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Despicable Torture Methods Used Against Falun Gong Practitioners in Baiguo Town, Macheng City, Hubei Province
(Clearwisdom.net) Mr. Guo Xuelin, 71 years old, was illegally arrested by police from the Baiguo Town Police
Station during the 16th Party's Congress in the fall of 2002. After being detained at the
Houtoushan Detention Center for more than 10 days, he was taken to the Baiguo Police Station and
beaten continuously for two days and nights without being allowed to sleep. Afterwards, he was sent
to the First Detention Center of Macheng City and illegally detained for three and a half months.
Even though he was suffering from symptoms of hypertension and partial paralysis for nearly half a
month, the police refused to release him until they were able to extort approximately 450 Yuan RMB (Chinese
currency; the average monthly income of a Chinese worker is about 500 Yuan) from him. Mr. Dong Youcai, 40 years old, was reported to the Baiguo Town police after posting truth
clarification materials in January 2003. He was arrested shortly after and was detained in the
Baiguo Police Station for one week, where he was physically and mentally tortured using brutal
techniques. Beaten unconscious by the police, they poured cold water over him to revive him so that
they could continue their brutality. They tried to force him to renounce his belief in
Truthfulness-Compassion-Tolerance using extreme torture methods. He was beaten severely, such that
his body was covered in bruises and lacerations. Even so, police extorted 12,300 Yuan from his
family before agreeing to release him. Within half a month after Mr. Dong was released, he still
could not take care of himself due to the physical injuries he received. Ms. Guo Jinhua, 40 years old, was illegally arrested by police from the Baiguo Police Station
during the 16th Party's Congress. After being detained for over 10 days at the Houtoushan
Detention Center, she was taken to the Baiguo Police Station and detained for forty-eight hours.
Afterwards, she was sent to the Macheng City Second Detention Center and illegally detained for 19
days. The police refused to release her until they extorted approximately 570 Yuan from her. On the evening of January 3, 2003, after Ms. Guo had been released, several policemen from the
Baiguo Police Station, including Liu Shifa and Xiong Wenji, ransacked her home, purportedly looking
for Falun Gong materials. Even though they didn't find anything, they took Ms. Guo back to the
Baiguo Police Station. This time, four people, Xiong Wenji, Liu Shifa, Peng Honghui, and the head of
the local "610 Office"--Xu Shiqian, took turns beating and kicking Ms. Guo viciously to
try and force her to give up her belief in Truthfulness-Compassion-Tolerance. They then began
shocking her with electric batons, beating her in the head, face, and jaw with police batons, and
smashing her head against a wall. When she fell unconscious from the extreme and prolonged torture,
they poured cold water over her body to wake her up, and then forced her to stand barefoot and
handcuffed in a freezing room (about --4oC, or 25oF) for the entire night.
Afterwards, her hands were injured from being handcuffed and she could not look after her own daily
needs herself. Her head was covered in lumps from being beaten, and her face and jaw were swollen
and bruised severely. Her ears bled from being twisted as well. On January 7, 2003, Ms. Guo was transferred to the First Detention Center of Macheng City. When
the police claimed that she would be sentenced to jail, she refused to submit to the persecution and
began a hunger strike in protest. During this time, the heart trouble and other diseases she once
had in the past suddenly came back and her life was in critical condition. Afraid to take
responsibility for Mr. Guo's condition, the police agreed to release her on condition that her
family paid them a sum of 2000 Yuan. She was finally released on April 7, 2003. Mr. Liang Deshi, is a 58 year old practitioner. On October 23, 2002, Lianmeng Village Party
Secretary, Luo Xian'gao, led a group of policemen from the Baiguo Police Station to break into his
home and allegedly "search" for Falun Gong materials. Mr. Liang wasn't home at the time so
the policemen abducted his wife and took his color TV and VCD player back with them to the police
station instead. They also seized his work certificate and other documents so that he would not be
able to function in society. Liang has been forced into homelessness to avoid certain persecution at
home. Ms. Chen Shufang is a 47 year-old practitioner. In October 2002, policemen from the Baiguo Police
Station broke into her home when she was away and confiscated all of her Dafa materials as well as
her recorder. Like Mr. Liang, Ms. Chen has been forced to become homeless. Ms. Yan Ping, a 28 year-old practitioner, was arrested by police from the Longchi Police Station
on September 29, 2002, and detained at the Macheng City First Detention Center. Because she went on
a hunger strike twice for more than 10 days to protest her illegal detainment and refused to recite
the jail regulations or wear jail clothes, police ordered prisoners to force-feed her. One of her
teeth was broken in the process, and afterwards she was beaten and tied up to a "security
bed" (this is the most severe form of torture in the Macheng City First Detention Center). The
pain from the torture was so tremendous that Mr. Yan lost consciousness. Even so, the "610
Office" of Macheng City still refused to release her, and she was unlawfully sentenced to one
year in a forced-labor camp without any legal justification. Mr. Dai Guomin and Mr. Zhang Guangjun, 40 years old and 36 years old respectively, were illegally
sentenced to a forced-labor camp and sent to the Shayang Working Farm. Below is a list of officials and police officers responsible for these crimes: Head of Baiguo Police Station: Cao Guangyin Baiguo Police Station officers: Peng Honghui, Ye XX, Xiong Wenji, Wang Wei, Dai Chunjie, Qu
Zhigang, Zou Wanru, Luo Huisheng, Ye Guoxin Written on July 3, 2003 |