Geng Huaipu Subjected to the Torture Known as "Bathing" in Detention Centre of Urumqi

Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Geng Huaipu was forced to leave his home to avoid further persecution. On October 21st, 2005, he was "illegally arrested¹" and sent to a detention centre in Urumqi. During the detention, Geng Huaipu was tortured with a method called "bathing" (having large buckets of freezing cold water poured on him in chilly weather). Criminal inmates in the detention centre beat and kicked Mr. Geng, causing numerous injuries.

Because Geng Huaipu resisted the abuse, policeman Shen Wei, in a rage, ordered the inmates to rip off Mr. Geng's clothes and told them to pour freezing cold water, which had been left outdoors overnight, over him. (Urumqi is located in a frigid zone. Winter heating started on October 15th.) This torture is referred to as "bathing." They took Mr. Geng to Cell 2-2 after they finished pouring a huge bucketful of water over him.

Mr. Geng continuously told the facts of Falun Dafa to the perpetrators who had been misled by the government propaganda. Policeman Shen Wei ordered eight criminals to beat Geng Huaipu, which caused injury to many parts of his body. The 610 Office² took Mr. Geng back to the local detention centre. With strong righteous thoughts, Geng Huaipu was able to leave detention ten days later.

Pictures of Geng Huaipu's injured body taken ten days after he broke out of detention.

Note

1. “Illegally arrested”: Contrary to what former Chinese leader Jiang Zemin, who initiated the persecution, and the Chinese Communist Party would like the world to believe, practising Falun Gong is NOT illegal in China. Although the Public Security Department issued an unconstitutional set of restraints on the practice at the onset of the persecution in 1999, no laws have been passed by the only legislative body in China, the People's Congress, banning Falun Gong or granting the police the authority to arrest Falun Gong practitioners for practising the exercises or distributing leaflets.

2. "The 610 office" is an agency specifically created to persecute Falun Gong, with absolute power over each level of administration in the Party and all other political and judiciary systems.

Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2005/11/23/115065.html