Dafa Practitioners Brutally Tortured at the Langfang City Police Station and Detention Centre in Hebei Province

Officers from the Langfang City Police Station have tortured Dafa practitioners in many inhuman ways.

Five policeman took another Dafa practitioner and me to a place where they torture people. The other practitioner was taken into a room first. An hour later, he had to be supported by several policemen when he came out of the room, and I could barely tell it was him. His lips were split open, one side of his face was swollen, his head was deformed, and his eye sockets and the upper part of his face were all black.

Then the policeman took me into that room, and put me on a big metal chair. They handcuffed my hands on the two arms of the chair, and locked my feet with two leg-irons. They first searched my body and took away my watch, cell phone, pager, and all the cash I had. They even took away my belt.

Then, one policeman started to curse at me and at the same time, hit my face with his hand. My entire face and head became numb. When he got tired, another policeman continued; he was a director of the State Security Department at the Langfang Police Station. He violently punched my chest. After a while, he got tired and was all sweaty, so he stopped. Another policeman came up. He picked up the belt off the floor, used one hand to hold my fingers and hit my hand with the belt. In a short time, my hand was swollen like fermented bread. As he was hitting me, he saw that I was bit abnormal. He stopped and asked me: "What's wrong with you?"

At that time, I was sweating all over my head and body and I passed out. Three officers took some water bottles and poured water on my head and face. Then, a young policeman came toward me while holding a high-voltage electric baton. It was rectangular shaped with two needles. When he put the needles on my body, it made a crackling noise. It felt like two big needles went through my body at once. He shocked everywhere on my body; when it got to spots like my armpits and below, the pain was really almost impossible to bear. (This inhuman torture continued for two whole days and nights. When they released me from the chair, my feet were badly swollen, and my leather shoes were stretched tight.)

After torturing me, they turned right around to continually torture the other Dafa practitioner. When they got tired, several policemen, each holding a high-voltage electric baton, shocked that practitioner all at the same time. The electric batons made a loud, static crackling noise. Some policemen were yelling "ah ah";" sounding just like animals. I've lived for 50 years, but have never heard voices that sounded that wild. It was horrific.

Later, we were sent to a detention centre. There, we were forced to do labour, including sorting beans and packaging chopsticks. We were forced to start working at 5:30 a.m., sometimes not even allowed to eat breakfast, working all the way until noon. For lunch each person was only allowed to eat two steamed buns, and nothing else. There was also no break time at noon. Then, we would continue to work until 8:30 p.m. with no break. The amount of labour everyone did was recorded, and if one did not finish the assigned amount, he would be beaten. Every police officer held a wooden stick. The side they held was wrapped with a cloth and they used the other side for beating the practitioners. They forced practitioners to crouch down on the ground, then used the stick to hit their hips. Sometimes practitioners' hips were even hit to the point of bleeding. Even so, the practitioners would still have to keep working in a squatting position, and they would still have to finish their assigned labour. Police Yang said: "If you are beaten to death, we will just report it as due to illness."

The police made us memorise some lines, in case outsiders visited. If the examining visitors asked: "How many hours do you work a day?" We could only answer: "Two hours, not hard at all." If someone didn't answer like this, then he'd be beaten later. If they asked: "What do you eat every day?" We had to answer: "Every day we have two meals of rice or wheat flour food, and one meal of corn flour food; every week we have meat soup twice, egg soup twice and tofu soup twice. In ordinary times we have fried dishes of vegetables, and we also have stewed meat regularly." Every person had to memorise these lines very well, otherwise he would be beaten, and also wouldn't be allowed to sleep; instead he would be forced to stand up all night as punishment. The next day he would have to work as usual.

In fact, every day we worked for fourteen to fifteen hours. It was indeed very tiring. We ate the simplest and roughest food. We were regularly tested for the things we were told to memorise. The police's logic was: if one didn't have time to memorise them in the day-time because of the labour, then they could memorise them at night. The police always thought of ways to torture us. If sometimes there was no work to do, they would make us sit on the ground motionless, and watch us. This often lasted for two hours. If someone just moved a little bit, he'd be punished by being forced to kneel down on the hard stone ground. Within a short amount of time, there would be a row of practitioners kneeling on the ground. If one refused to kneel, he'd be beaten. There were just so many evil scenes; a normal person would be shocked if he saw them. For example, another punishment was to force someone to crawl back and forth in the small hallway while kneeling on the ground and with their feet locked with leg-irons. If he could not continue, the policeman would step on the practitioner's hands or feet, with their hard-soled shoes. Imprints of the officer's shoes were often left on the practitioner's hands and feet. As another example, during the winter months one could be punished by having to stand in ice-cold water with bare feet.

Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2007/3/11/150586.html