Ms. Niu Yuhuan Is Emaciated and Her Life Is in Danger As a Result of Severe Torture at the Jiamusi Forced Labour Camp

Ms. Niu Yuhuan, a Dafa practitioner who was detained in the Jiamusi Forced Labour Camp, has been tortured to the point that she was emaciated and she could not walk. Her heart stopped beating several times and her life was in danger, however the authorities still refused to release her on medical grounds.

Ms. Niu Yuhuan, fifty-three years old, used to be an employee of the Jiamusi Railroad Company. She retired in 2003. Because she practised Dafa, she was repeatedly arrested after the persecution began in 1999.

On November 17th 2004, the police officers from the Jiamusi Police Department surprised Niu Yuhuan in front of her home. They pulled her keys out of her hands, entered the house and illegally ransacked it. With the excuse of seeking Dafa books, the policemen took her to the Jiamusi Detention Centre and detained her there. Niu Yuhuan went on hunger strike for 28 days and was unjustly sent to the Jiamusi Forced Labour Camp on December 15th 2004. At that time she could not walk and she had to be carried to the forced labour camp.

In February 2005 Niu Yuhuan and other Dafa practitioners declared together that their Three Statements¹were invalid. On March 2nd she was viciously beaten by four male guards and Team Leaders Hong Wei and Li Xiujin. Dafa practitioner Wang Qi was tortured with an electric baton and became paralysed (he was recently released); practitioner Meng Fanli's term was prolonged; practitioner Fan Xiaohua's legs were severely tortured with an electric baton (three months later she still had a 15 centimetres scar); Niu Yuhuan was pounded by guard Li Xiujin on the chest, in an area where she had skin cancer. She suffered pains for the whole next night, her heart disease recurred, and her situation became serious. She lay in bed for the next three months, and was sent to the hospital several times due for emergency treatment. On two occasions she requested to be kept in the hospital for treatment but the labour camp did not approve it.

On June 6th 2005 the deputy team leader of the 7th team, Li Xiujin, forced Niu Yuhuan to work in a workshop. Because Niu Yuhuan could neither walk nor work, they punished her by forcing her to lie on the concrete floor for nearly two months. On several occasions, the authorities removed the cushion she lay on, and forced her to sit instead of lie down. Li Xiujin forced her to sit on the tiger bench, calling it a "comfortable chair." Niu Yuhuan was once forced to sit on tiger bench²for a whole day, and she was tortured so severely that she cried out in pain, yet the guards were overjoyed. The guards ordered criminal inmates to drag her and her ribs were hurt so badly that she could not tolerate it, yet the guards cursed her violently. Niu Yuhuan suffered from such severe torture that she looked over sixty years old. She was tortured to skin and bones and can hardly walk, but the labour camp still will not release her. She received medical examinations several times, but the guards did not show the results to her or her family. They only told them that her case is not serious enough, so she couldn't be bailed out for medical treatment.

Several times since March 2nd Niu Yuhuan has been tortured so badly that her heart stopped beating. Now she can only eat a small bun every day and go to the toilet once or twice a day.

Attached are the phone numbers of the Jiamusi Forced Labour Camp: (Area Code: 0454)
Director Office Jiang Zuoqi: 86-454-8891998, 86-454-6112001
Commissioner Fu Maosen: 86-454-8891890, 86-454-6112002

Male policemen:

Division Head, Yang Chunlong: 86-13845472600 (Mobile)
Deputy Head, Zhang Hailin: 86-13945469596 (Mobile)

Note

1. "Three Statements": Practitioners are coerced under brainwashing and torture to write "Repentance Statement," "Guarantee Statement" or 'Dissociation Statement" as proof that they have given up their belief. In the statement, the practitioner is forced to admit remorse for practising Falun Gong, promise to give up Falun Gong, and never again associate with other practitioners or go to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong.

2. "Tiger Bench": Prisoners are forced to sit on a small iron bench that is approximately 20 cm (6 inches) tall with their knees tied together. With their hands tied behind their backs or sometimes placed on their knees, they are forced to sit straight up and look straight ahead without movement for long periods of time.

Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2005/9/23/111071.html