Mr. Lin Zehua Paralysed, Still Detained in Jiamusi City Prison

Name: Lin Zehua
Gender: Male
Age: 47
Address: Youyi Town, Youyi County, Shuangyashan City, Heilongjiang Province; temporarily resided in the Third Community, Fenggang Town, Youyi County
Occupation: Taxi Driver
Date of Most Recent Arrest: September 12th, 2007
Most Recent Place of Detention: Jiamusi City Prison
City: Jiamusi
Province: Heilongjiang
Persecution Suffered: Forced labour, brainwashing, beatings, imprisonment, force-feedings, physical restraint, interrogation, detention

Mr. Lin Zehua was sentenced to one year of forced labour in 2001 for his belief in Falun Gong. In September 2002, he was sentenced to three years of forced labour but was released on bail after three months in a detention centre. In February 2004, Mr. Lin was sentenced to three years of forced labour in Anshan City, Liaoning Province. This time, he was held in Haicheng City Detention Centre for three months and in the Anshan City Forced Labour Camp for three months before he was released for medical treatment.

On September 12th, 2007, Lin Zehua was arrested by Shuangyashan City Domestic Security Division agents. During the arrest, the agents hit and kicked him in the head. At midnight, Mr. Lin was taken to the Youyi Detention Centre, where he was detained for almost seven months. During that time, Director Cai Yongde (male) took him to Youyi County Hospital to be force-fed.

On April 10th, 2008, Mr. Lin was taken to the intensive training ward of Qitaihe Prison, where inmate Liang Guangcheng forced him to stand and walk in military fashion for a long time.

On July 10th, 2008, he was transferred to Jiamusi City Prison. At the time, due to the abuse he had already been subjected to, Mr. Lin was quite weak. Although he could still take care of himself, he could barely walk was not able to do physical labour. He was assigned to the Second Division of the Fifth Ward. As soon as he arrived, he was pressured to write statements to give up Falun Gong. He refused.

To exert more pressure on Mr. Lin, Lai Baohua (male), chief of the division, and Wang Lianyu (male), political instructor, placed him under strict monitoring--no phone calls to family members or family visits. After September 7th, 2008, they no longer allowed him to buy daily necessities.

On October 16th, 2008, commander Lai Baohua assigned inmate Li Yansong (male) as Mr. Lin's personal monitor, and restricted others from contacting or helping Mr. Lin. Mr. Lin had difficulty walking but was forced to walk to the prison's workshop to work.

From October 17th to November 7th, 2008, Mr. Lin worked in the workshop daily. It took him half an hour to walk the 0.3 miles to the workshop. On the morning of November 7th, Li Yansong dragged Mr. Lin because he was moving slowly. Mr. Lin was thrown on the floor of the hallway. Lai Baohua came and asked, "Are you ready to write the Three Statements¹?" Mr. Lin replied no. Lai said, "Keep moving if you won't write the Three Statements." It took Mr. Lin 35 minutes to walk another 0.1 miles, where he stopped. He could not walk any further.

Since then, Mr. Lin has no longer been able to move his legs. Once he lay down, he could not sit up or roll over. Lai Baohua ordered Li Yansong to threaten Mr. Lin, saying that if he did not write the statements, they wouldn't send anyone to help him.

After his frequent requests, Mr. Lin was finally taken to the hospital affiliated with the prison to see a doctor in December 2008. Although he was paralysed and could not take care of himself, the doctor had the audacity to say that he was OK.

Later, Li Zehua's family paid for him to be examined at an outside hospital. But the prison administration did not allow any of his family members to be present during the exam. The administration did not disclose the doctor's diagnosis to his family, but claimed that the doctor did not find anything wrong. Despite there being no "diagnosis," Mr. Lin was paralysed. The administration accused Mr. Lin of pretending and denied him any medical treatment or special care.

Before he was detained in Jiamusi Prison, although Mr. Lin had difficulty walking, he still could take care of himself. But when the administrators of the prison forced him to work in the workshop, within just 20 days, he was paralysed. Instead of investigating Li Yansong, the prison administrators ignored his inhuman abuse of Mr. Lin.

Presently, Mr. Lin has completely lost the ability of take care of himself. Those responsible think that their inhuman persecution of Falun Gong practitioners inside the prison is unknown to the outside world. Under orders from, and with the support of Chinese Communist Party officials, they have been unscrupulous in persecuting practitioners.

Note

1. "Three Statements": Practitioners are coerced under brainwashing and torture to write "Repentance Statement," "Guarantee Statement" or 'Dissociation Statement" as proof that they have given up their belief. In the statement, the practitioner is forced to admit remorse for practising Falun Gong, promise to give up Falun Gong, and never again associate with other practitioners or go to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong.

Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2009/11/27/213374.html