Issued by Clearwisdom Net

Because of the meeting with Vice Chairman Edward McMillan-Scott, one of the six members of the of the European Parliament (MEP), Mr. Cao Dong, a Falun Gong practitioner from Beijing, was secretly arrested and imprisoned in a detention center in his hometown in the Gansu Province. On September 29, 2006, the Chinese police issued an arrest warrant, claiming that Mr. Cao produced Falun Gong materials. It is quite evident that the evil Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and its accomplices deliberately concealed the true reason for the arrest and the location where Mr. Cao is imprisoned for fear of international condemnation.

On May 21, 2006, two Falun Gong practitioners Mr. Cao Dong and Mr. Niu Jinping met with MEP Edward McMillan-Scott in Beijing. During the meeting, they told Mr. McMillan-Scott of their personal experience as torture victims in forced labor camps. Mrs. Cao is also imprisoned and suffers torture in a forced labor camp. In addition, they revealed the CCP's heinous crime of harvesting hundreds of thousands of internal organs from live Falun Gong practitioners for profit. That same day, special agents from Beijing's State Security Bureau secretly arrested Mr. Cao Dong and subjected him to illegal interrogation. He has been imprisoned since then. Mr. Cao's home is located in Apartment 704, Unit 3, Baozhuzi Lane, Zhaojia Building, Beijing. On May 26, a group of special agents went on a more than two-hour illegal ransack spree of his home. The other Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Niu Jinping, who took his little girl to the meeting, has been under strict monitoring and frequently suffers harassment and threats.

Mr. Gao Feng is a friend of Mr. Cao Dong and had not been involved in the meeting with the MEP. He occasionally stays overnight at Mr. Cao's home. When special agents ransacked Mr. Cao's home and found him there, they arrested and interrogated him for five days. Finally, they put handcuffs on him and took him on a train to his hometown in Gansu Province. He continues to be monitored by police. Mr. Gao Feng was left no other choice but to flee his home to avoid further persecution.

That day, five male and one female special agents from the State Security Bureau illegally ransacked Mr. Cao Dong's home in Beijing. They used a master key to open the apartment door. During the search, they kept taking photos of the apartment. They confiscated Mr. Cao's collection of Falun Gong books, Falun Gong truth-clarification materials, copies of the Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party, removable hard drives, blank DVDs, photographs, camera film, as well cash, Mr. Cao's ID and receipts. They have even confiscated Mr. Cao's wedding photos and marriage certificate. During the search, arrest and interrogation, they made a very conscious efforts to conceal their identities. They did not call each other by their full name or job title. When asked about their last names, they avoided the question and quickly changed the topic.

Upon hearing of the situation of Mr. Cao Dong and Mr. Niu Jinping, overseas Falun Gong practitioners and people who want justice have been working to rescue them. MEP Edward McMillan-Scott immediately asked to see the Chinese Communist regime's ambassador to the EU for an urgent meeting. Later he repeatedly communicated with the Chinese Communist regime, urging them to release them and guarantee their personal safety. He has also repeatedly urged the international society to pay immediate attention to this issue.

Mr. Cao married his wife Yang Xiaojing more than four years ago. They both suffered from actions by the CCP's accomplices, including illegal detainment, imprisonment in forced labor camps and prison terms at different times. Consequently, they had lived together as husband and wife for only a few weeks. On the evening of November 20, 2000, the ninth day after they were married, Mr. Cao Dong was arrested and transferred between several detention centers in Beijing. One of them was the No. 7 Detention Center that imprisons only death-row prisoners and felons. In March 2001, an illegal trial was held at Beijing court where he was sentenced to a four year and six months prison term. Mr. Cao was transferred to a prison in his hometown in Gansu Province where he was subjected to all kinds of cruel torture methods.

Additional news: We have received the latest news about Mrs. Cao. She has been released from Beijing Women's Forced Labor Camp, thus ending her illegal imprisonment of two and a half years.

