Mr. Zhang Guihao Tortured to Death in a Shandong Brainwashing Centre

Name: Zhang Guihao
Gender: Male
Age: 48
Address: Nanchenjia Village, Fushan Town, Zhaoyuan City, Shandong Province
Occupation: Unknown
Date of Death: November 30th, 2011
Date of Most Recent Arrest: November 11th, 2011
Most Recent Place of Detention: Lingnan Gold Mine Brainwashing Centre
City: Zhaoyuan
Province: Shandong
Persecution Suffered: Brainwashing, home ransacked, torture

On the afternoon of November 11th, Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Zhang Guihao was arrested at home by three plainclothes officers from the Zhaoyuan Domestic Security Division. The police ransacked his home and confiscated a computer, a DVD player, a photo of the founder of Falun Gong, and other personal belongings. He was later taken to the Lingnan Gold Mine Brainwashing Centre. His family went to the brainwashing centre inquiring about his whereabouts and the centre authorities refused to tell them. On November 30th, Mr. Zhang was tortured to death. The next day, his family was notified of his death only after the brainwashing centre authorities had a secret meeting.

The brainwashing centre was moved to an abandoned building at the Lingnan Gold Mine in 2004, and guarded around the clock. There is a torture room on the second floor with a specially made iron chair, with chains and foot locks. Falun Gong practitioners are bound to the iron chair, and then shocked with a hand operated high-voltage generator or electric batons and beaten with batons, ropes or several twisted wires. Other torture methods include tying practitioners up with ropes, deprivation of sleep, hanging by handcuffs, and force-feeding of unknown drugs.

The director of the brainwashing centre has been changed many times since 2001. The current director is Li Haifeng, who was promoted in April 2011 from his previous position at the Political and Judiciary Committee. In the past ten-plus years, this brainwashing centre has never stopped persecuting Falun Gong practitioners regardless of who the director is.

Personnel at the Lingnan Gold Mine Brainwashing Centre:

Li Haifeng
Qu Tao
Zhaoyuan Police Department: +86-535-8213885

Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2011/12/6/250241.html