Torture Case: Ligament Torn Apart through the Cruel Method of "Wu Ma Fen Shi"

Mr. Huang Zhufeng is from Maoming Gaozhou City of Guangdong Province. The police sent him to the torture room at Sanshui Forced Labour Camp when it was first set up.

The police compressed cotton fibre into a square package. It is as high as a person in a squatting position and weighs about ten Jin (11 lb.). To use this package to torture prisoners the police handcuff a practitioner's hands around the square package with both arms stretched level, which forces the practitioner to squat down. Sometimes, the police order the inmates to torture practitioners by pulling them hard back and forth, causing the flesh at the wrist to split open, and sometimes exposing the bones. Almost every practitioner has gone through this kind of torture, including Mr. Huang Zhufeng. The police also ordered the attendants to beat him violently. To protest the persecution, Mr. Huang went on a hunger strike, refusing to take any food or water. Several days into the hunger strike, a policeman named Lu Jinhu gripped Mr. Huang's lips using steel pliers, tearing the skin and prying his teeth in order to forced-feed him, and then using an electric baton to shock his mouth. Later on, Lu Jinhu covered Mr. Huang's head with a piece of cloth and violently jerked, rubbed, and shook Mr. Huang's head until he felt dizzy, vomited, and could not move his head and neck anymore because his cervical vertebrae were broken. He was then sent to the hospital in the forced labour camp. When practitioners in the "Enhanced Torture Team" spoke out for Mr. Huang, the police even denied the persecution and said that Mr. Huang was suffering from a bone spur. When Mr.Huang recovered a little bit, the police sent him back to the Torture Room again for more persecution.

A policeman named Zhang Wujun, together with several inmates under his order, tortured Mr. Huang using a cruel method called "Wu Ma Fen Shi." They handcuffed his four limbs and streched them hard in four directions simultaneously. In the end, Mr. Huang's left shoulder was broken and the ligament around it was torn apart, leading to the disability of his left arm. However, since the police waited for several days before sending him to the forced labour camp hospital, the doctors there said they could not treat him because the new flesh had already grown inside the joint. They transferred him to the Peoples' Hospital in the city of Sanshui but doctors there didn't know how to treat him either. In the end, they had no choice but to send him to a hospital specialising in orthopedics in Foshan City. He stayed there for 7 days and spent more than 20,000 Yuan[1] on medical expenses. The original soft tissue around the joint was completely damaged and useless so they had to replace it with another material. The treatment was not successful at all. Mr. Huang's could now lift his left arm only to the height of his chest in the front, and about 30 degrees away from his side. The arm is basically disabled. Now he is still detained inside the hospital at the forced labour camp in Sanshui City. His term has already expired, but the police won't allow him to go home because they are afraid that Mr. Huang's relatives and the people in society will find out the truth of their crimes.

[1] Yuan is the Chinese currency. The average monthly salary of an urban worker in China is 500 Yuan.

Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2003/12/12/62360.html