Mr. Deng Qixing Tortured in Sichuan Province Forced Labour Camp

Name: Deng Qixing
Gender: Male
Age: 62
Address: Huaying City, Sichuan Province
Date of Most Recent Arrest: June 9th, 2008

Most recent place of detention: Xinhua Forced Labour Camp
City: Mianyang City
Province: Sichuan Province
Persecution Suffered: Detention, torture, beatings, brainwashing, sleep deprivation, injected with unknown drugs

Mr. Deng Qixing was arrested and taken to the Huaying City Public Security Bureau in Sichuan Province on June 9th, 2008. Police officers confiscated his watch, leather belt, keys, and over 50 yuan¹.

Subsequently, Mr. Deng was transferred to the city's detention centre and held there for two weeks. Because he refused to renounce Falun Gong, he was then sentenced to two years of forced labour. On June 24th, 2008, officers handcuffed him, covered his head with a black sheet, put him in a police vehicle, and took him to Xinhua Forced Labour Camp, located in Mianyang City, Sichuan Province.

In the labour camp, guards ordered criminal inmates to monitor and torture Falun Gong practitioners in any way they pleased, and practitioners were not allowed to complain.

In their attempt to "transform" [forcibly renounce Falun Gong] practitioners, guards forced Mr. Deng and other practitioners to read books and watch videos that slandered Falun Gong and its founder.

The guards also beat Mr. Deng with electric batons and deprived him of sleep. In addition, they forced him to squat for extended periods of time, to stand straight without moving while facing a wall for many hours, and to run for lengthy periods of time.

Mr. Deng's health deteriorated, and he developed swelling in his feet as a result of the abuse. He was then handcuffed and taken to the hospital, where he was injected with unknown drugs. Due to the torture, he had to be hospitalised twice for over a month.

Despite his poor health and swollen feet, the guards still forced Mr. Deng to clean the toilet. They also assigned inmates to monitor and abuse him further. These inmates beat him, knocked out some of his teeth, and stuffed dirty socks into his mouth.

Note

1. "Yuan" is the Chinese currency; 500 yuan is equal to the average monthly income of an urban worker in China.

Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2010/9/9/229408.html