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Cruel Torture of Falun Gong Practitioners by Jinan Police, Shandong Porvince

September 06, 2000 |  

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[From the Editor: Zhang, the director of the Keyuan Road Police Substation of Lixia District in Jinan City, Shandong Province, together with policeman Liang Jian, brutally tortured several Falun Dafa practitioners with electric rods. Those practitioners were beaten until dark bruises were all over their bodies and their faces were covered with blood. This severely violates the law and human rights. Following are several true accounts of some practitioners. (The phone number of the Keyuan Road Police Substation is: (86) 531-296-7423)]

1.ááááá A, female, retired.á Policeman Liang Jian at the Keyuan Road Police Substation asked her where she got her Dafa material, but she wouldnt say anything. Liang used the electric rod to electrify her, starting with her head. After she fell down, she was continually electrified in the face and mouth for a long time, which caused a burning smell. In between, she was interrogated, verbally abused with profanity and was slapped in the face. Liang then electrified her near her heart. This lasted for over an hour while the practitioner squatted on her heels. Liang said that, if she died from the beating, it would be reported as a suicide.

ááááá Later, A was further interrogated and electrified. Wherever she was electrified, it would become scorched and caused a burning smell. There was no skin on her body that was not electrified.á

2.ááááá B, male, retired, a Falun Gong practitioner. Upon being brought to the police substation, he was electrified by Liang Jian without being asked any questions. B said that they could talk over related issues and asked to stop the cruel torture. Liang said he would not listen to any words that day; he just wanted to torment B, torture him to death and bury him under the tree. Liang said that even if B were tortured to death, it would be reported simply as a suicide. Thus, B was electrified three or four times over the entire body. Later, B was detained in the police substation for 9 days.

3.ááááá C, a practitioner, almost 60 years old. C told the "political instructor" of the police substation that, "if we have violated any laws, you can punish us according to the law; you cannot torture us arbitrarily like this". Because of saying this, C was beaten by Liang Jian and Zhang (the director). Later, Liang threatened C by saying that he could even kill C. C was detained in the police substation for a few days.

4.ááááá D, a male practitioner. When he was brought to the Keyuan Road police substation, Zhang and Liang were already there with their fully charged high voltage electric rods. After being knocked down to the ground, D was severely beaten by several people. Director Zhang said that the top leader in China, had said that Falun Gong practitioners could be dealt with in any way. Even if someone were tortured to death, they would be buried and reported as a suicide. Then, Liang electrified D with the electric rod. D felt pains all over his body that were intolerable. If D cried out because of the severe pain, Liang would electrify him in the mouth. The left leg of D was electrified to the point of being lame, and the pain lasted over one month.

5.ááááá E, a female practitioner. When she went to Beijing and did the exercises there, she was caught and brought back to the Keyuan Road Police Substation. Director Zhang electrified her three times. After the first time, she was asked to choose what to follow between the government authority and Falun Gong. E said she chose both. Director Zhang said that E wore "two pairs of pants" and electrified her again. E was then asked again, but she ignored it, and was electrified for the third time. Then, she was asked if she was clear on that issue, she loudly said "yes". The major areas that were electrified included her head, mouth, breasts and legs. She was later released after her family paid 5,000 Yuan [about $600, 10 month average wage].

6.ááááá F, a female practitioner. When she went to Beijing to appeal, the Keyuan Road police substation brought her back. She was first detained in Zhangzhuang detention center for 14 days, and was then transferred to the Keyuan Police Substation. Three days later, she was handcuffed. Two policemen escorted her to her home and wanted to search there thoroughly. F did not agree, saying that Dafa is the most important thing to her (and she would protect it with her life); and if they still wanted to search, she would rather be knocked onto the wall to die. After sending her back to the police substation, policemen searched her home thoroughly and confiscated everything about Dafa: books, cassettes and a portrait of Mr. Li Hongzhi. On that evening, she was brought to a room on the second floor by two policemen (names were unavailable). Zhang was sitting there drunk. F was abused verbally with profanity. After one of her arms was brought back over the shoulder, she was handcuffed in the back. Then, she was electrified on her head, face, ears, breasts, heart area, hands, legs and feet. She was even obscenely electrified between the buttocks and abused verbally with profanity. She fell down to the floor when she was electrified on the head. Zhang said he was entertained by continuously torturing F. She was electrified over the entire body three times for a total of about two hours, and interrogated in between.

Throughout the whole process, the two policemen who brought her onto the second floor were also there. One stood by the door and one sat by Zhang. They also abused her verbally with profanity. The next day, F was sent to Liuchangshan detention center and then detained there for one month. Then, she was continually detained at her working place. Without any better way to get freedom, she went on a hunger strike. She was released after two-day hunger strike and fined for 5,000 Yuan.

7.ááááá G, a male practitioner. Because he distributed an article [written by Mr. Li Hongzhi] to others, he was brought to the police substation and electrified by Zhang and Liang Jian. G was electrified for half an hour and verbally abused with profanity. Then, he was electrified again. Zhang said, the Chairman of the country said that Falun Gong practitioners can be dealt with in any way, and it would be reported as a suicide if someone were tortured to death. G was repeatedly electrified after the electric rod was recharged. Two other practitioners were also brought in and electrified at that time. While they were reeling on the floor because of the pain, some policeman stepped on them to force them to stay still.

8.ááááá H, female, retired. Her retirement pension was stopped because of practicing Dafa. In late December of 1999, she was sent to a mental hospital and forced to take pills for mental patients. Although no illness of any kind was found after a thorough examination, she was still kept there even during the Spring Festival [Chinese New Year]. After three and a half months, one of her family members was sent to the hospital because of recurring high blood pressure and semi-paralysis. H was then released.

Many practitioners were sent to mental hospitals and tortured there although they were totally healthy. Some of them incurred mental disorders because of this. Some policemen threatened to send them to mental hospitals and torture them until they became mentally abnormal. According to some people working in the hospital, there were over 20 practitioners in the mental hospital where H stayed, more than half of them were female.

August 29, 2000

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