To the National Security Team of the Changchun City Police Department and Tiebei Detention Centre:
Mr. Jiang Yong who practiced Falun Gong was 46 years old, from Section 10, Guangming Village, Xingfu Township of Changchun City in China. He had a strong body and was in perfect health. However, such a strong and healthy man was tortured to death within a such a short period of only a few weeks. In the light of day, you dared to wilfully kill an innocent man!
Jiang Yong used to be bad-tempered and overbearing before he began practicing Falun Dafa. Since he began practicing in 1996, his character changed greatly. He monitored how he acted very carefully, trying to always think of others before himself. He was no longer bad tempered nor did he fight for self-interest, but instead he put other's interest before his own. He disciplined himself according to the principles of "Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance." All his friends and family members were amazed at his change of character.
Like hundreds of thousands of those who practise Falun Gong, Jiang Yong also suffered from the persecution. He had been abducted and detained many times, sent to forced labour camps, and his home was searched. His wife was also persecuted and sent to a forced labour camp for a year. When the police raided their home, their child was so frightened that he hid whilst their elderly parents trembled with fear. Since 2000, Jiang Yong had been staying away from home and travelling about to avoid any further persecution. A happy family was torn apart due to the persecution.
On the 13th of April, 2004, you (the Tiebei Detention Centre authorities) illegally abducted Jiang Yong. You used the most vicious torture methods known to man, including the "Big Hang Up"(1), "Tiger Bench," "Hammering Bamboo Sticks under the Fingernails" (2), discharging electric batons to all areas of his body, force-feeding him with pepper water, and suffocating him by covering his head with plastic bags. Seven practitioners who were abducted along with him also suffered from the same torture. Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Guo Wenshui's was tortured so viciously that his vertebrae broke. This is something you are still trying your best to block. After being continuously tortured for eight days, Jiang Yong was at the brink of death. Not only did you refuse to release him, instead you sent him to the provincial police hospital for further persecution. After more than 30 days in the hospital, on the 26th of May, Jiang Yong was sent back to the Tiebei Detention Centre. Because he refused to cooperate with your evil requests and instigation to renounce Falun Dafa, and instead peacefully protested the cruel tortures with a hunger strike, you then incited the murderers and drug addicts to torture him both physically and mentally. You made him suffer every single second. Within 38 days, Jiang Yong passed away -- what a shocking crime!
On the 4th of July, you (Tiebei Detention Centre authorities) sent the death notice to his family, claiming the cause of death to be "acute disease" and fabricated a so-called "explanation of death" document. With a single phony document, you attempted to deny the fact that you murdered him.
Jiang Yong was very healthy and did not have any illness since he started practicing Falun Dafa. "Died from acute disease?!" Tell me, why is there a black and blue bloody scar on his neck? Why is his whole body black and blue? Why did blood flow from his mouth when his body was turned over? Why was toilet paper stuffed into his anus? Why did you falsely report the time of his death? Why did you change the clothes on his body? Why you are afraid of his family taking photos of his body? Why did you even beat them forcing them to flee so as to prevent ant photos from been taken?
Jiang Zemin [former Chinese President] and his followers who persecute the innocent have been sued by practitioners all over the world for genocide, torture, and crimes against humanity. The Global Coalition to Bring Jiang to Justice was also founded in 2003.
We hereby advise you: Do not deceive yourselves. Good is rewarded with good and evil is eventually met with due retribution. It is simply a matter of time.
August 21, 2004
Notes
(1) "Big Hang Up": In this torture, one hand is handcuffed to one bunk bed and the other hand to another bed; the two beds are pulled in opposite directions, causing one to suffer extreme pain as the body is stretched until it can no longer be pulled further apart, and both of the feet are lifted from the ground. It is extremely painful and most people cannot endure it for longer than a few minutes. At this point, jail guards would use electric batons to hit the face, hands, body, and feet. A person's finger tips and inner soles of the feet are the most painful spots. For elderly practitioners and people with heart problems, the police would ask the doctor to stand by and be ready for emergency treatment if something happened during the torture.
(2): Hammering Bamboo Sticks under the Fingernails: The police hammer sharp bamboo sticks into the fingers of the practitioner through the tip of the fingernails. In the process of the hammering, the fingernail will get torn off completely. As one's fingers are extremely sensitive, the hammering process causes the kind of excruciating pain that one cannot even begin to describe. The police first hammer the bamboo stick into one finger. If the practitioner still refuses to give in, the police will hammer bamboo sticks into more and more fingers until they have all been subjected to such treatment.
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