Written evidence submitted by Falun Gong
Human Rights Working Group
We are submitting to you some more cases of
Chinese regime's severe persecution of Falun Gong practitioners
in China. We hope that you have paid attention to our previous
case reports.
The Chinese regime, and the silence of the media
and other public forums, have led many to believe that the persecution
of Falun Gong is a past, that Falun Gong has disappeared from
China or gone underground, and that it is finally no longer a
dilemma item on our conscience when we are dealing with China.
That is unfortunately far from being the case;
rather, it is the persecution that has gone "underground,"
gone unreported by the Chinese regime and by the media. Using
a tactic that is not different from the Nazi's high-profile hate-inciting
propaganda to blind and numb the society to its followed by the
clandestine "final resolution," the Chinese regime's
earlier high-pitched campaign to deceive the society, to build
a coercive atmosphere, and to justify its persecution to the world
has been followed by the present period of stealthy torture and
murder.
The persecution is indeed as severe and extensive
as it has ever been. Unyielding to the extreme pressure, Falun
Gong practitioners in China have persisted in exposing the horrific
persecution. Their plight and courage have touched many to come
to assist and to speak for them. These people have all been coerced,
but remain unyielding; and their information has supported Falun
Gong practitioners' claims and appeals.
On the international front, information on the
severe persecution has largely been ignored, perhaps because it
is deemed to be from one privileged source. This is, unfortunately,
a self-fulfilling judgment: as long as no one else cares to look
into the persecution, its exposure will continue to be perceived
as single-sourced.
And there is yet another self-fulfilling judgment
we must scrutinize : Do we want our children to live in a future
world where no one will look into other people's suffering? If
our answer is an honest "No," how do we prepare to answer
to our more caring children when they ask, "What did you
do when the persecution of Falun Gong ran rampant?"
The cases we submit to you are from real people,
and are about their real suffering. The information comes to us
at great risk to those who pass it on, and oftentimes with great
sacrifice. They must not be taken lightly, lest the value of hope,
courage, and the future of humanity be forsaken.
Thank you for your kind attention,
Falun Gong Human Rights Working Group
Mr Yang Naijian Beaten and Tortured
Mr Yang Naijian, male, in his 20s, resident
of Nugushan Village, Liuting Town, Chengyang District, Qingdao
City, Shandong Province.
In 2004, because he told people the truth about
Falun Gong and the persecution, the police arrested and tortured
him. Once, one policeman beat his head with an electric baton,
and then seven policemen beat him simultaneously, which caused
his body and head to bleed, and he passed out. In the winter,
police stripped off his clothes and forced him to stand outside
in the snow. Police often kicked at his body and beat him. Later
he was sent to the Qingdao Labor Camp for further persecution.
After Mr Yang was released, on 12 May 2006 around
8 pm, led by officer Lu Weizhong, a group of policemen of Liuting
Town Police Station went to Mr Yang's home, and they beat him
out in front of his home. Then they took Mr Yang to the Liuting
Town Police Station. At the police station, Lu Weizhong fiercely
beat Mr Yang with an electric baton, and used his knee to jab
Mr Yang's abdomen, which caused Mr Yang to lose control of his
bladder. Later, Mr Yang managed escape.
Huang Yongzhong Died from the Beatings
Mr Huang Yongzhong, in his 30s, was born in
Xinhe Village, Dongshan Town, Jieyang City, Guangdong Province.
On 9 September 2001, Mr Huang was arrested while
distributing Falun Gong truth clarification fliers in Longwei
Town of Jiedong. He was detained at the Jiedong Detention Center,
where Wu, the center director, beat him with his fists and a leather
belt and kicked him in the head. Almost every evening around 7.00
pm, Mr Huang was taken out and beaten.
During Mr Huang's trial, he was beaten so badly
that he couldn't walk on his own. He had to be carried into the
courtroom. The judge ignored all of Mr Huang's objections and
the objections made by others on his behalf, and accepted the
"evidence" that the police presented, although it was
full of loopholes. The court sentenced Mr Huang to seven years
for "disturbing the social order." Mr Huang appealed,
but the Jieyang Court insisted on "upholding its original
sentence." On 10 November 2001, he was sent to Beijiang Prison
in Shaoguan.
In Beijiang Prison, Falun Gong practitioners,
who refuse to give up their beliefs, are kept in dark cells, forced
to do more work than others, not allowed to sleep, and are given
unknown drugs in their food, causing their minds to become muddled.
After he was there for a month, Mr Huang was transferred to Supervision
Area Number 12. While he was there, the guards and prisoners often
beat him. He had injures all over his body and was beaten into
a coma many times.
