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Savage Abuse of A Practitioner in Her 60's in Zigong Prison, Sichuan Province
(Clearwisdom.net) The following incidents occurred in Zigong Prison in
Sichuan Province. In late May 2003, the authorities started to incarcerate Falun Gong
practitioners in Zigong Prison. Between July and August 2003, Mr. Zhang Liujun,
who is in his 60s, from Qingbai Jiang, was imprisoned there. While the
authorities were videotaping everyone, this older man declared that he was
practicing "Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance," and was therefore
innocent. He didn't want them to videotape him as a criminal prisoner. The
prison guards restrained Mr. Zhang on the punishment bed for about 20 days. They
intimidated this older man, who was cultivating his mind toward compassion, to
acknowledge guilt and admit that he deserved to be punished. In or around
November 2003, as Mr. Zhang was passing a gate, he clarified the
truth to the staff, telling them that Falun Gong practitioners were
innocent, that they were treated unjustly, and that Falun Dafa is great. He was
again confined to the punishment bed for about a month. Because his arms and legs were handcuffed to the metal bed he couldn't avoid
the biting mosquitoes. His clothing was drenched with sweat, then dried and
became soaked again, again and again. His clothing wasn't washed for three
weeks. He was not allowed to wash his face or drink water, and had only a few
cold steamed buns each day. During working hours, four or five policemen took
turns interrogating him. They forced him to listen to the lies which they
themselves didn't even believe, and they forced him to write false information
according to their fabricated propaganda so that they could use these documents
to get rewards. Six or seven criminal prisoners monitored him in turn. In order
to reduce their sentences, these criminal prisoners insulted and tortured him at
will. If a Dafa practitioner wrote an acknowledgement of guilt, the criminal
prisoners could get credit to reduce their sentences. They sought to do this by
subjecting the practitioners to severe mental torment, insulting their
characters, beating them and threatening them. In particular, they wanted this
over 60-year-old man to compile an essay "exposing and criticizing"
Falun Gong in order to confuse the public. Principles that Dafa practitioners
believe, such as "Good is rewarded with good and evil provokes
retribution," they scoffed at. These techniques are what they claim
constitute their "reform education." It was stated in a government officials' report that this type of prison
violence was "reform education" for the Falun Gong practitioners. They
claimed that the criminal activities and unjust actions against the
practitioners were legitimate. A prison guard whose nickname was "Principal
Yang" said it more directly, "Even if we torment or torture one or two
of you to death here, it would not impact the officials or the prison. We can
just issue a report stating that you died of an accident during work or died of
illness." The practitioners are strictly forbidden to have any conversation with others
in the prison. Each practitioner is closely monitored by three criminal
prisoners around the clock. Any move such as a glance, a hand gesture or even
just extending one's leg could be berated as Falun Gong practice. From all
appearances it looked like the practitioners didn't do much labor, yet they were
subjected to wrongful treatment. The purpose was to force the practitioners to
follow the prison guards' orders to write false statements defaming Falun Dafa.
One official said, "If you don't write this, we won't be selected as a
model prison and won't get a bonus." They frequently used the false
statements and lies to deceive people. In January 2004, Mr. Zhang Liujun, who was severely punished for writing
"Falun Dafa is Great!" on the wall and declaring that the practice of
Falun Gong was non-criminal, was once again imprisoned. He was handcuffed to the
punishment bed for about two months and was monitored by six or seven criminal
prisoners. Three or four officers interrogated him in turn every day. They
verbally abused him during the daytime, and the criminal prisoners abused him in
the evening. One criminal prisoner said that many "real men" feared
the punishment bed, yet this over 60-year-old man still didn't collapse after
being handcuffed on it for about two months. It looked indeed like Falun Dafa
was the righteous Fa! He was really admired! In these years since Zigong Prison has incarcerated practitioners, several
practitioners have suffered the gross abuse of being handcuffed on the
punishment bed. Enduring that long-term, intense torture, the evil has managed
to exploit some practitioners' gaps due to their deficient righteous thoughts.
Now all the practitioners confined in Zigong Prison solemnly declare to the
world and to all the people: "We are determined Dafa disciples. Falun Dafa
is Righteous. We declare invalid all the written statements and deeds not
reflecting the true facts of Dafa that we may have written or signed with
unclear minds under intense persecution. We appeal to everyone: Do not believe
any slanderous or false information of any kind against Dafa. In the meantime,
we ask that all kind and concerned people pay attention to, condemn, and stop
Zigong Prison's brutal persecution toward Dafa practitioners." Some of the practitioners who have been held in Zigong Prison include: Zhang
Liujun, Zhang Deqing, Zhong Young, Liu Kejin, Fan Chengjun, Guo Baoshan, Liu
Xueming, Lin Deming, Xu Changzheng (released), Zhang Zhigang (released), Mr./Ms.
Hu, and Mr./Ms. Yan. In addition, around May 2004, an over 50-year-old Dafa student (name not yet
known) was arrested and taken to the Zi Zhong Detention Center. Refusing to
write the three statements, this practitioner was shackled in steel
chains to the punishment bed, suffered forced feeding after a hunger strike, and
was beaten and verbally abused during the night by the criminal prisoners who
were given orders by the prison guards. Fifteen days later this practitioner was
sent to a hospital and died. Responsible parties: Li Jikang, Zigong Prison warden and Liu Yuanhang, deputy-warden in charge of
reforming Falun Gong practitioners: 86-13990077226 Zigong Prison: July 29, 2005 |