The Facts of the Persecution of Falun Gong --October 9, 2009

Issued by Clearwisdom Net

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  • Mr. Ge Lijun Dies as Direct Result of Three Forced Labor Terms
  • A former university student, Mr. Ge was detained for much of  ten years. Then he was denied medical treatment under the order by the police and 610 Office. He died in June 2009.


    Mr. Ge Lijun Dies as Direct Result of Three Forced Labor Terms

    Name: Ge Lijun 
    Gender: Male
    Age: 33
    Address: Unknown
    Occupation: Unknown
    Date of Death: June 2009
    Date of Most Recent Arrest: Between March and April of 2007
    Most Recent Place of Detention: Changji City Forced Labor Camp 
    City: Changji
    Province: Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region
    Persecution Suffered: Electric Shock, Sleep Deprivation, Forced Labor, Brainwashing, Beatings, Torture, Extortion, Dismissed from College, Interrogation, Detention

     By a correspondent from Xinjiang 

    Mr. Ge Lijun was a college student, but he was dismissed from school due to his practice of Falun Gong. He had to move around to avoid being arrested. In the past ten years of persecution, Mr. Ge was sent to Changji City Forced Labor Camp three times for a total of six years.

    In 2000, Mr. Ge was arrested and sentenced to three years of forced labor. In January 2001, inside Changji City Forced Labor Camp, because Mr. Ge sat meditating, he was tortured with electric baton shocks in his sensitive spots by wardens Zhang Yan and Gu Jianhai. The guards ordered inmates to beat and insult practitioners, and arranged two prisoners to closely watch each practitioner around the clock. The practitioners were forced to labor for up to 20 hours per day, while being cursed, slapped, and having their backs hit with bricks.

    Soon after he was released, Mr. Ge was arrested again in Hutubi City in 2003 by Domestic Security agents. He was sent to the Forced Labor Camp again with a two-year term in August 2003.

    Between March and April 2007, Wang Mingyu, a person planted by the police, deceived Mr. Ge into going to the Urumqi City Train Station. The police from Manas City and Tianshan District Domestic Security agents arrested Mr. Ge and took more than 10,000 yuan in cash and his MP3 player from him. They sent Mr. Ge to the Forced Labor Camp a third time with another two-year term.

    In March 2009, Mr. Ge was finally released, but due to long time brutal mistreatment, his four limbs were so stiff that he could not stretch out his arms or open his hands. His family took him to many hospitals, but the hospital administrators refused to take him in because the police and 610 Office agents ordered them to turn him away. Mr. Ge died in June 2009.