Name: Yu Lixin(余立新)
Gender: Male
Age:43
Address: Nanganqian Street, Xinhe Town, Wenling City, Zhejiang Province(浙江省温岭市新河镇南干前街)
Occupation:Unknown
Date of Most Recent Arrest:September, 2009
Most recent place of detention: Drug Injection Center of Wenling City First Hospital (温岭第一医院药物注射中心)
City:Wenling City (温岭市)
Province: Zhejiang Province (浙江省)
Persecution Suffered: Detention, Forced labor, Force-Feedings, Physical Constraint, Sleep Deprivation, Illegal sentencing, Extortion, Forced Injections
(Clearwisdom.net) (By a correspondent from Zhejiang Province, China) Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Yu Lixin had been illegally sentenced to a forced labor camp. He was detained there for eight years. While in the forced labor camp, he was severely persecuted. He was not released until 2009. Recently he was arrested and sent to a forced labor camp again.
In December 1999 Mr. Yu, while practicing Falun Gong exercises in a park, was arrested. He was sent to the Wenling Detention Center and was held there for one month. Then he was transferred to a hotel in Xinhe and was held there for half a year.
In January 2001, Mr. Yu went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong. He was arrested and detained again at the Wenling Detention Center. He went on a hunger strike to protest the persecution. Zhu Sufang, Deputy Director of the detention center, force-fed him. Police used sharp bamboo sticks to pry open his tightly clenched teeth. His mouth bled and his face became swollen. Then police fixed him on a wooden frame with his four limbs stretched wide open and then gave him injections of concentrated salt solution. He was then sent to a hospital. He was sentenced to three years of forced labor at the Shiliping Forced Labor Camp and his family was not notified. His elderly parents were going to every related organization trying to find his whereabouts.
In the afternoon of May 12, 2004, while Mr. Yu was in a practitioner's home, Lin Chenchao, Vice Leader of the domestic security division led other police to break into Mr. Yu's home and arrest him. At the Xinhe police station, Mr. Yu didn't cooperate with the police for written records. They didn't allow him to sleep. As soon as he closed his eyes, they injected water into his body. He was deprived of sleep for twenty consecutive days. During that time he fainted four times. Police formed three groups to torture him in three shifts 24 hours a day.
In the evening on May 31, 2004, Mr. Yu was transferred to Wenling Detention Center. He had been on a hunger strike for twenty days. Two days later, Zhu Sufang ordered other officers to take him to the Qingchun Hospital in Hangzhou City (it is a hospital that treats prisoners with serious diseases.) Zhu Sufang ordered policeman Chen Jianguang to persuade doctors to put him in the contagious disease ward for hepatitis and tuberculosis. He was forced to stay there for two nights. The hospital examined him and found that he was not ill. The hospital asked the police to take him back. Policeman Chen Jianguang put him in handcuffs and shackles and tied him to the roof of the police car and drove to the detention center.
On June 5, 2004, Xia Baolong, Deputy Director of the Legal and Political Committee in Zhejiang Province, commanded Huang Jinsheng, former CCP Party Secretary of Wenling City, Wang Yilang, Director of the public security bureau, Zhu Shufang, Deputy Director of the detention center and Director of the First People's Hospital to secretly send Mr. Yu to the First People's Hospital in Wenling. They tied him to a hospital bed with handcuffs and shackles and didn't let his family or other practitioners know. Zhu Sufang said to his subordinates, "Whoever opens the shackles for him will be docked on their bonus. Even if he dies, he shouldn't be released."
Mr. Yu went on a hunger strike to protest the persecution, which lasted for 77 days. They force fed him throughout the whole period. Because he was tied to the bed for such an extended period of time, his legs withered and he was not able to walk. He was severely emaciated.
Mr. Yu was sentenced to five years and six months for the alleged crime of organizing practitioners to hold an experience sharing meeting and spreading Falun Dafa teachings. On July 27, 2004 he was detained in the Second Prison in Zhejiang Province.
In September 2009, Mr. Yu was arrested again. The police confiscated seven thousand yuan from him. He went on a hunger strike in the detention center. The police sent him to the drug center in the first hospital in Wenling (It is actually a drug rehabilitation center) where they forcibly injected drugs in him. He was tortured so severely that he was not able to get up from the bed. They put shackles on him so that he was not able to bend his legs.
In December 4, 2009, officials from legal organizations opened a court session in the hospital. They didn't notify Mr. Yu's family or lawyer. His lawyer went to investigate and found out that the case would be tried on the fourth floor in the people's hospital at 8 a.m. on December, 4. His relatives and friends heard the news and went to the hospital. However, the police did not allow them to sit in during the hearing. His relatives and friends ignored the police and almost all of them went in to hear the case. The police searched everybody and didn't allow them to take anything with them. They videotaped everybody and took photos when they went inside.
Two policemen carried Mr. Yu out because he was so severely tortured that he couldn't walk. His eyes were closed and his legs were stiff. He spoke with a low voice. The court sentenced him to four more years in prison.
Xia Fuming, the presiding judge from the Wenling City Court: 86-576-86128820(Office)
