Falun Dafa Practitioner Liu Donghui from Dehui City Tortured by Police (Update)
January 25, 2001
(Clearwisdom.net) Falun Dafa practitioner Liu Donghui is a 50-year-old
insurance company employee in Dehui City, Jilin Province. One day in early
December 2001, she was sent to the No.5 Brigade of Heizuizi Female Forced Labor
Camp in Changchun City, Jilin Province. On the day she was sent to the labor camp, the resident medical doctor gave
her a physical examination, and found that Liu Donghui could not move her hands.
She even had to ask for help in unbuttoning her clothes. The doctor was
astonished to see that Li's chest and abdomen were all covered with black and
purple bruises from iron chains, and burns from electric batons. She had almost
completely lost her hearing, had difficulty speaking and had lost all mobility
in her neck. Her arms hung down, palms facing behind her, and she could not move
them at all. When the labor camp doctor asked her what had happened, Liu Donghui told her
horrific story, her eyes swimming in tears. "I was visiting a local
resident to handle an insurance issue on my own time after work. It so happened
that when I arrived, the police were searching this home for Falun Dafa
materials. Without just cause, the police took me to the police department,
where two policemen searched my portfolio. The portfolio contained 500 Yuan
belonging to my insurance company and the cellular phone my company provided for
my work. (An average urban worker's monthly salary is about 500 yuan.)
One police officer remarked that it looked like a nice cell phone (the value
of this cell phone is 2700 yuan) and he took it, while the other said he had
just lost 500 yuan the previous evening, playing mahjong, so he happened to be
in need of the money. The two policemen thus confiscated the money and stole the
cell phone." "They then took me to a small room and began
interrogating me. They asked questions about Falun Gong such as where I got the
flyers, who was involved, who was in charge and they asked me to provide them
with names. Since I was there merely for an insurance issue, I didn't know
anything. They then took me to the vice squad of Changchun Police Department,
where they beat and tortured me for seventeen hours with all sorts of torture
devices. The policemen even claimed that they would have no problem in beating
me to death because they could just count my death as a 'suicide.'" "The tortures I suffered included: 1) forcing me to sit on a "tiger bench" for 17 hours with my hands
cuffed; (a torture instrument: the practitioner is forced to sit on a small
iron bench that is approximately 20 cm (6 inches) tall. She has to sit straight
up with her eyes looking straight ahead. Her hands are placed on her knees. She
is not allowed to turn her head, close her eyes, talk to anyone, raise her hand
or call out for the attention of the guards. Many inmates are assigned to watch
the practitioner. If she turns her head, they will force the practitioner to
hold her head in that position indefinitely. If the practitioner raises her hand
to call the attention of the guards, they will force her to hold her hand in the
air indefinitely. If she speaks, they will force her mouth to remain open
indefinitely. Sometimes the practitioner is forced to kneel to the ground. They
then place a wooden bat on her leg and stand on top of the bat to hurt her.) 2) forcing me to sit on another type of tiger bench, which
has two iron knobs that are put at both sides of the hips and are designed to
rub against the hipbones; 3) using lit cigarette ends to burn my nostrils; 4) suffocating me by using two layers of plastic bags to
cover my head, and then tightening the bag by contracting the bag openings
around my neck tightly, and even using their hands to pinch my nostrils shut; 5) using a sharpened bamboo stick to pierce me in the ribs
around my abdominal area; 6) inserting needles into my finger tips; 7) and the most brutal of all their torture methods was
making me lie on my belly on piles of iron chains, then hanging me upside down
with both arms tied from behind, and my head placed beneath my hips." The police tortured Liu Donghui with the above methods for seventeen hours.
Due to her age and weakened condition, Liu lost consciousness several times.
Finally, since they were unable to get any information from her, they sent her
to Dehui Detention Center where she was illegally detained for twenty-one days.
The management executives of her company went to seek her release on bail but
failed. Liu Donghui was later sentenced to a two-year term of
"re-education" through labor and sent to the Heizuizi Female Labor
Camp in Changchun City. Due to the devastating effect of her injuries, Liu
cannot care for herself in even the most basic tasks of eating, going to the
toilet, and other routine activities. Because of her severe disabilities, the
labor camp was forced to release her after less than a month. When she was
released, representatives of her company had to carry her out. The labor camp guards threateningly told her that she was not allowed to
reveal to anyone the tortures she had suffered. For a detailed account of tortures routinely applied to Falun Gong
practitioners in China's jails, detention centers, and labor camps, please refer
to the following two articles: (http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2001/11/24/16156p.html) (http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2002/2/3/18368.html) (The list of vicious criminals: Guo Guangtian, Director of Dehui Police Station: work 86-431-7222192 home
86-431-7225949 Zhang Qingchun, the Director of Political Security Section: work
86-431-7222344 home 86-431-7264567 Xu Jinlong, Director of Zhenxing Police Station: work 86-431-7222877 home
86-431-7228717 Police Operative Team: 86-431-7223434 and 86-431-7232411 Detention Center: 86-431-7222546 Custodial Center: 86-431-7225375 and 86-431-7233438) Link to related article on Clearwisdom.net:
Chinese version available at
http://minghui.cc/mh/articles/2002/1/25/23744.html
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