(Minghui.org) A team of police officers and other agents suddenly showed up at Mr. Chen Song's workplace on March 6, 2014. Without identifying themselves, they arrested Mr. Chen and took him to the Hubei Province “Legal Education” Center, better known as the Banqiao Brainwashing Center, in Wuhan City.
Mr. Chen's family went to the brainwashing center to seek his release, yet staff denied that he was there. Officials of the Dawu County 610 Office and the Domestic Security Division later contacted his family and threatened them, ordering them not to return to the brainwashing center.
Mr. Chen Song had previously been imprisoned for five years and tortured for his belief in Falun Gong. After his release in December 2005, he became homeless for a period of time to avoid further persecution. Despite the persecution, he later managed to maintain a steady job as an engineer and department director for Yuandong Chemical Industry Park in Huanggang City, Hubei Province.
Involved in Mr. Chen's recent arrest were agents and officers from the 610 Office and Domestic Security Divisions of Wuhan City, Xiaogan City, and Huanggang City, and officers from the Chencelou Town Police Station and the Wangjiadian Police Station. They confiscated Mr. Chen's computer, cell phone, Falun Gong books, and cash.
Persecuted Since College
Mr. Chen is from Dawu County, Xiaogan City, Hubei Province, and has been practicing Falun Gong for the last 16 years.
He was still a student at Xiaogan University (now Hubei Engineering University) in March 2000, when he went to Beijing to appeal for the right to practice Falun Gong. When he returned, he was arrested and incarcerated in the Xiaogan Detention Center. He went on a hunger strike and the guards force-fed him. Mr. Chen almost died of suffocation during brutal forced-feedings. The guards later injected him with unknown drugs. A month later, staff from the university posted bail for Mr. Chen's release. After he graduated, Wei Yousan and Liu Jingrong from the Political Security Division continued to harass him and kept him from being able to get a job.
Mr. Chen was later arrested again for his belief in Falun Gong. The Xiaogan City Court sentenced him to five years in prison and he was taken to the Fanjiatai Prison in Shayang County. Prison guards deprived him of sleep for five days straight and forced him to perform intensive labor. One of the guards pounded his feet with a brick. He was also taken outside in freezing temperatures and left there with hardly any clothes. Zhang Jun, a guard from the 4 th Ward, threatened Mr. Chen while beating him, “I am the law here! People do die in prison!”
Just before his release in December 2005, Mr. Chen told warden Feng Weiguo that inmate Xu Jian often beat him. Instead of punishing the inmate, Feng rewarded him.
Parties involved in the persecution of Mr. Chen:
Zhou Shuiqing (周水慶), male, director of the Banqiao Brainwashing Center. He is also the political commissioner of the Shayang Forced Labor Camp. Yu Chunhua (喻春華), male, head of the Political Division of the Banqiao Brainwashing Center. He often beats practitioners. Gong Jiannan (龔健), male, head of the Management Education Division and the Political Division of the Banqiao Brainwashing Center. He is in his 30s and in charge of planning and carrying out brainwashing and torture of Falun Gong practitioners. He Wei (何偉), male, captain of the 1 st Middle Team of the Banqiao Brainwashing Center. He is in charge of persecuting Falun Gong practitioners. Liu Cheng (劉成), male, captain of the 2 nd Middle Team of the Banqiao Brainwashing Center. He is in his 30s and often beats Falun Gong practitioners. Jiang Lili (江黎麗), female, 33 years old, deputy captain of the 2 nd Middle Team of the Banqiao Brainwashing Center. She often beats Falun Gong practitioners and attempts to coerce them into giving up their belief.
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