Issued by Clearwisdom Net

Press Release: December 7th, 2006

Mrs. Wang Xiaoyan is now held at the Masanjia-women's labour camp

(Clearwisdom.net) Leipzig (FDI): Zhang Zhentong, a 30-year-old information technology student from Leipzig, fears for the life of his wife Wang Xiaoyan. She has been suffering torture and abuse in a Chinese labor camp since July 2006, only because she practices Falun Gong. Chinese police confiscated her passport to prevent her and her daughter from immigrating to Germany. A letter smuggled out of the labor camp recently tells of the agony and torture she suffers.

Photo of the original letter that was smuggled out of the camp

On May 27th, 2006, three policemen arrested Mrs. Wang just outside her home, when she was leaving for work. She was taken to a remand prison the same evening. On July 12th, 2006, she was sentenced to a two-year "re-education through labor" term, and immediately taken to Masanjia Women's Labor Camp.

No arrest warrant was served. There was no indictment of Mrs. Wang. There was no court proceeding with the handing down of a verdict and she was not allowed to defend herself.

Since the day of her arrest, her husband has appealed to the German public and politicians for help. Members from the International Society for Human Rights initiated a signature drive in Germany with a signature drive form attached for Mrs. Wang's case.

The Masanjia Labor Camp is located in Liaoning Province and is one of the largest and most infamously cruel labor camps in China where Falun Gong practitioners are imprisoned.

Numerous articles have been published, which detail extremely brutal and unrelenting tortures, many which have resulted in deaths of practitioners. The reports bear witness to the violation of fundamental human rights in this camp for the last seven-plus years. Please refer to: http://flghrwg.net/reports/Laborcamps/pdf/Masanjia_ShenyangCity_LiaoningProvince.pd

Mrs. Wang was able to have a letter smuggled out of the camp recently. In this letter she recounts the cruel abuse she suffers in this camp. It is a harrowing document from a human, calling on the world for help. The German version of the letter, originally written in Chinese, is available at http://www.igfm.de/?id=667.

In this letter Mrs. Wang writes, "They shackled me for one-and-a-half months to a bed, only because I practiced the Falun Gong exercises and called out "Falun Gong is good. During that time, guard Wang Xiaofeng put a dirty cloth in my mouth, guard Li Mingyu slapped my ears and Wang Naimin squeezed my lips until they were broken and injured. But the worst happened when two of the camp leaders, Ma Jishan and Chen Mir, belted my face with their fists on July 15th, 2006. Even today, the swelling has not gone down.

One of the guards forced medication into me that impaired my central nervous system. This medication was forced into my system for three days. Every time, Ma Jishan used a crow bar to open my mouth as far as possible, causing excruciating pain. I felt I would rather die than live. On August 30th, 2006, another woman was shackled for three days to a bunk bed, with one hand bound to the top rail and the other on the most bottom rail. She was not allowed to sleep or wash herself. She could neither stand up nor sit."

Especially prior to human rights day, volunteers from the FDI appealed to all people, but most of all to members of the German Federal Government, to speak out firmly against the state sanctioned terror Falun Gong practitioners suffer in China. They also appealed to the German Federal Government that they do all in their power to get Mrs. Wang released from such an unbearable situation in the labor camp and grant her the right to stay in Germany.

Originally published in German at: http://de.clearharmony.net/articles/200612/35207.html

Source: http://clearharmony.net/articles/200701/37401.html

On May 23, 2006, Ms. Zeng Aihua, 57 years old, a resident of Hong Kong, was illegally arrested at home by the police from Pudong New District Police Department, Shanghai City. Her home was ransacked and her belongings were confiscated. At present, the officials at the 610 Office of Shanghai are illegally discouraging Ms. Zeng Aihua's lawyer from seeing her. Nobody has seen Ms. Zeng or heard anything about her for more than five months since her arrest.

On November 1, the CCP's Court in Pudong New District accepted and heard the case of Zeng Aihua at the request of the Pudong New District Procuratorate. A month and a half later, on December 14, the court didn't hold a scheduled trial because the Procuratorate asked for more time to obtain further evidence against Ms. Zeng. During that time, neither the court nor the Procuratorate informed Ms. Zeng's family members or her lawyer about her circumstances. Hence, her lawyer was never able to consult with Ms. Zeng about the details of her case, and her family members knew nothing about her case at all.

On December 15, after her relatives repeatedly called the Procuratorate, saying they knew that the Procuratorate was investigating the case, they immediately asked that her lawyer be allowed to visit Ms. Zeng Aihua. According to China's Criminal Law, during this time a lawyer can visit his client whenever he wants. However, the 610 Office in Shanghai obstructed these legal consultations between Ms. Zeng and her attorney. The Beijing-based lawyer could not afford long delays when he arrived in Shanghai, so he sent a letter by express mail to the Pudong New District Detention Center in Shanghai on December 18, requesting a time that he could visit Ms. Zeng. In this letter he included his contact information.

