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Mr. Zhou Yongliang Tortured to Death
(Clearwisdom.net) Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Zhou Yongliang, 51,
lived in Jiamusi City, Heilongjiang Province. On April 28, 2002, he was arrested
from his home by policemen from the Songjiang Station, and illegally
sentenced to two years of forced labor. He was tortured with fire and
deprived of sleep in the Xigemu Labor Camp in Jiamusi City. When he was released
on April 28, 2004, he was very pale, his legs felt numb and icy cold, and he had
difficulty breathing. Police from the Songjiang Station came to his home twice
to harass him. They threatened him and asked if he still practiced Falun Dafa.
He became very tense, weaker and weaker, and died on January 6, 2006. Below are some of the witnesses' testimonies about how Mr. Zhou Yongliang was
tortured in Jiamusi Labor Camp. In November 2002, the camp held a brainwashing session. Guard Guo Gang
directed prisoner Du Hongjun (male, employee of Jiamusi City Chinese Herb
Medicine Factory) and prisoner Wang Hongwei (male) to force Mr. Zhou Yongliang
to sit on a hard edged plastic stool. When Mr. Zhou refused, Wang Hongwei and Du
Hongjun punched and kicked Mr. Zhou, and did not allow him to use the toilet. In June 2003, guard Ge Hongbo (male) put on boxing gloves and used Mr. Zhou
Yongliang as a punching bag. Once Mr. Zhou Yongliang was forced to go through a brainwashing session while
both hands were cuffed to the legs of the bed and he was forced to sit on a hard
edged plastic stool; he was only allowed to sleep for 2-3 hours per day. Mr.
Zhou was tortured like this for several days until he passed out. The camp
doctor asked how long per day they had forced him to sit on the stool, and Guard
Guo Gang lied and said, "Not long." While forced to sit on the torture stool, prisoner Cheng Yu (male, employee
of Tangyuan Grain Storage) burned Mr. Zhou's face with a cigarette lighter. He
first made the lighter burn until it was very hot, and then pressed it against
Mr. Zhou's face, causing many scars to form. He also electrically shocked Mr.
Zhou and pinched his nose and ears with metal clippers. He also pulled Mr.
Zhou's mustache out hair by hair, causing extreme pain. Guards He Qiang, Wang Xin, Yu Wenbin, Hong Wei, Liu Hongguang, and Guo Gang
have been inhumanely torturing Falun Dafa practitioners. They mainly used
"hanging up (1) with hands cuffed behind the back, hanging up in the air
(2), pouring on cold water, putting on the dead person's bed, electric baton
shocks, nail piercing into flesh, sleep deprivation, sitting on a small ridged
stool for a long time, beating, and extra heavy labor. We have learned that more than ten Falun Dafa practitioners have been
tortured to death in the Jiamusi Labor Camp. They are Ms. Tang Hong, Ms. Fang
Cuifang, Ms. Yin Ling, Ms. Wu Lingxia, Ms. Zhao Fulan, Ms. Men Xiaohua, Ms. Wang
Shujun, Ms. Wang Dongxia, Mr. Zhao Changming, Mr. Wu Chunlong, Mr. Zhou
Yongliang, and Mr. Bi Jiaxin. (1) With both hands cuffed behind the back, both feet off or only toes
touching the ground, one is hung onto the basketball support or house beam from
one's handcuffs. Both hands and arms will soon lose sensory perception. In
addition, both hands will go dead from lack of blood circulation. See
illustration on http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2004/8/31/51910.html. (2) Practitioners' hands are tied with thin ropes and then they are hung up
for several hours, or even several days. Sometimes, the rope is so tight it
breaks; and sometimes the rope cuts into the flesh. Some practitioners lose
consciousness while being hung up. In many cases, the practitioners are hung by
their handcuffs, which causes broken bones. See illustration on http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2004/7/5/49890.html,
or http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2004/7/27/50708.html (3) The four limbs of the practitioner are stretched out and tied to the four
corners of an icy-cold metal bed. The practitioner cannot move at all, nor is he
allowed to get up to eat, drink, or go to the bathroom. This treatment would
last from several hours up to more than a dozen days. This type of cruel torture
causes severe damage to the practitioner both mentally and physically. See
illustration on http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2004/12/15/55600.html |