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Dafa Practitioners Tortured at Weibei Prison, Qingdao City, Shandong Province
Submitted July 20, 2003 (Clearwisdom.net, July 20, 2003) About 70 Dafa practitioners were
illegally arrested and held in Weibei Prison. Five of them were detained in the
"Incoming Team": Xie Xin, 28, from Qingdao; Sun Jinjun, 29, from Jimo; Li Gang,
33, from Laixi; Xu Qinli, 52, from Tai'an; and another practitioner, whose name
is unknown, from Liaxi. Police of the "Incoming Team" (also called the Fourth Division) tortured Dafa
practitioners to force them to abandon their beliefs. Every day, practitioners
were given very little drinking water, and they were forced to undergo intensive
"training" on concrete pavement under the burning sun at 40 degrees C (102 F).
Detained practitioners were divided into two "training" groups (The so-called
training is in fact physical punishment). It involves squatting down and
standing up repeatedly for long periods of time. The high temperature and lack
of adequate water left practitioners dehydrated and extremely thirsty. Xu Qinli
drank some tap water and was beaten by the police for it. Practitioners were
also forced to perform excessive manual labor. Practitioner Xie Xin was moved to Weibei Prison on July 2, 2003, and began to
serve a 5-year sentence. Police repeatedly beat him. His head was cut and
swelled terribly. He also received a severe sunburn. The evil police also sent
former practitioners (who abandoned Dafa under force) to harass and try to
brainwash him. Xie Xin refused to renounce his belief; therefore, he was
transferred to the Main Division (Seventh Division) for further persecution. The police also refused practitioners' rights to write letters, make phone
calls and receive family visits. The authorities have used various means to
persecute practitioners over the past several years. First, practitioners were
forced to watch and read "remorse" materials by former practitioners, who
abandoned Dafa, as part of a brainwashing regimen. If this failed, the guards
would threaten them with intensified persecution, including extending their
sentences, denying family visits, solitary confinement and violence. Following
that came further physical torture. If practitioners protested by hunger strike,
the police would lock them up and use an electric baton to torture them and try
to force them to give up the hunger strike. After repeated electric shocks, a practitioner in Division Six suffered
severe wounds on his feet. This practitioner became disoriented and suffered
mental collapse from the torture, yet he remains in prison. In 2002, Qingdao
Dafa practitioner Li Zhenwen went on a hunger strike for six and a half months.
He was force fed with a thick solution consisting mainly of salt with little
water. He developed a deteriorating heart condition and was in critical
condition. After his case was publicized, the evil police became fearful that he
might die in custody, so they dumped him at his relative's house. Currently, Li
Zhenwen is recovering. Phone Numbers of Weibei Prison. Weibei Forced Labor Camp, Division
Four: 86-536-7541254 Weibei Forced Labor Camp, Division
Four: 86-536-7548242 Education Section Chief: Xu, Badge
number: 3720020 Deputy Chief: Sun, Badge number:
3720222 Party Secretary, Wang, Badge number:
3720046 Prison manager, Wang Junwu Collaborators: [former Falun Gong
practitioners who have gone astray due to brainwashing and torture.] Yang Yujun, 41, from Laizhou Gao Wei, 41, from Zibo Posting date: 8/2/2003
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