Information about the Persecution of Mr. Peng Fangjian, Tortured to Death in 2003 in Sichuan Province

Mr. Peng Fangjian, a Falun Gong practitioner from Renli Town, Suining City, Sichuan Province, was in his forties. Mr. Peng suffered from several illnesses before he started to practise Falun Gong, and he had gone everywhere to get treatment, but none of the treatments were effective. He began practising Falun Gong in 1997, and in less than a month all of his illnesses disappeared.

On July 20th, 1999, Jiang Zemin's [former leader of China and instigator of the persecution] regime began actively persecuting Falun Gong. Seeking justice, Mr. Peng went twice to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong. Afterwards, he was detained at Xinhua Forced Labour Camp of Mianyang City for one and a half years. Because he was steadfast in his belief, his term was extend two months.

On the morning of January 28th, 2003, Mr. Peng Fangjian was arrested by Rao Jun, from the Renli Town Police Station, Yuan Xiaolin who is the head of the 610 Office¹ in Renli Town, Hu Zongcheng, a 610 Office agent, Zhang Kangping and others. He was then imprisoned at Renli Town Police Station. According to inside sources, He was brutally beaten by the officers. During his imprisonment, the Police Station chief, Duan Shoukun, tried to extort fifty thousand yuan² from Mr. Peng's family for his release. His family however, did not have the money. Three days later, Mr. Peng was imprisoned at Lingquansi Detention Centre.

At the detention centre, Mr. Peng began a hunger strike to protest the persecution. He was tortured to death on February 10th, 2003. Someone who had been imprisoned with Mr. Peng at the detention centre said that Mr. Peng had been subjected to brutal torture by prisoners, and that his mouth and nose were always filled with blood. Mr. Peng refused to renounced Falun Gong and his mind was always firm. He was on a continuous hunger strike, and the police brutally force-fed and tortured him. This prisoner also said that he had seen Mr. Peng's body being taken to a car.

At that time, village cadres notified Mr. Peng's family so they could come and see his remains. Before Peng's body was sent to a crematorium his family saw that the body was covered with wounds and blood. Soon after his son died, Peng Fangjian's father also passed away.

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http://www.clearharmony.net/articles/200303/10712.html

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. "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.ca/mh/articles/2008/4/6/175914.html