(Minghui.org) Mr. Huang Shisheng has been repeatedly targeted for his faith in Falun Gong since the Chinese communist regime ordered the persecution against the spiritual practice in 1999.
He has served two terms in prison, for a total of eleven years. His wife and son were harassed by the authorities and lived in fear. After Mr. Huang was released in 2018 after serving his latest two-year term, his wife was forced by the authorities to monitor him, which eventually led to the couple's divorce.
Below is Mr. Huang's persecution account about his latest prison term.
Drugged by Police Following Arrest at Train Station
Mr. Huang, a resident of Hegang City, Heilongjiang Province, in his 60s, was arrested on September 8, 2016 at the Hegang Train Station. He had planned to go to Harbin (capital city of Heilongjiang) to visit his niece and her husband, both Falun Gong practitioners imprisoned for putting up self-adhesive stickers bearing information about Falun Gong.
The police accused Mr. Huang of attempting to escape, as he didn't inform them of the trip to Harbin while he was still on house arrest.
Mr. Huang had been arrested earlier in March 2015 for talking to people about Falun Gong. He was released and put under house arrest for having heart problems and high blood pressure. The police closely monitored him following his release.
Mr. Huang was brought to Jiangbin Farm Hospital that evening and forced to go through a series of physical exams. The police force fed him with some unknown drugs. He experienced intensive headaches and felt that his head was about to explode. This situation happened to him twice and he refused to take the pills again.
Mr. Huang wondered what the pill was, and doctor Wang Dapeng replied: “It's a secret.” He also asked the nurse, but she remained silent. Mr. Huang then went to officer Liu Qingchao, who said that it was him who ordered the doctor to drug him.
Despite Mr. Huang's blood pressure remaining dangerously high, the police pressured and bribed the detention center guards to take him.
In the next four months, the police frequently brought him back to the hospital and forced him to take unknown pills, until January 2017 after he was transferred to the prison.
His lawyer from Beijing was not allowed to visit him during that period.
Mr. Huang was forced to foot the bill, including four months of hospitalization, exam fees, medication, and even the living cost incurred by those arranged by police to monitor him.
Sentenced to Two Years
Mr. Huang appeared in Baoquanling Court on December 1, 2016 and was sentenced to two years in prison. The prosecutor accused him of attempting to escape, when in fact he bought tickets for a round-trip between Hegang and Harbin.
The detention center guards forbade Mr. Huang from appealing the verdict.
Tortured in the Prison
Mr. Huang was taken to Jiamusi Prison twenty days after he was sentenced. He was then transferred to Tailai Prison shortly afterwards.
In the freezing winter, the prison guards ordered the inmates to take off all of Mr. Huang's clothes and pour cold water onto him. He kept shaking because of the cold.
The guards forced him to watch propaganda videos attacking Falun Gong, trying to force him to renounce Falun Gong. Several inmates monitored him around the clock and restricted his activities.
After a period of time there, the guards began to force Mr. Huang to do manual labor, including polishing small metal parts. The prison didn't have proper protection equipment and the copper powder from the parts was everywhere in the air. Many inmates developed lung problems and some were vomiting blood.
According to the inmates there, they had begun to do such work since 2012. The prison paid several inspection agencies to obtain permission to continue the operation.
Mr. Huang developed high blood pressure and heart problems again. The prison hospital forced him to take some pills. He felt discomfort all over his body afterwards and then refused to take it again.
Mr. Huang was later transferred to Qiqihar Prison, as Tailai Prison would be used to house people arrested in Xinjiang.
Mr. Huang was forced to work at the clothes factory in Qiqihar Prison.
Monitored Upon Returning Home and Pension Withheld
Mr. Huang was released from prison on November 1, 2018. The local police station considered him to be a key target and continued to monitor him, whether he was at home or went out. If he visited someone, they would also receive phone calls from the police and were threatened not to meet with him again. His wife was also forced by the authorities to monitor him, which eventually led to their divorce.
The authorities withheld his social security benefit in the past two years while he was imprisoned. His scheduled pay increase was canceled and his workplace also demanded him to return the retirement payment he had received in the past two years.
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