(Minghui.org) Ms. Chen Wen, in her 30s, is a Falun Gong practitioner from Nanchang City, Jiangxi Province. She was sentenced to 9 years in prison by the Qingyunpu District Court in October 2006 and incarcerated in the Jiangxi Province Women's Prison. Due to inhumane torture, she suffered a mental collapse in the prison. She was released on September 7, 2013.

Tortured by Police

Officers from the Qingyunpu District Police Department and Daishan Police Station broke into the homes of Ms. Chen Wen, Mr. Chen Xiangyang, Ms. Zhang Shujun, Ms. Huang Liqiong, and Mr. Xuan Haijin on March 28, 2006, and illegally arrested them.

The police took them to the Daishan 510 Hotel in Qingyunpu District the next afternoon and tortured them there for two days.

Ms. Zhang Shujun was hung up by handcuffs, so that her feet could not touch the ground. The director and deputy director of the Daishan Police Station, captain of the Qingyunpu District Police Department Zhang Jun, and policeman Deng Xiangyang ordered another officer to open Ms. Zhang's legs 180 degrees apart. They then pushed and pulled her legs violently, shook her legs from left to right, and scratched her stomach in the process.

Torture re-enactment: hung up by handcuffs

They tortured Ms. Zhang in this way for six hours and deprived her of sleep. When she started to close her eyes, they would order an officer to violently beat her. Policeman Deng Xiangyang violently hammered Ms. Zhang's toes until her feet bled.

Ms. Chen Wen suffered the same torture.

Imprisoned and Tortured

The Qingyunpu District Court sentenced the five practitioners to prison on October 20, 2006. Mr. Chen Xiangyang was sentenced to 11 years, Ms. Zhang Shujun to 10 years, and the other three practitioners to 9 years.

Ms. Zhang was imprisoned in the Jiangxi Province Women's Prison. She became paralyzed due to torture. The prison officials notified Ms. Zhang's family to take her to the hospital on January 4, 2008, when her life already hung by a thread.

Ms. Zhang passed away 16 days later, at 3 a.m. on January 20, 2008.

Ms. Chen Wen was detained in a small cell during her imprisonment in the Jiangxi Province Women's Prison. Guard Chen Li ordered criminal inmates to monitor her 24 hours a day, deprived her of sleep, and did not allow her to have breakfast.

Ms. Chen was given only a cup of water each day. She gradually became very thin and looked much older than her age.

According to informants, she was tortured to the point of a mental collapse. Although she has been released, she has lost her ability to live a normal life.