The Notorious First Division of Changchun City Police Department
(Clearwisdom.net) In February and March 2003, officers from the Chuangchun City Police
Department conducted a massive search and arrest effort for Falun Gong practitioners throughout the
city. As a result, all the detention centers, custodial centers and drug rehabilitation centers in
the city were full of Falun Gong practitioners. The Changchun City No.3 Detention Center alone had
over 70 practitioners illegally detained there. Among the illegally detained practitioners, many were arrested for the first time. The police
sent all practitioners over 50 years old to the National Security Team of Changchun City Police
Department, which was previously called the First Division of Changchun City Police Department,
where they tortured them with extremely malicious means, such as "big hang up", shocking
with electric batons, beating, kicking, "tiger bench", and burning the face with
cigarettes. Practitioners who refused to write the so-called "three statements" or
"five statements" to renounce their belief in Falun Gong were all sent to forced labor
camps or brainwashing centers. Those who were seriously tortured were sent to labor camp hospitals
and mental hospitals. Dafa practitioner Zhang Yuping was tortured until paralyzed and it is unknown if she is still
alive Zhang Yuping was illegally arrested while she was taking her child to play outside. The police
ignored the three year old child on the street, and sent Zhang Yuping directly to the First Division
of Changchun City Police Department. They tortured her for over 30 hours with methods such as
whipping and using the "tiger bench," which led to her lower body becoming paralyzed. On
March 9, they sent her to room 307 of the No.3 Detention Center. She was unable to relieve herself,
and staged a hunger strike to protest and requested her unconditional release. The police force-fed
her, pricked her lips, fingertips and face with needles, and applied an unknown medicine to her lips
that turned her whole mouth rotten. When being carried away on March 22, Zhang Yuping did not have
any sense of feeling. It was said that she was sent to a labor camp hospital, and whether she is
alive is unknown. Dafa practitioner Li Dongmei who was detained in the First Division of Changchun City Police
Department was tortured with such methods as "big hang up" and "tiger bench"
which caused her to be paralyzed for a week. Dafa practitioner Wang Liping's hands and feet were cuffed together, which caused her unable to
raise her lower back and head. She was locked up in a small cell for four days and given no meals.
She was denied use of the restroom to relieve her self. Arresting Dafa practitioners becomes policemen's way of making money; practitioners' family
members are detained as hostages for the police to extort According to related news, in February and March 2003, Li Shichang from the First Division, Chief
Zhao of Chaoyang District Police Department and Wang Qinghong from National Security Team of that
Department, led a big group of policemen and arrested 40 Falun Gong practitioners from Chaoyang
District. The policemen took this chance to wantonly take the properties of Falun Gong
practitioners, and extort money from practitioners' relatives. In order to prevent practitioners
from suffering torture and illegal detention, some relatives submitted to being extorted out of tens
of thousands of Yuan. Some policeman told one of the family members in public, that as long as
30,000 Yuan was paid, the practitioner would be released. Up until now the investigation shows that
approximately more than ten practitioners had been extorted out of over 10,000 Yuan each. (10,000
Yuan is about the annual income of an ordinary urban family, or the savings of several years.) 1. Big hang up There are two kinds of such torture. (1) With both hands cuffed behind the back and toes barely
touching the ground, one is hung from above by the ropes.á (2) Each limb is cuffed to one of
two beds, and then the beds are forced apart. 2. Tiger Bench Practitioners are forced to sit on a small steel bench that is approximately 20 cm (6 inches)
tall with their knees tied together. With their hands tied behind their backs or sometimes placed on
their knees, they are forced to sit straight up and look straight ahead. They are not allowed to
turn their heads, close their eyes, talk to anyone or move at all. Several inmates are assigned to
watch over the practitioners and force them to remain motionless while sitting on the bench. Usually
some hard objects are inserted underneath the practitioners' lower legs or ankles to make it harder
for them to tolerate this abuse (see illustration on http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2001/11/24/16156.html) 3. Locking up in a small cell The detainee is locked up alone in a very small cell. The guards handcuff practitioners on their
back in a position such that they can neither move nor lie down. The small cell is very damp and no
sunshine comes in. Detainees have to urinate and defecate in the cell. Only half of a regular meal
rations are served to detainees locked up in small cells during the daytime. During the night rats
are running around. The stench in the small cell is so bad that it is difficult to breathe. June 7, 2003
Chinese version available at
http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2003/6/8/51869.html
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