Yanyun Huang, female, 58, retired
kindergarten teacher; Haiyan He, female, 35, primary school
teacher; and Haiou He, male, 31, physician — mother, sister,
and brother of Haiying He, male, 37, MD, Ph.D., a biomedical
researcher at Harvard Medical School
Ms. Huang was detained for several months, and after that
sent to a drug rehabilitation center for more than one and
a half years. She was forced to do hard labor during the day
and sleep shoulder to shoulder in a very small room with over
twenty drug addicts. She was bailed out by her school colleagues
two months after her sentence was due to end and has been
under very restrict monitoring by local police 24 hours a
day since then. When she applied for a passport to visit her
son in the United States, she was rejected on the grounds
that she was a Falun Gong practitioner and might tell what
had happened to her and her family.
Ms. Haiyan He was sentenced in January 2001 to a labor camp
for one and a half years. No one was able to contact her for
a year beginning in June 2001, during which time she was put
in solitary confinement in a “black cell” for
several months. Since being released from the labor camp,
she has been under very strict surveillance by local police
24 hours a day.
Mr. Haiou He, a physician, was held in police custody for
over one and a half years, without being allowed any contact
with his family. Instead of healing others, he faced beatings
and torture every day. In May 2002, he was sentenced to 10
years in jail for refusing to give up his belief in Truthfulness-Compassion-Tolerance. |
