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On February 17, 2007, Falun Gong practitioners Ms. Xu Hongmei and Ms. Shen Zili from Qiqihar City, Heilongjiang Province were taken to the Internal Medicine Department of the Qiqihar City Second Hospital with ankle shackles on. They had been tortured for five days by policeman Yi Zhanhui, and others from the Qingyun Street Station in Longsha District, Qiqihar City. They both had lost consciousness and could not eat; they were coughing up blood and twitching. Their entire bodies were swollen. The officers of the Qiqihar City 610 Office, Longsha District 610 Office, the City Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Political and Judiciary Committee, and Police Departments came to the Hospital frequently, attempting to extort 20,000 yuan from the practitioners' families, promising to release the practitioners if they were paid. Their families had no money to pay. The officials then said that they would not be released even if they died in the hospital. Ms. Xu Hongmei died at 4:30 p.m., on February 27, 2007, at age 37. Ms. Shen Zili died at 8:50 p.m. on the same day, at 49 years old.
 Xu Hongmei |
 Shen Zili |
At around 4:00 p.m., on January 13, 2007, when Ms. Shen Zili, Ms. Xu Hongmei and Ms. Hou Yaqian (all had been forced to leave their homes due to persecution) arrived at Ms. Hou Yaqian's temporary residence, a group of policemen suddenly broke in and illegally arrested them and forcefully took them to the Qingyun Street Police Station. Policeman Yi Zhanhui dragged Ms. Xu Hongmei to the first floor from the fourth floor, where he used all kinds of cruel torture methods, such as tying her to a bed with her legs and arms stretched far apart, and tying her up like a stick. He then hung her upside down four times, and upright once. Ms. Xu Hongmei shouted "Falun Gong is good!" The policemen beat her until she lost consciousness. Yi Zhanhui woke her up with cold water and continued torturing her. He then locked her in a metal cage. The police from Qingyun Street Station tied Ms. Shen Zili to a chair with adhesive tape and knocked her head against the wall until she lost consciousness. They continued beating her after she regained consciousness.
Practitioners Ms. Shen Zili and Ms. Xu Hongmei had been on a hunger strike (no food or water) for around 40 days to protest against their illegal imprisonment. No matter how these policemen tortured them, they refused to give in, or provide other practitioners' information. The police then took the dying Ms. Xu Hongmei and Ms. Shen Zili to the Qiqihar City Detention Center. Their bodies were covered with injuries.
These CCP officials never notified the families of Ms. Shen Zili, Ms. Xu Hongmei or Ms. Hou Yaqian, nor did they go through any legal procedures. Their families were looking for them everywhere. When they went to the Qingyun Street Police Station, policemen accidentally leaked their whereabouts by asking, "Who told you they are detained here?" Ms. Shen Zili and Ms. Xu Hongmei's families were trying to rescue them by visiting the Qiqihar City 610 Office at the Qingyun Street Police Station. The officers they met were all very rude. The Qingyun Street police chief, Gong Yanhui, said that these practitioners would be put on trial soon. He ignored the fact that their lives were in danger, and refused to release them.
 In-Patient Department of Qiqihar City Second Hospital |
 Police vehicle parked near the building |
 Internal Medicine Department |
In the afternoon of February 13, 2007, police officers put ankle shackles on the practitioners and took them to Rooms 423 and 424 of the Internal Medicine Department in the Qiqihar City Second Hospital. Because policemen Yi Zhanhui and Zhou Huanyu from the Qingyun Street Station tried to get a confession by torture, both Ms. Shen Zili and Ms. Xu Hongmei had severe internal injuries. They were unconscious most of the time, their mouths were bleeding, they were coughing up blood and twitching. Their entire bodies were swollen and their internal organs were failing. Their electrolytes were unbalanced, and their blood pressure was very low. They vomited whatever they ate and were totally emaciated.
However, the Qiqihar City 610 Office, Qiqihar City Police Department, Qiqihar City CCP Committee of Political and Legislative Affairs, Longsha District 610 Office, Longsha District Police Department, Longsha District CCP Committee of Political and Legislative Affairs and the Qingyun Street Police Station demand 20,000 yuan from their family members in order to release them. Longsha District Police Department Deputy Chief Zhang Hang went to the hospital every day to try and get the money. Ms. Shen Zili's family members had already been extorted out of 20,000 yuan when she was arrested previously. The police have not returned the money. The family had no choice but to look at their dying loved one with tears in their eyes because they could not afford to pay another 20,000 yuan. Hearing that the families had no money to pay, the officials said that they would never release them, even if they died.