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Mr. Xiao Peng

Falun Gong practitioner Xiao Peng was from Yi County, Jinzhou City, Liaoning Province. He suffered brutal torture for eighteen months in Jinzhou City Forced Labor Camp. They released him after he suffered a mental collapse from the torture. He died on June 9, 2002, and he was only 30 years old. His only daughter currently lives with his parents after his wife remarried.

Xiao Peng's daughter with her grandparents

Mr. Xiao Peng was born in 1972 and lived in Jiudaoling Town of Yi County. He was a veterinarian. Before he practiced Falun Gong, he had a rib cartilaginous inflammation that was very painful and eventually caused him to be unable to ride a bicycle. After only two months of practicing Falun Gong, he completely recovered.

Xiao Peng followed the principles of "Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance," and improved his moral standard and treated others well. His parents, wife, daughter, three younger sisters and two brothers-in-law all started practicing Falun Gong one after the other. Xiao Peng set up a practice site at his home and led more than thirty people from the same or nearby village to practice together.

Xiao Peng and his father were both vets in the town. After they practiced Falun Gong, they helped the village farmers to spray pigs at no cost. They worked hard and tried to help others. For years, the two of them tore up the IOU notes from some farmers that amounted to several thousand yuan.

In July 1999, Jiang's regime started persecuting Falun Gong practitioners. In late July 1999, eleven people from Xiao's family went to Beijing to peacefully appeal for Falun Gong. Five of them were arrested and detained in the Fengtai Stadium in Beijing. Xiao Peng was severely beaten by police officers while being detained there. Four days later, they were sent back to Jinzhou City and later to the police station in the city of Jiudaoling. While at the police station, Xiao Peng suffered brutal beatings by police officer Zhang Cunfeng and others. He was then sent to the Yi County Detention Center and detained for fifteen days.

In late September 1999, Xiao Peng and his three younger sisters again went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong. They were arrested at the Tangshan train station and detained in a small room. On September 23, they were sent back to Yi County and immediately detained in the Yi County Detention Center. Xiao Peng was brutally beaten several times by the head of the detention center Wang Yan, prison police officer Bian Zhigang, and prisoner Yang Guotao. Xiao Peng's legs were severely swollen due to the tortures, rendering him unable to use the restroom by himself. The scoundrels poured cold water on him, and poured salty water into his mouth and put a 9 kg (20 lb.) shackle on his feet. On October 29, 1999, Xiao Peng was sentenced to three years of forced labor and was sent to the Jinzhou Forced Labor Camp. His younger sister Xiao Caihong was also subjected to the same tortures. She was detained for forty days. Afterwards the head of the Yi county Political and Security Section, Yang Yuxiang, extorted 3000 yuan from her, and then released her.

On October 7, 1999, other practitioners in Xiao's family went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong. Xiao Peng's father Xiao Yubin and mother Cui Guizhen were detained for 75 days. His younger sister Xiao Caiyan and her husband Zhao Wen were detained for two months in Suizhong City Detention Center. Another younger sister, Xiao Caixia, was detained for fifteen days after the head of the Qianyang Police Station had beaten and cuffed her to a heating pipe for a night.

After Xiao Peng was sentenced to forced labor, on October 1, 2000, his family members continued to appeal for Falun Gong, trusting the government. However, six of them were arrested in Beijing and were later sent back to Yi County. Xiao Peng's parents were sentenced to three years of forced labor. One of his younger sisters, Xiao Caiyan, and her husband, Zhao Wen, were sentenced to three years forced labor by police officers in Huludao. Because Xiao Caiyan had a few-months old baby, she was not sentenced to prison. His other younger sister, Xiao Caixia was sentenced to two years of forced labor. His brother-in-law, Na Quanjie, the husband of his third younger sister, was sentenced to three years of forced labor. His brother-in-law Zhao Wen was sent to the Huludao Forced Labor Camp, his father Xiao Yubin and his brother-in-law Na Quanjie were sent to the Jinzhou Forced Labor Camp, and his mother Cui Guizhen and second younger sister Xiao Caixia were sent to the Masanjia Forced Labor Camp. Three members of Xiao's family, Xiao Peng, Xiao Yubin and Na Quanjie, were detained in the Jinzhou Forced Labor Camp.

