Falun Dafa Practitioner Wei Chunping Brutally Tortured at Hubei Province's Qinduankou Prison

Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Wei Chunping is a native of Wuhan City, Hubei Province. He was arrested and held at the Wuhan Police Department's First Division on October 2nd, 2001. An official surnamed Fan from the Hubei Province 610 Office¹ held him on fabricated charges and urged policemen to beat him. Six police officers headed by Lu Xinhua encircled Mr. Wei and beat him violently.

The police transferred Wei Chunping that same night to the Wansong Street Police Station in the Jianghan District, Wuhan. He was handcuffed and hung up by the handcuffs to a high metal frame. The tormentors whipped him with the metal buckle of a belt and burned his naked heels with cigarettes. Mr. Wei was deprived of sleep for forty consecutive hours.

In December 2002, the Hubei Province 610 Office designated agents at the Jianghan District Court and at the Wuhan Intermediate Court to sentence Wei Chunping to five years in prison. He was then held at the Qinduankou Prison.

In late December of 2002, guard Liu Wensheng ordered criminal inmates Wang Wei, Huang Qishun and Fang Wei to hang a bucket full of water weighing over 80 pounds by a thin plastic cord around Mr. Wei's neck. They told him not to spill any! As soon as Wei Chunping could no longer hold still and water spilled out, the evildoers beat and kicked him fiercely. They battered Mr. Wei's chest with their elbows and kicked him with the steel ends of leather boots. The beatings sometimes lasted forty hours, sometimes 17 hours without any break. The guards forced Wei Chunping to perform heavy labour on a regular basis and also subjected him to brainwashing. In addition they often forced him to stand 1-1/2 feet away from a wall and pushed his head against the wall as a punishment using various excuses, which they referred to as "digging retrospectively into the roots."

Between April and July 2003, Wei Chunping was sent to the prison hospital for treatment of fluid accumulation in the chest. More than 800 millilitres of fluid was extracted during treatment.

In early April 2004, guard Kuang Min, who was also the political head, together with several criminals, assigned Falun Gong practitioners to perform the most labour intensive and most filthy labour and ordered criminals to monitor them 24 hours a day. Although Mr. Wei was extremely weak by then, he was assigned to perform unbearable, intensive labour. Wei Chunping was again found to have fluid accumulation in his chest on April 27th, 2004. His voice was weak; others could not even figure out what he was saying. He could get no sleep due to the excruciating pain from the illness.

On June 1st, 2004, Wei Chunping submitted a personally handwritten, detailed indictment to Kuang Min. Afterwards, he kept enquiring where the indictment went and found out Kuang had confiscated it.

Between August 3rd and Aug 27th, 2004, Mr. Wei was forced to finish work tasks and "reform²" tasks in an attempt to coerce him to admit he was wrong because he had refused to attend a brainwashing class.

Kuang Min designated criminal Gao Xiang to be the personal monitor for Falun Gong practitioners on September 6th, 2004. Gao took Mr. Wei to the field where no one was around. Without a word, he punched Mr. Wei's face brutally with his fist. Wei Chunping was immediately knocked to the ground. Gao kicked him all over his body with all his strength. When Gao was out of breath during the beating, Wei Chunping took this opportunity and struggled to run to a place where others could see. Only then did Gao stop the beating.

Wei Chunping then rushed to the office of the 12th Team to file a complaint. Kuang Min had a private conversation with criminal Gao Xiang and then made up an investigation report saying, "Wei hurt himself." As a matter of fact, Wei's clothes were torn to pieces and his nose was heavily bleeding. It was obvious that someone else had beaten him.

Wei Chunping became extremely weak. On May 13th, 2005, he wrote an essay entitled, "My sufferings" for the exam report for the prison system's Education Division. The exam report was again confiscated. On the same day, at five o'clock in the afternoon, criminal Wang Yongsheng slapped Mr. Wei's face ferociously seven times.

Due to the prolonged torture, Wei Chunping often suffered unbearable pain. He walked slowly. On June 28th, 2005, criminal Ma Zhiqiang, a team head who later committed suicide during the 2006 Chinese New Year, beat and kicked Mr. Wei, using the excuse that he moved around too slowly. Ma punched his back, abdomen and chest harshly. Mr Wei was beaten so severely that he lay on the floor, unable to move. Other criminals who came to see what was going on dragged Ma aside and stopped him. Wei Chunping later reported the beating to cadres Cai Hong and Zhang Qinhua and requested to be sent to a hospital for treatment. The two cadres immediately agreed, but they tried their best to delay an examination and treatment for Mr. Wei.

Between October 1st and October 27th, 2006, Wei Chunping was sent to the 610 Office brainwashing centre, as ordered by an official surnamed Fan from the 610 Office.

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. "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")

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