Brutal Deeds in Handan City Labor Camp: Lu Zhaofeng Dies After Severe Beating, Yang Baochun Loses a Leg
(Clearwisdom.net)
The guards in Handan Labor Camp in Hebei Province had the prisoners attack
Falun Gong practitioners, assaulting them for their money, clothes and daily
necessities.
Team leader Xing of the First Team, 40 years old, often cursed at people.
Falun Gong practitioners are brutally tortured and insulted under his
instruction. They hung up one Dafa practitioner from Wuan County and poured cold
water into his mouth, and the water went everywhere. It was winter at the time
and this practitioner's body became extremely cold upon being drenched with cold
water. Then they punched him with a wooden stick about 2 inches in diameter, and
caused his body to be covered with blood and bruises. He couldn't walk for over
20 days and for several months he could only sit for moments at a time. He still
hasn't recovered.
Team leader Li Haiming of the Second Team, over 40 years old, ordered the
torture of Dafa practitioner Lu Zhaofeng from Damin County until he almost died.
Then they asked his family to take him home. However, Lu Zhaofeng passed away
three weeks later. Another practitioner was brutally beaten up, causing his body
to bruise severely. Later he was covered with bloody scabs, and he collected
them with a newspaper after they fell off and has showed them to many people as
evidence.
Team leader Jiang of the Fourth Team, 40 years old, is a very wicked and
brutal person. He forced Dafa practitioners to kneel down under the burning sun.
This kind of scorching exposure would last 4 to 5 hours - each time longer than
the last. Dafa practitioners were taken by force to the team for forced
brainwashing. The team leaders beat up the practitioners with electric batons,
then rubber sticks, causing them to be severely injured. Then the guards took
Dafa practitioners to the various teams in the evening, where they told those
prisoners who didn't know the truth of Dafa to torture Dafa practitioners. They
had two prisoners pressing the legs, two pressing the hands, one pressing the
head, then one prisoner at each side beating up the practitioners with heavy
rods making their hips swollen for weeks and their legs covered with scabs.
Team leader Wang Feng of the Fifth Team, about 40 years old, often cursed
people, and he directed some vicious men to torture Dafa practitioners. Ren
Mengjun, a Dafa practitioner from Shahe County, suffered greatly from such
brutal torture and beating. Just a few days after he was released and returned
home, he died. His family then went to the labor camp to ask for justice, but
nothing is being done. Subteam leader Xue always persecuted Dafa practitioners
by using the most brutal means, such as the "tiger bench" (see illustration on
http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2001/11/24/16156.html). He forced
Dafa practitioner Yang Baochun to stand on the snowy ground with bare feet and
no pants. Yang became disabled under such a brutal persecution. He was then sent
to the mental hospital where one of his legs was amputated. Xue was then
assigned to be the team leader of the "Special Management Team," where he
brought the "tiger bench" over with him. Many Dafa practitioners suffered from
the torture of the "tiger bench."
The guards forced Dafa practitioner Zhang Hongbin from Handan City Bank to
stand in front of the washroom for a whole night and didn't allow him to sleep
for 85 days while standing day and night without any rest. His legs, feet and
face became severely swollen.
The labor camp ordered the prisoners to torture Dafa practitioners brutally
for three consecutive days from April 16 to 18, 2001. The sound of beating with
wooden sticks, cursing, punching and kicking was heard all over the labor camp.
The guards also forced Dafa practitioners to squat down, and applied other
tortures to them.
Chinese version available at
http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2003/3/14/46437.html
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