On 2 July 2006, Mr Huang's parents received
two phone calls asking them to hurry to the prison. They were
sure something was wrong, so they brought their son's friend with
them. Prison officials told them their son was in the hospital,
so they rushed over there. When they finally found him his arms
and legs were shackled to the hospital bed, he was too weak to
even speak. A prisoner was assigned to watch him. His mother looked
under the blanket and saw wounds from beatings all over his body.
She angrily asked the prison personnel, "Why did you beat
my son like this? Why is he still locked up?!" Forcing a
smile, one of the people she asked said, "We are a civilized
unit. Why would we beat him? He caused these injuries himself
by struggling when we tried to examine him. We had to immobilize
him so he wouldn't move too much while we gave him an injection."
Hearing this, Huang's mother grew even angrier, "What kind
of physical exams could give a person bruises all over his body,
leave him unable to move or speak, and need a catheter?"
The person continued to argue with her, saying, "His hepatitis
virus has spread and caused his body to turn blue. Is it our fault
that he got sick?"
At that time Mr Huang's mother noticed his lips
were very dry and looked like he hadn't had water for a long time.
She quit arguing and hurriedly gave her son some water, and then
cut a piece of apple for him. Mr Huang began to come around and
he called weakly, "Mom." Then he pointed at the person
from the prison and said, "... evil to death." He grabbed
his friend's hands tightly. It seemed like he had many things
he wanted to say, but he was too weak to speak.
Mr Huang's parents requested their son's immediate
release from prison so that he could receive medical treatment,
but the prison officials obstructed them in every possible way.
They said they needed to report to the "610 Office,"
they needed to discuss it, and they needed several pieces of paperwork
from the elderly parents. Mr Huang's parents are honest farmers
who are both more than 70 years old. They had no one to help them,
so they finally had to return home.
On the morning of 5 July, Mr Huang's parents
got up early and went to talk to the officials at the police station,
the "610 Office," and other government offices, but
everyone shifted the responsibility onto someone else and refused
to speak with them. His parents cried, "Our son is dying,
and you're still making trouble for us. If something happens to
him, heaven won't forgive you!" That evening his parents
brought the paperwork, which they'd obtained with great difficulty,
to the prison.
On 6 July, after reading the certificate, the
prison warden took out a piece of paper and asked Mr Huang's parents
to sign it. The paper said the prison would not be responsible
if anything happened to Mr Huang after he left the prison. Mr
Huang's mother read it and yelled, "You didn't ask me to
sign anything when you took him away. Now he's dying and you expect
me to sign this? You want to avoid responsibility for your actions.
You've killed a man and now you want to wash your knife clean!"
Their righteous indignation left the warden speechless. He sent
for a vehicle, a few doctors and a police officer, who took Mr
Huang to the People's Hospital in Jieyang. The policeman told
doctors, "This man is a criminal. If you can treat him, go
ahead. If you can't, just let him go." Everyone was shocked
by his words. Several days later, his parents brought him home.
By that time, however, it was too late for Mr
Huang. He passed away on the afternoon of 21 July 2006.
Organ Harvesting Suspected in the Murders
of Ms Fu Keshu and Mr Xu Genli
Ms Fu Keshu and her nephew Mr Xu Genli disappeared
in Jinggangshan in November 2005. Guided by some locals, their
family members went through the valleys and caves in the nearby
mountains searching for them. They also petitioned the Jinggangshan
City government to help find them, but to no avail. The bodies
were not found until April and May of 2006 at Wuzhi Peak in the
Jinggang Mountains.
Victims:
Ms Fu Keshu, 54, a retired teacher at the Kaiyang
County No. 1 primary school, Guizhou Province.
Mr Xu Genli, Ms Fu's nephew, a businessman from
Jinsha County, Guizhou Province.
On 7 November 2005 Ms Fu Keshu and Mr Xu Genli
left home with an older woman. They arrived at the Jinggang Mountains
on the evening of 16 November 2005. They stayed at the Yongxin
Hotel that night. At around 8.00 am on 17 November 2005, they
planned to tour the area and distribute some Falun Gong materials,
but the elderly woman, not feeling well after the bus ride, stayed
at the hotel. Before Ms Fu and Mr Xu left hotel, they told the
woman, "Don't go anywhere! We'll return later this afternoon
for sure." They never returned. The woman waited for five
days. On the sixth day, she returned to Guiyang City in Guizhou
Province.
After Ms Fu and Mr Xu's family learned about
their disappearance, on 4 December, they went to the Jinggang
Mountains to look for them. They also inquired about them at the
Yongxin Hotel and reported the disappearance to the Ciping Police
Department. They broadcast public announcements on the Jinggangshan
City TV, and posted announcements at various tourist sites. They
also found locals who took them into the mountains, but they didn't
find anything. The family submitted reports to the Jinggangshan
City government, the Jinggangshan City Police Department, the
Jinggangshan City Politics and Law Committee, the Jinggangshan
City Tourism Bureau and other government agencies, and continually
asked for help to find them.
