Latest Reports on Persecutions again Falun Gong Practitioners # 3 [Hei-long-jiang Province]

1. "The government has promised us that it is OK for us to beat you to death." - a police officer

2. "We don't want to beat you. But if we cannot transform you, we will be put on 'Di Lao' (a type of physical punishment)." - convicted criminals who were ordered to beat practitioners in hunger strike

Practitioner Zhou Bo-lin, from Qie-zi-he District of Qi-tai-he City of Hei-long-jiang Province, got detained for refusing to renounce his belief in Falun Gong, and suffered brutal treatments while in custody. One day, the director of the detention center told him: "I am a police officer. The government has promised us that it is OK for us to beat you to death." Then the director started to strike the face and kick Mr. Zhou's legs madly. Mr. Zhou was tortured like this for up to 12 hours and lost his consciousness for a few times. The director also used the electric baton to shock his head. 8 police officers took turns to interrogate him for 40 hours and did not allow him to sleep during the 40-hour interrogation. A police officer even took out of his gun 4 times and pointed the gun at Mr. Zhou's head pretending to shoot him. In addition, the convicted criminals were ordered to beat him up.

The detention center of Bo-li County of Qi-tai-he City of Hei-long-jiang Province detained Falun Gong practitioners together with criminals convicted of serious crimes. The criminals were ordered to beat up the practitioners after strip off all their clothes by using fists and shoes etc. A practitioner called Xu Shi-zheng was beaten to be black and purple all over the body. This was how the detention center forced the practitioners to sign the pledge that they would give up Falun Gong.

23 practitioners are being detained in the Lu-lin-shan detention center of He-gang City. They got detained just because they had exercised their constitutional rights to petition the government to stop its persecutions.

In order to protest the illegal detention and inhumane treatments, practitioners started a group hunger strike. On the second day of their hunger strike, the authorities sent in many convicted criminals from the first and second detention centers of He-gang City. After some drinks, they started to beat up practitioners on hunger strike. When these criminals found that practitioners did not fight back while suffering the beatings, they said, "We don't want to beat you. But if we cannot transform you, we will be put on 'Di Lao' (a type of physical punishment). The official Zhang, the deputy chief police officer of the second detention center of the He-gang City, promised us that our prison terms would be reduced by one year if we could transform you." These criminals were treated with good meals for beating up practitioners. They are currently still staying in the first cell of the Lu-lin-shan detention center for continuing to beat up those practitioners who refuse to write the pledge of renouncing their beliefs.

The 40 female practitioners detained in the Luo-bei County of He-gang City had been on hunger strike for 5 days up to April 15 of 2000. Two practitioners had lost their consciousness. The hunger strike is still going on.

Recently, many practitioners from Jia-mu-si City are on hunger strike in the detention center to defend their dignity and the righteousness of Falun Dafa. They demand to be released unconditionally.

Practitioner Cui Sheng-yun's life was in danger. He got released at 5pm of April 11 unconditionally. Some police officers sent him home. Cui Sheng-yun's weight decreased from 130kg to 70kg. His wrist was swollen to bleed. Many bruises could be found on his body.