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After Mr. Yang Guiquan, 45, died on July 5, 2009; major wounds were visible on his back as well as on the back of his skull. Signs of electric shocks were also observed on his legs. His family was not allowed any inquiry or appeal.
Peng Jinping is confined to a cell and brutally treated.
At around 9 a.m. on July 19, 2009, dozens of police cars and a big bus filled with military police gathered outside a funeral parlor in Fuxin City, Liaoning Province. There were approximately a hundred policemen in the area, creating an intense atmosphere both inside and outside the parlor.
After Yang Guiquan's body was cremated, his family members collapsed and cried in grief. When Mr. Yang's friends went to the parlor to request to see Mr. Yang's body one last time, the security guards replied, "You can take a look at anyone else, but not Yang Guiquan."
Mr. Yang Guiquan, 45, was a Falun Gong practitioner from Fuxin City. While imprisoned at the Xindi Detention Center in Fuxin City, he was tortured and died on July 5, 2009. Major wounds appeared on his back as well as on the back of his skull. Signs of electric shocks were also observed on his legs.
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After Mr. Yang's death, his entire family was prevented from contacting the outside world because the authorities feared that they would appeal, sue them or try to find out the reason behind the otherwise ambiguous cause of death provided by them.
Mr. Yang's friends had tried to hire a lawyer to investigate the crimes committed by the authorities. However, none of the local lawyers dared to work on Mr. Yang's case. They were told, "Liaoning's People's Courts has recently released a document prohibiting lawyers from defending Falun Gong practitioners."
Mr. Yang was born on January 2, 1964. He l4ed in Apt 604, Building 1, Meihai Zone, Beixin Village, Xihe District, Fuxin City and was an employee at Rongxing Plastics Co. Ltd.
At around 6 p.m. on June 20, 2009, Mr. Yang was reported to the authorities while distributing flyers at the Fuxin City Mall to expose the facts of the persecution of Falun Gong. He was then arrested by policemen from the Political Security Section of Haizhou District Police Precinct led by Wu Zhongqi. While the policemen were dragging Mr. Yang away, he kept shouting, "Falun Dafa isgood!"
Wu Zhongqi and his officers interrogated Mr. Yang for many nights without rest and in the end imprisoned him at Xindi Detention Center. Once he arr4ed at Xindi, Mr. Yang began a hunger strike to protest the illegality of his detention. Policeman Wu and his officers then began torturing Mr. Yang, including forced-feeding. On July 5, Mr. Yang's health was in great danger.
During Mr. Yang's detention, his 80-year-old mother had gone to Haizhou District Police Precinct several times to request her son's release, but this was refused by Policeman Wu and his officers. Mr. Yang's family was also forbidden from visiting him. Even when Mr. Yang's company supervisors demanded his release, the Political Protection Section refused.
Mr. Yang passed away at 3 p.m. on July 5, yet the authorities waited until after 8 p.m. to notify his relat4es.
A few hours before Mr. Yang's death, he was taken to a hospital, and then brought back to the detention center. A few hours later, Mr. Yang was sent to Fukuang Group Central Hospital where doctors made the diagnosis that the patient had already stopped breathing and his heart beat had already stopped. The body had signs of blood clotting on his back and behind his skull, and signs of electric shocks could also be seen on the insides of his legs.
More than 10 days after Mr. Yang's death, his body was still withheld by the authorities. When Mr. Yang's relat4es requested help from other authorities, not a single person spoke up for them. The CCP continued to pressure local lawyers, prohibiting them from defending Falun Gong practitioners. Mr. Yang's entire family had nowhere to go to raise their grievances. Under such circumstances, with no choice at all and with no way of finding out the true cause of Mr. Yang's death, the family reached an "agreement" with the authorities. The authorities provided a minute amount of compensation and a number of conditions that Mr. Yang's family had no other choice but to accept.
Mr. Yang's body was cremated on July 19, 2009. The CCP knew that Mr. Yang's family members felt that what had happened was unjust, and that the local people felt that the entire incident was unjust. As a result, they dispatched hundreds of plain-clothed and military police to the funeral parlor.
According to inside sources, Mr. Yang was beaten to death by the police.
Businesswoman Peng Jinping Still Jailed After Seven Years
Ms. Peng Jinping is a private business operator in Guiyang City, Guizhou Province. She was arrested on Xudong Road by officers from the 1st Division of Guiyang City Police Department and Yunyan District Police Precinct, who had been following her. She was then sentenced to 13 years and taken to Yang'ai Women's Prison.