On 30 April 2006, the family got a phone call
from the Criminal Investigation Division of the Jinggangshan City
Police Department, saying a male body had been found at Wuzhi
Peak in the Jinggang Mountains. On 3 May 2006, Mr Xu's six family
members arrived at the Jinggang Mountains and requested that people
from the government's Criminal Division go along with them.
Mr Xu's body was lying on the dried riverbed
of a small brook, downstream from a waterfall. The body was stuck
between rocks, facing up, with a stream running underneath it.
The muscles were dried-up, the legs were spread apart and both
hands were raised above the head. It appeared the body had been
dragged and strategically placed between the rocks. A T-shirt
was found on the riverbank not far from the body, and his jacket
and wallet were also found nearby.
His head had been shaved; there was a large
hole in the forehead that exposed the brain. Both eyeballs were
missing; the flesh around the sockets had ulcerated; there were
two black holes on the nose. The chest and abdomen had been cut
open. The police told the family that they had dissected the body
for an autopsy and DNA test. On 6 May, the body was taken to the
Ciping Morgue.
On 7 May 2006, Ms Fu Keshu's family members
and some locals went to the mountain to look for her. On 9 May
2006, the six people took a ferry along the river and went into
the mountains again. At 9.00 am they found Ms Fu's coat underneath
a waterfall, over a hundred feet upstream from the location of
Mr Xu's body. At 10.00 am they found Ms Fu's body in the middle
section of a brook above the waterfall. They called the police,
who took pictures and videotaped the scene. Xiao, a judicial doctor,
conducted an autopsy.
Ms Fu's body showed no signs of decay. Her head
had been shaved; both eyeballs were missing and the flesh around
the sockets had ulcerated. There were two black holes on the nose.
The upper body was bare, her underwear was wrapped around her
head and her trousers were a little worn. The thigh and calf muscles
were somewhat dried up, and the tips of the toes were stretched
out in a stiff position.
On the afternoon of 9 May 2006, Ms Fu's body
was sent to the Ciping Morgue. In the evening, the Criminal Division
told her family that the two victims had "committed suicide."
When the family asked about a motive for the suicide, the police
became upset. On 11 May 2006, Ms Fu's body was moved from the
Ciping Morgue to the Jian Morgue. It was cremated early in the
morning on 12 May.
There were many similarities between the two
bodies. Both victims were hairless, their eyeballs were missing,
the flesh around the sockets had ulcerated and there were two
black holes on the nose.
Mr Xu Genli's body had been carved up before
his family arrived at the scene. The nature of the cuts was consistent
with organ harvesting. If the police were only doing a DNA test,
they should not have cut him open on the mountain in the absence
of any family member. A sample of skin tissue and hair would have
been sufficient.
Ms Fu Keshu's body had not decayed, while Mr
Xu Genli's body had dried up and the bones were exposed, which
indicated that the two people had not died at the same time.
When Mr Xu's sister had been anxiously searching
for him and Ms Fu, she told the Jinggangshan City police that
Mr Xu was a Falun Gong practitioner. A police officer said, "Our
manpower is limited! You should go look for him yourself."
He also said that Falun Gong materials had been found in Huangyangjie
on 18 November 2005. Thinking that Mr Xu and Ms Fu had gone there,
the family asked, "Were they arrested?" The police said,
"No."
On 8 December 2005, the family had gone to the
Jinggangshan City Tourism Bureau to ask for their help in finding
the two missing people. The next day, a Mr Zhu from the Jinggangshan
City National Security Division talked to the family and asked
whether the two missing people were Falun Gong practitioners,
and who else in the family practiced Falun Gong. He also mentioned
that Falun Gong materials had been found in Huangyangjie on 18
November 2005. When the family asked whether someone was arrested
in Huangyangjie, he said "No." The family asked, "If
no one was found, why you questioning us?" He didn't say
a word and left.
The police insist that the victims committed
suicide and conducted no further investigation. The police later
changed the cause of death to "sudden death," after
failing to properly explain the deaths. "Sudden death"
still did not explain the missing hair and eyeballs, or the incision
in Mr Xu's body.
Based on these findings, their family suspected
that Ms Fu Keshu and Mr Xu Genli's organs were harvested, resulting
in their deaths.
Ms Tan Pingyun Tortured to Death
Ms Tan Pingyun was a 56-year-old resident of
Weifang City, Shandong Province. On the morning of 8 November
2005, more than 20 personnel from the "610 Office" in
Weifang City barged into her residence. They ransacked her house
and confiscated her belongings. They arrested Ms Tan and took
her to the "610 Office" brainwashing center.
On 6 December 2005, without informing her family
members, the authorities sent Ms Tan to Division One at the Wangcun
Forced Labor Camp.
