Vice Director of Mei County Bureau of Agriculture in Guangdong Province Appeals Twelve-year Prison Sentence for Practising Falun Gong

Name: Xie Hanzhu
Gender: Male
Age: 48
Address: Unknown
Occupation: Former vice director of Rural Energy Division of Bureau of Agriculture in Mei County, Meizhou City, Guangdong Province
Date of Most Recent Arrest: February 3rd, 2005
Most Recent Place of Detention: The 3rd Prison of Guangdong Province, (Meizhou Prison)
City: Meizhou
Province: Guangdong
Persecution Suffered: Brainwashing, beatings, imprisonment, torture, extortion, fired from workplace, interrogation

In April of 2010, practitioner Xie Hanzhu, detained at the 3rd Prison in Guangdong Province (also called Meizhou Prison) asked his father to appeal his twelve-year sentence to the provincial superior Procuratorate, after being interrogated by the Meijiang district public security bureau and Xue Qingwen from the national security division. According to related sources, his information was transferred to the Meizhou Procuratorate.

Xie Hanzhu was detained at Meizhou Prison nearly five years ago, in September of 2005. His whereabouts have rarely been known. In the past year, his family was only allowed to visit him after the political office of the prison sent out a special notice. Prison officials did not allow his relatives to see him for two or three months around the spring festival of 2009. In the subsequent visit, his family observed him walking abnormally, and suspected that this was the result of a beating. Until this May, his family has not received another notice from prison officials, allowing them to visit him. The family is wondering if this has to do with his appeal.

At the end of 1999, Xie Hanzhu was expelled from his work unit under the order of Mei County 610 Office (an organisation of special agents just for persecuting Falun Gong) officials, because he practised Falun Gong and did the exercises in public. He was subsequently sentenced to two years in prison and detained at the Sanshui labour camp in Guangdong province. After Mr. Xie served his full term at the end of 2001, Mei County 610 Office officials and police officers from the county public security bureau took him to the Mei County Fuda Detention Centre and brainwashing class in the city police school without notifying his family. He was forced to give up his beliefs.

Xie Hanzhu was finally released on December 31st, 2002, after a hunger strike lasting nearly twenty days, which left him in extremely weak condition. The perpetrators still extorted over two thousand yuan¹ in so-called "food expenses" from his father.

On February 3rd, 2005, Mr. Xie was arrested again by Meizhou area 610 Office officials. After interrogation and physical torture, he was sentenced to twelve years in prison. The details of his case and his account of the whole process was published on Clearwisdom.net. More information can be found at http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2006/5/19/73472.html

Information on people involved in his case (the long distance area code for Meizhou is 86-753):

Xie Dixing, assistant secretary of Meizhou City political and law office, 610 Office director: 2250823 (office), 2253899 (home), 13902780869 (mobile)
He Gengwen, assistant director of Meizhou 610 Office (specifically in charge of persecuting practitioners): 2277289 (work), 2158539 (home), 13823821001 (mobile)
Guangdong Province third prison: 2183488, 2209839, 2202527, 2183032, 2209839 (fax)
Wu Youpeng, 610 Office director in Meizhou Prison (also director of the education section): 13502332129
Liao Yaohong, assistant director of Meizhou Prison (specifically in charge of persecuting practitioners): 2183118 (work), 2212602 (home), 13502333230 (mobile)

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/2010/6/10/225163.html