Issued by Clearwisdom Net

Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Chen Guanghui from Jiangsu Province slipped into a vegetative state in July 2004 as a result of a skull fracture from a beating at Suzhou Prison. He had been held at the 100th Hospital in Suzhou City where he was under constant surveillance by the prison authorities. He died suddenly on December 12, 2006 at the age of 40. Some analysts stated Suzhou Prison officials ordered Chen Guanghui to be murdered, in order to cover up the abuse and to avoid an international investigation and criminal charges.

It was learned that Chen Guanghui’s family had constantly asked to take him home when he was still alive but the prison officials firmly refused. When Chen Guanghui was in critical condition, a prison official warned the hospital, "We are not on guard against his family. We are guarding against those Falun Gong people and foreign investigators!"

A hospital worker said the prison officials had always controlled the treatment plan and expenses for Chen Guanghui. In the past two years, Chen Guanghui’s condition in the hospital was stable while he was accompanied by his family, but he passed away suddenly on December 12, 2006.

The prison gate was under heavy guard following Chen Guanghui’s death. According to witnesses, Chen Guanghui’s son had opened his coat and held the box containing his father Chen Guanghui’s ashes next to his chest. Chen Guanghui’s wife and son sorrowfully cried. The wife and son lingered outside the prison gate for three days. Passersby and people living in the area took pity on the mother and son, and many of them condemned the prison guards.

Chen Guanghui had graduated from Nanjing University and worked as the deputy chief of the Computer Section and manager of the Lianyungang Branch of China Construction Bank. After he started practicing Falun Gong in 1995 he worked harder and was helpful toward others. He was well liked. After the persecution began in 1999, Chen Guanghui was persecuted many times. He was unconstitutionally detained at Lianyungang City Police Department in December 1999 and was sentenced to 18 months of forced labor. He was detained again on September 10, 2001 and sentenced to eight years in prison on September 12, 2002. Mr. Chen was taken to the Suzhou Prison. He suffered a severe brain injury as a result of a savage beating on July 29, 2004 and was in a coma for more than two years before his death.

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Falun Gong practitioner Liu Juhua, in her 50s, was from Dalong Township, Yuping County, Tongren District, Guizhou Province. She lived in Residential Building #2, of the Dalong Automotive Repair and Parts factory, Yuping County. Ms. Liu was illegally arrested from her home by Chinese Communist Party personnel at about 9:00 p.m. on December 5, 2006. She died two hours later. It is reported that the police paid 100 thousand yuan (to be verified) and claimed that she "jumped from a tall building." But Lu Juhua's body did not show obvious injuries. The details are yet to be investigated.

According to a report, on August 4, 2003, posters and banners appeared in Dalong Township, which read "Falun Dafa is good, Truthfulness-Benevolence-Tolerance is good." Yuan Janping and Li Dongping of the Yuping County National Security Bureau, together with Yiao Benxin (head of Xinhuang County National Security) and Li Xinmin (head of the 610 Office) "illegally arrested" four Falun Gong practitioners in Dalong Township. They then went to Xinhuang County, Hunan Province and arrested Yang Xiuming, taking him to the Yuping County detention center. They sentenced Yang Xiuming to seven years of imprisonment after more than 15 months of detention. He was sent to Dujun City prison, Guizhou Province on November 18, 2004.

