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Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Liu Jinying is 42 years old. Before the persecution began in 1999, she had held several posts in Laishui County, Hebei Province, including director of the Propaganda Department and Organization Department of the Youth League of Laishui County, associate town director, and associate director of the County Bureau for Letters and Calls. During the last five years and three months, Ms. Liu has been held in custody in Laishui, and spent time in Laishui Detention Center, the Women's Prison of Shijiazhuang City, and Taihang Prison. The following is an account of the inhuman persecution she suffered in detention.
The county officials beat and shocked her
On July 21, 1999, Sun Guijie, the associate director of the county Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Committee, and Li Zengquan, the general secretary of the county CCP Committee, instigated the police to deceive Ms. Liu into appearing at the county police department, where they detained her for 17 days. On October 1, they took her to the basement of the county police department and chained her to a metal chair. On the scene were Sun Guijie and officials from the Court of Baoding City. When Sun instructed police officers to beat Liu Jinying, they unlocked her chains and started slapping her face. The next day, Han Yasheng, the director of the county CCP Committee, ordered the police to shock Ms. Liu with electrical batons. Then a policeman hit her on the back with a rubber baton. Tan (last name), the director of the CCP Committee of the county police department, dragged her up, stood her up straight, and started slapping Ms. Liu's face. He repeatedly slapped her face so hard that her face was full of tears and her hair was a mess. He didn't stop beating her until he decided to turn up her eyelid to check if her pupils were dilated.
Illegally sentenced
On December 27, 2000, the county government ordered Ms. Liu and 27 other Falun Gong practitioners to be paraded through the streets with big signs hanging around their necks announcing their names and their "crime:" "interfering with law enforcement by participating in an illegal organization." All the major county officials were on the scene. The police kicked all the practitioners to the ground and trussed them up tightly. They also put a loop of rope around Ms. Liu's neck to keep her from shouting out. That day they sentenced her to five years in prison. In January 2001 when Sun Guijie went to the detention center, Ms. Liu questioned him to find out why they didn't give her a judgment statement and told him she would appeal. Sun told her that appealing was useless. On February 23, 2001, the judgment finally arrived, but it was backdated February 21, 2001.
Forced-feeding
To protest the persecution, Ms. Liu went on hunger strikes many times. The guards tortured her with all means available.
They took her to a hospital and force-fed her flour soup. They injected soup into her mouth while pinching her nose to stop her from breathing. When she couldn't hold her breath any more, she swallowed. The third time, they used a bamboo stick to pry open her teeth. After they failed to pry open her teeth, they inserted a rubber tube into her nose. The first time, they inserted the tube into her trachea. The force-feeding lasted over a month.
In the workshop, they ordered the detainees to force feed Ms. Liu. After finishing the feeding, they took her to the workshop and tied her on a bed board with a belt. It was summertime, and she couldn't even turn over. When it was time for her to do forced labor, a few detainees dragged Liu Jinying down the stairs and carried her to the workshop. To keep her from shouting out, they gagged her. Later, they complained that she was too heavy to carry, so they just dragged her by her hands. Her feet and knees were scraped bloody and her pants and shoes were totally worn-out. Ms. Liu cleaned those worn-out clothes and put them aside. The inmates stole those clothes because they were afraid she would use them as evidence.
In 2001, when the detainees started to force feed her, they used rubber tubes and there would be two guards monitoring the process. Until 2003, this was done totally by the detainees. The detainees first dipped the tube in gasoline and then inserted it into her nose to torture her. They would first push the tube in and out many times in her nasal cavity before inserting it all the way down. Sometimes they pulled it out and restarted all over again. Sometimes they taped the tube to her face. Later, they force-fed her salt water or detergent water. While they force-fed her, Ms. Liu kept vomiting. Afterwards, she had to pour her vomit out herself. She had no strength to lift the basin, so she had to push it while crawling along on the floor. She had to take four breaks before she could creep from her bed to the restroom. She crawled over and crawled back.
