By a Falun Gong practitioner from Hubei Province

(Clearwisdom.net) During the three years of her son's prison detention, no matter whether it was snowing heavily or extremely hot, Mr. Wu Zhiqiang's mother never gave up appealing for her son. On every family visiting day, she would arrive at the prison in the early morning and ask to meet her son. However, she was never allowed to see him until he was released.

On February 3, 2003, Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Wu Zhiqiang from the Qiaokou District of Wuhan City, Hubei Province, was arrested for spreading truth-clarifying materials. He was then sentenced to three years in prison. After his release on August 3, 2006, the director of the Qiaokou District 610 Office Xie Guanchang, led a group of people to abduct Mr. Wu. He was sent directly to a brainwashing session for further persecution.

Wu Zhiqiang's mother is over 60 years old. During those initial three years of her son's detention, she kept appealing for her son's innocence without ever getting an answer. On August 3, she arrived at Qinduankou Prison in Hanyang City in the early morning to pick up her son. However, her son had already been secretly picked up by the director of the 610 Office, Xie Guanchang, and other people, who sent him directly to the brainwashing center.

She was extremely angry. She found Xie Guangchang and asked for her son. Xie told her that he had been informed by the provincial government that if a Falun Gong practitioner was not "transformed" within his detention period, he/she must be sent to a brainwashing center for forced "transformation." Xie's excuse was that he was just following orders. She asked him where the brainwashing center was, but he did not tell her. He simply told her that if she wanted to find her son, she'd have to go to the provincial government.

Every day, she looked for her son in extremely hot weather. She went to the provincial 610 Office, the district 610 Office, the Street and Neighborhood Committee, the provincial brainwashing center, the city's brainwashing center, and the district's brainwashing center. Finally, she arrived at the Erdaopeng Brainwashing Center in Jianghan District. The worker she spoke with admitted that Wu Zhiqiang was inside and accepted the clothes that she had brought for her son. However, they have yet to let her meet with him.

From June 2002 on, the director of the Qiaokou District 610 Office, Xie Guanchang, has followed the orders of the Chinese Communist Party to persecute Falun Gong practitioners. He has held more than 20 brainwashing sessions and has used various cruel methods to torture Falun Gong practitioners who refused to be "transformed," including sleep deprivation, standing punishment, exposure to the hot sun, freezing, beating, forced-feeding and handcuffing. As a result, dozens of persecuted practitioners were injured or became disabled.

Xie Guanchang, Director for the 610 Office of Qiaokou District

Address: 131 Zhongshan Blvd, Hankou City, Wuhan City, Hubei Province, China, Zip 430030

Telephone: 86-27-83755565 (Office), 86-27-83785903 (Office), 86-27-83754886 (Home), 86-13971508123 (Cell)

September 26, 2006