After both women were injected with "bovine serum albumin," they appeared to be dying and were in a deep coma. Ms. Xu Hongmei's nine-year-old daughter, Tiantian, went to visit her mother, but her mom could not hear her or recognize her. Because of the persecution, little Tiantian hardly even got to live with her mother, and now her mother has left her forever. This poor little girl grew up being discriminated against, and suffered from being separated from her parents. Her father, Sun Weimin, is still detained in Tailai Prison, and Tiantian has to live with her grandparents. She cannot understand why her Mom and Dad were detained for being good people, and why her Mom was tortured to death.
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Ms. Xu Hongmei's daughter, Tiantian and Ms. Xu's Husband, Sun Weimin (currently detained in Tailai Prison)
The Chinese Constitution states, "people have freedom of belief," and "no organizations or individuals are allowed to interfere with a citizen's freedom of belief with any excuse." But the Qiqihar City 610 office, the Longsha District 610 Office, the City CCP Political and Judiciary Committee, and Police Departments ignore the law, follow the CCP to do harm, and murder kind-hearted people.
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Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Tian Fujian lived in Yuanjiang City, Hunan Province. He was arrested twice between the years of 2000 and 2001. Police officers and officials have constantly come to his home to harass him. In September 2006, Mr. Tian Fujian was arrested again and died soon after he was released on December 23, 2006.
Mr. Tian Fujian, 61, lived in Jingxia Prefecture of Yuanjinag City, Hunan Province. He was arrested by state security agents Zeng Ming, Li Laiqun, and Luo Pingqiang when clarifying the truth to people in September 2006. They detained him in Yangsiqiao Detention Center in Yuanjiang City. On December 22, 2006, he was taken to the hospital by people from the Yangsiqiao Detention Center, as he was close to death due to mistreatment. He died the next day after his family took him home.
Mr. Tian Fujian's son knew that his father was only released because he was dying as a result of being tortured, and he went to the Yuanjiang City Police Department to request a settlement. The Yuanjiang City Police Department gave him ten thousand yuan, and the Yansiqiao Detention Center gave him five thousand yuan.
Yuanjiang City state security agents Zeng Ming, Luo Pingqiang, and others have always been actively involved in arresting Falun Gong practitioners and ransacking their homes. In September 2006, Zeng Ming stopped Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Liu Damao and tried to search him, but Mr. Liu refused to cooperate. Zeng Ming called for more agents and forcibly detained Mr. Liu Damao. He took more than ten copies of the Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party from him. Afterwards, he ransacked his home and detained Mr. Liu Damao in the Yangsiqiao Detention Center. After Mr. Tian Fujian was tortured to the point of death, the detention center quickly transfered Mr. Liu Damao to the Xinkaipu Labor Camp in Changsha City. Mr. Liu had a history of strokes and was paralyzed the last time he was detained in the labor camp, so he was rejected when they found that his blood pressure was very high. They eventually released him.
In the past nearly eight years of persecution, the Yuanjiang
City State Security agents have actively participated in the
persecution of around 60 Falun Gong practitioners by arresting them,
sending them to forced labor, sentencing them to prison terms, and
confiscating the practitioners' property. Practitioner Ms. Tian
Qingxiang's computer, copier, laser printer, and other valuables were
taken away by these agents.
Since the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) began to persecute Falun Gong, Jilin Prison (Jilin Province 2nd Prison) has illegally detained and persecuted many determined Falun Gong practitioners. Their means of persecution are very cruel. From the facts that we have obtained, we would like to expose the crimes committed by Jilin Province Prison. This prison is regarded as a so-called "civilized" prison by the CCP.
The Force and Violence Behind the "Salutary Influence of Education"
When practitioners were illegally detained in the prison, the authorities tried to force each one to write a guarantee statement. Whoever didn’t comply was forced to stay in a "strictly controlled" confinment area. A Korean-Chinese practitioner, Jin Chengquan, was detained in solitary confinement for more than a month in 2003. During that time, he suffered all kinds of torture and insult from the criminals assigned to him. (The prison guards and officials arranged for criminal inmates to "watch," persecute, and torture practitioners.) For example, when Jin Chengquan was washing his face, the criminal inmates dragged him by his hair and pushed him against the wall, burned his eyebrows with a lighter, snapped his eyeballs with their fingers, used pins to prick his fingertips and foot arches, refused to let him fall asleep, and even squeezed his testicles. After torturing him, the perpetrators forced him to write a guarantee statement; and only then was he allowed to meet with his family. Otherwise, he would have been deprived of the right to meet with his family. After suffering this cruel persecution, formerly healthy people have become very thin. The guards had the criminal inmates persecute practitioners through a variety of means including bullying, cheating, corporal punishment, insults, torture, framing, beating, and abuse. They ruined the practitioners' spirits and annihilated them physically in order to "transform" them, and they gained political and economic benefits for doing so. Practitioners were deprived of their right to see their relatives, and they were not allowed to protest to the prison authorities. Furthermore, the perpetrators kept the statements written by the practitioners, to conceal their crimes.
