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Mr. Zhou Xiangyang and Mr. Li Yuanyong Brutally Mistreated in Gangbei Prison, Tianjin City
(Clearwisdom.net) Zhou Xiangyang, 32, was an engineer at the Railroad
Department's Third Investigation and Design Institute. A Falun Gong
practitioner, he was illegally sentenced to nine years in prison and
taken to Gangbei Prison in Tianjin City. In 2005, prison guards confined Mr.
Zhou in a solitary cell simply because he protested the brainwashing he was
forced to endure. Near the end of 2005, guard Zhang Shilin was promoted to Chief of the No. 5 Division in Gangbei. Under his
orders, the
guards from the No. 5 Division separately and secretly imprisoned several
steadfast practitioners. They ordered several hardened criminal inmates to take
turns brutally beating those practitioners. According to other inmates, the
practitioners were inhumanely treated. Zhang Shiling also ordered audiotapes that slandered Falun Dafa and Teacher
Li Hongzhi to be played in the presence of the practitioners. When the tape
started, Mr. Zhou Xiangyang suddenly roared like a lion, "Stop the
lies!" Several inmates jumped up and beat Mr. Zhou. He was put in a
solitary cell for protecting the Fa and Teacher Li. The eight inmates who routinely monitored Mr. Zhou tied up his arms and legs
and put him on the floor. They either beat him or read aloud the materials that
slandered Dafa, day and night. In order to protest this treatment, Mr. Zhou went
on a hunger strike. For this, he was tortured even more brutally. Later on, the
guards took Mr. Zhou to Tianjin Prison and brought practitioner Mr. Li Yuanyong
back to Gangbei Prison. Mr. Li Yuanyong was determined not to wear the prison uniform [Note: because
Dafa practitioners have committed no crime and should not be incarcerated, they
sometimes protest the persecution by refusing to wear the prison uniform, recite
the prison regulations, or do forced labor]. The eight inmates who monitored Mr.
Li didn't allow him to use the bathroom, get out of bed, or to move around in
the cell, day or night. They beat Mr. Li in the evenings. Whenever the inmates
beat him he would shout, "They are beating people" to try to stop
their evil conduct. Now Mr. Li is very weak due to the severe mistreatment, but
he still resists the evil persecution. Posting date: 6/2/2008 |