Ms. Lu Meiya of Kaifeng City, Henan Province Sentenced to Forced Labour on Trumped Up Charges

Ms. Lu Maiya, 65, is a Falun Gong practitioner from Kaifeng City, Henan Province. At noon on August 7th, 2008, on her way home, she was arrested and searched by police who were staked out on the first floor of her apartment building. The police confiscated some Falun Gong material from her and detained her in Sanlibao Police Station. Those who have taken part in persecuting Ms. Lu include members of Keifeng City's Yuwangtai District Chinese Communist Party (CCP)Political and Judiciary Committee, Secretary Yang Zhiyong and Director Sun Xiangyang of the "Anti-Cult" Office of Sanlibao Community Administration, government employees of Minxiang Neighbourhood Administration, residents of the community of Minxiang who are on "Minimum Subsistence Policy," and officers from Sanlibao Police Station.

At 7:00 p.m. on August 7th, 2008, Director Yu Sheng and Deputy Director Li Lefu of Sanlibao Police Station led seven to eight unidentified persons to ransack Ms. Lu's home for almost two hours. They seized a Falun Gong book and other Falun Gong materials.

Ms. Lu's husband, Mr. Zhong Wenbin, went to the police station the following day and requested her release. He was informed that she had been transferred to a detention centre, and that she would be able to go home in two or three days. She was actually detained for 15 days, during which time the police station sent a dozen residents of Minxiang to her home to take turns monitoring her husband day and night. For a total of 18 days, they followed Ms. Lu's husband everywhere he went. They didn't stop until August 25th, the day after the Olympics ended. During that time, Ms. Lu's husband visited the directors of the Community Administration and Political and Judiciary Committee many times and pointed out to them that it is against the law to detain an innocent person as if she were a criminal. On August 22nd, Ms. Lu's family went to the detention centre to pick her up because Ms. Lu had already served the full 15 days in detention. However the detention centre staff told them that she had been picked up by the personnel who were in charge of her case. It turned out that on August 21st, officers from the police station and 610 Office¹ transferred Ms. Lu to the Shibalihe Women's Forced Labour Camp in Zhengzhou City to serve a sentence of one year and nine months. One of the reasons given for Ms. Lu being sentenced to forced labour was that a large amount of Falun Gong materials were found in her home. This was a fabrication created by the authorities. They also rejected the family members' request to send Ms. Lu clothes and daily necessities.

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://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2008/9/27/186631.html