In 2001, when they force fed Ms. Liu in the Second Team, Han (last name) from the Second Team and Wang (last name) from the Third Team and Zhang (last name) from the Fifth Team took turns practicing inserting the tube. When torturing other practitioners, they learned to master this "technique." They could finish inserting the tube and force-feed in about ten minutes, which is even faster than eating a meal. They took longer only to torture the practitioners on purpose.
At one point, they claimed that Ms. Liu had "inflammation," so they pounded an enhanced Chinese Goldthread (a Chinese herb that tastes extremely bitter) tablet and put the powder into her mouth. Even so, she still refused to eat or drink. The next day, they started to force-feed her pure Chinese Goldthread powder. That taste was beyond description. On the third day, she couldn't stand it any longer but there wasn't any drinkable water since the water in the water pot had the bitter powder in it. She tried to get some water from the tap to rinse her mouth, but they didn't allow her to touch that water. Then she crept to the bathroom and held the dirty water with her hands to rinse her mouth.
Inhuman torture
In 2001, the guards took Ms. Liu to the hospital to conduct a "health exam." They lifted her clothing to do an electrocardiogram and purposely exposed her breasts; they dragged her out with only her underwear on, dragging her along the floor.
Liu Jinying menstruated only once when she was held in the confinement room. In February 2002, Ma (last name), the team head, said she would perform an exam to find out why she was not menstruating. Ma put on plastic gloves and put one of her hands into Ms. Liu's vagina. With one hand inside, she used the other to push on Ms. Liu's abdomen. Afterwards, Ms. Liu had a great deal of pain in her abdomen and her back. She had an abnormal discharge and then started bleeding. They said that she finally was menstruating, but that was not true. Indeed, Ma had injured her uterus. They started bringing medicine for Ms. Liu to wash with and humiliated her. From then on, Ms. Liu would have a "menstrual period" about every 20 days. That was because they gave her excess hormones and caused the false menstrual periods. Then they claimed she had pelvic inflammatory disease and gave her a transfusion. They injected her with ten bottles of penicillin and half a pound of salt water. In fact, it appeared that they were using her as a human guinea pig to see how much a person could suffer.
The guards frequently put Ms. Liu in a confinement room. Once, she managed to open the handcuffs and started doing the exercises. When the guards came back, they handcuffed her so tightly that both her arms couldn't bend. She writhed on the floor but couldn't otherwise move. Later, the guards hung her up in the air. That was in the middle of summer, and there were lots and lots of mosquitoes flying inside. They splashed a lot of dirty water through the little opening of the door to attract more mosquitoes to come in. But they were surprised to find out that the mosquitoes didn't bite Ms. Liu at all.
In 2003, Liu Jinying was hardly able to walk. When it was time for work, other detainees would lift her onto a little pull cart and run very fast to the workshop, where they would dump her to the ground like dumping some trash. The damp floor was full of bits of wood and glass. The whole place was very gloomy. After she was dumped there, Ms. Liu would lie there for a long time before she had any strength to move. After a long while, she would turn over and creep to the base of a wall.
In winter, Liu Jinying often carried a small bag of dry sand. She would sit on that bag after walking a small distance and then walk another small distance again. In the summertime, she still wore her padded jacket and the same clothes as she did in winter. All those in the prison at that time believed that Ms. Liu was mentally disordered. She was very dirty, even her hair. They put a lot of engine oil and dirt on her padded jacket and her short dressing gown. She looked like an oily bag. In nine months, she didn't take a shower or wash her clothes because she was too weak to dry her clothes. People kept swearing at her because she smelled bad.
To push her to insanity, the guards and those who were monitoring and torturing her tried to confuse her mentality. For example, when it was Wednesday, they would tell her it was Monday. They always told her the wrong date.
After Ms. Liu started a hunger strike, her jaw seemed disjointed. She couldn't pronounce words properly. Then they applied very strong medicine and hormones to torture her further, which caused all her teeth to become loose and she couldn't even chew her green bean soup. She didn't have the strength even to hold her cup. She experienced many problems caused by excess hormones. In the winter, they often poured water in her shoes. As a result, her feet were often wet and cold.
