The Facts of the Persecution of Falun Gong  -- November 9, 2007

Issued by Clearwisdom Net

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  • Mr. Ruan Fanghua Sentenced to Forced Labor for the Second Time for Clarifying the Truth about Falun Gong

     


    Mr. Ruan Fanghua Sentenced to Forced Labor for the Second Time for Clarify the Truth about Falun Gong

    On October 7, 2007, Mr. Ruan Fanghua from Furong District, Changsha City, was arrested by the police from Longping High Tech Zone, while he clarified the truth about Falun Gong to the local residents. He  He was sentenced to one and a half years of forced labor. Recently he has been transferred from the 1st Detention Center of Chansha City to Xinkaipu Forced Labor Camp.

    Mr. Ruan Fanghua, 56 years old, was an employee of Yuanjiang City Paper Mill and had been a manager of a workshop. Simply for practicing Falun Gong and exposing the CCP's persecution, Mr. Ruan has suffered a great deal of abuse. On May 15, 2005, he was sentenced to forced labor for the first time for clarifying the facts to the local residents and was taken to Xinkaipu Forced Labor Camp, Changsha City. During his detention there he suffered all kinds of torture, both physical and mental. The first torture for practitioners on their arrival at the forced labor camp is sleep deprivation. They are not allowed to sleep for many days and nights. Then those in charge take advantage of practitioners' foggy mental state as a result of sleep deprivation and pressure them to write the Guarantee Statement declaring that they will no longer practice Falun Gong.

    On October 12, 2007, when Mr. Ruan's family went to the police station to inquire about him, they learned that the case officer, Tang Liyang, was not in so they called his cellphone. They made three calls. On the first call he said, "You have the wrong number." He did not answer the second call. Mr. Ruan's family members called him on a different phone the third time, but Tang Liyang hung up the phone as soon as he learned their identity.

    The police case officer had already prepared the materials accusing Mr. Ruan and sent it to the legal office of Furong District  Police Branch. However, on the morning of October 12, when Mr. Ruan's family members went to Furong District Police Branch to inquire about it, the officer denied that they had received it. It was learned later that the material had, in fact, been delivered to the Forced Labor Approval Office of Changsha City Police Department.

    When Mr. Ruan's family went to talk to the police at the three levels--namely the police station, police Branch, and police department--to find more information on the case, the police officers all repeated the same slanderous words against Falun Gong. They even asked Mr. Ruan's family members, "Why don't you persuade Ruan Fanghua to renounce Falun Gong?"

    During their sleepless waiting, what Mr. Ruan's family finally got was the news that Mr. Ruan had been sentenced to forced labor again.