Name: Wei Xingzhi (魏兴芝)
Gender: Female
Age: 54
Address: Unknown
Date of Most Recent Arrest: September 23, 2009
Most Recent Place of Detention: Wuhan Women's Prison (湖北省武汉女子监狱 )
City: Wuhan
Province: Hubei
Persecution Suffered: Forced labor, brainwashing, expelled from job, home ransacked, detention, illegally sentenced
(Clearwisdom.net) Ms. Wei Xingzhi was illegally arrested at around 9 p.m. on September 23, 2009, when agents from the Wuhan City Police Department, Wuhan 610 Office, and the Shuiguohu Police Station pried open the door to her home and ransacked it. Ms. Wei was taken to the Wuhan City No. 1 Detention Center. She was transferred to Wuhan Women's Prison in August 2010. Her elderly mother, who is in her 80's and requires assistance, has been left uncared for at home.
Ms. Wei was a kindergarten teacher at the No. 2 Day Care Center located in the Shuiguohu area in Wuhan. Because she refused to give up practicing Falun Gong, her workplace terminated her employment and withheld her salary for eight years. Ms. Wei has also been subjected to forced labor and brainwashing at the hands of the Chinese Communist Party for her belief in Falun Gong.
Ms. Wei went to Beijing in 2001 to clarify the facts about Falun Gong, but was detained in the Fangshan Detention Center in Beijing. She held a hunger strike to protest the persecution.
In early June 2003, Ms. Wei was arrested at her workplace and her home was ransacked. She was taken to the Wuhan City No. 1 Detention Center and later transferred to the Hewan Forced Labor Camp in Wuhan City. She was then transferred again on September 3, 2003, to the Shayang Forced Labor Camp, where she was detained for one year. Upon her release, she was emaciated and had physical deformities from the torture that she suffered.
