Authorities of Laiyang, Shandong Province Viciously Persecute Practitioner Mr. Gai Guangqi
(Clearwisdom.net) Mr. Gai Guangqi is a 56-year-old Falun Dafa practitioner in Laiyang, Shandong
Province. After becoming a practitioner, his health improved and his spirit was
uplifted. After the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) began persecuting Dafa, Mr.
Gai went many times to appeal in Beijing, speaking out in support of Dafa. As a
result, he has been detained, suffered extortion and torture many times at the
hands of local authorities, suffered three years of forced labor, endured
brainwashing and more. Tortured with an Extra Large, High-voltage Electric Baton One night in October 1999, Zhang Shaohua and Liu Jingtao from Lanzi Village
Police Station led a group of policemen and broke into Mr. Gai's home. They took
him and another practitioner to the police station and then took most of the
people who had learned Dafa in the village to the village government building
and questioned them one by one. They asked, "Are you still
practicing?" The people that answered that they were not practicing were
immediately sent home. Those that said they were practicing were not allowed to
go home. Mr. Gai and over ten practitioners boldly declared that they were
indeed still practicing. The policemen handcuffed Mr. Gai to a big tree in the
yard, but because the tree was too thick, it was difficult to close the
handcuffs, so they forced them shut. While the handcuffs were cutting deep into
Mr. Gai's flesh, the police went to eat at a restaurant. For more than two hours
Gai Guangqi sweat profusely and almost passed out. The village cadres smiled
sinisterly and asked, "Are you still practicing?" He still answered,
"Yes!" At night, they locked him up in the county detention center. In the detention center, Mr. Gai practiced the exercises. When the prisoners
went to do aerobic exercises, he meditated in the room. A police officer
discovered what he was doing and put a high voltage electric baton through the
door hole to shock his fingers while he sat in meditation with his arms extended
on either side. Mr. Gai did not move. The surprised policeman returned to office
and said to other policemen, "The Falun Gong in cell No. 8 is so strong. I
tortured his fingers with an electric baton, and he did not care." Police
officer Yang said, "That's because your electric baton is not powerful.
Watch how I fix him tomorrow." At noon the next day, officer Yang took an especially long, high-voltage
electric baton and pointed it at Mr. Gai, who was in the yard. He then asked,
"Are you Falun Gong?" Mr. Gai smiled and said, "Yes!" Yang
demanded, "Show me the practice." Mr. Gai replied, "Okay.
Watch!" Then he began to do the first set of exercises "Buddha Showing
a Thousand Hands." Everyone watched: the staff came out to watch and the
prisoners in their cells also watched through windows or doors. Mr. Gai was
halfway through when Yang said, "Stop!" Mr. Gai thought: "How can
I listen to you? You asked me to do the exercises so I am doing the exercises.
Then you say stop? I need to finish the first set of exercises." After Mr. Gai finished the first set, Yang ordered prisoners standing nearby,
"Bring him here!" Immediately three to four prisoners came, twisted
his hands, pulled his hair, and pushed him into a big iron gate. From behind his
back Yang pulled out the large electric baton, which was emitting a blue flame,
and extended it straight towards Mr. Gai's face. Gai Guangqi closed his eyes,
and silently recited: "Steadfastly cultivate Dafa, the will unflinching." ("True
Nature Revealed" from Essentials for Further Advancement II) The large electric baton moved from his face to his neck and back again, but
he did not make a sound! Yang was unable to get out of an awkward situation, so
he put the electric baton into Mr. Gai's mouth, but it still had no effect. In front of everyone, policeman Yang brandished a 70 to 80 centimeter long
electric baton, fiercely beating Gai Guangqi's shoulders and arms with it while
berating him. A policeman watching said, "Easy. Don't break the electric
baton." Yang continued to shock Mr. Gai on the head, face, neck, mouth and
other places, and hit him with hit him with it as well. It lasted nearly an
hour. Gai Guangqi made no noise at all. Yang then shouted angrily, "Go back
and clean the floor for me." Mr. Gaiimmediately went back to clean the floor. Suddenly four to five strong
