Mr. Yan Liyou from Hainan Province Dies as a Result of Torture

Mr. Yan Liyou, born in 1954, was originally from Laohekou City, Hubei Province. He was the former general manager of Huayi Industry Development Company in Hainan Province. When he was young, he was in a car accident and was paralyzed. Even though he spent lots of money to seek a cure, there was no effective treatment and he was confined to a wheelchair. At the end of 1998, he started practising Falun Gong. Soon he was able to stand up and walk on his own. Even though he still walked with a limp, his health greatly improved. He could do all of the Dafa exercises. He donated his wheelchair and crutches to the community office.

In May 2000, he went to Beijing to appeal. In Tiananmen Square, he held a banner up high reading "Falun Dafa is Good". The Beijing police brutally beat him. Before he arrived in Tiananmen Square, he had painted "Firmly Cultivating Dafa with an Unmoved Heart" on his chest. After the police stopped beating him, he took off his shirt and asked the police to read the characters painted on his chest. The police tortured him for a week, but he remained determined. Seeing he was near death due to torture, the police drove him to a suburb of Beijing, dumped him there and drove away.

In June 2000, he made a banner reading "Falun Dafa is Good" and went to a park in Haikou City, Hainan Province to appeal for Dafa. He held the banner high and clarified the truth to people in the park. Not long after, many policemen surrounded him with guns in their hands. He still held the banner high and walked in front with the armed police following behind. The police sent him to Haidian Detention Centre. He went on a hunger strike and was force-fed. He was tortured to the point where he was only skin and bones. Nineteen days into his hunger strike, the police sent him home.

In July 2000, he again decided to go to Beijing to appeal. However, he was captured at the pier by police who had been waiting there to arrest him. He was sent to his local police station, where he was handcuffed and hung up. One month later, he was sentenced to 2 years of forced labour. At the Hainan Province Men's Labour Camp, he kept on practising the Dafa exercises. He was often beaten by police and criminals. Moreover, the police handcuffed him and hung him up for several days and nights in a row. After he was removed from the hanging position, his whole body was numb and he could not move at all. The police also instigated criminals to beat him. Criminals sometimes covered his head with clothing or a quilt and brutally beat him. In the winter, criminals poured cold water on his clothes. They even forced him to stay in a tank filled with freezing cold water to make him suffer. They force fed him human faeces. Oftentimes he passed out or spat up blood during the torture sessions. He was sent to the hospital for emergency treatment. After he regained consciousness, the police dragged him to the labour camp to torture him again. After one and a half years, he had wounds all over his body. Seeing he was near death, the labour camp released him on medical parole and asked his family to pick him up. After he returned home, he often spat up blood. If he ate something, he would throw it right back up. He was in a very poor health condition.

In January 2002, with unshakable determination and great compassion, he once again went to Beijing to appeal. At that time, posters slandering Dafa were everywhere on the streets and alleys in Beijing. He felt very sad after seeing them, so he went around the city to remove the posters. He would take a short nap when he was too tired. Later he used up all the money he brought with him. He didn't have money to buy food, but he kept removing the posters and clarifying the truth. Several days later, he went to Tiananmen Square. He was brutally beaten by the police, but he refused to tell them his name and address. The police once used several electric batons to shock him simultaneously. He often passed out due to torture. He spat up blood, vomited, and suffered from cramps. He was sent to hospital for emergency treatment. He was devastated both physically and mentally.

Despite the torture, he held firm to his belief in Dafa. After nine months of torture, he was only skin and bones. He kept throwing up. Not until he was near death did the police release him.

At the end of September 2002, Yan Liyou returned home. He again often spat up blood and threw up even if he did not eat anything. He was also sometimes dizzy and could not think clearly. On April 12, 2004, he passed away.

Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2004/5/21/75247.html