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70-Year-Old Practitioner Yang Lianwu's Life in Danger, But Neijiang City "610 Office" Refuses to Release Him From Deyang City Prison
(Clearwisdom.net)
Yang Lianwu, around 70 years old, is a retired engineer from the Neijiang
City Textile Factory in Sichuan Province. He used to have many diseases, however
after becoming a Falun Dafa practitioner, not only were his diseases cured, but
his gray hair turned black. His wife, a doctor, was deeply moved by the miracle
of Falun Dafa, so she started cultivating with her husband.
After July 20, 1999, when the government banned Falun Dafa, Yang Lianwu's
wife went to Beijing to appeal to the government to stop persecuting Falun Dafa.
She was detained for 40 days and fined 6000 Yuan. [500 Yuan is the average
monthly income for an urban worker in China.] 300 Yuan is deducted each
month from her retirement pay, although all she only receives 400 Yuan per
month. Their son and daughter both were dismissed from their jobs and receive no
income at all because their parents practice Falun Gong.
Yang Lianwu was arrested while the police were searching his home. They fined
him another 6000 Yuan. Yang Lianwu refused to go along with this illegal
persecution, so the police detained him for more than 1 year and still have not
released him. Although he is 70 years old, the police illegally sentenced him to
3 years in a labor camp and sent him to Deyang Prison in Sichuan Province.
After enduring heavy labor, mental and physical torture, and severe living
conditions, he collapsed one day, and his life was in imminent danger. The labor
camp sent him to the hospital in an attempt to rescue him, and conducted surgery
on his head. The prison feared that they would have to pay more medical costs,
so they notified his family to take him home on parole. However, the Neijiang
City "610 Office" [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] overruled the decision. Yang Lianwu is
still locked up in the Deyang Labor Prison despite the fact that his life is in
danger.
We hope the international organizations that are interested in human rights
pay attention to this situation. We request that the Neijiang City government
release Yang Lianwu, so that he can recover properly.
Fellow practitioners who read this news, please send forth righteous thoughts
to help Mr. Yang overcome his current situation.
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