men came in, kicked him, making him fall to the ground, and dragged him to the
corridor. They fiercely kicked and stomped on him, and when he had almost passed
out they dragged him to the No. 2 cell and tied him to the "Dead Person's
Bed." His hands, arms and legs were tightly bound with iron chains and he
could not move. He was not allowed to use the toilet. The police ordered other
prisoners to beat him with hard shoes continuously, until they forced him to say
"I am not practicing" against his will. Beaten with Shoes Until Blood Gushed from His Mouth In February 2000, Mr. Gai went to Beijing to validate the Fa for a second
time. He and two other practitioners were going to hang a banner that read,
"Falun Dafa is Good" on a rostrum in Tiananmen Square. He went up to
check the terrain first, but because he was wearing a Falun Gong badge, he was
taken by the police to a Beijing sub-bureau, and questioned about where he was
from. He refused to give his name or address, so the police tortured him in many
ways including handcuffing him behind his back, forcing his head to touch the
ground and forcing him to raise both arms for a long time without moving, but he
still refused to give them any information. Because of his accent, he was thought to be from Jiaodong. At night, a group
from Zhaoyuan City said, "Hand him to us. We would rather take him by
mistake then let him go." They forced him into the rear of car for over 80
kilometers. Because of the dust and the muggy air he felt like he was
suffocating. They took Mr. Gaito a residence, cuffed his hands to a heating
pipe, and began to torture him. One person slashed h is face while cursing him.
After quite a while, this person got tired, took a rest on a sofa, and then used
a leather shoe to slap Mr. Gai's face, ears, nose and mouth with all his
strength. Blood gushed from his mouth. After more than an hour of the beating,
he was a disfigured, his face covered with bruises and blood. The police still
did not get any information from him. The authorities called the Laiyang Office in Beijing and said,, "We have
a Falun Gong here, and no matter how we torture him, he says nothing. From his
accent, he is probably from your area." The police from Laiyang came and
recognized Gai Guangqi. They immediately took him to the Laiyang Office in
Beijing. A CCP official asked, "Gai Guangqi, will you return to
Beijing?" He answered, "As long as Dafa is being slandered and
persecuted, I will go!" The other person forced him to squat on the ground,
lower his head and not look up, then fiercely attacked his head with the sole of
his shoe while asking, "Go or not? Go or not?" Gai Guangqi answered,
"Go! Go! Go!" Each response more powerful than the last. At last, the person fiercely chopped at the back of Mr. Gai's head with
something. Everything before his eyes turned black, and he let out an
astonishing and pitiful yell which frightened them and they hurriedly asked,
"How are you? Are you sick?" He quickly replied: "I am a Falun
Dafa practitioner, I am not sick. What did you hit me with?" That person
said, "You are not ill now, and you were not ill before?" Gai Guangqi
replied: "Before I practiced Falun Gong, I was not only ill, but suffered
from many diseases." "What diseases?" "I had pleurisy when I
was young; suppuration turned to fluid in my abdomen in the later period, and I
nearly died. When I was 45, while helping a neighbor carry a large pig, I hurt
my side and dislocated a bone in my back and nearly became disabled. The pain
recurred twice a year and grew more and more severe, leading to symptoms of
paralysis. I was lucky to learn Dafa and fully recover." The officials then
said, "Ok, no need to say more. We'll go back to tidy you up!" That night, on the train going back, under Teacher's merciful protection, Gai
Guangqi successfully escaped. With no money, he begged for food on his way to
Beijing for the third time. A Policeman Smashed a Stool on His Shoulder In April 2000, while Mr. Gai Guangqi was sharing experiences with some
practitioners in Tangezhuang Town, he was reported and taken to the local police
station. At night, Yu Hongwen, the former Lanzi Village Politics and Judiciary
Committee member, led a group of people to handcuff Mr. Gai to a heating pipe,
so that he could neither squat nor stand upright. Then Yu Hongwen punched him in
the head, his face, and neck and kicked his chest and ribs while cursing at him.
