Issued by Clearwisdom Net

Few people know that the Harbin City Police Hospital has a backyard. In October 2006, Falun Gong practitioner Zhang Zhong from Daqin City was murdered there. A second practitioner, a farmer, was also murdered there not long ago, although the story is only now becoming known.

If you enter the front door of the police hospital and follow the hallway, the second door on the left leads to the backyard. You will see a four-story building, where all the windows are covered with white cloth. A two-meter-high metal fence stands in front of it. A glass-covered sentry booth is right by the iron fence. Two burly sentries in uniform guard the entryway on the left and right. Nobody can escape their notice when going in. On both sides of the building are residential buildings. Three-meter-high metal fences with barbed spikes on top separate the building from the others. Hongqiao Hospital is at the back of the building. A big wall with curled barbed wire that appears to be electrified separates the two buildings.

Since it became known that Mr. Zhang Zhong was murdered there, the name was changed and the building is now referred to as the "Hospital for Sick Detainees," although there is no sign. On August 10, 2006 Mr. Zhang Zhong was visiting a friend at the Honglang Residential Area in Harbin City, when officers from the Dongli District Police Division and Nangang District Haxi Police Station illegally arrested him and took him to the Nangang District Police Division Detention Center.

Mr. Zhang was brutally tortured. After about ten days, he was transferred to the Harbin City Police Hospital where the torture continued. A month later, the police would not allow Mr. Zhang's friend to visit, although the friend was told by a guard named Xin, who was in charge at the time, that Mr. Zhang had been sent to the hospital and that he was found to be healthy. Only about ten days later, on October 16, 2006, the police hospital suddenly told Daqing Prison to notify Mr. Zhang's family of his death. Personnel in charge of this case refused to let Mr. Zhang's parents, relatives, or friends see Mr. Zhang's body when they arrived at the hospital that same afternoon.

On January 23, 2007, officers from Wanjia Forced Labor Camp in Harbin City, along with local police, arrested several practitioners from Shuangcheng City. At the time of this writing, the police had already detained them in the Harbin City Administration Detention Center for 14 days without notifying anyone of their detention. For the previous ten days, practitioner Ms. Jiang Yahong had not been able to eat due to torture. On February 2, when her family went to visit, the police extorted quite a large amount of money from them. At noon on February 4, the police called Ms. Jiang's family to tell them that she didn't eat and that she had been sent to the emergency room. They asked her family to persuade her to eat. When the family arrived at the detention center, after driving for over four hours, the staff refused to tell them to which hospital Ms. Jiang had been sent. At about 9 a.m. on February 5, her family was getting very upset. Ms. Jiang's mother collapsed and started to cry and had something like a seizure. Many visitors witnessed this scene. At that point, the detention center staff finally told them that Ms. Jiang was in the so-called "Hospital for Sick Detainees," i.e., the building behind the police hospital.

When Ms. Jiang's family went there, both sentries signaled each other with their eyes and told them: "There is no such person here." After the family told them that they had been told that Ms. Jiang was there at the detention center, the sentries called inside to ask about Ms. Jiang and it was confirmed that Ms. Jiang was indeed inside. When the family asked how she was doing, the sentries replied that she was doing well. When the family insisted on seeing her, the sentries blocked their way and told them: "This is a detention center. You are not allowed to visit."

By the time this article was written, Ms. Jiang was detained for 14 days without her family being notified. The police refuse to admit that they have arrested her. The family started visiting the Daoli Police Division and only saw Ms. Jiang once, on the eleventh day, at the Harbin City Administration Detention Center. On the fourteenth day when the limit for detention without sentencing was reached, the police transferred Ms. Jiang to the hospital for "emergency treatment" and refused to allow anyone to visit her. The family argued that they did not wish for anyone to "cure" her and offered to take charge of her health but the police still refused to release her.

Ms. Liu Junlu

Ms. Liu Junlu, who is in her thirties, is from Yilan County, Heilongjiang Province. She started to practice Falun Gong in 1996. After that, she experienced better health and clarity of mind. After July 20, 1999, she appealed on behalf of Falun Gong and clarified the truth about Falun Gong. While she was attending the Dalian City Practice Experience Sharing Conference, she was arrested in August 2001 by policemen from the Xigang District Department in Dalian City. She was detained in the Yaojia Detention Center of Dalian City. Later, she was sentenced to12 years of imprisonment.

In the Eighth Ward of the Women's Prison of Liaoning Province, Ms. Liu Junlu was subjected to brutal torture. In the beginning of April 2004, she was stripped of all her clothes because she refused to write the Three Statements. She was hung up by her legs and exposed to the cold air through an open window. The persecutors wrote on her body phrases that slandered Falun Gong and Master Li. She was forced to wear shackles and the inmates tread on the cuffs.

One of Ms. Lu Junlu's arms was disabled due to the torture, and she could not move it. For a long period of time, she was only given a piece of bread in the size of a fist and a small piece of pickle for each meal. Now, she is very frail, but she is still subjected to torture.

The Eighth Ward of the Women Prison of Liaoning Province is a district equipped with electric batons, and they use the electric batons daily. The brutal torture practitioners suffer has never ceased in the Eighth Ward. The guards in the Eighth Ward use inmates accused of robbery and homicide to directly participate in the torture of practitioners. The prison cells, hot-water supply rooms, restrooms, activity rooms, reading rooms, corridors, and the room 402 at the end of the building have all been used to torture practitioners in the 8th Ward. The torture methods that are known to be used include: stripping off all their clothes, making them go barefoot, piercing them with needles, pouring cold water on them on freezing cold days, stripping them naked and hanging them on radiators with their legs spread open and their genital area kicked or poked with a hard object, and being hit with glass beer bottles.

Mr. Guo Shenghuan, a teacher in the College of Digital Information, Shanghai Normal University, was arrested at work on the morning of January 25, 2007. Mr. Guo is being unlawfully detained in Xuhui District Detention Center, 15 the 398th block of Longwu Road. His wife Zhang Yuxia takes care of two children, one five and one three years old. She has no income to support her family.

Mr. Guo Shenghuai worked diligently and was recognized with an award for "Model Coach" for the mathematical models contest in Shanghai. Because he practices Falun Gong, Shanghai Normal University authorities did not allow him to teach anymore. Instead they assigned him to arrange reference materials in a library. He was rated unqualified at his year-end evaluation so his bonus pay would be withheld and his salary was cut.

At about 8 a.m. on January 25, Mr. Guo Shenghuan was arrested from the Assistant Dean's office of the College of Digital Information. According to an eyewitness, they covered his head with a bag. After the arrest, Assistant Dean Gu Guoxiang told the people who knew about the incident, "If anybody asks, you just say that Guo Shenghuan never came to work."

That same day, Mr. Guo Shenhuan's wife Zhang Yuxia was arrested when working at Hongqiao International School and got fired. She had been arrested and sent to Qingpu Brainwashing Center before, because she refused to give up Falun Gong. At that time, she was still nursing her baby.