Chengdu City Dafa Practitioners Endure Illegal Jail Sentences and Brutal Torture

1. Interrogation outside of the detention centre

Police blindfolded Dafa practitioners and led them to an outside hotel room where they tied the handcuffed practitioners to a heavy chair and interrogated them day and night. The abusive authorities don't allow practitioners to sleep. Even closing their eyes for a brief moment is forbidden. Oftentimes several police officers took turns interrogating one practitioner. These officers often used physical abuse and torment such as slapping, shocking with an electric stun baton, handcuffing, and hanging up, which are the most commonly used tortures. Sometimes the police also beat practitioners in the detention centre investigation room.

2. Torture inside the detention centre

A. Force-feeding and murder: The detention centre used forced feeding to torture practitioners who were on hunger strikes. This lead to several deaths: Ms. Huang Lisha and Ms. Hu Hongyue were killed as a result of forced feeding through their nostrils in September and October of 2002. Both victims refused to tell their names to the detention centre authorities which caused them to be tortured via force feeding.

B. Inciting criminal inmates to mistreat and torture Dafa practitioners.

C. Torturing the most determined Dafa practitioners over a long time period. Ms. Zhu Junxiu and Ms. Yu Hongyan were forced to wear handcuffs and shackles for extended periods of time. The police did not allow anyone to talk to Ms. Zhu. Anyone caught talking to her was severely punished.

D. Extend persecution to non-practitioner inmates. Thanks to Dafa practitioners' efforts to clarify the facts, many inmates came to understand the truth about Dafa. They are no longer willing to give practitioners a hard time. Sometimes they even helped the practitioners, but some police officers set up a rule. Those who turned a blind eye when practitioners practised Falun Gong were punished by being forced to work at night, hand copying prison rules and code of conduct, and other degrading tasks.

3. Unsanitary Conditions at the Labour camp

Due to unsanitary conditions in the centre, many practitioners suffered from scabies. Mr. Gu Qun was severely infected with scabies and blister boils, and almost died from a systemic infection. Even today his body is still covered with scars.

Mr. Liu Hui was infected with scabies and suffered from kidney deterioration. His body and face were so swollen that people didn't recognise him. Despite this, he held a hunger strike for over 20 days. He has now been sent to a forced labour camp.

Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.cc/mh/articles/2003/11/8/60244.html