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Practitioner Mr. Tan Weichang Persecuted in Sihui City Prison in Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province
(Clearwisdom.net) Mr. Tan Weichang, 37, is a Falun Dafa practitioner from
Yuexiu District, Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province. He was jailed in Sihui
Prison on November 6, 2008. Prior to that, he had already been imprisoned for
more than a year, and during that period judiciary authorities reviewed his case
twice. On November 8, 2008, they made an official decision to sentence him to
three years of imprisonment without any public court session. Mr. Tan was a employee of Procter & Gamble. Over his eight-year career he
was widely praised by his foreign bosses and colleagues for his good performance
at work and received the "Model Employee" award numerous times.
However, to care for his mother who suffered from a mental disorder, he had to
give up his profession and instead led a life of fixing computers for other
people. On September 23, 2007, Mr. Tan was arrested by 610 Office
officials when he was visiting fellow practitioner Mr. Huang Qian. That night,
five people, including Ding (an official from the local Resident Committee,
about 50 years old), and some 610 Office officials and local police broke into
Mr. Tan's home without a warrant. They ransacked his home for about four hours
and took away his computer, several MP3 players, a removable hard disk, a DVD
and VCD player, and other valuables, amounting to about 10,000 yuan
in worth. Ever since, Mr. Tan has been held in a detention center and his family
members are not allowed to see him. This has resulted in a broken family and his
sick mother being left at home alone. Mr. Tan was forced to undergo two secret court sessions manipulated by the
610 Office. Despite the argument from Mr. Tan's lawyer that he was innocent, the
court incriminated him with the baseless accusation of "undermining the
implementation of law" and sentenced him to three years of imprisonment,
not even allowing his family members or his lawyer to speak. Since November 6, 2008, Mr. Tan has been held in Sihui Prison, located on
Northern Jiguang Street in Sihui City, Guangdong Province, where many Falun Gong
practitioners have been held. People involved in the persecution of Mr. Tan: Ding, chief of the Resident Committee of Zhuguang Street: 86-20-88242625 Criminal court of Yuexiu District, Guangzhou City: First Section of the Intermediate Court of Guangzhou City: Sihui City Prison: from 86-758-3301001 to 3301012
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