Falun Gong Practitioner Ms. Yang Shumei and Others Hold Hunger Strikes to Protest Imprisonment

Name: Yang Shumei
Gender: Female
Age: Unknown
Address: Yangshulin Township, Nongan County, Jilin Province
Date of Most Recent Arrest: March 2nd, 2011
Most Recent Place of Detention: Nongan County Detention Centre
City: Nongan County
Province: Jilin
Persecution Suffered: Forced labour, brainwashing, forced injections/drug administration, torture, physical restraint, home ransacking, detention

Prior to the National People's Congress (NPC) and the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) on March 2nd, 2011, officers from the Nongan County Police Department Domestic Security Division and Yangshulin Township Police Station broke into Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Yang Shumei’s home and arrested her. Her home was also ransacked. On April 11th, Nongan County practitioners Yang Shumei, Yu Changli, and Ms. Zhang were detained in the Nongan County Detention Centre. The practitioners held hunger strikes for over forty days to protest the persecution. They have subsequently been tied to beds and injected with unknown drugs six times per day.

Ms. Yang was taken to the Jilin Prison Administrative Central Hospital (Jilin Forced Labour Hospital) on March 15th, and returned to the Nongan County Detention Centre on March 31st. On April 11th, Ms. Yang's relatives went to visit her, but warden Liu Kai and guards forced her relatives to slander Falun Gong as a condition for the visit. When Ms. Yang's relatives found that she was emaciated to the point that they had difficulty recognising her. She weighed about 70 kilograms (about 155 pounds) before she was arrested. Her hands were now purple from bruising and her feet were bound with a 10 kilogram (22 pound) shackle. She was extremely weak and had no strength to talk. She had been tied to a bed and injected with unknown drugs six times per day. Two armed guards monitored her around the clock. She wasn't allowed to move in the bed, and she was threatened immediately by the guards whenever she tried to move.

Ms. Yang was taken to the Jilin Prison Administrative Central Hospital again on April 14th.

Ms. Yang Shumei has been detained and sentenced to forced labour on several occasions because she appealed for the right to practise Falun Gong in Beijing.

Parties involved in the persecution:

Nongan County Police Department operator: 86-431-3227372, 86-431-83225487 (Fax)
You Mingyan, Nongan County Police Department chief: 8001(extension), 86-43183367999 (office), 86-431-87660005 (home), 86-15500070001(mobile) , 86-13354300080 (mobile)
Zhao Hongyan, Nongan County Police Department Political Committee: 8002 (extension), 86-431-83368666 (office), 86-431-87276777 (home), 86-15500070002 (mobile) 86-18943070001 (mobile)
Tang Ke, Nongan County Police Department Domestic Security Division director: 86- 15500070092 (mobile) , 86-15981069927 (mobile)
Zheng Yongfeng, Nongan County Police Department Domestic Security Division deputy instructor: 86-15500070088 (mobile) , 86-13341467888 (mobile)
Liu Kai, Nongan County Detention Centre warden: 86-431-83246389 (office), 86-15500070369 (mobile) , 68-13404775555 (mobile)
Li Qingguo, Nongan County Detention Centre instructor: 86-431-83247389 (office), 86-15500070366 (cell), 86-13364600372 (cell)
Wang Zhongcheng, Nongan County Detention Centre director: 86-15500070399 (mobile) , 86-13364600996 (mobile)
Hu Mingshan, Nongan County Detention Centre instructor: 86-13364685764 (mobile)

Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2011/4/22/239427.html