(Clearwisdom.net) Ms. Yao Hui is a Falun Dafa practitioner from Wuhan City, Hubei Province. Since the persecution started, Ms. Yao has been arrested, detained, sent to a forced labor camp, and subjected to brainwashing. In 2004, Ms. Yao was illegally sentenced to a 7-year prison term. As of this date, she is being detained at the Wuhan Women's Prison.

Ms. Yao used to be an editor of the "People's Yangtze River" magazine, owned by the Yangtze River Committee, Ministry of Water Resources. She began to practice Falun Gong in November 1994. Details of Yao's suffering follow:

At noon on July 20, 1999, several police officers from the Yongqing Street police station, Jiangan Borough, Wuhan City, took Yao to the police station to interrogate her and released her at noon on July 21.

Baofeng Road Women's Prison, Hubei Province

Gate of Baofeng Road Women's Prison. Also labeled Hubei Yisi Textile Inc., and Wuhan Women's Prison

Wuhan City First Detention Center (women) (1st Branch of Department 7)

On July 21, 1999, police officers from the Yongqing police station, and managers Li Meiqing and Lu Yi from Yao's company searched Yao's office and restricted Yao's personal freedom.

In the evening of July 21, 1999, she was arrested on the way home from appealing to the Hubei provincial government, and taken to the Yongqing Street police station. The next day her home was ransacked. She was transferred to Huisheng Grand Hotel, where she was detained for about two weeks. She was released due to her father's guarantee. After going back to work, all of her leave was canceled and her office keys were confiscated. She was not allowed to talk on the phone, stay alone at her office, or ask for leave. Because she was deprived of her freedom, she decided to go to Beijing to appeal. She wrote a resignation letter, as she did not wish to cause problems for her work unit and co-workers.

Ms. Yao went to Beijing on September 3, 1999, but was escorted back and detained at the Jiangan Area Brainwashing Center together with thirteen female practitioners from Wuhan City, who had traveled to Beijing to appeal. Yao resisted the brainwashing firmly, insisted on doing the Falun Dafa exercises, and studying the Fa. The 610 office assumed that she was a key contact person. On September 25, she was sent to a sanatorium at Chengqianzui, Hanyang Borough, where she and other practitioners were brainwashed by three people. This sanatorium is surrounded by water, close to the Wuhan City Second Detention Center and is under the control of the Wuhan City police bureau's first department. Two monitors were assigned to each practitioner. Some practitioners were not assigned a bed for four months. During winter, several practitioners were handcuffed to a long bench for several months. On January 17, 2000, since the brainwashing center was closed, Ms. Yao was released.

Gate of Hewan Forced Labor Camp, Wuhan City (July, 2004)

Gate of Hewan Forced Labor Camp (Nov. 2005)

Gate of Hewan Forced Labor Camp (Nov. 2005)

Hewan Forced Labor Camp, Wuhan City (July, 2004)

6th Brigade (women's), Hewan Forced Labor Camp

Hewan Drug Addicts' Center

Jiangan Borough police arrested Yao on January 22, 2000 for attending an experience sharing conference in Xidu. She was detained for 15 days at the Women's Forced Labor Camp.

On March 1, 2000, during a city-wide arrest of practitioners, Yao was arrested and taken to a brainwashing session at the Jinlong Hotel on Gong-Long-Bin street, which was organized by the Jiangan Borough 610 office. Since she lived by the principles "Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance," she resisted all brainwashing attempts. Therefore, she was sentenced to one year at Hewan Forced Labor Camp. On March 15, 2001, the date of her scheduled release, her term was extended for another three months, and on June 15, 2001 for six more months. On December 17, 2001, she was sent to the Jiangan Borough Brainwashing center for further torture.

On January 11, 2002, Yao was arrested at a fellow practitioner's home. This time, she was detained for one month, and then sent to the Jiangan Area Brainwashing Center. She was released for health reasons.

On June 13, 2002, the Jiangan court tried practitioners without due cause. Yao was arrested outside the court and detained at the 1st Women's Detention Center, Wuhan City for a month.

In the afternoon of October 30, 2002, Yao was arrested and taken to Yongqing Street police station. Police officer Ding Li and Yu Dongying ransacked Yao's home. The same day evening, police officers asked Yao's daughter, who was only 16 years old, to sign a list of items confiscated by police. It's illegal to ask a sixteen-year-old to sign such document. The second day, Yao was sent to the Wuhan City First Detention Center, where she was jailed for one month and then taken to Jiangan Area Brainwashing Center for further torture. During the brainwashing session, Yao was deprived of sleep for several days, and police officer Zhu Lin beat her brutally. Several days later, Yao escaped and became homeless.

In the evening of May 3, 2003, when Yao met up with her friends on a street, she was arrested and taken to the No.1 Qingdao street station by police officers. Several days later, she was sent to the Wuhan City 1^st Detention Center. Due to health reasons, the detention center refused to take her. Therefore, she was sent to the Jiangan Area Brainwashing Center.

On May 14, 2003, Yao Hui was again sent to Wuhan City's 1st Detention Center. Yao displayed symptoms of bad health on-and-off. (Signatures by Qiang Hansheng, head of the city 610 office, Yang Shihong, head of Wuhan City police bureau, Li Yingjie, head of Jiangan Borough 610 office, and others are evidence of this detention.)

On October 3, 2003, the Jiangan Court tried Yao Hui. Local practitioners sent forth righteous thoughts, and the defense counsel pled innocence on behalf of Yao Hui. The court canceled the charges for lack of evidence. Yao should have been released at the time. But 610 office head Li Yingjie pressured the court for a new trial. They prepared false evidence and a list of items they had confiscated during an illegal search at Yao's home on December 5,2003.

Office Building of Hewan Forced Labor Camp (Nov.2005)

Jiangan Court

Jiangan Court

On January 9, 2004, the court opened a second trial, and the defense counsel dared not defend Yao. Chief judge Wu Shanrong sentenced Yao to 7 years in prison on false evidence. Yao's family hired an attorney to appeal, but the Wuhan City Intermediate Court refused to take the appeal after learning the case was about a Falun Gong practitioner.

Currently Yao is detained at the 4th prison zone in the Wuhan City Women's Prison.

People Involved in Persecuting Yao Hui

Fu Xinping, CCP (Chinese Communist Party) Secretary of the Office of Yangtze River Committee, Wuhan City. He is in charge of the persecution of Falun Gong since July 1999. He forced practitioners who have appealed to "resign from their job." Fu Xinping and the 610 office took employees who refused to renounce the practice to brainwashing sessions, and deducted those employees' salary by the cost of room and board. Last year, Fu drove a company car to visit his hometown and was injured in a car accident on the trip. He had to pay a large amount for repair of the car.

Ji Xiangru, head of the Office of Yangtze River Committee leads the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners with Fu Xinping. Last year, Ji got ill with diabetes. The healthcare rules changed at that time and he was saddled with the large cost for his medical treatment.

Bi Suyi, department head of the Office of Yangtze River Committee, is a member of the focus group that is persecuting Falun Gong, and has actively taken part in meetings where they teach about persecuting practitioners.

Wuhan City Forced Labor Camp (Nov.2005)

Cells at the Wuhan Women's Prison (Yao used to be detained on the third floor)

Cells at the Wuhan Women's Prison (Yao used to be detained on the third floor)