(Minghui.org) Mr. Bai Ruisong, 68, from Dehui City, Jilin Province has been closely monitored for practicing Falun Gong, a mind-body practice that has been persecuted by the Chinese Communist Party since July 1999.
The agencies involved in Mr. Bai Ruisong’s surveillance include the local anti-gang office, the traffic police brigade, Qinghua Community and Yuanbao Community. They had people follow him on foot or in cars. They also instructed building custodians and landscape workers in his apartment complex to monitor him and report his activities.
Two people from the Qinghua Community came to Mr. Bai’s home at 10:10 a.m. on November 17, 2023. They asked him to fill out a form and have his picture taken. He refused to comply because the form was for him to renounce Falun Gong. He recorded them with his cell phone. They left.
Mr. Bai has been repeatedly targeted for his faith over the years. He was arrested at least six times and served three forced labor terms. His wife, also a Falun Gong practitioner, was jailed for three years and died on December 6, 2014. She was 60. Their daughter has been persecuted since she was five years old. The police followed and threatened her. They once detained her for three days when she was around 10, and later sent her to a reform school, where was closely monitored and forced to do chores.
Other Episodes of Surveillance and Harassment
Mr. Bai was an engineer at the local automotive hinges factory. He delivered bread to make a living after he was last released (date unknown). The authorities, however, not only closely monitored him but also intentionally made his life miserable.
When he was riding his tricycle to deliver bread to a local supermarket, he noticed a car following him. The car stopped and a man came out when Mr. Bai arrived at the supermarket. He learned later that the man questioned the supermarket owner that day as to what Mr. Bai did at his market and what they talked about.
Another time Mr. Bai was rear-ended by a drunk motorist while he was delivering bread. The left door of his tricycle was badly damaged. Because he is a Falun Gong practitioner and is considerate of others, Mr. Bai rushed the motorcyclist to the hospital because the man fell from his motorcycle and hurt his head.
Mr. Bai paid more than 1,000 yuan to get the man examined. Fortunately the motorcyclist did not suffer severe injuries. He turned around and blamed Mr. Bai for causing the accident when in fact he was at fault (driving drunk without a license). They then took the case to the traffic police brigade, which ruled that they were each 50% at fault despite clear evidence the motorcyclist was fully at fault. The traffic police brigade did so because Mr. Bai was a Falun Gong practitioner, and was on its blacklist. The motorcyclist refused to pay Mr. Bai 500 yuan (half of his medical fee), and Mr. Bai simply let him go even though he was struggling financially.
Mr. Bai later bought a car to deliver bread, and officers from the local police station and the traffic police brigade followed him many times. They took pictures of his car and alleged that the vehicle exceeded the weight limit with the bread on board. They eventually used that as an excuse to confiscate his driver’s license and never returned it. They lied and said they lost it, but they did not allow him to get a replacement license.
Wife Dies in 2014 After Repeated Persecution
Mr Bai’s wife, Ms. Liu Fengyun, had a severe form of chronic adrenal failure characterized by weight loss, muscle weakness, and vomiting blood. She went to Beijing to seek treatment, but was told by doctors that she was beyond help and would need to take medication for the rest of her life.
Fortunately she heard about Falun Gong while seeking treatment in Beijing. She started practicing in March 1996. Within six months all of her symptoms disappeared, and she enjoyed good health. Mr. Bai was amazed by Falun Gong’s miraculous healing power and began practicing. After the persecution began, the couple were repeatedly targeted for upholding their faith.
Ms. Liu was arrested multiple times in the earlier years of the persecution and served three years in prison between 2006 and 2007. Due to abuse in prison, she became hunchbacked, developed a large lump, four or five centimeters in size, on her back. She couldn’t do anything and stay home after she was released. She recovered a bit after doing the Falun Gong exercises, and the police arrested her again two more times, on September 25, 2009 and December 5, 2013. She was released on bail each time due to poor health, but still faced police harassment at home.
The relentless persecution eventually claimed Ms. Liu’s life on December 6, 2014. She was 60.
Daughter Grew Up in Fear
Mr. Bai’s daughter, Ms. Bai He, was also persecuted. She was only five years old when the police broke into their home one day in 2000 and seized her parents. The neighbors felt sorry for the family but were too scared to help the child. A practitioner later took the little girl in.
Ms. Bai and her parents were arrested on December 14, 2004. She was around 10 at the time, and the police kept her in custody for three days, during which time they did not give her anything to eat.
When her parents were both detained in 2006, the police sent Ms. Bai to a school for troubled youth even though she had no behavior issues. She was closely monitored at school and forced to do chores when other students did not have to.
After her father was released in July 2006, he withdrew her from that school and enrolled her in a regular primary school. He took her to school by bicycle every day, and often went to visit his wife in jail. The father and daughter lived a very difficult life.
For details of the family’s suffering, see the following related reports.
Related reports:
Ms. Liu Fengyun Passes Away after Repeated Persecution
A Story of Unbelievable Injustice to Kind-hearted People
Large-scale Arrests in Jilin Province, Even a Ten-year-Old Child is Arrested by Police
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