Li Yongsheng and Wang Yuanchun from the Education Section at the prison used "strict control" to try to force practitioners to "transform." Furthermore, they instigated the criminal inmates to pressure the practitioners and torture them in order to "transform" them. The "transformed" practitioners were forced to stay with the criminal inmates, who then attacked them. In fact, their method was to continue pressuring the Falun Gong practitioners in order to "transform" them thoroughly.
The Prison Arranged for the Criminal Inmates to Torture Practitioners
Jilin Prison arranged for the criminal inmates to cruelly persecute practitioners. Moreover, the prison has never put a stop to this kind of brutal persecution.
The "Strictly Controlled Team"
The criminal inmates were worse in the "strictly controlled team." Practitioners who were sent to the "strictly controlled team" were called "self-examination persons" and were monitored by the convicts. The practitioners held there were deprived of all rights, and they suffered a fascistic mode of control. The practitioners were forced to sit on a wooden board for 15 or 16 hours each day. They had to sit upright and not move at all, not even their necks a little bit. If they didn’t sit upright, they would suffer a brutal beating. Some practitioners' buttocks festered, and some acquired pulmonary tuberculosis and pleurisy. They ate only a little piece of pickle and small, tasteless crumbs of buns for each meal. They were not allowed to go to the toilet at night, and even their breathing was limited. Some practitioners had lung problems, and when they coughed, they were cruelly beaten.
There were "stretching beds" in the prison, also called the "fixed beds." These "stretching beds" were used to torture practitioners by holding the person on the floor of the solitary confinement and fastening his limbs with four metal cuffs so that the convicts could kick, step on, burn with boiled water (as was done to Mr. Wang Fengcai), and prick the practitioner with pins. The cruelest torture was to put the practitioner on his back and fasten him down. Then they shoved quilts, water bottles and boards under his back. They called it "adding pressure." The torture was to elevate the person, stretching the limbs tightly. The flesh of the wrists and foot joints were torn up slowly, and the bones were exposed. At the same time, the lower back was elevated and the head was lower. As a result, breathing became difficult, and oppressive pain could make the person die immediately. Some practitioners suffered this kind of torture for one or two hours, and some were injured severely and sent to a hospital to receive treatment. Some practitioners were fixed on the bed for more than ten days, twenty days, one month, and even two months. As a result, their muscles began to atrophy, and they could not stand upright. When they walked they had to support themselves with their hands against the wall. Their hands and feet were frozen stiff, and they became very thin. Some practitioners suffered this kind of torture several different times.
The shortest term in the "strictly controlled team" was more than a month. The longest term was ten months. Typically, practitioners were detained in the "strictly controlled team" for three or four months.
"Study Class" and "Psychological Rectification"
The prison used the so-called "study classroom," "psychological rectification center," and "psychological consultation room" to persecute practitioners. Contrary to what the labels imply, the prison administration used these areas to turn good people into bad people. Each group in Jilin Prison has a "study class," where criminal inmates try to force Falun Gong practitioners to "transform". They try to make each practitioner write a guarantee statement or be forced to sit on a wooden board as a punishment. If the practitioners don’t obey, they are beaten and abused at any time. Sometimes four criminals beat one practitioner. Some practitioners’ ribs were broken from being kicked (for example, Mr. Shi Guohong). The convicts used a wooden board to beat their backs, and the practitioners bled from many places (for example, Mr. Liu Chengjun was tortured to death.) Some had their front teeth knocked out and were severely injured. Mr. Cao Zhonghua and others were not allowed to sleep. Mr. Zheng Weidong was not allowed to fall asleep for nine days. The practitioners were not allowed to speak, communicate with others, or walk around. The practitioners who didn’t obey would suffer the torture of the "stretching bed."
The "Psychology Rectification Center" was initiated in April
2004 at Jilin Prison. This was used as another way to persecute
practitioners in order to try to "transform" them. In September 2005,
Li Yongsheng from the Education Section talked to practitioner Mr. Gao
Zhengang, with the excuse of "rectification" and "consultation" in
order to try to "transform" him. Li Yongsheng took three "rectified"
former practitioners, Bai Ye, Yan Feng and Wu Qingdong, who had all
become collaborators,
to transform Mr. Gao Zhengang for more than one month. However, they
didn’t succeed. Afterwards, Li Yongsheng arranged for a criminal from
the "strictly controlled team," Xu Zhigang, to persecute Mr. Gao.
Xu Zhigang took several criminals to beat and abuse Mr. Gao. It is just
as the other criminals in Jilin Prison have said, "The criminals in the
strictly controlled team have a license to beat others."
