Mr Fan Dacheng Was Tortured to the Brink of Death at the Changji Forced Labour Camp and Later Died

Mr. Fan Dacheng, a Falun Gong practitioner who was a resident in Manasi County, Xinjiang Autonomous Region, persisted in practising Falun Gong and telling people the truth about Falun Gong. As a result, he was persecuted many times. Perpetrators at the Changji Forced Labour Camp in Wujiaqu City grossly abused him until he almost died; then a family member carried him home. He passed away on September 12, 2004.

Mr. Fan Dacheng, about 55 years old, went to Beijing to appeal for justice for Falun Gong in the spring of 2000. Upon his return, he was arrested and detained by the local police. Mr. Fan went on a hunger strike to protest the persecution and managed to walk out of prison. After this, he joined an outdoor Falun Gong group practice and was once again taken captive. He jumped down from a building to escape and was injured. Several months later, he could walk again and went to Beijing again to appeal for Falun Gong. After his return, he was sentenced to three years of forced labour. He suffered many different kinds of inhumane torture and torment in the Changji Forced Labour Camp. Officials in the Camp made use of the imprisoned criminals to beat and insult Falun Gong practitioners who had just been detained. They also made use of two criminals to monitor each Falun Gong practitioner around the clock.

Falun Gong practitioners who have suffered previous persecution have confirmed that vicious persecution takes place there.

The Xinjiang Forced Labour Camp and prison, the Xinjiang Tianshan Wool Spinning and Weaving Limited Liability Company and the Xinjiang Changji Special Transformer Factory colluded with one another to carry out ruthless torture and enslavement of Falun Gong practitioners, compelling them to perform high-intensity work for as long as 20 hours every day. Many people did not get a chance to sleep in a bed for as long as 10 days to two weeks. They had to operate a loom, standing as long as a day and a night until their legs were swollen. When they fell asleep while knitting woollen sweaters, the guards would use electric batons to shock them and order the team leaders (criminal inmates) to assault them mercilessly with bricks and wooden clubs. When it was time to hand over the completed sweaters, the police would handcuff those who had not completed the task to a hot air vent. The practitioners would be stripped naked and shocked with electric batons on various parts of their bodies, including the neck, armpits, lower abdomen, private parts, mouths and ears. In addition, their prison term would be lengthened.

On November 25, 2001, all the Falun Dafa practitioners imprisoned in the Changji Forced Labour Camp came out to request to be set free, as they were not guilty of any crime. They resisted the forced labour camp and refused to do forced labour.

For the next three days, the police pretended to negotiate and agreed to improve the environment. In actuality, they covertly incited the criminals to forbid Falun Gong practitioners to sleep. Once a practitioner fell asleep, he or she would be awakened. After three days the police used the most unscrupulous method to dupe each Falun Gong practitioner to come to the torture room. Inside that room were at least four policemen fully equipped with different kinds of torture devices (electric batons, handcuffs, ropes etc.). Without listening to reason, they handcuffed the practitioner and tied him up with rope. Then the practitioner would be shocked all over his body with electric batons or beaten with fists or kicked. After that, the forced labour camp guards' persecution of practitioners was still rampant. One time the guards pasted many Falun Gong-slandering posters in a corridor. Falun Gong practitioner Fan Dacheng went on a hunger strike to demand that these slanderous posters be taken down. Not long after that, the police took down the posters.

Fan Dacheng was tortured and tormented in the Changji Forced Labour Camp until he was close to death. Only then were his family members allowed to bring him home. He passed away on September 12, 2004.

Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.ca/mh/articles/2005/6/24/104760.html