Mr. Liu Yuhe's Family Reveals How He Was Tortured in Prison

Name: Liu Yuhe
Gender: Male
Age: Unknown
Address: Unknown
Occupation: Unknown

Date of Most Recent Arrest: Unknown
Most recent place of detention: Jilin Prison
City: Jilin
Province: Jilin
Persecution Suffered: Imprisonment, force-feeding, beating, torture, electric shocks, hung up, solitary confinement

Falun Gong practitioner Liu Yuhe from Jilin Province was sentenced and sent to Jilin Prison, where he was tortured. His family members' demands for justice have gone unanswered. To protest the persecution, Mr. Liu went on a hunger strike, but the prison guards tortured him with forced feeding.

Mr. Liu suffered severe injuries in prison. He lost control of his bowels and bladder and was in critical condition. He was taken to a hospital for emergency treatment. His family authorised a lawyer to sue Jilin Prison officials for abusing him, but the prison authorities threatened the lawyer with retaliation.

To rescue Mr. Liu, his family filed an accusation with the Jilin Province justice system, and demanded that he be released on medical parole. They have yet to receive a reply.

The following is Liu Yuhe family's accusation.

During his detention, Liu Yuhe was tortured repeatedly. His family made strong demands for the offenders to be punished. This demand has yet to be answered. To protest his unjust imprisonment and maltreatment, Mr. Liu launched a hunger strike, but the police responded by force-feeding him. Currently, Mr. Liu has lost the ability to care for himself. He lost control of his bowels and bladder and is under emergency care in a hospital.

The end of May 2009, the Jilin Province Prison Administration personnel investigated guards Li Yongsheng, Wang Yuanchun, and others for their roles in instigating criminal inmates to torture and harm Mr. Liu. Prison officials covered up the facts and locked him into a small cell as revenge.

Based on our knowledge, on November 2nd, 2009, Li Yijiao, the prison affairs section head; Sun Fengjun, a guard from the strictly controlled team; and Sun Wen, the prison doctor, tortured Mr. Liu badly. After that, we went to the prison to visit Mr. Liu. Guard Zhang Meng from Ward Five answered our phone call, and another guard said, "Liu Yuhe is in the hospital and he is not eligible for a family visit." When we asked why, he cursed at us.

To protect Liu Yuhe, we hired a lawyer to defend him.

On November 13th, 2009, we went to Jilin Prison again to see Mr. Liu, but the guards wouldn't let us in, saying he was under discipline in the hospital. When the lawyer asked to see him to obtain his signature on the contract, the prison officials refused his request. On November 16th, we went to the prison one more time to make sure he was all right, but the guards once again turned us away. We demanded to see the residing prosecutor at the prison, but to no avail.

Since our voices fell on deaf ears, I want to briefly recount the persecution that my brother Liu Yuhe suffered and ask for help.

Liu Yuhe was sentenced to eight years in prison by the Chuanying Court of Jilin City on September 11th, 2007. At Jilin Prison, he was repeatedly assaulted by criminal inmates and tortured by guards, and he suffered severe injuries.

Beginning July 31st, 2008, the prison intensified his maltreatment. On that day, a guard and several criminal inmates escorted him to the strictly controlled cell and forced him to sit on a narrow bench from 5:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. every day. His entire body weight rested on the bench, so his buttocks hurt badly. When he could not sit straight any longer, the guards told inmates to push hard against his neck and to use electric batons on his head.

In October 2008, Mr. Liu was sent to a strictly controlled cell again. Under guard Sun Fengjun's direction, inmates Sun Xinghe, Fan Tiejun, and Liang Xinming used ropes to hang up him and tortured him for two days, causing severe injuries. To this day, his hands still feel numb and he gets sharp pains in them. They also did not allow him to use the toilet for two days. As a result, his pants and clothes were soiled. He was forced to sit on a narrow bench for more than a month.

In the afternoon of November 28th, 2008, guard Dai Jun took Mr. Liu to the strictly controlled cell again. On January 14th, 2009 at 8:00 a.m., criminals Sun Xinghe, Liang Xinming. and Fan Tiejun began to hit him violently. At 7:30 p.m., Fan Tiejun took him outside of the strictly controlled cell and began to strip off his clothes with the assistance of inmates Ma Jingyu, Sun Xinghe, and Cui Yong. They pinned the naked Liu to the floor and began punching and kicking him. They blamed him for reporting the violence to the authorities even as they continued to beat him, "How dare you tell others about the beating? You are supposed to keep your mouth shut about things that happen here. We know you wrote a letter to the prosecution office to accuse Ma Jingyu and Sun Xinghe for beating you. We've wanted to beat you for a long time, so we are beating you today! Will you dare to report it again?" Guards Liu Tong and Li stood nearby while the beating went on, but they pretended to see nothing. Guard Dong Jian said, "How could we call this place a strictly controlled cell if we don't beat people?" After a long time, the inmates were exhausted and stopped. But at 8:10 p.m., inmate Liang Xinming pushed him to a restroom and beat him again. He was severely injured, had a bloody nose, and vomited; he also suffered a heart attack. Fan Tiejun and Ma Jingyu were scared, so they forced him to swallow some medicine for a heart attack and let him go.

In April 2009, Mr. Liu was locked up in the strictly controlled cell again. During his detention there, he repeatedly complained to the prison staff and higher agencies about how he had been abused. The guards assaulted him repeatedly and locked him in a solitary confinement cell. While covering up their crimes, the guards tightened their grip on him. Since the beginning of the persecution, more than ten practitioners have died in Jilin Prison. Now, Mr. Liu Yuhe is in critical condition. We demand that he be released on medical parole. We fear for his life. If something happens to him, we will definitely fight for justice for him.

I demand that legal actions be taken against the guards and inmates that used violence on my brother, Liu Yuhe. I also demand monetary compensation on behalf of Liu Yuhe.

Liu Yufa, November 16th, 2009

Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2010/2/1/217367.html