Name: Du Yanrong
Gender: Female
Age: 58
Address: Unknown
Occupation: Retired from Army Officers' Bureau in Gansu Province
Date of Most Recent Arrest: June 21st, 2010
Most Recent Place of Detention: Gansu Province Women’s Labour Camp in Heping Town
City: Lanzhou
Province: Gansu
Persecution Suffered: Forced labour, detention.
Practitioner Ms. Du Yanrong, 58, from Lanzhou City, is retired from Gansu Province Officers' Bureau. On May 28th, 2010, she was telling visitors at Wuquanshan Park and Zoo the facts about Falun Gong. She was spotted by plainclothes police officer Wang Fang of Yanchanglu Police Station, who gathered a group of national security police officers to arrest her. They first took her to the Yanchanglu Police Station, and then to the Taoshuping Detention Centre. After she was detained for 15 days, Wang took her, along with another practitioner, to jail. Ms. Du and the other practitioner, He Jianhua, both showed symptoms of high blood pressure and heart conditions, and thus the jail refused to admit them. Despite Wang trying hard to convince the jail authorities to change their minds, they maintained their position and Wang was forced to drive them back to their homes.
On the evening of June 21st, while Ms. Du was telling people facts about Falun Gong and distributing Falun Gong informational materials, she was again arrested by police officers from Yanchanglu Police Station. They seized her belongings and took her to the Taoshuping Detention Centre in Chengguan District of Lanzhou City. Sixteen days later, a family member went to the detention centre in the morning, and was told to come back in the afternoon. However, in the afternoon, they were informed that Ms. Du had been sentenced to one year of forced labour and taken to Heping Town Gansu Women’s Forced Labour Camp.
In September 2010, Ms. Du’s brother came to visit her from Beijing. Her brother and her son were only able to see her after her son begged the police.
In mid-October of 2010, after exhaustive efforts, Ms. Du’s family members were allowed to visit her in the forced labour camp. They found that she had become thin and totally out of shape. Her hair was grey, she could not stand well, she trembled constantly, and was mentally confused. During the twenty minutes of their meeting, she kept repeating: “I am doomed. I am guilty. I cannot eat. I had bad dreams. What shall I do?” Later when her family members visited her again, her condition had improved slightly, but she kept quiet.
On January 18th, 2011, the forced labour camp authorities called her family members and asked them to come see her. When they arrived, Ms. Du was in bed with a fractured spine. The forced labour camp claimed that she broke her back in a fall.
After going through a lot of hassle, Ms. Du’s family was finally allowed to bring her home on January 20th.
Gansu Women’s Forced Labour Camp: #3, Liugouhedong, Yuzhong, Gansu; Tel: 86-931-8797866
Warden: Li Xiao
Managing Department manager: Dang Zongyun
Related report: http://www.clearwisdom.net/html/articles/2010/11/3/121220.html
Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2011/1/26/235321.html
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