At approximately 11.40 on the morning of 18
May 2006, Ms Tan's family received a phone call from the labor
camp, informing them that she was in critical condition and asking
them to rush to the 148 Hospital to see her for the last time.
Her family arrived at the hospital at 2.30 in
the afternoon. By that time, they could not detect her blood pressure
and her heartbeat was extremely weak. At 7 pm that night, her
heart stopped beating. There were no apparent wounds on her body.
When asked about the cause of her death, the labor camp officials
claimed that she had drunk some toilet bowl cleaner when asked
to clean the toilet at 7.00 that morning. The police said that,
after finding out what happened, they sent her to the Wangcun
hospital. The hospital treated her symptoms as high blood pressure.
After the treatment failed, they transferred her to the 148 Hospital.
During a conversation with her family, the police
learned that Ms Tan's second brother, Mr Tan Weaning, did not
practice Falun Gong, so they would only talk to him, not allowing
other family members to be present. The family was suspicious.
As Ms Tan was a cheerful person, they did not believe she would
commit suicide and wanted to take the body to the hospital to
investigate the cause of death. Other family members and friends
also wanted to see her for the last time. The police refused and
demanded that the family cremate the body immediately. They threatened
the family by making the accusation that Ms Tan's elder sister,
Ms Tan Aiyun, participated in many Falun Gong activities including
going on line to download Falun Gong materials. Due to the persecution,
although Ms Tan Aiyun is in her 70s, she once had to spend three
years in a labor camp.
On the night of 19 May, Zhong from the local
Kuiwen District 610 Office, Liang Bin from the Kuiwen District
police department, and Guan from Ms Tan's work unit were ordered
to go to the labor camp, where they, along with personnel from
the provincial justice department, provincial labor camp bureau,
and the labor camp, tried to persuade Mr Tan Weiming to drop the
family's request to take Ms Tan's body. They said that any other
requests would be considered. Mr Tan Weiming had no other choice
but to agree to accept a compensation of 3,000 Yuan and allow
the body to be cremated at the labor camp.
Some questions surrounding Ms Tan Pingyun's
death remain unanswered.
1. In detention centers and labor camps,
there is usually no toilet bowl cleaner because it is a prohibited
item. Laundry detergent is usually used to clean toilets.
2. Ms Tan Pingyun, who was supposed to have
drunk toilet bowl cleaner, still had rosy lips and an intact tongue
and teeth. According to experts, toilet bowl cleaner will burn
the mouth and tongue.
3. Ms Tan was treated for high blood pressure
when it was claimed that she drank toilet bowl cleaner.
4. When Mr Tan Weiming went to the forced
labor camp to visit his sister, Ms Tan Pingyun, she was in good
spirits. Why would such a person suddenly "commit suicide?"
Was this a suicide or was it really a homicide?
Testimony: How I was Persecuted Because
I Practice Falun Gong
Dai Ying, Norway
Ms Dai Ying: 48 years old, she is currently
a resident of Norway. Escaping from China in 2005, she and her
husband went through many hardships after they arrived in Thailand.
They gained UN refugee status and were accepted by Norway.
ARRESTED FOR
SIGNING PETITION
TO UN SECRETARY-GENERAL
On 21 July 1999, my husband, Li Jianhui, and
I appealed to the municipal government of Shenzhen City, Guangdong
Province, to stop the persecution of Falun Gong. The Shenzhen
police arrested us and the police department detained my husband
at a secret location until he escaped ten days later.
On 23 September 1999, we heard that UN Secretary-General
Annan was going to visit China. We thought that we should let
him know about the human rights violations and the persecution
of Falun Gong in China. So my husband went to meet with another
practitioner, Mr Gu Haiying, who used to work at the Shenzhen
Railway Company Office but was sent to do janitorial work due
to practicing Falun Gong.We signed the letter that we wrote to
Mr Annan. Then we all left and tried to find more signers. I also
asked another practitioner, Ms Hao Bingtai to help collect the
signatures. Soon we had over 90 signatures. My husband planned
to take them to Beijing on 30 September.
On 26 September 1999, my husband and I went
to Guizhou Province. Soon after we arrived, we received a phone
call from the Shenzhen City Police Bureau requesting us to go
back to Shenzhen immediately. We realized that they were monitoring
our cell phone. We went back home on 28 September.
On 29 September 1999, the police from the Shenzhen
City "610 Office" wanted to talk to my husband, so they
went to a restaurant. After eating, they arrested him. Policeman
Wang Xiang and more than 10 other policemen ransacked my home,
and arrested me too. They searched every corner of my house including
the ceiling and the safety box, until they found the letter and
signatures. My husband and I were detained at the Futian District
Detention Center. I was released on bail 15 days later, but they
detained and tortured my husband.
