LI Ying (fiancée of Li Qizhong, NSW)

Released already

Left half-conscious at home since October2003

Released already.

List of Family Members in Global Rescue Campaign

Over 100 cases of wrongful imprisonment in China, and the family members around the world who are asking for help to rescue them from brutal persecution.

CHEN Ruichang (elder brother of Richard Chen, NSW)

Chen Ruichang, male, 49 years old, was a senior manager of a media organisation in Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province. He is the elder brother of Australian citizen Richard Chen.

In Dec 2000, while he was at work, the police came and forcefully took him to a brainwashing class. After he returned from the class, his company put him under 24-hour surveillance. In 2001, he was sentenced to one year forced labour education in Huadu City, Guangdong Province. This centre is notorious for torturing Falun Gong practitioners and imposing long hours (15 hours a day) of heavy labour to force them to give up practising Falun Gong.

Former Deputy Chief of the Editor-in-Chief's Office at Guangdong Province Television Station, Is Released Due to Rescue Effort

Update: Australian Citizen's Brother Is Illegally Imprisoned Once Again in Guangdong

LIANG Zihui (sister-in-law of Richard Chen, NSW)

Liang Zihui, female, 44 years old, worked in a culture department in Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province. She is the sister-in-law of Australian citizen Richard Chen, wife of Chen Ruichang.

In the detention centre, she was beaten constantly by the other criminals and forced to wear a 30KG shackle all the time for 7 days and nights, even during the Chinese New Year holiday period. Because of her refusal to give up practising Falun Gong, she was sent to a women's forced labour camp. During her stay in the labour camp, she was made to work over 13 hours a day, and to attend the brainwashing class every night. Relatives could only visit her once a month and were not allowed to give her anything. She was released in August 2001 but was arrested again in June 2002. The police came to her office and took her back home in order to confiscate her Falun Gong books and tapes. When they arrived at her house, she refused to open the door as her son was preparing for the HSC exam inside the house. One hour later, because she refused to open the door, the police beat her and then cuffed her and sent her back to the detention centre. She was locked up in a cell with criminals and drug addicts. In the detention centre, she was threatened with a 15-year prison sentence. Now she is temporarily released on bail but is still under house arrest.

Zhuoya went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong twice, at the end of 1999 and in the spring of 2000. She was arrested and brought back to Urumqi by the policeman of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. She was detained for 15 days, and placed under house arrest at her work unit, and not allowed to work as a lecturer. In autumn 2000 she was forced to leave home to avoid further persecution, but was detained again. In June 2001, she was sentenced to forced labour education for 3 years for refusing to give up practising Falun Gong.

Update: Ms Zhuoya was released on 16-April-2003.

Li Jielin, female, 57 years old, retired worker in Chongqing city, Sichuan province, mother of Australian citizen Esther Wang. She was arrested in July 2000 outside her home for allegedly distributing Falun Gong leaflets. She was detained in prison for approximately four months before being taken to court and was charged with offences ranging from distributing Falun Gong literature to being in possession of Falun Dafa books. After the trial hearing, she was sent back to prison for another 5 months before being returned to the court. She was then sentenced to 3 years in a labour camp.

Update: Mrs Li was released in July 2003 after three years term.

Wang Wei, female, 31 years old, bank clerk, sister of Australian citizen Esther Wang. On 3rd January 2002, she was arrested for meeting with a group of other Falun Gong practitioners in a park in Chongqing, China. She was held in police custody without charges for almost 2 months and then was illegally sentenced, without trial, to forced labour camp for 2 years. On 26th June 2002 she was transferred to a brainwashing class within the labour camp, which normally lasts for up to 3 months, in an effort to try to make her renounce her practice. The transformation methods used are often most brutal, with both mental and physical tortures being employed to break the spirit of the person.

Update: Ms Wang Wei was released on 11-December-2003, almost a month before the expiry date of the illegal detention.

