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Dafa Practitioner Ms. Tian Fang Persecuted in Hohhot Prison, Inner Mongolia
(Clearwisdom.net) Ms. Tian Fang, a Dafa practitioner from Tongliao City,
Inner Mongolia, was arrested in 2004 and sentenced to a four-year prison term.
In Hohhot Prison, she was brutally persecuted by guards and inmates. They ripped
off her clothes and forced her to stand naked in cold weather. They slapped her
in the face and also used cigarettes to burn her face, electric batons to shock
her, and toilet brushes to scrub her mouth. Following are more details of the
persecution she endured: Ms. Tian Fang, 36 years old, lives in the Kerqin District in Tongliao City,
Inner Mongolia. Both her parents and siblings practice Falun Gong. Over the last
eight years, the whole family has been persecuted and separated by the Chinese
Communist Party (CCP) . Their experiences have been recorded on the Minghui/Clearwisdom
website many times. During this time, Ms. Tian was sent to a brainwashing center once and
illegally detained four times. In 2000, she was sent to forced labor
camp twice. Because she failed the physical examination, she was conditionally
released. The police also harassed her parents-in-law at their residence many
times. Due to the influence of Jiang's regime's slanderous propaganda, they
dared not let Ms. Tian come into their home, so she had to stay with her parents
all the time. On February 24, 2004, Ms. Tian Fang went to Hohhot Women's Prison to visit
her sister, Ms. Tian Miao. On the way back, while she was "clarifying
truth" on the train and talking about the persecution that her family had
endured, she was reported, arrested, and detained in Hexi Detention Center in
Tongliao City. On February 18, more than 20 people broke into and ransacked her
home. Among these people were the police department head, the police station
director, residential committee head Shao Jun, and 610 Office
policeman Wang Bo. During the seven months that she was held in Hexi Detention Center, Ms. Tian
went on a hunger strike several times to protest. The guards, doctors, and
inmates brutally force-fed her. They used metal pry bars to open her mouth,
tearing her flesh and knocking out one of her teeth. By then, Ms. Tian was
already emaciated. Seven months later, Ms. Tian was illegally sentenced to four
years, and detained in Hohhot Prison. In Hohhot Women's Prison, Ms. Tian was brutally tortured. Sometimes the
guards tortured her themselves, and sometimes they enticed inmates to torture
her, promising to reduce their terms of detention. Cao Guixiang, an inmate
facing the death penalty, was very active in torturing Ms. Tian. One time when
Ms. Tian was doing the Falun Gong exercises in the cell, Cao took a brush and
beat Ms. Tian hard on her legs and knees, causing severe swelling. Zhao Qing,
another inmate detained for fraud, incited everyone in the cell to beat and kick
Ms. Tian. As a result, Ms. Tian was bruised all over her face and body. In
mid-October, several inmates tortured Ms. Tian by tying her arms and legs
together. They dumped her on the floor and tried to stuff her under the bed.
Because the bed was not high enough, the inmates kicked her, just like kicking a
ball, injuring her back, hand, and hip. They then carried out the bed and did
not allow Ms. Tian to sleep. They gagged her with dirty toilet rags and squeezed
her nose. The pain was so severe that she could not eat or sleep. The guards treated Ms. Tian even worse. Because she did not yield to their
pressure to renounce Falun Gong, they often handcuffed her to the bed, from 5 to
10 o'clock. In this position, Ms. Tian was not allowed to stand or squat. The
guards also told her to keep quiet. If she made any sound, almost everyone in
the cell would beat her. In late November 2004, when Ms. Tian refused to wear
the prison uniform, the guards ordered the inmates to force her to wear it. Ms.
Tian refused again. The guards said, "If you do not wear the prison
uniform, you can't wear anything!" The inmates ripped off Ms. Tian's
clothes and ordered her to stand in the freezing wind. Ms. Tian was shivering
because of the cold. The inmates also made fun of her. Later, female guard Guo
Liqing came out. She pretended to be considerate, asking Ms. Tian to wear
clothes. Ms. Tian said she had not broken any law and she would not wear the
prison uniform. Guo let her wear her own clothes and then sent her to a
"transformation" center inside the prison. There were many guards
there. Some beat Ms. Tian, and some pretended to be nice. Seeing that Ms. Tian
did not yield, guard Liu Gang used a bamboo brush to brutally beat the arches of
her feet. A guard surnamed Zhang used cigarettes to burn Ms. Tian's face and
laughed loudly. When she again refused to wear the prison uniform, the guards
handcuffed her high on the bunk bed so that her feet did not reach the floor. It
was very painful. When Ms. Tian went on a hunger strike to protest the
persecution, the male and female guards beat her. In late June 2005, some officials came to visit the prison. Ms. Tian called
out, "Falun Dafa is good!" As a result, guards and inmates kept her in
the bathroom. The guards instructed several inmates to torture Ms. Tian. They
handcuffed her, stuffed towels in her mouth and taped her mouth shut. They also
took turns watching her and not allowing her to sleep. Another time, when some
visitors came to tour the prison, Ms. Tian called out in front of them, "Falun
Dafa is good!" The inmates who were assigned to watch her--Cao Guixiang and
Wang Jinyan-- dragged Ms. Tian to the bathroom. They then brutally beat her and
kicked her. Cao Guixiang said furiously, "I cannot handle you
anymore!" She then struck Ms. Tian in the face about a hundred times. Ms.
Tian's mouth had a wide tear because of the beating. They then used the toilet
brush to scrub Ms. Tian's mouth. They forced her to stay in the small bathroom
for four or five days. It was mid-summer and they did not allow her to wash her
face or clean herself. From time to time, they dragged her out of the bathroom
and swore at her. Another time, they forced Ms. Tian to stand in the big
bathroom and would not let her move for two days and two nights. Her feet became
extremely swollen, making it impossible for her to wear shoes. She could barely
walk and had to move forward inch by inch. After torturing her for four to five months, the guards again put Ms. Tian in
the "transformation" center. Guards Zhang Liwei and Zhao Xiaopeng
shocked her mouth with electric batons. Each shock left a black scar around her
mouth. They also used collaborators--those who had been
"transformed"--to take turns trying to "transform" Ms. Tian. Below is a list of those who participated in the persecution of Ms. Tian: Zhou Jianhua, Prison Head, male Guards: Xiao Mei, Zhang Yanlei, Zhang Yujuan, Wang Yanwen, Shi Caifeng, Guo
Liqing, Mao Min, Zhao Jianzhen (male), Zhao Pengcheng (male), Tai Weiwei, Xiao
Jie (male), Liu Gang (male), Zhang Weili (male), Kang Weijin (male) Inmates: Cao Guixiang (death penalty with delayed execution), Zhao Qi
(charged with fraud), Wang Jinyan, Yang Xiaomei (drug dealer), Xie Suqing (death
penalty with delayed execution), Liu Ping, Li Yamei, Gao Xiuyun (charged with
homicide). November 08, 2007 |