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My son, Hu Enkui, was detained at the First Ward of Yongqiao Prison in Suzhou City, Anhui Province for practicing Falun Gong . From 6:00 PM of January 5, 2005 to 6:00 PM of January16, 2005, the Ward Head Lu Yang, Team Leader Yu Weizhou, Prisoners Xiao Hua, Wang Songling and Liu Jun inhumanely tortured my son under the instigation of the police at the transformation base of the prison for more than ten hours within two days: the police opened the windows and switched on the fans to freeze my son, who wasn't wearing much clothing, with temperatures under minus 10 degrees. They beat and kicked him all over his body and hit his elbows for several hours. They cuffed one of his hands to a window and tied the other hand with a rope. Several of the police pulled back the rope so that his whole body hung in the air. Then they beat his chest and back. After that they pinned him against the wall, sat him down and pulled his legs apart to the shape of one line. They electric shocked his genitalia repeatedly for over half an hour and he was unable to urinate. He couldn't move his legs for several months and his body was bruised with blisters. Lu Yang forcibly stepped on my son's feet repeatedly with his leather shoes causing him to faint three times. They forcibly put a hot-water bag filled with boiling water on his feet causing thrird degree scald burns to his left foot, second degree scald burns to his right foot, destruction of the periosteum, chronic damage to his small toe and deformity of both feet. His feet were disabled.

Such inhumane torture of detained prisoners causes utter disgust among the people.

It is said that police intentionally torture Falun Gong practitioners to severe damage or to death and then remove their organs for sale and cremate their bodies to destroy the evidence. Since our son was arrested, we haven't been allowed to see him. Whether he is still alive or not, we don't know. The state law clearly stipulates that prisoners have the right to have family visit them. And my son is a good person who is being persecuted. Which article of the law is it that forbids us to visit him? Who is violating the law? In due time you will have to bear the responsibility for what you have done.

If it was your son and your children who were tortured and you didn't know their whereabouts, how would you feel? Here we request that the leaders of various Governmental levels investigate our son's case. We believe that good and evil will be rewarded or punished. Please come and rescue our son. We request the leaders to publish all personnel related to this case without delay.

If you don't punish the evil, but let them continue their ways, we will appeal level by level up to the Human Rights Committee of the United Nations.

Parents of Hu Enkui

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Around 3:00 p.m. on July 25, 2006, most Falun Gong practitioners held in Shiling Prison were brought to the Supervised Education Section, which is actually a place for assaulting law-abiding people. More than ten practitioners were put into Cell 1, 2 and 3 for intensified persecution. They were not allowed to talk, and if practitioners in the same cell even looked at each other, they would be reprimanded by the guards. If practitioners tried to explain anything to the guards, they would be cursed at, and if they argued, the guards would instigate criminal prisoners to brutally beat them.

On the morning of the 26th, in Cell No. 2, because practitioner Liu Zhijun wouldn't cooperate with a prisoner's command to "sit and study," prisoner Li Wenjun beat him in front of everybody. Then Mr. Liu was dragged into the guards' office (a small dark room), where officers Yang Tiejun and Zhang Sixing shocked him with electric batons on his face, head, neck and all over his body. When Liu Zhijun was carried back by two prisoners, he was mentally disoriented and he had several severe burns. Even after a long time, his skin bore the scars of many dark burns.

Prisoners Li Wenjun and Han Jingjun in Cell No. 2 were paid by the police to threaten practitioners: "Do you know why you are here? Let us tell you: it is for more focused punishment. The police said everything would start over again, like in 1999; if you Falun Gong people don't listen or obey, you will be beaten, and if you are beaten to death, we will just say you died naturally. What can you do then? Who will be the witnesses?" These two wicked people were always threatening and trying to terrify practitioners.

July 31st was a clean-up day. A little after 3:00 p.m., several prisoners forced everyone to mop the floor and clean the windows. One practitioner refused to cooperate with the orders. Criminal prisoner Li Wenjun cursed for a while, and then went to report to officer Zhang Sixing. When he got back, he and another prisoner named Han Jingjun took this practitioner to a corner near the water room, and brutally beat him. One prisoner hit him in the face and head, and the other hit his chest, back and ribs. Other prisoners also joined in the abuse. The practitioner was beaten until he spat out blood and passed out on the ground. When he regained consciousness, he saw blood all over his clothes. The prisoners then placed him between two big metal buckets. Criminal prisoner Zong Yanlong from Cell No. 1 demanded to know whether he would work, but he didn't answer. Zong Yanlong got mad, brutally hit the practitioner's throat, and he passed out again. When he regained consciousness, the criminals washed away the blood on his head and face to hide their crime, and then led him back to his cell. Afterwards police officer Zhang Sixing called the practitioner over and threatened him: "Beating you like this was nothing; next time it will be worse." Because this practitioner was hurt very badly, he asked for a medical examination, but Zhang Sixing turned him down. The practitioner then asked to see the supervising officer, but the police and criminal accomplices did all they could to prevent it.