Around January 2001, Li Ying was taken to a brainwashing class in Shanghai and was forced to guarantee to give up practising Falun Gong. She was held there for about three months until May 2001. During the class, she went on hunger strike as the only way of protesting against her illegal detention. However she was force-fed and tortured in other ways. Later, as her life was in danger, her company bailed her out.

During the period when the Asia Pacific Economic Convention was held in Shanghai in October 2001, Li Ying was placed under house arrest. On 16th October 2001, when she was on a business trip in Hangzhou City, Zhe Jiang Province, she was arrested and the police told her manager that she would not be allowed to work for about 3-5 years. She was sentenced to forced labour re-education for 2 years. The police even ransacked her house and took away her key to the mailbox to prevent her family from accessing her mail. This included a document from the Australian Consulate in Shanghai pertaining to her application for emigration to Australia. Currently she is detained in Shanghai Qingsong Women's Labour camp.

Update: Ms Li Ying was released in October 2003 due to the help from Australian Government.

Thank You Flyer and Letter from the Couple

Li Ying is a Falun Dafa practitioner from Shanghai and the fiancée of Australian citizen Li Qizhong. After the Australian government and people became aware of the plight of Li Ying's family, who are being illegally detained in Shanghai, information about them was gradually obtained from China.

Her elder sister Li Hong is 38. She was arrested at the end of 1999 because she appealed peacefully for an end to the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners. She was released after being illegally detained for 13 months. On September 28 of this year, she was sentenced to two and one half years in a labor camp because she gave truth clarification literature to someone. Now she is detained in Dagang Banqiao Women's labor camp in Tianjin City.

Address: Tianjin Dagang Banqiao Women's Labor Camp, zip code: 300270,

Phone: 86-22-63251823(gate), 86-22-63251619(office), 86-22-63251069(Department of Management).

Li Liang, is 31. He was arrested in October 1999 because he appealed peacefully for the end of the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners. He was released after being detained for 1 month; two months later he was arrested again and sentenced to a labor camp. Because he would not sign a paper stating that he would give up practicing Falun Dafa, his term was extended. On June 27 of this year he was sentenced to another two years in a labor camp for the same reason. Now, he is detained in the Tianjin Qingpowa Labor Camp. He is being held with the 7th team.

Address: Tianjin City West Suburb Qingpowa Labor Camp, zip code: 300381,

Phone, 86-22-23963127(office), 86-22-23973431(Team leads: Li Wenjun, Wang Yunpu, Zhang XX), 86-22-23973120(Department of Management).

Update: Mr Li Liang was released on 20 November 2003, but was taken away again on 24 November 2003 for refusing to sign the renouncement of Falun Gong.

Yan Haiyu, female, aged 47, sister of the Australian citizen Mr Yan Zhihui NSW, used to be an actress in Guangzhou. In June 2000, because she practised the exercises of Falun Gong with other practitioners in a sports centre, she was arrested. Two months later, the police informed her family verbally that she had been sentenced to two years of forced labour camp.

A friend from China told the family that Ms Yan was often subjected to inhuman treatment in the labour camp. Prison guards hung her up for 24 hours, leaving only her toes touching the ground, in an attempt to force her to write a statement denouncing Falun Gong. She was often locked up in a small cell.

Update: Mrs Yan was released in July 2003.

At the beginning of August 2000, she photocopied and handed out Falun Gong literature, (explaining the truth about the practice), in No.1 Market of Sanya, Linwang Town, Sanya City together with two other practitioners.

On 19th August 2000 when she was handing out the materials in the same market, she was arrested and sentenced to one year forced labour re-education. Currently she is detained in a forced labour camp in Sanya City.

Story of Ms Li Cuiling

Update: Ms Li was released at the end of August 2003.

The police told her that she would be taken to a labour camp for further brainwashing until she fully renounced Falun Gong. However, at that time her father was seriously ill. Because of the lobbying by both of her former employers, the police agreed to let her temporarily out of the labour camp in order to look after our father. But this was only on the condition that she reported daily to the police about her activities and whereabouts.

On 15th May 2001, the day her father died, Alian left home to avoid further persecution. Since 29th August 2002, relatives have been unable to contact her.