Ms. Peng, born in1956, operated a clothing shop. She used to have hepatitis B, but recovered after she began cult4ating in Falun Gong. After she was imprisoned, she lost weight, became skinny, and frequently was very sick. Prolonged mental torture caused her to lose her mental alertness.
Seven practitioners were arrested at the same time in November 2001. They included Zhao Echuan, Wei Lizhu, Mei Guinan, Xu Pengyao, and Mo Qi, who was arrested later. Because each of their houses had large amounts of DVDs and truth-clarification materials, their cases were regarded as top priority by the Chinese Communist Party personnel in Guizhou Province. The practitioners were g4en heavy prison sentences of 11-15 years each.
In Ward 3 of Yang'ai Prison, Ms. Peng was forced to forced labor. She had to clean the restrooms, including those outside of the workshop. The guard assigned two inmates (one named Peng Fangfang was especially brutal and rough) to watch her around the clock. She needed the permission of the two inmates to have meals, sleep, buy things, get boiled water, take a shower, and wash her clothes. If they were in a bad mood, her life become miserable.
In 2003, she was beaten by the two inmates because she insisted on doing the Falun Gong exercises. Her cries of pain from the beating were heard through the night. Since she was forbidden to do the exercises, she yelled "Falun Dafa isgood" instead. The guards ordered the two inmates to tape her mouth shut with multiple layers of tape to quiet her, which made it hard for her to breathe. When the inmates pulled the tape off, they intentionally pulled a patch of hair off of her head. With the support of the guards, the two inmates assigned to watch her also persecuted her financially. They controlled all the money she got from her family to buy food and sundries. Once they were upset and knocked all her food on the ground when she forgot to call them to lunch.
To force her to g4e up her belief in Falun Gong, the guards played games. For example, they only allowed her two minutes for each restroom visit. If she did not come out in two minutes, they would throw a plastic chair at her head.
Once she met a fellow practitioner. When she pressed her hands together in front to greet her, Bai Ju, the Captain of Supply in Ward 3, saw her. Bai Ju called the two inmates assigned to watch Ms. Peng to have a talk. Afterwards, the inmates verbally abused and threatened her while making gestures: "If you ever talk, say hello, show any facial expression, or make any gesture again toward her (the fellow practitioner), we will beat you to death. "
Once, just after she had finished cleaning the bathrooms, Bai Ju ordered her to move a pile of bricks. She collapsed and fell next to a car. Bai ordered the inmates watching her to pull her up and force her to stand even though she was close to passing out.
Since the guards always cover up any news, the above few examples are only a partial account of the persecution Ms. Peng has endured in Ward 3. Sometimes the guards would pretend to be nice and ask, "Did they (the inmates assigned to watch you) harass you or hit you?" If she answered yes, then the inmates would torture her even harder. The guards would then have appeared to be nice while accomplishing their goal of persecuting practitioners and not having to take any responsibility.
In 2004, Yang'ai Prison moved all practitioners to Building 4 (now called Ward 4). Cells in the first floor were for the new inmates, while on the other floors it was arranged that each cell housed one practitioner and two to four inmates assigned to watch her.
Ms. Peng was moved to Building 4 in the beginning of 2005. At first she and the assigned inmates each watered the plants outside with a small bucket and went to get their own meals from the cafeteria. But soon she was confined to her cell, where she had to take her meals and use the toilet. She never saw the sunshine, and the only people she could see all day were the inmates assigned to watch her. This type of mental torture is still going on today.
To make the inmates assigned to watch practitioners do their best to persecute them, the guards often gathered them to watch videos and other materials that slandered Falun Gong and built up their hatred against it. In the meantime, the guards reminded them not to openly strike practitioners so that the guards themselves would not be held responsible, while at the same, the inmates' priority for parole were tied to how brutally they treated practitioners. So when practitioners did the exercises or did not follow orders, the inmates would, to protect their own interests, hit them or apply other tricks to torture them. As a result, practitioners' cries from being beaten were often heard and practitioners being pulled away halfway through using the bathroom was common.
To force practitioners to give up their belief, the guards would urge their spouses to threaten to d4orce them.
These accounts of persecution are hardly known to the outside world. Even the guards and inmates in the other wards think that practitioners are treated nicely. Guards in Ward 4 often organize fest4e-sounding act4ities. At night when it is quiet outside, the sounds of singing and music are heard far away. However, many practitioners are tortured and persecuted here, including Yang Hongyan and Wei Yalan, who were tortured to death.
Since Ms. Peng's arrest, her 20-year-old son has been badly traumatized. He is quiet all day long and does not want to talk to anyone. Her family has suffered both financially and psychologically.