Mr. Dong Peng in Critical Condition in Hulan Prison

Mr. Dong Peng, a Falun Gong practitioner from Zhaodong City, Heilongjiang Province, was sentenced to 10 years in prison by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). He is incarcerated in Hulan Prison in Harbin City and has been tortured. The prison guards ordered the inmates to monitor him around the clock. He was frequently beaten, threatened, and forced to do a lot of physical labour. His chest is badly bruised and abraded. He is in critical condition.

On February 13th, 2009, his family was told to visit him the next day. They were told to encourage him to "cooperate with the prison guards." To see his family oblige the guards in this way was another form of torture for Mr. Dong.

During the visit on February 14th, Mr. Dong's parents, child, and other relatives saw that he was extremely weak. His hair had turned completely white even though he is only in his thirties. He was very thin and could not even get off the bed. His hands were shaking and his face was pale. He had difficulty breathing. He kept vomiting bile, and they saw many black and purple scars on his body.

His family asked the guards, "Mr. Dong was a very healthy person a short while ago, why does he look like this?" The guards said that he did not cooperate with them, so he was given shots. It would take four or five guards to hold him down to give him a shot. After the shots he suffered a lot as he was allergic to the "penicillin." His family asked to see an X-ray or CT scan. The guards refused the request, claiming that they didn't have permission from the warden. His family said that Mr. Dong's pain was more severe than it appeared. They asked if they could take him home and help him recover, but the guards said that all they could do was ask Mr. Dong to be more cooperative.

Dong Peng's wife, Ms. Yu Libo is also a practitioner. When the CCP started persecuting Falun Gong, officers from the Red Flag Police Station, Zhaodong City, hung a big board with her name on it around her neck, paraded her around, and put her on public display. Mr. Dong Peng's older brother, Dong Gang, and his wife were forced to accompany Mrs. Yu while she was paraded around. Then Ms. Yu was taken back to her home town, a county in Jiamusi City, Heilongjiang Province. She was pregnant at the time.

Less than ten months after giving birth to her baby, Ms. Yu Libo was persecuted again for writing a letter to then-Major Sun Gang of Zhaodong City. In her letter, she described the physical and spiritual benefits she experienced from cultivating Falun Gong and said that she wished the government would realize the truth and stop persecuting Falun Gong. When she was detained in the Zhaodong City Detention Centre, she was beaten, electrically shocked, and tortured with many torture implements including the Tiger Bench (please see http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2001/11/24/16156.html for a detailed explanation of this torture). Her eyebrows and underarms were burned. She went on a hunger strike to protest the inhuman treatment she was being subjected to.

Ms. Yu has been imprisoned in the Heilongjiang Province Women's Prison for more than eight years.

Mr. Dong Peng's parents are getting old, but they are still taking care of Mr. Dong's child.

Under coercion from the Red Flag Police Station, Mr. Dong Peng's brother, Dong Gang, had to sever all contact with his father, who is also a practitioner.

Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2009/2/16/195556.html