Wang Quanlian Sentenced to Three Years in Prison After Being Severely Tortured at the No. 2 Detention Center in Chenzhou City

By a Falun Gong practitioner in Chenzhou

(Clearwisdom.net) Thirty-two-year-old Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Wang Quanlian suffered cruel torture at the No. 2 Detention Center of Chenzhou City in Hunan Province, before losing consciousness. His entire body was covered with bruises and he was emaciated, just skin and bones.

Ms. Wang was sent to the emergency room of the No. 4 People's Hospital of Chenzhou City. After emergency treatment, he regained consciousness. The medical certificate issued by the doctors indicated that Mr. Wang had the following conditions (see Fig. 1 for his medical record): 1) acute gastroenteritis, 2) acute hemorrhagic gastritis (medium to severe) and hemorrhagic anemia (medium), 3) HP infection, and 4) malnutrition (severe), and suggested that he should continue to receive treatment.

Fig. 1. Wang Quanlian's medical record at the No. 4 People's Hospital of Chenzhou City

Although Wang Quanlian's health condition was so poor, and regardless of the suggestion from the hospital for continued treatment, the "610 Office" of Chenzhou City, as well as the Beihu District Court, illegally sentenced Mr. Wang to three years of imprisonment.

They forcibly sent Wang Quanlian to Chishan Prison in Yuanjiang City, Yiyang, Hunan Province, where he has been detained in the No. 2 Brigade, Section No. 3. Mr. Wang is being forced to do labor for over ten hours per day. Sometimes, his legs are swollen and he can barely walk, but he still has to do the work.

Wang Quanlian lived in the Jietong Coal Mine, Suxian District, Chenzhou City, Hunan Province. He started practicing Falun Gong in 1998. In 2003, in order to clarify the truth about Falun Gong to people, he and some fellow practitioners printed Falun Gong fliers, but were arrested by police at the truth-clarification materials production site. They were detained at the No. 2 Detention Center of Chenzhou City.

During the one-year extended detention term at the No. 2 Detention Center, Wang Quanlian suffered all sorts of inhuman tortures. Every day, he had to do forced labor for over 10 hours in a kneeling position. He was mainly forced to make colored lights for export. He would be punished if he could not finish the assigned work quota.

The vegetable dishes provided to him were overcooked and lacked nutrition. Many people detained there don't have a bowl, cup, toothbrush, toothpaste, soap or even toilet paper. Whenever a meal was sent in, they had to finish eating the food in the shortest possible time because the cart dispatching the food would come in from Cell No. 1 and pass on the food cell by cell until it reached the last cell. The cart would then be brought back to collect the meal-boxes. If you could not eat fast enough, your food-box would be taken back before you were finished eating.

Often, people detained at the No. 2 Detention Center are beaten up. Some bully ringleaders in the cells privately designed "108 Dishes" torture methods that were very cruel. These ringleaders often tortured others just for fun. Whenever a "dish" was called, everyone in the cell would have to use that torture method to torture a criminal inmate or a Dafa practitioner.

For example, "Cut the Phoenix's Claw" is a torture method in which the person who was being tortured had to kneel beside a 3-foot high cement washboard (for washing clothes) and place his arms on the cement washboard. The ringleader would instigate criminals to use their hands or feet to apply pressure to the person's fingers. Other criminals would use their shoes to hit the fingers. Sometimes a person's fingers would be hit over 100 times.

"Wrapping Dumplings" is a torture method in which a practitioner is wrapped up in cotton blankets, and then every criminal would take turns firmly punching the blanket. This way, any yelling from the one being beaten could not be heard, and it wouldn't cause any bleeding on the surface. It would, however, cause internal injuries to the person being tortured this way.

"To Whip with an Ox's Tendon" is to whip a person with a special lash made of copper from electric wires. Often, the old scabs haven't healed before fresh whippings create new ones. It is rumored that Dafa practitioner Mr. Wu Jianmin, from Chenzhou, was lashed four times in one day. Nobody can remember how many lashes he received. Three months later, the skin on his back became like pine bark and he could not straighten his back. During one session, he was whipped to the point of becoming distraught and not knowing what he was doing.

"Hit the Bell" is a torture method that forces someone to stand with their legs touching each other and then having them fall over toward a wall to hit the wall. The person would be forced to hit the wall for the same number of times as the time of the day at that moment.

In the "Stir-fry Belly" torture, a practitioner is knocked to the ground and every criminal steps on his abdomen one time. It is said that a criminal from the countryside died this way ¨C his abdomen was ruptured and his intestines came out. He died on the way to the hospital. The detention center wanted to shift responsibility for this atrocity and strictly covered up the incident, telling the family members that the person died of an acute disease.

There are also torture methods named "Open-heart Fist," "Stir-fry Ribs," "Stir-fry Waist," and "Drinking Beer," etc.

This is the human rights situation in China. We ask that human rights groups around the world visit Chinese prisons to see firsthand these "hells on earth," where Falun Gong practitioners are ruthlessly persecuted.

August 7, 2004

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