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Mr. Zheng Shoujun Tortured to Death in Liaoning Province (Photos)
(Clearwisdom.net) Mr. Zheng Shoujun, 45, lived in Niuxintuo Township,
Liaozhong County (under Shenyang City). He started cultivating Falun Dafa in
1998, and he kept his faith after the persecution began in 1999. At the end of
2000, he went to Beijing to clarify the truth, but was arrested and
sentenced to three years of forced labor. In order to force to him give up his
faith, the guards at the Zhangshi Labor Camp in Shenyang City tortured him over
a long period of time. In a photograph below he is seen demonstrating one of the
cruel methods of torture called "Chicken with a twisted neck." Mr. Zheng Shoujun demonstrated the torture he endured in 2004. At around 7:30 a.m. on September 27, 2001, seven to eight brainwashing
instructors tried to force Mr. Zheng to accept the brainwashing, but their
efforts were in vain. Mr. Zheng was beaten mercilessly. He solemnly told the
brainwashing perpetrators their actions were illegal. Mr. Zheng was then pushed
down on the floor, and his foot was scratched by metal and bled profusely. He
was then pushed under a metal table. Mr. Zheng's legs were attached to the floor
30o apart, then his neck was tied to his calves, and his upper body was then
forcefully pressed down. Mr. Zheng was a very large man, weighing 200 pounds.
His stomach was squeezed and his neck was pulled down to his ankles. His neck
and feet were tied with a bed-sheet, resulting in his face and stomach touching
the floor. Lastly, they tied his hands behind his back. Mr. Zheng was kept in that position while his legs were repeatedly kicked. He
was asked, "Do you still want to practice? If you do we could leave you
tied up like this forever!" Mr. Zheng answered, "Even if my bones are
crushed to pieces, I will still practice!" Mr. Zheng was in extreme pain,
as if all the bones in his body were fractured, the tendons all broken, and as
if ten thousands knives were cutting into his body. His clothes were soaked with
sweat and this left a puddle of water on the floor. Mr. Zheng cried out loudly
in pain, but none of the guards paid any attention because it was the guards who
ordered the brainwashing personnel to torture him like this. After four hours he
was released because the guards needed the space to eat lunch. Mr. Zheng was
unable to move upon being released. His body stayed locked in that position, and
he experienced extreme pain if any one touched him. These vicious torturers
kicked him, pinched him, and beat him to cause injury to his upper body. The
pain was so great that it almost caused him to lose consciousness. He could not
walk for three months because his feet and legs were dislocated. The soles of
his feet turned up, and his ankles would touched the floor first when he tried
to walk. Around October 2001, Management Office Deputy Chair Shi Fengyou, ordered
prisoners to keep Mr. Zheng from sleeping. Instead he was forced to squat within
the boundaries of one piece of tile on the floor. His head was then tied between
his legs with rope and he was forced to stay in this miserable position for 5
hours. Mr. Zheng lost consciousness, his feet and legs were swollen and he could
not walk. In February 2002, the Special Warden for the Torture of Falun Gong
Practitioners, Song Baishun, gathered several prisoners from the Second Ward.
The practitioners, including Mr. Zheng Shoujun, were beaten, deprived of sleep,
and forced to squat for long periods of time. Mr. Zheng endured all sorts of
torture, but never give up his faith. He was released in the spring of 2004,
after an extended three month term of forced labor. On March 1, 2005, Mr. Zheng was passing out truth clarifying discs, and was
arrested by officers of the Hebei Police Station in Heping District, Shenyang
City. He was transferred to the Heping District Detention Center on March 3,
2005, where he went on hunger strike to protest the persecution. He was released
one week later, but while he was detained, he was restrained in the police
station and injected with unknown drugs which caused him to appear sick. At around 9 p.m. on February 16, 2006, Mr. Zheng was passing out materials in
Panjiapu Township, and was arrested by the police. He was interrogated overnight
by 610 Office Chair Feng Dongchang, Domestic Security Division
Leader Li Wei, and Panjiapu Police Station Director Zhu Dezhen. He was
imprisoned in the Liaozhong County Detention Center on February 17, 2006. There
he was severely beaten on the head. Because the police and the guards blocked
all information about his condition, he was not treated nor was his family
allowed to visit or ask about his injuries. Mr. Zheng went on hunger strike and
refused water to protest his brutal treatment. For the past two years his family has been unable to learn anything about his
condition. On August 18, 2008, the police from Shenyang City suddenly called his
family, and asked them to go and see Mr. Zheng at the prison hospital. His
family rushed to the hospital, only to see the dead body of Mr. Zheng. In fear
of their crimes being exposed, the police secretly cremated Mr. Zheng's body at
the Wenguantun crematorium. From the time Mr. Zheng died of torture, until his body was cremated, the
temporary home of his wife and daughter had many plainclothes police come and
go. During this time it was impossible for anyone to get close to his family.
The details of this crime have yet to be investigated. Dou Hongliang (male), Liaozhong County Police Department Director:
86-24-87899199 (o), 86-24-87800005 (h), 86-13840502006 (cell) Feng Dongchang (male), 610 Office Chair: 86-24-87883425, 86-24-87822610,
86-13504008811 (cell) |