Several Employees of Chengdu Computer City Detained for Eighteen Months

Mr. Gu Huaibing, Mr. Wang Hongbo, Mr. Zhao Haiping, Mr. Zhou Yaping, Mr. Liao Jianpu, Mr. Wang Jianguo, and Ms. Li Xiaoyan have been detained for eighteen months. They were employees of the company Chengdu Computer City.

On July 21st, 2009, officers from the Chengdu City Domestic Security Division and the Tiaosanta Police Station broke into a shop of the Chengdu City Science Academy, seized all of the cash and goods inside, and arrested five practitioners. Two former employees of the company, Ms. Li Xiaoyan and her husband Mr. Wang Jianguo, were arrested in Wenjiang District, Chengdu on September 14th and 21st respectively.

These seven practitioners have been detained for eighteen months. Their case has been pushed back and forth between the court and police at least twice because of insufficient evidence.

Attorneys of the practitioners said the process severely violates the law. The litigants have been detained for an unreasonable length of time according to the criminal law article 74 and article 75. Thus, Wuhou District Court should release the seven litigants.

Information about the seven practitioners

Mr. Gu Huaibing, 35, is a practitioner from Xinminchang Town, Pi County. He has an eleven-year-old son, his wife stays at home, and his father, who lives with the family, is deaf and mute. Mr. Gu is the sole income earner in the household. After his arrest, dozens of his family members wrote an open letter to appeal for his release.

Mr. Zhao Haiping, 38, is from Xiping Township, Qinglian Town, Jiangyou City. He was detained for two weeks in 2000 for appealing in Beijing for the right to practise Falun Gong. He was subjected to two years of forced labour in the Xinhua Forced Labour Camp. He developed pulmonary tuberculosis in the labour camp as a result of persecution. He was released for medical treatment and taken back to the labour camp for about a month, almost at the end of the two year term. He had to flee home to avoid further harassment after his release. His brother, Mr. Zhao Wanjiang, was imprisoned at the Xinhua Forced Labour Camp for eighteen months.

Wang Hongbo, 39, is from the second group, Sanyi Village, Baolin Township, Qionglai City. On November 28th, 1999, he was arrested while appealing at Tiananmen Square in Beijing. He was detained for fifteen days and had 2,000 yuan¹ taken from him. He was brutally beaten during his detention. In May 2000, officers from the Qionglai Dongjiao Police Station and agents from the Qionglai Baolin Township government arrested him and his father, Mr. Wang Tinggang, at home, and detained them at the Qionglai Detention Centre for fifteen days. Officers brutally beat them in the police station. Guards in the detention centre ordered inmates to beat them daily. After their release, they were directly taken to the brainwashing section operated by the Baolin Township government. About three weeks later, they were brutally beaten again because, instead of writing a guarantee statement to renounce practising Falun Gong, they stated that they would firmly practise Falun Gong. They and another two practitioners were subjected to thirty days detention at the city detention centre, and then were held in the township government for another three weeks. After their release, they were ordered to report to the township government daily.

Mr. Liao Jianpu is a practitioner from Panzhihua City in his fifties. He suffered eight years of persecution in Deyang Prison and was released on December 8th, 2008. He was arrested only two days after he began to work for Chengdu Computer City.

Mr. Zhou Yaping from Shuangliu County, 39, was arrested twice for spreading the facts about Falun Gong. The first arrest was on December 28th, 2005. He was detained at the Shuangliu Detention Centre for nine months, then sentenced to three years in prison. He was tortured in Wumaping Prison in Leshan City. Guards gripped the skin on his lower back using a big metal clamp, hung him high, and then suddenly dropped him. They shocked his ears using electric batons. His ears were rotten and leaked yellow fluid. The second arrest was on May 6th, 2008 while he was working in Chongzhou City. He was detained at the Chongzhou Detention Centre for fifteen days, and then was taken to the Xinjin Brainwashing Centre.

Ms. Li Xiaoyan is from Yanjiang District, Ziyang City. She was arrested in an apartment in Xinhuayuan, Wenjiang District on the afternoon of September 14th, 2009 by officers from the Chengdu City Domestic Security Division and Liuchen Police Station in Wenjiang District. She was tortured at the Wenjiang Detention Centre for several days, then imprisoned at the Pi County Detention Centre. She was secretly taken to the Chengdu Jinhua Brainwashing Centre at the end of October, then back to the Pi County Detention Centre in December.

Mr. Wang Jianguo from Yanjiang District, Ziyang City was arrested in Xinhuayuan, Wenjiang District around September 21st by officers from the Tiaosanta Police Station. He has been detained at the Pi County Detention Centre.

Relevant phone numbers:

Chengdu Domestic Security Division: 86-28-86406628
Chengdu Wuhou District Police Department: 86-28-85079567, 86-28-85070486
Yang Chongyou, director of the Chengdu Wuhou District Police Department: 86-28-85091188 (Office), 86-28-87350825 (Home), 86-13808007318 (Mobile)
Tiaosanta Police Station: 86-28-85222200

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/2010/12/31/234337.html