Ms Chen Xiaojuan Stripped of All Human Rights and In Very Weakened State

Ms Chen Xiaojuan, is a 39 year old Falun Dafa practitioner from Nanchang City, Jiangxi Province. In January 2001, she was illegally sentenced to three years of imprisonment for distributing truth-clarifying materials. She is currently imprisoned at Jiangxi Female Prison. Because Chen Xiaojuan has refused to renounce her belief in Falun Dafa, the police have threatened to send her to a labour camp after her prison term is up. She has been protesting with a hunger strike for over ten days.

On December 19, 1999, Ms. Chen was arrested on her way to make a peaceful appeal in Beijing. She was imprisoned in Nanchang 1st Prison for about one month. On April 25, 2000, she again went to Beijing to make a peaceful appeal, but was arrested and illegally sent to Jiangxi Mental Hospital, where she was forced to take medication and injections in doses four times what is ordinarily prescribed to mental patients. The injections permanently damaged her eyesight, and she cannot even make out 10-inch characters.

On January 24, 2001, Ms. Chen was suspended in the air and brutally beaten by the local police for distributing truth clarification flyers. Later she was sent back to Nanchang City Second Detention Centre, and sentenced to three years in prison. Chen Xiaojuan has been on hunger strike many times in protest of the illegal sentencing. Besides brutal beatings, she was deprived of sleep and forced to work overtime. She was not allowed visits from family members for three months. Because she was on hunger strike for more than 40 days, she was sent to Jiangxi Changzhen prison hospital, where she was brutally force fed, causing her to vomit a large amount of blood. The hospital says she is in critical condition, but the prison police made a public statement, "Chen Xiaojuan has not been 'transformed,' so we will not release her. We have the authority to send her to a labour camp even after her term is up."

On January 23, 2004, Chen Xiaojuan will have completed her sentence. It is reported that police plan to transfer her to a labour camp. Starting January 6, 2004, Chen Xiaojuan has been on hunger strike for over 10 days in protest. Her body is extremely weak from severe beatings and long hours of hard labour.

Several Falun Gong practitioners are still being detained in Xinjian County of Nanchang City.

Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2004/1/8/64314.html