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The Persecution of Falun Dafa Practitioner Mr. Zhao Huanzhen from Shanhaiguan City, Hebei Province
(Clearwisdom.net) Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Zhao Huanzhen is a resident
of Shanhaiguan, Hebei Province, and he is in his fifties. He began to learn
Falun Dafa in 1996. Since then he has tried to conduct himself according to the
Falun Gong teachings and improve his xinxing to become a
person with high morals and good health. He had a harmonious family and was
responsible and diligent at work. On July 20, 1999, Jiang Zemin abused his power by suppressing and persecuting
Falun Gong. However, Zhao Huanzhen held on to his belief. He spoke up for Falun
Gong and related the benefits he gained from the practice to the government and
fellow citizens. However, for his selfless deeds he suffered brutal persecution. In December 2002, Zhao Huanzhen went to Beijing to appeal. After he was taken
back by agents from the Shanhaiguan Police Department, he was illegally
detained in the Shanhaiguan Detention Center. Policeman Zhao Peng
conducted eight hours of brutal, torturous interrogation. They removed Zhao Huanzhen's coat and sweater during the winter and left him
wearing only a shirt. They used a thin nylon rope to tie up his neck, shoulders
and arms from behind. Then they inserted liquor bottles into the gap between his
arms and back. Moreover, Zhao Peng ordered two of his subordinates to each lift
one of his arms to make him feel more pain. At the same time, persecutor Zhao
Peng repeatedly slapped the practitioner's face so violently that his mouth
filled with blood. The policemen cursed him constantly, claiming that they often
interrogated death row inmates. Their language was extremely filthy. When the
food came, Zhao Peng kicked over the dish, forbidding the practitioner to eat.
Furthermore, after they untied the rope, Zhao Peng braided the rope into several
strands and ruthlessly slapped his forehead with it, making Zhao Huanzhen
disoriented. He had not recovered even after two weeks passed. Mr. Zhao Huanzhen was illegally sentenced to three years of forced labor on
January 19, 2001 and sent to the Hehuakeng Labor Camp in Tangshan city, where he
was placed in the "sitting class." Victims of this torture had to sit
on a stool for fifteen hours daily, according to a dictated sitting posture;
otherwise they would suffer verbal abuse and other physical abuse. They had to
keep their head and neck straight with eyes looking forward and hands behind
their backs. With the arms backward, all fingers crossed, palms face up, calves
vertical and still, feet as wide apart as shoulders, and the posture stiff. The
police even shamelessly called it "meditation and recollection." Moreover, prison guards often shouted, "Keep straight!" The
practitioners would begin to sweat within ten minutes. Their clothes would be
soaked within half-an-hour. This went on from 5 o'clock in the morning until 8
o'clock in the evening, during which time they could only stand up to eat or use
the restroom. They were physically exhausted and in a lot of pain when the day
was over. The buttocks felt a burning pain from contact with the stool. When
sleep time finally arrived, the bed that two people had to share had barely
enough space. They had to lay on their sides, but still felt crowded. On the
fifteenth day, Mr. Zhao's buttocks seeped blood and stuck his shorts, pants and
sweater together, which caused unbearable pain. When using the toilet he had to
carefully peel off the clothes. This felt like being stabbed with a blunt knife. In addition, the detainees did not have enough to eat. Thus, all the victims
there became extremely weak, and their weight quickly dropped. One month later Zhao Huanzhen was assigned to a division to do physical
labor. On June 17, 2001, large-scale forced "reform" effort was under way.
Zhao Huanzhen was taken to Division 6 for intensive "reform." Guards
Wang Ying and Han Dongqi supervised the sessions. First, they attempted to force
him to write the so-called three statements to renounce Dafa. They
did not let him sleep throughout the night. The next day Wang Yin saw that
coercion did not work. He ordered Zhao Huanzhen to read a book that slandered
Dafa and Master. Mr. Zhao refused to cooperate. The guards started to shock him
with electric batons. The first baton ran out of power. They brought in two
higher-voltage batons and shocked his neck, lower body, and inner thighs. They
also hit him until he fell down and his head hit the floor. Since he refused to give in, Mr. Zhao Huanzhen was once again taken to the
discipline class on June 2, 2002. This time the team consisted of six people.