Under such pressure, some practitioners relented and wrote a guarantee statement. Moreover, they ordered the practitioners to write whatever the perpetrators said, and the "transformed" practitioners were forced to "transform" other practitioners.
The 1st Ward and the10th Ward
There are two sections in Jilin Prison that are for "transforming" Falun Gong practitioners. One is in the 1st Ward. There are 17 or 18 people involved and Li Yongsheng is the leader. They have mainly used brutal means to try to force practitioners to give up their belief. Since July 2006, they have put nine practitioners into solitary confinement, charged with reading Master’s recent writings and articles. These practitioners are Jiang Tao, Wang Jian, Zhang Beiqi, Tian Rukai, Liu Hong, Sun Qian, Wang Hongliang, Liu Yang, and a Falun Gong practitioner who is 73 years old from Songyuan City. Sun Qian has been put on the "stretching bed." He was released from solitary confinement when he was at the edge of death. Another section is in the 10th Ward; it consists of 17 or 18 collaborators. They are led by Wang Yuanchun from the Education Section. Since October 2006, the Education Section has directly led convicts to try to "transform" practitioners. The collaborators know that the practitioners haven’t read Master’s recent writings and articles, so they quote out of context and distort Falun Gong's teachings to misguide the practitioners. Some practitioners finally agreed with their opinions when they were persecuted to exhaustion. Some practitioners even became collaborators and were used as tools for persecuting others. The practitioners here who refused to "transform" were put into the "strictly controlled team" to be persecuted (such as was done to Zhu Dexiang).
Using the Policy of Implication to Make the Guards and Criminals Brutally Persecute Practitioners
In Jilin Prison guards' salaries and criminals' sentences are linked to persecuting Falun Gong practitioners. According to prison stipulations, a guard will gain a bonus of one thousand yuan for accomplishing the duty of "transforming" a practitioner. The criminals who take part in persecuting Falun Gong practitioners can get different premiums or added points. Gaining three points can commute their sentence by four or five days; they can even get ten points. Otherwise, the criminals, the group, and the district group will be implicated. If the criminal inmates persecute non-practitioners, they will have points deducted. This policy of implication ensures that the criminal inmates will hate determined practitioners. Some criminal inmates who know the truth about Falun Gong and don’t want to cooperate with the persecution will have points deducted. In order to leave prison earlier, some criminal inmates have become devoid of normal human conscience.
These facts about the persecution of Falun Gong at Jilin
Prison are a testimony to the loss of conscience there. The inhumane
persecution must be stopped. We call on all international societies to
pay attention to the prisons, forced labor camps, detention centers,
and concentration camps in China and to conduct a field survey. Also,
we call on the goodness in the Chinese people, urging them to pay
attention to and stop the cruel persecution of Falun Gong that has
lasted for seven years.
[Note: The following is a shortened version of a longer and more detailed article that appeared on the minghui.ca website (Chinese version of Clearwisdom.net).]
Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Li Jizhong, 28, lives in Zhangqiu City, Shandong Province. He graduated from the Shandong Province Civil Construction Vocational School and is an employee of the Zhangqiu City Urban Development Company.
At around 11:00 a.m. on December 27, 2006, Mr. Li was illegally arrested by two officers. At around 6:00 p.m. the same day, he was taken to a detention center. On January 4, 2007, Mr. Li was released because he protested the persecution by going on a hunger strike for eight days without water and he was in serious condition. Officials of the 610 Office extorted five thousand yuan from his family and permitted him to be released temporarily, on bail.
On January 5, 2007, the officials had Mr. Li sentenced to three years of forced labor, but they did not arrest him immediately. They went to his home several times to search for evidence to use against him, but failed to find any.
On February 5, 2007, Mr. Li went to the city's 610 Office to ask for
the return of his personal property, which the officials had taken
after ransacking his home; instead he was arrested on the spot and
taken to Wangcun Forced Labor Camp. Mr. Li went on a hunger strike
without water again to protest the persecution. His wife is living in
difficultly with their four-year-old daughter.
[Note: The following is a shortened version of a longer and more detailed article that appeared on the minghui.ca website (Chinese version of Clearwisdom.net).]
On January 12, 2007, the Mishan City Court of Heilongjiang
Province put Falun Gong practitioners Mr. Ye Zhenghui and Mr. Mao
Dexing, both from Hulin City, on trial. Due to lack of evidence, the
trial had to be adjourned. The Mishan City Chinese Communist Party
(CCP) Political and Judiciary Committee said the practitioners must be
heavily sentenced. Therefore, the City Court held a secret hearing, and
sentenced Mr. Ye and Mr. Mao to three years and five years in prison
respectively for "undermining the law." The court ignored the fact that
the first court session had already concluded that "the charges did not
reflect the actions." Mr. Ye is appealing his innocence.