Practitioner Song Xingguo Dies From Torture and Force-feeding

Song Xingguo, male, 29-year-old, a Falun Dafa practitioner from Huanghua City, Hebei Province, went on a hunger strike to protest the persecution during his illegal detention in Shijiazhuang City Forced Labour Camp. In November 2002, when the police saw that he was on the verge of death after a year on his hunger strike, instead of sending him home, and without informing his family members, they sent him to Handan City Forced Labour Camp, a place even further away from his home. The cruel guards inserted a tube directly into his stomach for force-feeding. Eleven days later, Song Xingguo died as a result of torture in the camp.

Song Xingguo initially embraced Dafa because of his poor health. At the age of 19, he suffered from severe tuberculosis, which remained incurable for a long time. He was very weak and had poor resistance to disease, and his survival depended on medication. Around the spring and summer in 1998, he was fortunate to begin practising Falun Dafa. The disease that had harassed him for seven years disappeared before he knew it. Song Xingguo was kind-natured and he became even more peaceful after he took up the practice. He was always kind to others and was very popular among relatives and colleagues.

After July 20, 1999, he was forcibly taken to Huanghua City Detention Centre several times to undergo the so-called "education assistance," which in essence was brainwashing, but none of these could change his firm determination. When he was forced into the detention centre for the third time, he went on a hunger strike to protest against the persecution. He was released a month later. His health soon recovered after he got home and he started to work again. At the beginning of November 2001, the police once again took him away from his home. This time he was illegally sentenced to two years of forced labour and was sent to Shijiazhuang City Forced Labour Camp. From the beginning of being sent there, he once again started a hunger strike to protest. Miraculously, he was able to sustain it for a whole year. However, in November 2002, he became very weak after a year on his hunger strike. When the police saw that he was on the verge of death, without informing his family, and instead of sending him home, , they sent him to the Handan City Forced Labour Camp. What was more ruthless was that while he was on his last gasp of breath, the police force-fed him by using a very painful method: inserting a tube straight into his stomach. Eleven days later he passed away at the age of only 29.

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