Liu Cheng, 52, is from Qianyangxiang Town, Yi County, Liaoning Province. He became a Falun Gong practitioner in October 1998. During the nine years since the persecution of Falun Gong began, he has been sentenced to forced labour twice and has spent a total of five years in labour camps.
On October 11th, 2000, he went to Beijing to appeal on behalf of Falun Gong. He and his fellow practitioners went to Tiananmen Square and unfurled a banner exposing the persecution of Falun Gong. He was then arrested. As the police dragged him to the squad car, he shouted, "Falun Gong is good!" He was held in a detention centre west of Tiananmen Square on October 13th, 2000.
On October 16th, 2000, officers from Qianyangxiang Police Station and the Public Security Bureau from Yi County, as well as the Houni Village secretary, Liu Yuwen, escorted Mr. Liu Cheng back to Qianyangxiang Police Station from Beijing. It was midnight when Mr. Liu Cheng arrived, and the director of the police station, Song Fuji, ordered five policemen to beat him. He was beaten until he was black and blue all over, with his face swollen and his nose bleeding. One policeman used a club to strike his legs so violently that he could not walk after the beating. The police also instigated other inmates to attack him. Inmates poured numerous buckets of cold water over his head.
On October 24th, 2000, Mr. Liu was sentenced to three years of forced labour and held in the Jinzhou City Correction Centre. The director of the battalion, Ma Yong, and the deputy-director attempted to persuade him to give up his belief. They tried to brainwash him, and they later sent him to a high-pressure "transformation1" session. Mr. Liu was forced to sit on a small stool for long periods of time. When he refused he was brutally beaten and shocked with electric batons. He was abused physically for over ten hours on a daily basis.
In September 2002, Jinzhou Correction Centre officials initiated another round of persecution against the practitioners who firmly believed in Falun Gong. They were deprived of sleep, forced to stand for long periods of time, and had their hands cuffed behind their backs. Mr. Liu Cheng passed out after five days of sleep deprivation. Guard Yang Tinglun ordered four inmates to hold him on the ground, stripped off his clothes, and shocked him in the abdomen with electric batons. His abdomen was covered with burn marks. Guards Li Songtao, Feng Zibin, Zhang Chunfeng, and Zhang Jiabin beat him numerous times because he refused to wear the prison uniform and refused to sit on the small stool (a form of torture). After the long-term physical torture, his legs were constantly in pain and he could hardly walk.
Mr. Liu Cheng was released in May 2003. His health slowly recovered after one year of care. The officers from Qianyangxiang Police Station and the Public Security Bureau went to harass him at home numerous times after he was released.
On July 4th, 2004, six to seven policemen raided Mr. Liu's home. He shouted, "The bandits are kidnapping me again! Falun Gong is good!" One policeman jumped on him, handcuffed him, dragged him to the car, took him to the County Public Security Bureau, and interrogated him. He was later taken to a detention centre.
Mr. Liu refused to cooperate: he refused to wear the inmate uniform, and he refused to report when called. Five guards repeatedly beat him for this.
On July 20th, 2004, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials sentenced Mr. Liu to Jinzhou Correction Centre for two years where he again suffered inhuman torture. The guards forced him to sit on an iron bar and tied up all of his extremities. After four days of torture, Guard Li Songtao tied Mr. Liu's legs in lotus position, handcuffed him behind his back, and forced him to listen to Falun Gong-slandering material. Li Songtao shocked Mr. Liu with an electric baton on his face and neck, used metal clips on his ribs, and squeezed Mr. Liu's testicles. Mr. Liu was tortured for three days and nights straight. He was not recognizable after the abuse and was covered with wounds from head to toe.
Mr. Liu was bedridden for two weeks after the torture. He had constant leg pain, numbness, and loss of feeling. In order to relieve the pain, Mr. Liu began to do the Falun Gong exercises. He was threatened by battalion Director Bai Jinlong and put in solitary confinement.
No. 2 Battalion Director Bai Jinlong ordered inmate Pan Xiuhai to torture Mr. Liu on a daily basis. Mr. Liu was handcuffed to a small stool, and Pan tied a bridle-like device (which had a protruding part that stuck all the way to his throat that made him gag constantly) around his mouth. The inmate beat him like this daily for almost two weeks.
After this, the guards handcuffed Mr. Liu and hung him up. That torture lasted for a month. He was forced to sit on a small stool for over 12 hours a day for almost two months. Because of long term sitting on such a small seat, his bottom turned blue and purple, and his wounds turned into hard scars. The blood vessels of his legs were severely compromised.
In the middle of September the guards tied him down on a bed, depriving him of sleep for over 60 hours to try to force him to give up his belief. After that he was forced to sit on the small stool again for over 14 hours each day for several months. The guards used clubs to beat his knees and ankles while he sat on the stool.
Mr. Liu was released on August 4th, 2006. His health recovered after one year of care. He was again arrested by police from Qianyangxiang Police Station on June 3rd, 2008.
Note
1. "Reform or Transform" Implementation of brainwashing and torture in order to force a practitioner to renounce Falun Gong. (Variations: "reform", "transform", "reformed", "reforming", "transformed", "transforming", and "transformation")
Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2008/6/8/179914.html
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