Mr. Yuming has been detained for eight years. Because he refused to sign the suicide note fabricated by the forced labor camp, the police shocked him with 800,000 voltage batons and then beat him with an iron bar.
Masanjia Forced Labor Authorities Force Mr. Yu Ming to Sign Suicide Note
Mr. Yu Ming is a Falun Gong practitioner from Shenyang City, and his term of forced labor was up on September 2, 2008. However, Masanjia Forced Labor Camp authorities extended his term for an additional year and transferred him to the 3rd Group of the 1st Branch. The 610 Office of Liaoning Province ordered the camp to "transform" 100% of the Falun Gong practitioners. Wang Yanmin, the leader of the 2nd Squadron of the 3rd Group, repeatedly shouted, "We have an allotment of two deaths, whoever wants it can take one."
The camp police showed Mr. Yu Ming a suicide note fabricated by the forced labor camp, and tried to force him to sign it. This was so that they could murder him and cover up their crime with the fabricated statement. Mr. Yu refused to sign it, and the police forced him to press his finger print on the document. They beat him, shocked him with electric batons and hung him up for several days.
The police used an electric baton of 800,000 volts to shock Mr. Yu Ming, instead of using the typical 500,000 volts. The baton of 800,000 volts was specially designed to torture Falun Gong practitioners, and it was said to be able to knock a cow out with just one shock. The police used this baton to shock Mr. Yu and also stomped on him once he fell down. Finally the police hit Mr. Yu Ming's head with an iron bar, and he fell down again with blood all over his body. The police made a prisoner bring a container of cold water and wash the blood off Mr. Yu. They changed Mr. Yu's clothes and had a prison doctor stitch the injured area on Mr. Yu Ming's head. Prisoners carried the unconscious Mr. Yu to an isolated cell. Mr. Yu Ming was comatose for one week; during this time his family members were not notified and he did not receive medical treatment.
Directed by orders from the 610 Office of Liaoning Province, the police plotted to hit Yu Ming's head to kill him, and to make the injury look as though he had committed suicide by hitting his head against something. Later, the police used the fabricated suicide note to deceive his family members and told them that Mr. Yu's injury was caused by attempted suicide. This way, the police would not only be free of responsibility, but also be praised by the provisional 610 Office. Besides, they could use this incident to threaten other Falun Gong practitioners and achieve the goal of forcing all of them to abandon their beliefs.
Mr. Yu Ming has been detained in isolation up to now. The police are afraid of being exposed and have tightly blocked the news. From last August until now, Mr. Yu's family members were not allowed to visit him or bring everyday necessities to him for these nine months. During this period, his family members repeatedly requested to visit him, yet they were blocked by all kinds of excuses from the police. Mr. Yu Ming's family visited the Prison Administration Bureau and related departments; however, nobody paid attention to them.
The police are worried about their crime being exposed, and so, whenever a prisoner is released, they carefully search this prisoner by removing all the clothes and checking his personal items to see if there are any phone numbers or notes. Due to the information blockage, this news arrived late.
Mr. Yu Ming has been sentenced to forced labor three times, and he has been detained for over eight years.