Elderly Mr. Li Peiyi from Anhui Province Passes Away after Suffering Brutal Torture in Labour Camp and Mental Hospital

Falun Dafa practitioner Li Peiyi from Fuyang City, Anhui Province was sent to a forced labour camp and mental hospital by personnel from the 610 Office (1) because he persisted in practising Falun Dafa. He was seriously injured physically and mentally, and suffered severe memory loss due to the savage torture. He passed away in April 2005.

Mr. Li Peiyi was 68 years old and lived in Yangqiao Town, Linquan County. He began practising Falun Dafa in 1998, and soon his numerous illnesses disappeared. After July 20, 1999, when the persecution began, he went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Dafa. After he returned home the Fuyang City 610 Office sent him to a forced labour camp. He was subsequently sent to a brainwashing class three times, and later to a mental hospital, where he was injected with nerve-damaging drugs. After he returned home, personnel from the 610 Office took him to the County Detention Centre, where they held him for over one year. In August 2003, they took Mr. Li, who was at the brink of death, to the Yangqiao Town Police Station in an ambulance. The police station ordered village officials to pick him up and told them to write a "guarantee statement" (2). The village officials saw that Li Peiyi was unconscious and couldn't sign a guarantee statement. They sent him home. His family took him to the hospital emergency, where he was brought back from death's door.

Because of the unimaginable torture he was forced to endure, Li Peiyi lost his memory and often cried. Despite his condition, the police harassed and intimidated him two more times at his home, and forced him to write a guarantee statement. His family lived in fear. As a result of the all the persecution he suffered, Li Peiyi passed away in April 2005.

It was reported that Wu Guangjie, the former head of the Linquan County Detention Centre, followed Jiang Zemin's group in persecuting Dafa practitioners. He tortured almost all of the practitioners who were detained at the Detention Centre. He was the one who ordered guards to beat the practitioners with batons, shock them with electric batons, and handcuff and shackle them. He also ordered the guards to force-feed the practitioners with unknown drugs, and with hot peppery water and sewage water. They often pried the practitioner's mouth open with two pairs of stainless steel pliers, each one a foot in length, often knocking out the practitioner's teeth in the process and causing profuse bleeding.

Note:

(1) "The 610 office" is an agency specifically created to persecute Falun Gong, with absolute power over each level of administration in the Party and all other political and judiciary systems.

(2) "Guarantee Statement": A statement to declare that one is remorseful for practising Falun Gong and guarantees not to practise Falun Gong again, not to go to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong, and never again associate with any Falun Dafa practitioners.

Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2005/5/24/102499.html