Falun Dafa Practitioner Mr. Du Yingguang from the Wuqing District, Tianjin City Ruthlessly Tortured
(Clearwisdom.net) Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Du Yingguang, 34 years old,
lived in Caigezhuang Village, Daliang Town, the former Shuangshu Township,
Wuqing District in Tianjin City. Mr. Du had taught at the No. 4 Elementary
School in Yangcun Town, Wuqing District in Tianjin City. Du Yingguang was
ruthlessly tortured after the persecution began on July 20, 1999, several months
after he began practicing Falun Gong. The following is a particularly telling
event. The staged Tiananmen Square self-immolation incident was broadcast on CCTV's Focal
Point Interview program on the evening of January 30, 2002. Officers from
the Shuangshu Township Police Station in Wuqing District, Tianjin City broke
into Du Yingguang's home at around 8:00 p.m. and took many Dafa books, including
Zhuan Falun, and Dafa audiocassettes. They took Du Yingguang
to the Shuangshu Township Police Station. Mr. Du was illegally detained in Cell No. 17 in the Wuqing
District Detention Center at 4:00 p.m. the following day. Head inmate Chen
attempted to coerce Du Yingguang to give up Dafa practice at around 7:00 p.m.
and to write a guarantee statement to that effect, but Du Yingguang
firmly refused. Chen led four large inmates to savagely beat him. The inmates
jumped on Du Yingguang and beat and kicked him to the ground. Ten minutes later,
the inmates yanked Du Yingguang up from the ground. One inmate held him while
another kneed the outside of his thighs. After many hits with his knees, the
inmate grew tired. Chen then hit Du Yingguang's legs with a long wooden bench
while asking, "Now, will you still practice [Falun Gong]?"
"Absolutely!" Du Yingguang said in a determined voice. Chen ordered
all 14 people in the room to take turns beating him. Some slapped his face, some
hit him in the mouth, and some chopped at his neck with the side of their hands.
One hour later, Chen forced Du Yingguang to stand against the wall with his back
bent at a 90-degree angle, his legs straight and the tip of his fingers touching
his toes. He was forced to stay in this posture until 10:00 p.m., approximately
2 hours later. His body ached and he felt dizzy and disoriented. Du Yingguang could not squat the next day when he went to the restroom. His
legs were numb and unresponsive. Chen and others checked his injuries and
discovered that his thighs were severely swollen, and he could barely remove his
pants. He could not squat for three days when going to the restroom. In the next
few days, they constantly screamed at and threatened him in order to try to make
him give up his belief in Dafa, but they could not achieve their goal. Officers from the Shuangshu Township Police Station picked Du Yingguang up in
the afternoon of February 15, 2001, after 15 days of detention. Township Chinese
Communist Party (CCP) Committee Secretary Yuan asked him whether or not he would
sign a document to renounce Dafa. Du Yingguang told him no. Wan, head of Du
Yingguang's work unit, officials from the Education Bureau and the police agents
came to the police station at around 10:00 p.m. They took Du Yingguang to a
militia training camp in Meichang Township, Wuqing District. They told Du
Yingguang at 11:00 p.m., "We have a 'study class' [brainwashing session]
here. The Education Bureau officials want you to study here and
"reform"." Approximately 60 different kinds of people made up this brainwashing session:
government officials, police, security people, accompanying
"educators" and cooks. About 40 Dafa practitioners were detained there
at different times. Some practitioners were peasants, some had worked in
companies, some were retired. The oldest was 60 years old. They were either
tricked out of their homes and arrested or simply arrested and taken to the
brainwashing center. Each practitioner is charged 1,500 yuan a
month. His/her employer or the township government is forced to pay the fee. Du
Yingguang eventually learned that his salary had been frozen, he had been
sentenced to forced labor and that his employers had fired him. Mr. Du Yingguang was held at the brainwashing center for two months. He was
forced to repeatedly watch Dafa-slandering VCDs and TV programs and write his
"understandings" of the slanderous programs. The officials attempted
to coerce him to read Dafa-slandering books. He refused and was made to stand
against a wall for six hours. He was also made to walk, run, and stand in
military posture outside. He had to stand, sit, stand against a wall with the
tips of his feet and nose touching the wall; his fingers had to point downwards
and be straight along his pants, his body had to be straight and he could not
close his eyes. Security people and police constantly patrolled the place and
made the practitioners follow the "requirements." Some practitioners
were forced to sit on small stools facing the wall with their hands on their
knees; their upper bodies had to remain straight, eyes open and they were
forbidden to sleep. At times, the practitioners were made to stand or sit
against a wall until 3:00 a.m. and get up and do calisthenics in a group at 5:30
a.m. The practitioners lived by a chaotic meal schedule and received no more
than one regular meal, divided throughout the day. Police Department Monitoring Division Head He (surname) was in charge of the
brainwashing center. The Monitoring Division is in charge of investigating
illegal police conduct, such as the police beating inmates, but Division Head He
himself beat the practitioners. One evening, He took Du Yingguang to a room and attempted to coerce him to
tear up Teacher's picture and renounce his belief. Du Yingguang firmly refused.
