Authorities at Jinzhou "Correctional Centre" (Liaoning Province) Brutally Tortured Practitioner Mr. Weng Hongjun

On December 1st, 2004, the authorities of Zhangling District Police Department of Liaoyang City arrested practitioner Weng Hongjun, imprisoned him at Liaoyang Prison ("Correctional Centre"), and sentenced him to two years of forced labour camp. Because he continued to practise the Falun Gong exercises when he was imprisoned, the prison authorities tortured him many times. They locked him up in a small cell and made him "Carry a Sword in the Back." The head of the Special Instruction Brigade shocked his head, his neck, and his back with an electric baton for a dozen minutes. On another occasion, guard Zhang Jiahui handcuffed him behind his back against a tall heating pipe and forced him to stand on tiptoe in a handcuffed position. The handcuff marks stayed on his wrists for a long time.

On February 21st, 2005, Mr. Weng was transferred to Jinzhou "Correctional Centre." In May 2005, the authorities at the correctional centre attempted to force him to be "transformed¹." To achieve that goal, guards Li Songtao and Zhang Chunfeng, together with four other of their hatchet men, forced Mr. Weng's arms together behind his back, handcuffed him, and placed a plastic hat on his head. On the hat they had written, "So you can barely survive, but cannot die as you wish." Led by the guards, they dragged him into a closed room, where the guards attempted to brainwash him by forcing him to watch a VCD that slandered Falun Dafa. When Mr. Weng refused to watch, the guards left the room on purpose so that their hatchet men could beat him. He still refused to watch the slanderous film.

A few moments later, the guards came back in. They tried to force him to give in without any success until lunchtime when they began to torture him again. In addition, the four hatchet men forced him to sit in the lotus position and tied his legs up tightly with a piece of white sheet. Then they used some pieces of cloth to tie his arms and added the plastic hat. Once his limbs were immobilised, they started to beat his legs and chest. Exhausted, they rested for ten minutes and then started another round of beatings. Unable to endure the torture, Mr. Weng gave in and was sent to another group where he was forced to make crafts and to write words unworthy of Falun Dafa or its founder. His heart was forced to suffer.

In despair, Mr. Weng attempted to escape by climbing over the wall of the forced labour camp when he was escorted to a new building on September 27th, 2005. After he ran for about 1200 feet, guard Xu Hui caught him and knocked him down. Mr. Weng's eyeglasses flew. A police car came to pick him up and the guards took him to the second floor in a prison building, where a pack of hatchet men once again beat him up. In particular, guard Guo Shaobei kicked him and knocked him. Mr. Weng's head hit the ceramic tiles, and knots as large as a fist swelled up on his head. The knots on the left side of his forehead did not disappear for two months. The swelling obscured his vision in one eye and the pain on his chest and ribs lasted for a month. Guard Li Songtao spread practitioner Mr. Weng's arms, locked them up against the two vertical iron rods on the bed with three pairs of handcuffs, and forced him to stand on tiptoe. With Mr. Weng's body being in a cross shape, Li slapped him in the face and made him to sit on a tiny stool for two months. From 4:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. everyday, they prevented him from getting any rest by making him sit on the stool. In addition, they limited the time when he could go to the washroom.

Mr. Weng's official sentence was from December 1st, 2004, to November 30th, 2006, and his two year imprisonment has already expired, but the authorities at Jinzhou Prison continue to imprison him, and the guards and hatchet men routinely torture him at will. Currently, 16 Falun Gong practitioners are imprisoned there and being tortured.

Note

1. "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")

Chinese version available at http://minghui.org/mh/articles/2006/12/21/145160.html