Update: Mr. Wu Yang Sentenced To Seven Years in Prison

Name: Wu Yang
Gender: Male
Age: Unknown
Address: Chifeng, Inner Mongolia
Occupation: Unknown
Date of Most Recent Arrest: April 22nd, 2009
Most Recent Place of Detention: Inner Mongolia 2nd Men's Prison
City: Hohhot
Province: Inner Mongolia
Persecution Suffered: Brainwashing, beatings, hung up, imprisonment, torture, home ransacked, interrogation, detention

Mr. Wu Yang, also known as Wu Zhijun, is a Falun Gong practitioner from Chifeng, Inner Mongolia. He was arrested while he was distributing Falun Gong DVDs in Beijing on April 22nd, 2009. Beijing police arrested his wife, Ms. Sun Ming, the same day and tortured her to death, then claimed that she died from jumping off a building. A court held trials of Mr. Wu on February 14th, 2010 and April 9th, 2010, and sentenced him to seven years in prison. The authorities withheld Mr. Wu's whereabouts from his family until May 2011. Mr. Wu is imprisoned at the Inner Mongolia 2nd Men's Prison.

Beijing Fengtai Court gave no verdict after the April 9th, 2010 trial. The court kept saying the case was in process when answering phone inquiries from the lawyers and the family. It wasn't until October 2010, six months after the trial, that the family got an anonymous phone call telling them that Mr. Wu was sentenced to seven years in prison. By then, the appeal grace period was over.

Mr. Wu was detained at the Beijing Xuanwu District Detention Centre, the Beijing Dougezhuang Detention Centre, and the Fengtai Detention Centre. While he was detained at the Dougezhuang Detention Centre, his family mailed him 1,000 yuan¹. Guards signed the mail receipt but refused to give Mr. Wu the money. He had to ask others even for toilet paper [note: basic necessities generally have to be purchased in prison by the detainees]. After Mr. Wu was transferred to the Fengtai Detention Centre, the guards there acknowledged the transfer of funds but would not give him the money.

In May 2011, the family was finally informed that Mr. Wu was imprisoned in the Inner Mongolia 2nd Men's Prison in Hohhot. The prison refused to allow his family to visit, claiming it needed approval from the 610 Office (an organisation of special agents just for persecuting Falun Gong). But the 610 Office would not approve it.

Related reports:

http://www.clearwisdom.net/html/articles/2010/10/14/120611.html
http://www.clearwisdom.net/html/articles/2009/8/2/109699.html
http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2009/7/6/108888.html
http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2009/6/25/108583.html

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://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2011/7/2/243300.html