Police Covertly Cremated the Remains of Mr. Qian Shiguang, Who Had Been Severely Injured

Mr. Qian Shiguang, 65, was a senior engineer at the China Petroleum Exploration Institute Northwestern Branch. He died as a result of torture on September 8th, 2008, in the Gongjiawan Brainwashing Centre.

According to witnesses, Mr. Qian appeared to have been severely traumatized. His face was bruised, his eyes bulged, and both of his hands were dark. Afraid of having their brutality exposed, the police dared not use a crematorium, and cremated the body secretly.

Before his death Mr. Qian wrote about some of the abuse and brutal mistreatment he experienced on small slips of paper, under extremely difficult circumstances. What he wrote exposed some of the facts about how practitioners were abused in the brainwashing centre.

Mr. Qian's former employer was also involved in persecuting him. Mr. Qian's forced labour camp term expired in April 2008. One of the Party secretaries at his workplace said, "Keep on detaining him [Mr. Qian] and do not release him. We would be willing to pay the brainwashing centre 3,000 yuan¹ to do this."

Note

1. "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/2009/1/7/193131.html