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1.2 Other Torture Cases

1.2.1 Torture of Falun Gong practitioners in Miyun Detention Center

Message received: February 25, 2000

Victims:

1. Liang Haiying
2. Wang Aier
3. Zhang Shuang, 12 years of age
4. Guo Jingxia
5. Zhu Tiancui
6. Li Yuchun, 14 year old girl
7. Zhou Yali
8. Young Yuchun, 59 year old lady
9. Zhao Dengxiang
10. Yuan Mingyi

Location of incident: Detention Center of Miyun County, China

Description:

There are more than 1,000 Falun Dafa practitioners detained in the Miyun detention center now. In November 1999, 15 practitioners were found reading the book of Zhuan Falun and were put in shackles and dragged by other inmates and “run”. Their feet were bloody. Liang Haiying was dragged for 6 hours, teacher Wang Aier was dragged for a day. It was a terrible scene, the medal shackles tore the flesh apart and the bone was exposed.

79 practitioners came out exercising together on Chinese New Year’s Eve. They were all arrested. 5 were detained, the rest of the group was fined 200 Yuan each (this is a large number for all these local farmers), and no receipts were given. The youngest among them was Zhang Shuang, only 12 years old and is in 5th grade. She was not old enough to be fined. However, the police falsely changed her age to 16 on the document and penalized her.

Around Chinese New Year, 2000, more than 30 practitioners from Miyun County went to Tiananmen to appeal. They were detained 30 days and their families didn’t know their whereabouts. Guo Jingxia and Zhu Tiancui went on hunger strike for more than 9 days for the release of practitioners.

In the detention center on February 10, five practitioners who were reciting the Zhuan Falun book were handcuffed together. In another group of 17 practitioners who recited the book, a girl who was only 14 years old, Li Yuchun, was punched in both legs by police using medal lock, and was handcuffed with her arms behind her back. She was kicked and beaten by police in a field of mud and snow. An elder woman who is 59 years old was held down to the ground by several policemen. They forced dirty socks into her mouth until her mouth was full of blood. The policemen also use dirty cloth wet with chemical oil and dirt to put in 4 or 5 other practitioners’ mouths. Zhou Yali tried to protect Young Yuchun, but police put shackles on her feet, forced her down on the ground, and filled her mouth with dirty socks. Then she was tied up on a board with many pieces of medal chains and belts. She was then shown to the rest of the detention center as an example. She was thrown to the ground with the board and all other restraints. The police smashed her head using frozen dirt and snow till she lost consciousness. The policemen stopped beating her till the news reporter came to the scene. The reporter saw the terrible scene and dared not to come close.

Zhao Dengxiang refused to recite the rule of the jail. The police asked the inmates to punish him physically in different ways. He was put upside down, with head on the ground; several people ride on his back while he was forced to crawl; his head was pushed and held into dirty toilet. Police kept pouring freezing cold water down his body for a long time. He was beaten until he was bleeding, and both of his feet were swelling badly.

Some other practitioners came from other cities who went to Beijing to appeal were brought to this detention center when they refused to tell their names. They were also punished physically using even more cruel and inhuman ways.

Yuan Mingyi from Miyun County has been detained 3 times because he went to appeal. One weekend he went to visit his parents with his wife. His mother was detained at the time since she is also a practitioner. The neighbors who came to bring food and sweaters for them were taken away from their home and detained as well. His father was also detained afterwards. No one was able to come home at Chinese New Year. The heating system was frozen and broken.

All Falun Gong practitioners who went to appeal were fined 200 Yuan each. If they do not have the money, the police would come to their home to collect money. They took whatever there was. 150, 50, 10 Yuan at different times. Those practitioners who could not afford the fine would be released afterwards anyway. There were no receipts at all. The policemen took the money and spent the money for alcohol, then they came back to beat the practitioners fiercely.

1.2.2 Falun Gong practitioners tortured in detention, sentenced up to two years of forced labor “education”

Message received: February 23, 2000 [Buohuo Net]

Victims:

1. Kang Zhiqiu
2. Wang Ming
3. Kang Shiyi, 8 years of age. Kang Zhiqiu’s daughter
4. Zhao Zhiming
5. Wang Ming
6. Mu Xiangjie
7. Qi Liange
8. Qi Liange’s mother and 110 other Falun Gong practitioners

Location of incident: Tianjin City and Tangshan City, China

Description:

Practitioners from Jiayuanli of Hongqiao District in Tianjin City, Zhao Zhiming, Wang Ming, Mu Xiangjie and Qi Liange, were detained in the Hongqiao local police station after being arrested in Beijing. Because they refused to give up Falun Gong, they were sent to Banqiao labor camp in Dagang District for up to two years of forced labor “education”. At the end of January, Mu Xiangjie was placed in confinement simply because she said, “please stand out to defend Falun Dafa!” during the morning “exercise”. She was handcuffed to the banisters of the windows for 7 days and nights. She was not allowed to sleep. Moreover, her arms were electric shocked. After she got out of the confinement, she could not move her two legs. There were blisters on her arms caused by electric shocks.

In the police station, if a practitioner practiced Falun Gong in the cell, he/she would be put on the heavy shackles of more than 40 pounds.

At the end of last October, Qi Liange and two other family members went to Beijing to appeal, with her mother left alone at home. The police went to ransack her home in a midnight. Her mother dared not open the door. Therefore, the police broke in from the windows and ransacked the home.

In Tianjin, more than 70 practitioners got detained for 15 days to 30 days only because they said that they would continue to practice Falun Gong.

At the beginning of last September, the Second Detention Center of Tangshan City detained 40 practitioners. Many of them got arrested when they passed by the Tiananmen Square. After 15 days of administrative detention, the police still did not release them and prolonged their detention arbitrarily. They all went to Beijing to appeal again and got escorted back for the second time. In the detention center, they had been shocked by electric batons and beaten up. Some practitioners’ armpits were burned from electric shocks. Some practitioners’ hands and feet were cuffed together for 8 days and nights. Ms. Xu Qiuling and Liu Juhua were once stripped off and forced to stand for two days and nights while they were detained in Beijing. A dozen of practitioners in Tangshan were sent to labor camps.

