Video Report: 70-Year-Old Falun Dafa Practitioner Tortured to the Brink of Death in Hebei Province
(Clearwisdom.net) This video portrays an
elderly gentleman by the name of Mr. Shi Zhimin, a retired management clerk from
Hebei Province Textile Factory, located in Langfang City, Hebei Province. The
video shows him after he was detained seven months in the Mengzhou City
Detention Center and the Zhengzhou City Prison in Henan Province (his hometown
is in Henan Province). Before detention, he weighed over 110 lbs, but now he
weighs only about 55 lbs.
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Mr. Shi Zhimin, "They force-fed me while they tortured me on the Dead
Person's Bed (1), with four limbs cuffed very tightly." (Falun Dafa practitioners doing large scale group exercise in Hebei Province)
Mr. Shi Zhimin is 70 years old and started cultivating Falun Dafa in 1995.
After that his severe heart disease was miraculously cured. When the persecution
of Falun Dafa began in 1999, Mr.Shi went to appeal for justice for Falun Dafa,
giving his own personal testimonials. He was arrested more than ten times by the
police and government agents, had his home ransacked, and was put in detention
and sentenced to forced labor. In December of 2004, he went back to his hometown
of Mengzhou City, Henan Province to distribute truth-clarifying materials. There
he was arrested by the local police and detained in the Mengzhou City Detention
Center. Mr. Shi went on a hunger strike to protest this treatment and was then
put in handcuffs round the clock. Once he was restrained on the Dead Man's Bed
(1) for three entire days. He lost so much weight that he looked emaciated and
was unable to move on his own. He often would faint, could not talk and
developed an enormous boil near his tailbone.
Mr. Shi Zhimin said, "They found a large, hard lump inside my stomach,
and both my feet were badly swollen. They thought I could not live longer than a
week, so they removed the force-feeding tube."
The Mengzhou City in Henan Province is located south of Taihang Mountain,
north of the Yellow River, and at the center of the triangle formed by Zhengzhou
City, Loyang City, and Jiaozuo City. Currently, Mr. Shi Zhimin is recovering with determination. He said that, as
a seventy-year-old man, he has been arrested, detained, sent to forced labor
camps and to prison for having faith in Truthfulness, Compassion and Forbearance
and for wanting to be a good person. He plans to file lawsuits in the
International Courts and with World Human Rights Organizations for the inhuman
treatment he has suffered and for the violation of his human rights at the hands
of Chinese government agents. Mr. Shi calls on all kind-hearted people of the
world to stop the persecution of Falun Gong and to return justice to Falun Dafa
and practitioners.
(1) The four limbs of the practitioner are stretched out and tied to the four
corners of a cold metal bed frame. The practitioner cannot move at all. He is
not allowed to get up to eat, drink, or use the bathroom. This treatment would
last from several hours to more than a dozen days. As one can imagine, his type
of cruel torture causes severe damage to the practitioner's mind and body. See
the illustration of this form of torture at http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2004/12/15/55600.html.
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Since 1999 when Jiang and his regime began persecuting Falun Gong, Mengzhou
City, a small, rural city that once promised "For the People, Build a Sunny
Government," has actively pursued the persecution of Falun Dafa. Before the
Chinese New Year of 2000 (February 5, 2000), Mengzhou City government officials
drove three bound Falun Dafa practitioners around the city in an open truck to
humiliate them and intimidate other practitioners. The City CCP Political and
Judiciary Committee Secretary Li Jianzhong (male) led an action group called
"Criticizing Falun Gong," which called for large meetings to be held
in every township. The goal was to get all Falun Dafa practitioners to write
three statements, disassociating themselves from Falun Gong. Those practitioners
who refused would be arrested. At the time Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Geng
Juying was 32 years old and lived in Chengbo Township, Mengzhou City. In October
1999, she was pregnant. The police detained her in the Mengzhou City Detention
Center. The prison guards forced her to have an abortion and then sentenced her
to three years at forced labor, which she served in the Henan Province Women's
Labor Camp in Shibalihe, Zhengzhou City. There are still dozens of Falun Dafa
practitioners locked in labor camps or prisons in Henan Province.
Chinese version available at
http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2005/8/10/108085.html
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