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Mudanjiang Police Cruelly Torture to Extort Confession from Five Falun Gong Practitioners By Falun Gong practitioner from Mudanjiang City, Heilongjiang Province (Clearwisdom.net) Near the Mudanjiang riverbank, on the northeastern
border of China, five Falun Gong practitioners have been persecuted for more
than 10 months. Policemen Miao Qiang and Xie Chunshen have beaten them so badly
that they were injured and some have been permanently crippled. Some
practitioners were tortured to the brink of death.
(1) Huang Guodong. At the beginning of February 2001, the Nanshan Police
Station of Aimin Police Substation at Mudanjiang City arrested practitioner
Huang Guodong. The police used a rope to tie Huang's two thumbs together and
hung him up by the rope. Whenever Huang lost consciousness, they used a coin to
scratch his ribs, or jabbed him with toothpicks. He was repeatedly tortured.
Huang's head was terribly swollen from the beating. The walls of the room where
Huang was tortured were spattered with blood. Nails had been banged onto the
wall. From the marks it looked like Huang had been nailed to the wall. Whoever
has seen the spot could not bear to look at it. Huang has been tortured into a
wizened deformed shape. He was not able to speak or sit. He was carried on a
litter to the Yangming Court. His wife, also a practitioner, was illegally
sentenced to forced labor education. The cadres of his village sold Huang's
house to cover so-called fines. There was no one to take care of his son (his
son is still a small child).
(2) Zhao Guiling, female. Zhao was arrested in February 2001 by the Nanshan
Police Station of Yangming Police Substation. For more than 20 days, policemen
Miao Qiang and Xie Chunsheng continuously interrogated her from 6:00 p.m.
everyday and sent her back to the detention center at 8:00 a.m. the next day
morning. They continuously used various means to torture her for more than ten
days, such as "tying the ropes" (translator's note: The police tie
up the practitioner with a thin rope, circle the rope around her neck, and tie
her hands behind her back. Then the police would use all the force they could
muster to tighten the rope. The rope becomes tighter and tighter around the body
of the practitioner, and makes it more and more difficult for her to breathe.
The pain is so intense that the practitioner sometimes loses control of her
bladder. There are instances when the rope was tightened enough to break a
practitioner's arm.), pouring mustard oil into her nose, covering her head
with something to prevent her from breathing properly. She almost suffocated to
death. Zhao Guiling's arms and shoulders remained marked from the rope.
(3) Zhao Jun, male, about 40 years old, has an older sister (Zhao Guiling)
and a younger sister. His parents are in their seventies. Since the police
started persecuting Zhao, his old father's heart problems have reoccurred and he
has been to hospital several times. Now, Zhao's father cannot speak well and is
unable to finish his sentences. His parents are greatly distressed for their
son.
On February 24, 2001, policemen Miao Qiang and Xie Chunsheng went to Zhao's
home. They asked Zhao Jun to come to the door and said that they just wanted to
speak with him for a little while. As soon as he came to the door, still wearing
his slippers, he was immediately beaten and dragged into a waiting police van
and driven to the Nanshan Police Station. That same night, they tortured him
with "tying ropes" three times. He lost his consciousness all three
times. The police used coins to scratch his ribs and stuck sharp bamboo sticks
into his fingers to wake him up. That night, the nerves throughout his central
nervous system including the nerve under his right armpit were injured,
rendering him unable to raise his right arm. His right arm was totally disabled.
His two arms were terribly swollen. The police could not get anything from Zhao
so they cooked up another scheme. They arrested Zhao Jun's son, Zhao Dan (who is
not a practitioner, but a student in a medical school) from his university. They
handcuffed Zhao Dan to a radiator pipe and over dressed him from head to foot.
He felt so hot that he could not breathe. They did not give him water or let him
use the bathroom.
They would not leave an innocent student alone who does not practice Falun
Gong, but used various means to torture him. It is thus clear how brutal and
inhuman they are.
The policemen wrote several pages of confession according to their needs and
forced Zhao Dan to sign it. They forced Zhao's family to pay 5,500 Yuan (Translator's
note: the average monthly income of an urban Chinese worker is about 500 Yuan)
before releasing Zhao Dan.
