Practitioners Beaten to Death at Harbin Prison No. 3 and Tailai Prison

Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Wang Dayuan, whose only crime was that he believed in Falun Dafa's principles of, "Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance," had his arms, breastbone, and legs broken at Harbin's No. 3 Prison in Heilongjiang Province. Later, Mr. Wang was beaten to death at this "model prison."

Since the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) started persecuting Falun Dafa practitioners in 1999, Chen Shuhai, the head of the 610 Office¹ of Prison No. 3, has often incited criminals to beat and curse Dafa practitioners that were imprisoned there. As a result, Falun Dafa practitioners were persecuted in all kinds of ways.

On April 4th 2004, Falun Dafa practitioner Wang Dayuan (former lecturer of the Computing Department of Harbin Industrial University) was beaten to death at this prison. That day, the prison guards enticed four prisoners with shortened jail terms to coerce them to beat Mr. Wang Dayuan. First they broke his arms, then his breastbone. Then they pushed his broken breastbone inside his chest, and subsequently broke Mr. Wang's legs. Even after all this, the vicious prisoners did not stop torturing Mr. Wang. They forced him to crawl, and beat him while he was crawling. Eventually Wang Dayuan stopped breathing.

In 2004, because of the nonstop worldwide exposure of the crimes perpetrated at Prison No. 3 in Harbin City, a Human Rights Organisation affiliated with the United Nations planned to conduct an investigation there. After hearing this, the prison authorities used the excuse of maintenance operations and tried all possible means to stop the investigation. Later, due to all kinds of pressure, the Provincial Prison Judicial Bureau ordered Prison No. 3 of Harbin City to secretly send more than 20 Falun Dafa practitioners to Tailai Prison on July 1st 2004. Additionally more than 20 other practitioners were transferred to the Daqing Prison. The remaining Falun Dafa practitioners were transferred to the Mudanjiang Prison. Only after all this clean-up was done, was the UN Human Rights Organisation allowed to investigate there. The investigation result was predictable.

After these Falun Dafa practitioners were transferred to other prisons, they were still subjected to all kinds of inhumane tortures. The most outrageous behaviour happened in the Tailai Prison. The prison guards forced practitioners to work extended hours, as long as 14 hours per day (from 5:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.). practitioners were not even allowed enough time to eat. The daily chores assigned to practitioners were as huge as a mountain. If they weren't able to finish the work in time, they were handcuffed and shackled, beaten, cursed at, and even tortured. Under this persecution, many Falun Dafa practitioners suffered tremendously, both mentally and physically.

At one time the prison authorities found practitioners practising the exercises. The guards hung the practitioners by their waists, letting their heads, hands and legs drop down. Their entire bodies were hung in a very painful way. Even then, the guards didn't stop cursing and beating the practitioners, and made them suffer even more pain all over their bodies. The practitioners were tortured to unconsciousness or even death.

When a family member of a practitioner came to visit him, the prison guards forced that family member to help brainwash the practitioner. However the practitioner was not moved. As a result, the prison guards set up an iron board under the baking sun, and forcibly tied the practitioner to the board. When the practitioner was nearly roasted, they threw him into cold water. This torture was repeated several times, until the practitioner lost consciousness.

The living conditions in the prison are extremely bad. The main daily meals for practitioners consist of corn cereal and cakes that are hard to swallow. The soup is full of bugs, and the vegetable soup consists of a few leaves in a thin broth, with a lot of sand in it. The food sent by the practitioners' families to help them out is confiscated by the guards, who use all kinds of excuses.

Starting May 15th 2005, practitioners' family members have not been allowed to visit them at the Tailai Prison. Their outgoing or incoming letters are confiscated. The reason is that on May 15th 2005, practitioner Pan Hongguang was beaten to death. People heard Pan Hongguang moaning for a long time after he was beaten. When someone shouted "They have beaten him to death," suddenly it became silent all around. Later, all the prison guards started to use all possible means to block the news, in order to cover the crime they had committed.

Head of Tailai Prison: Zhang Zhicheng, 86-452-8229203, 86-452-8239203
Service Section: 86-452-8225443
Office of the Tailai Prison: 86-452-8237949
Police of No. 8 Zone: Yang Hongxiu, Ji Jingping, Chen Bingjiang
Postal code of Tailai Prison Heilongjiang Province: 162401

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.

Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2005/8/4/107695.html