Lishui Detention Centre Tortured Du Mingsheng to the Point of Mental Collapse

Name: Du Mingsheng
Gender: Male
Age: Unknown
Address: Unknown
Occupation: Paint shop clerk
Date of Most Recent Arrest: July 2006
Most recent place of detention: Suzhou Prison
City: Suzhou
Province: Jiangsu
Persecution Suffered: Beatings, Imprisonment, Torture, Interrogation, Detention

Key Persecutors: Yuan Xiangzhong from Lishui County 610 Office, Tang Zhiliang from Public Security Bureau

In July 2006, approximately eight police officers, including Yuan Xiangzhong from the Lishi County 610 Office¹ and Tang Zhiliang from the Public Security Bureau, forcibly took Du Mingsheng to the Lishi County Detention Centre. Mr. Du was severely abused because he persevered in his faith and was not willing to reveal information about his fellow practitioners. According to people who were released from the detention centre, Du Mingsheng was tortured to the point of mental collapse and his body became very weak as well. His family visited him only once during that period and found that his mind was not clear.

In August, 2007, the local court sentenced Du Mingsheng to four years in prison and locked him in Suzhou Prison.

Du Mingsheng was released from the detention centre in October 2009. His current situation is quite worrying. He is quite restless at home and incapable of eating food by himself. He keeps saying to himself, "I was in the detention centre. They deprived me of food and made me do heavy work." Seeing him like this, his neighbour sighed, "He was such a great youth. When he was working in the paint shop, he looked so vibrant, and his work was so well-organised. He was just practising Falun Gong. Why did people ruin him like this?"

Note

1. "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/2009/10/17/210527.html