Practitioner Mr. Tan Weichang Persecuted in Sihui City Prison in Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province

Mr. Tan Weichang, 37, is a Falun Gong practitioner from Yuexiu District, Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province. He was jailed in Sihui Prison on November 6th, 2008. Prior to that, he had already been imprisoned for more than a year, and during that period judiciary authorities reviewed his case twice. On November 8th, 2008, they made an official decision to sentence him to three years of imprisonment without any public court session.

Mr. Tan was a employee of Procter & Gamble. Over his eight-year career he was widely praised by his foreign bosses and colleagues for his good performance at work and received the "Model Employee" award numerous times. However, to care for his mother who suffered from a mental disorder, he had to give up his profession and instead led a life of fixing computers for other people.

On September 23rd, 2007, Mr. Tan was arrested by 610 Office¹ officials when he was visiting fellow practitioner Mr. Huang Qian. That night, five people, including Ding (an official from the local Resident Committee, about 50 years old), and some 610 Office officials and local police broke into Mr. Tan's home without a warrant. They ransacked his home for about four hours and took away his computer, several MP3 players, a removable hard disk, a DVD player, and other valuables, amounting to about 10,000 yuan² in worth. Ever since, Mr. Tan has been held in a detention centre and his family members are not allowed to see him. This has resulted in a broken family and his sick mother being left at home alone.

Mr. Tan was forced to undergo two secret court sessions manipulated by the 610 Office. Despite the argument from Mr. Tan's lawyer that he was innocent, the court incriminated him with the baseless accusation of "undermining the implementation of law" and sentenced him to three years of imprisonment, not even allowing his family members or his lawyer to speak.

Since November 6th, 2008, Mr. Tan has been held in Sihui Prison, located on Northern Jiguang Street in Sihui City, Guangdong Province, where many Falun Gong practitioners have been held.

People involved in the persecution of Mr. Tan:

Ding, chief of the Resident Committee of Zhuguang Street: 86-20-88242625
Huang Sjie, 610 Office officials from Yuexiu District, Guangzhou City: 86-13903013738 (Mobile)

Criminal court of Yuexiu District, Guangzhou City:
Li Jiantao, chief judge: 86-20-87392019
Pan Lumi, jury member: 86-20-87393036

First Section of the Intermediate Court of Guangzhou City:
Ding Yangkai, chief judge
Lun Mingjian and Zhou Jinghe, deputy jury members

Sihui City Prison: from 86-758-3301001 to 3301012
Political Office of Sihui City Prison: 86-758-3301003, 86-758-3301004
Office of the Implementation of Criminal Law of Sihui City Prison: 86-758-3301008
Email of Sihui City Prison: [email protected]
Shang Dongping, Chief of Sihui City Prison
Luo Zubiao, Ye Changming and He Hailong, deputy chief of Sihui City Prison
Huang Yuequn, Political Commissar
Ling Liezhou, director of the 610 Office of Sihui City Prison: 86-758-3301760
Zhu Xipeng, deputy director of the 610 Office of Sihui City Prison

Note

1. "The 610 office" is an agency specifically created to persecute Falun Gong, with absolute power over each level of administration in the Party and all other political and judiciary systems.

2. "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/2008/12/1/190823.html