Dafa Practitioner and Her Brother Abducted While Visiting Their Mother in Zhengzhou City Prison

On November 24, Dafa practitioner Shen Yanli, who was from Zhengzhou City, Henan Province, visited her mother Xu Songduo at the Xinxiang Women's Prison where she was being detained. Yanli went with her brother and cousin. However, the prison authorities detained them on the spot with a bogus charge of "passing messages to the prisoner." Working together with Zhengzhou Chengguan Police Station they transferred Yanli's party of three back to Zhengzhou City, and interrogated them separately. On the afternoon of the same day, they also searched and ransacked the home of Dr. Yang who was kind and generous enough to allow Yanli to stay at his home.

Shen Yanli, 23, went to Beijing to appeal against the persecution of Falun Dafa with her mother back on June 27, 2000. They were abducted and detained at the Qianmen Police Station on the 28th. Her mother was savagely kicked and beaten by a policeman. He beat her mother hard with a broomstick until it was broken. Finally the policeman stopped beating her after he got tired. They were then transferred to the Changping Detention Centre. The police there forced practitioners to step on Teacher's picture, but their cruel attempt was thwarted by the practitioners who collectively went on a hunger strike to protest the maltreatment. All practitioners that were on the hunger strike were later force fed on a daily basis.

Fifteen days later, the police transferred Yanli's mother back to Zhengzhou City. When she refused to give up practising Dafa when interrogated, they increased her sentence to an additional 40 days of detention. After being detained at the Beijing Liaison Office for 3 days, the school authority took Yanli back and continued to coerce her to give up her faith in Dafa. She was released after her relatives posted bail. Yanli's father was shocked by the sudden incident, and his health and mental condition deteriorated as time went by. Yanli's relative took her brother home to provide care for him.

On December 5, 2000, Yanli and her mother were again detained with the charge of "disrupting public safety and social order" after they were reported while clarifying the truth about Falun Gong to people. Yanli's mother was released after 10 days because she told the truth about Dafa to every policeman, including the chief, using her personal experience as an example. Her mother's kindness and sincerity touched the heart of the police. On December 28, Yanli was also released and she came back home.

In 2001, the school forcefully expelled Yanli after their attempt to send her to the brainwashing class was exposed. The Dongsan Road Police and deputies took Yanli and her mother into custody from a relative's home. The next day Yanli escaped after her mother was released.

In March 2001, Yanli was detained at the No. 1 Detention Centre in Zhengzhou City for distributing Dafa pamphlets. After she went on hunger strike for 8 days she was sentenced to one-year labour re-education at the Shibalihe Women's Labour Camp.

On December 31, 2001, Yanli's mother was arrested after she was reported by the village party secretary while she was distributing Dafa flyers in villages in the Zhongmou County. After suffering nightlong interrogations and torture sessions, she was detained at the Zhongmou County Detention Centre. She continued to practise in jail and spread the truth about Dafa to inmates. After failing to get ransoms from her relatives, they sentenced her to 4 years at the Xinxiang Women's Prison in secrecy without notifying her relatives.

After Yanli got out of Shibalihe Labour Camp, she hardly had time to see her family. Even though her mother Xu Songduo was still under detention, deputies from Zhongmou Public Security Bureau, the Procurator office, and the local police kept harassing them by constantly looking for Yanli's whereabouts. Under the pressure of all the threats, no relatives dared to accommodate Yanli. Yanli lost her residence after the school expelled her; and she could not gain residence at home because the Dongsan Road Police Station refused to accept her application because she practised Dafa. Yanli's ailing father was unable to suffer any more hardship and coercion; he passed away on December 2, 2002 at only 54, leaving his 13-year-old son who was being cared for by Yanli's uncle. A good family was destroyed.

To this day Yanli and her brother were detained just because they paid a visit to their mother in prison, and their relatives were still subject to the fate of search and harassment. More people were implicated because of them.

Furthermore, the police found a Dafa information distribution point on the night of November 30. The Guancheng police also abducted Dafa practitioner Li Zhong from his photo shop.

Individuals and parties directly responsible:

Guancheng Public Security Bureau:
Switchboard: 86-371-6229936
Bureau Chief, Wang Jianzhong: 86-371-6216199
Bureau Commissar, Wu Zhiliang: 86-371-6259366
Vice Chief, Ma Yiwen: 86-371-6239187
Vice Chief, Zhang Jun: 86-371-6247237
Vice Chief, Du Zongyu: 86-371-6255990
Vice Chief, Wang Baoyou: 86-371-6255662
Vice Chief, Wang Yurong: 86-371-6247227
Wang Ganglin: 86-13903830709(C)
Li Tonghui: 86-371-6967187(W)

Guancheng District "610 Office"

Chief: Zheng Xinfeng: 86-371-6259599(W), 86-138317115030(C), 86-371-6345138(H)
Vice secretary, Cui Shibing: 86-371-6259568(W), 86-13838290362 (C)
Vice secretary, Li Yanyu: 86-371-6259328(W), 86-13700888029 (C)
Vice secretary, Luo Jiangzhong: 86-371-6259598(W), 86-13503713258 (C), 86-371-5961532(H)

Guancheng Detention Centre, Liu Bao: 86-13503862498 (C)

Henan Province "610 Office"

Switchboard: 86-371-5963355 (operator), 86-371-5991155 (automatic)
Director, Li Jianzhong: extension 23171 (H)
Vice director, Li Pingqi (female): extension 23603 (H)
Section Chief: Wang Shaoyu: 86-371-5831085

Zhengzhou City Public Security Bureau: 86-371-6228710

Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2003/12/8/62058.html