The dirty words were revolting to the ear. He beat Gai Guangqi for almost an
hour, until the blood flowed freely and was on his last breath. When day broke the next morning, they sent Gai Guangqi to the County
Detention Center for further persecution. He refused to cooperate, sign his
name, or be fingerprinted. He did not eat food or drink water to protest the
persecution. On the morning of the seventh day, Laiyang City 610
Office agent Liu Kai and another police officer interrogated Mr. Gai. Liu
at first in soft tones said, "You do not eat or drink. If you damage your
body, whom do you suffer for? You can still be healthy by practicing another
qigong. Why must you practice Falun Gong? Let it go!" Gai Guangqi replied, "Even if you threaten to cut off my head , I only
want 'Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance.' You have captured me, one person,
but there are many more! Will I give up Falun Gong? No way!" Then, the
other police officer barked, "I will bury you alive!" Mr. Gai said,
"I wouldn't practice Falun Gong if I feared death!" The police officer
in a violent rage, grabbed a broken chair and smashed it on Gai Guangqi's
shoulder. Then, as he raised the stool to smash it over Gai Guangqi's head, the
broken stool and its legs fell to the ground. Mr. Gai was detained for over a month, and then officials from the Laiyang
610 Office transferred him to a brainwashing center in Chengnan Village for over
40 days. During that period, Yu Hongwen and village official Chi from Lanzi
Village came to beat Gai Guangqi three times. Each time before they left, they
said, "Make efforts to practice and I'll come to beat you when I have
time!" Over 40 days later, Gai Guangqi still refused to give up the practice. He was
taken back to a small storehouse in the Lanzi Village government yard,
handcuffed to a chair, and his clothes were pulled off. Yu Hongwen and Li
Xiaodong whipped Gai Guangqi with a rubber tube and wooden clubs in turn. His
back, buttocks and legs were covered with bruises, and stayed blue and purple
for a long time. They tortured him for an afternoon and stopped only when they
were tired. They only gave him two steamed buns and a few pickled vegetables each meal
during this period. Finally, Party Committee Associate Secretary Li Xiaodong and
Yu Hongwen threatened Gai Guangqi's family. They ordered the family to pay 5,000
yuan to have him released! In the face of the village government's
verbal threats, his family felt they had no choice and gave them 2,000 yuan.
They had borrow the other 3,000 yuan from relatives. Only then was Gai Guangqi
released. Taken to a Forced Labor Camp and Brainwashing Center In October 2000, while Gai Guangqi was on the way back from shopping, police
from Lanzi Village Police Station stopped him at the Lanzi Village Cement
Factory, kicked him to the ground, handcuffed him, took him to the police
station, and beat him. Mr. Gai asked, "Why do you illegally seize
people?" Manager Zhang Shaohua threw a stack of flyers on the ground and
said, "Look, this is evidence!" Before Mr. Gai could respond, they
closed the door and left, and sent him to the county detention center that
afternoon for further persecution. Around midnight ten days later, they sent Mr.
Gai and three other practitioners to Wangcun Forced Labor Camp in Shandong for
three years of forced labor, without any legal procedures. On March 2, 2005, Mr. Gai Guangqi and his wife were having lunch at home.
Laiyang City 610 Office agents colluded with Li Tong from Jiangtuan Town Police
Station. They took Gai Guangqi from his home to Laiyang Party School
Brainwashing Center on the pretext of "talking to him" and held him
there for 47 days. He went on a hunger strike to protest the arrest. With
Teacher's protection and practitioners' collectively sending forth righteous
thoughts, Mr. Gai escaped from the brainwashing center at 9:10 a.m. on March 8,
2005. Zhang Shaohua, former manager of Lanzi Village Police Station:
86-5357219209(Home)
Yu Hongwen, former Lanzi Village Politics and Judiciary Committee member
(current deputy head of Jiangtuan Town): 86-535-7213618
Li Xiaodong, former Lanzi Village political work secretary: 86-535-7219363
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