The male and female guards who were mainly responsible for torturing Liu Jinying in Shijiazhang Prison included Li Xianglan, Feng Kezhuang, Wang Fengmei, Ma Xinrong, Ma Jianghong, Li Huiping, and Zhang Lixin.
The ones who tortured Ms. Liu in Taihang Prison included Ge Shuguang and Zhu Xiaohong. Ge Shuguang didn't dare tell Ms. Liu her real name. She claimed her last name was Lu. To cover up her criminal deeds, Zhu Xiaohong handcuffed Ms. Liu and took her to the Sixth Hospital of Baoding City twice in 2004 and 2005 to get her diagnosed as having a "mental illness."
The guards encourage detainees to monitor and torture Ms. Liu
By the spring of 2002, Ms. Liu could hardly walk and she felt cold all the time as a result of the physical abuse she had endured. She had to wear a warm jacket even in the summer. She could only walk by supporting herself against the walls. She always carried a plastic bag of sand as her seat, so she could sit down when she couldn't move. Rainy days were the worst time for her, because she would have no place to sit or lie down, and her padded jacket would be wet. One rainy day when it was time to go to work, the detainees lifted her out and threw her into a water pit to shock her. Her clothes were all wet. Because she couldn't move herself, Liu Jinying took off her padded jacket and threw it to the base of a wall to keep it from becoming very wet. Later, gusty winds blew dust into her eyes and mouth. When work time was over, she still couldn't walk, so they dragged her back, tearing her clothes. One day at noon, Ms. Liu took off her padded jacket to dry it in the sun. The detainees put a cat on it and let the cat eat and urinate on it.
Sometimes the detainees put engine oil into her bowl of food. When the food was egg drop soup, there would be flies, mosquitoes, and dust in it. In winter, Ms. Liu wanted to drink something warm. When she used her mug for some warm drink, they would fill her mug so it was so heavy that she couldn't hold it up. Sometimes they added a drug to it so that Ms. Liu couldn't drink it. Or, they let her drink a lot and locked her inside a yard where there was no restroom. Sometimes they would add some Kaisailu, used to treat constipation, so once she drank it, she would have diarrhea. When they saw her gaining some weight, they would use this method to give her diarrhea. When they saw she was getting skinnier, they would feed her hormones, so her hands would swell immediately.
Once when Ms. Liu was sitting in meditation, the detainees monitoring her tied a rope to one of her legs. Whenever she moved a little bit, they would kick her. So one of her legs would be tied up and the rope would dig into her skin.
When Ms. Liu was transferred to the Third Team of Shijiazhuang Prison, she started practicing the Falun Gong exercises once she got there. The guards instigated six people to torture her. Six of them rushed up to her, lifted her up, and threw her to the ground until her legs no longer stayed in the double-crossed position. Then they lifted her again and threw her to her bed. Her head smacked onto the ladder between her upper and lower beds. When Ms. Liu became exhausted and tried to lie down, they rushed up to her and pulled her, dragging her by her hair and pulling out handfuls. Her hair very easily came out because of the drugs they were giving her. Later they started squeezing her neck. They squeezed it so tightly that the left side of her neck was bloody. They also beat her to the ground and stomped her head with their feet while wearing shoes. When Ms. Liu shouted out, they poked her face with a broom handle, causing her face to bleed.
There were eight detainees in each of eight groups. Two of them went to work, one was the head of the group, and the rest of the five took turns torturing Liu Jinying. Whenever Ms. Liu started practicing, somebody would sit on her, step on her and kick her. Later, when they felt tired from beating her so hard, they started adding poison to her food. When Ms. Liu ate such food, she would feel her stomach burning and soon got diarrhea. Some days she would have diarrhea eight times. When she was using the restroom, two detainees would guard her, one on each side.
In 2003, when Liu Jinying was in the Third Team, the poison they put in her food caused her whole body to turn to black. Her arms and legs were so cold that she was still shaking even if she wore two padded jackets and covered herself with the heaviest quilt.
