(Clearwisdom.net) In 2001, Mr. Xu Guangdao from Pan County, Guizhou
Province, went to Beijing to appeal on behalf of Falun Gong. Beijing police
tortured him to death. At the beginning of 2007, Ms. Chen Yumei, the wife of Mr. Xu's brother, was
arrested. Participating in that arrest were Communist officials in Pan County
and from the Provincial Political and Judiciary Committee. She is still in
detention. Xu Guangdao's brother, Mr. Xu Qihua, chose to go into exile to avoid further
persecution. In September 2007, agents from the National Security Division in
Guiyang City arrested Mr. Xu Qihua. He has become disfigured because of torture. Xu Qihua's three children and Xu Guangdao's two children must now depend on
their grandparents, and life is very difficult for them. Xu Guangdao before his death An earlier report on the Minghui/Clearwisdom website had this to say: Xu
Guangdao was a practitioner from Guizhou Province. When he went to Beijing to
appeal for Falun Gong, he was arrested and held in the Dongcheng Detention
Center in Beijing. Because he went on a hunger strike for the right to practice
the Falun Gong exercises, he was beaten many times and tortured with electric
needles. Prisoners carried him back to the cell following the beating. He was
unable to turn over in bed, unable to use the toilet, and he started to vomiting
blood. He died that evening in February 2001. In order to cover up what had
happened, Dongcheng Detention Center officials told inmates to tell the same
story, following the officials' line, that Mr. Xu had died from an illness. Some
people were skeptical that Mr. Xu had been ill. A cell head later on told us the
true story: Xu Guangdao was beaten to death. Three people--the Dongcheng Police
Detention Center political commissar, deputy head Guo, and a guard--were
responsible. Mr. Xu Guangdao' family brought back his ashes from the Boguo Town Police
Station. After his death, his brother's family took care of his three young
children. Ever since then, Mr. Xu Qihua, MR. Xu Guangdao's brother, has
shouldered the responsibility of taking care of three families: his own wife and
two children, his brother's three children, and his elderly parents. In January 2007, during a new round of large-scale persecution of Falun Gong
practitioners in Pan County, Mr. Xu Qihua chose to leave home to avoid further
persecution. His wife, Ms. Chen Yumei, was arrested and is being unlawfully held
in a local detention center. The oldest of his five children is only 12 years
old. They have to rely on their elderly grandparents. However, Communist agents did not stop harassing this family, made up of only
the elderly and children. People in the countryside can watch television
programs only by means of satellite dishes. Pan County police officer Cha went
to the Xu family and disconnected the satellite dish, preventing the family from
watching television. The police also installed two monitoring devices in front
of the house. In addition, they hired the neighbors, including Ao Chenggong,
Yang Longxiang, Li Xuecheng and others, to watch the family. In the second half of September of 2007, Guiyang City National Security
police agents arrested Mr. Xu Qihua. They suspected that he had installed
satellite dishes for others. The police brutally tortured him and several other
practitioners who were arrested together. So far no ones know whether or not
these practitioners are alive. The situation is very tense. November 24, 2007
Chinese version available at
http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2007/11/25/167174.html