Name: Cheng Zipeng (程子鹏)
Gender: Male
Age: 50
Address: Unknown
Occupation: Former staff member of the Hubei Province Anlu Construction Bank
Date of Most Recent Arrest: July 1, 2012
Most Recent Place of Detention: Hubei Province Brainwashing Center (湖北省洗脑班)
City: Anlu
Province: Hubei
Persecution Suffered: Forced labor, brainwashing, illegal sentencing, beatings, hung up, imprisonment, torture, fired from workplace, physical restraint, home ransacked, interrogation, detention, denial of restroom use
(Minghui.org) Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Cheng Zipeng from Hubei Province was sentenced to a four-year imprisonment term in the Fanjiatai Prison in Shayang County, Hubei Province. He was scheduled to be released on July 1, 2012. However, officials from the Anlu City 610 Office collaborated with prison officials and sent him to the Hubei Province Brainwashing Center on his release date. His family had hoped to pick up him, but were turned away.
On the morning of July 1, Mr. Cheng’s family went to the prison very early and waited at the gate for him to be released. Four officials from the Anlu City 610 Office, including chief Song Huaming and deputy chief Nie Hanzhang, arrived at around 8:00 a.m. in a vehicle whose number was E K2531.
Mr. Cheng was brought out shortly after the officials arrived. He was held by Xiao Tianbo, head of the No. 4 Ward of the prison, and directly brought to Song Huaming and Nie Hanzhang. The officials said that they needed to send Mr. Cheng to “study,” which actually meant that he would be sent to a brainwashing center. Mr. Cheng’s family strongly objected and attempted to stop them. However, Song Huaming threatened them and forcibly took Mr. Cheng away.
Mr. Cheng was then taken to the Hubei Province Brainwashing Center. It was learned that due to the brutal tortures he suffered in the Fanjiatai prison, his hair turned grey and a big hemangioma appeared on his ear.
Mr. Cheng, 50, is a former staff member of the Hubei Province Anlu Construction Bank. Before he practiced Falun Gong, he was infertile as a result of a renal hemorrhage. After he began practicing Falun Gong in 1996, he became healthy physically and benefited mentally. He and his wife had a son in 2005. The child is now in primary school. However, he couldn’t see his father for four years because the Communist regime persecuted his father.
Mr. Cheng was sentenced to four years of imprisonment merely because he didn’t give up his belief in Falun Gong. His parents are nearly eighty years old and his son is less than ten. They had to go on without him and care for the family for four years. They had expected his safe return on his release date, but seeing that he was arrested again, the family was in great distress.
Mr. Cheng Subjected to Illegal Detention Multiple Times
Mr. Cheng and his family of five went to Beijing in October 2000 to appeal for justice for Falun Gong. The 610 Office agents and personnel from the Anlu City Police Department arrested him and locked him up in the Sili Detention Center. While detained there, his daily necessities were taken away and divided among the criminal inmates. He was detained in the same cell as those on death row, and forced to take showers with cold water and clean the toilet by hand.
After he was released, his employer dismissed him. His phone was tapped, and his home was placed under surveillance. The police harassed him on every sensitive date.
On the evening of June 23, 2001, Chen Xinyun and four agents from the Political and Security Section of Anlu City Police Department broke into Mr. Cheng's home and took him into custody again. They ransacked his home and confiscated his Dafa books and many personal belongings. Mr. Cheng was then sent to the Sili Detention Center and subjected to severe torture. The cell head and criminal inmates hit him in the chest, causing him such pain that he had difficulty talking and breathing. Chen Xinyun and other guards tortured him for two days in an attempt to extract information. After five months in the detention center, the persecutors sent him to the Shayang Forced Labor Camp for one and a half years.
The Third Division at this forced labor camp is a place where drug addicts, criminals, and guards abuse innocent detainees. Team leader Li forced Mr. Cheng to stand facing a wall for eight hours. He had to stand on one leg in a snowy field. In the morning he had to squat in a military position. In the afternoon he had to sit on a small stool. He was forbidden to speak or use the toilet and forced to do physical labor. The drug addicts often dragged him into the restroom and severely beat and kicked him. Due to the brutal torture, Mr. Cheng lost consciousness and was thus released on medical parole.
On July 2, 2008 at around 10:00 p.m., a number of police, including Chen Xudong and Huang Yajun from the Anlu Domestic Security Division and Chen Xinyun from the Fucheng Police Station, arrested Mr. Cheng again. They arrested him on the street, tearing his clothes to pieces in the process. Mr. Cheng was first incarcerated at the Sili Detention Center for eight months. On February 10, 2009, the Anlu City Court secretly put him on trial and illegally sentenced him to four years of imprisonment. He was then incarcerated at the No. 2 Division of the No. 4 Ward, Fanjiatai Prison.
Contact information for those responsible for persecuting Mr. Cheng:
Song Huaming, head of the Anlu City 610 Office: 86-13508696600
Nie Hanzhang, deputy head of the Anlu City 610 Office: 86-13871856881
Feng Weiguo, head of the Fanjiatai Prison: 86-724- 8570010
Xiao Tianbo, head of the No. 4 Ward: 86-13972881228
Please refer to the original Chinese text for more names and telephone numbers.
Related article:
Practitioner Cheng Zipeng's Whole Family Persecuted in Anlu City, Hubei Province http://en.minghui.org/emh/articles/2008/8/17/99900.html