In May 2002, Xiao Peng's first younger sister Xiao Caiyan was reported to the police by someone in her work unit at the Yiejia Elementary School of Shuizhong County, Huludao City, because she was mailing truth-clarification materials. She was immediately sent to the Masanjia Forced Labor Camp. Xiao Peng's wife Guo Wenying went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong. Shortly afterwards she came back to her parents' home in Qianyang Village, and someone then reported her to the Qianyang Police Station. She was then sent to a detention center. She was detained for forty days and extorted of 2000 yuan.

In Jinzhou Forced Labor Camp, because Xiao Peng persisted in his belief in Falun Gong, he suffered from many different tortures in the 2nd Group. These tortures included electric shocks, brutal beatings, being detained in a consolidated compartment, being tied on the death bed, being forced to stand straight for a long time, intensive labor and more. In order to make Xiao Peng write the so-called "criticizing statement," the head of the 2nd Group, Li Songtao, ordered several people to torture him day and night. Xiao Peng wrote the statement when he was not in a clear state of mind due to the tortures. Once he resumed a clear state of mind, he wrote a solemn declaration stating that his previous statement was void and that he firmly continues to practice Falun Gong. He was then taken to an empty dark room by Group Leader Li Songtao and police officer Yang Tinglun and tortured with electric shocks while being tied to a metal chair.

One day in March 2001, Li Songtao and police officer Ma Yong took Xiao Peng to a one-story house in the backyard of the 2nd Group. They tied him to a metal chair. Li Songtao and Ma Yong together electrically shocked Xiao Peng's chest, stomach and feet. They didn't stop until the skin on his chest was burned black. Li Songtao and police officer Feng Zibin subjected Xiao Peng to additional electric shock torture in a different room on the first floor of the office building. They shocked him again on his chest, stomach and feet at the same time. He was monitored by several prisoners. When he resisted the tortures, he was tied to a lron chair. Li Songtao slapped his face several times and yelled, "Whoever resists is against the government!" After such brutal tortures, Xiao Peng was at the edge of a mental collapse.

One Sunday in early April 2001, when Xiao Peng's father didn't see his son on the prisoners exercise field, he kept questioning and finally was allowed to see his son. When he saw his son, he had been tortured to the point that his father was unable to recognize him.

On April 7, 2001, after suffering eighteen months of brutal tortures, Xiao Peng suffered a mental collapse, so the labor camp sent him home. Since there was no one at home to take care of him, they had to release Xiao Peng's father.

At home, Xiao Peng was sometimes clear minded and sometimes unclear. He was often in a panic. He often hid behind his father and said that some police officers wanted to beat him again. He became very scared whenever he saw a police officer. When it was dark, he would always hold his father's hand and said he was afraid that police officers would come. Soon his condition became worse. His father had to send him to the Kangning Mental Hospital. Later, because of high medical expenses, he had to leave the hospital. On June 9, 2002 of the Chinese calendar, he died at the age of 30.

Xiao Peng's death brought great pain to his family. However, just two days after his death, police officer Zhang Yanfu from the Yi County Political and Security Section came to Xiao Peng's home with six other police officers. They claimed that Xiao Peng's mental problem was caused by practicing Falun Gong, further slandering Falun Gong. But Xiao's family firmly rejected the claim.

For years, Xiao Peng's younger sister Xiao Caixia had been harassed by local police officers from the Qianyang Police Station, which brought much pressure to her family. In 2002, during the 16th CCP Congress Committee, in order to prevent practitioners from going to Beijing to appeal, Wang Dianhong from the Yi County Political and Security Section collaborated with police stations within the county to arrest practitioners. Xiao Peng's parents were arrested by police officers from the Qiudaoling Police Station without any reason and detained in the county detention center for 24 days. Xiao Peng's wife Guo Wenying was arrested as well by several police officers from the Qianyang Police Station and detained for more than one month. She was also fined 4000 yuan.

