Ms. Yang Xueyan, an Art Teacher from Qingdao City, Shandong Province, Sentenced to Three Years of Imprisonment
Name: Yang Xueyan(杨雪燕)
Gender: Female
Age: 40
Address: Jialinggou Resident Area, Shibei District, Qingdao City, Shandong Province
Occupation: Art teacher
Date of Most Recent Arrest: May 13, 2011
Most Recent Place of Detention: Dashan Detention Center in Qingdao (青岛市大山看守所)
City: Qingdao
Province: Shandong
Persecution Suffered: Detention, illegal trial, illegal sentencing.
Key Persecutor: Wang Zengshi, secretary-general of Qingdao 610 Office
(Clearwisdom.net)At 2:30 p.m., September 19, 2011, the No.1 Court of the Laoshan District in Qingdao City located at the Dashan Detention Center brought charges against Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Yang Xueyan. With no regard for the country's constitution or any other laws, Ms. Yang was sentenced to three years of imprisonment. Her family is currently appealing to a higher court.
Ms. Yang Xueyan
When Ms. Yang and her friends were holding art classes, a parent of one of her students reported her. On May 13, 2011, police officers from the Sino-Korean Police Station in Laoshan District, Qingdao City arrested her. Her family hired a lawyer; however, the lawyer's request to look at her file was denied by the Laoshan District Procuratorate and Laoshan District Court. Court personnel also tried to prevent her lawyer from meeting with Ms. Yang. At her trial on September 9, the Laoshan District Court refused to allow her family members, including her mother, to sit in the courtroom.
To help their daughter, Ms.Yang's parents and the rest of her family are appealing to a higher court. They have also sent letters of appeal to relevant government departments. They continuously bring the subject up with the authorities, exposing the involvement of the judicial system, the 610 Office, and how they violate the law while supposedly enforcing the law.
On September 19, Ms. Yang was taken from the No.3 Detention Center to No.1 Detention Center where the illegal trial was held
On September 9 the trial day, the heavily guarded Laoshan District Court
Ms. Yang's mother was prevented from sitting in the courtroom by force
Police officers photographing and video-recording Ms. Yang's family members
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