MY HUSBAND
WAS SENTENCED,
OUR LAWYERS
WERE THREATENED
The Shenzhen municipal government reported my
husband's name to both the "610 Office" of Guangdong
Province and the "610 Office's" Central Committee. A
prosecutor in the Shenzhen Procuratorate thought that my husband
was innocent. However, higher authorities ordered the court to
sentence him for political reasons.
Before the court hearing, I appointed an attorney
named Ms Qu Ci from New Century Attorney Office in Shenzhen City,
and my brother-in-law appointed another attorney named Ms Xu to
work with her in defense of my husband. After they studied the
files, they both believed that my husband was innocent. Attorney
Qu Ci brought the files to Beijing and invited legal experts to
discuss the case in a forum. The experts comprehensively proved,
from constitutional and legal points of view, that my husband
was innocent. So attorneys Qu and Xu decided to plead my husband
innocent.
Two days before the court hearing, the Shenzhen
City Police Department acted on behalf of the Shenzhen municipal
government to stop attorney Xu from defending my husband. The
Shenzhen City Judicial Bureau also forced attorney Qu Ci to terminate
her contract with me, thus preventing her from defending my husband.
Neither attorney, nor any family members were allowed to attend
the hearing. The court assigned another attorney to plead my husband
guilty.
China's constitution stipulates that every defendant
and his/her family members have the right to appoint attorneys
to act on the defendant's behalf. However, the Shenzhen City Court
knowingly violated the law. At the end of February 2000, the Futian
District Court in Shenzhen City sentenced my husband to four years
in prison.
On 5 March 2000, I went to Beijing to appeal
to the State Council for justice and to stop the persecution of
Falun Gong. The police arrested me and sent me back to Shenzhen
to be detained at the Futian District Detention Center.
TORTURE AND
FORCED LABOR
To continue protesting the persecution, I had
no choice but to go on a hunger strike. During the third day of
my hunger strike, the guards at the detention center began to
force-feed me.
They dragged me out of my cell. Four or five
people pressed me against the ground to prevent me from moving.
They inserted a very thick rubber tube into my nostril, causing
my nose to bleed. When the tube failed, they used a screwdriver
to pry open my teeth, and inserted a thick, sharpened bamboo tube
into my mouth. It hurt so much that I felt as if they were splitting
my mouth open. This force-feeding consisted of either food or
dense salt water. I nearly suffocated. Food and blood kept spurting
from my mouth and nose. Every time they finished, I felt as if
I had died. They force-fed me every two or three days, not out
of concern for my life, but for the purpose of torturing and devastating
me. Once I gritted my teeth and tightly closed my mouth. Doctor
Zhou in the detention center used the largest screwdriver to pry
open my teeth. He pried off my two front teeth, and loosened the
rest of my upper and lower front teeth.
A fellow practitioner, Ms Jiang Xiaowen, was
detained in the cell next to mine. The guards pried off her two
front teeth. Practitioner Ms Xue Aimei was detained in the same
cell as I was. I witnessed how the guards brutally force-fed her
with chili oil and chili powder. Every time she came back from
force-feeding, her nose and face were covered with blood, and
chili oil and food covered her body.
Since we had not committed any crimes, we refused
to wear prison uniforms. Over a dozen of the Futian District Detention
Center's policemen and policewomen came in and forced over twenty
female practitioners to strip naked. One female practitioner was
dragged in front of male prisoners naked in order to humiliate
her.
We were also forced to do slave labor in the
detention center every day. We manually sewed leather shoes, which
caused blood blisters to form on our fingers. Our fingers also
became deformed and curved from this labor. All the products we
made were exported to the United States and Europe. We were forced
to work from 7,30 am until midnight or 1.00 am. In addition, we
had to work a night shift of one to four hours every night. We
worked on weekends, as well. Thirty people lived in a room of
about 30 square meters (or 330 square feet), with a squat toilet.
When we slept, we had to lie on our sides to save space, with
one's head next to another's feet and vice versa. In the labor
camp, no one treated us like human beings.
Soon I was sentenced to three years in prison.
On 8 March 2001, I was transferred to Shaoguan Prison (currently
known as Guangdong Province Women's Prison). Because I refused
to give up my belief, Instructor Luo, Director Dai, Chief Zheng
Zhu'e, Chief Cai Guangping, Clerk Lin and Clerk Yang lectured
me in turn every day. They coupled threats with promises. They
threatened me, verbally abused me, and brainwashed me. They often
forced me to watch programs that slandered Falun Gong and its
founder. They also forced me to face the wall. I was not allowed
to move, sit down or sleep. On the third day, I couldn't stand
it anymore and my legs gave out beneath me. They woke me up and
forced me to stand again. I fell down again, and they forced me
to stand once more. This process repeated until I could not stand
up again. They allowed me a short nap, but soon made me face the
wall once more. They didn't allow me more than two or three hours
of sleep for many days. Even during those two or three hours,
they ordered two prisoners with infectious diseases to supervise
me as my "personal cangues." One had pulmonary tuberculosis
(TB) and the other one had a skin disease.
