Mr. Wang Zhige Made Blind in One Eye by Police in Heilongjiang Province

Practitioner Mr. Wang Zhige from Fangzheng County, Heilongjiang Province was illegally sentenced¹ and imprisoned in Hulan Jail, Heilongjiang Province. There he was tortured by the prison guards and common criminals. In Fangzheng County Jail, the section chief of National Security, Chou Yongsheng, conspired with police officers to persecute Mr. Wang Zhige, causing loss of sight in his right eye.

On March 27th, 2005, the section chief of Fangzheng County National Security, Chou Yongsheng, led police to kidnap Mr. Wang. They confiscated a desktop computer, a notebook computer, a printer, and other materials from his home.

In the office of the National Security team, Mr. Wang was interrogated and tortured for twenty-four hours. He was beaten on the face by policeman Weng Xuebing in front of the bureau chief. On March 28th, he was thrown into jail. On April 4th, Mr. Wang started to hunger strike to protest the persecution. On April 8th, he was brutally force-fed by police, which lasted around 3 hours. This caused his oral cavity to become infected. The food went into his trachea, causing him to suffocate and go into shock. After several days the guards carried out a second force-feeding.

On April 13th, Mr. Wang's right eye suddenly could not see things clearly and he soon lost his sight. He still cannot see out of his right eye, and the fingers on his right hand are numb. The jail's political instructor, Dong Yansong, slapped Mr. Wang in the face. The guards kept force-feeding him until May 7th when he stopped hunger striking.

On June 22nd, 2005, police from Fangzheng County transferred Mr. Wang to Hulan Jail. At the guard's bidding, the chief of the training team, Li Maojin (the head of the criminals) and other criminals pushed Mr. Wang to the ground and pulled his arms in order to force him to give up his belief in Falun Gong. Guard Xu Ruye threatened him saying: "If you do not "transform²," you will not be allowed to have visitors, write letters or make calls."

Mr. Wang was coerced to write the "Three Statements³" to give up his belief. However, he soon realised his mistake. On September 5th, he and four other Dafa practitioners submitted solemn declarations to the jail in written form, declaring the statements they wrote earlier null and void. Later on, the guards became angry. They forced Mr. Wang to stand from 5:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. every day for 30 days. Because Mr. Wang firmly believed in Dafa, the guards asked the head of the criminals, Li Maojin, to look for a 3 centimetre-wide stool and force Mr. Wang to sit on it for physical punishment. In the afternoon, Li Jikai and Zheng Shujun beat Mr. Wang to make his eyes red. In the evening, they also forced him to stand facing a wall all night to indoctrinate him. Mr. Wang did not listen to them.

For the next several days, the guards threatened to kill him. One time, when they were brutally beating him, Mr. Wang loudly shouted, "Falun Dafa is good. Li Jikai beats me." Later on, a criminal head by the name of Wang Dengming beat Mr. Wang on the chest. Mr. Wang loudly shouted as before: "Falun Dafa is good." That evening, Mr. Wang found the vice-chief of the training team, Wang Lianyun, and condemned him for inciting the criminal inmates to beat Dafa practitioners mercilessly. Later on, they controlled themselves to some extent.

Hulan Jail is composed of a training team and fifteen brigades. The training team is the key element in persecuting Dafa practitioners in the jail. After Dafa practitioners are illegally arrested, they are first put into the training team to be persecuted. They are not allowed to talk among themselves. Every Dafa practitioner is monitored by two to four prisoners. The methods of persecution include: holding meetings of "exposure and criticism," sleep deprivation, beating, striking the arms and legs, tying with ropes, being confined in a solitary compartment, standing for long periods of time, and many other cruel methods. After Dafa practitioners are transferred from the training team to other brigades, they are monitored.

Telephone numbers of relevant personnel

Hulan Jail address: P O Box 803, Yaobao Town, Hulan District, Harbin City, Zip code 150521

Switchboard: 86-451-537307719,
Disciplinary inspection: 86-451-57307738,
Station inspection: 86-451-57307739, 86-451-451-57307703
Warden, Sun Kaiwen: 86-451-57307303
Vice-warden, Sun Weiwen: 86-451-57307303
Vice- warden: 86-451-57304313
Jail Political Section: 86-451-57307738
"Labour Reform Section" Chen Weiqiang, the chief instigator who persecutes Falun Gong: 86-13136764116 (Mobile)
The training area: 86-451-57304713
District magistrate, Zhang Hongliang: 86-13945655065(Mobile)

Note

1. Illegally arrested: Contrary to what former Chinese leader Jiang Zemin, who initiated the persecution, and the Chinese Communist Party would like the world to believe, practising Falun Gong is NOT illegal in China. Although the Public Security Department issued an unconstitutional set of restraints on the practice at the onset of the persecution in 1999, no laws have been passed by the only legislative body in China, the People's Congress, banning Falun Gong or granting the police the authority to arrest Falun Gong practitioners for practising the exercises or distributing flyers. For a more complete discussion of the illegality of the persecution of Falun Gong, please refer to the article "The Ban on Falun Gong—A Dictator's Whim, Not the Rule of Law". (Variation: "illegally sentenced")

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")

3. "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://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2006/3/5/122102.html