Elderly Falun Gong Practitioner Mr. Huang Kuixi, Brutally Tortured in a Forced Labour Camp Then Harassed at Home, Died in 2009 as a Result of Abuse While in Custody

Name: Huang Kuixi
Gender: Male
Age: 69
Address: Wangqing Street, Wangqing Town, Wangqing County, Jilin Province
Occupation: Mathematics teacher, Wangqing Forest Bureau Affiliated High School
Date of Death: September 23rd, 2009
Date of Most Recent Arrest: May 2006
Most Recent Place of Detention: Yanji Detention Centre
City: Yanji
Province: Jilin
Persecution Suffered: Sleep deprivation, beatings, imprisonment, solitary confinement, torture, physical restraint, detention, burning

Mr. Huang Kuixi, a Korean practitioner, lived on Wangqing Street in Wangqing Town, Wangqing County, Jilin Province. He was a mathematics teacher at the Wangqing Forest Bureau Affiliated High School. He was sentenced to forced labour in 2004 and brutally tortured during his detention in Jiutai Forced Labour Camp. Mr. Huang passed away on September 23rd, 2009, at the age of 69.

Mr. Huang began practising Falun Gong in March 1999, and persisted in the practice after the persecution of Falun Gong began. On March 6th, 2002, officers from the Yanji City Police Department and its Domestic Security Division, along with local 610 Office agents (an organisation of special agents just for persecuting Falun Gong), arrested him at his home and held him in the Yanji Detention Centre for a number of days.

On May 13th, 2004, to celebrate World Falun Gong Day, Mr. Huang created several banners by writing characters with brush pens, and hung them out of the windows of his home. Shortly afterward Beishan Police Station officers broke into his home and took him to the station. He was later held in the Yanji Detention Centre for 38 days. On June 22nd, 2004, he was sentenced to one year of forced labour and sent to Jiutai Forced Labour Camp.

Mr. Huang suffered from all kinds of tortures and severe beatings. When he first arrived at the labour camp, the guards pressured him to write the three statements giving up Falun Gong. When he refused, seven or eight strong young guards tied his arms behind his back, held him down on the ground, stepped on him, and beat him mercilessly. Mr. Huang shouted, "I am a 66-year-old senior citizen and it is wrong for you to do this! Jiang Zemin, [former leader of China and instigator of the persecution] is a traitor to our country, and you will not come to a good end if you follow him!" The guards and criminals would not listen and continued torturing him. They didn't allow him to sleep for six days and nights and only gave him four pieces of coarse bread to eat and cold water to drink each day. His weight dropped to only about 45 pounds.

The guards also forced Mr. Huang to sit on a board for 18 hours a day, from 4:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m., during which time if he moved his feet slightly, he would be pressured to write a pledge to give up his practice of Falun Gong. If he refused, he was beaten mercilessly. Mr. Huang was forced to sit on a board for six months. This caused his buttocks to fester, and he even had difficulty taking off his trousers due to pus from the festered area making his trousers stick to his body. During this time, guards burned Mr. Huang with cigarettes four to five times. Since Mr. Huang was very firm in his belief, he was confined on the fourth floor alone and closely monitored. He was only allowed to use the toilet twice per day and not allowed to have contact with anyone.

In August 2004, two drunk officers took Mr. Huang out of his cell to a secret room on the fifth floor. The room had a strong smell of blood, and there were bloodstains on the floor. Instruments of torture were hung up on the walls. Mr. Huang shouted at them, “What do you want to do? Are you still human beings? What are you going to do with me? If you intend to kill me, it will not be easy.” Mr. Huang refused to cooperate with them. After a while, the two guards fell asleep and he walked out of the room. When other guards saw him walking out of the room, they were shocked and wondered if he was a ghost, since nobody had left the room alive before.

In late September 2004, the same two guards called out Mr. Huang again when they were drunk. One of them was holding an insulated jacket soaked with water. Mr. Huang sensed that they would use it to suffocate him and he took away the jacket from them. He then threw it at one of them and got away.
In November 2004, the two guards took Mr. Huang to a secret room. One of them held him up and threw him in the corner. The other one kicked him, but Mr. Huang resisted and was able to stand up.
Mr. Huang was handcuffed the entire time he was detained in the labour camp. He was released on April 22nd, 2005.

Mr. Huang and his wife were arrested when they were getting ready to leave for their daughter's wedding on May 20th, 2006. On May 21st, he was sent to the Yanji Detention Centre with plans to send him to a labour camp later. After 40 days of detention, however, Mr. Huang had severe symptoms of high-blood pressure and lung cancer and he was released.

By the time he returned home, he was emaciated and very weak. The local police often went to his home to harass him. He was not able to recover and passed away on September 23rd, 2009.

Related report: http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2006/6/12/74389.html

Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2011/8/18/245540.html