Inner Mongolia Police Torture Practitioner Mr. Yan Li to Death - His Family is Now Being Monitored (Photo)

The family of Dafa practitioner Mr. Yan Li from Jinzhou City, Liaoning Province was notified on December 5th, 2005, that Yan Li died under the persecution from the police in Inner Mongolia. The local police offered 5,000 yuan¹ in exchange for the family's silence. Yan Li's wife was at first overwhelmed and confused, and then said, "Yan Li wasn't supposed to die. I won't take it, even if they give me 500,000 yuan, not to mention 5,000 yuan." She is trying to get a lawyer to obtain justice.

Yan Li was arrested inside a residential building near Hata Street Bank in Chifeng City, Inner Mongolia by officers from the Chifeng City Police Department National Security Division and from the Hongshan District Police Department. He was detained at the Hongshan District Detention Centre where he was tortured to death between November 24th and December 7th. The local justice, judicial and legal system colluded in covering up the truth about this case. The details about Yan Li's death await further investigation.

Below is the information we have obtained:

Yan Li, his wife and their child

According to the staff at the Hongshan Detention Centre clinic, Yan Li was wearing only a sweatshirt and sweat pants when he was sent to the detention centre. It was -21o C (-6o F) in Chifeng City, and the detention centre authorities didn't allow Yan Li to bring any additional clothing or bedding.

On November 24th, officials from Chifeng City Police Department phoned Yan Li's family and told them to wait for a package. At 10:00 a.m. on December 5th, Yan Li's wife Yuan Yingping phoned the Hongshan District National Security after failing to receive the package. A woman told Yuan Yingping that Yan Li was at the brink of death. She urged Yan Li's family to hurry to Chifeng City as soon as possible, "Or you will not see him for the last time."

Yuan Yingping took a long distance bus and rushed to the Hongshan District Detention Centre arriving at 7:00 p.m. He Liang, the guard who received Yuan Yingping said, "Yan Li is doing fine." "He is being treated at the best hospital in Chifeng City." Then, He Liang phoned Bu Ren and Liu at the Hongshan District Police Department National Security Division. The two police officers confirmed Yuan Yingping's identity, but refused to let her see Yan Li at the hospital because "it's too late." They sent her to an Internship Hotel near the No. 1 Technical School in Chifeng City and told her to wait for information.

By 10:30 a.m. the next day, Yuan Yingping had not heard anything from the authorities. She anxiously went to the Hongshan District Police Department and talked to Bu Ren, in charge of the Hongshan District National Security Division, and officer Liu Dui. Bu Ren said, "Yan Li passed away. Yan Li was dead the first time I called you."

Yuan Yingping was shocked and didn't know what to say. She finally said, "I don't know who called me. I was waiting for the package you said you were going to send me." Bu Ren said, "I was kidding with you. Yan Li is at the hospital right now." He leaked the truth again when he saw Yuan Yingping holding a large package, "Is that the shroud you bought for him?"

The authorities told her that she could not see Yan Li because he was still being treated in Intensive Care. They told her to go back to the hotel and wait.

In the morning of December 7th, Yuan Yingping again went to the Hongshan Police Department. Bu Ren and Liu Dui told her in a firm tone, "Yan Li died." The police took her to the Intensive Care Unit on the fifth floor of the No. 2 Hospital in Chifeng City. Yuan Yingping saw Yan Li's body covered with a piece of white cloth. Yuan Yingping removed the cloth and saw her husband stark naked and lying on his back. His body was cold and rigid, but his eyes were wide open. She lost control and cried out loud.

After Yan Li's death was confirmed, his wife Yuan Yingping phoned other family members who went to Chifeng City. The plainclothes police officers strictly monitored Yan Li's family. They even followed them when they made phone calls and went to the toilet, which asserted tremendous pressure on Yan Li's family.

At 9:30 a.m. on December 8th, personnel from the Hongshan District Detention Centre, the Hongshan Police Department, including the head prosecutor at the Procuratorate and the medical examiner, hastily announced the cause of death and the treatment of Yan Li's body. The police department wrote a so-called agreement and coerced Yan Li's family into signing it. The "agreement" is reproduced and reads as follows:

After negotiation efforts between the Chifeng City Procuratorate and the Chifeng City Police Department, the Hongshan District Police Department and Yan Li's family, they have reached the following agreement:

Yan Li died from multiple organ failure. His family does not object to the official cause of death or the result of investigation by the Hongshan District Procuratorate.

