Police Officers in Heilongjiang Province Again Arrest Mr. Yang Libing and His Wife, Ms. Chen Guiqiu

On the afternoon of November 8th, 2007, Mr. Yang Libing, a practitioner from Jinshan Village, Yicun City, was arrested by Jinshan Police Station officials and detained. Mr. Yang escaped and become destitute and homeless. His wife, Ms. Chen Guiqiu, was arrested on the street and is now held in Jinshantun Detention Centre. The couple's son, who needs to go to college, and the boy's grandmother now have no means of support.

Since the persecution began in July 1999, Communist Party agents have treated Falun Gong practitioners cruelly. This couple has been arrested, and had their home searched, and things confiscated many times. Ms. Chen has been taken into custody six times and detained for over 300 days. In 2001, she was sentenced to two years of forced labour and admitted to the Heilongjiang Drug Rehabilitation Centre. In July 2000, Mr. Yang was jailed in Yichun Forced Labour Camp for one and a half years. In September 2005, the couple was arrested twice, imprisoned for several months and then sentenced to forced labour. Because they were too weak, they were refused admittance to the labour camp. Over ten thousand yuan¹ was extorted from the family by the local police before the two were released.

Note

1. "Yuan" is the Chinese currency; 500 yuan is equal to the average monthly income of an urban worker in China.

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