Ms. Zhao Yan from Beijing Detained in Huhehot Women's Forced Labour Camp, Inner Mongolia

Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Zhao Yan from Beijing is being persecuted in Huhehot Women's Forced Labour Camp in Inner Mongolia. She has been detained in a small cell for a long period of time and her prison term has been increased.

Ms. Zhao Yan, in her thirties, is from Shandong Province. She was arrested and then detained for two years for distributing leaflets exposing the persecution and telling people the facts about Falun Gong around the time of the Beijing Olympic Games. Chinese Communist Party agents transferred her and many other practitioners from Beijing to Huhehot Women's Forced Labour Camp in Inner Mongolia.

Ms. Zhao Yan steadfastly maintains that Falun Gong is good and does not co-operate with the various forms of persecution in the forced labour camp; she refused to wear the prison uniform, to participate the so-called " forced labour re-education" and refuses to write the guarantee statement to renounce Falun Gong. Ms. Zhao is held in a small cell where she is being brutally persecuted and suffering great mental torture. Because Zhao Yan refused to be "transformed [forcibly renounce Falun Gong]," she was transferred from the No. 3 Team to the No. 1 Team and recently from the No. 1 Team to the No. 3 Team for further detention.

The labour camp authorities increased her prison term in order to further persecute Ms. Zhao mentally; they stated that it is because she does not obey the detention centre regulations or the guards.

Chief of the forced labour camp, Sun Jinyan: 86-471-5692968

Deputy chief of the forced labour camp, Wang Dianyun: 86-471-5693025

Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2009/12/26/215082.html