Yan Li's family does not object to the autopsy report or the results of an investigation by the Procuratorate.
The body will be cremated before December 9th, 2005, and the issue of cremation will be taken care of by Yan Li's family under the supervision of officials from the Hongshan District Police Department. No videotaping or photographs are allowed.

For humanitarian reasons, the Hongshan Police Department will assist with the funeral and the after-affairs by offering the family 5,000 yuan.

The costs associated with body storage and cremation will be the responsibility of the Hongshan District Police Department.

This "agreement" fully demonstrates how deft the Chinese Communist Party is at villainous methods to cover up its crimes and deceive people.

Yuan Yingping was mentally traumatised by the sudden death of her husband. The local judicial official and police officers took advantage of her mental state and coerced her into signing the agreement.

After she returned to the hotel, Yuan Yingping calmed down and left the hotel when the police who watched her were eating. Yuan Yingping told us, "Yan Li died such a horrible and suspicious death. I won't take it if they offer me 500,000 yuan, not to mention 5,000 yuan." She is trying to get a lawyer and prosecute the criminals.

After Yuan Yingping left, the officials at the Chifeng National Security Bureau were very nervous and combed the whole city looking for her, including large hotels, hostels, the railroad and the highway. They detained the rest of Yan Li's family at the Internship Hotel. Before 8:00 a.m. on December 9th, the authorities forced six of Yan Li's family members into seven cars with the judicial, legal and justice systems' insignias on them. Without Yuan Yinping's presence, Yan Li's oldest brother signed an agreement to allow the speedy cremation of Yan Li's body.

According to other Dafa practitioners, Yan Li worked at the Niuerhe Textile Mill in Jinzhou City, Liaoning Province. He started practising Falun Gong in December 1995. He was once assigned to the posts of general coordinator, assistant to the division head, assistant to the head of the Production Division, and assistant to the head of the workshop at different times of his career. He was awarded the title "Advanced Worker" for many years.

Before July 20th, 1999, Yan Li bought Dafa books and videotapes to disseminate Dafa in a dozen nearby villages. After the persecution began, Yan Li went to Beijing nine times to tell the facts of Dafa to the government and to uphold his belief, and was fired because of it.

He was detained twice during his appeal and was held at Jinzhou City Custody Centre. During the first detention between August 14th, 1999 and September 14th, 1999, Wen Shizhen, governor of Liaoning Province at the time, personally issued an order "no reform², no release" specifically regarding Yan Li. He was held at Jinzhou City Forced Labour Camp for two years, beginning on October 25, 1999. He persisted in his belief and was savagely tortured. He was detained in solitary confinement for several months. After the two-year term expired, his term was extended by nine months and he held a hunger strike. He was force-fed and was not released until he could not eat and was at the brink of death. During the one month he stayed at home, he could only eat liquid food and could not take care of himself. He needed help getting out of bed.

In September 2004, Yan Li was betrayed when he exposed the persecution to people on a bus going to Kalaqinqi. He was detained at the Jinshan Police Department in Chifeng City. He held a hunger strike for nine days and was released when he was again at the brink of death.

Yan Li was tortured to death within a dozen days after his last arrest. According to the police, copies of the Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party and leaflets were found in the home of the fellow practitioner, where Yan Li was arrested. Yan Li was charged with "overthrowing state power." Mr. Yan Li held a hunger strike after the arrest to resist the persecution. Beginning from November 26th, the police force-fed him at the detention centre and sent him to a hospital for emergency treatment on December 4th.

Related phone numbers:

Agu Mulang, deputy head of the Inspection Office of the Hongshan Detention Centre of the Procuratorate: 86-476-8677210
Cheng Jianjun, prosecutor at the Hongshan Detention Centre of the Procuratorate: 86-476-8677210
Hongshan District National Security Division: 86-476-8365260

Buren's office: 86-476-8360476, 86-476-8383341

Note

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

2. "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")

Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.ca/mh/articles/2005/12/14/116548.html