The first detention center of Tangshan City tortured detained practitioners. A practitioner had been roped to a chair for 7 days and nights. Meanwhile, the police also extorted money from practitioners and their family members.

The New District Detention Center of Tangshan City provided only one slice of steam bun (12g) to detained practitioners. The police said that the convicted criminals would be given enough food, but the practitioners should not.

Practitioners from Tianjin, Kang Zhiqiu, Wang Ming, and their daughter Kang Shiyi, 8 years old, went to the Tiananmen Square to appeal for Falun Dafa on the Chinese New Year’s Eve. They were escorted back to Tianjin City on the same night. The couple were handed criminal detention. Wang Ming started hunger strike to appeal justice for Falun Dafa and refused to sign any paperwork, because she thought that she had not done anything against the law. She was released three and a half days later. Later in order to recover the cultivation environment, Wang Ming continued to practice Falun Gong in public areas. She was detained for the second time. After her hands and feet were cuffed together for one day, she started hunger strike again and refused to sign any paperwork or make any confessions. Later she was sent to a mental hospital for an examination. The head of the police station said, “I know you are normal.”

The examination result was normal. Her husband and daughter went to the police station to appeal for her release. She got released right away. The 40 police officers were all moved by her determination. A police said, “What a good person she is!”

1.2.3 Daqingjia Township Government tortured Falun Gong practitioners from January 1 to January 3

Message received: February 23, 2000 [Buohuo Net]

Victims:

1. Chen Xieye
2. Liu Rongxi
3. Liu Juhua
4. Zhang Xuefeng, female, 22 years of age
5. Chen Dianyuan
6. Chen Diancui
7. Chen Yunan
8. Fu Yingxia, female
9. Sun Xinyun
10. Qu Dongkui
11. Fu Caixia, female
12. Li Meixin, female
13. Weng Shaohong
14. Hou Jinxiang
15. Li Zhiming
16. Weng Yueling
17. Fu Xibin and three school pupils: Su Meina, 11 years of age, Weng Kaiqing, 12 years of age and Weng Shaohong, 16 years of age

Location of incident: Daqingjia Township, Zhaoyuan, Shandon Province, China

Description:

Provided by a practitioner in Daqingjia Town, January 7, 2000

[January 1, 2000]

Two officials from the Daqingjia Township government, Sheng and Yu, went to arrest Falun Gong practitioner in person, Chen Xieye, who was living in the Xiaozhuan Mountain Village. They started to beat him in the Village office, and continued to beat him upon arriving at the Township government office. Two wood sticks were broken during the beating. They also used police club to beat him.

Practitioners Liu Rongxi and Li Juhua were beaten to the extent that their faces were swollen.

Zhang Xuefeng is a 22-year-old girl. At night, Sheng and other people beat her down to the ground. Then, Sheng pulled her up from the ground by dragging her breast and kicked her from below abdomen area madly, cursing that “I will make you unable to give birth...” After Ms. Zhang was tortured to lose her consciousness, Sheng even spitted into Ms. Zhang’s mouth for several times. After Ms. Zhang gained her consciousness, she found that she had lost her control of excreting and started to vomit madly.

[January 2, 2000]

At night, the officials from the Daqingjia Township government stripped off the clothes of practitioners Chen Xieye, Chen Dianyuan, who is a crippled soldier, and Chen Diancui etc and kept them outdoors for up to 2 hours. That night, it was about 12 Centigrade below zero.

The political secretary Liu and other 7 to 8 people including Wang beat practitioners including Li Meixin who was near dead.

[January 3, 2000]

At around 6:00pm, it was completely dark in the “jail” that was temporarily set up by the government. A dozen of officials from the Township government led by Lin were waiting outside to torture practitioners. At first, the driver and other people threw ice and snow into the “jail”. Ten minutes later, they started to pour water into the “jail”, for about 5 buckets. Then, the driver guided the door, and asked practitioners to come out of the “jail” one by one and to go to the dark place in the garage. Then, at the order of Lin, four to five people beat up one practitioner using wood sticks and clubs etc. Some practitioners were beaten to lose consciousness; some were beaten to the ground and could no longer stand up. Practitioners were tortured like this from 6:00pm to 10:00pm. At that time, there were 38 practitioners in the “jail”. 31 of them had been tortured. They were Chen Yunan, Fu Yingxia, Sun Xinyun, Qu Dongkui, and Fu Caixia etc. Li Meixin had been beaten twice in less than ten minutes until she lost her consciousness. Under the care of other practitioners, she gained her consciousness at around 11:30pm, and vomited for a while, and lost her consciousness again. Those people who beat practitioners ran away and locked the “jail”. Practitioners stayed in the “water jail” for a whole night.

Three school pupils, Su Meina, 11 years of age, Weng Kaiqing, 12 years of age and Weng Shaohong, 16 years of age, were also taken to the police station for 58 hours of detention.

When the practitioners were arrested, they were body-searched and robbed first. They robbed Hou Jinxiang 12 Yuan, Li Zhiming 28 Yuan, Weng Yueling 1.5 Yuan, and Fu Xibin 1,300 Yuan etc.

1.2.4 Practitioners in Linyi county were tortured

Message received: February 21, 2000 [Buhuo.net]

Victims:

1. Yang Xin, 60 years of age
2. Song Shilong, 26 years of age
3. Zhao Fuming
4. Zhao Xiuxiu
5. Sun Qinghong
6. Chu Yanqu
7. Pei Linying
8. Zhou Yongling
9. Zhu Guocai
10. Wang Yunan
11. Li Xiumei, female
12. Li Chengzhen
13. Sun Ming
14. Zhang Xiuxin
15. Zhu Guoling
16. Sun Maolan, female
17. Du Guangjun
18. Zhang Jianming

Location of incident: Linyi City, China

Description:

Since last December, over 100 practitioners have been arrested and detained for having gone to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong. We were from all walks of life, including aged people in 70s and some teenagers.