In October of 2003, on the day she was transferred to Taihang Prison, Ms. Liu was put into a confinement room. The detainees beat her there as well. Sometimes they smashed her head against the wall while holding her hair. She became dizzy and vomited. Sometimes, they beat her chest. Later, the detainees pulled her nipples until they bled. After two days when scabs formed, they started pulling her nipples again and they bled again. They also kicked her legs, which caused her legs to swell so much that she couldn't wear her underpants. Then they feared that her legs would become disabled and started rubbing her legs with medicine. When the swelling disappeared, three layers of skin peeled off. They started trampling her left foot. They forced her take off her shoes and trampled her big toe. Her big toe became so swollen that in only a few days, the nail of her big toe peeled off. Then they started trampling her right foot. The nails of her big toe and second toe of her right foot also peeled off. Then they started forcing Ms. Liu to stand on a small bench near the base of the wall with her head bent down, both arms up, and one leg lifted (the so-called "flying" position). If she stopped, they would beat her buttocks with belts or slap her face with slippers 50 times, even 100 times.
In Taihang Prison, those who were monitoring Ms. Liu beat her with furniture legs so badly that the wooden legs broke piece by piece. They handcuffed her on her bed in such a way that she couldn't sit down nor stand up. In the very beginning, when she first got there, they handcuffed her for 18 days. Because both of her hands were handcuffed together, she couldn't turn over. She was not allowed to sleep until about 2:00 a.m.
Those who tortured Liu Jinying in prison were those who were sentenced to life in prison or murderers, or those who were very close to the guards and could get a sentence reduction if they tortured Falun Gong practitioners harder. All those detained in prison wanted to leave there earlier, so they did their best to torture practitioners because that was the best way to reduce their terms. From time to time, some practitioners were tortured to death. In the summer of 2001, Ms. Liu was dying due to the torture. The prison doctor said that she would not survive the year.
Poisoning
Although Ms. Liu's temperature was normal, those monitoring her insisted that she had a high temperature and gave her an injection against her will.
They put poison in her food and drinking water and told her that it was special food for her. A guard quietly asked those monitoring Ms. Liu whether the cart was coming and whether Ms. Liu had eaten. Ms. Liu hadn't eaten but had given the food to another detainee, who became dizzy immediately after eating the food. From then on, Ms. Liu became very careful about her food, but she was not allowed to pick up her meal by herself. From then on, it was very often that she couldn't urinate and a lot of her hair fell out for no known reason and her heart rate became much faster. Ms. Liu claimed she had been poisoned and asked for a legal investigation into her medical treatment. The authorities even agreed. They took her to the Third Provincial Hospital. Before this, the guards had asked Ms. Liu to get a medical exam, but she had refused. When she arrived at the hospital, they kept her in the car for a long time before bringing her in. Once in the hospital, one person told another that she was the one discussed earlier. They were very vague and seemed to be plotting something.
In 2001, when Liu Jinying was washing her hair in the Third Team, she noticed it was very sparse. When she combed her hair, a lot of it fell out, just as if she were going through chemotherapy. From then on, the guards and detainees kept her confused. Gradually, she couldn't get out of bed. She heard some detainees talking, "What a pity. They tried to turn a normal person into a psychotic."
Once during a Mid-autumn Festival, each detainee got a couple of pears. They told Ms. Liu to eat one pear every day. Indeed they had injected an unknown drug into the pears. She didn't eat them. In just a few days, her pears were all rotten from the inside out.
It was very hard for Ms. Liu to relieve herself. They asked her whether she wanted some medicine. She refused. One month later, her weight dropped to 39 kilograms [approximately 86 pounds] (Ms. Liu was only 21 kilograms when she was at her most thin). Even her bones became thinner. It was very hard to find a blood vessel to do an infusion. They stabbed here and there to find a blood vessel. Once they stabbed nine times before getting a vessel. Sometimes when they found a blood vessel, they would keep the needle in it even when they had stopped the infusion in case they wanted to do more later. To torture Ms. Liu further, they also frequently injected fluid outside of the blood vessel so that her hand would swell up.
