Personnel from the Brainwashing Class Brutally Torture Dafa Practitioners to Disability

At present, there are 70 to 80 Dafa practitioners detained at the Pi County Detention Centre "Legal Study Class" in Chengdu City, Sichuan Province. This is in reality a brainwashing class with most of the people there having been imprisoned for more than a year. After enduring brutal torture, many Dafa practitioners there are weak, their tongues and mouths numb, and their heartbeats abnormal. Some of them are bedridden. The minds of other have become unclear. Many practitioners are housewives and were arrested from their homes in the middle of the night.

The persecution methods

After being arrested, practitioners are not permitted to eat, to use the toilet, or to sleep, for seven consecutive days. If they just slightly dose off, the police would shine a high-powered flashlights into their eyes, and if they closed their eyes, they would be beaten and kicked. During the interrogation, practitioners were covered with bags or black cloth, and brought to a special darkened room to be interrogated and brutally tortured.

Personnel at the brainwashing class employ excruciating means of torture to force Dafa practitioners to give up their belief. They frenziedly persecute those practitioners who refuse. The voltage of the electric batons made especially for torturing Dafa practitioners is 36,000 volts. These electric batons have scorched practitioners’ bodies.

The police often put the steadfast practitioners into handcuffs, after which they would be hung by their wrists and beaten. Some practitioners were struck to the point that they were nearly unconscious, but the police still would not stop. Police would only stop when they were exhausted. Many practitioners were beaten to disability, and their hands were often fractured from the beatings.

Dafa practitioners have frequently been taken to secret places outside of the detention centre, where police would coerce confessions from them using torture. They were also subjected to sleep deprivation. We earnestly hope that international justice organisations will send people to investigate this matter.

The major responsible people:

Wu Biao: head of Pi County "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]. He is also the head of the criminals who carried out the forceful brainwashing and persecution.

Bai Lirong: the head of Pi County Detention Centre "Legal System Study Class" and one of the thugs who directly persecutes Dafa practitioners.

Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2003/5/8/49868.html