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The Ongoing Brutal Persecution of Mr. Gong Pijian in Mengyin County
(Clearwisdom.net) Mr. Gong Pijian, fifty-six years old, was employed at
the Grain and Oil Company in Mengyin County, Shandong Province. During the past
eight years of the persecution of Falun Gong, he has been forcibly taken to
detention centers seven times. The authorities illegally detained
him in a forced labor camp twice and illegally sentenced him once. His
retirement pension has been withheld for almost four years. On July 20, 1999, the Chinese Communist Party started to persecute Falun
Gong. Gong Pijian exercised his legal rights and went to Beijing to appeal for
justice for Falun Gong. He was unlawfully arrested on Tiananmen Square and
subsequently taken back to Mengyin County by police from the Public Security
Bureau of Mengyin County. He was locked up at his workplace at the Grain and Oil
Company. With five people per shift, twenty people, including leaders and
managers from the Grain and Oil Company, took turns monitoring him. At that
time, the county committee threatened that whoever was on duty watching Gong
Pijian would immediately lose their job if he went to Beijing to appeal during
that person's shift. Gong Pijian was under surveillance for about twenty days.
During that period, there were people who tried to "transform" him and
who mentally tortured him every day as they tried to make him give up his faith
in Truthfulness, Compassion, and Tolerance. In November 1999, Gong Pijian went to Beijing to appeal again and was
arrested by Beijing police. The policemen confiscated his cell phone (worth four
thousand yuan) and two thousand yuan in cash, which they kept. They
violently beat him and handcuffed him to a chair with his hands behind his back
for a whole night. The next day, he was taken back to the Mengyin County
Detention Center by police from the Public Security Bureau of Mengyin County.
The police locked him with a chain that was a foot long and handcuffs that
weighed nine kilograms (about 20lbs). They also videotaped him. At about 11:30
p.m. that evening, in front of two other policemen, Bian Dayong, the deputy head
of the Public Security Bureau, took off his leather boot and savagely beat Mr.
Gong's face. He did not stop until he was tired. Then they took Gong Pijian to
the 7th Ward and locked him to anchors fixed to the ground (which is
also called the death bed). They used four handcuffs and the one-foot chain to
tightly lock his hands and feet in place. He was shackled like this for fourteen
days straight. A criminal inmate surnamed Li fed Gong Pijian for the fourteen
days and used a washbasin to collect his urine and bowel movements. Only when
all the criminal inmates in 7th Ward protested, did this insulting
torture of Gong Pijian finally stop. After being illegally detained for one
month, Gong Pijian was released and subsequently locked up at his workplace once
again for twenty days. Two days before the Chinese New Year, he was again
illegally taken away and imprisoned in a detention center for one month. After
being released, he was locked up at his workplace for the third time for twenty
days and was taken back to the detention center once again. In March 2000, Gong
Pijian was sentenced to Wangcun Forced Labor Camp for a term of three years
where he was tortured. In May 2000, Gong Pijian was released under special permission. After his
returning to Mengyin County, the staff from the 610 Officeoften
harassed him and threatened him. Gong Pijian had no choice but leave his home.
While working in Shanghai, he was illegally arrested by local police in
Shanghai. After being imprisoned in the local police station at Pudong and
persecuted for twenty-five days in a row, Mr. Gong was taken back to Mengyin
County and was once again placed under watch by the police from the Public
Security Bureau. After being unlawfully locked in the Detention Center for one
month, he was again taken to a forced labor camp for a term of three years. When
Gong Jingan, a policeman from the Public Security Bureau in Mengyin County, went
to Shanghai to pick up Gong Pijian, he confiscated one thousand seven hundred
yuan and a cell phone from Gong Pijian and has not returned them so far. In Wangcun Forced Labor Camp, Gong Pijian was tortured both mentally and
physically. He once was discovered passing around Teacher Li's new articles and
was therefore beaten severely by the prison guards and tortured by a method
called the "Great Hawk Spreading Its Wings." He was locked up with his
body suspended above the ground for seven days and nights. Other people fed him
and collected his urine and bowel movements. His legs became so swollen that
they did not recover after half a year. Gong Pijian was under strict
surveillance for over half a year and was constantly monitored by several people
at all times. On May 25, 2003, Gong Pijian was released and sent home. On August 4, 2004,
people from the Mengyin County 610 Office and the Public Security Bureau forced
themselves into Gong Pijian's home and confiscated Falun Gong books including
Zhuan Falun, as well as lecture tapes and exercise tapes,
four hundred blank cassettes and 10 tape recorders of various sizes. Gong Pijian
was taken to the 610 Office in Mengyin County and was once again handcuffed and
chained with a foot-long chain for twenty-five days. During this period, Wang
Xin from the 610 Office violently beat Gong Pijian about the head and face. He
only stopped when his hands got sore and then he took a mop handle and started
viciously beating Gong Pijian's back. Four of Mr. Gong's ribs were broken from
the beating. After being imprisoned in the 610 Office in Mengyin County, Mr. Gong was
again taken back to the Mengyin County Detention Center. He was persecuted there
for over four months, and then was unlawfully sentenced to three-and-a-half
years in prison. He suffered enormous mental and physical torture in Taian
Prison, Shandong Province. Since August 2004, the 610 Office in Mengyin County has deprived Gong Pijian
of his retirement pension. He went to the 610 Office to demand his pension many
times. However, Li Baoyuan, the head of the Mengyin County 610 Office, responded
that they would not give him the pension unless he wrote a "guarantee
statement" promising not to practice Falun Gong anymore. March 5, 2008
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