Family members find Mr. Lu covered in blood.

An employee of a US based company is arrested and sent to a labor camp. Neither his family nor his employer are informed.

Mr. Lu Zhenxiang Vomited Blood as a Result of Forced Feedings  

Name: Lu Zhengxiang 
Gender: Male
Age: 65
Address: Unknown
Occupation: Former Employee at the fishery of the Saicheng Lake Plantation in Jiujiang County, Jiangxi Province
Date of Most Recent Arrest: July 21, 2009
Most recent place of detention: Shili Detention Center in Jiujiang City 
City: Jiujiang
Province: Jiangxi
Persecution Suffered: Detention, Torture, Forced Feeding, Physical Restraint, Extortion
Key Persecutors: Huang Liang , Ma Zuoyue

Correspondent from Jiangxi Province

On the morning of July 21, 2009, Mr. Lu Zhenxiang was reported by Gui Jiaxiang, head of the Fourth Unit of Aimin Village, Yong-an Township, Jiujiang County, where he was distributing truth-clarifying materials about Falun Gong. He was arrested by Huang Liang, chief of Yong-an Township Police Station, and other officers. On the same evening, he was sent to Shili Detention Center by officers Feng Jianping and Cai Meng.

Mr. Lu firmly believed that he was merely exercising his constitutional rights to freedom of belief and freedom of speech when he was clarifying the truth about Falun Gong. There was nothing wrong with his conduct, and he did not violate any laws. One week after he was detained, he went on a hunger strike to protest.

Ten days later the detention center, with help from 1st Hospital of Jiujiang City and the Maternal and Child Health Care Hospital, began to force feed Mr. Lu. They inserted a plastic tube from his nose to his stomach while handcuffing his hands behind his back, with one hand pulled back from his shoulder to his back. They left the plastic tube in Mr. Lu after the forced feeding and spread his arms and feet fully outwards before tying them down to a plank bed with handcuffs and shackles. This torture is also known as bounding to a death bed.

After two days and one night, Mr. Lu began to vomit blood. When the doctor removed the plastic tube, they found that Mr. Lu's esophagus and stomach were full of blood. Yet the officers at the detention center still asked the doctor; "Can we continue with the forced feeding?" The doctor replied no. Since Mr. Lu was extremely weak and on the verge of death, the two hospitals who participated in the forced feeding dared not to admit him. It was at that time when the detention center notified Mr. Lu's family and asked them to come and bail him out pending his trial.

In the afternoon of August 8, 2009, when Mr. Lu's son went to get his father, he burst into tears after he saw his father covered with blood. The detention center extorted 1,000 yuan from his son under the name "medical expense" before they released Mr. Lu.

Since 1999, Mr. Lu has been illegally detained seven times, and his pension has been suspended. He was sentenced to a five-year term in 2002. In 2008 he was sentenced to eighteen months of forced labor for participating in a group Falun Gong book reading. The latest arrest took place shortly after he was released from the forced labor camp on parole for medical treatment. Officer Feng Jianping threatened Mr. Lu and said: " I can arrest you at any time."

Mr. Lu's wife Ms. Wang Shifan, 63, is known for being a decent, honest person. She refused to falsify the accounts when she was working as an accountant at the Saicheng Lake Plantation. She has been illegally detained three times, two of which she was sent to the forced labor camp. She is currently being held at the Nanchang Women's Forced Labor Camp serving an eighteen-month term.

Sales Manager Secretly Locked Up in a Forced Labor Camp (Photo) 

Name: Yu Yang
Gender: Male
Age: 33
Address: Unknown
Occupation: Sales Manager, Leman Company
Date of Most Recent Arrest: July14, 2009
Most recent place of detention: Shenxin Forced Labor Camp 
City: Shenyang
Province: Liaoning

On July 14, 2009, Mr. Yu Yang, 33, was secretly arrested by the Domestic Security Police in Tiexi District, Shenyang City, because he practices Falun Gong. He was jailed in Zhangshi Brainwashing Center, transferred to Shenyang Jail, and finally, without going through any legal proceedings, secretly put into Shenxin Forced Labor Camp.

Mr. Yu Yang

Mr. Yu Yang was a sales manager at the northeastern Chinese office of Leman Company, a U.S. based company. Through practicing Falun Gong, he became more kind, earnest, and diligent and had won many awards. In June, the CEO of the company in Beijing awarded him with a notebook computer, which was later seized by the police when he was arrested. The business he was in charge of also came to a halt, and the company was very worried.

After Mr. Yu's arrest, his family did not know where he was taken to. Both Tiexi National Police, and the local police would not reveal his whereabouts. His family tried every way they could to find him. His mother was exhausted from the stress and lost twenty pounds in a few days. His father, who was recovering from a stroke, was pushed around by the police at the Zhangxi Brainwashing Center.

Recently, when the family members went to the jail to deliver clean clothes, they learned that he was no longer there. The jail refused to tell them where he was taken to. The family had to call the Domestic Security agent Cao Fengjun. He told them that Mr. Yu has been sentenced to 21 months of forced labor, and was jailed in Shenxin Forced Labor Camp.