Mudanjiang Practitioner Mr Ning Jun Dies after Suffering Repeated Torture

Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Ning Jun from Mudanjiang City, Heilongjiang Province steadfastly practised Falun Dafa and exposed the truth of the persecution. He was illegally held in a detention centre, a brainwashing centre and a forced labour camp where he was brutally tortured. Later, he was sentenced to five years of imprisonment and persecuted in Mudanjiang Prison. He was released on bail for medical treatment and died on August 12th 2005. More details follow:

1. Introduced Falun Gong in Russia at Own Expense in 1999

Mr. Ning Jun, over 50, lived in Mudanjiang City, Heilongjiang Province. He began to practise Falun Dafa in 1996, and strove to be a good person as well as continually improving his character. After he started to practise Falun Dafa, he returned the extra housing space that he did not deserve. He taught others the exercises.

Ning Jun and fellow practitioners went to Russia to introduce Falun Dafa. On July 20th 1999, the unprecedented persecution of Falun Gong started in China. On July 30th practitioners who went to Russia were issued a warrant for arrest and repatriated in Haishenwai Russia. The Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs teamed up with the National Security Bureau and Public Security Bureau, and arrested them at Dongning Customs. Their passports, identifications and belongings were confiscated. After many investigations, the police could not find any evidence of crime, and then obtained their fingerprints and a signed statement that they would no longer go abroad. Only then did the police notify practitioners' families to bail them out.

2. Persecuted in Sidao Forced Labour Camp, Bailed out for Medical Treatment

On September 7th 1999, Ning Jun went to Beijing to appeal on behalf of Falun Gong with fellow practitioners. Three days later, the local police of Beijing arrested them and took them to a police station in Beijing. On September 11th the police tried to send them to a detention centre but were rejected. The next day, the 610 officers¹ of Mudanjiang City in Beijing handcuffed them and took them to Mudanjiang City Public Security Bureau, and they also confiscated more than 4000 yuan¹ from practitioners. Afterwards, all the practitioners were in Mudanjiang City No. 2 Detention Centre for further persecution. In the end of 1999, Mr. Ning was sent to a brainwashing centre. On January 2nd 2000, he was taken back to the detention centre and sentenced to two years of forced labour.

In March 2000, Mr. Ning Jun was transferred to Sidao Forced Labour Camp. While in the forced labour camp, because Ning Jun was a steadfast practitioner, the police transferred him to many brigades for torture. While he was in the No. 3 brigade, the police locked up several Falun Gong practitioners and more than ten inmates in a small room of six square metres with no ventilation. They ate, used the toilet and slept in the room; the sanitary conditions were extremely poor, the bedding was very dirty, and the room was wet and hot. Ning Jun had scabies all over his body. Policeman Long Fei, the instructor of No. 3 brigade shocked Ning Jun with an electric baton.

Ning Jun was also tortured by the so called "riding an airplane". Both his hands were cuffed behind his back, and a rope was hanging from above and tied to the handcuffs. When the rope was pulled up, the person would suspend in the air like "riding an airplane."

Mr. Ning was tortured to the point of having fluid accumulate in the liver, and his abdomen became very large. He had difficulty in walking and also had bloody urine. Qiao Jianwei, the secretary in charge of administration even incited inmates to assault Ning Jun, but the policemen turned a blind eye to it. They could not transform³ Ning Jun, therefore they sent him to the brigade that was designated to persecute Falun Gong. Police of the brigade feared that he might die in the prison, so they sent him to the hospital. He was diagnosed with liver ascites and unable to live much longer. The forced labour camp had to release him on bail for medical treatment.

Kou Wei, the policeman of No. 3 brigade reported more medical expense, and it added more financial burden to Ning Jun. Ning Jun exposed the scandal of excessive hospital charge, and Kou Wei retaliated later.

After he returned home, the police officers from the prison regularly interrogated him. The local police officers often harassed him, and disturbed him even further. Five months later, the chief of administration section Ma Libiao and political instructor Li Longyu deceived Ning Jun into the forced labour camp for further persecution, and detained him for nine months beyond the term. He was released on October 11th 2001.

3. Arrested Again and Persecuted to His Last Breath in Mudanjiang Prison

After he was set free, Ning Jun was still being harassed, interrogated, and his home was ransacked. He suffered a great deal emotionally and spiritually, and was forced to become homeless in order to avoid the persecution. On November 11th 2001, he was arrested again by officers from Xi'an Public Security Sub-bureau in Mudanjiang City. He was beaten, shocked with an electric baton and tempted with monetary gain. They used various means to interrogate him and attempted to force a confession. He did not give in to the perpetrators demands and went home within a week.

The police treated Ning Jun as a wanted criminal. They issued a warrant for his arrest, secretly recorded his voice, took his photos and hunted him everywhere. Ning Jun could not work and returned home, and became destitute.

In September 2002, after he had been wanted by the police for half a year, Ning Jun was reported by a patient when exposing the truth of the persecution at Hongqi Hospital in Mudanjiang City. He was arrested and tortured by officers from Aimin Public Security Sub-bureau of Mudanjiang City. He was later held in the detention centre.

During the detention, Ning Jun was in critical condition due to the persecution. At the end of 2003, the detention centre issued two terminally ill notices to Aimin Public Security Sub-bureau that was handling the case, but the notices were ignored by the officers for various reasons. Meanwhile, he was sentenced to five years of imprisonment, and sent to Mudanjiang Prison before the 2004 Chinese New Year.

In September 2004, Ning Jun was extremely ill and needed to go to the hospital. After his family paid the fee, the prison delayed and did not sent him to police hospital until November, and at the same time, released him on bail for medical treatment.

After Ning Jun went home, because of the long term persecution, Ning Jun died on August 12th 2005.

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

(3) "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")

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