Name: Yang Qin (阳琴)
Gender: Female
Age: 56
Address: Unknown
Occupation: Employee of Municipal Administration Bureau
Date of Most Recent Arrest: February 3, 2010
Most recent place of detention: Women's forced labor camp (女子劳教所)
City: Chongqing
Province: Sichuan
Persecution Suffered: Detention, brainwashing, torture, beatings, illegal sentencing.
(Clearwisdom.net) On February 3, 2010, when Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Yang Qin was clarifying the truth about Falun Gong at the food market, she was illegally arrested by Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials. The CCP officials told her family members that she would be detained for fifteen days, however after Ms. Yang had a full physical examination, she was sent to the Women's Forced Labor Camp for further persecution. Ms. Yang went on a long-term hunger strike to protest the persecution, and was eventually sent to a hospital once her life was in danger. Ms. Yang has now been arrested five times.
Ms. Yang Qin began practicing Falun Gong in 1996. She has since often been harassed, followed and threatened by telephone, and the whole family has been very nervous and afraid.
In late 2000, Ms. Yang Qin went to Beijing to clarify the truth and she was detained at Tongliang Detention Center for several months. A leader of the Municipal Administration Bureau ordered the police to use cigarettes to burn her feet if she practiced Falun Gong in the detention center.
In November 2001, Ms. Yang was again arrested and sent without due process to the Jingkou Brainwashing Center in Chongqing, where she was persecuted for seven months. During that period her employer was forced to pay 3,000 yuan per month.
In 2005, when she was clarifying the facts about Falun Gong and the persecution, Ms. Yang Qin was arrested and later detained at Tongliang Detention Center for 15 days.
In April 2006, seven CCP officers broke into Ms. Yang's home and arrested her. Without any legal documents, they sent her to Maojiashan Women's Forced Labor Camp in Chongqing. She was secretly sentenced to one and a half years of imprisonment. Ms. Yang Qin was brutally beaten by drug addicts in the labor camp. As she was forced to squat for long periods of time and was extremely weak, her whole body became swollen. Her physical condition was very poor after the torture. The labor camp was afraid to take responsibility and released her for medical treatment.
