Name: Yue Xiwen (岳希文)
Gender: Male
Age: Unknown
Address: Xiyuezhuang Village Tancheng County, Shandong Province
Occupation: Farmer
Date of Most Recent Arrest: March 2, 2012
Most Recent Place of Detention: Honghua Township Police Station (郯城县红花乡派出所)
City: Tancheng County
Province: Shandong
Persecution Suffered: Detention, forced labor, brainwashing, torture, denial of restroom use, home ransacked

(Minghui.org) Mr. Yue Xiwen, a Falun Gong practitioner from Tancheng County who had previously been illegally sentenced to three years of forced labor, was arrested again on March 2, 2012, for watching New Tang Dynasty (NTD) Television.

Around 6 a.m. on March 2, 2012, several police officers from the Honghua Township Police Station of Tancheng County, Linyi City, came to Mr. Yue's home in Xiyuezhuang Village of Honghua Township. After getting in, they locked the door from inside. They then turned on the TV. Upon seeing an NTD Television program running, they arrested Mr. Yue and confiscated the receiver box that was on top of the TV set.

After Mr. Yue started practicing Falun Gong in 1998, he conducted himself according the principles of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance, putting emphasis on caring for others around him. When there was a lack of rain, he opened his own well to others so that they could irrigate their lands. When he saw that the public road was bumpy, he repaired it. When he saw others busy with their farm work, he helped them voluntarily.

However, Mr. Yue was repeatedly arrested, sent to a forced labor camp and subjected to brainwashing for refusing to give up his practice of Falun Gong and his belief.

Yang Chuanhua, head of the Honghua Township 610 Office, led a group of policemen to search Mr. Yue's home on the afternoon of April 12, 2005. They did not find anything and could not arrest Mr. Yue, as he was not home at the time. Mr. Yue then left his hometown and went to work elsewhere to avoid further persecution. When it was harvesting time, however, he returned home. On the morning of June 8, 2005, Hou, the local police chief at that time, led two police officers to arrest him. With many bystanders at the scene, however, they did not succeed in their attempt to arrest him.

In 2006, Mr. Yue was arrested and taken to the Shandong Province Second Men's Forced Labor Camp for a three-year term. In the labor camp, he was beaten by the guards, which caused his eyesight to deteriorate significantly, as well as induced migraine headaches and caused Mr. Yue to have difficulty walking. He was released from the labor camp on July 8, 2008, but then arrested again and taken to the Linyi City Brainwashing Center on July 13 of the same year.

Parties involved in the persecution:

Honghua Township Police Station, Tancheng County: +86-539-6531010