Ms. Liu stayed in Group Eight for about half a year. She was emaciated when she got there, but in January, she became quite "fat." The head of those monitoring her said they fed her with chicken feed (the chicken feed had hormones added). Her head felt heavy and swollen. In early 2002, she couldn't walk anymore.
Once, when her father visited her, they gave her some drug that caused her pupils to dilate. That day, she couldn't see anything clearly.
The authorities and detainees continuously tried to make Liu Jinying become mentally disordered. From 2002 to the first half of 2003, they forced her to work and dragged her to the workshop. Her pants and underwear became threadbare and her legs and hips were exposed. They purposely showed her exposed body to the male detainees. If she was a little later in leaving for work or she refused to go to work, the guards would tell other detainees to drag her down to the workshop. One time Ms. Liu couldn't walk anymore, not even halfway to where she was going, She lay down and her heart stopped beating. A detainee sat on her and did artificial respiration, almost choking her to death in the process. In the workshop there was only one restroom with only three toilets. During break time, over 200 detainees took turns using the restroom. It was impossible for her to get there, so she tried to use the restroom while others were having lunch, but she was forbidden to do so. After lunch, Ms. Liu couldn't get a chance to use the restroom either. So to avoid trouble, she dared not eat anything for lunch. She dared not to drink water either. Whenever she drank water, she had to use the restroom in about ten minutes.
In the spring of 2003, each detainee got a chicken thigh. Ms. Liu didn't eat hers and gave it to another detainee named Liu Pengying. The meat had been poisoned and the detainee had to be sent to the hospital emergency room and kept overnight.
In Shijiazhuang Prison, when detainees couldn't finish their food, they didn't dare to throw it away directly. They would break their steamed food into small pieces first. Ms. Liu did not dare to eat anything brought to her, so she always went to the trash can and picked up discarded food and ate. The other detainees called her "madwoman." Although the food from the trash can was dirty, there was no poison in it. Whenever she ate the food brought to her, she would feel as if her blood vessels were exploding, her head would feel very heavy, she would lose her vision and have diarrhea or constipation. So she would rather eat the dirty food instead of the food she was "served."
The second time she was detained in Taihang Prison, the authorities started openly force-feeding her drugs. In the summer, they forced her to sleep in the hallway. Her bed was in a "U" shape, so that the middle part was about 6 inches lower than both sides. She found some paper to fill up the low spot in her bed. The guards would find a gang of detainees to force feed her unknown drugs.
On August 9, 2005, the day Liu Jinying was released, she was still handcuffed on her bed that morning. They still force-fed her medicine that last evening. When she was released, her left arm couldn't move and right hand couldn't hold anything and she only weighed about 35 kilograms, like a 13- or 14-year-old child.
On July 27, 2006, three policemen went to Ms. Liu's home and searched around. When Ms. Liu's mother asked for their names, they answered that they were ordered to search her home carefully and threatened Ms. Liu's father to watch out for his retirement pension.
Now, Ms. Liu's father-in-law has passed away, her mother-in-law is seriously ill, her parents are very weak, and her husband is still detained in prison and being tortured. Liu Jinying has no job. She and her child are dependent on her parents' retirement pension.
Letter of Complaint
Plaintiff: Wang Gang, male, Resident from Xiweituo Village, Tunzhou City, Hebei Province
Defendant: Gao Yin, male, Head of the Baoding City Prison, Hebei Province
Defendant: Fan Jianli, Chief of Administration Section of Baoding City Prison, Hebei Province
Content of complaint
In order to "transform" me and force me to give up my belief in practicing Falun Gong, defendant Gao Yin ordered policemen and inmates to abuse and torture me using various devices. In particular, he ordered defendant Fan Jianli to use torture devices on me, causing injuries that eventually led to my leg being amputated. I was forced to see Fan in the monitoring cell. I couldn't stand due to the pain in my legs so I had to crawl into the monitoring cell. Fan insisted that I stand up and walk into the cell, so I had to crawl in and out of the cell three times. Even so Fan continued to hit me and stomp on me. A medical checkup later showed that the blood vessels, bones, and muscles in my leg had become necrotic. If it wasn't amputated immediately, the toxins would attack my heart and my life would be in danger. Gao Yin, head of the prison, refused to inform my family about the situation and forced me to submit to the amputation. Now I have only one leg, but the prison still refuses to release me or let my family see me.