During a large-scale meeting, the guards took
me onto the stage. Instructor Luo told everyone that I practiced
Falun Gong and no one was allowed to talk to or share anything
with me.
Every day, three or four personal cangues watched
me. They followed me everywhere I went, including when having
meals, using the toilet, or taking a bath. They deliberately created
trouble, and abused and insulted me. They reported my every word
and action, throughout all 24 hours of the day, to their chief.
As I refused to be "transformed,"
the guards frequently shocked me with electric batons. They often
threatened me, "If you don't transform, we will send you
to the Northwest." Northwest referred to the concentration
camps in the remote and secluded regions of northwestern China,
the area in or around Qinghai Province. Many people who had been
sent there had vanished.
After being tortured for only one month, my
blood pressure was 220 and escalating, even though it had always
been normal before. I was in a trance-like state. My blood pressure
remained high. Even so, I still did 14 hours of slave labor a
day. I couldn't rest if I didn't finish my assignment. We made
all kinds of leather sandals and stringed lights for Christmas
trees. The high intensity of the labor and the long work hours
exhausted me. I always felt as if my limbs were falling apart.
Instructor Luo found out that I still refused
to give up practicing Falun Gong, so one day she told me that
she had been too nice to me. She threatened to lock me in a cell
with a mental patient so that the patient could spread her excrement
on me. She gave me 15 minutes to consider it. I told her, "I
am not afraid."
LOSING VISION
IN MY
LEFT EYE
A few days later, at around 10.00 pm, CCP Secretary
Lin and three prisoners with heavy sentences came in and dragged
me to a basement. The three prisoners pressed me to the ground
and held me so tight I could not move. Secretary Lin began to
shock me with an electric baton. She pressed it onto my acupuncture
points and sensitive spots, including my temples, the Renzhong
acupuncture point (philtrum), the central nervous system at my
cervical vertebra and other places. I cried out in pain. It felt
like my head had split open from the shocks. I could hardly endure
the pain that permeated my body. After thirty to forty minutes
of this torture, I could no longer stand it.
The morning after that, I found my vision was
blurry. Everything looked cloudy. This was a direct consequence
of the electric shocks. Under my strong request, Chief Zheng and
Clerk Yang took me to Lishi Hospital (outside of the prison).
The examination showed that my optic nerves were bleeding in many
places. I was losing vision in my left eye. The doctor said that
it would not recover, and I would soon be blind. My right eye
was also affected. Now, my right eye has a vision of 0.1 and my
left eye vision has a vision of zero. (Normal vision is 1.5.)
Prisoner Liu Cheng tortured me at the prison.
He told me, "You are nothing compared with Song Ping. She
was tortured even worse. What you have endured is only 1/10 of
what she has suffered. When Song Ping was shocked with electric
batons, they poured water on her until she was soaked. Then they
used several electric batons to shock her simultaneously. When
she was shocked, she bounced against the wall, and then bounced
back to the ground. And then they shocked her again. She had bruises
all over her body ..."
When my family came to visit me at the prison,
two policemen escorted me to the meeting room. There was a glass
window between my family and me, and we used a telephone to talk.
There was always a policeman monitoring and recording our talk
using another handset. I was not allowed to tell my family that
I was tortured at the prison. If I said even a little bit about
it, our talk would be cut off and they would not be able to visit
me again. Therefore, the outside knew nothing about the torture
that happened inside.
My eye was blind after the electric shock. However,
I was still forced to work overtime every day, until two months
before my term expired when the prison agreed to release me, under
the condition of bail, for medical treatment. My family came to
bring me home.
SECOND DETENTION
Only two months after I returned home, at 10.00
pm on 27 February 2003, policeman Wang Xiang and over a dozen
others from the Shenzhen "610 Office" broke into my
home and arrested my husband and me again. They took us to the
Futian Detention Center again. In the detention center, I met
Ms Wang Suqin, a 67 year-old Falun Gong practitioner. She told
me that when the police from Shenzhen "610 Office" interrogated
her they handcuffed her in a small, solitary cell. In the freezing
winter, for two days and nights, they continuously blew on her
with a fan, and didn't allow her to eat or sleep. She said her
daughter Li Xiaoqiu was also detained in the Futian District Detention
Center. The Shenzhen "610 Office" mercilessly tortured
her daughter. She asked someone to pass a note to her mother,
telling her that she would not commit suicide and, if she died,
it would be due to torture.
