Husband and Wife, Sentenced to Heavy Prison Terms after Serving More Than One Year in Detention

Dafa practitioner Mr. Jiang Xiaoming and his wife Guo Changwei, from Jiangmen, Guangdong Province, have been incarcerated at the Jiangmen Detention Centre for more than one year. Recently the Pengjiang District Court in Jiangmen City sentenced them to ten and seven years in prison, respectively. Although they appealed to the Jiangmen City Intermediate People's Court, the 610 Office¹ ordered the court to uphold the original verdict.

Jiang Xiaoming and Guo Changwei are being held at Jiangmen City Detention Centre. Guo Changwei is in critical condition.

The couple was reported on the evening of October 18th, 2004 when they told the facts of Falun Dafa to people who had been misled by the government propaganda and exposed the persecution at Wuyi University in Jiangmen City. The 610 Office agents quickly moved to arrest them, and ransacked their home.

Jiang Xiaoming, 32, worked in the Asset Protection Division of the Jiangmen City Division of the China Construction Bank. His wife Guo Changwei worked for the service company for the same bank division. Guo Changwei previously suffered from severe heart disease, but she recovered through Falun Gong practice.

The couple went to Beijing to appeal for Dafa in July 2000 and October 2000. They were sentenced to two years of forced labour and were brutally tortured at the Sanshui Forced Labour Camp and the Sanshui Women's Labour Camp in Guangdong Province. They regained their freedom in early 2002. Gou Changwei lost almost all of her hair at the labour camp and was at the brink of death.

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The following two practitioners have died:

Wu Yuyun, a retired teacher from the No. 1 Middle School in Jiangmen City was arrested and tortured at a brainwashing class. On August 14th, 2003, she was again arrested by police department agents and was held at a provincial brainwashing class. She showed symptoms of severe illness and was sent home. She passed away in September 2004.

In 2001, practitioner Deng Weiqun from Jiangmen City held a hunger strike for over one month at the Jiangmen Detention Centre. She was subsequently sent to the Sanshui Women's Labour Camp, but the labour camp authorities refused to take her. She was taken home, and she passed away soon afterwards.

We call for all just people and governments in the world to stop the persecution of human rights and freedom of belief in Guangdong Province!

Jiangmen City Politics and Law Committee
Address: No 2 Xiqu Ave, Zip code: 529000
Office: 86-750-3307361, 3682866
610 Office: 86-750-3308072
Fax: 86-750-3300130

Jiangmen City Intermediate People's Court
Address: No 23 East Nonglin Road
Main switchboard: 86-750-3333927
Office: 86-750-3352534
Case Room: 86-750-3328060

Pengjiang District People's Court in Jiangmen City
Office: 86-750-3221774
Case room: 86-750-3211965

Note

1. "The 610 office" is an agency specifically created to persecute Falun Gong, with absolute power over each level of administration in the Party and all other political and judiciary systems.

Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2005/12/11/116289.html