Requests
I request that the People's Procuratorate of Baoding City immediately initiate an investigation of the two defendants and commence public litigation against them. According to relevant stipulations in the Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure Law, Prison Law, Police Law and Government Compensation Law of the People's Republic of China, and based on the criminal acts of the defendants, their physical and psychological torture of me using various devices causing me to become permanently handicapped, as well as the criminal act of my continued illegal incarceration, the two defendants should be held responsible both criminally and economically. I request that the defendants reimburse me for my loss of the ability to work, lead an independent life, or provide for my children and aging parents, in an amount equal to 1,000,000 yuan. I also request that the People's Procuratorate recommend to the relevant governmental departments to remove the two defendants from their jobs and to immediately release me.
The Facts
On the afternoon of May 18, 2005, because I had done the Falun Gong exercises the night before, the policemen tied me to a bed and placed me in the police office for an entire night. On May 19, after they finished supper, they carried me out of the office and locked me up in a cell.
At one point I escaped the ropes that tied me to the bed. Having been tied to the bed for several days my legs and feet were numb. I had to hold on to the wall and move slowly to the corner of the room where there was a sink. I washed my face and used my underwear as a towel to wipe my face three times. When the police saw me they tied me to the bed again. When the next shift arrived in the evening, the afternoon shift reported my escape. Then they moved me to another bed with metal restraints. The bed had three iron bars welded to it. My feet were chained, my waist secured by a big metal band, and my hands were cuffed to the bed. For the next ten days I was locked up, and they wouldn't allow the caretaker to talk to me. They gave me very little water. Sometimes they forbade the caretaker to give me any water at all. Prison head Gao Yin was directly in charge of persecuting me. Even if the district captain of the prison wanted to meet me he'd have to get permission from Gao. They used this wicked tactic in an effort to "transform" me. They said if I didn't "reform" they'd keep locked me up on the bed for two weeks or even a month.
I told the district captain several times that I didn't feel well, but he turned a deaf ear. Later I repeatedly asked the caretaker to take a message to my prison unit, and only then did they send a doctor to see me. The doctor saw me once and left without a word. The only change was that they took the chains off my feet. Prison counselor Wang Langui secretly came to check on me several times. He asked my watcher if I had shown any signs of "reform." He never came back after failing to obtain a definite answer.
Beaten by Fan Jianli
On May 27 at around 4 a.m. Fan Jianli and Ran Pu (Head of the Prison Political Department) came to the cell. Fan asked me my name and shone a strong light on my face. He asked, "Who gave you the cotton-padded mattress?" I didn't answer him. He kicked me in the leg (which was later amputated) seven or eight times. Then he tried to pull the mattress out from under me. When the mattress wouldn't budge he called for help. Zhang Wei and Shao Chengjun hurried over to help him pull out the mattress. Fan kicked me again. While they were pulling the mattress my body was bruised from the misshapen bed and iron bars, and I was left wounded and bleeding. Fan told me to say bad things about Falun Gong. He went to the monitoring cell and told me to join him there. At the time I wasn't even wearing underpants, but since I had to see him I was allowed to put on a pair of pants. I told them that my legs hurt and I couldn't walk. Fan had me dragged from the monitoring cell and told me to walk in again. I couldn't walk so I crawled in. Fan told me to stand up and I told him that I couldn't due to pain in my legs. He stomped me to the floor and told me to get out and come in when I could stand up and walk. In this way I crawled into the monitoring cell three times. He said that if I continued to pretend he'd personally take me to the Intensive Control District in the morning. Shortly after, Fan and Ran left the room. I asked Shao Chengjun and Zhang Wei to tell my prison unit that I'd been injured by Fan and asked them to take me to the hospital. Zhou Zhanhu put me on a tricycle and took me to Xinsheng Hospital, the internal prison hospital.
