Mr. Chen Shaodong from Xi'an City Arrested and Sent to Brainwashing Sessions

Name: Chen Shaodong
Gender:Male
Age:Unknown
Address:Unknown
Occupation: Unknown

Date of Most Recent Arrest: September 9th, 2009
Most recent place of detention: Brainwashing Centre at Chang'an Workers' Sanatorium, Xi'an City

City: Xi'an City
Province: Shaanxi Province
Persecution Suffered: Detention, Brainwashing, Home Ransacked, Extortion, Beatings, Re-education through labour.

Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Chen Shaodong was sent to a brainwashing centre by officers from the Yanta Police Station. His legs were beaten severely. He was sentenced to three years in a forced labour camp. Mr. Chen Shaodong has elderly parents and young children at home. A happy home was torn apart by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

Mr. Chen Shaodong is a kind young man who works at Dongfeng Instrument Factory. Over the past ten years of persecution, he has been sent to a forced labour camp and brainwashing centres.

In the weeks leading up to October 1st, 2009, the CCP frantically arrested Falun Gong practitioners. Several practitioners were arrested and taken to a brainwashing centre in the Chang'an Workers' Sanatorium, Xi'an City to be brutally persecuted. On September 9th, Mr. Chen Shaodong was taken away by a group of people led by Yan Meiming from the Changyanbao Police Station in Yanta District. They ransacked his home. Police took away two computers, two mobile phones, four thousand yuan¹ in cash and other personal property.

Mr. Chen Shaodong was taken to the brainwashing centre at the Chang'an Workers' Sanatorium. His legs were beaten and broken there.

Police claimed that they had found Falun Gong materials in Chen Shaodong's home and then sentenced Mr. Chen to three years in a forced labour camp. Later, at his wife's request, they allowed Mr. Chen to be released for medical treatment. However, the staff members refused to release him, with the excuse that he had not been "transformed²" and had not written the guarantee letter to renounce Falun Gong. They also threatened Mr. Chen and his family, saying that they would not release him unless he wrote the guarantee letter to renounce his belief. In addition, they pressured Mr. Chen Shaodong's work unit to dismiss him.

At present, Mr. Chen's elderly mother has illnesses and cannot take care of her day-to-day needs. She needs her son to take care of her, but he cannot, due to the CCP's persecution.

Yan Meiming, Brigade Captain of the National Security Team of Yanta Branch Office, Xi'an City: 86-29-87788063 (Home); 86-13909215277 (mobile)

Note

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

2. "Reform or Transform" Implementation of brainwashing and torture in order to force a practitioner to renounce Falun Gong. (Variations: "reform", "transform", "reformed", "reforming", "transformed", "transforming", and "transformation")

Chinese version available at hhttp://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2009/10/23/210940.html