Issued by Clearwisdom Net

Mr. Xie Yunhuan, went back to China from Japan on February, 2000 to appeal for Falun Gong. He was secretely arrested and sentenced to ten years in prison. It was not until July 2001 that Mr. Xie managed to pass along information about himself to his family. On March 17, 2008, he was beaten again for protesting the slanderous propaganda in the prison.

On March 16, 2008, during a session in the Education Section of the 10^th Ward of Mudanjiang City Prison in Heilongjiang Province, prisoner lecturer Leng Guohua gave incorrect and untruthful information about the Tiananmen Square self-immolation incident with the intention of defaming Falun Gong. Mr. Xie Yunhuan tried to stop him and said, "Stop slandering Falun Gong. It is a sin to slander Falun Gong. Good deeds are met with good returns and evil deeds are met with evil returns."

An inmate reported Mr. Xie to prison officials for what he had said during the session. At 10 a.m. on March 17, 2008, Squadron Leader Wang Enze severely beat Mr. Xie. The details of the beating are still under investigation.

Mr. Xie Yunhuan was born on May 9, 1975, and holds a bachelor's degree. His hometown is Jidong County, Heilongjiang Province. In 1996, at the age of 21, Mr. Xie began to practice Falun Gong. In April 1999, he went to Japan to study. The brutal persecution of Falun Gong began on July 20, 1999, and thousands of practitioners were arrested, sentenced to forced labor, or jailed. In February, 2000, Mr. Xie returned to China, although he had not finished his studies in Japan. He was arrested and sentenced to ten years in prison for appealing to stop the persecution of Falun Gong.

Mr. Xie detained in the prison

Below are the facts concerning the persecution of Mr. Xie over the past few years:

In February 2000, when Mr. Xie was on his way home from Japan, Jidong County Police Department had already issued a warrant for his arrest. Mr. Xie could not go home. He went to Beijing several times to appeal for an end to the persecution of Falun Gong and to tell people the facts about Falun Gong and its persecution. In March 2001, Mr. Xie suddenly disappeared. He was arrested and put under investigation as a Japanese secret agent because he carried with him phone numbers of his classmates in Japan. Accusing him of being a secret agent was an excuse used by the Chinese State Security agents to frame him.

It was not until July 2001 that Mr. Xie managed to get others to help in passing along information about himself to his family. His family learned that Beijing State Security Bureau officials had arrested him on March 12, 2001, and that he was sent to the notorious Beijing Tuanhe Forced Labor Camp. He was physically and mentally tortured by being brainwashed, deprived of sleep for a long period of time, and severely beaten. He also became infected with scabies.

At the end of July 2001, Mr. Xie was escorted back to Heilongjiang Province and detained in the Jixi City First Detention Center. For 42 consecutive days, the director of the detention center deprived him of sleep and meals. He was given only a bowl of very light soup in the morning and afternoon. When the guards noticed him closing his eyes, he was shocked with electric batons to keep him awake.

In August 2002, right before he was to be sentenced, his interrogators tortured him and forced a confession. He was deprived of sleep for more than ten days. The police fabricated evidence, and at the end of August in 2002, the Jiguan District Court in Jixi City sentenced him to ten years in prison without the right to appeal. The whole process was conducted without witnesses or evidence. No defense lawyers were present. His family was not allowed to see him for this entire time.

In October of 2002, Mr. Xie was sent to the Hadagang Prison in Jidong County. According to prison rules, he did not qualify to do hard labor in the coal mine because he was nearsighted. However, these rules did not apply to Falun Gong practitioners. Mr. Xie was forced to do dangerous hard labor underground in the coal mine everyday. He was whipped or beaten with a club by the guards if he did not work fast enough.

In May 2003, Mr. Xie and more than ten practitioners were transferred to Mudanjiang City Prison. He was forced to work for more than 16 hours a day. To collect some extra money on the side, the prison officials forced the detainees with computer skills to play on-line computer games for long periods of time to obtain high scores that could be traded in for cash. This drained the detainees' mentally and they could not think. The prison officials tightly restricted the family visits and each detainee was allowed only 30 minutes each month. The visits were strictly monitored. If sensitive topics were brought up, the visits were interrupted and the detainee would not be allowed to meet with family members for the next several months.

Mr. Xie's brother Mr. Xie Yunhua, a Japanese citizen living in Shizuoka City, is calling on the international community to pay attention to his brother's case and to help in the efforts to rescue him.

A number of Falun Gong practitioners have recently been arrested in Jiaohe City, Jilin Province. The following is information about several cases of illegal arrest and persecution.

1. Ms. Wang Shuyuan, 58 years old, is a retired school teacher who taught advanced studies in Jiaohe City. On March 20, 2008, when she went out around at 8:00 in the evening, she was illegally arrested. At around 10:00 p.m., policemen from the Chang'an Street Police Station in Jiaohe City broke into Ms. Wang's home and confiscated several copies of the "Clearwisdom Weekly". Ms. Wang Shuyuan is currently being detained at a detention center.
2. Mr. Liu Baochun, Approximately 40 years old, is the owner of Haier Computer Store in Jiaohe City. On March 21, when the police arrested Falun Gong practitioners Chang Guiyun and Lao Yuan, they suspected Liu Baochun had been in contact with the two. Therefore, Liu Baochun was beaten by policeman from the Chang'an Street Police Station. When they stopped beating him his body was covered in blood. The police shut down his computer store and then took Mr. Liu to a detention center where he is still being detained.
3. Mr. Zhang Guosheng, approximately 40 years old, is the owner of Shunda Furniture Store. At around 10:00 a.m. on March 25, he was arrested at his store by policemen from the Xinzhan Town Police Station. He is still being held at the police station.
4. Recently, Ms. Guo Shuqing and her son of the Jiaohe Coal Mine were arrested. Her son has since has been released, however, Ms. Guo is still being forced to remain in a detention center.

Jiaohe Police Station

Chu Yinghuan, director: 86-432-7246111(Office), 86-432-6222999(Home), 86-13904442999(Cell)
Guan Zhongren, political commissar: 86-432-7240702(Office), 86-432-7557777(Home), 86-13664446999(Cell)
Zhu Changjun, deputy director: 86-432-7240703(Office), 86-432-7225969(Home), 86-13943201555(Cell)