BRAINWASHING
At the Sanshui labor camp, I was locked up in
a small cell. All the windows and doors were sealed. Warden Xie,
Warden Tang, Section Chief Ge, Section Chief Chen, Chief Sun,
Chief Tang, Chief Zhang and Guard Liu Ai persecuted me. They did
not allow me to write to my family, nor did they allow my family
to visit me. Every day, they brainwashed me and forced me to watch
television programs that slandered Falun Gong. They did not allow
me to sleep or relieve myself in the lavatory. The pain of such
torture was beyond description. I saw some practitioners become
seriously ill right after they were "transformed." More
than 30 practitioners were persecuted and suffered from high blood
pressure. I knew a female practitioner who was tortured and became
mentally ill; the prison didn't notify her family. Some practitioners
were tortured until they were nothing but skin and bones.
Some practitioners were transported out of the
prison when they were on the verge of death. When the prison transferred
such practitioners, the guards drove everyone else into another
room and locked the door. Then guards would wrap the dying practitioner
in a blanket, carry her downstairs, and secretly transfer her.
No one knew where she was sent.
SORTING TRASH
Our slave labor consisted of sorting trash.
The trash was shipped in from Hong Kong. It was dirty and smelled
awful. We had to sort out plastic and metal from the trash. However,
we were forced to do it. Everyone had a daily quota. Our term
would be extended if we failed to meet the quota.
FORCED INJECTION
One day in May 2004, they assembled about 160
Falun Gong practitioners together. Doctors from People's Hospital
of Foshan City came to give us injections of unknown drugs. I
asked Chief Sun why only Falun Gong practitioners, but no other
prisoners received injections. She answered, "We would not
give them injections even if they wanted them. This is the government's
special treatment for you."
Several guards held a practitioner and injected
her by force. The practitioner fainted right on the spot. Seeing
that, many practitioners resisted the injections. I also resisted.
Despite the struggle, some practitioners were still given the
injections. But overall, the guards gave up when we resisted the
injections.
A few days later, the guards took a few practitioners
at a time to the labor camp's clinic. The doctors from the People's
Hospital in Foshan City came to give physical exams, and take
blood tests, electrocardiograms and x-rays. Some the equipment
was brought from the People's Hospital and installed in a large
bus.
When a doctor examined me, he inquired about
my heart condition in detail. He asked if I had ever had any heart
problems before. During the physical exam, the doctor especially
pressed and tapped at my waist (kidney region), and asked me if
it hurt. Every practitioner was given a physical exam and had
a blood sample taken, including the practitioners who had mental
disorders. However, prisoners who were not Falun Gong practitioners
were not examined.
When outside people came to visit or inspect
the prison or the labor camp, all Falun Gong practitioners were
locked in a secret room, except those who had formally renounced
Falun Gong. They were interviewed and repeated the lies that the
instructors had ordered them to tell.
I was on the verge of collapse from the long-term
torture at the Sanshui Women's Labor Camp. My blood pressure was
as high as 250, and I often fainted. The labor camp was reluctant
to take responsibility if I died there, so on September 20, 2004,
they released me on bail for medical treatment.
ESCAPING THE
CCP'S GRASP
During the time my husband and I were imprisoned,
my daughter was only 14 years old and had no one to take care
of her. My mother had died during the persecution. I was not be
able see her final time; it is something that there is no way
to recover.
In 2005, the Shenzhen "610 Office"
started another round of persecution. On the evening of 7 September
2005, we were informed before they came and immediately left home.
We left just in time, as they arrived soon after. They failed
to arrest us, but did not give up. They searched for us in many
places, tracked us through means of telecommunication, and used
video cameras at the major entrances and exits of Shenzhen City
to pursue us.
We were destitute and homeless for nearly two
months. Our arrival in Thailand came after numerous untold hardships.
We went to the United Nations' Refugee Agency and told them the
true situation of Falun Gong in China and of our own experiences.
With the help of the UN Refugee Agency, we finally escaped from
the CCP's grasp and arrived in Norway.
My husband and I would like to thank the United
Nations and the Norwegian Government for their support and help.
We would also like to appeal to all kind people around the world
and all governments, to help rescue the practitioners who are
still detained in jails, forced labor camps, detention centers
and many other unknown
places in China.
Dai Ying
10 March 2006
HEILONGJIANG MIDDLE
SCHOOL TEACHER
DIES AFTER
REPEATED TORTURE
AT CHANGLINZI
FORCED LABOR
CAMP
Mr Sun Peichen, 47, a teacher at Yinglan Middle
School, Yilan County, Heilongjiang Province.
On 26 May 2004, Jia Lin, Qiao Lijun and others
from the Dalianhe Town Public
Security Sub-Bureau arrested Mr Sun. On their way
to Yilan Prison, Qiao Lijun beat him mercilessly . His nose and
mouth bled, his chest, abdomen and forehead were seriously wounded
and he passed out many times.
Later, he was sent to the Changlinzi Forced
Labor Camp for a three year of forced labor. He also lost his
teaching position.
