(Clearwisdom.net) Note: The following is a shortened version of a longer and more detailed article that appeared on the Minghui.org website (Chinese version of Clearwisdom.net).
On August 13, 2005, five Falun Dafa practitioners who worked at the No. 4 Chongqing Steel Factory in Sanjiang were illegally arrested and their homes were ransacked. The police took all of their Dafa books, Dafa materials, tape recorders and other things. The five practitioners were sent to the Qijiang Police Department and Qijiang Development District Detention Center, where they were tortured. One month later they were sentenced to forced labor. The practitioners and their sentences are listed below:
Ms. Zhang Huaming, 52 years old; retired employee from the No. 4 Chongqing Steel Factory; sentenced to two years of forced labor;
Ms. Xiao Shengshu, 55 years old; family member of an employee at the No. 4 Chongqing Steel Factory; sentenced to two years of forced labor;
Ms. Du Guomei, 45 years old; family member of an employee at the No. 4 Chongqing Steel Factory; sentenced to 18 months of forced labor;
Ms. Wong Guangfen, 41 years old; an employee of the No. 4 Chongqing Steel Factory. She was fired and sentenced to one year of forced labor.
Ms. Wang Yongxian, 40 years old; employee of the No. 4 Chongqing Steel Factory, sentenced to two years of forced labor; sentence carried out outside the labor camp. Her salary was reduced.
The first four practitioners are being tortured at the Maojiashan Women's Forced Labor Camp. They are forced to work for more than ten hours a day and are subjected to brainwashing.
Persecution of Practitioners in Qijiang County
- Mr. Mu Enyin, 23 years old, lived in a village in the Qiaohe area, Qijiang County. On October 17, 2004 the police ransacked his home and destroyed a Dafa truth clarification materials production site based at his home. They took equipment and personal belongings worth about 20,000 yuan. Mu Enyin was incarcerated at the Qijiang Detention Center, where the guards tortured him. He was sentenced to four-and-a-half years in prison and is now being held at the Yongchuan Prison.
- Mr. Yuan Yingjiang, 57 years old, lived in a village in Sanjiao Town, Qijiang County. On April 6, 2004 he was illegally arrested and sentenced to one year of forced labor. During his detention at the Xishanping Labor Camp in Chongqing City, the perpetrators hit his legs with a bamboo plank, stood on his legs and stomped them.
- Ms. Chen Qibi, 56 years old, lived in Caiba, Qijiang County. She retired from her job at the Cooperative System and was arrested in August 2005. Her home was ransacked and she was sentenced to one year of forced labor. She is now being held at the Chongqing Women's Forced Labor Camp.
- Ms. Wu Yingqiu, 46 years old, is blind. Her home was ransacked in the afternoon of August 27, 2005. On September 19, 2005, persecutors Cai and Luo went to Wu Yingqiu's home and announced that Wu Yingqiu was sentenced to one year of forced labor, to be served outside the labor camp.
- Mr. Zhang Qiyong, 31 years old, worked at the China Life Insurance Company in Qijiang County. In October 1999 he went to Beijing to appeal for justice for Falun Dafa and was sentenced to two years of forced labor at the end of the year. In January 2002 he was arrested because he attended a Fa conference, and was taken to Qijiang County. He escaped while getting out of a car and lived away from home to avoid further persecution. On May 1, 2004 Mr. Zhang was arrested in Chongqing City and held at the Qijiang Detention Center. The guards at the detention center deprived him of sleep for seven days and seven nights and tortured him. Zhang Qiyong held a hunger strike to protest the persecution and was savagely force-fed and tortured on the Death Bed. In March 2005, he was sentenced to eight years in prison and he is now being held at the Yongchuan Men's Prison.
Xie Qiang and Li Xiong are the two police officers who persecuted practitioners Zhang Qiyong and Mu Enyin.
