(Clearwisdom.net) In the morning of October 1, 2007, Najie police
arrested Mr. Yang Xiu, a practitioner from Lingyuan City, Liaoning Province,
because he was publicly clarifying the truth. He was taken to a
detention center.
Mr. Yang Xiu, 66, is a retired teacher. Since the beginning of the persecution
on Falun Gong in July of 1999, Lingyuan police arrested Mr. Yang been many
times. He was imprisoned at a forced labor camp twice and suffered torture that
is beyond most people's imagination.
In December 1999, Mr. Yang was detained in Section 3 at Chaoyang City Reform
School (aka Xidayingzi Reform School). He and other practitioners were forced to
perform heavy labor daily, from before dusk until night. Everyone was forced to
dig two 10-meter deep holes for a building foundation. The skin on their hands
peeled off and one could see the flesh underneath. Despite doing such heavy
work, they were not given enough to eat. At night, police made practitioners
line up. Each one was beaten in an effort to "transform" them.
In the middle of December 2002, Jin Yucheng, the director of Chaoyang City
Reform School, director assistant Cheng Hetian, police officer Du Lei, the head
of Section 4 Qi Yongshun, and many more, began another round of persecuting
practitioners. Mr. Yang was shocked with electric batons for several days. As a
result, the back of his hands, his neck and his head were covered with red dots
and yellow blisters.
On April 30, 2003, Mr. Yang Xiu declared that he was not "transformed
during the forced "transformation" last October at the reform school.
Jin Yucheng and a group of police officers from the Chaoyang City Reform School
began to torture Mr. Yang again. They were heartless when torturing this
62-year-old man. Police ordered Shen Qingli and other prisoners to hold Mr. Yang
to the ground and put a helmet on him. Then, a group of police officers shocked
his head, neck and chest with electric batons. Mr. Yang was screaming because of
excruciating pain. His head, neck, chest and back were covered with red dots and
yellow blisters. All prisoners witnessed this.
On November 8 and 9, 2003, Mr. Yang Xiufan and three practitioners shouted,
"Falun Dafa is good." On November 9, a middle team leader with the
surname Tian ordered prisoner Zhao Zhonghua and four prisoners to take Mr. Yang
to another building. They slapped him and then held him to the ground. Then,
they shocked him with electric batons. At noon of the next day, they tortured
another three practitioners in a classroom at Section 4. Everyone heard the
shouts "Falun Dafa is good" and the continuous zaps of the electric
shock batons.
On December 18, 2003, the main section leader Qi Yongshun forced Mr. Yang to sit
on a small iron stool about 20 cm in diameter and 30 cm in height. The stool
surface was uneven and full of humps. It was extremely uncomfortable to sit on.
Mr. Yang was forced to sit on it for more than three days. His lower body became
numb and he became incontinent. When Mr. Yang went on hunger strikes, Qi
Yongshun told guard Shen Hongjun and others to rub his lips very hard with a
towel until they felt as if they were burning. Then they force-fed him. During
the winter night, they handcuffed Mr. Yang to bed and took the covers away,
opening all the windows so he would freeze. According to Qi Yongshun, they
received 1,000 yuan as "reward" for every practitioner they
"transformed."
On January 15, 2003, the reform school brought together dozens of policemen and
more than twenty transformed practitioners to start a "transformation
battle." They used all possible methods they could think of to force
detained practitioners to write the three statements.
Torture methods included sleep deprivation for an entire week. Mr. Yang Xiufan was tortured until he was near death. On April 19, police tortured Mr. Yang with four or five electric batons, leaving him covered with injuries. He could not eat anything for several days. They also used the torture methods "Airplane Flying," squatting for long time, and "half squat" with arms stretched straight forwards. Any practitioner who dared to do the exercises was forced by police to kneel under the blistering sun. They also tied them to a heater and deprived them of an entire night of sleep.
Staff at ChaoYang Reform School lost their humanity in order to
"transform" practitioners. Because of the inhuman physical and mental
torture, some practitioners' hair turned prematurely gray within a few days and
some lost their hair.
Practitioners only want to tell people that Falun Dafa is good. Because of this,
they are persecuted, some even to death. Since July 20, 1999, more than 3,000
deaths of practitioners from torture have been verified. What Mr. Yang Xiufan
suffered is only the tip of the iceberg.
October 13, 2007
