Details of How Mr Liu Ziwei Was Tortured to Death at Changchun City's Chaoyanggou Forced Labour Camp

On Friday, December 10, 2004, after three and a half days of continuous torture, Falun Dafa practitioner Liu Ziwei passed away. Mr. Liu had been unlawfully arrested by Baishan City police and sentenced to three years at Chaoyanggou Forced Labour Camp, the notorious "transformation" (1) base in Changchun, Jilin Province.

Liu Ziwei had been on a hunger strike to protest his persecution since his arrest.

Liu Ziwei, 30 years old, was from Baishan City. On December 10, his earthshaking shouts of "Falun Dafa is Good!" echoed throughout Chaoyanggou Forced Labour Camp, shocking all the policemen there.

Around 9:00 p.m. on December 10, Liu Ziwei was doing the exercises in the 01 dorm room of the 5th Division in the No.3 building. After a while, the monitor of the newcomers class came in and ordered inmates to force Liu Ziwei down on a bed, so Liu Ziwei started shouting "Falun Dafa is Good!" to resist them. In order to silence Liu Ziwei, Wang Pingang ordered an inmate to gag him with socks and a towel.

A guard said, "It is the order from higher officers that Falun Gong practitioners are not allowed to do the exercises. If you have a problem with this, you should talk to the officers tomorrow, and we have plenty of methods to deal with you." Wang Hongsheng suggested that they put Liu Ziwei in solitary compartment. Then the policeman on duty Mao Chen came in with handcuffs. He said, "Didn't you shout? Didn't you make noise? I am going to jail you in the solitary compartment. The Communist Party has a lot of ways to deal with you. You will be tame after being on the "Big Hang Up" [Note: There are two forms in this torture: (1) With both hands cuffed behind the back and only the toes touching the ground, one is hung by a rope that is tied to the metal window frames; (2) One hand of a practitioner is cuffed to one bunk bed and the other hand to another bed, and the two beds are pulled in the opposite directions. It feels extremely painful as the body is pulled.] So, guards dragged Liu Ziwei to the solitary compartment in the 09 dorm room of the 5th Division. Liu Ziwei didn't even have a chance to put his shoes on.

There were five steel cages in 09 dorm room, and each cage has two iron rings on the top of it, which is for the "Big Hang Up." One cannot sit down, since both hands are locked to the iron rings with the handcuffs. One has to hold his hands up all the time, otherwise the iron rings will make the hands swell and turn black. One cannot fall asleep either. This method is used to torture steadfast Falun Gong practitioners. Even a healthy person cannot endure this torture, but Liu Ziwei was locked on the "Big Hang Up" when he was too physically weak to stand up by himself. One kindhearted prisoner said, "Mr. Mao, please put him down. Look at how pale Liu Ziwei's hands are." But Mao answered, "It is none of your business. Don't worry, he won't die." So nobody else dared to say anything. [The 610 Office passed the order issued by Jiang Zemin to the labour camp, "Defame their [Falun Gong practitioners'] reputations, bankrupt them financially and destroy them physically." and "When practitioners are killed, their deaths will be counted as suicides."] Mao ordered prisoner Liu Zhengwei to find bamboo chopsticks to force open Liu Ziwei's mouth. Liu Zhengwei told people, "This is the order from Mao Chen: 'In order to stop Liu Ziwei from shouting, open his mouth with chopsticks and insert something in it.'" Mao Chen and prisoners pried open Liu Ziwei's mouth, causing it to bleed in the process, and then gagged his mouth with a towel and dirty socks.

The prison doctor Li Fei came to the 5th Division at 8:00 a.m. on December 11. He tried to insert a rubber tube into Liu Ziwei's mouth to force-feed him. Liu Ziwei refused to open his mouth, so Li Fei pried his mouth open with a stick, which injured his teeth and gums. They force-fed Liu Ziwei with corn gruel with a lot of salt added. The purpose of putting extra salt in the gruel is to make the victim thirsty, therefore the person would drink a lot of water and eat food, thus breaking their hunger strike. After the force-feeding, Liu Ziwei was locked on the "Big Hang Up" again. Mao Chen claimed, "You will be released as soon as you start eating. No eating, no release." Around 10:00 a.m., the head of the labour camp, Wang Xiaoming came to the solitary compartment to talk to Liu Ziwei. The monitor on duty Sun Zhenhai was ordered to leave the room. After being hung up for the whole day, Liu Ziwei talked with the monitor on duty at 8:00 p.m., Zhang Wei, and he released Liu Ziwei from the "Big Hang Up."

