After Being Imprisoned for Eight Years, Yu Lixin Is Sentenced to Another Four Years

Name: Yu Lixin
Gender: Male
Age:43
Address: Nanganqian Street, Xinhe Town, Wenling City, Zhejiang Province
Occupation:Unknown

Date of Most Recent Arrest:September, 2009
Most recent place of detention: Drug Injection Centre of Wenling City First Hospital
City:Wenling City
Province: Zhejiang Province
Persecution Suffered: Detention, Forced labour, Force-Feedings, Physical Constraint, Sleep Deprivation, Extortion, Forced Injections

Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Yu Lixin had been sentenced to a forced labour camp. He was detained there for eight years. While in the forced labour camp, he was severely persecuted. He was not released until 2009. Recently he was arrested and sent to a forced labour camp again.

In December 1999 Mr. Yu, while practising Falun Gong exercises in a park, was arrested. He was sent to the Wenling Detention Centre and was held there for one month. Then he was transferred to a hotel in Xinhe and was held there for half a year.

In January 2001, Mr. Yu went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong. He was arrested and detained again at the Wenling Detention Centre. He went on a hunger strike to protest the persecution. Zhu Sufang, Deputy Director of the detention centre, force-fed him. Police used sharp bamboo sticks to pry open his tightly clenched teeth. His mouth bled and his face became swollen. Then police fixed him on a wooden frame with his four limbs stretched wide open and then gave him injections of concentrated salt solution. He was then sent to a hospital. He was sentenced to three years of forced labour at the Shiliping Forced Labour Camp and his family was not notified. His elderly parents were going to every related organisation trying to find his whereabouts.

In the afternoon of May 12th, 2004, while Mr. Yu was in a practitioner's home, Lin Chenchao, Vice Leader of the domestic security division led other police to break into Mr. Yu's home and arrest him. At the Xinhe police station, Mr. Yu didn't co-operate with the police for written records. They didn't allow him to sleep. As soon as he closed his eyes, they injected water into his body. He was deprived of sleep for twenty consecutive days. During that time he fainted four times. Police formed three groups to torture him in three shifts 24 hours a day.

In the evening on May 31st, 2004, Mr. Yu was transferred to Wenling Detention Centre. He had been on a hunger strike for twenty days. Two days later, Zhu Sufang ordered other officers to take him to the Qingchun Hospital in Hangzhou City (it is a hospital that treats prisoners with serious diseases.) Zhu Sufang ordered policeman Chen Jianguang to persuade doctors to put him in the contagious disease ward for hepatitis and tuberculosis. He was forced to stay there for two nights. The hospital examined him and found that he was not ill. The hospital asked the police to take him back. Policeman Chen Jianguang put him in handcuffs and shackles and tied him to the roof of the police car and drove to the detention centre.

On June 5th, 2004, Xia Baolong, Deputy Director of the Legal and Political Committee in Zhejiang Province, commanded Huang Jinsheng, former Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Party Secretary of Wenling City, Wang Yilang, Director of the public security bureau, Zhu Shufang, Deputy Director of the detention centre and Director of the First People's Hospital to secretly send Mr. Yu to the First People's Hospital in Wenling. They tied him to a hospital bed with handcuffs and shackles and didn't let his family or other practitioners know. Zhu Sufang said to his subordinates, "Whoever opens the shackles for him will be docked on their bonus. Even if he dies, he shouldn't be released."

Mr. Yu went on a hunger strike to protest the persecution, which lasted for 77 days. They force fed him throughout the whole period. Because he was tied to the bed for such an extended period of time, his legs withered and he was not able to walk. He was severely emaciated.

Mr. Yu was sentenced to five years and six months for the alleged crime of organising practitioners to hold an experience sharing meeting and spreading Falun Gong teachings. On July 27th, 2004 he was detained in the Second Prison in Zhejiang Province.

In September 2009, Mr. Yu was arrested again. The police confiscated seven thousand yuan¹ from him. He went on a hunger strike in the detention centre. The police sent him to the drug centre in the first hospital in Wenling (It is actually a drug rehabilitation centre) where they forcibly injected drugs in him. He was tortured so severely that he was not able to get up from the bed. They put shackles on him so that he was not able to bend his legs.

In December 4th, 2009, officials from legal organisations opened a court session in the hospital. They didn't notify Mr. Yu's family or lawyer. His lawyer went to investigate and found out that the case would be tried on the fourth floor in the people's hospital at 8 a.m. on December, 4th. His relatives and friends heard the news and went to the hospital. However, the police did not allow them to sit in during the hearing. His relatives and friends ignored the police and almost all of them went in to hear the case. The police searched everybody and didn't allow them to take anything with them. They videotaped everybody and took photos when they went inside.

Two policemen carried Mr. Yu out because he was so severely tortured that he couldn't walk. His eyes were closed and his legs were stiff. He spoke with a low voice. The court sentenced him to four more years in prison.

Xia Fuming, the presiding judge from the Wenling City Court: 86-576-86128820(Office)

Note

1. "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://minghui.org/mh/articles/2009/12/16/214487.html