Mr. Wu Hongjun Sentenced to Three Years--Authorities Ignore Appeal

Name: Wu Hongjun
Gender: Male
Age: 42
Address: Xiaoqing Subdivision, Ranghulu District, Daqing City
Occupation: Train examination technician at Ranghulu Train Station, Daqing City
Date of Most Recent Arrest: March 28th, 2010
Most Recent Place of Detention: Ranghulu District Detention Centre
City: Daqing
Province: Heilongjiang
Persecution Suffered: Electric shocks, sleep deprivation, brainwashing, beatings, hanging by handcuffed wrists, torture, extortion, home ransacked, detention

Mr. Wu Hongjun from Ranghulu District, Daqing, Heilongjiang was arrested on March 28th, 2010, and the Ranghulu District Court sentenced him to three years in prison on June 8th. His appeal was ignored by the authorities and he is still being detained.

Mr. Wu was riding a motorcycle on the afternoon of March 28th, when police stopped him at Sixin Town of Ranghulu District, using the excuse of checking his licence plate. The police searched his bag and confiscated Falun Gong materials, including over 100 yuan¹ in notes that had Falun Gong content written on them, DVDs exposing the persecution of Falun Gong and pamphlets, and other personal belongings. They arrested him and took him to the Third Detention Centre of Duli Township in Ranghulu District.

Mr. Wu was put on trial on June 8th, at the Ranghulu District Court and sentenced to three years in prison. He appealed this sentence, but the authorities ignored his appeal.

In July 1999, after the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) started the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners, Mr. Wu was demoted from his engineering post to that of a technician in the train examination workshop, because he persisted in his belief in and practice of Falun Gong.

Mr. Wu went to Beijing in 2000 to speak out against the persecution policy and was taken back by police officers from the Qiqihar Railroad Police Department. He was then detained for a month at the Third Prison of that police department.

When Mr. Wu was at work on December 28th, 2000, personnel from the Railroad's 610 Office (an organisation of special agents just for persecuting Falun Gong) deceived him and took him to the brainwashing centre, which is located at the CCP's Railroad Guesthouse in Jiagedaqi City. He was detained for two months, and his family was not allowed to visit him.

Mr. Wu was arrested at work in 2001 and sentenced to three years of forced labour at the Forced Labour Camp of Qiqihar City in Fuyu County. On October 21st, 2001, he asked for the right to practice the Falun Gong exercises and was thus beaten by camp guards. He held a hunger strike to protest the hanging torture used on practitioners who were detained in the labour camp. Thus, camp authorities extorted 46 yuan from him.

In March 2003, Mr. Wu was transferred to the Suihua Forced Labour Camp, where he was subjected to electric shocking conducted by camp guards Zeng Lingjun and Fan Xiaodong, who used four electric batons. During his over one-month detention in the First Team, he was savagely beaten until he was disfigured and unable to eat normally. He was sometimes beaten until he was covered with bruises, deprived of sleep, and forced to watch videos that defamed Falun Gong and its founder. He was also forced to stand facing a wall for long periods of time, his face and hands were burned with cigarettes, he was beaten by inmates, and he was forced to live in the same cell as a tuberculosis patient.

In 2005, in an attempt to force him to give up his practice of Falun Gong, the railroad station authorities and Qiqihar Railroad police conspired and sentenced Mr. Wu to one year of forced labour in the Suihua Forced Labour Camp.

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/2010/10/29/231619.html