Ms. Li Hongzhen from Shanghai Arrested Again

Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Li Hongzhen, in her 50s, from Shanghai was arrested on February 18th, 2011. Ms. Li was previously sentenced to five years in prison in 2001, and held in Shanghai Women's Prison.

Neighbourhood committee officers led a group of police officers and forcibly arrested Ms. Li at home around 5:00 p.m. on February 8th, 2011. They ransacked her home and confiscated her Falun Gong books, a computer, and other personal belongings. Her current whereabouts are unknown.

Ms. Li has been subjected to forced labour, and incarceration at brainwashing facilities since the persecution started in July 1999.

Changning District Court officials sentenced Ms. Li to five years in prison on October 15th, 2001, and sent her to Shanghai Women's Prison, where guards and inmates continually harassed her and forced her to do heavy labour. When Ms. Li heard that a deputy to the National People's Congress would come to inspect the prison in 2002, she wrote a letter exposing the persecution of Falun Gong and asked a practitioner in the Art Team to help pass it to the deputy. She was reported and placed into solitary confinement.

Once, Ms. Li refused to sing songs praising the Communist Party. Guards dragged her to the conference hall and insulted her for several hours in front of many people. Inmates in her cell monitored her, forbidding her to talk to other practitioners or pass on any items. Guards and inmates checked every book and newspaper she read.

Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2011/2/20/236579.html