After breakfast on the morning of December 12, Liu Ziwei was locked on the "Big Hang Up" again. He was very weak and could not stand anymore, but the monitors still hung him up. Fu Lianhe and Sun Zhenhai dragged Liu Ziwei to the surveillance room to force-feed him. The monitor on duty on the night of December 12 was Shang. Around 10:00 p.m., Tan Dongyang released Liu Ziwei for dinner.

At 8:00 a.m. on December 13, Liu Ziwei was put on a bed in the 01 dorm room. The monitors gave him some daily necessities such as toothpaste and a brush, because they heard that Liu Ziwei's family was going to visit him that day.

His family did come to visit him that day. After dinner, his family saw Fu Lianhe and Li Kehai drag Liu Ziwei to the toilet. Liu Ziwei did not have any strength and his head hung down over his chest. Around 6:00 p.m., Sun Qunying went into the 01 dorm room and saw Liu Ziwei lying on the bed. Fu Lianhe and Li Kehai were prodding his lower back with their feet. Fu and Li claimed that Liu Ziwei was pretending, and said to him, "If you don't move, your muscles will atrophy, and you won't be able to walk later." The team leaders on duty on December 13, He Jianxin and Wang also cursed at Liu Ziwei, accusing him of pretending to be weak.

Around 10:30 p.m. on December 13, Liu Ziwei died in the Chaoyanggou Forced Labour Camp.

Yang Quanguo was on duty. When he reported to He Jianxin, He Jianxin still thought Liu Ziwei was pretending. When he found that Liu Ziwei was not breathing, he called the prison doctor Li Fei. Li Fei inserted some heart attack pills into Liu's mouth and said, "Tell people he died of a heart attack when they ask."

Around 10:40 p.m., the monitor of the 2nd Class in the 5th Division Wang Yadong carried Liu Ziwei away. He Jianxin lied, saying that they took Liu to the emergency room. Around midnight, they came back without Liu Ziwei. Then policeman Wang told Yang Quanguo to destroy all the duty records and make up some fake ones. They worked on it until the next morning.

Around 10:00 a.m. on December 14, several people from the labour camp sawed off the iron rings on the steel cage in the solitary compartment to eliminate the evidence of their crime. All the witnesses that the investigator from the Judicial Bureau talked to were prisoners, and they provided false testimony. The Bureau did not dare to talk to Falun Gang practitioners to find out the truth. Finally they concluded that Liu Ziwei died due to a heart attack and claimed that it was a result of natural causes.

Liu Ziwei's death also proved what Gao Zhilu, the division leader of the 4th Division, said, "The government proclaimed labour camps are free of any legal responsibility if prisoners die in them. If someone was beaten to death in the labour camp, then we will find some prisoners to give the false testimony, burn the dead body, and then everything will be fine. The Communist Party will not have any legal responsibility and they have a lot of methods to deal with you. We are free to beat you to death. You will not find justice anywhere."

List of persons who are responsible for Liu Ziwei's death:

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Policemen from the 5th Division

Division head Zhu Dechun, Team head He Jiangxin 13500882150(mobile)
Policemen: Mao Chen, Zhang Wei 13944009133(mobile)
Prison Doctor: Li Fei
Director of the labour camp: Wang Xiaoming

Address of Chaoyanggou Forced Labour Camp: Chaoyanggou, Changchun City, Jilin Province, 130000
Phone number of switchboard of the camp: 4835680
Phone number of director office: 4835680-8001 4835680-8002

Changchun City Labour Camp Inspection Section Phone number: 4666751-3418
Labour Camp Inspection Office in Chaoyanggou Forced Labour Camp: Gao Jinqing, Liu Hongyin 4835680-607
Chaoyanggou Forced Labour Camp director's office phone number: 4833900
Extension: Director's office : 4835680-8001, -8111
Chaoyanggou Forced Labour Camp reception office: 4835680
Chaoyanggou Forced Labour Camp Director office: 4839135

Note:

(1) "Reform or Transform" Implementation of brainwashing and torture in order to force a practitioner to renounce Falun Gong. (Variations: "reform", "transform", "reformed", "reforming", "transformed", "transforming", and "transformation")

Chinese version available at http://minghui.org/mh/articles/2005/2/21/95878.html