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Perforated Eardrum, Burned Fingernails: Atrocities Against Falun Dafa Practitioners in Jinzhou City, Liaoning Province
(Clearwisdom.net) Dafa practitioners Shi Zhongyan and Zhu Feng were illegally sentenced two
years of forced labor because they are determined in their belief. They didn't give up their
cultivation. They have already been detained for 32 months. In January 2003, their terms were
extended for another two months because they resisted attempts to brainwash them. Shi Zhongyan, male, 45 years old, from Anleli, Linghe District, Jinzhou City, Liaoning Province,
was an employee of Jinzhou City General Merchandise Building. On October 29, 1999, Shi Zhongyan went
to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong but he was arrested by officers from Jinzhou City Police
Department and detained in Jinzhou City Detention Center. After fifty-six days, Linghe District
Political and Law Committee officials extorted 2,000 Yuan [500 Yuan is the average monthly income
in urban areas of China] from his family and released him on December 26, 2000. On June 20, 2000, Dafa practitioners Shi Zhongyan, Li Huanbao, Yue Xuefeng and Zhu Feng went to
Beijing to appeal. On June 21, officers from Beijing Police Department arrested them at Tiananmen
Square. The same day, the people from Linghe District Police Department and the Lingan Police
Station ransacked Shi Zhongyan's home. They then sent people to Beijing to take Shi Zhongyan back
and detained him at Jinzhou City No. 2 Detention Center. On July 27, 2000, Shi Zhongyan was illegally sentenced to two years of forced labor in Jinzhou
City Forced Labor Camp. Because Shi Zhongyan practiced the Falun Gong exercises in the New Detainee
Division, he was assigned to the No. 5 Division to perform heavy labor and had to work 12 hours
daily, sometimes even 20 hours. There were often no breaks on Sundays or holidays. Liu Jun was the
chief of the No. 5 Division. After finishing work in the evening, the guards would brainwash the
practitioners. The guards and other inmates often brutally beat Dafa practitioners. Guard Gao Yang
beat Shi Zhongyan so brutally several times that one of his ear drums became perforated and he
almost lost his hearing. Gao Yang also used lit cigarettes to burn all ten of Dafa practitioner Li
Kai's fingernails. In October 2000, Ling Bingzhi, deputy head of Liaoning Province Justice Department led some
collaborators [former Falun Gong practitioners who have gone astray due to brainwashing and
torture] from the Masanjia Labor Camp to persecute Dafa practitioners in Jingzhou. On October
16, Zhang Haiping, political chief of the labor camp, and Jin Fuli, deputy chief of the labor camp
put practitioners who didn't accept brainwashing in the "strictly monitored" team, and
personally ordered guard Liu Tielin to torture Dafa practitioners. From 6:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m.,
Dafa practitioners were punished to sit on a stool, with both hands on their knees, both legs
closed, back straight, no moving and no talking, while making them listen to recordings that
slandered Dafa, all day long. In addition, the practitioners were restricted to no more than three
restroom breaks per day. They were monitored by common prisoners around the clock. On November 1, 2000, the brainwashing team was set up in the labor camp. Practitioner Shi
Zhongyan was continuously and strictly monitored. The labor camp officials deprived the firm Dafa
practitioners of visits with their relatives. At the beginning of 2001, common prisoner Wang Dianwu
beat Shi Zhongyan for doing the exercises. In the evening of February 12, 2001, Shi Zhongyan and five other practitioners were reciting the
Fa when guard Yang Tinglun broke in. He grasped Wang Guiling's collar and pulled him out. Criminal
inmates were instigated to beat and kick the Dafa practitioners. Shi Zhongyan was knocked down to
the floor. At 4:00 p.m. on February 13, political chief Zhang Haiping, and deputy chief Jin Fuli led dozens
of guards in person to forcibly separate Shi Zhongyan and five other practitioners. Two guards held
one practitioner and put on handcuffs. Later, two guards in turn monitored each practitioner. They
were handcuffed even when eating or going to the restroom. The guards did not retreat until one
month later. Shi Zhongyan was put in a cell with the collaborators. Common prisoner Wang Dianwu beat
Shi Zhongyan several times and he had his term reduced and was released a half year before his due
date because of his "achievement" in persecuting Dafa practitioners. In April and May 2001, Dafa practitioner Wang Zhongyan refused to wear a prisoner's vest and
refused to obey an order to sit on a stool. The guards shocked him with electrical batons. He was
transferred to the "strictly monitor team" of the New Detainee Division. Shi Zhongyan
protested with a hunger strike for more than 20 days. He was cuffed on an iron chair and fed through
a tube forced into his stomach through his nose. Since September 2002, Jinzhou Labor Camp officials madly persecuted Dafa practitioners and
brainwashed determined ones. They used high voltage electric-shock batons, sleep deprivation, wooden
boards to beat their faces, forced them to sit on small wooden stools in fixed positions for long
periods of time, brutal beatings, and other atrocities to torture Dafa practitioners. They detained practitioners who were to receive the most excruciating torture in separate cells
to allow the collaborators to beleaguer them. Sometimes, the guards would not let Dafa practitioners
sleep for several days and nights. Whenever they would close their eyes, they were shocked with the
electric batons or slapped with wooden boards. Shi Zhongyan should have been released in June 2002
after two years but is still being detained. His release is long overdue. Zhu Feng, male, 32 years old, college graduate, lived at Shanxi Street in Guta District in
Jinzhou City. On June 20, 2000, Zhu Feng and Shi Zhongyan went to Beijing for a peaceful appeal. On
June 21, Zhu Feng was arrested at Tiananmen Square. Persons from Guta District Jinhua police station
in Jinzhou City brought him back and detained him in the local detention center for 15 days. Fifteen
days later, Jinhua police station officials extorted 1,000 Yuan from Zhu Feng's family. Later, Zhu
Feng was sent to a brainwashing class where he protested with a hunger strike. Three days later, he
was sent Jinzhou City No. 1 Detention Center because he refused to give up his belief in Falun Dafa.
Zhu Feng was almost tortured to death at the detention center. His whole body was black and blue. On
July 31, 2000, Zhu Feng was illegally sentenced two years of forced labor at Jinzhou City Labor Camp
where he was assigned to the No. 6 Division to do heavy labor. His experience was similar to Shi
Zhongyan's. By the end of September 2000, the persecution against Falun Gong at the labor camp escalated more
and more. Over 30 Falun Gong practitioners signed a joint letter to the political chief, Zhang
Haiping, to call for a stop to the persecution against Falun Gong practitioners. On October 2, Zhang
Haiping sent Zhu Feng to a separate cell for doing the Falun Gong exercises. He was forced to sit on
a stool from 6:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. and was given only two meals a day. On October 16, 2000, Zhang
Haiping and deputy chief Jin Fuli put those practitioners who didn't accept brainwashing under
"strict control" and ordered guard Liu Tielin to persecute Dafa practitioners. Jin Fuli
said, "We will popularize the experiences in the Masanjia Labor Camp and forcibly reform
you." During that period, Zhu Feng and other firm Dafa practitioners suffered brutal tortures.
In June 2002, Zhu Feng's forced labor term was up, but he is still detained, well beyond the release
date. The phone numbers of those who are persecuting Dafa practitioners in Jinzhou City Labor Camp: Political chief, Zhang Haiping, 86-13941655333(Cell), 86-416-4562868 (home) Posting date: 3/29/2003 |