Name: Tang Baozhi (唐宝芝)
Gender: Female
Age: 59
Address: Unknown
Occupation: Former worker in the bus transportation industry in Jinhua City
Date of Most Recent Arrest: October 26, 2005
Most Recent Place of Detention: Zhejiang Province Women's Prison (浙江省女子监狱)
City: Hangzhou
Province: Zhejiang
Persecution Suffered: Illegal sentencing, imprisonment, solitary confinement, force-feedings
Key Persecutors: Fang Yuhong (方玉红)
(Clearwisdom.net) Ms. Tang Baozhi from Jinhua City, Zhejiang Province, was arrested in November 1999, when she went to appeal for Falun Gong in Beijing. She was sentenced to a three-and-a-half-year term. In 2005, she was arrested again, sentenced to a five-year term, and is now detained in Zhejiang Province Women's Prison located in Hanzhou City. She began a hunger strike to protest her unjust detention on April 8, 2009, and her family has not seen her since. Ms. Tang's husband, who has been arrested and taken to a brainwashing center twice, has not seen her for more than three and a half years. The prison has refused to provide information about Ms. Tang's health.
According to our sources, Ms. Tang was still able to walk when she first started her hunger strike, but her health began to deteriorate several months ago, and she now needs help to use the toilet. She has to sit on the floor in the bathroom and wait for others to carry her back to her cell, where she is kept in isolation. Her family has repeatedly requested that the prison either take her to a hospital or release her on parole for medical treatment, but their requests have been denied. Ms. Tang is still being held in a ward on the second floor of the prison clinic.
Ms. Tang still loudly proclaims, "Falun Dafa is good!" every day.
Fang Yuhong, deputy warden of the prison, is directly responsible for persecuting Falun Gong practitioners in the prison. Since she took her position in 2003, at least one practitioner has died and many others have suffered from poor health as a result of the persecution.
More details of Ms. Tang's case are available at http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2009/7/28/109566.html ("Fifty-Eight-Year Old Ms. Tang Baozhi Has Been on Hunger Strike for Over 400 Days at the Women's Prison in Zhejiang Province") and http://www.clearwisdom.net/html/articles/2009/8/20/110187.html ("Mother and Daughter Resist Persecution through Hunger Strike for Over One Year; Their Health in Serious Condition").
Fang Yuhong, deputy warden of Zhejiang Province Women's Prison: 86-571-89970005 (Office)