After Xiao Peng's death, his wife eventually remarried. His only daughter now lives with his parents.

Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.ca/mh/articles/2006/9/29/138939.html

[Note: The following is a shortened version of a longer and more detailed article that appeared on the Minghui.org website (Chinese version of Clearwisdom.net).]

Practitioner Ms. Sui Yumin from Babaishang, Daqing City, Heilongjiang Province was arrested, detained and tortured many times for persisting in her belief in Falun Gong. She went into exile to avoid further persecution. She was arrested again on August 24, 2006 by officers from Babaishang Police Department. Her father tried to stop the police but officer Zhang Qingbin beat and kicked the old man in his 60s. They handcuffed Sui Yumin and pushed her into a police car. Sui Yumin's father went to the Police Department in the afternoon to ask for his daughter, but the police refused to let him meet with her. They took Sui Yumin to Daqing Detention Center in the evening.

Sui Yumin went on a hunger strike at the detention center to protest the illegal detention. The guards force-fed her via her nose for three days straight. Sui Yumin has become very weak from the abuse. Her face is black and blue, she throws up daily and part of her body below the chest is covered in itchy red bumps. She is skin and bones and she cannot take care of herself. Her life is in danger, and yet the guards refuse to let her family see her.

Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2006/10/6/139506.html

Mr. Hou Zhen'an, 71 years old, started practicing Falun Gong in 1994. He obtained great benefits both physically and mentally. Many of his health problems were miraculously resolved. After he introduced the practice to his wife, who also greatly improved, his eldest son, eldest daughter-in-law, and eldest grandchildren also started practicing together.

On July 19, 1999, Mr. Hou and others set out for Beijing to speak out on behalf of Falun Gong. However, they were arrested by a group of policemen from Jiamusi Police Department and taken back to Jiamusi. At the Yonghong Sub-Bureau, the leader of the National Protection Team, Shi Xiuwen, gave them a "lecture," identified the 'leader,' and identified who was in charge of what. Each of the practitioners was interrogated. That night, supervisors from their workplace took them home, demanding 100 yuan in cash as a transport fee between Harbin and Jiamusi. At 4 p.m. on July the 22, the remaining practitioners were forced to watch Falun Gong-defaming television. Mr. Hou was fined 3,100 yuan before being released.

In late July, Mr. Hou heard a knock on his door. When he opened it, a video camera was staring him in the face. A reporter said, "We're from Jiamusi television station and we heard that your entire family practices Falun Gong."

Mr. Hou answered affirmatively, and the reporter continued, "We also heard that people who practice Falun Gong do not take medicine."

Mr. Hou replied, "As practitioners, we do not have any health problems, so why would we take medicine? If anyone really wanted to take something, we wouldn't bother them."

The reporter quickly turned off the video camera in the middle of Mr. Hou's response. The station then "interviewed" a doctor Liu, who said, "Hou's wife had hemodialysis, but refused to take medicine because she practiced Falun Gong. After she refused to heed all our advice, she finally passed away."

This was, in fact, a lie. In the end, the television crew broadcast the video of Mr. Hou, titling it, "A Victim of Falun Gong," although not a single word from Mr. Hou was in the video. The only words were the lies of the broadcaster.

In late 2000, Mr. Hou set out for Beijing once again. On the train, police officers from the Jiamusi Rail Bureau asked every passenger to slander Master Li. Whoever refused was taken away. Mr. Hou refused and was taken away with another practitioner. They were each forced to pay 100 yuan for "food expenses."

After returning to Jiamusi Railway Station. Mr. Hou brought out a banner with "Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance" and started shouting, "Falun Dafa is good, "Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance" is good!" with the other practitioner. They were illegally detained in the railway police deparmtent. In the afternoon, Mr. Hou's supervisor came to take him back.

