Practitioner Tortured to Death for Remaining Steadfast in His Belief

He was forced to carry a black sign and parade through the streets to be publicly denounced for practising Falun Gong. Afterwards, he was sentenced to 1 and a half years in a forced labour camp. Where is there justice? How could an innocent man be locked up when he had committed no crime? While being imprisoned in the Xinhua Forced Labour Camp in Mianyang City, he continued to suffer various methods of persecution and inhuman torture, which caused severe internal injuries.

Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Yuan Shenqian, who was 46 years old, was a farmer from the third squad of the 12th production brigade in Zhuwa County, Pengzhou City, Sichuan Province. Because he resolutely persisted in his cultivation practice of Falun Gong, he was cruelly tortured.

After July 20 1999, Yuan Shenqian went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Dafa. The Beijing police unlawfully arrested and beat him. After Yuan was detained in Beijing for more than 10 days, he was transferred to a detention centre in Pengzhou City, where he was held for about 15 days.

In 2000, Yuan Shenqian was abducted several times by county government officials and held in the county government hall for brainwashing. The vicious people from the county government often violently beat him. Consequently, he was badly injured, his body was covered with wounds and his clothes soaked with blood.

On December 28, 2000, Yuan Shenqian went to Beijing a second time to appeal for Falun Dafa. When he was arrested in Beijing and sent back to the county government, he was beaten so badly by the officials from the local "610 Office" [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] that he lost consciousness. Later, he was forced to carry a black sign or stand on a high stool and parade through the streets to be publicly denounced. Afterwards, he was transferred to a detention centre in Pengzhou City, where he was held for one month; then he was sentenced to 1 and a half years in a forced labour camp. While being imprisoned in the Xinhua Forced Labour Camp in Mianyang City, he continued to suffer various methods of persecution and inhuman torture, which caused severe internal injuries. Fearing responsibility, the labour camp set him free. However, this was too late to reverse the lasting damage to his health. After returning home, Yuan Shenqian's health continuously declined, and he passed away on April 27, 2002.

Corresponding phone numbers:

The Pengzhou Municipal Detention Centre in Sichuan Province: 86-28-83882800
The Xinhua Forced Labour Camp in Mianyang City, Sichuan Province: 86-816-2274441
The "610 Office" of Pengzhou City, Chengdu, Sichuan Province: 86-28-3704716

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