Mr. Jiao Lingyun from Jixian County in Heilongjiang Province Detained

Name: Jiao Lingyun
Gender: Male
Age: Unknown
Address: Shengchang Town, Jixian County, Heilongjiang Province
Occupation: Chef

Date of Most Recent Arrest: June 10th, 2011
Most Recent Place of Detention: Jixian County Detention Centre
City: Jixian County
Province: Heilongjiang
Persecution Suffered: Detention, home ransacked, extortion, physical constraint, force-feeding.

Mr. Jiao learned Falun Gong near the end of 1994, and experienced health improvements and inner peace as a result of the practice. However, he has been arrested and tortured several times since the Chinese Communist Party began its persecution of Falun Gong on July 20th, 1999.

When Mr. Jiao went to Beijing to appeal on February 25th, 2000, he was arrested outside the Civil Complaints Office by plainclothes police. He was handed over to the Jixian County Domestic Security Division and was taken to the Jixian Detention Centre. Mr. Jiao was seen practising the Falun Gong exercises in the detention centre, and was tied to a metal frame.

In order to protest his persecution, Mr. Jiao went on a hunger strike. The guards dragged him to the restroom and threw a bucket of urine over him. The head of the detention centre, with the last name of Chen, then ordered half a dozen inmates to hold down Mr. Jiao's head, hands and feet. He then thrust a wooden stick into Mr. Jiao's mouth, breaking some of his teeth. Chen then inserted a rubber hose down Mr. Jiao's throat and poured salt water into his stomach. He was detained for 111 days and was not released until June 27th, 2000.

The team leader of Jixian Domestic Security Division, Wu Hua, and the deputy head of the local Public Security Bureau, Geng Zhendong, led several officers to the Jianxin Middle School cafeteria on June 10th, 2001 to arrest Mr. Jiao Lingyun and two other practitioners. They ransacked his home twice and confiscated many of his personal belongings, including 3,000 yuan¹ in cash.

Mr. Jiao was arrested again in June 2011 at Shengchang Town in Jixian, when he was seen handing out information about Falun Gong. He was detained in Jixian Detention Centre. Mr. Jiao went on a hunger strike to protest the persecution and was force-fed twice. He was then tied to a metal frame for twelve days. Mr. Jiao is still being held in Jixian Detention Centre.

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.ca/mh/articles/2011/6/24/242947.html