At the end of the year, Mr. Hou's supervisors received instructions from their superiors to abduct Falun Gong practitioners on a large scale. Two days before the Chinese New Year, five or six policemen in two police cars drove over to Mr. Hou's house. Two officers barged into the house and took him away. After Mr. Hou refused to cooperate, the police chief came to talk to him, with the promise that he would be able to return home for the New Year. However, once Mr. Hou reached the police station, he saw pictures of Master Li laid down on the ground. The policemen told him, "Once you step on these pictures, you'll be able to return home."

Mr. Hou replied, "You are truly evil. This is my Teacher, and I cannot step on his picture." Mr. Hou's supervisor brought him to Heli Detention Center himself.

Mr. Hou had to eat small, tasteless crumbs of buns every day and was not allowed to go to the washroom. On Chinese New Year's eve,  the police came to ask him, "Do you think Li Hongzhi is a good person or a bad person?"

Mr. Hou replied, "A good person. He is my teacher."

Four days later, Hou was released. However, before he left, the chief demanded money, "You have to pay for the gas and car expenses we spent visiting you four times."

Mr. Hou did not submit to their demands.

In June 2003, the chief of the Chang'an Police Station brought two officers to barge into Mr. Hou's home, taking away his Falun Gong books and "truth-clarification materials," arrested Mr. Hou, and took him back to the Chang'an Police Station for interrogation. Chen Wanyou from the Jiamusi Police Station arrived later. They brought Mr. Hou's eldest daughter-in-law, Ms. Men Xiaohua, who was already in dire health due to persecution and torture, and placed her in front of Mr. Hou with a spiked club raised. They then demanded that Mr. Hou reveal where he had obtained his truth-clarification materials. He replied that he had simply found them in his backyard. He was imprisoned in a tiny cage. Some time later, ten other practitioners were arrested and interrogated. Thereafter, the practitioners were brought to an infectious disease hospital for check-ups before being sent into a detention center. Due to Mr. Hou's high blood pressure, the detention center would not accept him. They then took him to a Chinese physician's hospital for another check-up, but his blood pressure remained high. Mr. Hou demanded to be released and was finally sent back.

His eldest daughter-in-law, Ms. Men Xiaohua, was deceived and sentenced to forced labor. She was brutally tortured in the labor camp. During the most serious period of persecution, Chen Wanyou brought policemen to her place on many occasions to harass her. They demanded that she reveal the names of practitioners from photos that the police had taken, but she said that she did not know any of them. Tragically, she died in the summer of 2003.

In the summer of 2004, Mr. Hou and another practitioner were arrested by policemen from the Lianjiangkou Town Police Station while distributing truth-clarification materials. He was sent to the detention center and Chen Wanyou was present. Even though Mr. Hou persistently clarified the truth to them, the officials would not listen and kept on asking where Mr. Hou had obtained his materials. After the prison doctor found that he had high blood pressure and a high heart rate, Mr. Hou was released. The other practitioner was sent to a detention center to be persecuted.

Hou's eldest son, Mr. Hou Zhiqiang, also suffered many illegal arrests, physical interrogations, harassment, physical torture, forced labor, and other forms of persecution at the hands of the local police and the 610 Office. He was imprisoned in a labor camp on two occasions for a total of four years and six months. He suffered countless types of brutal torture in the labor camp. During March 2005, only when he was so physically drained and wounded from the torture that he could not even move did the authorities send him to a hospital. When the doctor said that it would be necessary for him to remain in the hospital for treatment, police guards Yang Chunlong and Diao Yunkun, who had brought him there, replied, "No, he can't stay here. It's okay, we'll take him back. He won't die."

The long term harassment, arrests, and threats took a tremendous psychological and physical toll on Mr. Hou, and he passed away on September 30, 2006.

Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2006/10/13/140076.html

On September 21, 2002, I was in Luohe City, Yancheng County, Henan Province handing out Falun Gong truth-clarifying materials. I was arrested at a village in Wanjin Township by agents from the Wanjin Police Station. They brutally beat me on the site. My mouth bled and two of my front teeth are still loose. My face and eyes were black and blue. That night they handcuffed me onto a metal bed for the entire night. In the morning I was forbidden to eat. That morning I was sent to the Yancheng County Police Department. They applied the handcuffs so tight that they cut into my wrists. The purple circles remaining on my wrists hurt for several days.

