Mr. Chen Tianjie Detained at the Hangzhou City Fourth Prison, Zhejiang Province

Practitioner Mr. Chen Tianjie, 34, is a resident of Tahe County in the Daxingan Ridge Area of Heilongjiang Province. He began to practise Falun Gong in 1996. He lives according to the requirement of "Truthfulness-Benevolence-Forbearance" and is well-respected.

Beginning in July 1999, Jiang Zemin's regime began to suppress on Falun Gong. In order to say that Falun Gong is good, he went to Beijing to appeal. At the end of August 1999, he was arrested and detained at the Tahe County Detention Centre. Four months later, he was released nine days after he went on a hunger strike. On the seventh day after his release, when he had not recovered yet, he was arrested again and detained at the detention centre. After that, he was sentenced to one year of forced labour. He was detained at the Wudalianchi City Forced Labour Camp in Heilongjiang Province.

Mr. Chen was detained past his release date. He was not released from the camp until the end of 2000. At that time, his wife was detained in the Shuanghe Forced Labour Camp in Qiqihar City. Later, Mr. Chen's family was taken by his parents to Taizhou City, Zhejiang Province.

At the end of July 2002, Mr. Chen was arrested when he was preparing leaflets exposing the persecution by three people. Agents from the police, the security department, the 610 Office¹, and the Neighbourhood Administration in the Luqiao District ransacked his house for hours. All the Dafa books, Falun Dafa leaflets and a fax machine were taken away.

When he was detained in the Luqiao District Detention Centre, Mr. Chen appealed his case to the Taizhou City Middle People's Court but got no reply. Later, without any public trial or notifying his relatives, Mr. Chen Tianjie was sentenced to 11 years in prison based on the number of confiscated leaflets. His parents and his wife only received the sentencing statement, and no legal procedures were followed. At that time, his child was only 100 days old. Mr. Chen was also dismissed by his employer, the Luqiao District Farmer's Credit Union. The sudden change put huge amount of pressure on his family.

Around November 2002, Mr. Chen was detained at Jinhua Prison. Then he was transferred to the Strictly Monitored Team of the Hangzhou City No. 4 Prison in Linping Town, the Yuhang District. To this day he is still being abused. Mr. Chen is still writing his appeal statement.

Mr. Chen Tianjie's address: P.O. Box 50-202# Linping Town, Yuhang Region, Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province, Zip Code 311100.

No. 4 Prison

Guards involved in mistreating Mr. Chen Tianjie: Gao (male, first name unknown), Shen (male, first name unknown).

Office: 86-571-86249913, 86-571-86249934, 86-571-86249928

Head of Luqiao District 610 Office Ren Guiying, female: 86-13606665512 (Mobile), 86-576-2455157 (Office)
Mr. Chen's parents: 86-576-2423354
Mr. Chen's elder brother: 86-576-2440016
Mr. Chen's Younger brother: 86-13905883392 (Mobile)

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://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2007/2/11/148748.html