Several days after the letter was mailed, there was no reply from the detention center. The lawyer and Ms. Zeng's relatives called the detention center on December 21 and 22 to ask if the letter had been received. The policeman on duty replied that he did not know and denied that there was a department that accepted and dispatched letters at the detention center that could be consulted in this matter.

The detention center's buck-passing made Ms. Zeng's relatives concerned about her safety, and they requested that the lawyer go to Shanghai whatever happened. On December 24, Zeng Aihua's family spoke on the phone to the lawyer, who agreed to go to Shanghai three days later and once again apply for bail on behalf of Ms. Zeng's family members.

However, the lawyer's phone had been tapped for a long time. Several days later, representatives from the Beijing Yitong Law Office, the firm that the lawyer is affiliated with, talked with him and told him that the authorities had put pressure on their office. They requested that he not go to Shanghai to handle the case and that in the future he should ask for instructions before leaving for Shanghai. Only after getting prior approval could he go.

This was not the first time that the 610 Office of Shanghai exerted pressure on this law office to obstruct the case. At the beginning of September, the 610 Office pressured the law office through the Beijing Judiciary Bureau and attempted to get the lawyer to give up defending Zeng Aihua. The 610 Office is back to its old tricks. The fundamental reason for their interference is that they are afraid of the outside world knowing the truth about the torture that Ms. Zeng Aihua suffered at the detention center during the last months after her lawyer visited her. However, through a conversation between the law office in Beijing and the lawyer, outsiders were given the false impression that the pressure did not come from the Shanghai 610 Office.

This conversation occurred when the lawyer first learned about Ms. Zeng Aihua's situation. Since according to Chinese law he should have been able to meet with her at any time, he decided to go to Shanghai for the visit. The purpose of the phone call from the law office was clearly to stop the lawyer from going to Shanghai to handle the case, which was also the goal of the 610 Office in Shanghai.

There is still no news of Zeng Aihua; nobody has seen her for five months. There is evidence that she is again on a protest hunger strike at the detention center. Because of the unbearable pressure and pain, her 70-year-old husband cannot take care himself. Ms. Zeng's relatives said that they would do everything to gain her release with a not-guilty verdict, and they would also continue expose all the illegal acts that the 610 Office of Shanghai has committed during the case. In the meantime, they also expressed gratitude and respect for the lawyers and law offices that offered legal aid despite huge pressure from the CCP.

On December 31, 2006, Beijing was covered with snow. However, during this season of greetings, many families are still suffering from being separated due to persecution by the Chinese Communist regime. Ms. Yang Xiaojing, the spouse of Mr. Cao Dong, had to brave the cold wind and snow on the eve of the new year to bring attention to the plight of her husband, and call for his release.

Her husband, Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Cao Dong, was arrested after he met with Mr. Edward McMillan-Scott, Vice President of the European Parliament, on May 21, 2006. During the first six months after his arrest, Mr. Cao was tortured by many methods by the police in Beijing, and was then transferred to the Detention Center of Gansu Province National Security Deprtment located in Lanzhou City. On December 22, 2006, Cao Dong was prosecuted on four charges, including "collusion with overseas anti-CCP (Chinese Communist Party) forces," "illegal interview with reporters abroad," "releasing news on Clearwisdom.net" and "possession of VCDs and brochures related to Falun Gong."

Apparently, all of the charges were aimed at retaliating for the disclosure of the persecution of Falun Gong to Mr. McMillan-Scott. To shift the focus from the international community and deceive the public, when the CCP regime prosecuted Cao Dong, all of the charges appeared to have nothing to do with his meeting with Mr. McMillan-Scott. As a matter of fact, another Falun Gong practitioner, Niu Jinping, who met with Mr. McMillan-Scott, has also been harassed by the National Security Bureau, the 610 Office, police station and even the Neighborhood Committee. His detained wife, Zhang Lianying, was persecuted more seriously than before by the Beijing City Women's Forced Labor Camp and presently she is being forced to perform slave labor making various products.

In court, Cao Dong's attorney, Mr. Ma Guangjun pleaded his innocence on all four charges. But the judge still insisted on the first charge, and said that it does not necessarily target his contact with Mr. McMillan-Scott.

After the hearing, the judges said they were not authorized to go to trial. The 610 Office in Beijing was directly in charge of the case. 

Mr. Dong's wife, Yang Xiaojing, who was just released from Beijing City Women's Forced Labor Camp after two years of persecution, is very worried about her husband. Her parents and her parents-in-law have all been threatened by the CCP and are too frightened to appeal.