Falun Gong Practitioner Mr. Luo Jiabin Tortured and in Critical Condition

Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Luo Jiabin has been on hunger strike to protest his persecution since he was arrested in Chenzhou City by Communist Party officers on May 11th, 2008. He was secretly taken to the Shaodong County Detention Centre and is now being tortured there. He has been on hunger strike for 28 days and is in critical condition. His family members are very worried and are calling on people of conscience in and outside of China to help rescue him.

Mr. Luo Jiabin, born in 1975, is a resident of Shaodong County, Hunan Province. He was previously a Second Lieutenant of the Air Force in Kaifeng City, Henan Province. Later he was transferred to Hengyang City, Hunan Province. In 2000, he went to Tiananmen Square to peacefully appeal on behalf of Falun Gong. He was arrested and detained in the Shaodong Detention Centre, where he went on hunger strike to protest his persecution. In 2001, he was arrested, sent to the Xinkaipu Forced Labour Camp in Hunan Province, and tortured there for a year. After he was released, he worked in Huaihua City, Hunan Province. Before the Mid-Autumn Festival in 2005, he was arrested again and taken to the Seventh Ward of the Xinkaipu Labour Camp. He was released in February 2008.

Mr. Luo Jiabin's wife Ms. Jiang Yulian is a nurse at the Huaihua City Second People's Hospital. Because she persisted in believing in Falun Gong's principles of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance, she was sentenced to forced labour twice and tortured. She is currently being tortured brutally at the Baimalong Women's Labour Camp in Zhuzhou City. On September 14th, 2005, the chief of the Hongjiang District 610 Office¹ in Huaihua City, along with Huang Lin (male), Li Jin'e (female), and State Security Devision Officers Zhou Wei (male), Yu Huimin (male), and Deng Jianxin (male), surrounded Ms. Jiang Yulian's home. Both Ms. Jiang and Mr. Luo were arrested and sentenced to forced labour, leaving their two-year-old toddler at home without their care.

As a result of being persecuted for a long period, Mr. Luo was short on money when he was released from the labour camp, so he went out to get work. While working in Chenzhou City, he was again arrested by members of the 610 Office.

Zhu Xiaoming (male), the head of Shaodong County 610 Office: 86-13807391568 (Mobile), 86-739-2722812 (Home)
Peng Junxuan (male), the deputy director of 610 Office: 86-13973925849(Mobile), 86-739-2717668 (Home), 86-739-2721179 (Office)
Yao Rongsheng (male), the director of the Shaodong County Police Department: 86-13975973888 (Mobile), 86-739-2613366 (Home), 86-739-2721413 (Office)
Shen Hongwei (male), the Political Commissar, 86-13907392256 (Mobile), 86-739-2721917 (Home)

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/2008/6/10/180031.html