Ten Practitioners Sentenced to Prison in Xinye County

In October 2003, the Xinye County Court in Henan Province sentenced 10 Dafa practitioners to between one and nine years in prison. The court did not even notify their families of the date and time of their loved ones' illegal trials. The ten practitioners protested to the court for putting them on trial for exercising their constitutional freedom of personal belief by exclaiming, "Falun Dafa is good!" Their righteous spirits caused the judge to close the trial in a panic.

At the time of writing, the ten practitioners are still detained in Xinye County Detention Centre. The local police are planning to transfer them to Mi County Male Prison and Xinxiang City Women's Prison in Henan Province respectively. They are currently protesting their detention via various approaches, including going on a hunger strike.

The aforementioned ten Dafa practitioners are:

Mr. Li Wan'e
63-year-old Mr. Li Wan'e was sentenced to six years in prison. He was a cadre at the Agriculture Bureau in Xinye County, and a local resident in Xindianpu Town, of the same county. Mr. Li Wan'e went to Beijing in October 1999 to clarify the truth about Falun Dafa, but was arrested and transferred back to Xinye County where this elderly cadre suffered from atrocious tortures for several months while in detention in a local unknown prison. As a determined Dafa practitioner who refused to renounce Falun Dafa, Mr. Li Wan'e was sentenced to three years in the 2nd Forced Labour Camp in Ruzhou City, Henan Province in March 2000. In the same year, Mr. Li was transferred to the 3rd Forced Labour Camp in Xuchang City. In October 2000, Mr. Li Wan'e was released on bail from the 3rd Forced Labour Camp to receive medical treatment because his blood pressure skyrocketed to a deadly level. On November 1, 2002 (prior to the 16th National People's Congress), Mr. Li Wan'e was abducted to the forced labour camp again. Although Mr. Li was released unconditionally 22 days later on November 23, police officers from Xinye County Public Security Bureau, took him away again five days later on November 28.

Mr. Ma Dexing
Mr. Ma was sentenced to five years in prison. He was a cadre at the Agriculture Machinery Company in Xinye County. He was arrested in Beijing for clarifying the truth about Falun Dafa in October 1999, and transferred back to Xinye County, where he was detained for several months. In December 1999, he was illegally sentenced to three years in the 2nd Forced Labour Camp in Ruzhou City where he suffered from the forced brainwashing efforts of the depraved staff and succumbed to their tortures. He was released earlier than scheduled in the summer of 2000. Later Mr. Ma realized that it was wrong of him to compromise his personal belief, so he resumed his efforts of clarifying the truth about Falun Dafa. In the summer of 2002, the local police took him again to the detention centre. Because he was impervious to the police officers' persecution, the police tried to transfer him, along with several other Dafa practitioners, to the 3rd Forced Labour Camp in Xuchang City. Due to these practitioners' powerful righteous thoughts, the forced labour camp refused to take them in and returned them to the detention centre in Xinye County. They were soon released unconditionally. On November 1, 2002 (prior to the 16th National People's Congress), police officers from Xinye County Public Security Bureau, arrested him again.

Ms. Zhao Damin

Illegally sentenced to five years in prison. Ms. Zhao was an employee at Xinye County Textile Group.

Ms. Na Ying

Sentenced to four years in prison.

Mr. Tian Laosi

Sentenced to one year in prison.

Ms. Qiao Guixia

Sentenced to three and a half years in prison.

Ms. Wu Hongzhen

Sentenced to eight years in prison.

Ms. Ding Xuemei

Sentenced to nine years in prison.

Ms. Feng Qiulian

No available information.

Mr. Han Zongjian

No available information.

During the detention period (and prior to the transfer to the respective prisons), police officers from the Xinye County Public Security Bureau, such as Mr. Li Yanpu, Mr. Li Bin and Mr. Peng Zenglan, ordered police officers on the criminal investigation team, (who were hired for coercion, attack and underhanded or unscrupulous tasks), to savagely beat up and torture these Dafa practitioners. According to an eyewitness, Mr. Li Yanpu, Mr. Li Bin and Mr. Peng Zenglan each held a baton to pummel one Dafa practitioner. After the three of them knocked him to the floor, they violently kicked him on the head with their hard tipped leather shoes while exclaiming stoutly, "We will beat you to death if you don't renounce Falun Gong! We've got an order from the top that 'death of Falun Gong practitioners from beating is nothing and shall be counted as suicide.' Try complaining to Jiang Zemin!" It is Jiang Zemin's thuggish political group that has been goading the Chinese police to persecute Falun Dafa practitioners. Yet none of these morally depraved police officers had the backbone to sign their names on the "interrogation records."

Chinese version available at: http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2003/12/13/62413.html