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Ms. Wang Minli Tortured to Death at Jilin City Detention Center, Jilin Province, Other Practitioners Brutally Persecuted By a practitioner in Jilin City
(Clearwisdom.net) On March 15, 2007, Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Wang
Minli, a resident of Jilin City, Jilin Province, was arrested and tortured. She
was later taken to the Jilin City Detention Center, where she was subjected to
additional torture. Her family went there on many occasions to request her
release, but the guards told them that she was in good health. On June 19, 2007,
however, her family was notified that Ms. Wang had passed away. Ms. Wang and several other practitioners were arrested by officers of the
Changyi District Police Department, under the leadership of Du Xingze, director
of the National Security Section. Ms. Wang was held at the police canine
training center, where she was tortured. After her transfer to the detention
center, she was tortured continuously by the guards and officers from the
"agency involved in the case" (an apparent reference to the 610
Office). Ms. Wang refused to wear an inmate's uniform, and both the guards
and the other inmates used this as an excuse to mistreat her even further [Note:
because Falun Gong practitioners have not committed any crimes and should not be
incarcerated, they often protest illegal detention by refusing to
wear the prison uniform]. Du and the other police officers interrogated Ms. Wang
many times. Each time, she entered the interrogation room under her own power
but had to be taken out in a wheelchair. Du knew that he was on the
"villain's list" (an online list of individuals known to be involved
in the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners). He thought it was because he
had arrested and tortured Ms. Wang in 2003, and he hated her as a result. Shortly before her death, after returning from her last interrogation
session, Ms. Wang suffered from incontinence. Every day, she would lie on the
floor of the ward, where she was given injections. At noon on June, 19, 2007,
Ms. Wang was tortured to unconsciousness with electric batons. There was a water
shortage at the detention center, but the guards used their entire supply -
thirteen basins in all - to pour over Ms. Wang, but they were unable to revive
her. They covered her with a white sheet and carried her away on a stretcher.
The guards had become accustomed to treating human life as if it had no value.
Even after Ms. Wang's death, one female guard said in the presence of other
inmates, "It is better for people like Wang Minli to die as soon as
possible." Even staff members tell people outside the detention center,
"Cong Maohua (the deputy director) is the worst one of all. There isn't one
good person at the detention center." Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Zhao Yingjie was arrested on February 12, 2007,
at the house she had just rented. She was brutally tortured at the police canine
training center. (For details, see the report: http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2008/4/10/96302.html)
However, few people know that she was also tortured at the Jilin City Detention
Center. When Ms. Zhao learned of Ms. Wang's death, she cried out, "You have
committed a terrible injustice in torturing Ms. Wang Minli to death!" At
this, the guards came and took her out of the ward. In the hallway, Ms. Zhao
held onto the metal railing to resist her removal. A female guard, also named
Zhao, hit Ms. Zhao in the face and broke her glasses before taking her away.
This took place in the morning. Ms. Zhao did not return until the afternoon. The
guards had beaten her severely. A male guard brought her back to the ward and
threw her onto her bed. She was wearing a restraint that kept her from moving
any part of her body. She was kept in this restraint all day and all night. Ms.
Zhao went on a hunger strike to protest this cruel treatment, but the guards
retaliated by brutally force-feeding her daily. In front of everyone, the guards ordered five or six inmates to force-feed
Ms. Zhao. They made her suffer even more because she did not cooperate with
them. Each time they finished, Ms. Zhao had the food mixture all over her head
and face. On the third day of these feedings, the guards and inmates
accidentally forced rice soup into her trachea and lungs. She began asphyxiating
and struggled against her restraints with such force that her hands were
bleeding. She then passed out. The guards and inmates shouted at her for twenty
minutes to try to revive her. Ms. Zhao finally began to breathe slowly and
regained consciousness. This took place at 1:00 p.m. They took her to the 222
Hospital, and she did not return until 4:00 p.m. Ms. Zhao had to remain in bed for an entire week before she was able to sit
up. But as soon as she was able to stand, the guards directed the inmates to
take turns forcing her to stand every hour. (Two inmates were directed to watch
the others in each ward to prevent accidents.) They did this as another form of
torture. Ms. Zhao did not dare to cough for a long time afterwards, but she
frequently had to cough up some rice. There are reports that Sun Aiying (female,
in her thirties), the director of the section, was frequently involved in
beating Falun Gong practitioners and brutally force-feeding those who went on
hunger strikes. Despite her condition, the guards attempted to transfer Ms. Zhao to the Jilin
Women's Prison, but the prison rejected her because of her poor physical state.
She was then transferred to the police hospital. Sometime later, before she had
recovered, Ms. Zhao was transferred to the women's prison. She was placed in the
"education" ward, where Falun Gong practitioners were persecuted. But
she was soon taken to the prison clinic, suffering from tuberculosis and fluid
in her pleural and peritoneal cavities. She was then placed in isolation. They
used the excuse that Ms. Zhao was sensitive to injections to order oral
medication for her treatments. Ms. Zhao has become very weak as a result. In 2007, the guards at the Jilin City Detention Center forced many Falun Gong
practitioners into making "confessions" under torture. Even when the
practitioners had been severely injured or had their faces disfigured, the
guards still took their "confessions," which is strictly illegal.
There is no question that the entire process followed by the police,
prosecutors, and courts in dealing with Falun Gong practitioners has been to
break the law in the name of "enforcing the law." Whenever
practitioners were held at the detention center, the guards would brutally
force-feed those who went on hunger strikes. At the women's ward, guards often
force-fed one practitioner as a means to frighten and intimidate the others. Ms.
Zhao Guoxing had her front tooth broken by a guard in this manner. Falun Gong practitioners are not allowed to speak to each other at the
detention center. There is also a policy of punishing those who have
communicated with practitioners. All practitioners are forced to wear prison
uniforms. Practitioners in one ward are tortured with the "Shangzuo"
method, that is, they are forced to sit on the floor for long periods of time.
Guards direct inmates to mistreat practitioners. In addition, practitioners are
victimized financially. Families who deposit money on a practitioner's behalf
are charged a fee. At the same time, when practitioners buy something (at prices
that are already twice as high as normal), they are charged even more. Supervisory Subsection, Jilin City Police Department Jilin City Detention Center April 8, 2008 Posting date: 4/21/2008 |