Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Xu Zhicheng, 44, was from Hegang City, Helongjiang Province. He was arrested at his home on September 23rd, 2005, tortured, and held in the No. 2 Detention Centre. He died on October 3rd, 2005, as the result of torture.
Mr. Xu Zhicheng was an engineer for the Coal Mine Bureau in Hegang City. He started practising Falun Dafa in 1996. When the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) began the persecution against Falun Gong in 1999, he was demoted to work as a factory worker. On April 20th, 2002, he was arrested at his home by the Public Security Bureau Nanshan Subdivision in Hegang City, and sentenced to three years in a forced labour camp.
On September 23rd, 2005, Mr. Xu Zhicheng was arrested again and held in Nanshan Tiexi Police Station. He was tortured for four days and nights without food or water because he persisted in practising Falun Dafa and he had an electronic Falun Dafa book. On September 26th he was transferred to room four at the No. 2 Detention Centre. The police intensified his persecution because he had started a hunger strike. They tied him up on a metal pole and did not release him until he was in critical condition on October 1st.
Mr. Xu Zhicheng was on hunger strike from September 26th to October 2nd. During this time, the detention centre force-fed him once a day with up to a bag of salt with corn cereal or soybean powder. They injected this paste through a nasal feeding tube. He vomited blood after they inserted the tube.
On October 2nd he was in critical condition twice, at around 8:00 p.m. and again at 10:00 p.m. The inmates reported his condition to Guards He and Song. The on-call doctor came and examined him but stated that there was nothing wrong and left. At midnight, the inmates reported for the third time that Mr. Xu was dying.
After they reported to director Li Shulin in the No. 2 Detention Centre, he was furious and started cursing, "Find me the largest shackle and put it on him now!"
After Li Shulin saw Mr. Xu, however, he called the ambulance instead of putting him in shackles. The hospital refused to send an ambulance so they used the van from the detention centre to drive Mr. Xu to the hospital at 12:30 a.m. Mr. Xu Zhicheng was pronounced dead on October 3rd, 2005.
Hegang Detention Centre:
Director Li Shulin: 86-468-3355666, 86-468-3349999, 86-13904683000 (mobile), 86-468-3400001
Instructor Liu Zhengke: 86-468-3451033, 86-13945761176 (mobile)
Detoxification centre director Zhang Fuhong: 86-468-3434969, 86-13904683833 (mobile), 86-468-3400003
Deputy director You Jie: 86-468-3343467, 86-13846812233 (mobile), 86-468-3400004
Deputy director Ren Xiusong: 86-468-3351119, 86-13946760537 (mobile), 86-468-3400007
Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.ca/mh/articles/2006/1/9/118305.html
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