Mr. Sun Changping Tortured For 30 Days at Fusong County Detention Centre in Jilin Province (Photos)

On September 19th, 2006, Sun Changping, a Falun Dafa practitioner from Jilin Province, Fusong County, was taken by Tang Longping, head of the Lushuihe Police Department, from his workplace. Mr. Sun was viciously beaten and then detained and tortured in the Fusong County Detention Centre for thirty days. He was tied to a death bed¹. Two bones in his back were broken and protruding. After such vicious torture, Mr. Sun had great difficulty walking. He was recently released from the detention centre. The following is Mr. Sun's account of his experience.

Two bones in Mr. Sun's back were broken and protruded outwards

On September 19th, 2006, at around 1:00 p.m., I was sleeping on the kang (a heated brick bed) in the night-watchman's residence of the Carpentry Factory. Suddenly, a gang of policemen from the Lushuihe Police Department barged in. One of them was Tang Longping, head of the Lushuihe Police Department. With him were several policemen, including Jia Haifeng, Zhao Wenjie, Xu Jinghu and others. Policeman Xu Jinghu came into the room first. He did not display any identification. He started to plow through my belongings in the cabinet on the kang. Several other policemen followed and started to ransack the room. When they found Teacher Li's [Teacher Li Hongzhi, the founder of Falun Dafa] picture, I fought to take the picture back. Six or seven policemen held me to the kang and hand-cuffed my hands behind my back. The policemen pushed my head downwards and held me down by pressing their knees into my back. I could hardly breathe, and my legs could not move. After the ransacking, I was thrust into a police car and taken to the Lushuihe Police Department.

Mr. Sun Changping was tied to the death bed in the detention centre

The policemen pushed me into an iron chair² and tied me with belts. Xiong Chuanwen, captain of Squad 110, and members Yue Jinqing, Liu Jia and Fu Rong interrogated me. I refused to respond to their questions and demanded that they immediately release all Dafa practitioners under their false detainment, and told them the truth about Falun Gong. They did not listen to me and started to beat me. Then I shouted "Falun Dafa is good." They bound my mouth with cloth, thrust stinky socks into my mouth, forced me to smell stinky shoes, slapped my face with the sole of their shoes, kicked me in the face, and hit my head using the military pillow made from a tarp. My face and mouth were swollen from the beating, the tissue in my mouth was torn and my gums were bleeding. Policemen Yue Jingqing and Liu Jia struck my chest and back causing injury to my ribs. Breathing became difficult and painful.

The officers even put Teacher's picture under my feet and ordered me to step on it. They stomped on my foot when I refused. They then put Teacher's picture under an iron chair and held me down to keep me from moving. When they did this, I shouted "Falun Dafa is good" and tried to tell them not to do evil deeds, lest they face retribution. They didn't listen to me and drew a beard and glasses on the picture. Liu Peng tore the picture.

On the morning of September 20th, Policeman Zhao Wenjie and two other policemen handcuffed my hands behind my back and forced me into a police car. Policemen Zhang Aiming and Wang Dianjun of the Fusong County State Security Squad took me to Fusong Detention Centre. In the detention centre, counsellor Ma Yi demanded that I not talk because an inspection group was visiting. When I asked him why, he slapped me across the face multiple times so I shouted "Falun Dafa is good." Ma Yi and several other policemen immediately asked some criminals to bring shackles and chain me to the death bed. My hands and feet were unable to move but I kept on shouting "Falun Dafa is good," "Heaven will destroy the CCP," and "Quitting the CCP will bring security and peace." Ma Yin slapped me again, kicked me down onto the death bed and stepped on my mouth with his leather shoe. He then ordered some criminals to bind my mouth using feet-drying towels and tape it with several layers of duct tape.

The following day Policeman Liu Qinglin came on duty. He forbade me from singing Dafa songs or shouting "Falun Dafa is good," and ordered me to abide by detention centre rules. I said that I cultivated "Truthfulness-Benevolence-Forbearance," to be a good person, that I was no criminal and did not need to abide by the rules of the detention centre. Then I continued to shout "Falun Dafa is good." He then started beating me. After he became tired from the beating, he ordered the criminals to take turns beating me. My whole face, mouth and right eye became swollen after they beat me. My nose and mouth bled, and blood filled my mouth. After being beaten for a long while, my whole face was swollen, my mouth was still full of blood. To protest the persecution I faced, I started a hunger strike and continuously shouted "Falun Dafa is good."

Three days later I was released from the death bed. My legs felt heavier after the torture, and I could not straighten my back. I went to the head of the detention centre and demanded that he release all Dafa practitioners who were detained at the centre. After being refused I started to practise the exercises. Policemen Ma Yi and Geng Cheng saw me practising and ordered criminals to beat me. They carried me to the death bed and held my arms and legs down to stop me from practising. I shouted "Falun Dafa is good," and Ma Ying came in to the cell and punched my mouth, breaking my lips and causing bleeding. They then slapped my face for quite a while. Ma Yi also slashed my feet and toes using his key chain.

On October 8th, they transferred me from the "transition cell" to the "old and disabled cell." I continued to practise the exercises. Policeman Liu Qinglin again ordered the criminals to tie me on the death bed. He ordered the criminals to pour salt into my mouth, pour water into my nose, duct tape my mouth, and thrust tissue and corn bread into my nose to prevent me from breathing. Policemen Liu et al watched from the side. When they felt that the criminals were not cruel enough they threatened the criminals saying "If you cannot tame him, I will stop your meals and forbid you from buying things." The policemen were afraid of information about their behaviour being leaked to the public. The police instigate hate among the criminals telling them, "You have beaten Falun Gong practitioners in here, and these Falun Gong will publicise you." Therefore, the criminals covered up my eyes and slapped me with their shoe soles, punched my face and back, put a plastic bucket on my head and beat it heavily, scratched the soles of my feet, and poured cold water on my body while fanning me with cold wind.

Policeman Ma Yi watched from the window while the criminals beat me. I was so badly beaten that my mouth was full of blood and my face was deformed. I was not able to move at all. Thanks to the rescue effort of my fellow practitioners and relatives, I was released without condition after thirty days.

Persons responsible for the torture:

Zhao Wenjie (captain of Security Squad of the Lushuihe Township Police Department)
Tang Longping (deputy head of the Lushuihe Township Police Department)
Xu Jinghu (policeman of the Lushuihe Township Police Department)
Policeman Xiong (captain of 110 Squad of the Lushuihe Township Police Department)
Wang Zehong ( community policeman of the Lushuihe Township Police Department)

Head of the township Police Department: Zhang Jianhua 86-13894021766 (Mobile)
Deputy Head: Tang Longping 86-439-6365338 (Office), 86-439-8944988 (Mobile)
Xu Jinghu: 86-439-6361174, 86-13894045586 (Mobile)
Jia Haifeng: 86-439-6365339 (Office), 86-439-6371327 (Home), 86-439-8963037 (Home)
Captain Zhao Wenjie: 86-439-6361619 (Office)

Note

1. "Death Bed" torture: A practitioner is tied to a bed with his hands handcuffed above his head to the bed rails, and his legs tied with thin nylon ropes. The rope is then tightly wrapped around the practitioner's body and the bed, from his legs to his chest. The rope is wrapped so tightly that the practitioner has difficulty breathing and eventually loses consciousness.

2. Iron Chair: The "Iron chair" is made of iron pipes. Victims are restrained on the iron chairs with both arms and legs tied for a long period of time, see illustration at http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2002/1/9/17577.html

Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2006/10/29/141291.html