(Minghui.org)
Summary of Key Persecution Facts:
Name: Xu Aihua (徐爱华)
Gender: Male
Age: 43
Address: Jianchang Town, Jintan City, Changzhou City, Jiangsu Province
Occupation: Teacher
Date of Most Recent Arrest: July 22, 2013
Most Recent Place of Detention: A hotel
City: Jintan
Province: Jiangsu
Persecution Suffered: Detention, pulling hair and hitting head with iron bars, beatings, slapping on the face, handcuffed behind the back, burning with boiling water, forced labor, hanging by handcuffs, electric shock, solitary confinement, forced to run laps, long-term standing, fired from workplace, other tortures.
Mr. Xu Aihua and Ms. Miao Aihua, a married couple who practice Falun Gong, were arrested by the officers from the Domestic Security Division in Jintan on July 22, 2013. They are now detained in a hotel in Jintan.
Xu Aihua was formerly a teacher at Jianchang Central Elementary School in Jintan. He is warmhearted and diligent, someone who is greatly respected by colleagues and parents. Miao Aihua, Mr. Xu's wife, was also formerly a teacher at the same school. After practicing Falun Gong, their physical health and minds improved tremendously.
Mr. Xu's family went to Beijing on December 3, 1999 to clarify the facts to the government. They were arrested and detained at the Tiananmen Police Station. The police pulled their hair and hit their heads with iron bars, and neglected the crying of their 4-year-old son. They slapped Mr. Xu's swollen face and handcuffed his hands behind his back. They forced him to bend down 90 degrees and hung heavy objects from his neck. His 4-year-old son said, “The police in Beijing are bad. They beat others. I will never go to Beijing again.”
After Mr. Xu was transferred back to Jintan, he was held in the detention center for over 100 days.
Mr. Xu is an excellent teacher and the school head tried to promote him. He had to choose between being a member of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and gaining a promotion or practicing Falun Gong. Mr. Xu chose to practice Falun Gong. Over the past ten years, Mr. Xu has been arrested many times and tortured in a detention center, forced labor camps, and prisons. He once had boiling water poured on his head as a torture method.
In order to help more people learn the facts about Falun Gong, he started distributing truth-clarifying materials. He was held for a month, from August to September 2000. He was also sentenced for 2 ½ years on December 7, 2000. The guards at the Fangqiang Forced Labor Camp went to Masanjia Forced Labor Camp to learn more torture methods. Then they started to strictly control and torture practitioners in three rooms that were interconnected.
Mr. Xu refused to work in early April 2001, to protest his persecution, but he was brutally tortured. His clothes were stripped off, and he was pushed to the floor. He was then dragged on the ground, and his body was covered with mud. On May 27, 2001, Mr. Xu was hung by handcuffs and shocked with electric batons until the batteries were depleted. The police left him hanging until the electric batons were fully charged. He was then shocked again.
Before the torture, the guards attended a meeting where they were encouraged to use the electric batons with no worries. It was understood that the whole crew would share the responsibility if use of the electric batons caused an accident. If shocking practitioners made a few of them give up the practice, such achievements would also be shared by the whole crew.
During roll call one evening in October 2001, Mr. Xu did not step forward and was subsequently held in solitary confinement. During that period, he was only allowed to eat 1/3 of a meal. In the daytime, he was constantly monitored by collaborators. He was forced to stand at night, and was detained in a cage of about 2-3 square meters at all times, including when he was eating and releasing his bowels.
In 2004, he publicly told the students that the CCP was not always right. For this he was sentenced to four years in a forced labor camp, and dismissed from his job.
Mr. Xu's wife, Miao Aihua, was also illegally arrested, detained, and sent to forced labor camps over the years, due to her belief. She went to Beijing to uphold Dafa in 1999, with her husband. Faced with the persecution and her husband's dismissal, she remain unmoved and loyal. She was still very steadfast at the time of her arrest.
Here are some related personnel in the police department in Jintan.
Domestic Security Division Wang Dianhua: 86-519-82828207, 86-13906149676 (Cell)
Municipal Committee610 Office Wu Quanrong: +86-519-82816008, +86-519-82396999, +86-13806141988 (Cell)
Municipal Stability Maintenance Office Wang Jufang: +86-519-82816006, +86-519-82396556, +86-13806140366 (Cell)