Name: Xu Zhibin (许志斌)
Gender: male
Age: 51
Address: unknown
Occupation: unknown
Date of Most Recent Arrest: 2002
Most Recent Place of Detention: Jinzhou Forced Labor Camp (锦州监狱)
Detention City: Jinzhou
Detention Province: Liaoning
Persecution Suffered: Illegal sentencing, imprisonment
(Minghui.org) Officials from the Liaoning Province Prison Administration Bureau recently went to inspect Jinzhou Forced Labor Camp. Prison officials ordered the illegally detained Falun Gong practitioners to cooperate with the visiting officials while they were there. Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Xu Zhibin refused to comply and went on a hunger strike three days ago.
Mr. Xu Zhibin graduated from Dalian University of Technology and is 51 years old. Prior to beginning practicing Falun Gong in 1995, his health was not good. Through practicing Falun Gong he became free of illness. He firmly believes in the practice.
Since July 1999, he has been treated as a key figure by local police, and has been arrested six times. He was tortured while in detention. In 2002, Dalian Ganjinzi District Court illegally sentenced him to 14 years in prison. He is currently incarcerated at Ward No. 4 of Jinzhou Forced Labor Camp.
Prison officials have refused Mr. Xu’s family's requests to visit him for the last four years. The last time he received visitors he was extremely weak and walked unsteadily. He weighed less than 50 kg (110 lb), which is severely underweight for his height of 1.8 m (5'11”). In June 2012, prison officials attempted to forcefully “transform” Falun Gong practitioners. Mr. Xu was tied to tiger bench for a week.
Torture Re-enactment: Tiger bench
