(Clearwisdom.net) Mr. Qi Changyin was illegally arrested when he was a student at Heilongjiang University. He was just 20 years old when the Chinese Communist Party sentenced him to nine years for practicing Falun Gong. Mr. Qi was brutally abused while he was incarcerated in Hulan Prison the past nine years. On June 2, 2010, his sentence was up. However, when his family went to pick him up, they were told that he had been sent to a brainwashing center by officials from the Wuchang City 610 Office.
Mr. Qi lived in Xichengzi in Hongqi Village, Wuchang City, Heilongjiang Province. He was brutally tortured in Hulan Prison. From an earlier report published on the Minghui website on May 10, 2007, prison police officer Liu Kai from the No. 1 sub-area of prison ward No. 9 tortured five Falun Gong practitioners, including Mr. Qi and Mr. Zhang Jian. He beat them, subjected them to solitary confinement, and otherwise physically abused them. He also had other inmates beat and verbally abuse practitioners.
Mr. Qi and Mr. Zhang were summoned to the prison office on October 23, 2007, because they had refused to sign a guarantee statement. Officers Liu Kai and Chen Ziliang punched and kicked him. They split open Mr. Qi's lips and left two scars on his forehead. After they had beaten him for half an hour without any results, they told two inmates to grab Mr. Qi and Mr. Zhang's hands and put their fingerprints on the guarantee statements.
Hulan Prison is a high security prison, with 80 to 90 percent of the inmates sentenced to life imprisonment or delayed execution. Since 2001, it has become a place for persecuting and torturing Falun Gong practitioners. Several hundred practitioners are imprisoned there, and almost every one of them has been tortured. In order to meet their "transformation" quota, prison officers offer reduced sentences and bonus points to encourage inmates to torture Falun Gong practitioners. The other inmates viciously beat practitioners, subject them to sleep deprivation, force them to stand for long periods of time, stab them with various instruments, force them to stand in water for long periods, force them to stand by open windows in wet clothes in the winter, put them into solitary confinement, provide them with only a small amount of food, tie them to the death bed, and deny them use of the toilet. In the "education" section, practitioners are forced to watch videos that slander Falun Dafa. For the sake of making profits, everyone is forced to perform hard labor every day from 7 a.m. to 9 or 10 p.m., for over 14 hours a day.
After nine years in prison, Mr. Qi Changyin was taken to Wuchang City Brainwashing Center.
The head of the brainwashing center in Wuchang City is Fu Yanchun. Besides physically torturing Falun Gong practitioners, he conspired with the former secretary of the Politics and Judiciary Committee, Zhu Xianfu, to extort large amounts of money from practitioners. He boasted, "I am a hoodlum, I am an animal" while torturing practitioners, and also forced them to repeatedly write the three statements. If a practitioner refused to cooperate, he or she was beaten and kicked and put on the "stretching bed." Practitioners were repeatedly kicked in the face with boots, slapped in the face, forced to drink alcohol, and shocked with electric batons. If someone still refused to cooperate, several people grabbed the person's hands and pressed his/her fingerprints on the already-written "three statements."
Written on June 8, 2010