We walked into the jail in a peaceful mind. In jail, we introduced the principle of “Truthfulness-Benevolence-Forbearance” to those convicted criminals and guards. Many criminals said that they would practice Falun Gong upon getting out of jail. Some even learned Falun Gong together with us in the jail.

Yang Xin, 60 years old, was put on shackles weighting over 48 pounds for studying Falun Dafa. Song Shilong, 26 years old, had been put on the heavy shackles for more than 20 days ever since he entered the jail until he was baited out by his workplace to work on a technical job.

On January 1, because of practicing Falun Gong exercises, seven practitioners in cell 5 were each given 20 beats by the guards using the leather belts (very painful); two other practitioners were given 30 and 42 beats respectively. Afterwards, Zhao Fuming and Zhao Xiuxiu were hung up for over 5 hours. During that time, they two still recited articles and poems in “Hong Yin” (collection of poems of Teacher Li) together. Even the criminals admired their courage. Sun Qinghong was put on “Bao Liao” (heavy shackles for convicted criminals t receive death penalty) and denied food for 3 days. On January 27, Chu Yanqu, Zhao Xiuxiu, Pei, Linying were beaten up and then put on “Bao Liao” and denied food for 5 days for practicing Falun Gong.

At the beginning of January, 9 practitioners in cell 9 including Zhou Yongling, Zhu Guocai and Wang Yunan were each given a dozen of beatings and were put on “Bao Liao” and denied food for 3 days. Li Xiumei, Li Chengzhen and Sun Ming in cell 9 were also beaten up for reciting “Hong Yin” together. The police asked them whether they would continue to practice Falun Gong as they beat them, and stopped beating them until they got tired. Three of them always insisted that they would continue to practice Falun Gong.

Such tortures and punishments did not intimidate us at all. Instead, our determination about Falun Dafa has become stronger and stronger. Zhang Xiuxin had been on hunger strike for 11 days in order to have the right of learning and practicing Falun Gong in the jail.

On February 1, practitioners Zhu Guoling, Sun Maolan, Du Guangjun, and Zhang Jianming went to detention center to visit other fellow practitioners in the regulated time; however, they got arrested and detained in the same detention center. (News on February 5, 2000)

1.2.5 Practitioners in Zhao Jinhua’s hometown were persecuted brutally (Part 3)

Message received: February 17, 2000

Victims:

1. Lu Youying, female
2. Gao Ruisu (gender not indicated by the name)
3. Chang Dongfang, female
4. Lu Caimei, female
5. Li Wende
6. Liu Cuihua, female
7. Qu Chunlan, female
8. Sun Shaomei, female
9. Wang Cuixiang, female
10. Lu Xiufang, female
11. Lu Yuanmei, female
12. Song Cuiqing, female
13. Lu Youying, female
14. Liu Cuihua, female and others

Location of incident: Linglong town, Zhaoyuan, Shandong Province

Description:

Reported by practitioners in Linglong town, Zhaoyuan

1. On September 20, the Associate Chief Police (Last name “Nan”) of the Linglong town Police Department ransacked the home of practitioner Lu Youying without a warrant and confiscated Falun Dafa materials.

2. On September 22, Police Officer Li Guibo searched practitioner Gao Ruisu’s house without a warrant and took away Falun Dafa materials and a tape recorder. They then arrested Gao. On the same day, 15 practitioners were taken to the local township police station and detained in a cell of six square feet. Three days later, 18 more practitioners were taken to the Linglong Hotel and detained in two rooms.

During detention, the police officers beat these practitioners at will and ordered them to do a lot of physical work such as cleaning floors and windows without providing practitioners with drinking water. One day, these practitioners were ordered to read a book that slanders Falun Gong and its founder; but they all refused to do so. Therefore, Chang Dongfang, Lu Caimei and one other practitioner were tortured including being electrically shocked for more than three hours. Practitioner Li Wende was hung up and beaten and tortured with all kinds of devices for the entire night. At the end, he was force-fed poison. The Communist Party Secretary Shao Yuhao tortured Liu Cuihua and Qu Chunlan till they lost consciousness; and, he continued to torture them after pouring cold water on them to revive them.

3. On December 28, 1999, five practitioners, Sun Shaomei, Wang Cuixiang, Lu Xiufang, Lu Yuanmei and Song Cuiqing, were intercepted on their way to Beijing and taken back to the Linglong Police Department. A police official, Chen Zhengtao, performed a strip-search on them. It was cold winter weather. They were so freezing cold that they trembled on the ground. At night, they slept on the cement floor without mats or a quilt. The guard, Li Bingxin, did not allow them to use restroom and purposely kept the windows open. They were kept in the freezing cold for two days and two nights. Sun Shaomei was later sent to a hospital for emergency treatments by her family and was able to recover later.

4. From January 23 to 27 of 2000, nine of us including Lu Youying and Liu Cuihua were transferred back from Beijing and detained in the Linglong town Police Station. We slept on the cement floor and were forbidden to use the quilts sent to us by our family. We were forced to clean the floors and windows everyday; otherwise, we would be denied food.

We were released in the afternoon on February 4th. Our home phones were monitored. We lost our personal freedom. Each one of us was monitored daily by two local villagers. We could not have a normal life.

1.2.6 A report of torture from Zhuozhou

Message received: February 12, 2000

Victims:

1. Chen Lingmei, female, 50 years of age
2. Zang Cuiqing, female
3. Xing Junhua, female
4. Chang Hengchun, female
5. Cao Zhao, male, Chen Lingmei’s husband

Location of incident: Yangmatou of Zhuozhou, Hebei Province

Description:

On November 19, 1999, several practitioners from Zhuozhou went to the Tiananmen Square. The police asked them whether they were practitioners. After answering “yes”, they were taken to a place where many practitioners had already been detained. After a while, the police took them to the Baoding Liaison Office and then transferred them to Zhuozhou Police Department.