The police also fabricated a confession for Zhao Jun and forced him to sign
it. Zhao Jun was sent to the detention center. He had completely and permanently
lost the use of his hand, and his arms were terribly swollen. Later, medical
staff at the police station diagnosed that the central nerve and the nerve of
his right arm were severely damaged (evidenced by the diagnosis certificate).
The police were afraid of being discovered. They were guilty of beating Zhao
and other practitioners into disability, they made false accusations against
Zhao and the other four practitioners. They intended to have the five
practitioners sentenced to prison so that their own criminal acts would not be
made public.
On December 12, 2001, the Yangming Law Court tried Zhao Jun and the other
four practitioners. Practitioners in Mudanjiang City sent forth their righteous
thoughts together. Practitioners hung Dafa banners on trees, railings along the
roadsides, pillars of the great hall, windows, walls and chairs. Feeling scared,
the police station dispatched many police officers to the courthouse. The
courtroom was not big enough to hold all the people, and practitioners sent
forth their righteous thoughts outside the hall. The court session was
originally scheduled to start at 8:30 a.m., but it did not get started until
10:30a.m.
After the session started, Huang Guodong was carried into the hall. He was
neither able to speak nor sit. His feet were cuffed with shackles.
The judge asked practitioner Zhao Guiling on the spot: "Zhao Guiling,
you claimed that policemen beat you, do you have any evidence?" Zhao said:
"The scars from the wounds remain." The judge asked the female bailiff
to check it immediately. After checking, the bailiff reported that there were
scars from the wounds. The scars were still there after 10 months. What kind of
brutal torture could it have been originally!
Out of the five practitioners, only Zhao Jun and Zhao Guiling have been able
to find attorneys just 3 days before the trial. Each attorney has a strong sense
of justice. They defended the practitioners sternly and forcefully for the cause
of justice. The attorney requested a legal medical expert to examine Zhao Jun's
disabled arm right at the court. The attorneys also said that all the
accusations against the practitioners were untenable. The attorney also said
that in today's society, such severe persecution has not been heard of. The
judge and the attorneys all condemned the brutality of the police. At 3:00 p.m.,
the trial could not go on further. The police were defeated and totally lost
face. The trial was terminated. In fact, the trial turned out to be the trial of
the police.
According to the latest news, the province has already secretly sentenced
Zhao Jun and other four practitioners. Moreover, the practitioners are not
allowed to appeal. It is not only contemptible but also illegal that the
persecuted party is not allowed to speak, or to appeal. Even their attorneys and
the judges who handle cases in conformity with legal provisions, are not allowed
to speak for the justice.
We call on all the kind-hearted people with sense of justice in the world to
express support and pay attention to this matter.
The name list of the evil people at Mudanjiang City
The chairman of the City's Political consultative conference:
Li Shuwu, 86-453-6922851 (office)
Li Chun, 86-453-69234729 (office), 86-453-6221618 (home)
Mayor:
Zhang Qiuyang, 86-453-6529988 (office)
86-453-6533939 (home)
The Secretary of the City's 610 Office [a bureau
specifically created by the Chinese government to persecute Falun Gong. It has
absolute power over each level of administration in the Party, as well as over
the political and judiciary branches]:
Li Changqing, 86-453-6549610 (office), 86-453-6522091 (home)
The squad head of the political and security section of the City Police
Department:
Li Fu, 86-453-6282530 (office)
The deputy director of the Nanshan police station at Tieling of Mudanjiang
City:
Miao Qiang: 86-453-6395781 (office)
The director of the Yangming police substation:
Dong Guojun, 86-453-6338698 (office), 86-453-6338698(home)
Dong Guoxing
The Police Department of Mudanjiang City:
Han Jian, 86-453-6924236 (office), 86-453-6282015 (home)
Li Fucheng, 86-453-6930185 (office), 86-453-6259618(home)
The director of the City's People's Congress:
Sun Yongcun, 86-453-6538618 (office), 86-453-6253266 (home) Posting date: 1/7/2002 |