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Two Practitioners Boldly Expose the Abuses at Tiantanghe Female Prison in Beijing By a practitioner in China
(Clearwisdom.net) During a prison meeting at the Tiantanghe Female
Prison, practitioners Yuan Lin and Gong Ruiping courageously stood up and
exposed the evil. Their brave act truly shocked and amazed all the prison police
present at the scene. On May 20, 2004, the prison held a singing competition. As soon as the host
police announced the result, Yuan Lin stood up abruptly and spoke loudly to the
director of the prison: "I want to expose the fact that the head of the
Tenth Division physically tortures inmates!" Meanwhile, practitioner Gong
Ruiping from the Eighth Division stood up and said loudly, "I have
witnessed it!" Their sudden action greatly surprised all the police and
criminal inmates, totaling over one thousand people. No one expected that
someone would dare to risk their life to expose the evil deeds of police under
such a circumstance, especially after practitioner Dong Cuifang was tortured to
death one year ago. After a short silence, over ten police officers rushed over
to them and did not allow them to speak. All of the people at the scene were
moved by the courageous act of the practitioners. Ms. Yuan Lin is fifty years old and she was a teacher in Peking University.
She was sentenced to seven years in prison because of her belief in Falun Gong.
In early 2002 when she was detained in the Third Division of the female prison,
police officer Tian Fengqing incited Li Xiaobing and her sister Li Xiaomei and
other criminal inmates to brainwash Ms. Yuan Lin in order to force her to give
up her belief in "Truthfulness, Compassion and Tolerance." Ms. Yuan
Lin was very determined not to give in. As a result of severe torture, to this
day she is still deaf in one of her ears and there are wounds that remain all
over her body. What's more cruel is that after forcing her to cross her legs,
they tied her legs up for eighteen hours so that her legs could not move, during
which time she could not use the toilet or drink water. They even stepped on her
neck and pressed her body down. They forced her to face the wall and spread her
legs apart. Two people would ride on her shoulders so that her legs were forced
into a position almost parallel to the ground. Yuan Lin went on a hunger strike
to protest the cruel abuse. The police carried out brutal force-feeding and
tortured her even further. Ms. Gong Ruiping is thirty-eight years old. She was a teacher in Pinggu
County, Beijing City. Although she suffered inhumane torture, she still remained
steadfast in her belief in Falun Gong. In early 2004, she was transferred from
the Tenth Division to the Eighth Division. Ms. Gong is now imprisoned with Yao
Jie. In the female prison, in order to force practitioners to give up their
belief, police have employed various methods to torture them since 2000. At
present, there are nearly 200 practitioners detained there. Except for Li
Xiaobing and Li Xiaomei, who had betrayed Dafa and renounced their belief, all
the other practitioners there have suffered brutal torture. On March 9, 2003,
practitioner Dong Cuifang was tortured to death in the Tenth Division (formerly
affiliated with the Third Division before being merged with the Youth Custody
Office in 2003). She was only twenty-eight years old. The main person
responsible for her death is police officer Tian Fengqing. In order to block
information about Dong Cuifang's death, the prison authorities have used the
excuse of preventing SARS from spreading, and disallowed face-to-face visitation
by detainees' family members. On visitation days, family members are not allowed
to see their loved ones. Instead, they can only talk to their loved ones on the
phone behind thick glass. The prison authorities especially monitor Dafa
practitioners' conversations with the family members who come to visit. At
present, Tian Fengqing once again arranged many spies, keeping those prison
police whom she considers to be useful and dismissing those who disagree with
her. Officer Tian Fengqing takes advantage of the families of criminal inmates and
takes bribes from them. In prison there are rules that specifically do not allow
police to directly contact prisoners' families. But she ignores the rules and
openly requested clothes from Li Xiaobing's family. For her fame and personal
gain, she blindly pursued the so-called high "transformation rate."
The prison management office has a policy that if one forces a practitioner to
give up her belief, they can get a 2,500 Yuan reward [the average monthly income
of a Chinese worker is about 500 Yuan], and a first-class merit citation gets a
3,000-Yuan reward. Tian Fengqing made a great deal of money from torturing
practitioners. After her crimes were exposed, everyone in the prison was
shocked. She repeatedly attempted to shirk responsibility by saying that she did
not do those things by herself. The police under her said, "If she tells on
us, we will expose all of what she did!" The prison's address: Tiantanghe Female Prison, Daxing County, Beijing: zip code 102609 Telephone number of the Tenth Division of the prison: 86-10-60276688 ext.
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