He then slapped Du Yingguang's face many times, until blood dripped from his
mouth, but Mr. Du still remained determined. He hit Du Yingguang's right
shoulder repeatedly with a thumb-thick copper rod, tearing his shirt and causing
his shoulder to swell up. A few days later, police officer Cui hit Du Yingguang's hands and thighs with
a copper rod, following Armed Division Head Chai's orders, which left purple
marks on Du Yingguang's body. Division Head Chai came over to examine Du
Yingguang during the beating. Seeing that Du Yingguang was still steadfast, he
grabbed Du Yingguang's hair and beat him until he was tired. Two months later, on April 15, 2001, Mr. Du Yingguang was sent to the Wuqing
District Detention Center from the brainwashing center. He was sentenced to 18
months of forced labor that was later extended to two-and-a-half years. He was
charged with "disrupting social order" for believing in
Truth-Compassion-Tolerance. Mr. Du was integrated into Class 8, Group 5 at the Shuangkou Labor Camp on
May 18, 2001, along with five other practitioners. The head of the
Administration Division assigned inmate He Wen as the head of Class 8. He Wen
coerced Dafa practitioners to write guarantee statements, using all sorts of
methods. Group Political Head Yang Zhiqiu and Group Head Lang Tao allowed him to
do just about anything he wanted in order to carry out the persecution. Lang Tao went to the group at midnight and saw six practitioners sitting on
small stools. One practitioner said he was exhausted and hoped he could get some
sleep, but Lang Tao refused to let him take a break. The practitioners sat there
until 3:00 a.m. and were awakened at 5:30 a.m. That same day, the group
officials tried to coerce each practitioner to write guarantee statements. The
inmates beat the practitioners and the collaborators subjected the
practitioners to brainwashing during the day. The practitioners were forced to
sit on small stools all night long without sleep. The other five practitioners
wrote guarantee statements, but Du Yingguang refused. Inmate Chen Xueyu from
Class 2 used violence against Du Yingguang after receiving orders from Political
Head Yang Zhiqiu. Chen Xueyu took Du Yingguang to a room and attempted to coerce
him to read Dafa-slandering articles from a newspaper, but Du Yingguang refused.
Chen Xueyu violently slapped his face and forced him to bend forward. He beat Du
Yingguang for more than one hour and assigned someone to watch Mr. Du. The persecutors did not let Du Yingguang sleep for ten days. They forced him
to sit cross-legged on the floor while being watched by people who took turns
tormenting him. They would hit him whenever he closed his eyes. Several days
later, Du Yingguang dozed off. The people monitoring hit him to make him stay
awake. He Wen, head of Class 8, and Chen Xueyu, head of Class 2, couldn't
"reform" Du Yingguang, so they didn't receive the associated monetary
reward. They slapped Mr. Du's face and forbade him to use the restroom. They
forced him to sit on the floor while kicking him and stomping on his legs,
shouting, "We are giving you a Thai massage!" The person who abused Du
Yingguang weighs 85 kg [187 lbs] and stomped all over Du Yingguang until his
legs were covered with hard bumps and he could barely walk. His legs only began
functioning normally over a month later. Sun Kai, head of Class 5, also tortured Du Yingguang to earn a bonus. He
forced Du Yingguang to sit underneath the bed so that he could neither
straighten his back nor raise his head. His arms were sticking out of the bed
frame. Persecutor Sun Kai grabbed Du Yingguang's forearm and hit it against the
metal bed frame. He then dragged Du Yingguang out from underneath the bed.
