Practitioners in Huainan City, Anhui Province Sentenced For Steadfastly Believing in Falun Dafa

Mr. Chen Xiu’an, 53, is from Huainan City, Anhui Province. He persisted in practising Falun Dafa and believing in "Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance," and was arrested in September 2005. During his detention in Huainan First Detention Centre, he was tortured and could no longer walk. In early December, 2005, the Tianjia’an District Court sentenced him to thirteen years of imprisonment.

Mr. Chen Xiu’an is a retired employee from the Water & Electricity Office of the Hefei Section of the Shanghai Railroad Bureau. He went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong in October 1999, and was sentenced to one-year of forced labour. After he returned home in November 2000, he was followed and arrested by plainclothes police. He was sentenced to two years in a labour camp on fabricated charges. He was not released until 2003, a month after his term expired. Mr. Chen continued to practise Falun Dafa steadfastly.

At around 7:00 a.m. on April 26th, 2005, police from the Bangfu Railroad Police Station followed Mr. Chen and arrested him. The police forcibly searched his home. Mr. Chen was sent to the criminal section of the Bangfu Police Station of the Shanghai Railroad Police Department. On September 22nd, 2005, the Bangfu Railroad Transportation Section sent Mr. Chen back to the Tianjia’an District Procuratorate in Huainan City. Mr. Chen was detained in the Huainan First Detention Centre. He was previously very healthy, however after being persecuted during the detention he was reduced to skin and bones. He legs were injured and he couldn’t walk. His eyes were sunken. On December 5th, 2005, the Tianjia’an District Court held an illegal session and sentenced Mr. Chen to a thirteen year imprisonment. They deprived him of his political rights for three years. Mr. Chen was detained in the Huainan First Detention Centre.

In June 2006, Mr. Chen was sent to Suxian Prison in Anhui Province. His family was not allowed to visit him until this July. Mr. Chen was tortured and became very emaciated. His skin turned black, his eyes were sunken, and he couldn’t lift his legs.

At the Tianjia’an District Court session on December 5th, 2005, when Mr. Chen was sentenced, practitioners Wang Shiqiang and Huang Bangjun were also sentenced.

Mr. Wang Shiqiang was a retired employee from Session 97 of the Huainan Mining Industry Group Ltd. In August and November 1999, Mr. Wang was detained twice for fifteen days. In December 1999, he was detained again, until he escaped with righteous thoughts in June 2000. In September 2000, Mr. Wang was arrested again. He was detained in the Huainan First Detention Centre and was sentenced to one-year in a labour camp.

In 2005, policemen ransacked Mr. Wang’s home, but Mr. Wang managed to escape. However, the police spotted him on June 7th and arrested him. Mr. Wang was detained at Section 42 of the First Detention Centre. On December 5th, 2005, he was sentenced to thirteen years of imprisonment and was deprived of his political rights for three years.

Mr. Huang Bangjun, 62, was a retired employee from the Huainan Mining Industry Group Ltd. On April 28th, 2005, the police ransacked his home and arrested Mr. Huang and his wife, 63 year-old Wang Fuling. They were detained at the First Detention Centre. Mr. Huang was sentenced to five years of imprisonment, and Ms. Wang was sentenced to three years of imprisonment. They are both Falun Gong practitioners who follow the principles of "Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance."

Those who participated in the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners include: Fei Yun, presiding judge of Tianjia’an District Court in Huainan City, jurors Chen Chao and Su Xiaohong, and prosecutor Zhou Baoshan, acting as public prosecutor.

Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2006/9/10/137511.html