Military Officer Detained Ten Years and Still Denied Residential Registration a Year After Release

Major Wang Youjiang was an officer in the Telecommunications Troop in Lanzhou Military Command. He was imprisoned for ten years. Although he was released one year ago, his family is still being repeatedly harassed by the local Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Political and Legal Committee, the Yongdeng County 610 Office (an organisation of special agents just for persecuting Falun Gong), and the local police. His elderly parents' life has been severely disrupted.

On March 8th, 2011, an official from the Yongdeng Political and Legal Committee led policeman Gan from the Yongdeng Domestic Security Division, policeman Zhao from the local police station, and Yang from the local judiciary bureau to deceive Mr. Wang's family in opening their door. They claimed they wanted to “help Wang Youjiang obtain his required resident registration and identification card.” After entering the house, Gan rummaged through the rooms. The official from the Yongdeng Political and Legal Committee directly threatened Mr. Wang's family, saying that the scrolls on the door to Wang's home did not conform the CCP's regulations and were a bad influence. The scrolls were removed immediately, otherwise Wang Youjiang would have trouble getting a resident registration and identification card.

Mr. Wang's family questioned the committee official as to which regulation the scrolls did not conform to, how they were a bad influence, and who was harmed, but the official did not respond. When Mr. Wang's family further asked him to point out which word in the scrolls was inappropriate, he was speechless. Mr. Wang's family said it is a citizen's right to post a scroll and no one had the right to interfere. They were the government's law enforcement personnel and their unreasonable demand was against the law. Mr. Wang's family advised these men to think about this seriously and not to knowingly violate the law. However, the officers did not listen and forcibly pulled down the scrolls.

Passers-by saw what was happening and condemned those officers' illegal actions. The officers fled quickly.

Mr. Wang Youjiang started to practise Falun Gong in 1998. After Jiang Zemin's, [former leader of China and instigator of the persecution] regime launched the persecution of Falun Gong on July 20th, 1999, Mr. Wang was detained several times. On January 10th, 2001, he was arrested and detained in the Xiguoyuan Detention Centre in Lanzhou. During the detention, guards hit and kicked him. He was forced into slave labour for a long time and inhumanly tortured. When he was transferred to the Siergou Detention Centre in Xigu, Lanzhou, he could not stand up. On July 3rd, 2001, the Chengguang District Court in Lanzhou secretly sentenced Mr. Wang to ten years in prison. Mr. Wang was first detained in the Xiguoyuan Detention Centre and then transferred to the Siergou Detention Centre and the Dashaping Prison. He was released on January 9th, 2011.

Mr. Wang applied for his required resident registration and identification ID in April 2011. Almost a year has passed. Wang Yujuan, a policewoman of the Resident Registration Administration Office in Yongdeng Police Department, continually made excuses for the delay. She said: “We are still trying to drive away those Falun Gong practitioners currently in our local area. How can we receive a new one?” Her tone and the look in her eyes expressed extreme hatred toward Falun Gong and practitioners.