Several persecutors pinned Du Yingguang face-down on the floor. Sun Kai rolled a
round wooden stick on Du Yingguang's legs, causing him severe pain. On another occasion, Sun Kai forced Du Yingguang to sit cross-legged. He tied
Du Yingguang's hands with a rope and then tied his neck to the rope, so his head
had to almost touch his chest. He untied the rope two hours later. The inmates
took Du Yingguang to another room where guard Zhao Changqing was present. The
inmates talked and laughed with Zhao Changqing. Another persecutor, Chen Xueyu,
forced Du Yingguang to remove his shirt. Chen then proceeded to hit his left arm
many times with a wooden stick until purple marks appeared. The marks were still
clearly visible after several months. Guard Zhao Changqing observed the inmates
using violence and didn't do anything to stop it. Mr. Du Yingguang felt cold, his head felt numb and was swollen, and he felt
as if he could not think. He had blunted responses and his body was listless
after 15 days of torture and sleep deprivation. The "accompanying
educator" took his temperature and found he was running a high fever. The
guards learned about it and finally let Du Yingguang sleep at night. Several days later, inmate Chen Yuan and others went to torture Du Yingguang
again. They told him to stand upright with his hands stretched out and his palms
facing upwards. They put two lit cigarettes in Du Yingguang's palms and didn't
remove the cigarettes until five minutes later. Soon, two large, fluid-filled
blisters appeared on his palms. The inmates pierced the blisters with needles,
and the flesh under the blisters ulcerated. Two large holes appeared on his
palms, and his hands swelled severely. The inmates tried to take him to the
labor camp clinic for treatment, but guard Yang Zhiqiu was afraid his atrocity
would be exposed. He immediately stopped the inmates, saying, "It's just a
little burn, it's not a big deal!" He told the inmates to take care of the
wounds. Guard Du Yinxin saw that practitioner Du Yingguang's hands were swollen
and painful. One day at 10:00 p.m. he suddenly told Du Yingguang to swat flies
in the stairway. Du Yingguang's hands hurt terribly when he waved the
flyswatter. He told guard Du Yinxin that his hands hurt so bad that he would not
be able to swat flies. Guard Du Yinxin ordered him to continue swatting flies
until around midnight. Mr. Du Yingguang's burns did not heal until one month
later. Guard Wei Wei violently pummeled Mr. Du Yingguang's cheeks with his fists in
order to make him write guarantee statements. He kept this up until Mr. Du's
face was terribly swollen and he could barely recognize himself in the mirror.
Wei Wei told him to stand in front of a room several times. He took several
steps back and suddenly ran up to Du Yingguang and kicked his chest, knocking Du
Yingguang to the tile floor and bumping his head. The guards regarded beating
Mr. Du Yingguang as a source of pleasure, only because Mr. Du practices Falun
Gong. The guards gathered Mr. Du Yingguang and some other practitioners to have a
"study session." The practitioners were allowed to sleep for only
three hours a night and were forced to sit on small stools and listen to
audiotapes that slandered Dafa and Teacher. The practitioners were not allowed
to take showers or change their clothes in the heat of summer. Their restroom
access was restricted. The inmates frequently verbally and physically abused the
practitioners. The so-called "study session" lasted one month. The
practitioners were compelled to work daily from 5:30 a.m. until past midnight,
while sitting on small stools. Sometimes they were forced to work until 3:00
a.m. and start work again at 5:30 a.m. The guards and inmates tortured Dafa
practitioners until they were on the verge of a nervous breakdown or until they
wrote the guarantee statements. Guards Yang Zhiqiu and Tong Xiuhe ordered inmate Zhang Junqiang, who was
assigned to persecute Dafa practitioners, to torture Mr. Du Yingguang. Zhang
Junqiang and several other inmates stripped Du Yingguang of his coat, left him
in sweatpants and shirt, and forced him to stand in a dark and cold room. They
deprived him of sleep for several days. Zhang Junqiang ordered inmate Yu Weihua,
who was assigned to watch Mr. Du Yingguang, to join him in torturing Mr. Du.
They forced Mr. Du again to sit underneath a bed so he could not straighten his
back or raise his head. Zhang Junqiang inserted a long wooden stick between Du
Yingguang's back and the bed. Zhang Junqiang pressed the stick down on Du
Yingguang's head and back, put Du Yingguang's hand on the floor and stomped on
it. Zhang Yingguang also stabbed Du Yingguang's fingernail beds with a needle
for a while. Days of torture did not weaken Falun Dafa practitioner Du Yingguang's
resolve. Guard Tong Xiuhe and others urged Zhang Junqiang to further persecute
Du Yingguang. Zhang Junqiang repeatedly hit Du Yingguang's arms with a wooden
stick until his left arm turned black and blue and he could barely lift his arm.
