Falun Gong Practitioner Ms. Zhao Jun from Xichang City, Sichuan Province Sentenced to Three Years Imprisonment

Name: Zhao Jun
Gender: Female
Age: 53
Address: Xichang City, Sichuan Province
Occupation: Retired chief of office at Tongde Construction Company
Date of Most Recent Arrest: November 30th, 2010
Most Recent Place of Detention: Xiaomiao Detention Centre in Xichang City
City: Xichang
Province: Sichuan
Persecution Suffered: Detention

Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Zhao Jun, 53, from Xichang City, Sichuan Province was recently sentenced to three years of imprisonment. She has appealed to the Intermediate Court in Lianshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture.

Ms. Zhao worked as the office chief at Tongde Construction Company. She began practising Falun Gong in 2006 and has greatly benefited in mind and body. In order to explain the facts about Falun Gong, she often told people what she had personally experienced and the facts about regime's persecution. She was arrested and sent to the Xiaomiao Detention Centre in Xichang City when she was telling people about Falun Gong on November 30th, 2010. The Xichang City Procuratorate issued a warrant for the arrest a month later, on December 28th, and an unisigned warrant was subsequently sent to her company by the Xichang City Domestic Security Division.

After Ms. Zhao was arrested, her parents kept inquiring at the courts and procuratorates for information about their daughter. They didn’t know that she had been sentenced to imprisonment until the Mid-Autumn Festival, the traditional Chinese holiday which is considered a joyous time of family reunions. They cannot believe that their daughter was arrested simply for telling others the facts.

Ms. Zhao’s father is 79 years old and is partially paralyzed due to suffering a stroke. Her mother is also in her 70s and has poor hearing and eyesight. Her younger brother is a blind mental patient. The whole family depends on Ms. Zhao to look after them, and is now suffering hardships as a result of her arrest.

Perpetrators:
Wu Hongtie, Xichang City Domestic Security Division head: +86-13608145134
Chen Qi, Xichang City 610 Office head: +86-834-3230986, +86-834-3683957, +86-13778639779
Xiong Guihua, Xichang City Procuratorate head: +86-8346115177
Song Guangming, Xichang City Court head: +86-834-3221391, +86-13980282299, +86-834-6626899
Zhou Lian, Xiaomiao Detention Centre head: +86-13608143991

Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2011/9/13/246706.html