Imprisoned and Tortured, Ms. Jiang Zhifang, 57, Almost Loses Her Eyesight

Name: Jiang Zhifang
Gender: Female
Age: 57
Address: Xigao Township, Guanghan City, Sichuan Province
Occupation: Unknown

Date of Most Recent Arrest: September 21st, 2006
Most recent place of detention: Sichuan Women's Prison in Yangma Town
City: Jianyang City
Province: Sichuan Province
Persecution Suffered: Detention, Imprisonment, Home Ransacked, Extortion, Re-education through labour.

Ms. Jiang Zhifang believes in Truth-Compassion-Forbearance and she practises Falun Gong. In the past ten years during the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) persecution of Falun Gong, her home was searched several times. She was also arrested and sentenced to forced labour camps several times. She suffered all kinds of persecution and torture. On September 21st 2006, She was once again arrested by Yang Bin, a policeman at the National Security Bureau in Guanghan. Later, she was sentenced to three years of imprisonment by Shi Xiaoli, the judge at the Guanghan court which is controlled by the CCP.

In June 2007, Jiang Zhifang was taken to the Female Prison of Sichuan Province in Yangma Township, Jianyang City. The following policemen along with the criminals at the prison brutally persecuted her and tortured her: Yu Zhifang, Deng Qinwen, Chen Qiong, Min Lu, Zhu Xi, Xu, Chen Li, Tan Feiyan, and etc.

She almost lost her eyesight completely and was not able to take care of herself. Even when her health was in such a bad condition, the CCP officials didn't let her go. Yang Bin from the National Security in Guanghan, Bao Xingyue, Cai, and Hu Jia from the Xigao Police Substation, Qin Daoxue who is the Secretary of the CCP's committee at the village, Yang Chengquan who is the Head of the village, together with another policeman, broke into Ms. Jiang's home on September 28th 2009. They didn't have any legal documents with them. When Ms. Jiang wasn't watching them closely, they placed twenty DVDs exposing the persecution of Falun Gong in her living room. Then they hurriedly took some photos and claimed they found these materials at her home. They tried to force her to say she got these materials from another Falun Gong practitioner from the same village. They were trying to incriminate another Falun Gong practitioner.

Jiang Zhifang said, "My eyes are not good. However, my brain still works. Since I was released from prison, I fell down several times when I was walking. Therefore, I seldom go out. Nobody came here either." Policeman Yang Bin realised that she would refuse to help them incriminate the other Falun Gong practitioner, so he threatened her, "If you don't admit this, we will put you in prison for another two years." Another policeman threatened to hit her. Then somehow his conscience spoke to him and he eventually put his fist down.

Jiang Zhifang was released from the Female Prison of Sichuan Province. However, seven days later, she was once again arrested and detained at the Guanghan Detention Centre for twenty-two days.

Chinese version available at http://minghui.org/mh/articles/2009/12/9/214095.html