Chinese prisoner of conscience, Mao Hengfeng, was re-arrested last week and shipped back to a labor camp for her struggle against China’s one child policy, reports LifeSiteNews.com. Amnesty International issued an urgent call for universal action after Hengfeng’s re-arrest from her home in Shanghai. In March last year, Hengfeng was sentenced to a year and a half of “re-education through labor” (RTL) for “disturbing public order.” Hengfeng had been released on parole due to health concerns from her ill-treatment and torture during imprisonment on February 22, but was arrested and sent back to labor camps on February 24. Her whereabouts remains unknown. A human rights activist in China, Hengfeng has fought China’s brutal one child policy since 1988 when she was fired from her job for violating the law with her third pregnancy. Hengfeng appealed the court’s rule and was reinstated in her job. Later, however, she was denied appeal, dismissed from her job, and forced to abort her fourth child. Since then Hengfeng has been repeatedly imprisoned and tortured for her activism. Prior to her release last week, Hengfeng had seen two doctors for medical examinations. From a CT scan, doctors confirmed she had bleeding in her brain. She was also inhibited from normal movement by a partial loss of feeling on the left half of her body. After her release, Mao Hengfeng returned home, but was detained by police when she attempted to see a doctor for further medical treatment. To read the full story, click here.
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