A Practitioner Is Tortured to Death in the Second Detention Centre of Hegang City

A male Falun Dafa practitioner was tortured to death in the Second Detention Centre of Hegang City in early October of 2005. It is said that the practitioner's body is stored in an autopsy room in the detention centre. Other details are unknown, and we hope people who know additional details can provide them. The related agencies of Hegang City have tightly controlled the news. The family members have not been notified and are not allowed to visit him. The persecutors are planning to secretly cremate his body.

Many practitioners detained in the Second Detention Centre of Hegang City are on a hunger strike. Also, practitioner Yang Yongying (who is detained in the First Detention Centre of Hegang City) and a few other practitioners are on the verge of death. It is said that persecutors in these two detention centres followed orders from their superiors in Heilongjiang Province to take strong measures against the detained practitioners. They were told that they would not be held responsible for the deaths of the practitioners. Also, some related government agencies sentenced practitioners that were detained temporarily in the detention centres to harsh prison terms.

We urgently call for international human rights organisations, the World Organisation to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong, and everyone who supports justice to help rescue practitioners detained in the detention centres in Hegang City.

Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2005/10/12/112251.html