Eyelids Pierced with Needles and Suffocated with Smoke: Tortures Practitioner Wang Bingwen Endures at Qingdao Forced Labour Camp (Photos)

Wang Bingwen

While he was illegally detained¹ at the Qingdao Forced Labour Camp over last two years, Falun Dafa practitioner Wang Bingwen has suffered devastating and shocking inhumane treatment. In order to "transform²" Wang Bingwen, the police deprived him of sleep for 14 consecutive days, suffocated him with smoke, burned him, stabbed him with needles, and beat him. After being beaten to the point that he lost consciousness, they continued beating him to awaken him. They tied him onto a stool so that he could not move at all. As a result, Wang Bingwen's muscles became seriously atrophied.

Mr. Wang Bingwen, 33, was ex-Chief of the Fire Section, Laoshan Pubic Security Branch of Qingdao City, Shandong Province. After being arrested by the Jinkou Road Police Station in the South District, Qingdao City, he was forced to undergo "reeducation through labour" for three years on August 6th, 2003. He is still being held at the Qingdao Forced Labour Camp in Shandong Province.

In the labour camp, Wang Bingwen did not cooperate with the so-called "transformation." The police continuously use all kinds of ways to torture him. To protest against the persecution, Wang Bingwen went on a hunger strike for as long as one and a half years. The police viciously shouted that as long as he still has a breath, they would never release him.

Not only was Wang Bingwen brutally beaten by inmate Tan Junwei (who was later released from the forced labour camp) and other inmates in 2003, he was also repeatedly and violently beaten and abused by assistant guards Feng Zengwei, Shang Jingguo and others. To reduce his prison term, Shang Jingguo, under the instigation of the police, deprived Wang Bingwen of sleep by hitting Wang's head, suffocating him with smoke, using a lighter to burn him, and stabbing his eyelids with a needle.

In the beginning of 2004, the persecutors had deprived Wang Bingwen of sleep for 14 consecutive days. They continuously played a so-called "transforming VCD" and forced him to watch it. If he blinked, the guards would beat him immediately. In the coldest part of winter, they had Wang Bingwen sit on the bed and poured cold water onto his head while he was on a hunger strike. The continuous deprivation of sleep frequently caused Wang Bingwen to be in a state of disorientation. One day in 2004, Shang Jingguo beat Wang Bingwen so severely that Wang passed out, but did not stop the beating until Wang came to. Shang Jingguo said that an official named Xu Changcun promised that if he "defeated" Wang Bingwen, his prison term would be reduced significantly, and Xu could be promoted to Deputy Director of the Camp.

To protest the illegal forced labour and the persecution, Wang Bingwen went on a long-term hunger strike, which caused him to become very weak. However, to achieve the goal of "transformation," the persecutors used the so-called long-term strict management. Wang Bingwen was held alone in a small cell with all of the windows closed. He had to relieve himself in that room, and no one was allowed to contact him. He was bound to a stool day and night in the same position, unable to move at all. This caused his muscles to become severely atrophied.

Medical personnel in the forced labour camp also participated in the persecution of Wang Bingwen. Dr. Xie once persecuted Wang Bingwen by means of acupuncture. Xie put needles into his tips of all his fingers and the soles of his feet. In 2003, Xie gave Wang Bingwen acupuncture torture for about half a month with a period of half an hour each time. During the acupuncture torture, Xie turned and pulled needles outward and push them inward quickly and forcefully. Sometimes, his wrists were hurt as if they were broken when Xie put the needle into his wrists. In April 2004, Xie again put needles directly into each of Wang Bingwen's finger tips directly beneath his fingernails, which caused severe pain and caused his hands to bleed. Several people restrained Wang Bingwen. Police Officer Wang Yongjien tightly clutched Wang Bingwen's cheeks to prevent him from calling out. Over four months later the black stains under Wang Bingwen fingernails still had not recovered.

Yang, Director of the Medical Office, used forced feeding to torture Wang Bingwen as well. The tube inserted into his nose for feeding was never changed in seven weeks. The end of the tube, about a finger long in the stomach, had been corroded by the stomach acid. They still pushed the tube deeper into his stomach, which caused Wang Bingwen to see stars and to cough up blood.

The above information about what Wang Bingwen has suffered from the persecution was sent out through a very difficult channel. However, it is just the tip of the iceberg.

Wang Bingwen's daughter

Wang Bingwen's wife was three months pregnant when he was arrested. They got to see each other only once in December of 2003. Since she was mentally and physically exhausted, she delivered a premature baby girl in January 2004. After the exposure of Wang Bingwen's situation of being persecuted in 2004 and under pressure from various sources, the labour camp authorities could not help but allow Wang's father to visit him once in July 2004. Thereafter, they have not allowed his family to see him. To request a meeting with her son, Wang Bingwen's mother waited outside the labour camp's doors for three consecutive days and nights. Wang Bingwen's wife once brought their one-year-old baby girl together with her family and went to the labour camp. However, the labour camp authorities not only did not allow them to see him, but they also summoned a police vehicle. Then, officials forcibly put them into the vehicle and said that they would send them to the police station. But under the family's strong demands, they allowed them to go home.

This year, Wang Bingwen's daughter is nearly two years old, but she has never seen her father. From July 2004 until now, 17 months has passed. Wang Bingwen is presently detained in the Training Team and he is still not permitted to see his family. The labour camp authorities declared that the meeting is prohibited since the 610 Office³ made the rule. But when Wang Bingwen's family went to the 610 Office, Director Wang said that they do not take care of this matter and the labour camp is responsible for it.

The address of the Qingdao Forced Labour Camp
#2, Shangyuan Road, Licang District, Qingdao City, Shandong Province, China
Post code: 266100

Telephone numbers to call:
Country code 86, city code 532
Switchboard: 87657501, 87657502
Liu Xuyun, Superintendent: 87657887
Zhu Guangchang, Vice Superintendent: 87650298
The Administration Office: 87657354
The Education Office: extension 8035; Yao Jinming 87081302, 87657050

The Medical Office: extension 8063 (Director Yang is in charge of practitioners' physical examination and the forced feeding for practitioners on hunger strikes.)

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 flyers. For a more complete discussion of the illegality of the persecution of Falun Gong, please refer to the article "The Ban on Falun Gong—A Dictator's Whim, Not the Rule of Law". (Variation: "illegally sentenced")

2. "Reform or Transform" Implementation of brainwashing and torture in order to force a practitioner to renounce Falun Gong. (Variations: "reform", "transform", "reformed", "reforming", "transformed", "transforming", and "transformation")

3. "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://www.minghui.ca/mh/articles/2006/1/6/118146.html