Wang Yin led the team. Members included Liu Fuxing, Li Jianzhong, Gu Shiqing,
Zhang Jingmin and Yi. First, Liu Fuxing spoke to him. Seeing that it did not
work, he ordered inmate Zhao Zhijun and others to punch and kick Mr. Zhao until
he could not get up. At that point he could barely breathe. When the guards
found that the beating was still not producing results, six of them tortured him
with electric batons and attacked him. When evening came, they still did not let
him sleep. He lived with such terror for six months. On June 20, 2003, Zhao Huanzhen and four other practitioners were once again
taken to the discipline class for brainwashing in the name of "fighting
SARS." Beginning at 5 o'clock each morning, the practitioners had to endure
the physical torture of sitting on the stool. They had to look straight ahead
and listen to information that slandered Dafa. Moreover, their living conditions
were really bad. Breakfast and dinner consisted of only one steamed bun per
person; lunch contained two steam buns. Their water ration was less than one cup
per day. The weather in Tangshan during June, July and August was extremely hot
and humid. At night they were packed close together, and it was difficult to
sleep. Each day seemed like a year. The situation continued like this for more than one hundred days. In late
September, after a long period of persecution, Mr. Zhao's health deteriorated
each day. He initially lost bowel and bladder control and then had no bowel
movement for more than 20 days. Subsequently he had an infection in his rectum
and a fever higher than 39 0C [about 102 0F]. The police just gave him one fever tablet every so often. However, Zhang
Jingmin made Mr. Zhao sit on the stool, although he was no longer able to drink
or eat. Three days later the police reluctantly agreed to let him see a doctor.
They told him to walk to the hospital. Later on, when they saw him indeed unable
to walk, they ordered two inmates to hold him up and help him walk. The hospital found swelling in his rectal area, requiring infusion,
catheterization, and enemas. Policeman Gao Hai only gave permission for
catheterization and enemas and then took him back to the labor camp. Mr. Zhao's fever remained high. On the 4th day he had severe rectal swelling.
Following examination at the hospital the doctor requested to admit him for
immediate treatment. Policeman Wang Yulin brought him in this time. Wang lied,
saying that no one was available to watch him, so he asked the doctor to use a
catheter. Doctor said frequent insertions would lead to urethra infection and
did not want to perform the surgery. However, after finishing the enemas, the
doctor, with Wang's insistence, no longer refused to use a catheter. This time
Zhao Huanzhen strongly resisted because it was so painful. Wang Yulin was
angered and wanted to do it by force. Considering that this was not the labor
camp, he was afraid of others watching him. He said viciously, "I'll do it
when we get back." On the fifth day, having been unable to drink or eat, in addition to being
unable to urinate or have a bowel movement, Mr. Zhao was close to death. Fearing
to bear the responsibility for his death, the police quietly sent him back home. His family members were unaware of what was going on. The police dropped him
off and quickly left. His family found that he was dying and quickly took him to
a hospital for emergency care. The diagnosis was swelling in the rectal area and
gangrene in the testicles. A witness described a large indentation in the rectal
area that had affected the testicles, making them gangrenous. A doctor in charge
commented that he had never seen such a serious case in his twenty years of
medical practice. He said that had Zhao Huanzhen been brought in two days later
he would have lost his life. These injuries were deliberately caused. Although Zhao Huanzhen survived, three major surgeries that he had to undergo
permanently disabled him. The hospital fee alone was over 20,000 yuan. This is a glimpse into the persecution of Dafa practitioners at the hands of
Shanhaiguan police officers and labor camp guards. Zhao Huanzhen went to Dingwuzhai in Shanhaiguan on February 14, 2007 to
clarify the facts. Agents from the Shihe Town Police Station
unlawfully arrested and interrogated him. They sent him to the Shanhaiguan
Detention Center on the afternoon of February 15, 2007. We ask everyone to please offer your support to help stop the persecution,
and we call for the release of Zhao Huanzhen. Shihe Town police station head, Pang Wenge: 86-335-5052856 February 23, 2007 Posting date: 4/2/2007 |