Name: Feng Xincheng (冯新成)
Gender: Male
Age: 41
Address: Yanliang District, Xi'an City
Occupation: Employee of the Quality Assurance Division, China Flight Test Establishment
Date of Most Recent Arrest: September 28, 2009
Most Recent Place of Detention: Brainwashing Center located at the Worker Sanatorium in Chang'an District, Xi'an City
City: Xi'an City
Province: Shaanxi
Persecution Suffered: Sleep deprivation, brainwashing, illegal sentencing, beatings, solitary confinement, torture, extortion, physical restraint, interrogation, detention
(Clearwisdom.net) Mr. Feng Xincheng has been detained five times since the persecution of Falun Gong began in July 1999. He was sent to a brainwashing center three times, and to a forced labor camp for one year. His most recent detention at a brainwashing center lasted more than four months. He was tortured, and following his release, Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials still interfered with and harassed him. He moved out of his home around March 10, 2010 to avoid further persecution. His current whereabouts are unknown.
Mr. Feng and six others went to Beijing to appeal in October 1999. The other practitioners included Song Zhi, Wu Xiaohui, Xing Zhiwen, Zhou Yanping, Wang Qizheng, and Guo Xianglong. Local police took them back to their hometowns. Mr. Feng Xincheng was detained for 15 days and Song Zhi was detained for about a month.
In mid-July 2000, five practitioners were arrested again, including Feng Xingchen, Song Zhi, Wang Yongzhuo, Su Haiping, and Yan Feng. Mr. Feng was detained for about ten days. Song Zhi was sent to a forced labor camp for two years. The three other practitioners were detained for about 15 days.
Three years later, in September 2003, city and local police detained Mr. Feng for more than twenty days. He was later sent to a brainwashing center and persecuted there for three months.
Another two years later, in 2005, several officials decided to persecute Mr. Feng Xincheng financially. They were from his workplace, and included Wang Shouhua (head of Quality Assurance), Zhang Feng (Quality Control director), Geng Xiangjun (Political Division head in the 610 Office), Zhang Ming'an (a security officer). This led to the practitioner's salary being reduced by 50%, but his work hours remained the same. His bonus and other types of compensation were canceled.
In May 2006, several agents from the local police department and from the Domestic Security Division detained Mr. Feng, Song Zhi, Zhao Guangyuan, Yao Yan'an, and Wang Xiaokuan. The police also sent them to a labor camp. Mr. Feng's term was one year and one month. While at the Zaozi Forced Labor Camp, guard Wang Wei instructed criminal inmates Yang Guogang, Hou Hongshe, Su Ping, Zhang Liying to threaten, beat, and physically abuse Mr. Feng. Su Ping and other inmates even attempted to gag Mr. Feng with a towel and beat him with clubs. Under instructions from guard Wang Wei, Su Ping later limited Mr. Feng's sleep to only three hours a day. He also forced him to stand straight and motionless, like a soldier, for long periods of time. This gross abuse and mistreatment lasted nearly one month.
When Mr. Feng's forced labor term expired in May 2007, he was taken from the labor camp directly to the Chang'an County Brainwashing Center. Those involved included Yao Yan'an (police officer), a person surnamed Huang (current head of the 610 Office), Zhang Ming'an (security official at the workplace) and Li Yiliang (another official from Mr. Feng's workplace). A brainwashing center official surnamed Sun put Mr. Feng into solitary confinement for a long time. He had to eat, drink, and relieve himself in a ten square-meter room. To "transform" him, officials forbade Mr. Feng from speaking for nine consecutive days. Officials at the brainwashing facility persecuted him for about six months.
Local Domestic Security Division police took Mr. Feng to the Zhongfei Hotel in June 2009. They tortured him and deprived him of sleep for four nights. He held a hunger strike to protest. He was later taken to the Yanliang Detention Center and was held there for 15 days. Domestic Security Division police extorted about 20,000 yuan from his family.
The following year, on September 28, 2009, several people took Mr. Feng from his workplace to a brainwashing center located at the Worker Sanatorium in the Chang'an District. The captors included local Domestic Security agents, a 610 Office head surnamed Huang, Zhang Wendian (deputy head of Linyun Road Police Station), deputy head Zhang Wendian, Zhang Ming'an (security official in Mr. Feng Xincheng's workplace), Quality Control Division head Zhang Wei at Mr. Feng Xincheng's workplace), and Li Yiliang. They detained him for a long time. Brainwashing center official Li Liang ordered Mr. Feng Xincheng to do qigong, and beat him when he refused. Under instructions from Li Liang, thugs at the brainwashing center took turns talking non-stop to Mr. Feng and Zhou Yating, who were allowed not even a minute's break and were deprived of sleep. After about a week, the constant abuse and mistreatment made him and Zhou Yating weak.
Mr. Feng was released from the brainwashing center in late January 2010, after more than four months of gross abuse and mistreatment under the persecution.
Since his release, as stated above, agents from the local 610 Office agents, Domestic Security Division, and his workplace monitored him closely. Officials at his workplace put him into a windowless security room. Li Yiliang, Wang Zhongwei, and others monitored him closely. Workplace official Zhang Wei and police officer Zhang Ming often found excuses to check up on Mr. Feng. He decided to go into exile for about one month.
Mr. Feng's parents, already in their seventies, are both ill and need someone to care for them. His wife lived with their 7-year-old daughter in a different town. After Mr. Feng left home, local officials from his workplace often went to his home to harass the aged parents and demanded that they tell them his whereabouts. This has severely impacted his family.
China Flight Test Establishment at Yanliang District, Xi'an City:
Head: Liu Xuanmin
Party secretary: Bai Changyi
Deputy heads: Wu Gang, Tianping, Gu Yilong, Guo Pingfan, Ge Heping, Zhao Jiangnan
Quality Assurance Division: Cheng Cunhu (head), Cui Jiangli (deputy head), Zhang Xi (deputy head)
Quality Control Office in Quality Assurance Division: Zhang Wei (office manager), Li Yiliang (deputy office manager)
Division of Science and Technology: Cheng Peng (head), Wang Shouhua (deputy head)
Political Division: Geng Xiangjun
Zhang Ming'an: police officer
