Yanji City Falun Gong Practitioner Shen Quanhui Brutally Tortured

Mr. Shen Quanhui is a practitioner from Yanji City, Jilin Province. Five months after he was arrested for practising Falun Gong, he told his family members during their only visit that he had been subjected to numerous tortures. His family also saw that he had become very emaciated and weak since his arrest. Before being arrested, he was a healthy adult. The family was very worried that he would be subjected to further torture.

After being arrested on September 7th, 2008 by policemen from Janji City and Longtoudao Police Station, Mr. Shen was brutally tortured. Because the officers have refused to allow his family to visit him, his family members are very worried about him.

On February 10th, 2009, Mr. Shen's family went to talk to Shen Gehua, chief of the Helong Police Department in Yanji City. His family members said, "Shen Quanhui just wants to be a good person. There is nothing wrong with that. We have not been allowed to see him, and we are very worried that he's been tortured to death!" Due to the family's persistence, Chief Shen Gehua finally took them to Helongxicheng Detention Centre to see Shen Quanhui. Under the watchful eyes of the guards, Mr. Shen began exposing the tortures to which he had been subjected. Fearing that their most wicked deeds would be exposed to the public, the guards forcibly took Mr. Shen away. After all the family's efforts to see him, Mr. Shen only had a chance to say a few words to them.

Mr. Shen's family members described him as being in excellent health before he was arrested. Before his arrest, he weighed 85 kg (187 lb). However, now he has lost so much weight that he looks like a skeleton, his face is as pale as a sheet, and he is very weak. He told his family members that he would expose the guards' vicious deeds even if it meant being tortured again.

When he was detained in Toudao Police Station, Mr. Shen was barbarically beaten by the policemen there. They kicked his head, as well as the most vulnerable parts of his body. He was almost killed there. He was beaten so badly that even the police who beat him were worried that he would die. They allowed him to receive medical treatment, and hence he survived. After he was locked up in the Helongxicheng Detention Centre, the guards brutally tortured Mr. Shen, hoping to force a confession from him. The guards used extremely cruel methods of torture. They put handcuffs and foot shackles on him, then sat on his back and pulled his limbs backwards. At the same time, they also stood on his back. He was in extreme pain. As a result of this brutal torture, he couldn't walk or eat for three months. His calve muscles were numb. Even now, months afterwards, he experiences pain deep in his chest.

The guards have claimed that they will never allow Mr. Shen's family to see him again. It is likely that Mr. Shen will again be tortured.

Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2009/2/14/195400.html