05/29/2003
(Clearwisdom.net)
Dong Qiuyan is 39 years old. She is a university graduate and a teacher. She was arrested and detained several times, and fired because she practices Falun Gong. One afternoon in May 2002, just after she brought her daughter home from school, police officers rushed into her home, covered her head with clothing, then threw her into a police car. Her daughter was crying, but police officers showed no concern.
At the police station Dong was tortured and forced to tell the names of other practitioners. Then she was sent to the Second Detention Center of Qiqihar City where she was sentenced to two years of imprisonment. She is imprisoned in the Harbin Jail.
Guo Xiuzhen is 40 years old. She went to a technical school and is an accountant. However, she was fired from her job because she practices Falun Gong. One day in May 2002, she was arrested, sent to the police station, and tortured. She was not allowed to use the bathroom for an entire night. While both her hands were cuffed, she was forced to urinate into her trousers. Later, she was sent to the Second Detention Center of Qiqihar City, and then sentenced to three years of imprisonment. She is imprisoned at the Harbin Jail.
Li Hongmin is 42 years old. She holds a high school diploma. Her job was doing packaging design. She was fired because she practices Falun Gong, and was forced to leave home for over one year. One day in April 2002, she was arrested by police officers, hung by her handcuffed wrists, and beaten in the police station.
Several police officers tortured this frail woman by throwing her to the ground and stepping on her feet using shoes with sharp spikes on the bottom. Later, she was sent to the Second Detention Center of Qiqihar City. She was given a three year prison sentence and is imprisoned at the Harbin Jail.
Li Fengzhi is 36 years old. In April 2002, she was arrested for her firm belief in Falun Gong. Due to the persecution, she had a very bad family life. In the police station, four police officers tortured her at the same time. She was locked up on a tiger-bench, [an instrument of torture; one is forced to sit on a small iron bench with knees tightly tied on the bench and hands tied behind the back. Usually some hard objects are inserted underneath the lower legs to make it even harder to bear the pain, see illustration at http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2001/11/24/16156.html] with a police officer pulling on each of her legs while two other officers sat on her legs. Later, she was handcuffed with one hand behind her waist, tied to the other which was bent over her shoulder. However, police officers found that her arms had elongated because they had been dislocated. She was sent to a hospital to have the disconnected joints fixed. However, even while her arms still had to be suspended to heal, she was sent to the Second Detention Center of Qiqihar City, and then to the Shuanghe Forced Labor Camp in Qiqihar City.
When police officers arrested Song Anyu (male) at a site that made Dafa materials, he jumped from the 5th floor and broke numerous bones in his legs. Nonetheless, the police officers intentionally trod on his broken legs, causing many more fractures. Despite these injuries, he was still sent to the First Detention Center in Qiqihar City. His leg injuries were left untreated, and he was illegally sentenced to over ten years of imprisonment.
Wang Aihua is a 30 year old female. She was illegally arrested several times because of her firm belief in Falun Gong, and was sent to a forced labor camp. When she was detained in the spring of 2002, she was beaten with super-high voltage electric batons that injured her heart. This injury causes her to tremble uncontrollably at times. In lieu of releasing her, however, they sentenced her to 8 years in prison.
