Mr. Li Shimin Suffers a Torture-Induced Nervous Breakdown

[Note: The following is a shortened version of a longer and more detailed article that appeared on the minghui.ca website (Chinese version of Clearwisdom.net).]

Mr. Li Shimin, in his 30s and is from Hongqiangzi, Yi County. All of his numerous illnesses disappeared after he began practising Falun Gong. Because he went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong, Qianmen Police Department officials in Beijing arrested and beat him. Hongqiangzi Police Station head Liu Xiangjun eventually took him back and held him at Yi County Detention Centre where a doctor injected him with unknown substances. While this was happening, the local police ransacked his home and arrested his wife, leaving his two young children home alone. Officers from the Hongqiangzi Police Station extorted 2,300 yuan¹ from his father before releasing his wife. Li Shimin was sentenced to 18 months of forced labour and was taken to the Jinzhou Forced Labour Camp where he was brutally tortured. He was locked in solitary confinement, had to endure the Tiger Bench², and was subjected torture with electric shock batons, savage beatings, the "Big Hang-up" and sleep deprivation as well as injections with unknown substances, among other forms of abuse. He was released after 16 months of detention but then suffered a nervous breakdown as a result of unspeakable and long-term cruelties.

The officials responsible for grossly abusing Li Shimin include Liu Xiangjun from the Yi County Police Department, Li Songtao from the Jinzhou Forced Labour Camp, and police officers Bai Jinlong and Zhang Chunfeng.

Note

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

2. "Tiger Bench": Prisoners are forced to sit on a small iron bench that is approximately 20 cm (6 inches) tall with their knees tied together. With their hands tied behind their backs or sometimes placed on their knees, they are forced to sit straight up and look straight ahead without movement for long periods of time.

Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2008/2/26/173099.html