(Clearwisdom.net) Zhaoyuan City 610 Office officials in Shandong Province, together with other local Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials, sent five practitioners to Jinan Women’s Prison on April 12, 2011. The practitioners included Ms. Song Guihua, Ms. Yang Lanxiang, Ms. Diao Yunying, Ms. Fang Cuirong, and Ms. Yang Wenjie. The whereabouts of practitioners Mr. Kao Fuquan and Ms. Teng Yingfen are unknown.
Zhaoyuan officials held two secret court hearings for the above seven practitioners on December 5 and December 21, 2010. They prohibited defense attorneys from attending the hearings and did not allow family members to come, either. The practitioners were sentenced to imprisonment with terms ranging from four to eight years.
Officials began to illegally arrest these practitioners beginning on May 8, 2010. Song Shaochang and Li Jianguang, among others, brutally tortured them at the brainwashing center that they were sent to. Kao Fuquan was healthy before the arrest. After the torture, however, he was diagnosed with various illnesses at Linglong Town Hospital and Zhaoyuan Hospital, including severe heart disease, high blood pressure, cervical spondylosis, and cholecystitis. Despite Kao’s poor condition, Zhaoyuan Court officials still sentenced him to eight years of imprisonment. The detention center officials refused to accept him due to her poor physical condition. Therefore, in order to avoid his death during detention, Zhaoyuan police officials planned to release him under residential surveillance by Mengzhi Town police. However, local 610 Office head Liu Shuju did not agree and insisted on taking Kao to a brainwashing center and detaining him separately from other practitioners.
Zhaoyuan 610 Office officials have prohibited Kao’s family from visiting him since his arrest on May 8, 2010. After receiving a second arrest order this April, presumably as a mechanism to hold him for a longer period of time, his family went to the brainwashing center and requested a visit. However, they were told that Kao had been transferred to the detention center. When they traveled to the detention center, they were again told that he had been transferred.
After asking around for a long time, the practitioners’ families were told that five practitioners had been secretly sent to Jinan Women’s Prison on April 12, 2011. The five practitioners included Ms. Song Guihua, Ms. Yang Lanxiang, Ms. Diao Yunying, Ms. Fang Cuirong, and Ms. Yang Wenjie. The whereabouts of practitioners Mr. Kao Fuquan and Ms. Teng Yingfen are still unknown.
It was said that in addition to Mr. Kao, several others of these seven practitioners had symptoms of heart disease as a result of the torture, including Ms. Yang Wenjie, Ms. Yang Lanxiang, Ms. Diao Yunying, and Ms. Fang Cuirong.
Those responsible for the persecution:
Xu Shaoning, city party secretary: 86-535-8214158 (Office), 8229518 (Home), 86-13863880096 (Cell)
Zhang Wei, mayor: 86-535-8217566 (Office), 8060168 (Home), 86-13854558286 (Cell)
Xu Linhong: 86-535-8156900 (Office), 86-535-8156869 (Home), 86-13792510099( Cell)
Wang Lichen, court head: 86-535-8248898 (Office), 86-13905452001(Cell)
Wang Jialin, Procuratorate head: 86-535-3012501 (Office), 86-15505359001 (Cell)
Li Shaojun, head of the Political and Judicial Bureau: 86-535-8267518 (Office), 8205018 (Home), 86-15513800006 (Cell)
Liu Shuju, 610 Office head: 86-535-8159038 (Office), 8210838 (Home), 86-13863808689 (Cell)
Sun Baodong, police head: 86-535-8030866 (Office), 86-13906389386 (Cell)
