Mr. Chen Kaiqu's Face Disfigured from Electric Baton Torture at Masanjia Forced Labour Camp

Falun Gong practitioner Chen Kaiqu graduated from the China Science Academy with a master's degree. On July 14th, 2006, Mr. Chen was arrested for distributing Falun Gong leaflets exposing the persecution and sent to a detention centre and then sentenced to a two-year forced labour term. He was sent to Masanjia Forced Labour Camp, in Shenyang City, Liaoning Province on May 21st, 2007. On the morning of March 25th, 2008, Mr. Chen refused to do hard labour at Masanjia Forced Labour Camp. He is currently being incarcerated in the camp's No. 2 Division. For refusing to cooperate, guard Li Meng (ID 2108216) proceeded to shock Mr. Chen's face and neck with electric batons for an extended period of time. His face was covered with blisters and burns. He was disfigured to the extent that even those who knew him could not recognize him.

Mr. Chen Kaiqu, born in 1976, was a resident of Quanzhou City, Fujian Province. He was working in the Beijing Branch of Feitong Guangdian Company in Shenzhen City. On July 14th, 2006, Chen Kaiqu was reported to the authorities while he was distributing Falun Gong leaflets exposing the persecution on the campus of Zhongyang School of Financial Studies. He was arrested and taken to the Dazhongshi Police Station in the Haidian District in Beijing. The next day, he was incarcerated in the Haidian Police Department's Detention Centre. On November 30th, 2006, he was taken to the Forced Labour Dispatch Division in Beijing for a two-year term. On May 21st, 2007, he was transferred to the No. 2 Division, No. 1 Camp of Masanjia Forced Labour Camp.

In order to cover up their crimes, the Masanjia Forced Labour Camp authorities have tried to prevent people from learning the facts, so they have forbidden detained practitioners from meeting with their families.

On February 20th, 2008, the guards from No. 2 Division tried to make practitioners Liu Qing, Han Ximin, and Gao Yuling to do forced labour, but the three refused. In reprisal, the guards carried out torture that lasted more than an hour on the practitioners. They shocked them repeatedly with electric batons. Liu Qing was so badly injured that his lips became very swollen. His whole face was disfigured and he even had difficulty speaking. Even those who used to know him well had difficulty recognizing him. To this day, he still has not recovered.

On the same afternoon, Team Leader Wang Yanming brought Liu Qing into the guards' office. In the office were No. 2 Division Leader Gao Zhongzhi, Education Division Leader Pan Hongzhou, guards Yu and Li Zhen, No. 3 Team Leader Li Meng, Team Leader Chen, sewing group Yang, and others. Fang Hongzhou told Li Zhen to handcuff Mr. Liu Qing's hands behind his back and use three electric batons to shock him on his head and body. When Mr. Liu shouted, "Falun Gong is good!" they held his arms down and began to shock his mouth and face with the electric batons. He continued to shout "Falun Gong is good!" Policeman Fan Hongzhou then stuffed a plastic bag into Liu Qing's mouth so that he could not speak. They used electric batons to shock his head and eyes. They did this until the electric batons ran out of power. The police then went to No. 3 Division to borrow two more electric batons. They removed Liu Qing's trousers and used the electric batons to shock him all the way from his feet, calves, and thighs to his torso, private parts, stomach, neck, and head. They repeated this six times, taking about an hour.

Before this, in order to protest the torture inflicted by the policemen in Masanjia, practitioner Mr. Zhao Jian shouted "Falun Gong is good!" and "Stop the persecution of Falun Gong" in the canteen on February 14th and 15th. The police then beat him and shocked him with electric batons in an erratic manner. In order to stop the torture and make an appeal for Mr. Zhao, the practitioners who were also incarcerated in the various teams started to go on a hunger strike as a protest and refused to do hard labour. The guards then carried out a mass persecution campaign specifically targeting the practitioners for one month.

Persons involved in persecuting practitioners:

Masanjia Forced Labour Camp Chief Zheng Mingqiang: 86-24-89216801 or 86-24-89212321 (Office)
Reformatory Chief Wei: 86-24-89212261
Political Head Gong Lian: 86-24-89216802(Office)
No. 1 Camp
Chief Zhang Guangbin: 86-24-89295031
Deputy chiefs: 86-24-89295032, 89295033, 89295035
No. 2 Division
Leader Gao Zongzhi: 86-24-89295057
Deputy Chiefs: 86-24-89295058, 86-24-89295059
Reformatory Division Head Pan Hongzhou brutally assaulted practitioner Mr. Gao Yuling on February 18th, 2008.

Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2008/4/2/175643.html