My name is Wu Lei. I live in the No. 5, Unit One, Building No. 2, Wenmiao Small District, Kaifeng City, Henan Province, in China. My father’s name is Mr. Wu Guangcheng. He used to be the Secretary at the Kaifeng City Real Estate Company. My mother’s name is Ms. Wang Deping. She used to be the supervisor of the Kaifeng City Highway Maintenance Bureau.

One evening in November 2000 when I was 11 years old, my mother’s work supervisors came to our home and tried to coerce her to hand in her resignation. A few days later, my mother traveled to Beijing and attempted to appeal to the State Appeals Office for the injustice she had suffered. However, the police denied her constitutional right to appeal and imprisoned her in the Fengrun Detention Center in Tangshan, Hebei Province. A month later, she was transferred back to Kaifeng and sentenced to three years in Shibalihe Women’s Forced Labor Camp in Zhengzhou, Henan Province without a legal trial. The perpetrators took away all of my mother’s bank savings, totaling 5,310 yuan.

In 2000, my father was fired from his job because he would not give up practicing Falun Gong. Later, he was imprisoned in Kaifeng City Detention Center for several months because he talked with people about Falun Gong. In December 2000, my father went to Beijing and attempted to appeal for the right to practice Falun Gong, but the Beijing police arrested him and subjected him to brutal beatings. The police repeatedly slammed the door on my father’s fingers and caused all of his fingernails to fall off. Later he was sentenced to two years in the Kaifeng City Forced Labor Camp without any legal trial. Thus both of my parents were taken away from me and I was left at home without them. My neighbors avoided talking to me, afraid of the possibility of being labeled “guilty” by association with my family.

In January 2003, my father was finally released. But just two months later the Beishudian Street Police Precinct came and took him away. At first they put him in the Kaifeng City Detention Center. Then they arbitrarily sentenced him to one year in the Kaifeng City Forced Labor Camp without any legal trial. I was left home alone again without my parents.

Every day that passed, I eagerly anticipated my parents returning home. I know my parents are the best people in the world, but they have been subjected to the worst treatment and torture. I long for my parents’ love and affection, but it might be just wishful thinking.

In August 2003, my mother was released. My mother’s eyes were sunken and she had lost so much weight that she had become skin and bones. She could not even walk on her own. She weighed about 154 lbs before she was imprisoned, but now she weighed only 87 lbs. Unfortunately in February 2004, the police from Beishudian Street Police Precinct of the Longting Police Branch Bureau arrested my mother from home. They arbitrarily sentenced her to another two years in the Shibalihe Women’s Forced Labor Camp in Zhengzhou.

In March 2004, shortly after my mother was taken away from me, my father was finally released. Looking at my father’s withered frame and prematurely aged face, I knew right away that he must have suffered a lot of torture. But a few days ago, my father disappeared! When I came home, I noticed signs of forced entry and burglary. Finally I heard that the Kaifeng City State Security Bureau had taken my father and locked him up in the Kaifeng City Detention Center. I went there and tried to find him, but they wouldn’t tell me anything.

Attachments: Brief Summary of the Persecution against Mr. and Mrs. Wu Guangcheng

Mr. Wu Guangcheng is 45 years old. His home address is No. 5, Unit One Building, No. 2 Wenmiao Small District, Kaifeng City, Henan Province, China.

In 2000, the local police in Kaifeng City, Henan Province arrested Mr. Wu and imprisoned him in Kaifeng City Detention Center for several months because he clarified the facts about Falun Gong in public. At the end of 2000, Mr. Wu went to Beijing to appeal for justice for Falun Gong, but he was arrested and ended up being imprisoned in Kaifeng City Forced Labor Camp for two years. He was released in January 2003, but was unlawfully arrested again in March 2003 and imprisoned in Kaifeng City Forced Labor Camp for another year. He was released in February 2004. Between July 8 and July 9, 2005, the police arrested Mr. Wu and some other Falun Gong practitioners. It has been verified that Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Li Zhenying is now imprisoned in the Xinhua Hotel across from the People’s Hospital in Kaifeng City. However, Mr. Wu Guangcheng’s whereabouts require further investigation.

Ms. Wang Deping, the wife of Mr. Wu Guangcheng, is 44 years old. In 2000, she went to Beijing to appeal for justice for Falun Gong and as a result was imprisoned in Fengrun Detention Center in Tangshan, Hebei Province. She was transferred to the No. 1 Women’s Forced Labor Camp (Shibalihe Women’s Forced Labor Camp) in Henan Province in 2000 and detained for three years. In August 2003 she was released. In 2004 she was arrested again for clarifying the facts about Falun Gong to the local people. In March 2004 the police arrested her again and sentenced her to two years in Shibalihe Women’s Forced Labor Camp.