Mr. An Jiheng of Lanzhou City, Gansu Province Serving Four-year Term; His Wife and Child Suffering

The local police authorities arrested Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. An Jiheng of Lanzhou City in December 2003 because he communicated with other practitioners. They sentenced him to four years of imprisonment. He is still serving a term at Dashaping Prison in Lanzhou City.

An Jiheng, 35 years old, graduated from the Department of Mechanics, Lanzhou University, and was a design engineer at the Oilfield Machinery Factory.

Police officers from the National Security Bureau of Gansu Province arrested An Jiheng and sent him to the Second Detention Centre of Lanzhou City (Hualinshan Detention Centre) on December 7th, 2003, when he was meeting other practitioners. The Qilihe Court secretly tried Mr. An in June 2004 and sentenced him to four years of imprisonment. They sent him to Dashaping Prison in Lanzhou City.

When Mr. An was arrested, his wife was seven months pregnant. When she went into labour on February 4th, 2004, nobody was there to take care of her and the baby. She therefore had to take care of her baby and bear the grief of her husband's arrest alone. In late 2004, the Oilfield Machinery Factory of Lanzhou City fired Mr. An Jiheng, which caused his wife to lose her source of financial support. She and their baby suffer tremendous difficulties every day.

Mr. An previously served a one-year forced labour term in 2000. In early 2000, policemen from the Lanzhou City Police Department arrested practitioners An Jiheng, Dong Huide and Liu Xinghai of the Lanzhou Oilfield Machinery Factory and took them to the Political Security Bureau of the Lanzhou City Police Department. Their "crime" was that the three practitioners were seen walking together. The police interrogated the practitioners one by one for an entire afternoon. In September 2000, a guard from the residential neighbourhood of Lanzhou University arrested Mr. An and took him to Dashaping Detention Centre when Mr. An went out to distribute leaflets exposing the persecution in that neighbourhood. Then the authorities sent him to Ping'antai Forced Labour Camp in Gansu Province to serve a one-year term.

Mr. An has been imprisoned in Lanzhou City since 2004.

Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2007/5/25/155606.html