(Minghui.org) Falun Gong practitioners Mr. Li Shoutian and Zuo Xianfeng (a high school teacher), from Dalianhe Town, Yilan County, Heilongjiang Province, went to Qianjin Village, Sandaogang Town in Yilan County on November 4, 2012. They were falsely accused and arrested by officers Li Shangyou, Xi Jingwu, and others from Sandaogang Town Police Station, for telling people the truth about Falun Gong. Captain Zhang Yingduo of the Domestic Security Division took them to Yilan County Detention Center. Both practitioners have been on a hunger strike to protest the persecution.

Mr. Li Shoutian, 65, is from Dalianhe Town, Yilan County. He is honest and kind, and likes to help others. He has been brutally beaten, illegally arrested and fined, and his home ransacked because of his belief in Falun Gong. He was also detained several times and was held for a total of five years in a forced labor camp twice. At Changlinzi Forced Labor Camp, he was tortured until he was disabled. Only then was he sent home.

Tortured in Yilan No. 2 Detention Center and Changlinzi Forced Labor Camp from 1999-2002

After the persecution began in 1999, Mr. Li's home phone was tapped and he was constantly monitored and harassed. The police also ransacked his home for no reason.

The police deceived Mr. Li, telling him he needed to go to Dalianhe Public Security Sub-bureau to verify some documents on December 7, 2000. He was arrested when he arrived there. They also extorted a “confession” by torturing him until he passed out. He was taken to a hospital for emergency treatment, but was sent back after he regained consciousness, and the beatings continued. He was later sent to the Yilan No. 2 Detention Center.

Mr. Li was transferred to Changlinzi Forced Labor Camp on January 20, 2001 to serve a two-year term. By then, he had scabies all over his body and had lost the ability to take care of himself. On January 1, 2002, Mr. Li went on a hunger strike to protest the persecution. On the fifth day of his hunger strike, the guards brutally forced-fed him. He later became critically ill and was sent to the hospital for emergency treatment. However, he did not recover. Afraid that they might be held responsible if he died, they took him back to Changlinzi Forced Labor Camp before sending him home.

Near Death in Wanjia Forced Labor Camp's Intensive Team

Mr. Li and 13 other practitioners were arrested on May 26, 2004 and sent to the Yilan County No. 2 Detention Center. Mr. Li and five other practitioners then held a hunger strike to protest the mistreatment. On June 15, they were all in critical condition and sent to Yilan County Hospital for an emergency treatment for the second time.

However, at around 4:00 a.m. the next day, the public security bureau police took all six practitioners, who had been on a hunger strike for 15 days and were in critical condition, to the intensive team at Wanjia Forced Labor Camp in Harbin City to go through an intensive training (before transferring them to Changlinzi Forced Labor Camp). Their families weren't notified of the transfer, so they didn't have any time to send them beddings and other household items.

Shocked with High-voltage Electric Batons, Tied to an Iron Chair, Cuffed and Hung Up

Team No. 5 at Changlingzi Forced Labor Camp was the “strict” management team for persecuting practitioners. Everyone on the team was very cruel. Chief Qiang and guard Wang brought Mr. Li to the team sometime after 4:00 p.m. on June 25, 2004. They ordered criminal inmates Qi Kunlei and Er Heizi (both thieves) to monitor Mr. Li. They forced him to squat for a long time. Every ten minutes, the guard instructed them to forcefully bend Mr. Li's foot to one side, causing him such severe pain that he lost consciousness four times. Afterwards, Mr. Li couldn't walk for a long time.

On the morning of October 11, 2004, guard Niu Tiejun claimed that someone's voice was too soft during their “study” of the forced labor camp code, and ordered criminal inmates to drag twelve practitioners, including Mr. Li, to a prepared room, where they were viciously beaten. The practitioners were bruised and injured, and some couldn't straighten their backs. After that incident, the guards didn't want the public to know what had happened, so they didn't allow any of the practitioners' families to visit them on visiting day. Furthermore, families of the criminal inmates were only allowed to give their delivered items to the inmates and then had to quickly leave.

Zhao Shuang, head of Brigade No. 5, used very cruel methods to torture practitioners, including high-voltage electric batons, tying them to an iron chair, cuffing them to the bed, hanging by handcuffs, kicking and punching them, as well as slapping, pinching, breaking off, and pushing out their testicles, and covering their heads with plastic bags. After the guards broke Mr. Li's legs, he was disabled and couldn't go up and down the stairs by himself.

In 2005, a guard at Brigade No. 5 instigated two inmates to beat Mr. Li Shoutian all night until he lost consciousness. As a result, his legs were twisted and he had severe chest pain and a headache. Officials at the forced labor camp were subsequently afraid of being held responsible if something happened to Mr. Li, so they transferred him to Brigade No. 4. There, Mr. Li was tortured with electric batons for a long period of time by guards Ao Ping and Niu Tiejun. The guards also tried to force him to write articles that slandered Dafa.

Disabled from Torture in Changlinzi Forced Labor Camp, Family Deceived

On June 3, 2006, Hao Wei, the chief of Brigade No. 4 in Changlinzi Forced Labor Camp, instigated the vice-chief to call Mr. Li's wife to tell her to come to the camp. She saw that her husband was emaciated, needed someone to help him walk, had blurry vision, and had cracked and crooked lips. Furthermore, he couldn't speak clearly, had difficulty eating, and could only take in liquids. A guard took out a piece of paper, wrote something on it, and told her to sign it. Mr. Li's wife is illiterate and didn't know what was written on the paper, but she signed it because she thought it was for her husband to be released for medical treatment. When she called the labor camp the next day to inquire about Mr. Li, a guard told her before hanging up, “Li Shoutian is fine. Bring money and we will let him see a doctor. If there's no money, then there's no need to check up on him.” He didn't mention anything about Mr. Li being released on medical bail. When she called again, no one answered. She then realized that she had been deceived.

When he was in Changlinzi Forced Labor Camp for the second time, Mr. Li was again repeatedly tortured.

Over the years, the Chinese Communist Party persecution of Falun Gong has caused Mr. Li and his family tremendous physical and mental pain. Mr. Li is now in his sixties, but he was arrested again by Yilan police on November 4, 2012, and detained.