Leg Amputated, Handicapped
They gave me an IV in the hospital until around 1 a.m. the next morning. Then I was taken back to the lockup room and locked to the bed. On May 28 they sent me back to the hospital for another IV. At around 11:30 a.m. I was taken to the #252 Baoding Military Hospital for a full check up. At around 5 p.m. I was transferred to the #301 Hospital at Jishuitan, Anzhen of Beijing. The hospital's conclusion was that I needed to have my leg amputated.
I returned to Xinsheng Hospital of Baoding Prison. In the morning of May 29 I was transferred to the #1 Hospital in Baoding City. That evening I underwent surgery to remove a blood clot. On the morning of May 30 I was informed that my leg was to be amputated as soon as possible. That morning my prison unit head Shi Chaoyin, counselor Wang Langui, and Zhou Zhanhu were informed of my condition. At noon Xinsheng Hospital head Mr. Zhang came to see me. I said, "Mr. Zhang, I need to speak to you in private." At the time there were only the two of us in the ward. I told him how Fan Jianli had beaten me. I told him that the head of the prison had to give me justice, or I would withhold my consent for the amputation. He said he would take my message to the prison head. On the afternoon of May 30 the hospital again informed me that my life would be in danger if the toxins in my leg began circulating. I told Shi Chaoyin, "I need to speak with my wife before the amputation." Shi said, "No, what's the use of telling her?" They deprived me of the right to see my family.
Seeking Justice and People's Better Selves
I was in the city hospital when the prison 610 Office head came to see me on May 30. I told him about Fan Jianli beating me. He said, "Wang Gang, you get well first, and then we'll discuss the issue." Later, Wang Langui came to see me at the city hospital. I asked him, "How are you going to deal with my case?" He said, "You can write a report to the prison about this incident and make a recommendation about how to resolve the issue." In my report I disclosed the relentless torture I suffered in prison.
The prison investigation group was involved in the investigation of my case, but in a very casual way. On the day of the investigation the prison investigation group chief threatened me, saying, "If you continue to make a fuss we won't release you, even if you pay the bail." They said that Fan Jianli only beat me once or twice, and they never mentioned the incident of my crawling into the monitoring cell three times. When I told Shi Chaoyin about the beating by Fan Jianli on May 30 he took notes and I signed and dated them. I also sent him a message asking him to tell Gao Yin about the beating incident. Why didn't Gao Yin initiate the investigation process? Why didn't he come to see me? It was the prison that sent me to the lockup. It was even difficult for the head of my prison unit to see me. Without the permission of Gao Yin nobody was allowed to see me. Then wasn't it Gao Yin himself who sent Fan Jianli to beat me in the monitoring cell? To this day Gao Yin has never shown himself.
Later Song Zhigang, the new head of the prison, spoke with me several times trying to learn my plans to deal with the torture incident. I have only one request: I want justice. I still can't get in touch with my family. I don't know if my family knows about what I've gone through. I want my family to know my condition. I want many more people to know about the true nature of the criminal political group. I want people to help stop this evil persecution.
This letter will be sent to the People's Procuratorate of Baoding City in the name of the plaintiff Mr. Wang Gang.
By Mu Cuncheng
The policemen from Langfang City Police Department have tortured Falun Gong practitioners in many inhuman ways.
Five policeman took another Falun Gong practitioner and me to a place where they torture people. The other practitioner was taken into a room first. An hour later, he had to be supported by several policemen when he came out of the room, and I could barely tell it was him. His lips were split open, one side of his face was swollen, his head was deformed, and his eye sockets and the upper part of his face were all black.
Then the policeman took me into that room, and put me on a big metal chair. They handcuffed my hands on the two arms of the chair, and locked my feet with two leg-irons. They first searched my body and took away my watch, cell phone, pager, and all the cash I had. They even took away my belt.
