Mr. Hu Zengxiang, a Falun Gong practitioner in Qiansuozhuang Village, Rizhao City, Shandong Province, was over 60 years old. He used to live by himself. After he started to practise Falun Gong in 1997, he became very healthy. He was always willing to help his neighbours when they were in hard situations. Seeing how he improved, they all marvelled at the miraculous effects of Falun Gong.
Mr. Hu never gave up his belief in the principles of Falun Gong--"Truthfulness, Compassion and Forbearance"--even when the persecution launched by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) was most severe. He never stopped speaking out for justice for Falun Gong either.
In the spring of 2005, Hu Zengxiang was arrested by the local police and detained in the Lu County Detention Centre for a few days. Later he was transferred to Wangcun Forced Labour Camp, where he stayed for more than a month. After he returned home, he was very weak due to the brutal treatment he was subjected to in the labour camp, but he quickly recovered.
Mr. Hu was again secretly arrested by CCP personnel on December 29th, 2007. Within about three weeks he was dead.
On that day in December, around ten people from the Public Security Bureau in Lu County and the Guozhuang Township Police Station broke into Mr. Hu's home, ransacked it, and arrested him. They took more than 2,000 yuan1 in cash, and some leaflets exposing the persecution from his home. Later they suppressed any information about Mr. Hu's case and started rumours such as, "We did not arrest him" and "He has escaped." It is not clear where he was held. A reliable source said that someone saw Mr. Hu Zengxiang in Qiansuozhuang Village's committee room several days before the new year. The source said that Mr. Hu was almost too tragic to look at because of how severely he had been tortured: his collarbone was broken, his hands were swollen as big as rice bowls, he had lost one of his toes as a result of frostbite, he was not able to walk.
Three weeks after Hu Zengxiang was arrested, someone found his dead body in his home. That was how they discovered that he had passed away. No one knows the exact date when he died.
Public Security Bureau in Lu County: 86-633-6202516
Qiansuozhuang Village Police Station: 86-633-6691110
Note
1. "Yuan" is the Chinese currency; 500 yuan is equal to the average monthly income of an urban worker in China.
Chinese version available at http://minghui.org/mh/articles/2008/2/28/173266.html
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