More Details Regarding the Torture Death of 31-year-old Falun Gong Practitioner Chang Shuai

Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Chang Shuai was 31 years old, and was a native of Changchun City, Jilin Province. For his belief in Falun Gong he had to do hard labour in the Chaoyanggou Forced Labour Camp in Changchun City. During his time in the camp his former illnesses returned, and he was in poor health. In March 2005, the police went to harass him again, which led to the deterioration of his physical condition. He died on March 7th, 2005.

After the persecution began on July 20th, 1999, Chang Shuai went to Beijing several times to appeal for Falun Gong, and was arrested and imprisoned each time. Police savagely beat him in a Beijing detention centre. A scar on his neck seemed be from a burn with a hot piece of metal.

Inside the labour camp, Chang Shuai refused to write the three statements¹. He held several hunger strikes to protest the persecution. He also protested the torture that the Communist regime ordered through the police against Falun Gong practitioners. One report states how former prison guard Zhao of Division 2 in that labour camp, together with former prison guard Wang Tao from Division 6, frequently beat and kicked practitioners and also prison inmates. They were especially cruel with Chang Shuai. The vicious hoodlums removed Chang's clothes and used electrical batons to shock him for over thirty minutes. They did not stop until the electric batons ran out of battery power.

In the summer of 2001, the camp held a "Celebration Conference," propagating lies about Falun Gong. The labour camp heads were afraid that Falun Gong practitioners would stand up and expose the lies, hence they talked to the practitioners before the conference. Practitioner Chang Shuai clearly stated that the practitioners could help maintain order at the conference, but would not allow lies and slander against Falun Gong. Guard Wang Tao from Division 1 felt that he lost face before his leaders, so he fiercely berated Chang Shuai. He then dragged Chang inside the washroom and violently beat him. When his hands were tired he used the electric baton to beat Chang. When he was tired out he ordered some inmates to beat Mr. Chang. His wild, violent and inhuman behaviour even frightened all of the inmates in the entire division. The abusers used a variety of methods to torture Chang Shuai for the entire afternoon.

After several years of imprisonment, Chang Shuai's health was extremely weakened and he was released on medical parole. Mr. Chang continued to tell people, who had been misled by the government propaganda, the facts about Falun Dafa and expose the persecution, and was arrested several more times. At the last arrest he was already in poor health. Under his family's strong and reasonable arguments, Chang was not forcibly detained this time. He died on May 7th, 2005. He was only 31 years old.

Note

1. "Three Statements": Practitioners are coerced under brainwashing and torture to write "Repentance Statement," "Guarantee Statement" or 'Dissociation Statement" as proof that they have given up their belief. In the statement, the practitioner is forced to admit remorse for practising Falun Gong, promise to give up Falun Gong, and never again associate with other practitioners or go to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong.

Chinese version available at http://minghui.org/mh/articles/2006/2/14/120770.html