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| Mr. Wu Botong |
On September 11th 2005, Mr. Wu Botong, a Falun Gong practitioner from Anshun City, Guizhou Province, was persecuted to death at Dujun Prison. His body was cremated without his family's permission that very day.
Mr. Wu Botong was seventy-four years old and worked at the Water Conservation Department in Guanling County, Anshun City. After the persecution of Falun Gong started on July 20th 1999, he was sent to brainwashing classes several times because he continued to practise Falun Gong. He was also sent to Zhongba Forced Labour Camp in Guizhou Province for a three-year term. After he left the labour camp, he realised that he had deviated from the righteous cultivation way. He went to the related government offices and declared that all he'd said and done while he was subjected to the brutal persecution in the forced labour camp was void. He was immediately returned to the labour camp, and the persecution resumed.
Mr. Wu returned home after finishing a three-year term in the labour camp.
In May of this year he was arrested with his wife, Pan Yingmei, on their way to Zhenfeng County to tell people about the goodness of Falun Dafa and expose the persecution.
He was detained at the Zhenfeng County Detention Centre and sentenced to a seven-year term. His wife was sentenced to three and a half years. She was jailed at the Yang'ai Forced Labour Farm.
Mr. Wu was very healthy when he was transferred from the Zhenfeng County Detention Centre to the Jingxi Relocation Centre in Guiyang City. He was sent to Dujun Prison on September 5th 2005. At 7:35 a.m. on September 11th 2005, news came that he had died. Police cremated his body without permission on the same day.
Pan Yingmei went to Dujun to see the body, escorted by more than ten policemen from the Yang'ai Forced Labour Farm. Immediately after, she was returned to the Yang'ai Forced Labour Farm. Pan Yingmei's request to let Mr. Wu's sister see the body was rejected. The excuse they gave her was there wasn't enough time.
The authorities at Dujun Prison claim they had nothing to do with Mr. Wu Botong's death. They have alleged that whatever happened to him was done at the Jingxi Relocation Centre. Information concerning the details of Mr. Wu's death is still under investigation.
Contact information:
Dujun Prison, Guizhou City, Guizhou Province Zip Code 558000
Jiang Gangming, Chief of Political and Security Section of Dujun Prison: 86-854-8325261
Hou Lide, Chief of Political and Security Section of Dujun Prison: 86-854-8325262
Zhenfeng County Police Bureau: 86-859-6610202
Zhenfeng County Detention Centre: 86-859-6610933
Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2005/9/19/110701.html
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