Mr. Yuan Fanghua, 59, Arrested and Detained

Name: Yuan Fanghua
Gender: Male
Age: 59
Address: Lu Village, Yuelu District, Changsha City
Occupation: Former factory supervisor at the Yuanjiang City Paper Factory, Hunan Province
Date of Most Recent Arrest: August 3rd, 2010
Most Recent Place of Detention: Ningxiang Detention Centre
City: Ningxiang County
Province: Hunan
Persecution Suffered: Forced labour, brainwashing, fired from workplace, home ransacked, detention

On the evening of August 3rd, 2010, Mr. Yuan Fanghua was attacked by several plainclothes police officers at his home at Lu Village, Yuelu District, Changsha. The police had turned the electricity off to his home, and attacked Mr. Yuan when he opened the front door to check what had happened. They dragged him into a car, and took him to the Laodaohe Town Brainwashing Centre in the Kaifu District, Changsha, which is under the control of the Hunan 610 Office (an organisation of special agents just for persecuting Falun Gong).

Mr. Yuan was later transferred to the Changsha Legal Education Training Centre by officers from the Yuelu Police Department. He was detained on the third floor with a dozen other practitioners, each in a separate room. They were constantly monitored by two people, and were not allowed to leave their rooms. Agents from the Hunan 610 Office and other 610 Offices within the province attempted to force the practitioners to renounce their belief. The practitioners were surrounded by four or five agents, who took turns shouting at them for the whole day. They constantly slandered Falun Gong and its founder, and threatened the practitioners with forced labour or prison if they did not cooperate and renounce their belief.

On August 25th, Mr. Yuan was taken to the Ningxiang Detention Centre by agents from the Changsha 610 Office. An arrest warrant was issued for Mr. Yuan on September 20th by the Yuelu Police Department, which recently demanded that the Yuelu Procuratorate put Mr. Yuan on trial.

This was not the first time that Mr. Yuan was persecuted by the Chinese Communist Party. He was fired from his position as factory supervisor at the Yuanjiang Paper Factory in 2005. Then he and his family moved to his parents-in-law's home in Changsha. He was arrested and put in the Xinkaipu Forced Labour Camp in Hunan Province in May 2005, and again in October 2007, for telling people the facts about Falun Gong. During his second time at the camp, at age 56, he was found to have high blood pressure, and was released for medical reasons.

Those involved in the arrest and persecution of Mr. Yuan:

Chen Dingjia, head of Yuelu Police Department: 86-731-88858222, 86-731-84780280, 138-08453788
Tang Wu, head of the Domestic Security Division in Yuelu Police Department: 86-731-88861950, 139-73137067
Zhou Guojie, head of Yuelu 610 Office: 86-731-88999610
Wu Zhibin, head of Changsha 610 Office: 86-731-88667548 (Office), 86-731-85070065 (Home), 133-07310607 (Mobile)
Wu Kaiming, deputy head of Changsha 610 Office: 86-731-88667549 (Office), 86-731-85133270 (Home), 133-19578855 (Mobile)
Shen Yu, head of Hunan 610 Office (also deputy secretary of CCP's Hunan Political and Legal Committee): 86-731-82219065
Jiang Heping, deputy head of Hunan 610 Office (also deputy head of the Hunan Police Bureau): 86-731-82215011

Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2010/11/27/233021.html