How the Da-qing-jia Township Government in Zhaoyuan City Tortured Falun Gong Practititioners from January 1 to January 3

[January 1, 2000] Two officials from the Da-qing-jia Township government, Sheng and Yu, went to arrest Falun Gong practitioner in person, Chen Xie-ye, who was living in the Xiao-zhuan 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 Rong-xi and Li Ju-hua were beaten to the extent that their faces were swollen.

Zhang Xue-feng 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 Da-qing-jia Township government stripped off the clothes of practitioners Chen Xie-ye, Chen Dian-yuan, who is a crippled soldier, and Chen Dian-cui etc and kept them outdoors for up to 2 hours. At 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 Mei-xin to half dead.

[January 3, 2000] At around 6pm, 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 6pm to 10pm. At that time, there were 38 practitioners in the "jail". 31 of them had been tortured. They were Chen Yu-nan, Fu Ying-xia, Sun Xin-yun, Qu Dong-kui, and Fu Cai-xia etc. Li Mei-xin 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, 11-year-old Su Mei-na, 12-year-old Weng Kai-qing and 16-year-old Weng Shao-hong, were also taken to the police station for 58 hours of detention.

When the practitioners were arrested, they were body-searched and robbed first. For example, they robbed Hou Jin-xiang 12 Yuan, Li Zhi-ming 28 Yuan, Weng Yue-ling 1.5 Yuan, and Fu Xi-bin 1,300 Yuan etc.