During his imprisonment in the forced labor
camp, Chief Ji and Dong Hebin beat Mr Sun many times. The methods
they used to torture him include "pushing" and "separating."
"Pushing" is where someone sits on the practitioner's
back and pulls the arms up behind the back to the limit, which
makes the joints crack. "Separating" is pulling the
legs in opposite directions to the limit.
One morning in March 2005, Mr Sun Peichen, along
with other practitioners, Mr Li Qingrong, Mr Zhang Fengtian, and
Mr Xu Guoxiang shouted loudly, "Falun Gong is good."
Zhao Shuang and other guards took Mr Sun away and ordered him
to strip off his clothes. Zhao Shuang grasped Mr. Sun's testicles
and crushed them hard. Another guard tortured him with an electric
shock baton. When the guards became tired, they rested and then
again shocked Mr Sun's testicles and other sensitive parts. After
that, Zhao Shuang continued to apply the above mentioned torture
of "pushing" and "separating" on Mr Sun until
Zhao Shuang was tired. The torture made Mr Sun pass out several
time. They also forced Mr Sun naked and to stand in front of other
practitioners and detainees.
On 12 April 2005, guard Zhao Shuang and others
tortured Mr Sun with electric batons continuously, stripped off
his clothes, held him down on the ground and pounded his chest
and back with their elbows.
Guards at the Changlinzi Forced Labor Camp also
forced Mr Sun to work for long hours. He was only allowed to sleep
for two to three hours each night. He had to get up for work at
5.00 am and usually worked until after 9.00 or 10.00 pm. Sometimes,
he worked until midnight or even all night.
The guard Zhao Shuang said, "It is alright
as long as we do not kill them. Even if we kill them, we just
have to fill out a form. We can report it as a normal death. Anyway,
the forced labor camp has a death quota."
During the last two years, Mr Sun was tortured
in every possible inhuman way. Because of the beatings, he lost
many of his teeth; he had difficulty breathing because of chest
pain; he was painfully thin and had to stay in bed. On 7 June
2006, the forced labor camp hastily released him. Mr Sun could
not recovery from the torture and died 20 days later on 3 July
2006.
Previous Detentions:
On 25 July 1999, because Mr Sun Peichen refused
to give up his belief in Falun Gong, he was put into administrative
detention for 15 days. On 16 January 2000, he was imprisoned for
another 100 days.
On 21 May 2001, the county police arrested Mr
Sun at his school. They imprisoned him in the Changlinzi Forced
Labor Camp for a year. After being forced to live in a damp environment,
his whole body was covered with scabies and he could not stand
up or take care of himself. He went on a hunger strike to protest,
and was barbarically force-fed and tortured many times.
YI HAIZHU
SENTENCED TO
10 YEARS IN
PRISON; FAMILY
DENIED VISIT
Ms Yi Haizhu is a Falun Gong practitioner from
Jiamusi City, Heilongjiang Province.
In December 2002, while visiting another practitioner,
Ms Wang Dongxia, plain-clothes policemen waiting outside of the
practitioner's home arrested Ms Yi. She was detained at the Jiamusi
Public Security Bureau at the Qianjin Branch. The police brutally
tortured her, pulling apart her legs and beating her with her
hands cuffed. On the second day, Ms Yi escaped from the police
station.
On 27 February 2006, the authorities arrested
Ms Yi while she was in Hegang City and detained her at the Hegang
Second Detention Center. She was subjected to inhumane interrogation
for several days and nights. The Gongnong Police Department of
Hegang is handling the case. To protest the persecution, Ms Yi
went on a hunger strike. She is in a life-threatening situation.
For a while she was on the brink of death. Officials at the Gongnong
Police Department, the main work unit responsible for the persecution
of Ms Yi, are very aggressive. When Ms Yi's family questioned
the policemen's unlawful action, Li Shujiang, the deputy head
of the police department said, "Sue us wherever you'd like!"
In early April 2006, officials transferred Ms
Yi to the First Detention Center. Her hunger strike, at that point,
had lasted for more than 50 days, during which period she was
sent to the emergency room many times. While Ms Yi has been on
a huger strike, her parents, sister and brother-in-law have gone
to the Hegang City Police Department many times and asked for
her release, but the officials have always refused to let them
meet with her.
On 27 April 2006, Ms Yi's mother, in her 70s,
traveled from Jiamusi to the Gongnong District Police Department
in Hegang for the eighth time to request to see her daughter.
Each time she has gone, deputy chief Dong has refused her request.
In November 2006, Ms Yi's family was informed
that the Gongnong District Court of Hegang City, Heilongjiang
Province, had sentenced Ms Yi to 10 years in prison. Ms Yi Haizhu's
elder sister went to the detention center again to request to
visit her, but her request was again denied.
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