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Facts of the Persecution
Persecution of Falun Dafa Practitioners at the Heilongjiang Province Women's Prison
In April 2004, Dafa practitioners Wang Fajuan, Li Dongxue, Chen Yunxia, Miao Xiaolu and a few others at Division 7 at the Heilongjiang Province Women's Prison were tortured with a method called "The Big Hang-up" until they lost consciousness [There are two forms in this torture: (1) With both hands cuffed behind the back and only toes touching the ground, one is hung by a rope that is tied to the metal window frames; (2) One hand of a practitioner is cuffed to one bunk bed and the other hand to another bed, and the two beds are pulled in the opposite directions. One suffers extreme pain as the body is pulled]. Four practitioners' wrists were broken, and practitioner Li Dongxue could not walk. The next day, Cui Yan, deputy division head, tortured practitioner Chen Yunxia with "The Big Hang-up" until she lost consciousness, simply for closing her eyes. In July, practitioners Li Dongxue, Zheng Hongli, Sun Guizhi, Miao Xiaolu, Liu Yaqin, Chen Yunxia were again tortured with "The Big Hang-up."
In 2004 alone, the perpetrators tortured the practitioners with "The Big Hang-up" five or six times. Before May 2004, Dafa practitioners Di Yafen, Yu Xiuying, Zhang Liping, Guan Shuling, Fan Guoxia and others were tortured with this brutal method. In mid July, practitioner Chen Weijun was tortured this way because she refused to join the inmates' roll call.
Sixteen Dafa practitioners on the fifth floor, Division 1, were forced to sit on small stools for 13 to 14 hours a day for seven or eight months, during which they were not allowed to speak or move. On the afternoon of December 21, practitioners Cui Hongmei and Xia Fengying ordered inmates to torture practitioners Zhang Xiaobo, Guan Shuling, Zhang Linwen and Zhang Liping with "The Big Hang-up." The practitioners' hands turned black, and their wrists bled and swelled. After they were let down, practitioner Zhang Xiaobo experienced numbness in her body and she also lost consciousness soon after. In the evening she suffered from headache, nausea, heart palpitations and vomited. Practitioner Zhang Liping lost consciousness and was let down. After she came to, she was again hung up. The perpetrators beat and kicked her, and then again hung her up for several days, during which time she was not allowed to sleep.
Practitioner Guan Shuling was tortured the same way. After she lost consciousness, the perpetrators stuck a long needle into the space between the nose and the upper lip and injected her with psychotropic drugs. When she came to, she was nauseous and vomited. She could not walk straight. The perpetrators hung her back up and she lost consciousness before they could pull her to a higher position.
All four practitioners suffered injuries to their wrists. The perpetrators then hung practitioners Gao Guizhen, Yu Xiuying and Liu Xuewei up with their hands cuffed behind their backs. They hung practitioner Ms. Liu Xuewei for four days during which time they beat her numerous times. After she passed out in the bathroom, they handcuffed her. On December 28, practitioner Chen Weijun took off the prison uniform and was handcuffed and forced to lie on the cold concrete floor. At 3:00 p.m. on December 29, all guards at Division 2 took the inmates back to the cells. They tortured practitioners Chen Weijun, Guan Shuling, Zhang Jing and Zhang Liping with "The Big Hang-up." All practitioners except Zhang Jing lost consciousness. Falun Dafa practitioner Zhang Liping sustained dislocated shoulders. Their limbs went numb and afterwards they were brutally beaten until they were at the brink of a mental collapse.
http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2005/2/9/95130.html
Persecution of Dafa Practitioners at the Suihua Forced Labor Camp
Dafa practitioner Sun Jiadong from Yichun City, Heilongjiang Province was sent to the Suihua Forced Labor Camp in May 2002 for three years of detention, in violation of the Chinese constitution. In April 2003 he was sent to a solitary confinement cell where the guards tortured him with a method called the "Tiger Bench", while blasting a radio into his ears at full volume for several days. Gao Zhonghai, the political head of Division 2, beat and kicked Sun Jiadong, and they shocked him with 300,000-volt electric batons. Seven days later, guards Gao Zhonghai, Long Kuibin and Liu Wei barbarically beat him and then locked him in solitary confinement.
Dafa practitioner Wang Changhai from Yichun City was sentenced to one year of forced labor in 1999 for appealing in Beijing. His sentence was extended by three months. Six months later he was sentenced to another three years of forced labor. In March 2003, several guards including Zeng Lingjun took Wang Changhai to the office and brutally beat him until his internal organs were severely injured. In August 2003, guards Long Kuibin, Liu Wei and others didn't allow Wang Changhai to sleep for over 40 days.
Dafa practitioner Liu Yu was sent to the Suihua Forced Labor Camp from Jixi Forced Labor Camp on October 12, 2003. Around 8:00 a.m. the next day, the guards tied practitioner Liu Yu between two beds, put copper wires around the practitioner's feet and connected the wires to 300,000-volt electric batons. The torture lasted from 8:00 a.m. to past 2:00 p.m. Liu Yu's body was severely injured.
http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2005/2/9/95131.html
Practitioner Li Li From Shifang City, Sichuan Province Abducted in Broad Daylight; Whereabouts Unknown
On February 3, 2005, Dafa practitioner Li Li, an employee of the Freight Transport Office at Shifang City, Sichuan Province was abducted from work. The perpetrators were five officers from the Chengdu City Railway Police Department and two officers from Guanghan Station Police Department. His current whereabouts are unknown.
http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2005/2/9/95141.html
Elderly Practitioners Zhang Xianbai and Li Zhengxin from Dazu County, Chongqing Pass Away Due to Persecution
Ms. Zhang Xianbai was in her 70s and was the principal at an elementary school in Suilin City. After her retirement she lived in Sanqu Town, Dazu County, Chongqing and was often ill. She started practicing Falun Gong in 1997 and her health improved greatly. After the persecution began on July 20, 1999, officials from the Sanqu Town government, the residential Party Committee and the local police department often harassed and threatened her. She gave up Falun Gong due to pressure. As a result, her health deteriorated and she became virtually blind. She again started practicing Falun Gong, but because her Dafa books had been taken away and the persecutors constantly monitored and threatened her, she lived in fear and her condition worsened. She passed away in late 2002.
Mr. Li Zhengxin was around 60 years of age and was a member of the Dazu County Politics Committee. His health improved tremendously after he started practicing Falun Gong around 1998. After the persecution began, he feared the persecution and stopped practicing. He passed away in 2003.
Category: Accounts of Persecution