The following is an example of "transformation" by violence. At 8:00 p.m. on September 9, 2006, police captain Yin Shoudong, instructor Geng Mingcai, and other policemen including Yang Tiejun and Zhang Sixing, called all nine practitioners from Cell No. 3 to the office. The police wanted them to sign an agreement not to practice Falun Gong anymore. The practitioners refused to cooperate, so the police brutally tortured them with electric torturing devices. The whole prison could hear the practitioners' painful screams.

Police officers Yang Tiejun, Geng Mingcai, criminal prisoner Li Wenjun and Gao Minglong, are the worst culprits in Shiling Prison for persecuting Falun Gong practitioners. Their torture methods are extremely cruel. For practitioners who don't give up Falun Gong practice, they either brutally beat them, or torture them with electric instruments. They pour water on the ground, and then shock practitioners with electric batons. Police officer Geng Mingcai threatened practitioners: "Do you know what Ward this is? Do you know me? Do you understand why I was transferred here? It was precisely to torture all you practitioners."

Falun Gong Practitioner Liang Zhenxing was persecuted in Jilin City Prison. Because he refused to cooperate with the corrupt officials, he was transferred to the 22nd Ward of the Tiebei Prison in Changchun City on March 29, 2005. Because Mr. Liang never cooperated with any of their orders or demands, and he never acknowledged the illegal persecution, in August 2005, he was again transferred to Shiling Prison in Siping City, Jilin Province, for more severe torture. Now he has been on a hunger strike for over three months to protest the unlawful detention, and suffers persecution in the prison hospital.

Another Falun Gong practitioner (name unknown) was tortured in Shiling Prison until he was completely paralyzed, and could not live independently. It has been two years, and he is still facing illegal persecution today.

In June 2006, Shiling Prison, working with the 610 Office in Changchun City, started another round of mad and irrational persecution of Falun Gong practitioners from Changchun City and the greater Changchun area. On July 25, guards brought all the practitioners together and started a round of excruciating torture. For several days, every morning at 8:00 a.m., practitioner Xie Fei was brought to an empty room. The police instigated several criminal prisoners to brutally beat him once the door was closed. Then he was brought in front of the 610 Office officers, who had prepared materials slandering Falun Gong, and the forced brainwashing with these materials would begin. Every day this cruel method was used to torture Falun Gong practitioners. Xie Fei was tortured so terribly that his head became distorted, his eyes were badly congested, and he was in pain for a long time.

Practitioner Liu Xiaoyong, who was held in the 4th Ward of the prison, was tortured twice by police Du Guo, He, Li and others. They took turns torturing him with electric batons. His skin was badly burned, and he was forced to stay in a small cell.

Falun Gong practitioner Shen Lixin was a police officer at the 2nd Prison of Zhenlai County, Jilin Province. Because Mr. Shen persisted in practicing Falun Gong, he was illegally sentenced to forced labor. In 2004, he was arrested from home, and sentenced to seven years in prison. He was sent to Shiling Prison, where he was brutally tortured by police because he refused to cooperate with their unreasonable orders, and was not afraid of their threats. In November 2005, Shen Lixin was transferred to the 12^th Ward of Tiebei Prison in Changchun City, where he still would not cooperate with any orders or instigations. In March 2006, he was transferred to the 22^nd Ward for further persecution. Mr. Shen went on a hunger strike to protest the illegal persecution. He was transferred to Jilin Prison at the end of March. His current condition is unknown.

Above are the facts of persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in Shiling Prison, which is but a small part of a larger system hiding many similar situations.

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