Qu Fengxiang Arrested and Brutally Tortured

Name: Qu Fengxiang
Gender: Male
Age: Unknown
Address: Beijing
Occupation: Unknown
Date of Most Recent Arrest: October 14th, 2010
Most Recent Place of Detention: Haidian District Detention Centre
City: Beijing
Persecution Suffered: Beatings, home ransacked, extortion, interrogation, detention, physical constraint, forced injections/drug administration, electric shock, torture, force-feedings

Mr. Qu Fengxiang was arrested by officer Yu Yang and the detective section of the Shuangyushu Police Department in Beijing on the afternoon of October 14th, 2010.

Yu pretended that he was a student's father and chatted with Mr. Qu. Mr. Qu gave him a Falun Gong DVD. Yu and two other police officers, who waited outside, then arrested him. Yu brutally beat Mr. Qu in the head, chest and lower body, and then threw him to the ground and handcuffed him.

The officers then went to ransack Mr. Qu's home. They confiscated his laptop, printer, DVD burner, copies of Zhuan Falun, Falun Gong book and other Falun Gong teachings, blank discs, several English-learning and music books, and a paring knife. They then took Mr. Qu to the police station.

Mr. Qu refused to cooperate with the interrogation. He was then transferred to Haidian District Detention Centre. He was first detained in Cell No. 1 of Section 2 and then was transferred to Cell No. 2 of Section 4 on the second day. After five or six days, officers brought him out for questioning. One officer said: “I watched the [Falun Gong] DVD and didn't really see anything wrong with it.” The officer then said that Mr. Qu was free to call home.

Mr. Qu asked to be released unconditionally, but the authorities sent him back to the detention centre. He yelled “Falun Gong is good!” on the way there. A guard named Zhao put him in shackles and handcuffs, locking his hands and feet closely together so that he could barely move. Mr. Qu continued to yell, “Falun Gong is good!” He was placed in Cell No. 2 of Section 7. One of the prisoners in that cell told someone to give him a bottle of red iced tea. After Mr. Qu drank it, he felt very dizzy; he realized that some drug had been added to the drink. That night, the guards pulled him outside, injected him with some unknown drug, then threw him on a bed and shocked him with electric batons.

The next day, Zhao took Mr. Qu out of the cell and hinted that he should give him money, but Mr. Qu refused. Zhao then transferred him to a cell for death-row inmates. The guard who escorted him to this cell told three prisoners to stomp on the shackles on Mr. Qu's feet. Mr. Qu did not give in to the inmates' torture, so they then hit his head and face with their shoes. His face became swollen, and the corners of his eyes still have scars today.

Section 2 guards Li Jie and Li Tong ordered prisoners from Cell No. 1 to beat Mr. Qu. They rolled up a piece of paper into a small cylinder and used it to put mustard oil and spice into Mr. Qu's nose, put a plastic bucket over his head and blew smoke into it, and used their fingers nails to dig into his neck. They also hit his feet with his shoes. Li Tong kicked the outside of his leg. Mr. Qu was not able to walk for a long time afterward.

Mr. Qu went on a hunger strike to protest the persecution. Li Tong then transferred him to the Emergency Centre. There, officers locked up his feet and forcibly infused fluid into his body. After several days, they transferred him to the police hospital inside the Beijing Second Detention Centre at Dougezhuang Village of Chaoyang District. There, he was again forcibly hooked up to an IV and infused with psychotropic drugs that damage the central nervous system. At that time, authorities took Mr. Qu's fingerprints and used the prints to fake a document with a two-year forced labour sentence. During this period, police officers brutally force-fed him three times by inserting tubes into his stomach. On one occasion, they did not pull out the tube for 60 hours. After 15 days, they sent Mr. Qu back to Haidian Detention Centre.

Mr. Qu was brutally tortured for a total of 43 days. He was then sent to the Xin'an Forced Labour Camp, but because he was so weak from the torture, the labour camp refused to accept him. Some police officers then recognized that he was in very poor physical condition and sent him home. He is now listed as being “on probation.”

Police have threatened Mr. Qu that since they have his fingerprints, they can come up with any excuse to arrest him again. They have also spread false rumours that Mr. Qu had confessed and signed the guarantee statement renouncing his practice of Falun Gong. However, he did not sign such a statement. His fingerprints (used as signature) had been obtained without his consent while he was barely conscious and unable to resist in the hospital.

Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2011/2/25/236757.html