Ms. Zheng Muzhi from Helong City, Jilin Province, Sentenced to Four and a Half Years in Prison

Name: Zheng Muzhi
Gender: Female
Age: Unknown
Address: Helong City
Occupation: Teacher at the Anbei Forest Farm Elementary School of Bajiazi Forestry Bureau, Helong City, Jilin Province
Date of Most Recent Arrest: January 4th, 2011
Most Recent Place of Detention: Helong Detention Centre
City: Helong
Province: Jilin
Persecution Suffered: Forced labour, torture, detention

On January 4th, 2011, police officers arrested Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Zheng Muzhi outside of the building where her elder brother lives. Later, she was sentenced by the Helong Court to four and a half years in prison. She is currently incarcerated in Changchun Prison.

Ms. Zheng worked very hard at her job and never complained. She spent her spare time helping her students free of charge. Her reputation among her colleagues, students, and students' parents was very good. However, this good teacher lost her job and became homeless, because she appealed for Falun Gong in Beijing after the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) started the persecution of Falun Gong in July 1999.

Later, Ms. Zheng had to earn a living on her own. On August 2006, Zhu Jicheng, an officer from the Domestic Security Division, Bajiazi Forestry Bureau Police Office, arrested her at the Beida Supermarket in Yanji City. She was sentenced to one and a half years of forced labour and taken to the notorious Heizuizi Women's Forced Labour Camp of Jilin Province. While in the labour camp, Ms. Zheng refused to cooperate with the officials, so they tied her to the death bed¹ for eight days. They did not untie her from the bed even when she had to relieve herself or during her menstrual period. Because she refused to give up her belief, her prison term was extended several times.

On January 4th, 2011, Liu Xiaolong and several other officials from the Bajiazi Forestry Bureau Police Office arrested Ms. Zheng outside of the building where her elder brother lives. They were hiding in a bush and followed Ms. Zheng's son in order to arrest her.

Ms. Zheng was later detained in the Helong Detention Centre. Meanwhile, her husband, Mr. Liu Yubao, was detained in the Yinmaher Forced Labour Camp in Jiutai City. Their son, an elementary student, has had to live with his grandmother, who is also taking care of two other grandsons and her husband. Ms. Zheng's family has requested her release, but the CCP secretary of local Political and Judiciary Committee, Zhao Jing, refused out of hand.

It has recently been learned that Ms. Zheng Muzhi has been sentenced by the Helong Court to four and a half years in prison term.

Contact information:

Telephone numbers (Local Code: +86-433)

Name, Office, Residential phone, Mobile phone:

Wang Wenyou, principal official of the Police Bureau: 4867002 4223525, +86-13904463536

Hao Weicai, principal official of the Political Bureau: 4867003, +86-13843333330

Wang Yonghua, principal official of the Political Bureau: 4867005 +86-13904463848

Jin Shengguan, vice president of the Police Bureau, principal official in charge of persecuting Falun Gong: 4867006, 4860522, +86-13904468887

Domestic Security Division: 4867013 4867025

Criminal Department: 4867015 4867029

Zhao Zhikui, chief commander of the Domestic Security Division, principal official in charge of persecuting Falun Gong: +86-13009082951

Wang Jiahui, tutor of the Domestic Security Division, principal official who participated in persecuting Falun Gong: 4864074, +86-13154339655

Liu Xueyan, police officer from the Domestic Security Division: 4861537, +86-13944304788

Li Fu, president of the Bajiazi Forestry Bureau: 4860686, 2859868, +86-13844379868

Liu Hong, the CCP secretary of the Bajiazi Forestry Bureau: 4861053, 4866266, +86-13844306930

Zhao Jing, the CCP secretary of the Political and Judiciary Committee: 4861020, 4861106, +86-13844715538

Zhang Wenxin, director of the 610 Office: 4864950, 4861157, +86-13904468697

Note

1. "Death Bed" torture: A practitioner is tied to a bed with his hands handcuffed above his head to the bed rails, and his legs tied with thin nylon ropes. The rope is then tightly wrapped around the practitioner's body and the bed, from his legs to his chest. The rope is wrapped so tightly that the practitioner has difficulty breathing and eventually loses consciousness.

Chinese version available at tp://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2011/12/5/250198.html