While being interrogated that day, those practitioners were beaten up. While I was being interrogated the second night, Chen Lingmei was beaten up again. The police pushed her down on the ground and forced me to my knees. Later, the police held a “class” for Zang Cuiqing, Chang Hengchun, Xing Junhua and Chen Lingmei to reeducate them. The police pressured them to write the pledge of giving up Falun Gong every day, and to read the newspapers slandering at Falun Gong. If refused, they would be taken to a room to be tortured in turn. The police shocked them from the lower back to the top of the head with an electric club and slapped them. After the police got tired of that, they kicked and beat the practitioners madly with clubs. The police even used a piece of wood of about 10 inches to slap the practitioners. The torture lasted until midnight.

Chen Lingmei said that a police officer shocked her skin using an electrical club. She had to bear that pain by holding her fists tightly. Then the police officer shocked her armpits for a long time. She felt so painful that she held her pants tightly. She said that it felt like being burned.

After Chang Hengchun got released, she said that Cao Zhao had been tortured by all kind of devices in the detention center including a device made with more than 30 electric needles. He was hung up by the wrists and shocked all over the body. However, he would rather die than write the pledge. So far, he was still in police custody. Unable to bear the inhumane tortures any further, Xing Junhua bumped her head against the wall and lost consciousness. Her head was bleeding.

Zang Cuiqing could not endure the suffering any longer. She pretended to go to the restroom and hung herself with her belt. She would rather die than writing the pledge. A few minutes later, two police officers went to the restroom and found out she had hung herself. They untied her, took her to the stairway and kicked her, They yelled at her, “Do not pretend to be dead!” Getting no response from her, the police officers become worried. They took her to the hospital for emergency treatments; however, she regained her consciousness on her own. During that period, practitioners endured all kinds of tortures. Finding that the tortures did not work, the police then demanded their families to write the pledge that if they ever went to appeal again, the families would be fined 20,000 Yuan each. The police then released them.

1.2.7 Practitioners in Zhao Jinhua’s hometown were persecuted brutally (Part 2)

Message received: February 10, 2000

Victims:

1. Li Jinguo, from Linglong town
2. Gao Ruisu, from Linglong town
3. Wen Keying, female, from Linglong town
4. Sun Yanqin, female, from Linglong town
5. Li Meifeng, from Linglong town
6. Zhang Zifang, female, from Linglong town
7. Wen Jinwei, from Linglong town
8. Wei Jinhua, female, from Linglong town
9. Li Ruihong, female, from Linglong town
10. Hao Xiufen, female, from Linglong town
11. Lu Youying, female, from Linglong town
12. Li Wende, from Linglong town
13. Lu Caimei, female, from Linglong town
14. Chang Dongfang, female, from Linglong town
15. Wei Qihua, nearly 60 years old, from Linglong town
16. Wei Jinqin, female, nearly 60 years old, from Linglong town
17. Qin Weidian, male, from Daqinjia town
18. Li Meixin, female, from Daqinjia town
19. Fu Xibin, from Daqinjia town
20. Fu Xinli, from Daqinjia town
21. Zhang Yuhua, female, 55 years old, from Daqinjia town
22. Wen Yuequan, from Daqinjia town
23. Fu Caixia, female, from Daqinjia town
24. Fu Yingxia, female, from Daqinjia town
25. Lu Chunna, female, from Daqinjia town
26. Wang Lianfang, female, 58 years of age, from Daqinjia town 27. Li Zhigao, from Nanyuan town
28. Li Shuying, female, from Nanyuan town
29. Zou Yunying, female, from Nanyuan town
30. Lu Defa, from Nanyuan town
31. Lu Xirong, from Nanyuan town
32. Yi Aihong, female, from Nanyuan town
33. Liu Xiang, female, from Fushan town
34. Li Shuqing, from Fushan town
35. Liu Mingzhu, from Fushan town and others

Location of incident: Zhaoyuan, Shandong Province

Description:

On September 22, 1999, the local government and the police department of Linglong town of Zhaoyuan, Shandong arrested and detained practitioners Lu Youying, Gao Ruisu, Keying Wen, Sun Yanqin, Li Meifeng, Chang Dongfang and Li Wende without going through any legal procedures.

On September 23, 1999, they also arrested and detained practitioners Li Jinguo, Zhang Zifang, Wen Jinwei, Wei Jinhua, Li Ruihong and Hao Xiufen without any legal formalities. In two days, more than 50 practitioners were arrested, detained, and were tortured afterwards. For example: In the detention center where Lu Youying and Li Dewen were detained, daily ration of drinking water for 15 practitioners was one kilogram. Sometimes, no water was provided for several days. They were insulted and beaten daily. Once, in the police department, five to six people took turns to beat and electric shock Lu Caimei for more than two hours until she lost consciousness. During the same night, the Police Chief, Mr. Ma and two other people tied Chang Dongfang down and beat her for over four hours, and four more hours the following night. Her face was swollen and she had internal bleeding under the skin on many parts of her body. She was also electric shocked both nights. On the night of September 22, 1999, Li Wende was hung up and beaten for the whole night. He was put in handcuffs and shackles and also was electric shocked. Li Jinguo was beaten up and could not get up from the ground for the whole night. Zhang Zifang, Wen Jinwei, et al. were beaten with pails covering their heads. Wei Qihua and Wei Jinqin who were nearly 60 years old, were forced to stand with their arms stretching out and legs bent from 7:00 p.m. till very late at night.

These practitioners were detained for more than 40 days without any charge. At last, those who were arrested on September 22, 1999 were released after their relatives signed and left their fingerprints on the “pledges” of quitting Falun Gong, and paid 5000~6000 Yuan (about half a year’s income of average Chinese workers) to the Police Department. Those who were arrested on September 23, 1999 were released after their relatives paid 2000 Yuan.

