Mr. Jiang Xuefu and His Wife Sentenced

The Dehui City Court held a second hearing for Mr. Jiang Xuefu and his wife Zhang Yu on November 15th, and sentenced them each to four years of imprisonment. Mr. Jiang was sent to Shiling Prison in Siping City, and Ms. Zhang was sent to Heizuizi Women’s Prison in Changchun City.

On the afternoon of March 4th, 2011, Mr. Jiang Xuefu and his wife, Ms. Zhang Yu, were arrested one after the other, by Domestic Security Division officers from the Dehui Police Department and the Changchun Police Department. Valuable personal property was taken from their home. Their daughter was left alone at home, with no one to take care of her.

Mr. Jiang was detained at the Jiutai Forced Labour Camp, while Ms. Zhang was at the Dehui Detention Centre.

Mr. Jiang Xuefu, 56, was an officer in the Chengguan Police Station in Dehui City, and is the former deputy head of the Household Registration Section of the Dehui City Police Department. When the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) started the persecution of Falun Gong in July 1999, Dehui City Police Department officials removed him from his position as deputy head, using the excuse that Mr. Jiang refused to renounce his faith.

Jiang started practising Falun Gong in 1996. His first wife suffered from many illnesses, however after the couple began practicing Falun Gong, her health rapidly improved, and they both experienced tremendous changes, both physically and mentally. They held themselves to the principles of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance. Mr. Jiang was highly regarded by his colleagues and employers, and he was thus promoted to the position of deputy head of the Household Registration Section.

After the CCP launched the persecution on July 20th, 1999, Mr. Jiang went to the Jilin provincial government to appeal for justice for Falun Gong. Changchun City Police Department officials arrested him, and officers from the Dehui City Police Department took him back and detained him for three days at the police department. Police head Li Maojiu threatened to dismiss Mr. Jiang from his job in order to force him to renounce Falun Gong. The persecution was a huge mental blow for Jiang's wife. Her physical and mental health began rapidly deteriorating and she died in 2004. Later Mr. Jiang was transferred from the Household Registration Section to the Environmental Protection Bureau Police Station.

Mr. Jiang married again, to Zhang Yu, a teacher at the Dehui City Kindergarten. Ms. Zhang started practising Falun Gong in 1997. She went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong in September 1999, and was arrested in mid-October by officers from the Beijing Police Department. After Dehui City Police Department officers took her back, she was held at the Dehui City Detention Centre for about 40 days. Her family was extorted of a large sum of money before she was released. Pressured by the Chinese communist regime, her previous husband divorced her out of fear of facing reprisal.

Dehui Politics and Law Committee: +86-431-87221299
Dehui 610 Office: +86-431-87216610
Chen Long, deputy director of the Dehui Police Department: +86-431-87979088
Liu Chao, from the Dehui Detention Centre: +86-15904414531

Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2011/12/26/251046.html