Mr. Xiao Hongmo Dies in Custody in Sichuan Province

Name: Xiao Hongmo
Gender: Male
Age: 47
Address: Geology Compound, 101 Dong Street, Luocheng Town, Guanghan City, Sichuan Province
Occupation: Nuoergai 405 Mining Detection in Aba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province
Date of Death: Mid-March 2010
Date of Most Recent Arrest: April 18th, 2008
Most Recent Place of Detention: Deyang City Prison
City: Guanghan
Province: Sichuan
Persecution Suffered: Electric shock, brainwashing, forced injections/drug administration, beatings, imprisonment, solitary confinement, torture, forced-feedings, physical restraint, home ransacked, interrogation, detention.

Mr. Xiao Hongmo went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong in early 2001, and was arrested and sentenced to five years of imprisonment. He served the term in Geyang City Prison and Guanyuan City Prison. He was tortured in the prisons, and lost several of his teeth due to beatings.

From August to December 2003, Mr. Xiao was detained in the Fifth Section of the Second Ward of Guangyuan City Prison. He erased an article slandering Falun Gong posted on the blackboard with three other practitioners. Guards Gou Jianfeng, Miao Yun, He Zhong, and Ran Wei beat them brutally, shocked them many times with an electric baton, and beat them until they passed out. All the inmates in the Fifth Section know this for a fact.

Around the 2005 New Year, guards held meeting to slander Falun Gong at the Guanyuan City Prison. Mr. Xiao shouted, "Falun Gong is great!" so guards stepped on his neck and beat him with police batons on the floor. Mr. Xiao felt weak for a long time afterward, and he held a hunger strike to protest. The guards locked him in solitary confinement with two prisoners watching him. The cell was located at the end of a hallway, with a warning line set up on the hallway floor, warning that inmates were not allowed to enter the area. No one knows exactly what kind of torture he suffered there. He was force-fed and forced to accept intravenous injections. Deputy prison director Xie Ping and other managers tried to brainwash Mr. Xiao.

Soon after being released home, on April 18th, 2008, the police arrested Mr. Xiao again while he distributing leaflets exposing the persecution and telling people the facts about Falun Gong. Four plainclothes officers ransacked his home in the afternoon. Two additional plainclothes officers later arrived at his home and forced his daughter to sign his detention warrant, since no adult was present. He was detained in the Guangyan City Detention Centre.

Mr. Xiao was secretly sentenced to another five years in prison at the Deyang City Prison. He persisted in explaining the facts about Falun Gong to people even inside the prison. On July 25th, 2009, he was injected with an unknown drug, which caused him to become unconscious and incontinent. He was taken to Deyang City People's Hospital for emergency treatment. Prison administrators lied to his family, saying that he developed a tumour in his brain. His mother and a friend went to visit him, but they were chased out and forbidden from visiting him. He was taken to the Sichuan Province General Police Hospital in Chengdu City on July 27th, 2009, and died there in mid-March 2010.

Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2010/4/1/220774.html