On September 28, Qin Weidian, Li Meixin, Fu Xibin and Fu Xili from the Daqinjia village of Daqinjia town were arrested at midnight by the local police station without any legal formalities. More than 15 people were put into an “iron cage” which is less than four and a half square meters. They were detained for 12 to 18 days. The police station did not notify anyone to send them food. A secretary of the township government used a shoe brush to hit the head of the Fu Yingxia, and broke the brush.

After October 1 [1999], these practitioners were still in police’s custody. Several Falun Gong practitioners from Nanyuan town went to the Daqinjia town government to request the release of those detained practitioners in vain. These practitioners, including Li Zhigao, Li Shuying, Zou Yunying, Lu Defa, Lu Xirong, Yi Aihong, were detained by the Daqinjia town government and tortured.

On October 1, Ms. Lu Chunna, a practitioner from Daqinjia Town, went to Beijing to appeal. She arrived at Beijing on October 4. She was arrested immediately and transferred to the police station because she told the truth about her intention to appeal while asking for directions from a police officer. She was transferred back to the Daqinjia town the next afternoon. As soon as she got out of the car, some local officers surrounded her and beat her. She lost her consciousness very soon. These officers thought that she was pretending to be dead, and continued to beat her. Later, they even waved a lighter in front of her face to check her response. After they found out there was no response, they poured cold water on her face. This didn’t work. They then transferred her to Daqinjia Hospital for emergency treatments. After her relatives came, the police officers lied about her condition. They claimed it was caused by her refusal to eat anything for 3 days. Three days later, she was transferred back to the city police station for detention for half a month. After she got back home, the officers went to her home asking her to pay for the transportation fee, and threatened to confiscate the salaries of her elder sister and father.

On November 9, Zhang Yuhua and Wang Lianfang went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong. They were intercepted by police at the Weifang train station. Some governmental officials of the Daqinjia town came to pick them up. These officials publicly beat and kicked these two women as soon as they met them. After that, they forcefully took away these two women’s only cash, 330 Yuan. About 9:00 p.m. at night, dozens of people from the Daqinjia town government beat these 2 women to the ground. Four of them held these two women on the ground and others took turns to beat them with police clubs and rubber clubs until they lost consciousness. They were beaten to lose consciousness several times in one day and two nights. Later, they were transferred to the police department of Zhaoyuan City for a 15-day detention. (Note: after being detained for nine days in the prison, their relatives went to visit them and took pictures of the bruises on their bodies.)

On November 10, Fu Caixia, a practitioner from Wohu village of Daqinjia town, went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong. The next morning, when she was just handing over her appeal letter at the entrance of the Appealing Office, several officers from the government of Daqinjia town rushed over and took away her letter by force. Then she was brought to a hotel where she was beaten until unconscious. After waking up, she was immediately handcuffed and locked up in a closet for about 40 hours. She was transferred back to the Daqinjia town the night of November 12. Some officers continued to torture her for more than two hours until they got tired. They then, demanded a payment of 10,000 Yuan and threatened to take away her farming tractor with a worth 14,000 Yuan if she refused to pay. An officer, whose last name was Wang, wrote a mortgage document and forced her to copy it by hand and leave her thumbprint on it. Then they transferred her to a local police station. On November 15, she was transferred to the city police station for criminal detention.

On December 15, Fushan town local police station of Zhaoyuan City arrested 7 Falun Gong practitioners including Liu Xiang, Li Shuqing and Liu Mingzhu who went to appeal. They were detained in a dungeon. And they were tortured with very painful positions such as squatting down with arms stretched out and, heels off the ground; squatting low enough to sandwich and hold a wooden club behind the knees with hamstring; electric shock; etc.

1.2.8 Humiliated and degraded by police

Message received: February 9, 2000

Victims:

1. Fan Jinting, from Nanyang, Henan;
2. Zhang Yulian, female, from Nanyang
3. Jiao Zhiyun, female, from Nanyang
4. Xiao Yongzhen, female, from Nanyang
5. Niu Juan, female, from Nanyang
6. Wang Xiuyun, female, from Nanyang
7. Kui Yujuan, female, from Nanyang
8. Lu Hongcheng, from Nanyang and others

Location of incident: Nanyang, Henan Province

Description:

Currently, dozens of practitioners of Nanyang are detained. Some practitioners were on hunger strike in the jail for up to 7 days. Even under great pressure, some practitioners refused to write the pledge promising that they would give up Falun Gong and would not go to Beijing to appeal. Because of that, they had to suffer more tortures physically and mentally.

Some practitioners, such as Fan Jinting, Zhang Yulian, Jiao Zhiyun, Xiao Yongzhen, Niu Juan, Wang Xiuyun, and Kui Yujuan etc., were put in handcuffs and shackles for more than one month. Some practitioners were humiliated in jail by officers and criminals. For example, Lu Hongcheng was once forced to bend down with his head in the toilet for more than four hours.

1.2.9 Female practitioners detained in Tangshan were tortured

Message received: February 8, 2000

Victim: Zhou Ximeng, female, from Shijiazhuang, Hebei; etc.

Location of incident: Tangshan, Hebei Province

Description:

On January 19, 2000, all practitioners including Zhou Ximeng detained in the First Women Labor Camp of Tangshan started hunger strike to protest the physical torture because of practicing Falun Gong. They were forced to stand outdoors in a weather of minus 15 degrees Celsius; some practitioners’ hands or other parts of the body got frostbitten.

1.2.10 Mother and daughter were forced to run without stopping

Message received: February 2, 2000

Victims:

1. Liu Yumei, female, from Nanshu town, Laixi, Shandong
2. Liu Zhili, female, Liu Yumei’s daughter

Location of incident: Nanshu town, Laixi, Shandong Province

Description:

Liu Yumei and her daughter Liu Zhili were transferred back to their hometown, Nanshu town, on December 5, 1999, for their appealing for Falun Gong. They were detained in the Nanshu town of Laixi, Shandong without any legal proceeding, and were released because they could not afford the imposed financial fine of 10,000 Yuan (about the annual income of average Chinese workers). During the detention, they suffered inhumane treatments. They were forced to run, and would be beaten up if they were too tired to run any more. They were also forced to squat down on a very narrow plat and would be kicked if they failed to do so.

