Three Dafa Practitioners from Hebei Province Sentenced to Forced Labour

Recently, Dafa practitioners Yarn Mao, Cheng Ming and Zheng Guiqin, from Wanquan County, Hebei Province, were sentenced to forced labour after being arrested by the local police.

While distributing leaflets exposing the persecution on the night of July 20th, 2006, Dafa practitioners Yarn Mao and Cheng Ming from Kongjiazhuang Town, Wanquan County, Hebei Province were arrested and taken to the Kongjiazhuang Police Station by local patrol officers. Dafa practitioner Zheng Guiqin, a resident of Kongjiazhuang, along with her son, were followed and arrested by undercover officers from the local police station while they were putting up signs to expose the persecution.

Officers from the Kongjiazhuang Police Station, along with officers from the National Security Group of the Police Department of Wanquan County, took the three practitioners to the Zhangjiakou Detention Centre, where they were held as criminals. The three of them went on hunger strikes to protest the persecution. They all became very weak and semiconscious. Inmates cruelly beat Yarn Mao and Cheng Ming.

Their family members tried various methods to bring them back home. However, they were all sentenced to forced labour, despite being in poor physical condition because of the hunger strike. Yarn Mao and Cheng Ming were sentenced to one and a half years of forced labour and were sent to the Hehuakeng Labour Camp in Tangshan City, Hebei Province. Zheng Guiqin was sentenced to two years of forced labour and sent to the Gaoyang Labour Camp in Hebei Province.

Li Min, the newly appointed secretary of the County Party Committee of Wanquan County, holds direct responsibility for the persecution of these practitioners.

We call on Dafa practitioners in China and abroad to join efforts to rescue our fellow practitioners.

Telephone numbers:

Li Min, secretary of the County Party Committee of Wanquan County: 86-313-2192828(Home), 86-13903132188(Mobile)
Zhang Zhenchang, secretary of the Political and Law Committee of Wanquan County: 86-313-4222012(Office), 86-313-4222946(Home), 86-13315300012(Mobile)
Zhang Lianyu, deputy secretary of the Political and Law Committee of Wanquan County: 86-13833365666(Mobile)

Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2006/8/26/136473.html