Police Harass Ms. Yang Lijun's Family

Name: Yang Lijun
Gender: Female
Age: 65
Address: Bayuquan District, Yingkou City, Liaoning Province
Occupation: Pediatrician
Date of Most Recent Arrest: September 23rd, 2009
City: Yingkou
Province: Liaoning
Persecution Suffered: Imprisonment

Police in the Bayuquan District, Yingkou City, Liaoning Province harassed Ms. Yang Lijun's daughter, and arrested her son-in-law when they could not find Ms. Yang at her home.

At noon on February 22nd, 2010, officer Li and officer Hui from the Bayuquan District Domestic Security Division went to Ms. Yang Lijun's home. Ms. Yang was not at home. The officers tried to coerce her daughter to give them Ms. Yang's location by threatening to revoke her doctor's licence. After they realized that they could not get the whereabouts of Ms. Yang, they forced the daughter to call her husband. Once Ms. Yang's son-in-law arrived home, they arrested him and held him in the Domestic Security Division. They said that Ms. Yang could trade her son-in-law's freedom for hers. If Ms. Yang did not come, her son-in-law wouldn't be set free. They also said that they were capable of doing anything bad.

When Ms. Yang's son-in-law negotiated with them, the officers first asked for 5000 yuan¹ as bail to free him. Then they said there was word from the director not to take the bail money and to exchange the son-in-law for the mother only. The son-in-law was finally released in the afternoon after paying the bail money.

The officers told Ms. Yang's family that the case had been handed to the procurators who had submitted it to court, and they had decided to sentence Ms. Yang to 3 years in prison.

Ms. Yang is a pediatrician. She has been repeatedly harassed.

After 10:00 p.m. on September 23rd, 2009, Ms. Yang was arrested at her home. On the same night, many practitioners in Bayuquan District were arrested at their homes. Because of her severe heart disease and high blood pressure, Ms. Yang was released after her son-in-law signed as a guarantor.

During the 2010 New Year, Cao Ning (female), a procurator from the Bayuquan District Procuratorate, called Ms. Yang to the Procuratorate. Ms. Yang left town for health reasons and has not come home since.

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/2010/2/26/218885.html