The Facts of the Persecution of Falun Gong --December 27, 2009

Issued by Clearwisdom Net

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  • After Being Imprisoned for Eight Years, Yu Lixin Is Sentenced to Another Four Years
  • Mr. Yu Lixin was sentenced to three years of forced labor over his going to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong in 2001. In 2004, he was sentenced to five and a half years in prison for the alleged "crimes" of holding an experience sharing meeting and spreading Falun Gong materials. In September 2009, he was arrested again and was forcibly injected drugs in a hospital, where the local CCP authorities sentenced him to another four years in prison.


    After Being Imprisoned for Eight Years, Yu Lixin Is Sentenced to Another Four Years 

    Name: Yu Lixin(余立新)
    Gender: Male
    Age:43
    Address: Nanganqian Street, Xinhe Town, Wenling City, Zhejiang Province(浙江省温岭市新河镇南干前街)
    Occupation:Unknown

    Date of Most Recent Arrest:September, 2009
    Most recent place of detention:
    Drug Injection Center of Wenling City First Hospital (温岭第一医院药物注射中心)
    City:Wenling City (温岭市)
    Province: Zhejiang Province (
    浙江省)
    Persecution Suffered:
    Detention, Forced labor, Force-Feedings, Physical Constraint, Sleep Deprivation, Illegal sentencing, Extortion, Forced Injections

    Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Yu Lixin had been illegally sentenced to eight years of forced labor. While in the forced labor camp, he was severely abused. He was not released until 2009. Recently he was arrested and sent to prison again.

    In December 1999 Mr. Yu, while practicing Falun Gong exercises in a park, was arrested. He was sent to Wenling Detention Center and was held there for one month. Then he was transferred to a hotel in Xinhe and was held there for half a year.

    In January 2001, Mr. Yu went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong. He was arrested and detained again at Wenling Detention Center. He went on a hunger strike to protest the persecution. Zhu Sufang, Deputy Director of the detention center, force-fed him. Police used sharp bamboo sticks to pry open his tightly clenched teeth. His mouth bled and his face became swollen. Then police fixed him on a wooden frame with his four limbs stretched wide open and then gave him injections of concentrated salt solution. He was then sent to a hospital. He was sentenced to three years of forced labor at Shiliping Forced Labor Camp. Because his family was not notified, his elderly parents were going to every related organization trying to find his whereabouts.

    In the afternoon of May 12, 2004, while Mr. Yu was in a practitioner's home, Lin Chenchao, Vice Leader of the Domestic Security Team led other police to break into Mr. Yu's home and arrest him. At Xinhe Police Station, Mr. Yu didn't cooperate with the police for written records. They didn't allow him to sleep. As soon as he closed his eyes, they injected water into his body. He was deprived of sleep for twenty consecutive days. During that time he fainted four times. Police formed three groups to torture him in three shifts 24 hours a day.

    In the evening on May 31, 2004, Mr. Yu was transferred to Wenling Detention Center. He had been on a hunger strike for twenty days. Two days later, Zhu Sufang ordered other officers to take him to Qingchun Hospital in Hangzhou City (it is a hospital that treats prisoners with serious diseases.) Zhu Sufang ordered policeman Chen Jianguang to persuade doctors to put him in the contagious disease ward for hepatitis and tuberculosis. He was forced to stay there for two nights. The hospital examined him and found that he was not ill, so they asked the police to take him back. Policeman Chen Jianguang put him in handcuffs and shackles and tied him to the roof of the police car and drove to the detention center.

    On June 5, 2004, Xia Baolong, Deputy Secretary of the CCP Political and Judiciary Committee in Zhejiang Province, let Huang Jinsheng, former CCP Secretary of Wenling City, Wang Yilang, Police Chief, Zhu Shufang, Deputy Director of the detention center secretly send Mr. Yu to the 1st People's Hospital in the city. They tied him to a hospital bed with handcuffs and shackles and didn't let his family or other practitioners know. Zhu Sufang said to his subordinates, "Whoever opens the shackles for him will be docked on their bonus. Even if he dies, he shouldn't be released."

    Mr. Yu went on a hunger strike to protest the persecution, which lasted for 77 days. They force fed him throughout the whole period. Because he was tied to the bed for such an extended period of time, his legs withered and he was not able to walk. He was severely emaciated.

    Mr. Yu was sentenced to five years and six months for the alleged "crimes" of holding an experience sharing meeting and spreading Falun Gong materials. On July 27, 2004 he was jailed in the 2nd Prison of Zhejiang Province.

    In September 2009, Mr. Yu was arrested again. The police confiscated seven thousand yuan from him. He went on a hunger strike in the detention center. The police sent him to the injection center of the 1st hospital in Wenling (It is actually a drug rehabilitation center) where they forcibly injected drugs in him. He was tortured so severely that he was not able to get up from the bed. They put shackles on him so that he was not able to bend his legs.

    In December 4, 2009, the local CCP officials opened a court session in the People's Hospital. They didn't notify Mr. Yu's family or lawyer. When his lawyer went to investigate, he just found out that the case would be tried on the fourth floor in the hospital at 8 a.m. on December 4. After hearing the news, His relatives and friends went there. However, the police tried to keep them outside. But his relatives and friends ignored the police and almost all of them went in to hear the case. The police searched everybody and didn't allow them to take anything with them. They videotaped everybody and took photos when they went inside.

    Two policemen carried Mr. Yu out because he was so severely tortured that he was unable to walk. With his eyes closed and legs stiff, he could only speak with a low voice. The court sentenced him to four more years in prison.