After the police interrogation I was delivered to the Yancheng County Detention Center and detained for ten months. While there, for speaking out a fellow Falun Gong practitioner's name the abusers beat me with their fists, and kicked me and slapped me on the face whenever they interrogated me. The detention center food was less than sub-standard and in insufficient amounts. We were served watery porridge in the morning, but were prevented from finishing it because if we drank too much of it, we had to use the restroom too often. At noon we had one bowl of noodle soup. The evening meal consisted of two small pieces of steamed bread, a tiny dab of boiled vegetables and a bowl of noodle soup. I have been incarcerated in three cells successively. The young criminals there who didn't have a family member visiting often fainted from starvation while walking or standing. When we called detention center doctor Zhang to check, he took a perfunctory glance and ordered one portion of sugared water and two steamed pieces of bread. Only several of the rich inmates or those who had connections had the privilege of sleeping on a wooden frame. The majority had to rest on the damp concrete floor.

The center staff would bring tools and materials to the cell and the day's work would start right away after morning cleanup. This would last until noon. Those slow to work lost their restroom privileges. If they had to go they would be beaten upon their return. There was not enough time at lunch - just enough for a bowl of noodles and we had to work until dark. Those who could not complete the quota would be beaten by the cell head. They used high-heeled shoes to hit one's buttocks, or slapped practitioners' faces. They used all of their strength and counted the number of hits. To cap things off, they would withhold the evening's steamed bread.

If someone in the cell reported to the guard that a certain person had not finished her task, the police would get that person out the next day and beat her buttocks black and blue. If you were found to be careless and made mistakes, Doctor Zhang, who was responsible for production, would use a foot-long transmission belt to beat your face or the hand that is not used for working.

Our task was to pressure tin foil. That is putting the tin foil that was opened by others on a piece of grass yellow paper, pressure them together with the mill. The minimum quota for each person was 600 sheets. If one could not finish this number one would be fined. If the quality was not up to standard the work had to be redone. One would also be beaten and deprived of supper. After several days of orientation each person must finish 1,000 sheets per day.

If one practiced Falun Gong or recited the scriptures, the cell head would report to a guard who arrived to beat you. One day when I just started meditation, a guard surnamed Su came over and stomped on me several times. He ordered the cell head and others to keep an eye on me at all times.

They locked the cell at night. No matter how many people were detained in the cell, there was only one toilet in each cell, and we were forbidden to use this for bowel movements. If someone was sick or had to use it, they had to request permission from the cell head and be fined 20 yuan. I was fined twice. Several times the cell head refused permission and several persons were compelled to relieve themselves in their clothing.

When a trial was held, the judge didn't wait for Falun Gong practitioners' relatives to arrive. The so-called judicial representative read the case and pretended to ask your opinions. If one had something to say they didn't care and dismissed you with few words. Several days later a judge ordered me to stretch my hand through a door. He pressed my hand on the sentencing letter for fingerprinting. Then he handed me that paper and said that I had interfered with execution of the law and that I was sentenced to three years in prison.

While I was in detention my family members made many requests to visit me, but the permission was denied. Only ten days before I was sent to the Zhengzhou Prison were they permitted to meet with me one time.

I was "illegally detained" in that detention center for ten months, until July 10, 2003. I was then transferred to the Zhengzhou Prison. The prison guards first threatened me by saying that if I would not "reform" there was no hope of getting out, even when the term expired. When the term had expired, they ordered local police station agents to take me to a brainwashing class and then to a labor camp.

When I had just entered this prison, a guard found some glib criminals to talk with me all day long. They slandered Falun Gong and Master Li. They also gathered all Falun Gong practitioners together to watch fake TV news and programs deforming Falun Gong. If the practitioners were still not "reformed" they started using some vicious means and excruciatingly painful methods to torture them. At the same time they blocked any persecution news releases.

