masanjia Forced Labor Camp
On the evening of April 19, 2004, Ms. Qu was arrested at her home by Xinghaiwan Police Station officers. She was first detained in the Xinghaiwan Police Station and was then in the Yaojia Detention Center. Later she was sentenced to two and a half years of forced labor. She was held in solitary in the Dalian Forced Labor Camp for 22 days and was even tied to the death bed for three days and nights.
In the end of October 2004, she was transferred to the Second Women's Section in Masanjia Forced Labor Camp in Shenyang and brutally tortured. Since she refused to cooperate with the police, she was transferred to the First Women's Section in April 2005. The police incited prisoners to watch her closely and beat her brutally. She was injured all over.
From May 28 to May 30, 2006, Ms. Qu was brutally tortured because she did not cooperate with the police. She was handcuffed and her face was pushed against a pipe in the corner of the room. She was hung up in such a way that she could not squat or stand up. She firmly refused to cooperate with the evil's requirements in the forced labor camp and refused to wear the prisoner's vest or do the slave labor. She was persecuted for two and a half years.
6. Homeless and Destitute
Ms. Qu Shumei has been detained six times and imprisoned for over four years. She suffered from countless brutal forms of torture. After she was released and went home, she was constantly harassed with absurd requirements from CCP personnel at the local community committee and the police station. She was forced to become homeless and destitute. She had to leave her parents and child with no one to take care of them.
Contact information:
Jiaojinshan Police Station in Dalian: +86-411-86674292
Wang Xibin, chief
Liang Pengyi, political instructor
Bo Hai, deputy chief
Wang Ping, Dalian City CCP Political and Legal Affairs Committee Party secretary
Wang Like, Dalian City deputy mayor and police Department head
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Dalian City Practitioner Ms. Qu Shumei Imprisoned and Tortured at Masanjia Forced Labor Camp
http://en.minghui.org/emh/articles/2005/10/14/65859.html
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http://en.minghui.org/html/articles/2013/1/14/137108.html
