Yang Guanghui, Medical PhD Student in Jilin University Arrested

Name: Yang Guanghui
Gender: Female
Age: 37
Address: Unknown
Occupation: Medical Ph.D Student in Jilin University
Date of Most Recent Arrest: July 5th, 2009
Most recent place of detention: Jilin City Detention Centre
City: Jilin City
Province: Jilin

On the afternoon of July 5th, 2009, Ms. Yang Guanghui, age 37 from Jilin City, Jilin Province was arrested in front of the Jilin City Railway Station by officials from the Zhanqian Police Station in Jilin City. She is currently held at the Jilin City Detention Centre.

Ms. Yang Guanghui's relatives, including her 10-year-old daughter, are doing everything they can, trying their best to save her, and looking forward to her return soon.

While detained at the Zhanqian Police Station in Jilin City, Ms. Yang Guanghui's hands were kept restrained behind her back and handcuffed to the chair. At that time, the policeman on duty was Ren Jianxin. In addition, Ms. Yang Guanghui's personal belongings were detained. Her relatives went to the Zhanqian Police Station to visit her and to ask for her release; however, they were not only refused, but they were threatened by the officials there.

History of the Persecution of Ms. Yang Guanghui

Ms. Yang Guanghui from Jilin City, Jilin Province is currently a medical PhD student in Jilin University, and has been a teacher at the Jilin Air Force Academy of Medicine, now called Jilin Medical College. Since July 20th, 1999 when the Chinese Communist Party started to persecute Falun Gong, she has been severely persecuted and has been subjected to forced labour twice. In addition, she has been harassed and arrested many times by officials from various police units, and has even been unlawfully detained by her workplace.

In September 1999, Ms. Yang and two other fellow practitioners appealed to the Beijing Appeal Office for help; however, they were refused by the policemen there.

When she returned to Jilin City, Ms. Yang was detained by her workplace for a number of days and was subsequently forced to be laid off from her job. At that time, Ms. Yang Guanghui worked as a governess, in order to support herself. She was reported while distributing leaflets exposing the persecution and telling her students the facts about Falun Gong, and was then arrested by the officials from the Gaoxin Police Department in Jilin City, who were acting under orders from the "610 Office¹" in Jilin City. The police smashed out her window, broke into her home, arrested her and ransacked her home.

Ms. Yang Guanghui was detained for more than twenty days and was afterwards subjected to forced labour for one year. At that time, Ms. Yang Guanghui had just placed first throughout the whole of Jilin Province after taking the exam for the Job Placement for Civil Servants Examination, which meant that she could have chosen any job she wanted. However, as a result of her detention, she missed the opportunity to work in the tax bureau. Ms. Yang was forced to undergo brainwashing while at the labour camp. While detained there the guards used all kinds of torture methods to terrorize her.

In 2001, Ms. Yang went to Tiananmen Square in Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong and was subsequently arrested by the police there. Later, she was transferred to the Jilin City Detention Centre where she was detained for more than forty days, and afterwards was subjected to three years of forced labour while she was unlawfully detained at the Heizuizi Women's Forced Labour Camp in Jilin Province.

Since July 20th, 1999, the personnel at the Zhanqian Police Station in Jilin City have actively participated in persecuting many Falun Gong practitioners. Since the beginning of this year alone, they have participated in the persecution of at least four local practitioners.

Yue Hongyu, Head of the Zhanqian Police Station in Jilin City
Sun Tiegang, Political Head of the Police Station
Wang Yue, Deputy Head of the Police Station
Cai Jifu, Head of the Changyi Police Department
Cheng Yuguo, Deputy Head of the Changyi Police Department
Yan Guanglin, Head of the Changyi Criminal Police Group
Du Xingze, Head of the Changyi Domestic Security Division
Wang Liyong, Head of the Changyi Patrol Police Group
Yang Zhongjie, Section Head of the Changyi Legal Affairs Section
Wang Haibo, Head of the Changyi Inquisitorial Team
Zheng Xiaoji, Head of the Changyi Technology Team
Personnel from the Jilin City Domestic Security Division: Di Shigang, Yu Yanjun, Xu Zhenhao, Sun Zhuang, Cui Taiguo, Chen Dongfeng, Zhao Dongbing, Li Gui, Yu Zehong, Chi Yunchang, Tang Ranyan, Li Chaojie and Mao Jianfeng

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/2009/8/12/206346.html