Mr. Du Shiliang, a 50-year-old practitioner from Hailin City, Heilongjiang Province, died as a result of persecution in the Jianshanzi Prison of Mudanjiang City, Heilongjiang Province on January 20th, 2006. Before his death, his family visited him on January 13th, and he appeared to be in normal physical condition. After his death, when his family asked to take his body, the chief of the Prison Guard Section Li Xiangdong said, "Du Shiliang is still serving his sentence. He has to continue to serve his sentence, even if he is dead, so you can't take his body." Later, his body was cremated by police from the Domestic Security Division of the Hailin City Police Department, including Jiang Yuntao and Na Yongsheng. They forced all of the victim's family to sign the cremation document on the spot.
Before he practised Falun Gong, Mr. Du suffered from gastric polyps, a precursor to gastric cancer, for many years. The large amount of money spent on his medical treatment worsened the living conditions of his already-poor family. At a critical moment, he found Falun Gong, and he recovered from his illness in only a few months. In late January 2002, Song Yumin, chief of the Domestic Security Division of Hailin City, along with police officers Jiang Yuntao and Jin Haizhu, broke into his home and arrested Mr. Du and his wife. Then the police sent them to the Hailin City Detention Centre using the excuse that they had Falun Gong leaflets exposing the persecution at their home. On July 2002, Mr. Du announced his belief in Falun Gong in the courthouse, for which the chief judge extended his imprisonment term from three years to six years.
In late September 2002, the Hailin City Detention Centre sent Mr. Du and four other Falun Gong practitioners to the Mudanjiang Prison in Heilongjiang Province.
During 2002 and 2003, prison guards and prisoners from the Third Ward of the Mudanjiang Prison, in their attempts to "transform1" Mr. Du into giving up Falun Gong, forced him to perform overly intensive labour and tortured him with sleep deprivation at night. Prisoner Shen Congfu was involved in cruelly beating him many times. Mr. Du was forced to perform intensive labour up until his death.
When Mr. Du's family went to the Mudanjiang Prison to claim his body, the authorities headed by the Mudanjiang City 610 Office2 and the prison were extremely cautious. Officers from several governmental departments in different uniforms surrounded the victim's family members. They didn't let the family members to go through until they strongly protested.
Note
1. "Reform or Transform" Implementation of brainwashing and torture in order to force a practitioner to renounce Falun Gong. (Variations: "reform", "transform", "reformed", "reforming", "transformed", "transforming", and "transformation")
2. "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/2009/7/8/204191.html
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