Name: Wang Zhenxiu (王振秀)
Gender: Female
Age: Nearly 60
Address: unknown
Occupation: unknown
Date of Most Recent Arrest: July 3, 2012
Most Recent Place of Detention: Zibo City Detention Center (淄博市看守所)
Detention City: Zibo
Detention Province: Shandong
Persecution Suffered: Detention, forced labor
(Minghui.org) Ms. Wang Zhenxiu is nearly 60 years old and lives in Zibo, Shandong Province. She was illegally arrested at home on July 3, 2012, then taken to the Zibo City Detention Center, where she is currently being detained. Her court hearing was held on September 12, 2012. Her defense lawyer stated that she hadn't violated any laws and should be released. He also explained that none of the fabricated charges stood up to current laws. Ms. Wang stated that the pursuit of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance was not a crime. Subsequently, the presiding judge declared a recess and said that he would pick another date to announce the court's decision. Apparently, the local Chinese Communist Party (CCP) government wanted to prevent lawyers from defending Falun Dafa practitioners due to a lack of legal evidence.
Ms. Wang is being illegally detained, and the length of time after the hearing is longer than what is permitted by law. Family members have spoken to the prosecutor's office many times but to no avail, as no one there has accepted responsibility on this issue; therefore, this situation is ongoing.
Ms. Wang's health has deteriorated and she's lost twenty pounds. Despite her age, she is required to do forced labor for ten hours daily and is allowed two meals a day. Her dentures have broken but officials haven't allowed her to obtain treatment. The Ministry of Public Security made the following announcement in 2005 regarding the management of detainees: “Detainees may volunteer to work. However, old, sick, or weak detainees should not participate in labor.”
When family members protested the forced labor, an officer insisted that all detainees participating in work were volunteers. It is questionable that elderly and physically weak people would volunteer to do such hard labor. The officer finally agreed that Ms. Wang would not do more hard labor after her family's continued insistence.
Two other members of Ms. Wang's family have been imprisoned by CCP authorities. Her husband Wang Jingkui was taken to a forced labor camp twice, and was persecuted to death in 2010. In 2003, her brother, Wang Xinbo was illegally sentenced to 13 years in prison by the Zibo City Political and Judiciary Committee. Prison authorities sent him home in January of 2006 on the verge of death; he died on February 10, 2006. Ms. Wang has been persecuted repeatedly. Once, she left home in order to avoid persecution. She was arrested at home by Zhangdian District Stadium Police Station officers on July 2, 2012. The officers also confiscated a carload of her personal belongings.