The guards separated all practitioners and forbade contact between us. Each practitioner was teamed up with three to four other criminals to form a "mutual supervising team." The guards found a "clamp" person and told them that this was their opportunity for term reduction. No matter what means they used to "reform" practitioners, they would get credit for it. Consequently they followed practitioners during the day and slept in the same room with practitioners in the evening. Sometimes even buying meals, fetching water, washing clothes and going to the prison canteen were done as a "team." They told someone else to delegate in fear of contact with other practitioners and of practitioners exchanging things. For example, Cui Qingquan in the fifth ward district had been placed under strict management for one week after being found sending out Master Li's poems to other practitioners in other wards.

The guards used all manner of inhuman tactics to torture practitioners who were firm in Falun Gong practice. For example, Lu Yumin from the fifth ward resisted "reform" all the times and firmly practiced Falun Gong. He was eventually transferred to the 13^th ward (special "reform" and Falun Gong-persecution section). He suffered all kinds of excruciatingly cruel abuse there. We met in front of the hospital one day. I saw him using one hand to hold the other one. We asked why. He replied, "Because I refused to 'reform' they burned my hand with a lighter." The guard who was taking us to the hospital deterred us from further talk. Considering this, we got some information about the brutal persecution he had suffered.

Because Sun Haojie (said to be from Zhengzhou) in the fifth ward refused to be "reformed," the police let several criminals torture him in the name of practicing three postures (sitting posture, squat posture, and standing posture). The sitting posture means one sits immobile on a stool. One must sit straight for several hours. This punishment can make the skin on the buttocks come off, particularly during the summer. Several days later the wound may be a running sore, have turned red and be extremely sensitive to touch. The squat posture means one has to bend both legs, with the knees turned outward and toes touching the floor. It looks like sitting, but one cannot sit down. This would last a long time. It made your legs swell and pain prevents one from standing up. The standing posture consists of standing and facing a wall. Someone monitors you. This would last several hours. It felt like standing on fire, and was very uncomfortable.

"No reform, no sleep." This was the prevailing method of practitioner abuse in all wards. They deprived practitioners of sleep for several days, sometimes more than ten days. Specific criminals took turns monitoring practitioners. If one closed one's eyes they woke you up with a beating. Fellow practitioner Mei Shengxin, who originally came from the eleventh ward, refused to be "reformed," no matter what methods the guards used to torture him. He was deprived of sleep for nine days. He became dizzy and blind, hit the fish tank and lost consciousness. When the fish tank broke, he cut his head and bled. The cut required several stitches. The guard made sure later that no word of these events would be leaked to the outside. Some people were told to say he accidentally hit the fish tank. The criminal detained with Mei Shengxin told me that Xiao Mei had suffered so much.

Falun Gong practitioner Gao Yupeng was held in the 12th ward. The guards there let the head of criminals use all kinds of excruciating tactics to achieve a "reform." Because Gao Yupeng persisted in Falun Gong practice, some criminals made him squat in the restroom and put excrement into his mouth, and other gross abuses. They used all manner of shameful and dirty tricks.

Another practitioner told me that criminal Zhang Bin was the head of the criminals. To reduce his term and make contributions, he cooperated with the guards and did many evil things. He was once accompanied by several criminals and took the practitioners who refused to reform to a small room on the second floor and closed the door. We don't know what methods they used, but the practitioners' miserable shouts could be heard in the courtyard. Sometimes these criminals beat and kick practitioners without reason, simply for the purpose of having their terms reduced.

Zhang Bin is said to have persecuted many practitioners. This prison ward is the education ward. To "reform" Falun Gong practitioners, they used all possible methods to earn many credits. Ward head Feng Xiaohui was elected to be the "provincial level model worker."

They committed this abuse secretly. Even criminals in the same ward didn't know anything about it. All I have written is true, and some is from my own experience. Some I witnessed, and some are experiences of fellow practitioners and what criminals told me. Because the prison was strictly censored, unless you are the party involved, it is extremely difficult to investigate which guards incite which criminals to implement various methods of persecution. However, all victims' names are accurate, and they might still be imprisoned.

Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2006/10/10/139810.html