Dafa Practitioner Endures Painful Torture in Linxi City

Mr. Qian Fajun of Linxi City, Shandong Province, is a 30 year old Falun Gong practitioner. He was abducted in early 2003, by the local police in Lunan County and is currently being held at the Wang Village Forced Labour Camp (No. 2 Men's Forced Labour Camp of the province). He has been brutally tortured by the police for 2 months. During this time, he has endured all kinds of abuse, including electric shock torture, being forced to stand like a cross, balance on one leg, etc. Collaborators [Former Falun Gong practitioners who have turned against Dafa due to brainwashing and torture and now assist authorities in persecution of Falun Gong practitioners] also partook in torturing Mr. Qian and would not allow him to sleep. Additionally, he was viciously beaten by the police. They were afraid that they would be exposed for their violent and cruel treatment of Mr. Qian, so they beat him in a dark room. In the face of torture and persecution, with his body covered with cuts and bruises, and with his skin and flesh burned open by the electric batons, Qian Fajun remained firm and never gave in to the pressure. In May, when the police were torturing the newly arrested practitioners, they shocked him again with electric baton until his flesh oozed pus from the infected sores.

Since September, Qian Fajun has been on hunger strike to protest the unjust treatment he has received. After he had been on hunger strike for a month, the police began force-feeding him. When they finished force-feeding him, they left the tube inside his body to cause him even more discomfort. As a result of Mr. Qian's continued resistance to the persecution, several of his front teeth have been knocked out by the police and collaborators. The collaborators used screwdrivers and pliers to force open his mouth, causing his mouth to bleed. Later, both of his arms were tied to a steel chair with his legs tied underneath the chair. Under this circumstance, he was still not allowed to sleep.

Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.cc/mh/articles/2003/11/11/60424.html