Practitioner Zheng Lin from Jilin Province Has Died as a Result of Torture at Chaoyanggou Forced Labour Camp

Mr. Zheng Lin, 58 years old, was a Dafa practitioner from Yitong County, Jilin Province. He started practising Falun Gong in the spring of 1999. After Jiang and the CCP began to persecute Falun Gong on July 20, 1999, he went to Beijing to appeal. The Yitong County Police Department illegally detained him for 45 days and fined him nearly ten thousand yuan (1). On February 15, 2001, he was abducted into a brainwashing programme held by the County Committee Party School and the authorities extorted 400 yuan from him.

In the spring of 2002, he was arrested again. At the 610 Office (2) of Yitong County, Zheng was brutally tortured and interrogated. Later, he was detained for over 40 days.

On August 27, 2002, policeman Wang Bo and several others from Yitong County's Dagushan Town local police station arrested Zheng again and put him in a brainwashing programme at Yitong County Party School. Four days later, Zheng escaped the school. The policemen shot in the direction they were running.

To avoid being seized again, Zheng Lin became destitute and homeless. However, on September 9, 2002, he was arrested again in Jinzhou City, Liaoning Province. The local police viciously tortured him to make him tell his name and address. Later, Yitong County policemen took him back to his hometown. At the Yitong County Detention Centre, Li Xiaodong and Ma Gang, the policemen of the local national security team, beat Zheng with hardwood sticks until his whole body was fully covered with cuts and bruises.

On October 31, 2002, Mr. Zheng Lin was sentenced two years of forced labour "re-education." He was jailed in Changchun City's Chaoyanggou Forced Labour Camp. Zheng was severely tortured in the forced labour camp. Even when he was very weak, the policemen still forced him to work.

Because Zheng refused to write the so-called five statements (similar to the three statements) (3), the authorities refused to release him when the sentence was over. Having been jailed for an additional 22 days, he was so weak that the policemen finally sent him home for fear of having to take responsibility if he died in custody. Zheng Lin returned home on September 30, 2004. His family sent him to Gongzhuling City Hospital in Jilin Province for examination. The X-rays showed no image of the right lung, the liver sagging, the cervical vertebrae severely wounded, the right calf bone fractured, and three of his ribs broken. He had also suffered heavy coughing with blood.

Because his body was so severely injured, the hospital was unable to rescue him, though many treatments were applied. Zheng Lin passed away on April 4, 2005.

Note:

(1) "Yuan" is the Chinese currency; 500 yuan is equal to the average monthly income of an urban worker in China.

(2) "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.

(3) "Three Statements": Practitioners are coerced under brainwashing and torture to write "Repentance Statement," "Guarantee Statement" or 'Dissociation Statement" as proof that they have given up their belief. In the statement, the practitioner is forced to admit remorse for practising Falun Gong, promise to give up Falun Gong, and never again associate with other practitioners or go to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong.

Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2005/6/24/104761.html