Mr. Yang Jianpo Seriously Ill Due to Abuse at Jidong Prison--Wife Appeals for His Release

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Mr. Yang Jianpo Seriously Ill Due to Abuse at Jidong Prison--Wife Appeals for His Release

May 31, 2011 | By a Clearwisdom correspondent from Hebei Province, China

Name: Yang Jianpo (杨建坡)
Gender: Male
Age: 40s
Occupation: Businessman
Address: Langfang City, Hebei Province
Date of Most Recent Arrest: December 28, 2010
Most Recent Place of Detention: Jidong Prison (冀东监狱)
City: Langfang
Province: Hebei
Persecution Suffered: Brainwashing, interrogation, detention, illegal sentencing, forced labor, imprisonment, beatings, torture, force-feeding, extortion, home ransacked

(Clearwisdom.net) Mr. Yang Jianpo from Langfang City, Hebei Province was illegally arrested on December 28, 2010, by police from the Langfang Development District. He was taken to the Jidong Prison that same day. He is extremely emaciated.

Mr. Yang's wife, Ms. Nie Chunling, wrote the following appeal demanding that officials immediately release her husband:

I recently visited my husband at the Jidong Prison. He lay on a bed, emaciated. He is 6 feet tall, but looked like he weighed less than 110 pounds.

My husband had been persecuted numerous times [for his belief in Falun Gong]. He was subjected to forced labor in the Wanzhuang Forced Labor Camp in Langfang City in September 1999. He was then arrested in Tangshan City on the evening of March 30, 2003, by officers from the Fengrun District Police Department. He was tortured to the point of near-death during 38 days of detention. The police eventually told us, his family members, to take him home. On the afternoon of February 20, 2004, officers from the Guangyang District Police Department in Langfang City arrested him again. He held a 108-day hunger strike to protest the persecution. His weight dropped from 198 pounds to around 88 pounds.

My husband was arrested again on February 5, 2006, for trying to secure the release of fellow practitioners. He was subsequently sentenced to six years in prison. He held hunger strikes over the course of two years and eight months, and was released from the Jidong Prison on September 29, 2008. He was only skin and bones when he returned home. Almost all of his internal organs were on the verge of failing. He couldn't take care of himself.

When my husband's health had recovered just a bit, in 2009, officers from the local police department, the police station, and the Jidong Prison frequently harassed him at home.

He was arrested on his way to work at around 8:00 a.m. on December 28, 2010. Police from the Development District made the arrest and took him to the Langfang City Development District Police Department. Guangyang District Domestic Security Division head Huang contacted the Jidong Prison and took him there at 3:00 p.m. that same day.

I strongly demand that Jidong Prison and related departments in Langfang City immediately and unconditionally release my husband, Mr. Yang Jianpo.

Nie Chunling

Category: Accounts of Persecution