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Wei County, Hebei Province Officials Burned Mr. Zhang Shunjie with a Red-hot Poker
(Clearwisdom.net) Mr. Zhang Shunjie is a 40-year-old Dafa practitioner
from Weizhou Town in Wei County, Hebei Province. On July 20, 1999, the Chinese
Communist regime started to persecute Falun Gong practitioners. Because Mr.
Zhang persisted in his belief, spoke righteous words, and rescued a fellow
practitioner, he suffered severe persecution. In June 2000, Mr. Zhang Shunjie went to Beijing to validate Dafa and
clarify the truth. When he sat on the stone sidewalk to take a break
at Tiananmen Square, plainclothes policemen illegally arrested him
using force. The police in the car made him raise his hands. Then they lifted
his shirt and beat his chest hard four or five rounds. The beating lasted over
twenty minutes. When the police beat people, often the damage can't be seen on
the surface, but they inflict internal injuries. Because Mr. Zhang refused to
give his name, the police pushed him out of the car. After his release, he
couldn't straighten his torso, he vomited blood, and he had a problem with
nosebleeds. After the incident, Mr. Zhang couldn't perform any heavy labor. As a
bricklayer, he used to stack bricks at a construction site, so he had to change
his occupation to something less physically demanding. He bought a used
motorcycle to make a living. On the night of February 25, 2002, after Zhang Shunjie had rescued a
persecuted local practitioner, a group of men followed him home. (It was later
learned that they were from the Xihe team of the Weizhou Town Police Station of
Xiheying Town, Wei County and the Xiguan Village Party Committee.) They pounded
on the door, threw stones into the yard, and then broke into his home. They
unlawfully arrested Mr. Zhang and took him to the office of the Xihe team in
Xiheying Town. Gao Dequan, hired by Xiheying Town, violently slapped Mr. Zhang. The party
secretary, Wang Sui, used a broom to hit the back of his hands repeatedly. They
tried to force him to admit he had participated in rescuing another practitioner
and to give the location of the rescued practitioner. Then they pushed him into
a room and a group of men surrounded and beat him. When he fell, they pulled him
up to continue the torture. This ordeal continued until 2:00 a.m. When they
became tired, they locked Mr. Zhang in another room. He was handcuffed to a
table so that he could neither stand nor squat. The next morning, after people went to work, a vicious townsperson named Wang
Xizhen used a poker to hit Mr. Zhang. Later, Wang heated the poker red-hot and
used it to sear Mr. Zhang's hands. His hands still have those scars. Jia
Zhongcheng used a lighted cigarette to burn Zhang Shunjie's face. He also poured
boiling water on his head. A person wearing a judicial robes yelled, "I
will make your family suffer a great deal!" After 9:00 a.m., a police officer from the local police station made Mr.
Zhang hold onto a chair, then he handcuffed him. He took a big electric baton,
raised Mr. Zhang's clothes from the back, and brutally shocked his back. He
thrust the baton into his pants and his mouth. Mr. Zhang's mouth was burnt
black. The officer then handcuffed his hands behind his back, which caused
excruciating pain. At noon, they handcuffed Zhang Shunjie to a utility pole. Mr. Zhang started a
hunger strike to protest the persecution. Nie from the police station fastened a
heavy chain around Mr. Zhang's waist. Police officer Wang beat him so badly with
an electric baton that it broke in two. In the afternoon, they continued the torture. After placing a book on Mr.
Zhang's chest, Wang practiced boxing on Mr. Zhang. He also slapped his face with
the book, causing Mr. Zhang's nose to bleed. But this vicious person didn't stop
there. He took a wooden stick and continued the beating. After the stick broke,
he fiercely jabbed the sharp tip of the stick into Mr. Zhang's chest. He pounded
Mr. Zhang's feet with a heavy object and poured cold water over his chest. This
incident took place in the cold of winter. That night Zhang Shunjie was nearly unconscious. His hands were swollen from
the torture, and his hands and body had been badly burned. He had injuries
everywhere. When he began to perspire heavily, the perpetrators became scared.
They got a doctor to check his pulse. Mr. Zhang's heartbeat was abnormal even
though he had had no history of heart disease before he was tortured. The next day the police asked Mr. Zhang's family for 5,000 yuan
to bail him out. When his family came and saw how badly he had been tortured,
they said, "Our family didn't commit any crime, but you did this to him
while he was in your custody, and you still want money from us?" When the
police realized that they couldn't get any money his family, they put Mr. Zhang
into a detention center, where he endured more persecution. Among other
tortures, the perpetrators poured cold water onto the floor of a room, striped
off his clothes, and made him lie on the floor. They beat his buttocks with a
shoe and they pushed his head into a barrel. Fifty days later, police extorted
close to 5,000 yuan from him before releasing him. At the end of October 2002, before the Sixteenth National Party Congress,
Fan, a member of the joint security team of the Weizhou Town Police Station, led
several other men to break into Mr. Zhang's home again. They blocked him at the
door, beat him, arrested him, and took him to the office of the joint security
team. They left him handcuffed for two days and nights. Mr. Zhang was sent to a
brainwashing center organized by local 610 Office and held for more
than 20 days. The continual, inhuman persecution over several years injured Mr. Zhang
Shunjie severely. In February 2005, he suddenly lost consciousness at home and
was sent to the hospital. An x-ray showed that he had had a serious stroke.
Because of the power of Dafa and practitioner's righteous thoughts, he recovered
very quickly. Even the doctors and nurses said that it was a miracle. Later, for no apparent reason, Mr. Zhang lost consciousness several times
while at home or on the street. This greatly affected his daily work and life.
The evil communist party has persecuted a good person and left him injured. His
wife doesn't have a job, and he has three young children to support. |