(Clearwisdom. net) Ever since the Jiang Zemin regime started the brutal persecution against Falun Gong practitioners, it has employed the cruelest, most deceitful methods to persecute and deceive practitioners into quitting Falun Dafa. The number of persecution cases is unprecedented, and the irrefutable evidence gathers daily. The practitioners from Meizhou City have suffered just as the practitioners in other areas in China. Below are some of the atrocities they have encountered.
These cases, collected with much difficulty and at the risk of many people, will become evidence for the Global Coalition to Bring Jiang to Justice.
Mr. Xie Hanzhu, age 40, was from Meizhou City, Guangdong Province. He was working for the Office of Public Affairs. Because of his steadfast practice of Falun Gong, he was expelled from the Communist Party, dismissed from work, and sentenced to detention at the former Section One of Group Five in Sanshui Labor Camp, where he has been since December 1999.
"Education for the new recruits": When he first came to the Fifth Group, Mr. Xie was welcomed with a savage beating. The guards beat his chest and kicked his head. He was in excruciating pain and had trouble breathing after the beating. He could not lie on his back or speak without experiencing terrible pain. Getting in and out of bed became one of his most painful tasks.
Forced labor for over 12 hours daily: Mr. Xie and others were frequently forced to work overnight in order to finish an assignment. If anyone was unable to finish an assignment, the guards would shock him or her with an electric baton or strike the person with a whip made of metal and covered with rubber. In order to cause maximum pain, the guards would bind two whips together, each the thickness of a finger. Just one lashing left black raised marks on their backs, and their backs were covered with scars.
No showers. There were 500 people in the Fifth Brigade and only 12 water faucets. In addition, water only runs for one and a half hours every night. Most do not get a chance to take a shower. When they were forced morning and night to perform military training, they had no time to take a shower. They were still forced to perform 10-12 hours of labor during the day. At one time, Mr. Xie was unable to take a shower for three months. Because of the dreadful hygiene practices in the labor camp, everybody had lice and dermatitis.
Because Mr. Xie clarified the truth about Falun Dafa, a guard ordered several inmates to drag him to the back of the public bathroom. They pushed him against the wall and started beating his chest until he was unable to breathe. They then dragged him to the opening of the sewer pipe and forced him to breathe the stench for 10 minutes.
Prolonged shocks with electric batons. The guards used two high voltage electric batons to shock Mr. Xie's entire body. They shocked the most sensitive areas, such as the ears, neck, nipples, armpits and soles of the foot. They forced the baton into his mouth and shocked him for an hour at a time. There were blisters all over his body after the torture.
Since the electric shock could not bend Mr. Xie's will, a policeman pushed him to the ground face down and, with his leather boots, viciously stomped on Mr. Xie's back. This policeman also grabbed Mr. Xie's hair and struck his head against the floor. After this savage beating, Mr. Xie became so dizzy that he was unable to keep his balance.
Cold showers in freezing weather. The police ordered inmates to pour cold water over Mr. Xie for over half an hour in freezing weather, which made him shiver and turned his lips purple.
Sleep and rest deprivation. If he was not forced to work all night, after work ended at around 11 p.m., Mr. Xie was forced to "study" Marxism philosophy and write "reading notes." He was not allowed to rest until he finished the notes. Sometimes, the police would use all kinds of ways to keep him awake. One policeman kept talking to him the first part of the night, and another the rest of the night. He was still forced to work all day the next day. If he fell asleep the next day, the guards would either kick him very hard or whip his whole body. After two years of persecution, Mr. Xie, formerly a vigorous and energetic young man, had become a skinny, boney, gray-haired man, with a wane and sallow complexion. His family members could not recognize him.
In July 2000, the police ordered five inmates to pull his body in opposite directions, which is similar to an ancient Chinese torture called "five horses tearing apart the body." They forced Mr. Xie to sit in front of a pole with two inmates stretching his arms with all their strength and two others stretched and pulled his legs outward, causing excruciating pain. His arms and legs were bruised and swollen for days. He could not bend over or squat down. He was unable to sleep or go to the bathroom due to the pain.
Those responsible for the persecution include Deputy Captain Jiang and police officers Lei Shubao and Zhang Guansheng.
In September 2000, Mr. Xie was sent to the Second Section in the Second Group for continued persecution. The guards forced him to work for over 12 hours a day to endure military training for long periods of time, and to remain in a squatting position for several days and nights. He was not allowed to talk or contact anyone. He was forced to stand under the baking sun during the hottest part of the day, everyday, for as long as one month. Officers deprived him of sleep and forced him to get up everyday at 5:30 a.m. and work until 10 p.m. They also made him read articles that slandered Falun Dafa and Teacher until past midnight.
The person responsible for this persecution is Captain Zhang Shengmei.
After two years in the Sanshui Labor Camp, the Meixian 610 Office took him to different places where the abuse continued, such as the Meixian Detention Center, the Meizhou City Police School, and brainwashing classes in Meixian in the Meijiang District of Meizhou City. Mr. Xie was half starved to death and kept in solitary confinement most of the time.
In December 2002, Mr. Xie Hanzhu and two other practitioners Xia Xianqiang and Zhou Xigui started a hunger strike to take a stand against the abuse and excessive detention that they were forced to endure. The police and guards savagely force-fed them. They knocked out Xia Xianqiang's front teeth and used a tube-shaped bamboo, which held the food at one end and a sharpened point at the other end to poke and jab his mouth, throat, and esophagus. This brutal torture caused multiple lesions in his mouth and blood oozed everywhere, causing severe inflammation. After half a month of this savage force-feeding, Xia Xianqiang was in a coma. The 610 Office guards did not want him to die in the detention center, so they released him on a stretcher to his family. With the power of Falun Dafa and merciful Master, he recovered quickly. The 610 Office and police started to retaliate by hiring guards to watch his home. They again took him to the detention center once his health recovered.
Those responsible for the persecution include: Liu Qiqian, Hu Jianping, Chen Wankang, and Wu Jingqing of the Mei County 610 Office; Xie Lianhui of the Mei County Procuratorate; a person with the surname of Chen in the Mei County Judiciary Bureau; Zhang Guoqin, the director of the 610 Office in the Meijian District; and Liang Weizhong, the deputy director of the Meijian District 610 Office.
On February 3, 2005, police from the Meizhou City National Security, the Meijiang District 610 Office, the Meijiang District Police Subdivision, and the Meizhou City 610 Office abducted Xie Hanzhu, Guo Yafen, Zhong Suyun and Zhong Hanxiang and other practitioners. They are being held in the Qinhuang Detention Center in Meizhou City.
The above information was collected by eyewitnesses.
Responsible parties:
In the Meijiang District:
Zhang Guoqing, deputy secretary of the Meijiang District Political and Legal Bureau and 610 Office director: 86-13802362038(cell)
Liang Weizhong, 610 Office deputy director: 86-753-2196766(home)
From the Meijiang District Police Subdivision:
Guobaogu: 86-753-2168210
Xue Qingwen: 86-13060739801(cell)
Liu Guodao: 86-13823855876(cell)
Huang Songfeng, Huang Ruizhang
The Meijiang District Jiangnan Police Station: 86-753-2244006
Meizhou Political and Legal Bureau: 86-753-2390832
Mei County 610 Office personnel: Liu Qiqian, Hu Jiangping, Chen Wankang, and Wu Jingqing
Mei County Procuratorate: Xie Lianhui.
Mei County Judiciary Bureau: a person with surname of Chen.