Two Brothers from Huludao City Tortured and Sent to Forced Labour Camp

Falun Gong practitioners Zhao Liang and Zhao Ming are from Anchangxian Village near Huludao City, Liaoning Province. After their arrest, both were severely tortured in Huludao Detention Centre. Criminals even tortured Zhao Liang by brutally crushing his testicles. On July 2, 2004, Zhao Liang and Zhao Ming were sentenced to three years of forced labour and sent to Huludao City Labour Camp. They started a hunger strike and are presently still suffering from violent force-feedings. The following are details:

On the evening of June 22, 2004, soon after Zhao Liang left home, a man jumped out from behind him and shoved him down to the ground. Immediately, another four to five men rushed up to him and pinned him down. Before Zhao Liang could catch a glimpse of their faces, he was thrown into a white vehicle. These men turned out to be policemen from Huludao City.

In the police van, Zhao Liang clarified the truth about Falun Gong to the police. The police told him that they were "following orders from above." The police sent Zhao Liang to the police station in Lianshan District and went back to get Zhao's family members.

Soon, his eldest brother, Zhao Ming, was also abducted on the street. The police seized a key from Zhao Ming and forced their way into Zhao Liang's home. They took away his second elder brother Zhao Guang and their mother, Qi Chaoying, before searching the house. More than a dozen police officers took part in the illegal raid. They confiscated some articles by Falun Gong's founder. The police said that they had been watching them nearby for about a month.

Four members of the Zhao family sat in an office in Bohai Police Station throughout the night. The next day, brothers Zhao Liang and Zhao Ming were sentenced to one month of criminal detention. Their mother, Qi Chaoying, received a one-month administrative detention. Their brother, Zhao Guang, a non-practitioner, was released. When the police forcefully dragged Zhao Liang and Zhao Ming to the police van, they shouted "Falun Dafa is good!" to the public.

Once in the detention centre, Zhao Liang refused to cooperate with the unreasonable demands of the police. Instead, he protested the persecution. He was transferred to Cell No.18, a cell reserved for the mistreatment of Falun Gong practitioners. The police officer in charge of Cell No.18 was Liu Junke. When Zhao Liang started a hunger strike in protest of the illegal treatment, Liu Junke came and repeatedly slapped Zhao's face. Then he signaled to other criminal inmates to torture Zhao Liang. On the first day, a 25-year-old murderer named Tong Longyong from Huludao City ordered two other criminals to torture Zhao Liang (Tong has scorpion tattoos on his arms and his back). They beat him, punched and kicked him, fiercely striking his chest and back. They cruelly pinched his arm muscles and even squeezed his testicles.

A criminal said while he was clenching Zhao Liang's testicles, "I am on death row! It doesn't matter if I take one more life." Later, feeling unsatisfied with the cruelty of his torture, Dabao removed Zhao Liang's underwear and clenched Zhao's testicles in front of 14 inmates.

On the next day, these two criminals continued to torture Zhao Liang under the supervision of criminal inmate Wang Jingtian.

On the third day, head police officer Xu Chongjie and several others dragged practitioner Zhao Liang into a hallway and started to slap him on the face. Xu threatened to send him to the "lock-up" with three other death row inmates who would be executed the next day. Xu ordered the inmates, "You must make him eat today!" Following Xu's order, inmates Wang Jingtian and Tong Longyong began the violence. Wang threw a punch and knocked Zhao Liang to the floor. Tong Longyong began crushing Zhao Liang's testicles with his hands while saying, "I am going to disable you today." He continued for about ten minutes. Frustrated by practitioner Zhao Liang's silence, the criminals paused and said, "Let's have a break and come back to squeeze him again."

The excruciating pain made Mr. Zhao Liang tremble and sweat terribly. He feared that they would torture him again, so he agreed to resume eating. Zhao Liang's chest and back were in so much pain that he could not even stand up. His testicles were badly swollen.

On July 2, 2004, Zhao Liang and his brother Zhao Ming each received a three-year sentence. They are now detained in Huludao City Forced Labour Camp. So far, the brothers are still on a hunger strike to protest the persecution. They continue to suffer from repeated force-feeding.

Huludao City Labor Camp phone numbers:

Shao Shouhua, head of the City Department of Justice: 86-429-3160055 (Home), 86-13842970888(mobile)
Yang Haiyan, Labour Camp Head: 86-429-3128836 (Home), 86-13604290658(mobile)

Wang Dazhu (male): jail doctor in charge of force-feeding: 86-429-3960781 (Home), 86-13052675556 (mobile)
Gao Guirong (female): jail doctor in charge of force-feeding: 86-429-3183344 (Home), 86-13009286525 (mobile)

Chinese version available at http://minghui.org/mh/articles/2004/8/18/82030.html