Jiangsu Province Falun Gong Practitioner Xu Ming Imprisoned for the Second Time

Name: Xu Ming
Gender: Male
Age: 49
Address: Changzhou City, Jiangsu Province
Occupation: Engineer at the Telecommunications Bureau
Date of Most Recent Arrest: May 26th, 2010
Most Recent Place of Detention: Xilin Detention Centre
City: Changzhou
Province: Jiangsu
Persecution Suffered: brainwashing, imprisonment, extortion, home ransacked, interrogation, torture

At 7:00 a.m. on May 26th, 2010, Xu Ming, a practitioner from Changzhou City, Jiangsu Province, was arrested by the Changzhou City 610 Office (an organisation of special agents just for persecuting Falun Gong) while on his way to work. He was taken to prison, where he endured several brainwashing sessions conducted by the officers there. He was later sent to Xilin Detention Centre in Changzhou, where he has been held ever since.

On the day Xu Ming was arrested, a number of policemen, led by Wang Jie, team leader of the National Security Team in the Tianning region of Changzhou, broke into Xu Ming's house and ransacked it. The police confiscated his computer and many of his personal items, including Falun Gong books. Practitioners Yang Chanrong and Liao Yongge were also arrested that day.

While he was being detained, Xu Ming's captors attempted to force a confession by torturing him.

After Xu Ming was arrested, his family hired a local lawyer to defend him. The 610 Office found out about this, and started harassing the lawyer. They flatly told the lawyer that he was not allowed to defend Falun Gong practitioners. As a result of the harassment, the lawyer was forced to give up defending Xu Ming. His family has since hired another lawyer, this time from Beijing.

Xu Ming started practising Falun Gong in 1997. Since the Chinese Communist Party started the persecution in July 1999, Xu Ming has suffered through arrests, detention, his home being ransacked, brainwashing, imprisonment, harassment, and torture.

Previously, the Changzhou City Court had conducted a hearing in July 2002. His lawyer gave up defending him after being threatened by the 610 Office. The court found Xu Ming guilty for writing an open letter entitled "Statement to the People of Changzhou City." For this, he received a sentence of 10 years, most of which was served in a Suzhou prison.

After Xu Ming was released, he worked very hard and founded his own company. The company was eventually worth hundreds of thousands of yuan¹. But after Xu Ming was arrested, the Changzhou 610 Office conspired, along with a few others, to take possession of the company and divide it up among themselves. Even worse, they managed to pin all of the debt on Xu Ming and his family.

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://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2010/11/30/233115.html