(Minghui.org) Ms. Qi Xiangru is a Falun Gong practitioner in Kangping County, Shenyang City, Liaoning Province. Because of her belief in Falun Gong, she was sentenced to nine years in prison in September 2002.
She has suffered from torture, forced labor, and brainwashing in Liaoning Provincial Women's Prison.
On June 16, 2015, Ms. Qi mailed her criminal complaint to the State Supreme Procuratorate and the State Supreme Court against Jiang Zemin, the culprit behind the seventeen years of persecution against Falun Gong.
Falun Gong Brought Happiness in Life
Ms. Qi Xiangru started to practice Falun Gong in November 1997 at 53 years old. She diligently studied the Fa and practiced the exercises every day. She recovered from multiple health problems such as bone hyperplasia, rhinitis, and nephritis.
The bone hyperplasia in her lumbar spine caused Ms. Qi a lot of pain. It then spread inward and impacted the sciatic nerve. She visited different hospitals and tried various kinds of treatment methods, but all were in vain. As a result of her condition, she was unable to do heavy work.
After she began practicing Falun Gong, she recovered and was always in a pleasant mood and could do any kind of work. Every day when she got to work, she would clean the office first and then the hallway floor. Her supervisor still praises her many years later, saying, “Falun Gong practitioners are really good!”
Arrests, Detentions and Jail Sentence
Since July 20, 1999, when Jiang Zemin started to persecute Falun Gong, Ms. Qi suffered multiple arrests, detentions, and a nine-year prison sentence.
Ms. Qi went to the Liaoning provincial government on July 22, 1999 to appeal against the unjust ban on Falun Gong. She was arrested and detained in Dongling District Auditorium with hundreds of fellow Falun Gong practitioners.
She also went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong on October 5, 1999 and was arrested. She was escorted back to Liaoning Province where she was detained in the No. 5 Detention House of Liaoning City, then moved to the Women's Education Center which was used to detain prostitutes. She was released on December 15 after being detained for two months.
Officers from Zhennan Police Station conducted an unlawful house search on September 26, 2001 and arrested Ms. Qi. She was interrogated about the source of her informational materials about Falun Gong.
She refused to answer their questions. After being interrogated, she managed to escape from the police station. Because of the likelihood of being arrested again, she couldn't go home and went from place to place. The police then arrested her sister and placed her in detention for 15 days instead.
Ms. Qi was arrested on May 23, 2002 by officers from Dongguan Town Police Station and was sent to Shenyang City Detention Center. She was detained there for more than six months. She started a hunger strike that lasted 68 days from July 22 to September 28, 2002. She was put on the death bed and suffered from force-feeding.
Ms. Qi was secretly sentenced to nine years in prison by Kangping Court on September 30, 2002. She was sent to Liaoning Provincial Women's Prison on December 4, 2002. She was forced to sit on a small stool (12 inches wide and 8 inches high) every day for three months.
As a result of this torture, her bottom was severely bruised and deformed. She subjected to forced labor from 6:30 a.m. until 11 p.m. Often, she was forced to work beyond 11 p.m.
Due to being forced to work such long hours and not being allowed to do Falun Gong exercises over a long period of time, Ms. Qi's health deteriorated. She was diagnosed with uterine fibroids in 2007.
The new division head at the prison started subjecting Ms. Qi to brainwashing sessions. She was forced to recite the prison regulations. If she refused, she would be punished with a variety of mistreatments, such as cleaning the restroom, having no break time or lunch, and force to stand still in one place after work until 11:30 p.m. On Sundays, she was forced to stand from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. The inmates in her cell were also directed to not allow her to watch TV.
She was often called to the office for additional punishment such as standing, squatting, or electric shocks from shock batons. She was also forced to watch videos that showed others being transformed then being released.
One day in 2009, she was called to the office. Without any explanation, they shocked her with electric batons on her neck, back, hands and face. The guards shocked her until the batons were out of power; about 40 minutes .
In 2008, under pressure from the authorities, Ms. Qi's husband divorced her.
She was released on May 22, 2011 after serving a nine-year prison sentence.
Ms. Qi was still harassed by police after being released. On December 30, 2013, she was arrested at her home for no apparent reason and put in the Liaoning Detention Center for 25 days.
Background
In 1999, Jiang Zemin, former head of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), overrode other Politburo standing committee members and initiated the violent suppression of Falun Gong.
The persecution has led to the deaths of many thousands of Falun Gong practitioners over the past 17 years. They have been tortured to death for refusing to recant their belief and killed for their organs to fuel China’s illicit organ transplant industry. Jiang Zemin is directly responsible for the inception and continuation of the brutal persecution.
Under his personal direction, the Chinese Communist Party established an extralegal security organ called the “610 Office,” for the date it was established, June10, 1999. The organization has overriding authority over the police and judicial system. Its sole purpose is to carry out Jiang's directive regarding Falun Gong: ruin their reputations, bankrupt them financially and destroy them physically.
Chinese law allows citizens to be plaintiffs in criminal cases. Thousands of Falun Gong practitioners are now exercising that right to file criminal law suits against the former dictator.