Zhang Junqiang tied Du Yingguang to the stairs facing an open window for a long
time. The freezing wind left Du Yingguang shivering. He developed a fever later
that night. His lips cracked open and his chest felt like it was on fire. His
temperature shot up to 39 0C [102.2 0F] the next day and
remained so for several days. Zhang Junqiang still tortured him and forced him
to stand. In the evening, the guards forced all Dafa practitioners to watch
slanderous programs aired on the Focal Point Interview. Mr. Du Yingguang
refused to watch it, knowing full well the abuses he might have to face for his
refusal, but he wanted to help the inmates learn the truth. So, he shouted,
"All of this is slander and lies! Please, don't believe any of it! Falun
Dafa is good!" Immediately, the inmate assigned to monitor Du Yingguang
covered Mr. Du's mouth, and the guards ordered the inmates to drag Du Yingguang
back to a dark room and torture him. Guards Yang Zhiqiu, Tong Xiuhe and Zhang Ruixiang shocked Du Yingguang with
electric batons at the end of April 2002. The three guards ordered the inmates
to monitor Du Yingguang and from mid-May on, prevent him from sleeping. Du
Yingguang was forced to sit on a small stool at night and sometimes had to stay
awake for a whole night. Some nights he slept for one hour, and other nights he
did not sleep at all. The torture lasted for more than one month. On July 19, 2002, guards Tong Xiuhe and others ordered inmates Zhang Junqiang,
Sun Kai and Guo Fengzhi to beat Mr. Du Yingguang for a long time. They pinned
him down with his face on the ground and poured water into his nose and punched
his abdomen. They tortured him for several hours, until Du Yingguang lost
consciousness, which finally marked an end to the six-month torture. Du Yingguang could barely walk five feet to the restroom. He was quite weak
and could not urinate. He lost consciousness in the restroom. The inmates
brought him back. His abdomen was swollen and painful, and he felt as if a heavy
object was pulling down on his waist. He groaned, and yet the guards told the
inmates to make him work out. He suffered terrible pain with each step, and yet
the inmates forced him to walk continuously, which inflicted tremendous strain
on him. The guards took him to a hospital after one week, but they refused to
tell him the diagnosis. On their way back to the labor camp, the guards showed Du Yingguang the test
results. Du Yingguang sat behind the guards and saw the result saying, "1.
ascites; 2. swelling of the stomach and duodenum; 3. (abnormal condition of)
pancreas..." The doctor prescribed some medications. The guards reluctantly
bought some of them and ordered Du Yingguang's family to pay for the drugs. Du
Yingguang often suffered from terrible stomach cramps, so severe that he could
not straighten his back and he walked hunchbacked. One day, guard Tong Xiuhe
said to inmate Xu Guangsheng, who was assigned to monitor Du Yingguang,
"I'll reduce your sentence if you torture Du Yingguang to death." Mr.
Du Yingguang happened to be nearby and overheard the conversation. When guard
Tong Xiuhe realized that Du Yingguang had heard him, he struggled to maintain
composure and repeated those words. Inmate Xu Guangsheng admitted that the guards were encouraging him to kill
Mr. Du Yingguang, but he was not willing to exchange Du Yingguang's life for a
sentence reduction, so the plot failed. As of February 2003, brainwashing sessions were held at all labor camps in
Tianjin City where Dafa practitioners were. The guards again tortured Du
Yingguang by shocking him with electric batons, tying him up and pouring cold
water on him. Du Yingguang went on a hunger strike again to protest the
persecution. Guards Tong Xiuhe and Du Yinxin ordered inmate Mu Dezhen to tie Du
Yingguang to a bed in his sweatshirts and pants. They poured cold water on Du
Yingguang and put his feet in a basin full of cold water. Guard Du Yinxin
ordered some people to tie Du Yingguang to a wooden bed and again poured cold
water over him. They also turned on a fan to the maximum speed and turned it
toward Du Yingguang. It was very cold. Persecutor Du Xinyin said, "It's
really cold, put a quilt on him." The inmate soaked a quilt in cold water
and put it over Mr. Du, which made things worse. They tortured him like this for
over three hours. During this period, Division Head Fan came to inspect the torture. They
didn't let Du Yingguang sleep at night. Guard Du Yinxin tied Du Yingguang in a
chair and ordered the inmates to rub feces in Du Yingguang's mouth and nose. The
inmates pinched Du Yingguang's nose so he had to open his mouth. The inmates
immediately shoved feces into his mouth. Guard Fu Zhenshi also injected mustard
water into Du Yingguang's nose with a syringe. They tortured him for more than
20 days. Mr. Du Yingguang persisted in Dafa practice and refused to write a
guarantee statement. His sentence was extended by one year. Jiang Zemin's henchmen have committed too many crimes against Dafa
practitioners. Mr. Du Yingguang is only one of many practitioners who have
suffered terribly from the persecution.
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