(Clearwisdom.net)
Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Zhou Fumei, 65, lives at Harbin City, Nangang District, Bile Street No. 25. On January 9, 2004, she was illegally arrested by police from a police sub-station when she visited her younger sister Zhou Fujuns home. Her younger sister and brother in-law, who dont practice Falun Dafa, were both sentenced to prison for 7 years just because their sister practices Falun Gong. (Treating innocent relatives of practitioners as crimnals is a feature of China's "implication system," or "guilt by association." For more details, see (http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2001/11/3/15370.html).
Zhou Fujun was 62 years old when she was first detained in Harbin City Detention Center. Because the living conditions in the detention center were so bad, her health quickly became threatened. Ms. Zhou developed pulmonary tuberculosis. Her brother in-law was 65 years old, and had high blood pressure and heart disease. He is now imprisoned in Hulan Prison. His son is in college, but as a consequence of his fathers illegal detention, he has lost his home.
Presently in the womens prison, there are 169 older people whose ages are from 60 to 74. They were sentenced to prison terms of 4 to 12 years. The womens prison falsely tells outsiders that it implements humanity in its management, but actually the torture of the minds of Falun Gong practitioners is very serious.
A Falun Gong practitioner who is 64 years old persisted in her practice, so the police tortured her by way of sleep deprivation. This eventually caused the blood vessels in the elderly ladys brain to leak, causing hemiplegia and paralysis on one side of the body. According to the medical examiners appraisal, as well as the law, she qualifies for release in order to seek medical treatment, but the police didnt release her until recently, giving all kinds of excuses. At the end of March, the womens prison established a "fortified group" specifically to persecute Falun Gong practitioners. Group chief Tao Dandan of the No. 11 area mercilessly beat every Falun Gong practitioner who was imprisoned there.