9/29/2003

(Clearwisdom.net) Ms. Deng Chunying, twenty-nine years old, was brutally tortured during an interrogation on June 23, 2003 by three staff members of the local Public Security Office and the "610 Office"(an agency specifically created to persecute Falun Gong, with absolute power over each level of administration in the party and all other political and judiciary systems), two of whom were Du Zhanyi and Men Yongfeng.

As soon as the interrogation began, Du slapped Ms. Deng Chunying on the face, first using his hands and then with the soles of his shoe when he was exhausted. After that he pulled her hair to hit her head against the wall, handcuffed her hands behind her back and locked her to a table, then, he pushed her against the floor, and hit her feet with a wooden cube until her limbs started shaking uncontrollably. At that point, Ms. Deng Chunying could no longer speak. She could barely open her eyes and couldn't control her limbs. She was carried to an iron chair, and the resident doctor Xu Enjiang was called in to give her acupuncture treatment. When that did not work, she was carried on the back of one of the inmates to her cell.

From then on, Ms. Deng Chunying was paralyzed from her neck down. She was not able to take care of herself at all. She was bedridden for one month and in the later days, could not even eat. During that month, she vomited blood twice and only went to the washroom twice. She also experienced prolapsed e anus twice. She was dying.

When her parents heard about this, they were very worried. Her father wrote to Yang Yili of Shuangyashan City Procuratorate, who was stationed in the detention center and requested that he investigate the matter. Yang said that he was on a business trip when it happened and that he would look into it after he came back. When the father was able to track Yang Yili down, he was only told that it was out of his jurisdiction. Deng's father was also sent to other departments. At their wit's end, Deng's parents went to the city's Political and Legal Commissioner and with the assistance of Secretary Zhang, met with officials from the city's Public Security Department, the "610 Office." They agreed that the family would guarantee and pay for Deng's medical treatment in an appointed hospital, i.e. the municipal Hospital where Deng was hospitalized on July 26.

After four days of surgery, Deng's condition stabilized, but she still couldn't move her limbs. After 46 days of treatment in the hospital and over 10,000 Yuan [Chinese currency, the monthly salary for an average Chinese urban worker is about 500 Yuan] spent, Deng was not improving. The hospital refused to give her further treatment as she owed six days of hospital bed fee. But the local "610 Office" and the detention center refused to transfer her to another hospital.

Now you can see Ms. Deng Chunying withering away around her shoulders, and her torso and legs are becoming stiff. She can only move her head and not any other parts of her body. She needs to be carried by two people, with one holding her back and another lifting her legs, to go to the bathroom. Even in this condition, on September 10, the police moved her from the hospital back to the detention center.

Before this happened, Ms Deng was in good health. When she was taken away for interrogation at 11:50am on June 23, she walked there herself. Later, an inmate named "Shangdongzi" carried her back to her cell on his back at 4:10pm.