(Minghui.org) “I can't tell you my name. If I did, I would be in trouble. You know what I mean.” The attorney of Ms. Yang Jin'e got this reply when he requested the officer's contact information for future correspondence in his effort to seek his client's release.
Ms. Yang, a 59-year-old Shanghai resident, was arrested along with Ms. Li Shuang on April 2 while distributing literature that contained information about the persecution of Falun Gong. Agents from Jinshan District Domestic Security Office ransacked the practitioners' homes that night and seized their personal belongings, including computers, printers, Falun Gong books and materials.
Both women were placed under criminal detention the next day, and their arrest warrants were approved 25 days later. Ms. Yang's lawyer went to Jinshan District Police Department to inquire about her case on May 11, but he was unable to even get the name of the officer who received him during the visit.
The Domestic Security Office of Jinshan District Police Department is also responsible for Ms. Yang's past persecution. Prior to her latest arrest, she had been arrested six times for refusing to give up her constitutional right to freedom of belief.
In particular, she was given one and a half years of forced labor on December 9, 2009. In just a few weeks, she had suffered from gastrointestinal perforation as a result of the abuse and was rushed to the hospital on December 31. The day after her surgery, she was transferred to a prison hospital about 100 miles away to serve her term.
Ms. Yang is one of many targeted by the domestic security office. Ever since the persecution of Falun Gong began in 1999, the agency has been following the orders of the 610 Office to monitor, arrest, and detain local Falun Gong practitioners.
As brutal as they are in violating the practitioners' rights, the police are seemingly afraid to reveal their identity, as Ms. Yang's lawyer discovered. He suspected that the officers involved feared their crimes being exposed to the public.
