Mr. Ji Xinhai, a Falun Gong practitioner in Huailai County, Hebei Province, was illegally arrested before the 2008 Beijing Olympics while working on a farm and sentenced to four years in prison.

Mr. Ji Xinhai Abused to Disability in Hebei Province

Ji Xinhai lived in Liangzhuang Village, Xibali Town, Huailai County, Hebei Province. On July 11, 2008, Beixinbao Police Station arrested Mr. Ji while he was working on a farm. He was later transferred to Xibali Town Police Station.

Mr. Ji has a wife, a nine-year-old child, and a seventy-year-old mother. With the arrest of Mr. Li, his family lost their main source of income and fell into financial hardship.

On July 12, 2008, Liangzhuang Village's chief executive Du Junming led a dozen officers in a search of Mr. Ji's home. They seized Falun Gong books, a personal computer, a printer, and other property worth more than 10,000 yuan. The police arrested Mr. Ji's wife, Ms. Pang Aixiu, leaving their nine-year-old child at home alone. The following day, July 13, 2008, Ms. Pang was transferred to county detention center.

On January 6, 2009, Ms. Pang was released, but Mr. Ji was sentenced to four years in prison. By then, Mr Ji had lost the ability to take care of himself due to the abuse suffered in detention. Although his family asked to see him many times, all of their visitation requests were denied.

Mr. Ji was transferred to a different prison on March 5, 2009. His family made many inquiries of many sources to try to learn the name or location of the prison, but failed to get any information. Then, suddenly on the evening of March 20, 2009, they received a call from Mr. Ji, saying that he was in the Central Hospital of the 4th Detachment of Jidong Prison located in Tangshan City, Hebei Province.