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Dr. Li Aijun, Physician at a Beijing Hospital, Sentenced to Nine Years in Prison By a Falun Dafa Practitioner from Beijing City
(Clearwisdom.net) In 2002, Dr. Li Aijun, a physician at Xiyuan
Hospital in Beijing, was sentenced to nine years in prison for practicing Falun
Dafa. She has already served five years in the Tiantanghe Women's Prison in
Beijing. Dr. Li was a physician in internal medicine in Xiyuan Hospital's
inpatient department. Before she began practicing Falun Dafa, she was a frail
individual who frequently became ill. After she began cultivating, however, she
became healthy and energetic. She strictly conducted herself according to the
principles of "Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance." While each of
the other doctors in her division cared for only three patients, Dr. Li cared
for nine, and she never asked for additional compensation. Both the hospital
staff and the patients praised her highly for her dedication and her noble
medical ethics. By late 2000, however, Dr. Li was forced to leave her job and was homeless
for over a year in order to avoid the persecution. In early 2002, police spotted Dr. Li and arrested her. She was sentenced to
nine years in prison, and also formally dismissed by her employer. Since her imprisonment, Dr. Li has been unable to care for her elderly
parents or her son, a high school student. Her husband works hard every day, but
he has no one to look after him. Dr. Li's heavy prison sentence has brought
severe emotional trauma as well as economic loss to her family. Reports indicate that other Falun Dafa practitioners currently held in the
Beijing Women's Prison include Ms. Chu Dan, a graduate student from Qinghua
University, who was sentenced to eleven years, as well as Ms. Zhou Zi, a model
teacher from the Fangshan District, and four government officials, including Ms.
He Xinping, Ms. Xu Jing, Ms. Liu Yi, and Ms. Chen Shulan. Their sentences range
from five to eight years. The guards at the Beijing Women's Prison often beat practitioners with
impunity. Ms. Zhou protested her mistreatment and has been on a hunger strike
since February 26, 2007. Fifty-nine days have elapsed as of April 25. May 7, 2007
Posting date: 5/22/2007 |