Former Industrial and Commercial Bank Employee Persecuted Repeatedly

Name: Cao Xiongbin
Gender: Male
Age: 51
Address: Unknown
Occupation: Former Business Department director, Anqing Branch, Industrial and Commercial Bank
Date of Most Recent Arrest: June 20th, 2008
Most Recent Place of Detention: The No. 3 Prison in Anhui
City: Suzhou
Province: Anhui
Persecution Suffered: Brainwashing, beatings, hung up, imprisonment, solitary confinement, torture, force-feedings, detention

Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Cao Xiongbin was arrested and detained soon after the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) started persecuting Falun Gong. He was sentenced on two separate occasions to three years of forced labour, and additionally, three years of imprisonment. Mr. Cao was beaten and tortured during his imprisonment. He was physically weakened, often resulting in life-threatening conditions. He continues to suffer from pain in his chest, and sometimes experiences nightmares.

Cao Xiongbin’s wife divorced him in 2002, since she was unable to bear the persecution. The court awarded Mr. Cao’s house and custody of their children to his wife. Now, Mr. Cao travels everywhere to find work in order to make a living, and has no fixed place to live.

At the beginning of March 2011, Xiao Jianbing, director of the 610 office (an organisation of special agents just for persecuting Falun Gong) in Anqing, Anhui Province along with six officials from the Linghu Police Station and Anhui Province community members broke into Mr. Cao’s parents’ home to harass them. They searched the family's home without their consent.

Mr. Cao’s parents are approximately 80 years old, and run a small grocery store. Mr. Cao’s father was very ill and was bed-ridden for over a month. The authorities harassed them yet again, placing additional suffering on the elderly couple.

More information about Mr. Cao Xiongbin can be found at:

http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2006/7/8/75214.html

Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2011/4/9/238773.html