Mr. Wu Ruirong in Hengyang City, Hunan Province, Sentenced to Forced Labour Again

[Note: This article is a shortened version of a longer and more detailed article that appeared on the minghui.ca website (Chinese version of Clearwisdom.net).]

Mr. Wu Ruirong, 55, is a bus driver in the Hengyang Sales Department of China Southern Airlines, Hunan Branch. He started to practise Falun Dafa in 1997.

When the persecution started, he went to Beijing to the National Appeals Office in November 1999. After Mr. Wu was taken to Changsha Detention Centre and imprisoned for 15 days, he was sent back to Hengyang. His company arranged for three people to monitor him 24 hours a day. About two months later, he was forced out of his job and became unemployed in April 2000. From then on, his family did not have any income, as his wife was dismissed in December 1999 by her company.

The couple had to do odd jobs to make ends meet and support their 80-year-old mother and daughter who was studying in school. On November 30th, 2000, several officers knocked on the door and tried to arrest him, so Mr. Wu was compelled to leave home and go from place to place.

At the beginning of 2001, Mr. Wu went to Beijing to appeal again, where he was again arrested. He was imprisoned in the Hengyang City Second Detention Centre for more than seven months and had 2,000 yuan¹ extorted from him. He was wafer thin when he was released on bail. His wife Ms. Lei Yingqun was sentenced to four years in 2001 and imprisoned in Changsha Women's Jail.

Not long after Mr. Wu returned home in March 2002, Chinese Communist Party personnel arrested, beat, and dragged him along the ground. Officers Zhou Zhuowen, Lei Zhenzhong, and others beat him so brutally that he passed out three times. They roused him with cold water, handcuffed him, hung him up, and used electric batons on him. The police sent him to Hengyang Municipal First Detention Centre and imprisoned him in the darkest cell.

In September 2002, Mr. Wu was sentenced to forced labour for two years. He suffered from all kinds of torture in Changsha Xinkaipu Forced Labour Camp.

At around noon on May 24th, 2008, over ten officers from the Hengyang City National Guard Huanchen Police Station rushed into the place where Mr. and Mrs. Wu were working and arrested them, using the pretext of security for the Olympics Games. At the same time another two practitioners were arrested. They were imprisoned in Hengyang Municipal Second Detention Centre. On around June 28th, 2008, Mr. Wu was sentenced to forced labour for one and half years and taken to Changsha Xinkaipu Forced Labour Camp again.

At present, the forced labour camp does not allow any of his family members to visit him.

Earlier report: http://www.clearharmony.net/articles/200806/44789.html

Note

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

Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2008/7/28/182934.html