In the middle of September 2002, Guangzhou police informed her daughter that she had been arrested in Tibet. The police said that they would take her back to Guangzhou within 10 days, and also said that Zhang Alian was on a hunger strike. It is believed that now she has been taken to Guangzhou, and will probably be sent to a labour camp.

This was reported by the Falun Dafa Information Centre on 18 September 2002: http://chinese.faluninfo.net/gb/displayAnArticle.asp?ID=26347

Tao Yuefen, female, 48 years old, a retired worker in Beijing, is the aunt of Liu Qiuju from Sydney, Australia. She has been arrested and detained many times for clarifying the facts about Falun Gong, and appealing to the government to end the persecution. At about 12:00 a.m. on 17th May 2002, she was arrested by local plainclothes police officers Cao and Liu for posting three pages of Falun Gong literature near Beiyuan Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing City. On 17th June 2002, Beijing Municipal Government Forced Labour Education Management Committee illegally sentenced her to 1.5 years forced labour re-education.

Story of Ms Tao Yuefen

Update: Ms Tao Yuefen was released on 16 November 2003.

Wang Jianping, male, 45 years old, taxi driver in Shanghai, is the ex-brother-in-law of Australian citizen Christine Hond in Sydney, Australia.

In November 2000 Wang was illegally arrested at a friend's home in Shanghai City, and was then detained in a forced labour camp in Chuansha County. Later he was transferred to a detention centre and was sentenced to eight years. His family members are only allowed to visit him once every month or two.

Ma Guiling was arrested on 28 September 2000 in Shanghai and was sentenced to 18 months of forced labour. Bailed by Rona's father and other relatives, the police released her but kept watching her 24 hours a day. She can not leave Shanghai or talk to anyone outside the family.

Update: Mrs Ma passed away on 1 December 2002 in Shanghai

Zhao Lin, female, 42 years old. Around 26th September 2002, she was kidnapped from home by the police from Chao Yang District of Beijing. Her whereabouts are unknown.

Tang Yiwen, Female, 36, detained on 29, August, 2000, sentenced to two years in the Chatou Women Labour Camp in Baiyun District, Guangzhou City.

Telephone of the camp:
Chief Mr. Liang: (86) 139-2514 8561
Management Department: (86) 20-81730813
Section Chief Mr. Feng: (86) 20-81730790 ext. 8822 or 8854
Division Chief Mr. Xiong, (86) 20-81209378

Ms Tang's Story

Update: Ms Tang Yiwen was released in August 2003 due to her critical condition after the torture in the labour camp.

Australian Citizen's Sister in Critical Condition After Persecution by Shenyang City Police

Ms. Zhang Yaping, sister of Australian citizen Zhang Youlai, is a 52 year old Falun Dafa practitioner from Shenyang City in Liaoning Province. On July 14, 2003, she was illegally arrested, along with a fellow practitioner by the Public Security officers of the Shenhe District in Shenyang City. They were subsequently confined at Shenyang City Detention Centre. The police wanted to send her to Dabei Jail in Shenyang City.

Zhang Yaping commenced a hunger strike, starting on July 29, 2003 in protest. Around August 13, the police notified her family members to go to Dabei Jail Hospital in Shenyang City to pick her up. Zhang Yaping's family saw that she was unconscious and her body was twitching. On August 13, the family members sent her to Shenyang University Number Two Hospital affiliated with Shenyang University for emergency treatment. There was no reaction from her when she was administered fluids. Currently, she is still in the Hospital Emergency Consultation Ward undergoing treatment.

Now Ms Zhang Yaping is in critical situation, we appeal to all kind hearted people to help stop further tragedy might happen to Ms Zhang.

(Note: Zhang Yaping was arrested in 2001 because she made truth clarification materials and was sentenced to seven years in prison. At the end of 2001, she got out of the detention centre through hunger striking and firm thoughts.)

One Page Information Sheet for Zhang's Appeal

Update: Due to the servere torture by the police, Ms Zhang Yaping has lost most of the memory and needs her mother to look after her at home since October 2003.