Elderly Mr. Yuan Yuqi in Jilin Province Died as a Result of Persecution

In the middle of May 2006, police officials from the Lushuihe Police Department and Baishan City Politics & Law Committee and the 610 Office¹ went to Mr. Yuan Yuqi's home and asked him if he was still practising Falun Gong and what were his views about the book, Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party ². In addition, they pressured him to renounce Falun Gong. Seven years of continuous pressure and brutal persecution caused severe physical and psychological harm to Mr. Yuan, finally resulting in his death on June 13th, 2006.

68-year-old Mr. Yuan Yuqi lived in Baishan City, Jilin Province. He started practising Falun Gong in 1998, and became healthy and optimistic. However, since July 1999, Mr. Yuan had been arrested eight successive times.

Below are some experiences that Mr. Yuan shared in his own words just before his untimely death.

In the spring of year 2000, when he was distributing informational materials near the railway gate, he was arrested by Liu Zhenquan of the Lushuihe Forest Police Department and was taken to the Political Defence Section. He was handcuffed to the central heating pipe overnight and released the next morning.

On April 18th, 2001, Yuan Yuqi went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong, where he was taken to the Xicheng Police Station in Beijing. The director asked for his name and his address, which he refused to reveal. Two police officials then came in and began torturing him. One of them kicked Mr. Yuan to a distance of two or three metres away. This caused him to fall down on the ground and another police official then trampled him on the chest. His left chest became like a shrunken balloon at that moment. Mr. Yuan immediately thought that since he was a Falun Gong practitioner, he would be fine. Then as he slowly stood up, his shrunken chest immediately swelled. After he went back home and got medical help the X-rays showed that three of his ribs were broken. The doctor informed him that if the broken ribs did not resume to the right position, they could puncture his lungs and be fatal.

Some fellow practitioners who had gone with Mr. Yuan to Beijing were also beaten by the police. Mr. Yuan stood on a chair and tried to stop them by saying loudly, "no beating of Falun Gong practitioners!" One policeman hit his head using a handcuff, producing an eight-centimetre-long opening on his head, with his blood streaming from his face.

When he was taken back to his hometown, he was still detained in the the Fusong Detention Centre and was set free after Gu Xiandou, the director of the Fusong Police Department, and Zhang Aimin at the Political Defence Section extorted almost 30,000 yuan³ from his sons and daughters.

In May 2001, Yuan Yuqi was again forcibly taken to attend a brainwashing class, where an attempt was made to transform⁴ him for five whole days, and where they tried to force him to write a "guarantee letter⁵" which was obviously rejected by him.

In August 2001, when policeman Jiang Qiuli at the Dongshan Police Station went to Mr. Yuan's home, he found some Falun Dafa materials, and reported this to the police department. As a result, Mr. Yuan was arrested and taken to the Fusong detention centre. Two months later he was transferred to the Chaoyanggou Forced Labour Camp in Changchun City for further persecution. Upon his refusal to "transform", he was forced to sit on a bench for a long time and made to take a shower with cold water in winter. He also developed scabies in his rectum and could not walk as usual.

Mr. Yuan finally passed away after enduring endless brutal torture and vicious persecution for many years.

Note

1. "The 610 office" is an agency specifically created to persecute Falun Gong, with absolute power over each level of administration in the Party and all other political and judiciary systems.

2. Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party: Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party is a series of essays published in late 2004 that reveal the true nature of the Communist Party. The Nine Commentaries have led millions of people to renounce their membership in the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). "A book that has shocked all Chinese around the world. A book that is disintegrating the Communist Party." http://ninecommentaries.com

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

4. "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")

5. "Guarantee Statement": A statement to declare that one is remorseful for practising Falun Gong and guarantees not to practise Falun Gong again, not to go to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong, and never again associate with any Falun Dafa practitioners.

Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2006/6/17/130633.html