After Torture and Interrogation in a Detention Centre, Ms. Yin Jinmei Sent To Forced Labour

Ms. Yin Jinmei, a Falun Gong practitioner from Jiujiang City in Jiangxi Province, was kidnapped by the police on February 16th, 2009. She was tortured in a metal chair. Her hands swelled to the size of her calf and her legs were completely covered with bruises. On March 24th, 2009, she was again picked up and sent to the Nanchang Women's Forced Labour Camp for one and a half years.

Ms. Yin Jinmei is a resident of Dongcheng suburb of Lianhua Town in Lushan District of Jiujiang City. At 9:00 am on February 16th, 2009, she was distributing leaflets exposing the persecution and telling people the facts about Falun Gong and was thus taken by the police and sent to a detention centre.

The police interrogated her around the clock for three days, demanding to know what other practitioners she knew. The police couldn't obtain anything from her as she did not utter one word. On February 20th, 2010, they took her to the fourth floor of Lushan District Police Department. They interrogated her for a long time, but because they couldn't get anything out of her, they tortured her.

At 7:00 pm, they made her sit on a metal chair, handcuffing her to the chair. The chair is narrow at the top and wide at the bottom. Even though she continually explained the truth about Falun Gong to them, they ignored her and continued to torture her. They held her hands down and stepped on her feet. She lost all feeling in her hands and feet. They continued to torture her for the entire night.

The next morning, they took her back to the detention centre. Her hands had become so swollen that they looked equally as thick as her calf. Her feet were covered with bruises. Officials at the detention centre were shocked. They claimed that a perfectly fine person had been taken from them, but was returned in such poor condition that they refused to accept her. The torturers whispered some threats to the officials and in the end they accepted her.

In March 24th, 2009, she was sent to Nanchang Forced Labour Camp for one and a half years. There the evildoers tried to "transform" [forcibly renounce Falun Gong] her every day. They tried to confuse and change her thinking, to make her say things against her conscience. They did not release her even during the holidays. She did not say anything nor will she be transformed. She practised the exercises in the labour camp, so the guards named Li and Wei imprisoned her in a solitary cell for a month.

In order to compel practitioners to "transform," the guards instigated four to five inmates to beat up fellow practitioners Chen Yulian and Ouyan Xingqin. Inmate Wang Heni physically assaulted practitioners Tian Haiying and Ouyang Xingqin. Inmate Wang Xiaoying beat up practitioner Li Guihua, who was in her sixties. The inmates who physically assaulted the practitioners were imprisoned for taking drugs and were responsible for monitoring the practitioners.

Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2010/9/26/230174.html