Ms. Wang Gaizhen Sent to Forced Labour Camp in Taiyuan, Shanxi Province for Two Years

Name: Wang Gaizhen
Gender: Female
Age: Unknown
Address: Datong City, Shanxi Province
Occupation: Nurse
Date of Most Recent Arrest: July 26th, 2010
Most Recent Place of Detention: Xindian Women's Forced Labour Camp
City: Taiyuan
Province: Shanxi
Persecution Suffered: Forced labour, home ransacked, interrogation, detention

Practitioner Ms. Wang Gaizhen is a nurse in the department of neurology at the Third Hospital of Datong City Mining Bureau. She was arrested at work for her beliefs on July 26th by officers from the Urban District Police Department. After being detained for more than a month at the Datong Detention Centre, she was sentenced to two years of forced labour on September 17th. She is imprisoned at the Xindian Women's Forced Labour Camp in Taiyuan City, Shanxi Province.

This is the third time that Ms. Wang has been arrested for her beliefs. She was arrested for telling others the facts about Falun Gong on November 2nd, 2001, and was subjected to three years of forced labour at the Xindian Women's Forced Labour Camp.

During a raid led by the Tatong 610 Office (an organisation of special agents just for persecuting Falun Gong) on November 7th, 2006, more than a dozen officers from the Mining District Police Department ransacked her house and seized her computer and printer. She and her son, an eight-year-old named Ming Yu, were taken into custody and brought to the security department of the Datong City Mining Bureau Machine Tool Factory.

Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2010/10/18/231159.html