Name: Yu Yang (于洋)
Gender: Male
Age: 33
Address: Unknown
Occupation: Sales Manager, Leman Company
Date of Most Recent Arrest: July 14, 2009
Most recent place of detention: Shenxin Forced Labor Camp
City: Shenyang
Province: Liaoning
(Clearwisdom.net) Officials from Tiexi District Domestic Security Division in Shenyang City arrested Mr. Yu Yang on July 14, 2009. He was subjected to 21 months of forced labor and was covertly taken to Shenxin Forced Labor Camp, where he remained for more than eight months. He went on a hunger strike to protest the persecution and was recently released due to extreme weakness and has returned home.
Photo Yu Yang
Eight months of imprisonment
As a result of Mr. Yu's hunger strike in the labor camp, he became so emaciated that he was unrecognizable. Recently he developed severe swelling in his face and legs. He was taken to the No. 8 Shenyang Hospital, the No. 9 Shenyang Hospital and the hospital affiliated with Shenyang Medical College. He had ascites, fluid buildup in his abdominal cavity, and had blood and proteins in his urine. His blood pressure was dangerously high--186 over 112 mm Hg. The doctors suspected inflammation of the kidneys (glomerulonephritis) and recommended he be hospitalized for further examination.
Mr. Yu was put in Ward 1518 in the Nephrology Department of Shenyang Medical College Hospital on March 11, 2010. Two handcuffs hung on his bed poles. The police handcuffed him to the bed each night. The head of Shenxin Forced Labor Camp went there daily, and Shenyang City Judicial and Law Bureau head Liu Jing went there on Sundays. Four police officers were assigned to watch him, rotating their shifts every 24 hours. Labor camp guards were also assigned to watch him, their shifts rotating every three days; the labor camp's central committee officials who were assigned to watch him rotated their duties every four days.
Mr. Yu was finally diagnosed with glomerulonephritis; if not treated properly, the condition would progress to kidney failure. The Shenxin Labor Camp head reported this development to the city Health and Judicial Bureaus, and both bureau heads approved "medical release" for Yu Yang. The police drove him home.
Party retaliation against Falun Gong practitioners' successful defense
Practitioners Wu Yefeng, Zheng Yi, Lin Huaiyu, Mr. Zhao Guoliang, Cai Zongbin, and Liu Guifeng were illegally tried in the Huanggu District Court in Shenyang City on February 6, 2009. Ten lawyers defended them. Mr. Zhao Guoliang is Yu Yang's father-in-law. Mr. Yu had hired a lawyer to defend Zhao Guoliang. He also recommended other lawyers to other practitioners' families. At the conclusion of the trial, four practitioners were found innocent: Lin Huaiyu, Zhao Guoliang, Cai Zongbin, and Liu Guifeng, and they returned home after ten months of detention. This was the first case in Shenyang City during the past ten years in which Falun Gong practitioners were successfully defended. It sent shock waves throughout the community. Shenyang City610 Office even issued a classified document regarding this trial.
Officer Liu Qing from the Tiexi Police Department arrested Yu Yang afterwards and held him in Shenxin Forced Labor Camp for 21 months, declaring he had distributed Falun Gong materials between 2000 and 2002. In court, Mr. Yu's lawyer argued that the law has a statue of limitations; what someone did nine years ago can no longer be held against him, unless it's murder.
The lawyer told his family that many lawyers would be happy to defend Yu Yang, as long as the court would accept the case. The family has tried to file a lawsuit, but the court and the Forced Labor Committee have ignored them.
Agencies responsible for this persecution:
Shenyang City 610 Office: 86-24-23106009
Shenyang City Domestic Security Division: 86-24-23106023
Tiexi Domestic Security Division: 86-24-25850233; Division head: Liu Qing
Police officer: Cao Fengjun
Tiexi District Politics and Law Committee in Shenyang City, Head Zhang Wei: 86-24-25842329
Related article: http://www.clearwisdom.net/html/articles/2009/9/11/110727.html