1.2.11 Practitioners’ fingers were hurt due to forced labor

Message received: February 2, 2000

Victims:

1. Xi Lilin, female, from Lanzhou, Gansu
2. Xiao Yanhong, female, from Lanzhou, Gansu
3. Zheng Fenru, female, from Lanzhou, Gansu
4. Zhu Huilan, female, from Lanzhou, Gansu
5. Xing Yuangui, from Lanzhou, Gansu
6. Li Baosheng, from Lanzhou, Gansu
7. Yao Yongqiang, from Lanzhou, Gansu
8. Ma Jun, from Lanzhou Gansu
9. Wang Desheng, from Yinchuan, Ningxia
10. Lu Xiangdong, from Tongxin county, Ningxia and others

Location of incidents: Xiguoyuan detention center, Lanzhou, Gansu Province

Description:

Many practitioners (including the practitioners listed above) were being detained in the Xiguoyuan Detention Center of Lanzhou because they refused to give up their belief in Falun Gong. Some of them were ordered to remove shells from large bag of watermelon seeds. While doing the peeling, they had to squat down from 7:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon. They were not allowed to sit, kneel, or stand up. After lunch, they had to continue the work until they finished the job. They were not allowed to sleep before they finished the forced labor. Their hands had cuts from peeling the seeds and became bloody. Some of them have been detained for three months. They also had to suffer the abuses from the cell wardens.

1.2.12 Gao Yulan was tortured because of practicing Falun Gong at home

Message received: January 18, 2000

Victim: Gao Yulan, female, a practitioner from Yancheng, Jiangsu

Location of incident: Yancheng, Jiangsu Province

Description:

Gao was arrested around 5:00am, on December 31, when she was practicing Falun Gong at home. The police dragged her by her hair, slapped her face, and kicked her. Moreover, the police submerged her head in water to punish her. The detention lasted for 16 days. She suffered all kinds of inhumane mistreatments like this.

1.2.13 Falun Gong practitioners were tortured in Tianhe detention center

Message received: January 16, 2000

Victims:

1. Liang Wenjian
2. Liu Haili, female
3. Gao Xianmin
4. Chen Wuhua
5. He Lihua, female
6. Chen Chunli, female and others

Location of incident: Tianhe detention center, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province

Description:

On December 31, eleven practitioners were arrested when they were having lunch at the Tianhe Park. All of them were given criminal detention. In Tianhe Detention Center, practitioners were ordered to do forced labor like other criminals. They were required to make certain amount of plastic flowers in a given number of hours and would be punished if they could not finish their workload. Those who continued to practice Falun Gong while in custody, were put in handcuffs and shackles. Right after one practitioner expressed his determination of practicing Falun Gong, the Director of the Detention Center kicked him in the neck and he started to spit blood immediately. Feeling that their legal rights were violated, some practitioners started a hunger strike. The next day, they were force-fed with salt water by some inhuman means. For example, a director of a cell ordered five male criminals to hold a female practitioner down on the ground. They used wet towels to block her nose and, then, poured a cup of water mixed with a bag full of 500 grams of salt into her mouth. After being force-fed two bags of salt this way, this practitioner was suffocated. Later, she vomited grains of salt.

1.2.14 Falun Gong practitioners were tortured in Nihe detention center

Message received: January 8, 2000

Victims:

1. Cheng Fengrong, female, age 42, from Shunyi county of Beijing
2. Sun Aihua, female, from Shunyi county and others

Location of incident: Nihe detention center of Shunyi county of Beijing

Description:

Five practitioners, including Cheng Fengrong, were arrested by Shunyi police because they had attempted to observe the trial of the former four major contact persons of Falun Gong on December 26, 1999. Police slapped Cheng while she was handcuffed to a tree. Later, She was brutally beaten up by police with a broom and the broom was broken into halves. After being beaten up, she was forced to stand on the snow barefooted while handcuffed to a tree. She was ordered to half squat down. She would be punched and kicked when she could not stay in that position firmly. Police also poured two basins full of cold water down the back of her neck. The cold water ran down and froze into ice under her feet. At the time this message was received, black and purple spots could still be found on her legs. Some other fellow practitioners who had attempted to observe the trial together with her also suffered physical tortures of various degrees. They were forced to take medicine[s] after they were tortured.

A 52-year-old practitioner had also been detained in the 3rd holding cell for going to appeal on December 14, 1999. A police officer used a string of keys to scratch the bridge of her nose back and forth. The bruises on her face were “very” obvious when she was finally transferred to the detention center.

Sun Aihua was detained on December 7 for going to appeal. In the detention center, police force-fed her with medicine, salt-water solution, and food during her hunger strike. The male criminals pushed and pinned her down on the ground and plugged a pipe in her nose, which made her nose bleed for half a day. Later she was put in shackles and nailed to the hardwood bed. At the time when the message was received, she was released after one month of detention.

1.2.15 Liu was tortured in Tiananmen Square police station

Message received: January 3, 2000

Victim: Ms. Liu, female, from Jiangxi

Location of incident: Tiananmen Square Police Station

Description:

In the morning of December 22, 1999, when Ms. Liu and some other practitioners started to practice Falun Gong exercises on Tiananmen Square, they were arrested and pushed into the police van. The police ordered them to take off clothes and pounded the practitioners’ heads against the windows.

They were taken to Tiananmen Square police station. During the interrogation, Ms. Liu refused to tell the police where she came from. The police thus ordered those who refused to reveal their hometowns to stand facing the wall and then pounded their heads against the wall. Later the police ordered them to lift up their heels and stand tiptoed. And then, the police placed Teacher Li Hongzhi’s photo under Ms. Liu’s heels. As the result, Ms. Liu stood on her toes to avoid stepping on the picture for a long time, until a practitioner dared to move the photo. Later, to punish them, the police ordered them to assume the so called “flying” position in which one had to keep the upper body bent down at the waist and arms lifted backward and up above the heads.

