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| AT WORK: Hu Miaomiao leads her kindergarten students in a song. On June 26, 2010 she was sentenced to one year in labor camp, where she was sexually abused. (Courtesy of Minghui.org) |
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Hu Miaomiao. (Photo courtesy of Hu Mingliang) |
Epoch Times Staff
In a picture taken of her at work in her Miaomiao Kindergarten, Hu Miaomiao is a kind-looking young woman leading her children in a song. She is said to sing and dance well and to have been beloved by her charges.
Her kindergarten is now closed. On June 15, 2010, the police in Zhangjiako City in Hebei Province in northeastern China invaded her home, ransacked it, and abducted the then 25-year-old Miaomiao.
Like tens of millions of other Chinese, Miaomiao practices Falun Gong (also known as Falun Dafa). Before her arrest she would do the spiritual practice’s five meditative exercises and study its teachings, which enjoin living according to the principles of truthfulness, compassion, and tolerance.
Miaomiao also told others about how good she believes Falun Gong is. Thus, the raid on her home by the police. In July 1999, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) set out to “eradicate” Falun Gong.
Without the bother of any legal procedure, Miaomiao was sentenced on June 26, 2010, to one year in Shijiazhuang Women’s Forced Labor Camp for what the CCP calls “reform through labor.” Miaomiao knew what such a sentence could mean. Several years ago her mother, who also practiced Falun Gong, died from abuse suffered in a labor camp.
Miaomiao was shipped off, but her family was not told what had become of her.
As soon as Miaomiao arrived at the labor camp, she was locked into a storage room and handcuffed to an iron bed. Several female prisoners roughly cut off her long hair. The prisoners sealed her mouth with tape and beat her face with slippers. The section chief beat her face with her hands. She was then forced to stand throughout the night.
After Miaomiao was moved to a cell, she received more special attention. Prisoners were assigned to monitor her every move. They beat her, forced her to stand for long periods, cursed her, criticized her, and used her to do chores—with the camp’s guards overseeing the whole ordeal.
This is a common tactic used against Falun Gong practitioners. Other inmates are sent to labor camps to be punished. Falun Gong practitioners are sent there to be “transformed”—made to give up their beliefs.
The Chinese regime establishes incentives for dealing out abuse that run throughout the labor camp system. The heads of the labor camps are rewarded for transforming practitioners and risk being punished if they do not reach the required quota. The heads of the labor camps pass the imperative onto the guards, who receive promotions if they make practitioners give up their beliefs. The guards enlist prisoners, who are promised reductions in their sentences if they do some of the dirty work.
On Aug. 28, 2010, Miaomiao complained a little about the heavy workload required of the prisoners. The guards locked her up in a confinement room, and sent two female drug addicts and a prostitute to torture her.
Many people heard her screaming that day.
Inside that room, Miaomiao was beaten and violated with a broom handle. The prisoners kneed her in the groin repeatedly, fracturing the pubic bone, and also used their fingers to torture her privates. After they were done with her, she was unable to walk. She could not open her legs or bend them because of the pain, and guards had to carry her to the toilet. She bled continuously from her uterus and vagina. A guard familiar with her condition says Miaomiao will never be able to have children.
Although Miaomiao was injured and incapable of working, the abuse continued. The guards did not want the other prisoners to see the condition Miaomiao was in and so kept her in solitary confinement for three months. She was only allowed to go to the toilet twice a day, when the prisoners were asleep or the cell blocks were empty.
When arrested she had on summer slippers. The section chief would not allow her socks or shoes, even though the weather had started to turn cold. She was not allowed to bathe herself. Meals often consisted of a single bun.
Some of those inside the camp were indignant at the treatment of Miaomiao and sent reports about her case to the Falun Gong website minghui.org. These reports provide the sources for this article.
After Miaomiao disappeared, her family kept searching for her until they finally learned where she was held. But for month after month, after her brother and father made the train trip to the labor camp, the camp commander refused to allow them to see her.
Finally, on Jan. 11, 2011, Miaomiao’s father, Hu Mingliang, sat in the labor camp meeting room. Through the glass, Hu saw his formerly cheerful, healthy, and vigorous daughter supported by others as she walked in with difficulty.
Miaomiao told her father of what she had suffered and begged him to file a lawsuit on her behalf.
Hu hired a lawyer, who filed a lawsuit. The labor camp refused to let the lawyer see his client. Hu then filed a second lawsuit in Beijing naming the Justice Ministry, Public Safety Ministry, People’s Congress, Central Government Appeals Office, and the Highest Procuratorate.
Upon his return home from Beijing, the police came to his door and threatened him.
Hu demanded to see his daughter again. Arrangements were made for him to go to the camp on Feb. 24. When he attempted to enter the camp, the local police dragged him away into one of their vehicles. On Feb. 26 he was taken to another village and held until March 19.
The lawyer Hu hired for his daughter received instructions from his law firm to drop Miaomiao’s case.
On Saturday Miaomiao’s one-year sentence will be up. The police who arrested her can extend her sentence by simply filling out a piece of paper.
Adapted from articles published on minghui.org.
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