(Clearwisdom.net) Shandong Province First Prison is located in Jinan City, Shandong Province. As of July 2011, 142 practitioners are being detained there, 86 of them in Division 11. Sixty-five practitioners were sent there in 2009 and 33 in 2010. The practitioners sent there in 2011 include Wang Zhansuo, Liu Chuanxiang, Kang Jianxin, Xie Wenliang, Li Dejiang, and Duan Libei.
Li Wei and guards in Division 11 have tortured practitioners in many ways, including beating them, depriving them of sleep, and other forms of abuse. The guards also mistreated practitioners in other ways. For example, guards prohibited Mr. Tian Yongjian from making phone calls and placed him in the intensified unit for six months. When Mr. Liu Ruping from the Changqing District mentioned “righteous thoughts” during a meeting with his family, guards ended their visit. In addition, if anyone in a practitioner's family practices or has a positive attitude towards Falun Gong, the guards do not allow him or her to visit.
When practitioner Mr. Shi Zenglei from Mengyin County needed to buy items for daily use in late March 2011, inmates Liu Dong and Xie Tao prohibited him from buying them and then took him to the intensified unit. When Mr. Shi went on a hunger strike to protest, they force-fed him. One night in early April 2011, six inmates beat Mr. Shi brutally despite his already weakened condition. The six inmates included Yang Hongyou, Zhang Xiaoyou, and Xu Lei. They fractured a bone in Mr. Shi's neck, and a steel plate had to be installed.
Practitioner Mr. Jiang Guobo (a former official) from Weifang City went on a hunger strike to protest as soon as he was arrested. Right now he is in the provincial prison hospital and is being force-fed.
Mr. Wang Hongzhang, almost 80 years old, is retired from the Jinan Steel Plant. He was severely tortured in Division 11. In order to pressure him to give up his belief, inmate Chen Yulei almost suffocated him to death one night in 2009. Inmate Wang Gexin used an electric fan to blow cold air on Mr. Wang for a long time at 3 a.m. on July 8, 2011. Due the long exposure to the cold air, Mr. Wang's heart disease recurred and both of practitioner Mr. Shao Chengluo's legs cramped. His fingers and back knotted in pain.
Mr. Sun Zongxu from Weifang was emaciated due to torture. When he went on a hunger strike to protest the persecution, he was force-fed in June 2011.
When Mr. Yan Hong'en refused to transcribe the prison rules, guards abused him. He was restricted between two beds and was not allowed to move. Mr. Sun Qiwen was tortured the same way. When Mr. You Yunsheng, Mr. Sun Tianpeng, and Mr. Fu Weiyu were detained, they went on a hunger strike to protest.
There was a group in Section 8 that held only inmates with mental disorders. As a form of abuse, Mr. Zhao Chuanwen from Mengyin County and Mr. Hu Ju from Gaomi City Ju were put in Section 8 although they were mentally healthy.
As of June 2011, prison officials now require visiting family members to swear at Falun Gong. Otherwise, they are prohibited from meeting the detained practitioners. As a result, some family members have not been allowed to visit although they traveled for hundreds of kilometers.
Education office head Zhang Leiguang is responsible for the death of practitioner Mr. Lu Zhen. He died on June 19, 2009. Zhang was the head of Division 11 at that time. Because Mr. Lu remained steadfast in his belief, deputy political head Liu Hongli (current Prison Administrative Office head) sent him to Division 11 twice.
Zhang Leiguang: +86-531-87072612(Home), +86-13605314114(Cell)
Liu Hongli: +86-531-86077728(Home), +86-13969166515(Cell)
