Brutal Torture at the Harbin Drug Rehabilitation Centre: Open Wounds Smeared with Salt

On September 2002, Daqing city Ranqu area Falun Gong practitioner Sheng Xiaoyun and her husband Daiyi were abducted from their home by police, detained for one month, then sent to the Harbin Drug Rehabilitation Centre. Before the 16th National Communist Party Congress, guards at the centre began attacking Falun Gong practitioners to try to force them to renounce their beliefs. They ordered prisoners to pinch Sheng Xiaoyun's legs to the point of causing open wounds. They then smeared the wounds with salt to cause maximum pain and covered up the legs with tape.

In October 2003, they tried to force her to sign a statement promising that she was giving up her belief in Falun Gong, but failed. She clarified the truth to the police, and was tortured further.

In late November 2003, the Harbin Drug Rehabilitation Centre's staff contacted her family, asking them to bring 700 yuan for Mrs. Sheng's physical examination fee. Mrs. Sheng's teenage daughter and Mrs. Sheng's father-in-law, who is in his 60's, went with the help of friends to the centre. Once they received the money, they refused to allow the relatives to see Sheng, saying that she was suffering from "depression" and the money was needed for an examination. Sheng's family continued to pay for over two weeks and never got any news. Sheng's condition is still unknown, and her husband Dai Yi is currently being illegally imprisoned in Daqing Labour Camp.

Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2003/12/16/62630.html