Calling for the Rescue of Falun Gong Practitioner Mr. Han Xu in Lanzhou City

Mr. Han Xu is a Falun Gong practitioner from Lanzhou City. He had worked in Germany for many years after obtaining his masters degree from Shandong University. Mr. Xu has a good command of four languages. Han Xu has been brutally persecuted many times for upholding his belief in Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance.

On May 2nd, 2002, Mr. Han was secretly arrested by the police from the Lanzhou Public Security Bureau on his way home. The police covered his face with a black cotton bag without showing any identification or giving any explanation. They seized his deposit book and the entire 7000 yuan¹ he had brought with him. He was later sent to the Xiguoyuan Detention Centre.

On July 25th, 2002, the Lanzhou City Procuratorate issued a certificate to release Mr. Han, which was concealed by the Lanzhou Public Security Bureau. They transferred Mr. Han to Jinquan Hotel and kept him secretly in Room 518. Six unemployed people were hired to watch him. During that period, he was savagely tortured. He was constantly beaten up, shocked with batons, forced to wear shackles and chains, and to sit on the ground in one position. He was deprived of the right to sleep and very little water was given to him. His wrists were seriously injured by the handcuffs and his hip was ulcerated. This brutal torture caused hallucinations and unconsciousness. The main tormentor was a person by the name of Zhang Chengpu.

On October 4th, 2002, the Hu County Public Security Bureau in Shaanxi Province claimed Han Xu was Xiao Chao, a person they were seeking. Without any proof, the Lanzhou police escorted Mr. Han to the Hu County Public Security Bureau. The director of the Bureau, Liu Zijin, took ten people with him to extort a confession from Mr. Han. They put him on the Tiger Bench². The team leader, Fan Hede, Deng Yuanli and Cai were the people responsible.

Neither the Hu County Court or the Shaanxi Intermediate People's Court could prove that Han Xu was the Xiao Cao they wanted to arrest. Han Xu spoke at the court about how they physically tortured him to extort a confession, and insisted that he was not guilty. The microphone in his hand was taken away and he was removed from the courtroom. He was sentenced to 10 years of imprisonment in the Weinan Prison without any right to defend himself. Han Xu appealed many times with supporting materials, but no one listened to him.

In November 2005, the Shaanxi Province 610 Office³ and Shaanxi Prison Bureau transferred all male Falun Gong practitioners from various prisons to the Weinan Prison in Shanxi. Since May 2006, Weinan Prison has adopted various brutal torture methods from the Masanjia Labour Re-education Camp, Jidong Prison in Hebei, Shaanxi Women's Prison and Labor Camp and the Zaozihe Labour Camp in persecuting Falun Gong practitioners. In order to uphold his personal beliefs, Han Xu had conducted many hunger strikes. In retaliation, he was force-fed many times, deprived of sleep and only limited visits were permitted. He is the key person that the 610 Office monitors.

Weinan Prison in Shaanxi:
Wang Zhixiong, Secretary of the Party Committee and head of the prison: 86-913-2065383, 86-913-2065389
Qi Yingming, Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee and Political Commissar

Note

1. "Yuan" is the Chinese currency; 500 yuan is equal to the average monthly income of an urban worker in China.

2. "Tiger Bench": Prisoners are forced to sit on a small iron bench that is approximately 20 cm (6 inches) tall with their knees tied together. With their hands tied behind their backs or sometimes placed on their knees, they are forced to sit straight up and look straight ahead without movement for long periods of time.

3. "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/2009/4/27/199804.html