Yuhezhen Township was one of the seven "Torture Transformation Centres" in Weifang City, Shandong Province. The township's government is notorious for their "Great variety of styles and vicious techniques" which they use against practitioners and to persecute Falun Gong. Their tortures often included shocking practitioners with electric batons; whipping them with wooden sticks, rubber hoses, or bamboo shoots; sticking needles under their fingernails; scalding them with boiling water, etc.
After China's National Day Holiday in the year 2000 (October 1), more than 20 practitioners from our region were abducted by authorities and secreted away to various locations in the township. The practitioners, who had gone to Beijing to appeal for justice for Falun Dafa, were tortured and beaten. Some of them were beaten until they passed out.
The perpetrators poured cold water over a 50-year-old practitioner after she passed out in order to wake her and continue their beating. Both her ankles were severely swollen from the beating, and bruises covered her body. Other practitioners were also abducted in the same way simply because they told the truth about Falun Gong to members of the public.
Practitioner Mr. Xuan Chengxi, 61, was abducted to the Yuhezhen Township on October 12. The Township's Political and Judiciary Committee Secretary,Township Administration Office (the former "610 Office") Director, Township Deputy and Director of the Militia beat him savagely, killing him. After Xuan Chengxi was murdered, associated government sections and the township government tightly controlled the news and sealed the village where Xuan had lived. They told local villagers not to talk about the incident or reveal the news. They secretly cremated Xuan's body without notifying his family.
Below are the illustrations of the torture techniques used on the practitioners being tortured in Yuhezhen Township:
In October 2000, four or five deputies of the Yuhezhen Township government forced a practitioner's arms apart and savagely beat him. |
On October 6, 2000, seven to eight deputies from the Yuhezhen Township government shocked a practitioner with electric batons. |
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