On December 23, a police officer named Zhao punched Ms. Liu forcefully on her forehead. Officer Zhao started to interrogate the practitioners around 2:00a.m. He ordered them to strip down to their underwear. The practitioners were forbidden to talk. The police would beat whoever talked with a stick. A lady in her 50’s had her head beaten to bleed.

The police officers also ordered a mental patient and two criminals to beat Ms. Liu. And an officer poured a bottle of water into Ms. Liu’s clothes. Later he ordered the practitioners to assume the “reverse flying” position in which one had to keep the head downward pressing against a pole and two hands pulling a pole, and two legs stretching out.

Later, Ms. Liu was interrogated again. She saw some practitioners being cuffed backhanded (an excruciating way to torture a person: one hand was pulled down over the shoulder and towards the back and the other hand was pulled up from the lower back, and then two hands are handcuffed together on one’s back). Ms. Liu was also handcuffed in that way and the police plugged a bottle into her handcuffs to make them tight. In addition, the police beat the hands of those practitioners who were cuffed backhanded.

Photos taken after Ms. Liu was released from the police station.

1.2.16 Practitioners tortured for exercising their legal right to observe the trial

Message received: December 26, 1999

Victim: Cheng Fengrong, and 4 other Practitioners

Location of incident: Beijing

Description:

Five practitioners were arrested because they had attempted to observe the trial of the former four major contact persons of Falun Gong on December 26. Two practitioners were detained in the 3rd cell of Nihe Detention Center of Shunyi County of Beijing.

Cheng Fengrong, 42 years old, was one of them. Police slapped Cheng while handcuffing her to a tree. She was later brutally beaten up by police using a broom. The broom was even broken into two pieces. After she was beaten up, she was forced to stand on the snow barefooted. She was handcuffed to the tree and forced to half squat down. She would be punched and kicked once she could not stand firm. Police also poured two basins of cold water on her back neck. The cold water frozen into ice under her feet. Even now, bruises are still clearly visible on her legs. Some other fellow practitioners who had attempted to audit the trial together with her also suffered physical tortures of various degrees. They were forced to take medicine after they were tortured.

A 52 years old practitioner had also been detained in the 3rd cell for going to appeal on December 14. She showed us the bruises due to police torture. She told us that a police officer had used a string of keys to scratch back and forth on the bridge of her nose. The bruises on her face were very obvious when she was sent to the detention center.

Another practitioner was detained there on December 7 for going to appeal. In detention center, police filled her with medicines, salt water and food during her hunger strike. The male criminals pushed her down on the ground and plugged a pipe in her nose, which made her nose bleeding for half a day. Later she was put in shackles and nailed to the hardwood bed. 

1.2.17 Falun Gong practitioners were tortured in Qinghe Detention Center and Kaiping Labor Camp

Message received: December 14, 1999

Victims:

1. Liu Juhua, female
2. Yang Xuezhen, female
3. Zhang Shuzhen, female
4. Liu Caihua, female
5. Tian Guiying, female
6. Guo Liyun, female
7. Guo Lixia, female
8. Jia Xueyan, female
9. Duan Jingjing, female
10. He Jing, female
11. Sun Fuyun, female
12. Xu Qiuzhen, female All of these practitioners were from Hebei province.

Locations of incidents:

1. Qinghe detention center, Beijing
2. Kaiping labor camp, Tangshan, Hebei Province 

Description:

1. The experience in Beijing

On September 22, Liu Juhua and Yang Xuezhen were stopped by a police officer near the Beijing Nationality Restaurant. The officer asked them whether they were Falun Gong practitioners. As soon as they answered “Yes”, the officer started to search their bags. Yang did not let the police confiscate her Falun Gong books. The police officers thus took her into a room and stripped her and made her stand barefooted. They, then, roped her hands and feet together from behind and burned her hands with burning cigarette head that left her eight to nine scars. After that, they used a lit cigarette lighter to smoke her nose. In the same afternoon, they were sent to the Qinghe Detention Center in Beijing. At there, they were searched after they were ordered to take off all the clothes. They were then interrogated till 2 o’clock the next morning and were not allowed to sleep or talk to anybody.

Three days later, they were transferred to Kaiping Detention Center in Tangshan. A practitioner, Shuzhen Zhang, was just transferred back from Beijing. A police officer shocked the acupuncture points all over her body with an electric club. The police beat them with big clubs and stuffed dirty underwear and socks into their mouths.

2. The experience in Kaiping Labor Camp in Tangshan Around 7:00 p.m., November 2, 1999, the policemen on duty suddenly called Falun Gong practitioners outside to “educate” them. The point was to teach practitioners that they must accept labor education in earnest and they were not allowed to practice Falun Gong. They then asked those who still wanted to practice Falun Gong to step out, and threatened that they would be punished. Still, ten practitioners did. They were Liu Caihua, Liu Juhua, Yang Xuezhen, Tian Guiying, Guo Liyun, Guo Lixia, Jia Xueyan, Duan Jingjing, He Jing and Xu Qiuzhen. The police officers handcuffed them to the trees nearby. They started to recite Teacher Li’s essays. A police, with last name Du, shouted, “Silence them!” Then a prisoner named Wang Yanqiu and other prisoners picked up dirty rags and stuff them into practitioners’ mouths. After that, prisoner Wang Yanqiu asked another prisoner, Chen Xiaoya, to take off her socks and under-wear. Prisoner Chen said, “I still have my menstrual period.” They squeezed something into practitioners’ mouths. After a while, they were spit out. The prisoners got some tape to seal practitioners’ mouths. At the meantime, they slapped practitioners’ faces. Duan Jingjing’s face was slapped until swollen. Yang Xuezhen’s mouth was broken. Policeman Du and other policemen were just standing aside and watching. When the practitioners spit the stuff out, Du scolded those prisoners, “You all are stupid!” These practitioners were tortured in this way for four hours.

