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Ms. Shi Yuping, 62, of Tianjin City Was Secretly Sentenced to Three-and-a-Half Years in Prison
(Clearwisdom.net) Over the past nine years of persecution, practitioner
Ms. Shi Yuping, a resident of Xizhou Village in Tianjin City, has been
imprisoned several times because of her practice of Falun Gong. On January 25,
2003, while she was visiting her parents, she was arrested in the Dawang Village
Barber Shop by officers from the Douzhangzhuang Township Police Station. She was
illegally detained for a month. On December 18, 2007, as M. Shi was
returning home on Gaowang Street and clarifying the truth, she was
arrested by officers from the Douzhangzhuang Township Police Station and the
Wuqing District No. 3 Criminal Investigation Section. She was "illegally
detained" for two weeks. On January 3, 2008, Ms. Shi was released. On the afternoon of the same day,
officers from the Douzhangzhuang Township Police Station and the Chenzui Police
Station went to her home with the intent of arresting her again. One month
later, at around 7:00 p.m. on February 3, 2008, half a dozen officers from the
Wuqing District No. 3 Criminal Investigation Section and the Douzhangzhuang
Township Police Station scaled the wall around Ms. Shi's yard, arrested her from
her dinner table, and imprisoned her in the local detention center. Recently Ms. Shi, age 62, was secretly sentenced to three-and-a-half years in
prison after she was detained in the Wuqing Detention Center for more than a
year. She has been imprisoned since February 2, 2007. All family visit requests
have been denied by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) authorities. It was reported that Ms. Shi fainted in court during the secret trial back in
early March. She later asked to see her family, but the director of the
detention center ignored her requests and said that visitation could only be
arranged after the trial. Ms. Shi's family has been worried about her health.
She used to have breast cancer, heart disease, a cervical vertebra bone spur,
and other health problems. After practicing Falun Dafa, all these ailments
disappeared. Her children worry that she might suffer a relapse in the detention
center, so they went to the detention center but were not allowed to visit.
Detention center Director Zhao Guoquan (male) and guard Li Yanli (female)
claimed that Ms. Shi was in good health. On July 10, 2008, Shi Yuping's family went to the detention center again. The
guards said that she had been transferred the week before. When the family
called the director, the director said, "The court sentenced her to
three-and-a-half-years in prison. Ms. Shi Yuping appealed the sentence. She was
sent to the Tianjin City Detention Center, and we have nothing to do with her
now." The family drove to the Tianjin City Detention Center. They inquired
about Ms. Shi at the reception desk. A guard on duty simply responded, "I
do not know." After the family begged for him to look her up, the guard
nonchalantly answered, "Rules from the top: we do not give any information
about anyone locked up in here." Anther guard asked what kind of case it
was. When he heard that it was Falun Gong-related, he told them not to ask any
more, that orders were from the top, that he did not know and was not allowed to
say anything. He said that the city's 610 Office was in charge of
the case, and that they should go home. 610 Office, Wuqing District: 86-22-82138667 July 13, 2008
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