Mr. Yang Liwen, male, was a group leader and deputy director of the Beihu District's Justice Inspection in Chenzhou City, Hunan Province. In 1999, he was transferred to the local "610 Office" and witnessed the entire persecution process. Not only did he refuse to persecute Falun Gong practitioners; he wrote a letter to the Chenzhou local government to appeal to them to stop the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners, and he wrote a letter to an overseas website pointing out that Falun Gong is the hope of China and that “truthfulness” would be fatal to corrupt party officials. On November 5, 2002, he was arrested and detained. On November 3, 2003, he was sentenced to a long term in jail at the Second Detention Center of Chenzhou City.