Name: Yang Zhiwen (杨志文)
Gender: Male
Age: Unknown
Address: Zhushan Town, Qinglong County, Hebei Province
Occupation: unknown
Date of Most Recent Arrest: December 17, 2010
Most Recent Place of Detention: Qinhuangdao City (Xizhangzhuang) Forced Labor Camp (秦皇岛市(西张庄)劳教所 )
City: Qinglong County
Province: Hebei
Persecution Suffered: Beatings, imprisonment, torture, home ransacked, detention

(Clearwisdom.net) Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Yang Zhiwen, who lives in Qinglong County, Hebei Province, was illegally arrested by police on December 17, 2010. On the night of December 21, the police took him to the Qinhuangdao City Forced Labor Camp. In the forced labor camp, Mr. Yang's left eye was bruised and his ribs were broken as a result of torture.

Arrested and Home Ransacked by Zhushan Township Police

On December 17, 2010, Mr. Yang Zhiwen drove a rented car to Longfei School in Qinglong County to fetch his child from school. On his way home, he was seized by police station chief Weng Jiqin from the Zhushan Township Police Station. He was arrested and his car was taken to the police station. They took his house keys from his car and kept the car. After Mr. Yang’s family brought Weng Jiqin a gift worth more than two hundred yuan, the police allowed them to drive the car home. However, they continued to detain Mr. Yang in a jail cell.

That afternoon around 2 p.m., police chief Weng Jijin, along with two policemen and town officials He Bosheng and Li Xuemin, went to Mr. Yang’s house and ransacked it. When they arrived, the door was locked and no one was home. As He Bosheng was using the stolen house keys to open the door, Mr. Yang’s child, who had just happened to come home, tried to stop them from committing this illegal act. Because they did not have a search warrant or any legal documents, Weng took out his police pass to show the child. Then he pushed open the door and ransacked the house. Then a dozen persons led by a man called Feng Qi (it was said that he is the head of Domestic Security Team of Qinglong County) barged into the house. They behaved like robbers and took away a large number of personal items: two of Master Li’s photos, two Falun Gong books, a laptop, two printers, a VCD player, a DVD player, a satellite dish receiver, two tape recorders, three paper cutters, two USB drives, a necklace, and other personal belongings.

Tortured in Qinglong County Detention Center and Qinhuangdao City (Xizhangzhuang) Forced Labor Camp

On December 17, these people took Mr. Yang to Qinglong County Detention Center. The guards at the detention center tortured Mr. Yang in an attempt to force him to give up his belief. Within just a few days, he was tortured so badly that he was very weak. On the night of December 21, he was sent to Qinhuangdao City (Xizhangzhuang) Forced Labor Camp and subjected to further torture. His left eye was bruised and his ribs were broken. When his family found out that another practitioner, Mr. Fei Yanqing, died from being tortured in that labor camp, they were very worried and demanded to see Mr. Yang. Labor camp personnel refused, which caused his family to become even more concerned about his safety.

On March 25, 2011, his family once again went to the labor camp and asked to see Mr. Yang Zhiwen. They were finally allowed to see him. Mr. Yang was in very poor physical condition.