City: Harbin
Province: Heilongjiang
Persecution Suffered: Imprisonment, extortion
(Clearwisdom.net) In November 2002, the Jianshan Court in Shuangyashan City sentenced Ms. Wang Lihua, a practitioner from Huachuan County, Heilongjiang Province, to seven years in prison. Her term was then extended by three years because she called aloud "Falun Dafa is good!" Since then, she has been persecuted and abused for more than seven years and is now unable to take care of herself.
On December 18, 2009, Zhu Xiaojie, daughter of Ms. Wang Lihua, was notified by the police to pick up her mother at the Heilongjiang Women's Prison because she was seriously ill. On December 20, Ms. Wang's family went to the prison and had to pay 2,000 yuan for a judiciary examination. They asked the prison officials why they had mistreated Ms. Wang to that extent and then demanded money. They also refused to pay the 2,000 yuan, since they could not afford it. The examination result showed that she was paralyzed due to tuberculosis of the spine.
On December 24, 2009, two officers from the prison went to the Chengbei Police Station in Huachuan County. In the beginning, officials from the police station agreed to release her on a medical parole, but the request was turned down by upper level officials. Officials from the police station then refused to release her on a medical parole.
That afternoon, two officers from the prison went to the Chengnan Police Station, where Ms. Wang had previously registered her permanent residence. Shen Yanmin, head of the police station, met these two officers and said, "Ms. Wang's case is special. The entire police department knows she is a stubborn Falun Gong follower. I do not want to hold up your work because of no signature from me. I can report her situation to officials in both the police department and the domestic security division. But, on this sensitive issue of Falun Gong, I don't think police department officials will easily approve it. In fact, the decision has to come from the police department head, not even the deputy head. That is why I do not have the authority to sign this document. I can sign for a homicide criminal, but not for this one, unless it is approved by Liu Hongyin, the head of the police department."
Shen Yanmin, head of Chengnan Police Station, 86-13349554444 (Cell)
December 25, 2009
