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The Xiangcheng Detention Center and Xiangcheng Public Security Bureau of Henan Province Mistreat Falun Dafa Practitioners
(Clearwisdom.net) During the persecution of Falun Gong in China, people
from the Xiangcheng Detention Center and Xiangcheng Public Security Bureau have
inhumanely treated Falun Dafa practitioners who were illegally sent to and
detained indefinitely at the forced labor camps. They extort huge amounts of
money from practitioners and brutally torture them with various devices. Under the Jiang regime's implication policy, the Party Secretary Wang Xiaoran
of Xiangcheng City was demoted and fined several thousand Yuan [the average
monthly salary of an urban worker in China is 500 Yuan] because
practitioners of Xinagcheng went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Dafa. As a
result, he became very angry with Falun Dafa practitioners and was eager for
revenge. Wang Xiaoran detained practitioners endlessly and claimed that nobody
would be released from detention without paying 70,000 Yuan. Even after the
detention center agreed to release some practitioners, he still kept them. Zhou
Qingwu, from the Public Security Bureau, is in charge of examining and approving
of releases, and makes the final decision. Some practitioners have still not
been released after long-term detention, including two who have been detained
for over three years, and fourteen detained for over two years. The Xiangcheng Detention Center and Xiangcheng Public Security Bureau take
extreme measures to torture Falun Dafa practitioners, including brutal beatings
with fists and kicking, whipping with leather belts and heavy wire, sleep
deprivation, hand cuffing in painful positions, forced kneeling on wooden sticks
and bricks, bondage to beds and doors, throwing practitioners from high places,
force-feedings with psychotropics and strong salty water, piercing finger tips
and toes with tooth picks, hitting knees with boards, stepping on practitioners'
faces with heavy boots, burning their faces with cigarettes, burning the arches
of their feet, extended exposure to scorching sun, forced labor, and more. In order to meet recent inspection requirements, the Xiangcheng Detention
Center disguised detained practitioners' records by transferring them to
different locations after completion of their terms. Ms. Liu Jinfang, Ms. Wei
Suying, Ms. Guo Xinmei, and Ms. Tian Weimei were sent to Huaiyang Detention
Center for illegal detention. They were detained in the Xiangcheng Detention
Center for a long time after being sentenced, but were refused by the prison due
to health problems discovered upon medical examination. Ms. Tian Shuhua was transferred to the Shibalihe Forced Labor Camp for a
one-year term after completing one year of illegal detention in Xiangcheng City.
During detention and forced labor, she was beaten and tortured many times by
prison guards and criminal prisoners. After completion of the forced labor term,
her family members went to retrieve her. She could not see or walk, and was
completely unable to take care of herself. Several days after her return home,
police from the suburban police substation and the Public Security Bureau
arrested her again and detained her at the Xiangcheng Detention Center for over
two months. With pressure from family members, she was released in early April
2003, only to be illegally arrested again two weeks later. Practitioner Wang Jun was sentenced to two and a half years in a forced labor
camp for going to Beijing to appeal for Falun Dafa in 1999. He had been on a
hunger strike, protesting the illegal detention. Even under the pressure of
heavy forced labor he held onto his belief. Upon completion of his term, his
stay was extended half a year for no reason. In October 2002, after completing
the illegal extension of forced labor "reeducation," Kaifeng Forced Labor Camp
and the "610 Office"* in Xiangcheng City transferred him directly from the labor
camp to the Xiangcheng Detention Center, where he was tortured by various means.
Seeing his unshakable belief in Dafa, the "610 Office" in Xiangcheng City once
again detained him in the Xuchang Forced Labor Camp for no reason and without
any legal procedures. Ms. Liu Jinfang was illegally arrested at a Dafa materials site on October
15, 2001, and has been detained ever since. During a night-time interrogation at
the Lianhua Hotel, police cuffed her hands behind her back, whipped her with
leather belts, pierced her middle finger with bamboo needles, and burned her
face with cigarette butts. She fainted several times under this extreme torture,
but police revived her by repeatedly pouring cold water on her body. When she
requested to use the bathroom, she was refused. By dawn the next day, she was
nearly dead. Afraid of being held accountable, the police found a doctor to save
her, claiming she was hit by a falling tree. Phone number of relevant people: * "610 Office" is an agency specifically created to persecute Falun Gong,
with absolute power over each level of administration in the Party and all other
political and judiciary systems. |