Qiqihar Practitioner Mr. Li Huifeng's Bitter Experience of Illegal Detention and Torture
(Clearwisdom.net) I am Li Huifeng, a 32 year old Falun Gong practitioner from Qiqihar City,
Heilongjiang Province. At 5pm on January 22, 2001, I was taken away from my home by the policemen
from the Third Criminal Police Squad of the Jianhua District, Qiqihar City. The
next day I was sent to the Second Detention Center of Qiqihar. In July 2001, I
was sentenced to 12 years of imprisonment by Jianhua District Court, found
"guilty" of the charges that the authorities fabricated and imposed on
me. I didn't give in to the verdict of the first trial and lawfully appealed to
the intermediate court. I wrote them a letter. However, the Intermediate Court
told a lie and said that I had given in to the verdict of the first trial and
they would not hear the appeal. On January 24, 2002, I was sent to the Third
Prison of Harbin City. On July 1, 2004, I was transferred to Daqing Hongweixing
Prison and I have been held there until this day. Ever since I was illegally arrested on January 22, 2001, the evil police and
the prisoners under their control have brutally tortured me. Details of what
happened are as follows: Around 5pm on January 22, 2001, 5 practitioners including myself were staying
at the home of Wenjie, another practitioner. Suddenly, 5 policemen of the Third
Vice Squad broke into the place. They dragged us away and took us to their
office, in our bare feet and with our heads covered. Immediately after that, they interrogated and tortured me in an attempt to
extort some information. They handcuffed my wrists behind my back, and hung my
hands to an iron hook that was two meters above ground. At the same time, they
tied my feet with the same rope, and they pulled the rope to stretch out my
body. It was extremely painful. Furthermore, the policemen kicked me to make my
body swing back and forth. They shouted, "My pleasure is built on your
suffering!" I was in agony. They then placed an electric baton on my
genital area and shocked me. This kind of torture is literally called "On
the great hang". I suffered an electric burn to my genitals and I could not
lift both my arms for six months. The next day, I was sent to the Second
Detention Center of Qiqihar City, and there I was tortured for one year. I
became emaciated. In July 2001, I was sentenced to 12 years of imprisonment and
deprived of political rights for four years by Jianhua District Court of Qiqihar
City according to the charges that the authority fabricated and imposed on me. I
wrote down the words "I refuse to accept the verdict and intend to
appeal" in the file of the court service. After returning to the Detention Center, I wrote my letters of appeal and
sent them to the Intermediate Court. However, the verdict of the 2nd
trial actually stated that Wenjie (a practitioner who was sentenced to 11 years
of imprisonment) and I accepted the verdict and did not appeal. The court
fabricates documents like these in order to persecute Falun Dafa practitioners. On January 24, 2002, I was sent to the assembly team for training at the
Third Prison of Harbin City. I refused to accept the charge that the government
imposed on me, so I was sent to a small cell and was cruelly tortured by the
head of the assembly team named Huang, and another guard named Gong Dawei. It was February and the weather was so cold, yet they did not allow me to
wear woolen clothing. Instead, they opened the windows. During the evening, they
did not give me anything to keep my body warm. Each day they gave me only a
little bit of corn paste. Two prisoners were always present to keep a watch on
me. They detained me there for 39 days, and they only released me when I had been
beaten to the verge of death. Half a month later, I was transferred to the sixth supervision area, and
there they appointed prisoners keep a watch on me day and night. My freedom was
restricted and I was forced to perform hard labor, write reports on what I was
thinking about, such as the so-called "three letters" or
"the letters of exposure and critique on Falun Gong", etc. ("The
three letters" are documents that the practitioners in prisons are forced
to write through cruel torture, to demonstrate that they have given up their
belief in Falun Dafa. The so-called "three letters" include "the
repentant letter", "the letter to criticize Falun Gong" and
"the letter to reveal how badly a practitioner has been affected". The
contents of these letters are fabricated.) The Captains Zhu Wenchen and Tang
Xinmin cursed and insulted me. They also seized all the money and parcels that
my family had mailed to me. As a result, I could not afford to buy anything, not
even toiletries. They forced me to sever all communications with my family. Tang
Xinmin had ordered a criminal prisoner to beat me, but fortunately, the prisoner
did not attack me because he had a good impression of Dafa practitioners. The directors of the 610 Office in Harbin Prison, Chen Shuhai and Li Fucai,
forcefully tried to brainwash me and other Dafa practitioners. They forced us to
watch videos that denounced Falun Gong. From 2001 to 2004, the evil policemen in
Harbin Prison ordered prisoners to beat Dafa practitioners. The practitioners
were either beaten to death or left with horrendous injuries. On July 1 2004,
due to external pressure and the accusations lodged by practitioners within the
prison, the policemen transferred 108 Dafa practitioners at Harbin Prison to
prisons in Daqing, Tailai and Mudanjian cities, so as to cover up the truth
about the persecution and continue their evil conduct. Together with 29 other
practitioners, I was transferred to Hongweixing Prison in Daqing City that day. To cooperate with the Reform through Labor Bureau in Heilongjiang Province
and conceal the facts about the persecution, Daqing Prison seized all personal
belongings of 30 practitioners, except for our clothes, bedding and toiletries.
To date, they have still not returned them to us. On July 9, 2004, I was
allocated to the 1st supervision area, where I had no personal
freedom. I had no rights for family visiting, and my appeal letters to the
Procuratorate of Daqing Prison were seized. The persecution has lasted for 5 years', seriously damaging both my body and
mind. My wife Zhang Shuzhe and I were illegally arrested on the same day. She
was first detained at the Correction Center and later sentenced to imprisonment.
She is still suffering persecution at Harbin Women's Prison. My family has been
broken, and all our family members from both my wife's family and my own have
lived in distress for a long time. To every righteous nation with a conscience and to people all over the world,
I hereby solemnly lodge my charges against all those who engaged in the
persecution of Dafa and Dafa practitioners, those responsible in Police
Departments at each level, Detention Centers, Procuratorates, Courthouses,
Reform through Labor Bureaus, Correction Centers, "610 offices", the 3rd
Prison of Harbin City, the Harbin Women's Prison, and the Hongweixing Prison in
Daqing City. Let every virtuous country and person all over the world help wash away the
humiliation and uphold justice! Plaintiff: Dafa Practitioner Mr. Li Huifeng November 15, 2004 February 13, 2005
Chinese version available at
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