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Zhengzhou Dafa Practitioner Song Xu is in Critical Condition
(Clearwisdom.net) (Earlier reports about Mr. Song Xu: Zhengzhou Dafa practitioner Song Xu, 31, graduated from the Institute of
Economics and Trading which is part of Agriculture University located in Henan
Province in 1998. Since July 20, 1999, he has gone to Beijing several times to
appeal on behalf of Falun Gong. In November 2002, Song Xu was again arrested and
secretly sentenced to eleven years. Since his arrest, he has been on hunger
strike to protest the persecution. As a result he is now extremely weak and is
bedridden. The prison refuses to release him.
Song Xu was arrested on February 4, 2001, and sent to the Zhengzhou Baimiao
Forced Labor Camp where he was subjected to inhumane torture for remaining
steadfast in Falun Gong. On the night of February 9, policemen tied Song's hands
and feet to the two ends of a bed and stuck socks in his mouth to silence him.
They then flipped the bed over and left him hanging in this position for nine
hours. His hands and feet were so swollen that the rope to tie his hands and
feet could no longer be seen. The pain he suffered was unbearable but he could
not utter a word because his mouth was gagged with socks. The Unit Head waited
till the next day before he cut the ropes. Yet the Unit Head savagely shook his
feet, which caused him to suffer tremendously. Song was not able to walk as a
result of the torture. Yet when he needed to use the bathroom, authorities
stripped him naked in sub-zero temperature weather and carried him to an open
pit toilet on a cement floor. After he was finished, the labor camp personnel
shoved a stick into his rectum, then used a hose to spray his anus with cold
water.
In order to protest this unjustified persecution, Song Xu began a hunger
strike, during which time the policemen pried open his mouth and forced a
concentrated saline solution through his nose. He was on a hunger strike for
more than seventy days. In mid June, Song became emaciated and weak. His blood
pressure dropped to 70/20. It was not until he was in critical condition that he
was released for medical treatment.
On November 10, 2002, Song went to visit a friend who was recovering from a
hospital stay. On his way a policemen grabbed him by the hair, twisted his arms
and took him to the Zhengzhou police station by force where the policemen
deprived him of sleep for three days and nights. As soon as he dozed off they
hit him. They put him in handcuffs and shackles and dragged him along the cement
floor by the shackles. His palms were lacerated from the abrasion and became
infected. During his seven-day stay in the police station, he was beaten almost
daily.
On March 7 and 8, 2003, in a small room on the second floor of the Jinshui
District Court House, without notifying his family, without the public
witnessing the proceedings, and with the presence of a few policemen, Song was
secretly sentenced to eleven years in prison. Afterwards, Wang, an instructor
from the Wenhua Road police station, told Song's family, "Don't appeal Song's
case. It's useless to tell anybody. Song Xu's case will not be overturned."
We were told that since his arrest on November 10, 2002, Song has been on a
hunger strike. He has become extremely emaciated and has become as thin as a
stick. He stays in bed all day long. After being on a hunger strike for fifty
days, he showed symptoms of acidosis and was sent to a hospital for emergency
care where he was guarded by numerous military policemen. He was denied
visitation rights from anyone. Several of his friends were arrested and detained
in detention center for trying to locate him.
A while ago Song was detained in a prison in Xinmi County. He cannot take
care of himself and his life is in danger. His family has made requests many
times to let him out on bail for medical treatment but the prison refused their
requests. Posting date: 3/13/2004 |