Falun Dafa Practitioner Mr. Yang Jianpo Unjustly Sentenced to Six Years in Prison and Taken to Detention Centre (Photo)

On April 25th, 2006, Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Yang Jianpo, from Langfang City, Hebei Province, was illegally sentenced¹ to six years in prison at the Guangyang District People's Hospital. There was no trial and his family was not notified. The lawless officials announced the "verdict" in front of his sickbed at the hospital.

Early on the morning of April 29th, Yang Jianpo's family went to the hospital. Mr. Yang Jianpo told them, "They announced a six-year sentence for me on the 25th. Cao Baoyu was given five years, and no legal procedures were followed." On the morning of April 30th, Yang Jianpo's family phoned Beida Street Hospital and enquired about Yang Jianpo's condition. The nurse said, "He left the hospital on the 29th." His family contacted Liu, head of Guangyang District 610 Office², by telephone, but Liu refused to answer any questions.

Later, Yang Jianpo's family went to the city government offices, but the officials refused to meet with them. They went to the local Bureau of Letters and Calls and said to the officials, "Cao Baoyu was arrested at the same time as Yang Jianpo, and has already died from the persecution! Yang Jianpo is now skin and bones. Our life is very difficult!" The officials ignored their pleas and said, "We don't handle Falun Gong cases. You should go to the Prevention Office." One official even threatened, "You'll get arrested no matter where you go to appeal. We'll arrest you right now if you don't leave right away!"

Yang Jianpo and his wife Nie Chunling have been severely persecuted during the past few years. On March 30th, 2003, Yang Jianpo was arrested and taken to Fengrun District Police Department in Tangshan City. Officer Gao Wei and the section head chained him to a metal chair. Then they shocked him with an electric hand-cranked telephone device that discharges 110-volts of electricity. They forbade him to close his eyes. Even now he suffers from shortness of breath, dizziness and seizures due to the torture. Three days later he was taken to the Fengrun District Detention Centre where he was stripped naked, held to the ground and savagely beaten with police batons. Nie Chunling was also arrested then and sent to the No. 1 Detention Centre in Tangshan City. The guards chained her to a metal chair and force-fed her by inserting a tube into her stomach through the nose. Blood poured from the tube and gushed from her mouth from severe wounds in her stomach. Officers from the city police department crushed her toes with the sole of his hard boots until her toenails broke off.

On February 20th, 2004, perpetrators from the Guangyang Police Department in Langfang City ransacked Yang Jianpo's home and arrested him. They later held him at the Langfang Detention Centre. On February 25th, 2004, they took him to the Kaiping Forced Labour Camp in Tangshan City. Yang Jianpo has been holding a hunger strike to protest the persecution. His weight dropped from about 200 pounds to 88 pounds by the time he was released on June 8th, 2004.

Yang Jianpo was grossly abused under the persecution at the Kaiping Forced Labour Camp. His weight dropped by 110 pounds

During the 2006 Chinese New Year, Yang Jianpo, Cao Baoyu and others were arrested when explaining the true situation of Falun Dafa to government officials. They were tortured until they were on the brink of death. The Langfang City Hospital and the Central Hospital each issued a Notice of Critical Condition. The Langfang City Detention Centre issued a release notice for the two practitioners. However, the Guangyang District "610 Office" withheld the notices and transferred the practitioners to Guangyang District People's Hospital to continue their persecution. On the evening of April 27th, 26-year-old Dafa practitioner Cao Baoyu died at the Guangyang District People's Hospital.

Yang Jianpo is now in critical condition. He is being held at the Langfang City Detention Centre.
Organisations and individuals who persecuted Yang Jianpo:

Langfang City Detention Centre: 86-316-2333043
Langfang City Police Department: 86-316-2333333 (main switchboard), 86-316-2333102 (office)
The appeals office of the Guangyang District Discipline Inspection Commission in Langfang City: 86-316-2025203, 86-316-2331739, 86-316-2025156
Guangyang District Judicial Bureau: 86-316-2111062
Guangyang District Police Department in Langfang City: 86-316-2238110
Guangyang District National Security Division: 86-316-2333886

Note

1. Illegally sentenced: Contrary to what former Chinese leader Jiang Zemin, who initiated the persecution, and the Chinese Communist Party would like the world to believe, practising Falun Gong is NOT illegal in China. Although the Public Security Department issued an unconstitutional set of restraints on the practice at the onset of the persecution in 1999, no laws have been passed by the only legislative body in China, the People's Congress, banning Falun Gong or granting the police the authority to arrest Falun Gong practitioners for practising the exercises or distributing flyers. For a more complete discussion of the illegality of the persecution of Falun Gong, please refer to the article "The Ban on Falun Gong—A Dictator's Whim, Not the Rule of Law". (Variation: "illegally arrested")

2. "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://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2006/5/3/126757.html