On November 3, the practitioners started hunger strike. By the seventh day, they were forced to eat some food. They were force-fed with cereal and milk through a thick and hard plastic pipe plugged in the nostril (not the kind used for medical purpose) many times. Some practitioners’ noses bled during the process of being force-fed. Also, some practitioners were handcuffed at the playground for days. A few practitioners became very weak and could not stand for long. Thus, they were hung up handcuffed. Liu Caihua was one of them. Fuyun Sun was shocked by police with an electric club. Liu Juhua was beaten by police with a hard rubber club. On November 15, four practitioners, including Liu Juhua, were transferred to the labor camp in Shijiazhuang.

1.2.18 Falun Gong practitioners in Huaian County were tortured by local police

Message received: December 1, 1999

Victims:

1. Zhang Zhenggang, from Huaian county, Huaiyin, Jiangsu;
2. Zhang Zhaoyun, female, Zhang Zhenggang’s wife;
3. Sun Yingchun, (gender not indicated), from Lianshui county, Jiangsu.

Location of incident: Huaian county, Huaiyin, Jiangsu Province

Description:

In November, Zhang Zhenggang learned that Sun Yingchun was transferred back from Beijing because of appealing. Mr. Zhang then wrote a letter to the Huaiyin city government explaining that Falun Dafa is upright and stating that he supported the action of Sun Yingchun.

In the morning of November 24, the public security of Huaian ransacked Zhang’s home. Later Mr. Zhang was taken to the Department of Public Security. On the way to the Department of Public Security, Mr. Zhang was slapped six times on the face by a police officer because he recited Teacher Li’s essays in the police car. When they arrived at the Department of Public Security, the police threw him onto the ground, which caused excruciating pain in Mr. Zhang’s back. Police questioned him about some telephone numbers found at his home and his relationship with Sun Yingchun. He refused to answer. The police officers thus took turns to beat him. The interrogation lasted for the entire day. That night, he was transferred to a hotel and detained there for three days.

On November 24, Zhang Zhaoyun, on her way home, was intercepted by the police from the local Chengxi Police Station. She was pushed to the ground. She, then, sat on the ground in the meditation position. The police took a picture of her and took her to the police station. She was detained in the Huaian Detention Center and forced to do hard labor.

1.2.19 Bai Lili was tortured in Dongcheng detention center

Message received: November 15, 1999

Victim: Bai Lili, female, from Beijing

Location of incident: Dongcheng detention center, Beijing

Description:

On October 25, Bai Lili went to the Central Committee and State Council Appealing office to appeal for Falun Dafa. She was received by police officers instead of officers of the Appealing Office. Later she was taken to the police station. After being interrogated, signing her name and leaving her thumbprint, she was transferred to the Dongcheng Detention Center. At first, they stripped off her clothes to search her, and they found two Falun Gong books. Several police officers tried to take the books away from her by dragging her arms and hair; but, they failed.

The second day, the police officers again ordered her to turn in the books; but Bai refused. Instead, she asked the police officers to give her all the Falun Gong books they had confiscated before. The policemen were angry. Some dragged her hair and some dragged her arms. They tied up her two feet and two arms. They pushed her onto the ground, seized her books, tore them apart, and, then, squeezed the pages of the books into Bai’s mouth. At that time someone was coming, so they dragged her into a room and covered her head with a quilt. She was almost choked to death.

1.2.20 Xiang Jinying ‘s arm was broken because of torture

Message received: November 2, 1999

Victim: Xiang Jinying, female, 28 years of age, from Haiyan county, Zhejiang

Location of incident: Beijing, China

Description (given by herself):

On October 25 when I went to appeal in Beijing I was beaten by the police. My left upper arm was broken from the torture.

On October 25, three of us went to the Tiananmen Square to appeal. We were questioned by the police out-side. They asked us whether we were Falun Gong practitioners. We said, “Yes”. Therefore, we were brought to a nearby police station where 50 to 60 practitioners had already been held. We only answered with “we are Falun Gong practitioners....” when we were being registered. The police dragged a dozen of us out and handcuffed us (one hand goes back down from the shoulder, the other hand goes back up from the waist, which is an excruciating way of being handcuffed). The police also had us kneel on the ground and bounced our heads against the wall. A policeman even dragged my arm with force ignoring that I was handcuffed. Suddenly, my arm broke with a crack. Cool sweat emitted out from my forehead because of the pain. I endured the pain silently. About 15 minutes later, the police found something wrong with me. He thus took my handcuffs off. He even swayed my arm to see whether I was lying to him. He thought my arm might be just got dislocated. He even tried to re-locate it several times but failed, of course.

Later we were transferred to a courtyard in Beijing by a truck. After we got off the truck, we were interrogated immediately. We were then sent back to the truck after the interrogation. During the interrogation, we would be beaten up if we answered that we were Falun Gong practitioners. We were ordered to get off the truck, got interrogated, and then sent back to the truck for two times. Later, we were stripped and searched. We were, then, sent to the Detention Center at one o’clock midnight on October 26. They found out that my arm was severely injured. In the morning, a doctor came to examine my arm. When he asked my name, I answered with “I am a Falun Gong practitioner”. He then refused to examine my arm. On October 27, the police took me to the hospital to have my arm X-rayed. The doctor was surprised to find out that my upper arm was broken. In the morning of October 30, they again took me to the hospital. Several doctors held group consultations and decided to perform operation on my arm. I refused. They thus put my arm in splints; took another X-ray picture and my arm looked normal! The police took those two different X-ray pictures back with them. In the afternoon, they interrogated me again and finally allowed me to go home. I was transferred to a motel by the Haiyan Police Department. Later I escaped.

Xiang Jinying’s left arm was broken when she was tortured by police.

X-ray picture of Xiang Jinying’s broken arm.

Doctor’s diagnostics (Brief translation: “The middle part of the upper arm has inclined fracture.")
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