Mr. Yin Sirong from Chengdu City Secretly Sentenced to Forced Labor Camp

Name: Yin Sirong
Gender: Male
Age: 50
Address: Chengdu, Sichuan
Occupation: Metal Worker
Date of Most Recent Arrest: July 31st, 2009
Most recent place of detention: Xishanping Forced Labour Camp
City: Chongqing
Persecution Suffered: Forced Labour, Imprisonment, Force-Feedings, Detention

Key Persecutors: Police Branch in Wanzhou District - Police Officer No.116852 - Tel.86-23-58233933 (Office), Wang Hongjie (Female) 86-13709434949 (Mobile)

Mr. Yin Sirong, a practitioner from Chengdu city was arrested by police officers from Wanzhou District Public Security Bureau, on July 31st, 2009, while he was at the home of another practitioner in Chongqing city. He has been on hunger strike ever since. At the time when the police submitted an application to send Mr. Yin to a forced labour camp, they also refused his lawyer's request to meet with him, stating that they were still awaiting confirmation that the person arrested was in fact Mr. Yin Sirong. On September 3rd, 2009, Mr. Yin was sentenced to the notorious Xishanping Forced Labour Camp.

Mr. Yin's family have not been able to see him since his arrest and are very concerned for his safety. His lawyer is currently in contact with the Forced Labour Bureau of Chongqing to request that his family be allowed to visit him, which is permitted under Chinese law.

Repeatedly persecuted for 10 years

On January 1st, 2000, Mr. Yin went to Beijing to appeal for an end to the persecution, but was arrested at the Appeals Office. He was detained in the Chengdu Municipal government head office in Beijing for one day, and then was taken back to Chengdu, where he was imprisoned for an additional two days in Qingyang District Youth Detox Centre. He was then transferred to Fuqinglu Police Station in Chengdu for 15 days. Since his release, he had been re-arrested at least half a dozen times, and detained for a duration of 15 days each time.

In March 2000, Mr. Yin was forced to leave his home to avoid further persecution. In December 2000, he was arrested, by police officers, while on a bus. He was sentenced to three years in Xinhua Forced Labour Camp where he was subjected to all kinds of torture.

Within just a few months of his release, on April 2004, a dozen police officers from the Domestic Security Division of Chengdu City and Fuqinglu Police Station, surrounded the apartment where he worked and tried to arrest him, but luckily Mr. Yin managed to escape.

Mr. Yin Sirong started practising Falun Gong in 1996. He applied the principles of Truthfulness- Compassion-Forbearance to his everyday life and had benefited, mentally and physically, from the practice. However, since July 20th, 1999, Mr. Yin has been periodically subjected to persecution by the Chinese Communist Party right up to his recent labour camp sentence.

Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2009/9/6/207814.htm