The "Death Bed" and Other Brutal Tortures Render Ms. Gao Guizhen in Critical Condition

Name: Gao Guizhen
Gender: Female
Age: Unknown
Address: Unknown
Occupation: Chief of the National Tax Bureau Collection Department
Date of Most Recent Arrest: August 1st, 2009
Most recent place of detention: Weifang City Detention Centre
City: Weifang City
Province: Shandong Province
Persecution Suffered: Extortion, Detention, Physical Constraint, Force-Feedings, Drug Administration

Ms. Gao Guizhen was the former chief of the National Tax Bureau Collection Section in Weicheng District, Weifang City. She became destitute and homeless for seven years in order to avoid persecution from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). On August 1st, 2009, Ms. Gao was arrested by the police from Kuiwen Police Department in Weifang City and suffered from brutal tortures such as the death bed¹, tied to a "cross" and being injected with unknown drugs in the Weifang City Detention Centre. By August 31st, Ms. Gao's life was in great danger due to the brutal tortures.

In order to shirk responsibility for Ms. Gao's condition, Weifang City Detention Centre took her to the Weicheng District 610 Office². The Weicheng District 610 Office detained Ms. Gao in the Weicheng District "Law Training Class" (brainwashing session) and continued to persecute her, disregarding the fact that she was in critical condition.

Ms. Gao has been practising Falun Gong since 1995 and has continually followed the principles of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance in order to be a good person and a responsible employee. She never accepted any gifts from her employer and was respected by her relatives, friends and colleagues. When the Weicheng District government and her workplace stopped her salary and removed her from her position, her colleagues immediately stood up and spoke for her.

In June 1999, Ms. Gao was fined 2,000 yuan³ by the Weicheng District City Management Office and her workplace deducted half a year's salary and removed her from her position. Xin Hua was the person who processed these transactions.

On October 1st, 2000, Ms. Gao went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong and was fined 50,000 yuan by the Weicheng District Political and Law Committee and Weicheng District Police Department without receiving a receipt. The First Section chief of the Weicheng Police Department Xu Yunsheng processed the fine.

In September 2001, Ms. Gao was arrested again for exposing the persecution of Falun Gong. She was fined 7,000 yuan and was detained at the Chengnan Wujia Detention Centre in Weicheng District for five days. She was then fined another 200 yuan.

In September 2001, police from the Weicheng District Police Department broke into Ms. Gao's home. They tried to arrest her again but failed. Ms. Gao has been homeless since then.

So that her husband and children would no longer suffer threats and fines from the police, Ms. Gao had to become homeless for seven years. She suffered great pain from being separated from her family. Since October 2000, Ms. Gao's employer has stopped all of her salary, totalling over 300,000 yuan.

On August 1st, 2009, Ms. Gao was arrested by the police from Kuiwen Police Department in Weifang City from her rented room and she was detained at the Weifang City Detention Centre. After a month's detention, her life was in great danger due to the persecution.

During her detention, Ms. Gao was brutally tortured by the police because she would not renounce her belief of Falun Gong. Chief of the Women's District Peng Yunxia and the team leader of the First Detention District, Chen, led four criminals to torture Ms. Gao using the "death bed" and "cross." They also force-fed her and injected her with unknown drugs which caused her to lose consciousness for a long period of time. They continuously tied her to the cross or death bed from 10 hours to 36 hours at a time for the entire month.

On the death bed, Ms. Gao's hands and feet were tightly cuffed by an iron loop and handcuffs six centimetres in diameter. It was very hard for her to move even a little. When she could not stand the excruciating pain any longer and tried to move a little, her ankles and wrists were suppressed by the iron loop and handcuff and it was very painful. Her wrists were badly swollen for more than ten days.

Each time Gao Guizhen was tied to the cross or death bed, female doctor Kang injected her with unknown drugs or force-fed her. When Doctor Kang did not insert the needle in the right spot, she didn't even pull the needle out to do it again. Doctor Kang said, "I don't need to pull the needle out and do it again. The muscle [at the wrong spot] will also absorb the drugs." The criminals who were detained at the detention centre were also incited by team leader Chen to find ways to further torture Ms. Gao in order to get a reduction to their detention term. Besides Ms. Gao, there was also another Falun Gong practitioner at the detention centre who also suffered from the same brutal tortures. The personnel who participated in force feeding Ms. Gao included police Xue, Doctor Zhu and four other criminals.

By August 31st, after being brutally persecuted, Ms. Gao's life was in great danger. Weicheng District 610 Office transferred her to the so-called Law Training Class at the Wangliu Town Middle School in Weicheng District, which was an abandoned school and did not have any students. There the police continued to detain and persecute her disregarding the fact that her life was in great danger.

Personnel involved in the persecution:

Weifang City Detention Centre:

Wang Shuguo, chief of the Weifang City Detention Centre: 86-13806363390 (Mobile)
Wu Jing, female, over 20 years old
Team Leader Zhang, male, over 30 years old
Doctor Kang, female, over 50 years old
Peng Yunxia, female, chief of the Women District in Weifang City Detention Centre
Chen, male, team leader of the First Detention District, over 40 years old
Doctor Zhu
Han Ting, female

List of Perpetrators in Weifang City:

Zhang Xinqi, male, CCP party committee secretary of Weifang City: 86-536-8789950, 86-13605360198(Mobile)

He was born in August 1956 and is from Rongcheng, Shandong Province. He became the CCP party committee secretary of Weifang City in September 2006 and since March 2007 held a concurrent position of City People's Congress director. In November 2007, the head of the Chinese Communist Party 610 Office visited Weifang City and forced the local government to increase the intensity of persecuting Falun Gong practitioners. Zhang Xinqi then publicly slandered Falun Gong in the media.

Huang Weilian, Chief Officer of the Weifang City Police Department and the head of persecuting Falun Gong practitioners in Weifang City, born in December 1950, from Weihai, Shandong Province: 86-536-8783121 (Office), 86-536-8789366 (Home), 86-13573689006 (Mobile)

Wang Zhiliang, head of the Weifang City 610 Office, 86-536-8789217, 86-13853610606 (Mobile)
Sui Ruwen, recently promoted to the head of the Weifang City 610 Office: 86-536-8783031 (Home), 86-13806495398(Mobile)

Fu Jinbin, head of the Weifang City CCP School Brainwashing Centre: 86-13791861607(Mobile)

Note

1. "Death Bed" torture: A practitioner is tied to a bed with his hands handcuffed above his head to the bed rails, and his legs tied with thin nylon ropes. The rope is then tightly wrapped around the practitioner's body and the bed, from his legs to his chest. The rope is wrapped so tightly that the practitioner has difficulty breathing and eventually loses consciousness.

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.

3. "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://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2009/10/1/209404.html