Then, one policeman started to curse at me and at the same time, hit my face with his hand. My entire face and head became numb. When he got tired, another policeman continued; he was a director of the State Security Department at the Langfang Police Station. He violently punched my chest. After a while, he got tired and was all sweaty, so he stopped. Another policeman came up. He picked up the belt off the floor, used one hand to hold my fingers and hit my hand with the belt. In a short time, my hand was swollen like fermented bread. As he was hitting me, he saw that I was bit abnormal. He stopped and asked me: "What's wrong with you?"
At that time, I was sweating all over my head and body and I passed out. Three officers took some water bottles and poured water on my head and face. Then, a young policeman came toward me while holding a high-voltage electric baton. It was rectangular shaped with two needles. When he put the needles on my body, it made a crackling noise. It felt like two big needles went through my body at once. He shocked everywhere on my body; when it got to spots like my armpits and below, the pain was really almost impossible to bear. (This inhuman torture continued for two whole days and nights. When they released me from the chair, my feet were badly swollen, and my leather shoes were stretched tight.)
After torturing me, they turned right around to continually torture the other Falun Gong practitioner. When they got tired, several policemen, each holding a high-voltage electric baton, shocked that practitioner all at the same time. The electric batons made a loud, static crackling noise. Some policemen were yelling "ah�"ah�";" sounding just like animals. I've lived for 50 years, but have never heard voices that sounded that wild. It was horrific.
Later, we were sent to a detention center. There, we were forced to do labor, including sorting beans and packaging chopsticks. We were forced to start working at 5:30 a.m., sometimes not even allowed to eat breakfast, working all the way until noon. For lunch each person was only allowed to eat two steamed buns, and nothing else. There was also no break time at noon. Then, we would continue to work until 8:30 p.m. with no break. The amount of labor everyone did was recorded, and if one did not finish the assigned amount, he would be beaten. Every police officer held a wooden stick. The side they held was wrapped with a cloth and they used the other side for beating the practitioners. They forced practitioners to crouch down on the ground, then used the stick to hit their hips. Sometimes practitioners' hips were even hit to the point of bleeding. Even so, the practitioners would still have to keep working in a squatting position, and they would still have to finish their assigned labor. Police Yang said: "If you are beaten to death, we will just report it as due to illness."
The police made us memorize some lines, in case outsiders visited. If the examining visitors asked: "How many hours do you work a day?" We could only answer: "Two hours, not hard at all." If someone didn't answer like this, then he'd be beaten later. If they asked: "What do you eat every day?" We had to answer: "Every day we have two meals of rice or wheat flour food, and one meal of corn flour food; every week we have meat soup twice, egg soup twice and tofu soup twice. In ordinary times we have fried dishes of vegetables, and we also have stewed meat regularly." Every person had to memorize these lines very well, otherwise he would be beaten, and also wouldn't be allowed to sleep; instead he would be forced to stand up all night as punishment. The next day he would have to work as usual.
In fact, every day we worked for fourteen to fifteen hours. It was
indeed very tiring. We ate the simplest and roughest food. We were
regularly tested for the things we were told to memorize. The police's
logic was: if one didn't have time to memorize them in the day-time
because of the labor, then they could memorize them at night. The
police always thought of ways to torture us. If sometimes there was no
work to do, they would make us sit on the ground motionless, and watch
us. This often lasted for two hours. If someone just moved a little
bit, he'd be punished by being forced to kneel down on the hard stone
ground. Within a short amount of time, there would be a row of
practitioners kneeling on the ground. If one refused to kneel, he'd be
beaten.
A person will be shocked if he or she sees the tortures. For example, another punishment is to force someone to crawl back and forth in the small hallway while kneeling on the ground and with their feet locked with leg-irons. If he can not continue, the policeman will step on the practitioner's hands or feet using their hard-soled boots, with imprints of the boots left on the practitioner's body. As another example, during the winter months one will be forced to stand in ice-cold water with bare feet.