The Brutal Torture and Illegal Sentencing of Practitioner Song Xu from Zhengzhou City

When Falun Dafa practitioner Song Xu was illegally arrested in November 2002 and taken to the Jinshui Police Station, where he was not allowed to eat or sleep for the first few days. They then continued to torture him using all kinds of excruciating methods called "baking the sheep upside down." The policemen took turns to brutally beat him. A short, stocky policeman among them was the most vicious. Song Xu held a hunger strike so as to peacefully protest against these wrongful actions. He was so weak that he was unable to stand up in court and had to be supported as he sat with the aid of a chair. Facing the crimes of these lawless officers in the court, he refused to answer any of their questions and also refused to admit to any accusation imposed on him under duress whilst repeatedly shouting, "Falun Dafa is good! The good will be rewarded with good, the evil will be met with evil!" According to the policemen on site they remarked, "He did not admit to anything!"

After this illegal sentence, the criminals carried Song Xu out of the court and sent him to a jail in Zhengzhou City, which is located at the Qiligang Concrete Plant, also called the 15th Team, about 1.24 miles to the east of Mi County, in Henan Province. The whereabouts of the other two practitioners are unknown.

To peacefully protest against the illegal sentence forced on him, Song Xu had held a hunger strike for more than five months. He continued the hunger strike after being sent to this jail. It was said by the jail police that according to law, the jail should have refused to accept him based on the physical condition he was in when he arrived, but they ignored this and continued to admit him where they then continued his persecution. Song Xu has now been on hunger strike whilst in this jail for more than 80 days. Since he was first arrested, he has been on hunger strike for eight months. Now his muscles are wasting away. He is now so emaciated that he looks like he only has a layer of skin left. His life is in grave danger. Everyday he can only lie on the floor of the cell, as his legs can no longer move. The jail doctor sometimes feeds him with soymilk or salt water.

The following are some facts of the persecution that Song Xu suffered in the Baimiao Forced Labour Camp in 2001.

On February 3, 2001, Song Xu, who had been forced to leave home and go from place to place in order to avoid arrest, was traced and kidnapped by plain-clothes police from the Political and Security Section of the Jinshui Police Station. The next day he was then sent to the Baimiao Forced Labour Camp of Zhengzhou City and sentenced to a three year term. Song Xu started a hunger strike immediately after being sent to this camp. On August 9, when Song Xu started to eat, the four team leaders Chen, Zhang, Pan, and Han Hongtao together threatened to force him into giving up his belief in "Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance."

Song didn't yield to the evil pressure. Seeing this the police started to impose various methods of vicious torture on him. They tied ropes tightly around his hands and feet and fixed each end of the ropes to a metal bed, they then inserted socks into his mouth. Once they had done this they pulled down the metal bed, causing him to hang in mid-air for as long as nine hours. His feet were swollen, and the rope cut deeply into his flesh. This form of torture caused his feet to become so swollen that it was later impossible to untie the rope, the perpetrators then had to use scissors to cut the rope. To heighten the abusive persecution, a vicious team leader even went so far as to viciously twist his already swollen ankle, causing Song Xu great pain. During that period, Song could not relieve himself. When he was about to relieve himself (at that time it was winter with a temperature of only five degrees F), the policemen took off all his clothes and dumped him onto the concrete floor of the toilet. After he finished, the police found a wooden stick and harshly stabbed it into his rectum, then used a hose to douse him with water. Song's feet were injured from the rope, and were numb. He was unable to move one of his legs. Still, the police refused to stop the torture ad abuse. They hit and kicked him every day. Because Song Xu refused to give in, the team leader called Pan poured salt and chili powder into Song's nose to induce further pain. The base police even pulled his pubic hairs out of his body one by one.

Phone numbers for the Qiligang Concrete Plant, also called the 15th Team (Little is known about it. It was said that many Dafa practitioners were detained here):

86-371-9829077, 9872694, 9811077
Prevention and Political Section: 86-371-9812642
Street address: 61 East Section, Songshan Road, Xinmi City, Henan Province, Zip: 452370
Mailing address: No. 9 of PO Box 841, Xinmi city, Henan Province
Judiciary Bureau for Zhengzhou City: Tongbai South Road
Switchboard: 86-371-7627960
Office: 86-371-7624714, 86-371-7618000, 86-371-7624723
Director's Office: 86-371-7639000, 86-371-7624703
Office of the "Governing the City with Law" working team: 86-371-7620588
Forced Labour Management Division: 86-371-7624730, 86-371-7624724, 86-371-7624694
Duty Office: 86-371-7633451, 86-371-7613204
Division Chief's Office: 86-371-7633496
Forced Labour Management Team: 86-371-7613200, 86-371-7875133
Reception of the team: 86-371-7875246
Duty Office for the team: 86-0371-7613204
Guards' Section: 86-371-7613205

People's Court for the Jinshui District, Zhengzhou City: 3 Zhengtong Street, Zip: 450002
Office: 86-371-3933713, 86-371-3936797, 86-371-3912055

Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.cc/mh/articles/2003/7/13/53920.html