Name: Cao Feng (曹峰)
Gender: Male
Age: 40
Address: Duolun County, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region
Occupation: Farmer
Date of Most Recent Arrest: September 8, 2009
Most recent place of detention: Duolun County Detention Center (多伦县看守所)
City: Duolun County
Province: Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region
Persecution Suffered: Electric baton shocks, beatings, sleep deprivation, physical constraint, forced-feedings, extortion
Key Persecutors: Zhang Zhenyu (张振宇)
(Clearwisdom.net) (By a correspondent from Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region) On September 8, 2009, the National Security Police, led by Zhang Zhengyu, arrested practitioner Mr. Cao Feng while he was working in Shanghai and took him back to Duolun County. He is now imprisoned in the Duolun County Jail. In past years, he and his family were continuously persecuted by the police.
Mr. Cao went to Beijing to tell people the facts about Falun Gong on July 20, 1999. He was arrested by police from Duolun County in Beijing on October 30. They seized 1500 yuan from him, sentenced him to two and a half years of forced labor, and put him in the Ximeng Forced Labor Camp.
In 2000, Ximeng Forced Labor Camp transferred Mr. Cao to the Inner Mongolia Wuyuan Forced Labor Camp. Upon his arrival, a chief from the monitoring organization in the camp had a talk with him and threatened, "Wuyuan Forced Labor Camp was a former concentration camp for the Nationalists. At that time, I was responsible for transforming them. All of those stubborn people were transformed. If you Falun Gong practitioners do not transform, the only option left for you is death. All of you will carry your granite-like heads to your graves." Mr. Cao was guarded by two inmates around the clock. He was forced to do hard labor, far exceeding the regulations and his capacity. After work, he was forced to sit on a bed and not allowed to go anywhere.
On July 20, 2001, by accusing Mr. Cao of "stirring up practitioners to fight against the camp," the camp authorities extended his term for three months. After his release, the 610 Office, police station, neighborhood association, and the political and justice directory of Duolun County continued to harass him.
In March 2003, he was arrested again, on account that arrested practitioners from other cities had called him. In the jail, Warden Ruan Kui shocked him with electric batons. His neck and face swelled up with large blisters. He was subsequently extorted out of 4,500 yuan before his release.
In September 2004, the 610 Office of Duolun County started a brainwashing center, and Mr. Cao was arrested and taken there. He escaped, but was forced to stay away from home or risk further persecution. Even so, his 60 year-old parents and 80 year-old grandmother were still harassed from time to time.
In late summer 2005, the authorities went to his home again to take him go to the brainwashing center. Since they were unable to find him, the head of the political and justice directorate threatened to arrest his father. Thus, his father Cao Wanxi was forced to leave and stay away from home for two months. His wife and two-year-old were left behind. His wife and daughter were harassed when they visited her parents' home.
Related report:
http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2004/2/20/45320.html
Written on September 10, 2009
