Exposing the Persecution of Falun Gong Practitioners in Wumaping Prison, Sichuan Province
(Clearwisdom.net) Wumaping Prison is in Leshan City, Sichuan Province.
The following Falun Gong practitioners were brutally tortured in this prison
during 2006: Yang Zi from Chengdu City, Pi County, Xiao Huizai from Panzihua
City, Jiang Yunhong from Suining, Zhu Sice, Wang Zhengqin from Leshan City, Zhu
Zhaojie from Panzihua City, Miyi County, and Zhang Xingcai. Zhang Xingcai was
tortured to death in 2007. 1. Brutal Torture When more than 20 practitioners were sent to the Admission Division, police
guards Gao Hu, Wang Yijun, Xiao Lin and Gong Jinfu ordered convicted murderers
Lu Xiongchao and Zhang Weiping to ruthlessly abuse the practitioners. Every
practitioner was supervised by two "personal cangues" around the
clock. They were forced to recite the prison rules, to learn the Chinese
Communist Party (CCP) songs, and to participate in so-called "military
formation training." One had to finish eating or use the restroom in only
seconds. Otherwise, the scoundrels would kick and punch the practitioners, often
leaving the floor blood-stained. The practitioners were also forced to lay on
the ground with their legs wide apart and both hands raised like an airplane,
and were deprived of sleep for several nights, and exposed to the sun for days.
Wearing only thin clothes they were exposed for days in the cold winter, were
allowed no showers for a long time, and were not allowed to talk to each other,
etc. Practitioner Yang Zhi refused to cooperate and was tortured for nine straight
days. He still didn't give in. Guard Xiao Bin savagely beat practitioner Xiao Huizai. Mr. Xiao was then sent
to the prison "assembly team" and subjected to more than 20 days of
horrific abuse. Gao Hu thought of all kinds of ways to torture him. Guard He
Qingquan was actively involved in the torture. Mr. Xiao was forced to hold
different positions around the clock, was deprived of sleep, and had to wear
several pairs of handcuffs and shackles. They wanted to destroy his mind by
destroying his Practitioners Jiang Hongyun, Zhu Zhice, and Wang Zhengqin started a
persecution protest hunger strike. It lasted several months. At the end of the
last year the prison hospital officials revealed that Jiang Hongyun, who had
become very skinny, had liver ascites. Many other practitioners, including Geng Dexin from Xichang, Xiang Yuanchao
from Chengdu City, Zhao Benyong from Chengdu, and others, also participated in
the hunger strike. They were all subjected to inhumane force-feeding with large
tubes inserted down their throats, and they were injected with unknown drugs. 2. Zhu Zhaojie's Persecution Experiences Because practitioner Zhu Zhaojie refused to participate in an examination,
Xiao Bin and Gao Hu fiercely beat him and then put him in the "Assembly
Team" to suffer more. Mr. Zhu started a protest hunger strike that lasted
more than 20 days. Gao Hu ordered several accomplices to force-feed him. They
kept him on the ground and tried to open his mouth with pliers. They inserted
the feeding tube repeatedly to torture him. Because Zhu Zhaojie refused to hand in a so-called "daily report,"
guard He Qingquan ordered him to remove his shoes and made him stand on the
stone-covered ground under the scorching sun with bare feet. He Qingquan
viciously trampled on and smashed one of Zhu Zhaojie's bare feet for about three
minutes, so that Zhu Zhaojie could not walk for many days. Zhu Zhaojie was subjected to brutal beatings for several days, being exposed
to the hot sun, and being forced-fed. He lost consciousness many times during
these tortures. Gao Hu ordered his underlings to check whether or not Gao was
still breathing when he lay on the ground unconscious. Knowing he still
breathed, Gao coldly said, "He is still alive. Why send him to a hospital?
Is it to make him live again?" Gao Hu had said publicly at a mass
conference attended by several hundred people, "Those who want to die can
select the sharp corner of a wall and bump against it to kill themselves." In 2005 Zhu Zhaojie was subjected to a brutal beating for almost an hour at
the hands of He Qingquan, Fu Wensha, Bi Hai, Wu Jianhua, Chen Dahua, and others.
These same individuals later beat him again. 3. Several Deaths from Torture in the Big and Small Solitary Confinement
Areas The prison has solitary confinement areas, and the "Assembly
Division" has big and small cells where many people have been tortured to
death. It is indeed a hell and is used to "destroy the bodies, wreck the
souls, and extinguish human nature." According to those inmates who have
been detained in the prison for years, 50 percent or more of those sent to the
solitary confinement areas or the big and small cells were tortured to death. If
one luckily came out alive, he often suffered internal injuries and died several
months later. The big or small cells were designed like a water dungeon. Each is a small
pit, about one meter below the ground. It has a concrete bed and frozen water.
The victims were thrown on the concrete bed without any cover. If the victims
cried out from the extreme pain, those in charge would add more freezing water,
and the crying would immediately stop. If one was lucky enough to get out alive,
his muscles were frozen and rotten, and sores festered all over on his body. The
food was thrown on the ground, and one had to crouch down to eat off the ground,
like a dog. Whoever dispensed the food would start to count, and one had to stop
eating at the count of 10. The evil scoundrels often fixed the victims in
various cruel and painful positions. One would be either completely deprived of
sleep or permitted only a few hours of sleep. In the winter one was only
permitted to wear a maximum of two very thin layers of clothes. Sometimes the
victims were even naked. The guards competed with each other to create different
torture methods and to see which one was the most destructive and most
humiliating, and which one made the detainee feel worse than an animal. More than ten thousand people have been tortured in Wumaping Prison over the
past 50 years. At least 2,000 people have died as a result. All the deaths were
declared to be due to "sickness," or in general, "died after
rescue attempts failed." Their dead bodies were simply tossed out. On Baima
Mountain behind the prison are the bones of thousands of people who died unjust
deaths. 4. List of Persons Responsible for the Torture at Wumaping Prison Police guard Gao Hu has flagrantly tortured people with all kinds of methods.
As long as someone is not pleasing to his eyes, he may show up at any moment.
Sometimes he tortured people in person, but most of the time he ordered others
to do it for him. He held regular meetings with the group heads who were
appointed among the inmates or met with individuals to arrange for abuses to be
carried out, which kept the No. 4 Prison Ward in a state of continuous terror.
Numerous bloody incidents, overt or covert, happened there every day. If things
went too far, Gao Hu simply scolded the involved group heads. Others involved in the abuse of practitioners include Yu Chenwen, prison head
Tian Yi , Education Section deputy head Luo Jiangtao, Wang Yijun (head of the
Admission Team), Xiao Bin (head of No.4 Prison Ward), He Qingquan (in charge of
the solitary confinement), Wu Guoqiang (head of the prison hospital), Gong Jinfu
(police officer in the Admission Team), and also Yang Xilin, Zhong Shibin, and
Xiang Rongzhi. Yu Chengwen was transferred to Zigong Prison in October 2006 and became head
of the committee. Zhu Wei took over his position and continued to do evil
things. Wumaping Prison telephone: 86-833-4652324, 86-833-4652041 We are calling on international organizations, on Falun Gong practitioners
around the world and on all kind people! Please pay close attention to the
crimes that the CCP commits. July 7, 2007
Chinese version available at
http://www.minghui.ca/mh/articles/2007/7/8/158474.html
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