(Minghui.org) A 54-year-old man in Longkou City, Shandong Province, was admitted to the Shandong Province Men’s Prison on September 4, 2024, to serve a two-year term for his faith in Falun Gong, a mind-body practice that has been persecuted by the Chinese Communist Party since July 1999.
Mr. Guo Meixue, an employee of Longkou Ren He Ultramarine Chemical Co., Ltd., was arrested on February 28, 2024, after being reported for talking to people about Falun Gong. He went on a hunger strike after being taken to the Longkou City Detention Center and did not resume eating and drinking until the sixth day.
Mr. Guo was issued a formal arrest warrant on March 8. The police submitted his case to the Longkou City Procuratorate on March 20. Prosecutor Lyu Shasha indicted him on April 15. He stood trial at the Longkou City Court on June 5 and judge Chi Ya’nan sentenced him to two years at the end of that month. He started another hunger strike in July 2024 and was taken to the Beihai Hospital for force-feeding multiple times. The guards also handcuffed and shackled him.
The Yantai City Intermediate Court ruled in late August to uphold Mr. Guo’s original verdict, and he was admitted to prison on September 4.
Prior to his latest prison sentence, Mr. Guo was arrested another time in June 2007, after being reported for talking to people about Falun Gong. He was given a two-year term at the Shandong Province Second Men’s Labor Camp, also known as the Wangcun Forced Labor Camp.
Because he refused to renounce Falun Gong, the guards ordered the inmates to monitor him. He was only allowed to sleep between 1 a.m. and 4 a.m. About three weeks into his detention, a guard attached his right hand to the upper bunk bed and his left hand to the lower bunk bed, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. He was unable to stand straight or squat. The guard director Luo Guangrong came over from time to time to pinch his ribs. The pain was excruciating and he wasn’t given anything for lunch.
Mr. Guo went on a hunger strike in protest on January 6, 2008. Director Luo ordered several guards to carry him to his office and beat him. They then took him to a solitary confinement cell, where they hung him up by his wrists and shocked him with electric batons. The pain was like being bitten by snakes. They also gave him only a tiny steamed bun for each meal.
The persecution deeply traumatized Mr. Guo’s wife. Her heart would pound as soon as she heard a police siren.
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