Police from the Public Security Bureau in Jiansanjiang, Heilongjiang Province Torture Falun Gong Practitioners

On the night of March 21st, 2008, five Falun Gong practitioners from Jiansanjiang, Heilongjiang Province were arrested and taken to the local police station, when they were explaining the truth about Falun Gong to people at the Qinglong Mountain Farm. That night, practitioners Mr. Shi Mengwei, Mr. Chen Dong and Mr. Tian Baoyu were locked up separately, and mercilessly beaten by seven or eight policemen. When the policemen became tired, they took a break by interrogating Ms. Yu Fengxian and Ms. Sun Yan, and then continued beating the three male practitioners. The next day, these practitioners were transferred to the Qianjin Farm Detention Centre.

Five Falun Gong practitioners were detained at that detention centre for six to seven days. Every time officers from the Jiansanjiang Administrative Bureau 610 Office¹ came to visit, they were subjected to brutal torture with vicious means, including electric batons, leather whips and iron rods. The bodies of Shi Mengwei, Chen Dong and Tian Baoyu had turned black, and at least one male practitioner had blood in his urine as a result of these torture methods.

This event was led primarily by Wang Jialin, the party committee assistant secretary and politics and judiciary secretary for Jiansanjiang. The implementation of these torture methods was organized by Peng Yong, head of the Domestic Security Division of the Administrative Public Security Bureau in Jiansanjiang.

On July 28th, 2008, officials from the Jiansanjiang Agricultural Settlement Court in Heilongjiang Province again put five Falun Gong practitioners on trial. Shi Mengwei was sentenced to five years and six months, Chen Dong and Tian Baoyu to four years, and Yu Fengxian and Sun Yan to three years. In the court, Shi Mengwei, Chen Dong and Tian Baoyu refused to accept their sentences and requested appeals.

Personnel from the Agricultural Public Security Bureau in Jiansanjiang ordered police officers from the Qixing Farm Sub-bureau to forcibly break door locks, ransack several practitioners' homes and arrest them, which took place at 8:00 p.m. on July 21swt, 2008. Falun Gong practitioners Shi Mengchang, Zhang Xizeng, Zhang Yanqiu, Zhao Fengrong and elderly Ms. Song were arrested, and detained at the brainwashing centre in the Jiansanjiang sub-bureau, which was set up by the Agricultural Settlement Bureau.

On July 23rd, 2008, Shi Mengchang requested an unconditional release, and went on a hunger strike, which he has been conducting for three days. He had been sent to a forced labour camp twice, for a total period of five years. He became critically ill while in the Suihua Forced Labour Camp in Heilongjiang Province, and required medical treatment, and was thus released on bail the second time. Officials at the forced labour camp sent a fax to personnel of the Jiansanjiang Agricultural Public Security Bureau, asking them to pick him up. However, officials of the local public security bureau ignored it, and he was not released until early 2005, after he had served three years. Zhang Xizeng has been detained many times.

Partial list of people involved in this mistreatment:
Hou Jiting, secretary of the Administrative Bureau Politics and Judiciary Committee: 86-13836636699 (Mobile), 86-454-5727577 (Home)
Wang Jialin, Jiansanjiang Party Committee assistant secretary and politics and judiciary secretary, in charge of persecuting Falun Gong: 86-13903645528(Mobile),, 86-454-5790335 (Home)
Bao Jun, once in charge of the persecution: 86-13836638666 (Mobile), 86-13054364633 (Mobile), 86-454-5790633 (Home)
Che Yi, deputy political commissar, mainly participates in the persecution: 86-454-5808003 (Office), 86-13946485222 (Mobile), 86-454-5724096 (Home)

Domestic Security Division:
Peng Yong, brigade head, chief participant in the persecution: 86-454-5808020 (Office), 86-13512602077 (Mobile), 86-454-5714445 (Home)
Yu Wenbo, chief participant in the persecution: 86-454-5808019 (Office), 86-13845433088 (Mobile), 86-454-5710509 (Home)
Li Chunyao: head of the 610 Office, newly appointed: 86-454-5725790 (Home)

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.

Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2008/10/28/188715.html