Torture and Sexual Harassment of Female Practitioners in Funing County of Qinghuangdao City, Hebei Province
Oct. 22, 2001
(Clearwisdom.net)
- Liu Yonglian, female, was illegally arrested at home by more than 20
police officers. Without giving her a chance to put on an overcoat or shoes,
they carried her to the Funing County Detention Center. Initially, Liu
Yonglian was told she would be released after 7 days; however, she was
transferred to the Tangshan City Kaiping Labor Camp where she currently
remains.
- Zhang Tao, male, went to the hospital to look after his bed-ridden father
who had suffered a stroke, when he was forcefully taken by the local police
to the Funing County Detention Center. He was released after going on a
hunger strike for more than 40 days.
- Shen Suyan, female, was arrested at her home by officers from Caoying Town
Police Station and brought to the Funing County Detention Center. On the
second day of her hunger strike, she was forcefully handcuffed from behind
(with Horse Hoof cuffs, the most cruel torture equipment which are oval
shaped) and was forcefully fed via a tube. As a result, the liquid went into
her lungs, and later that night, she fell unconscious. When they took off
the handcuffs, there were huge blisters on her wrists, leaving very deep
marks. On the day after the next, they once again tube-fed her. Shen showed
signs of unconsciousness and she was transferred to the detention center
after fainting two more times. She was rushed to the emergency unit at the
local Chinese Traditional Medicine Hospital after passing out once more.
When she arrived at the hospital, her blood pressure was at zero and they
were unable to draw any blood. After being hospitalized and receiving
emergency treatment for six days, she was detained at the detention center
for one month before being transferred to the Tangshan City Kaiping Labor
Camp.
- One officer from the Caoying Town's Funing County Police Station ordered a
female practitioner's family to hand over 4000 Yuan (approximately 8
months salary of an average urban worker in China) and threatened to
rape the practitioner if the family did not comply with his order. This
officer made this wicked demand in order to extort money from the woman's
family. The practitioner, while not fully clothed, ran out into the street
calling for help. In the end, the Mayor of Caoying Town, because he was
afraid of the bad affect this event might cause, made the government
officials of the entire town, kneel in front of the practitioner so she
would not tell anyone about the incident. They also sealed off all
information about this matter so that it would not spread.
- Feng Sulan, female, was forcefully carried to the Funing County Detention
Center without having a chance to put on her shoes. Two days later, she was
transferred to the county's Detention Center and handcuffed while on her
back after starting a hunger strike. When she resisted, she was handcuffed
and shackled to a steel bed for two days.
- The severe violence perpetrated by overseers from the Funing County
brainwashing class was demonstrated when they beat practitioner Zhao
Shunying until she fainted. Zhao, a female, was placed inside a gunnysack
and carried. They tortured Pan Suyan, also a female, until she was diagnosed
with uraemia by the Chinese Traditional Medicine Hospital. For this
condition, she required a blood transfusion as treatment. Those responsible
for this violence and cruel treatment also interrogated practitioners in the
middle of the night; burned female practitioners' lips with cigarette butts;
used all their strength to stomp on female practitioners' breasts while
wearing large leather boots. Practitioners were beaten until there were cuts
all over their bodies along with dark bruises, even under the armpits. They
lied to others saying that the practitioner fell. This brainwashing class
has always detained practitioners for indefinite periods of time. The first
class lasted for 9 months, and the current one has been going for 10 months
and still continues.
- While the Political Protection Unit of the Funing County Police Department
interrogated practitioners, they tried to force practitioners to step on
Teacher's picture. If practitioners refused, then they were subject to all
sorts of brutal treatment. Once, while interrogating a female practitioner,
in order to achieve their goal, two young male officers almost completely
tore off the practitioner's trousers. One of the practitioners risked his
life fighting back because he could no longer tolerate such torture. The
officers became scared, they welded a chair from a steel pipe, and locked
the practitioner in it while they interrogated him.
- Practitioners who are illegally sentenced to labor camps in Funing County
are:Hao Jianling, Feng Yushan, Zhou Yanqiu, Zhao Jinxi, Shen Liyong, Han
Fuseng, Liu Yonglian, Shen Suyan, Zhang Yueying, Du Jie, Zhang Yafeng, Han
Yong.
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