77-Year-Old Shandong Man Abused in Prison, Suffers Various Health Conditions

(Minghui.org) Mr. Niu Jiacai, 77, from Yinan County, Shandong Province, was subjected to various forms of abuse while he was imprisoned for practicing Falun Gong.

Mr. Niu was admitted to the Shandong Province Prison in January 2022 and held in Division 11, a high security division, until late October 2023, before he was transferred to a regular division. It is unclear when he was arrested, indicted, or sentenced. His prison term also remains unknown. An insider revealed that he was scheduled for release in November 2025 and that he was subjected to various forms of abuse while in Division 11. Below are some of the persecution details Minghui.org recently learned.

Division head Liang Jingda, instructor Zheng Jie, vice head Chen Shuo were the main culprits that ordered the persecution of Mr. Niu. Upon his admission, the three officials instructed inmates Wang Guituan and Zhao Gang to transform him and another inmate Zhao Song to watch him around the clock.

The inmates forced Mr. Niu to watch videos that slander Falun Gong. They also made him sit on a small stool and deprived him of sleep for hours. His blood pressure became dangerously low and his blood sugar dangerously high as a result. He also developed hepatitis and his face was yellowish. He struggled to straighten his back and could hardly walk. He remained seated most of the time. Once Zhao Song said to inmate Lu Guobao that he feared Mr. Niu might die while being watched by him. He later got a different “job” of doing night shifts instead of monitoring Mr. Niu.

The guards then arranged other inmates to watch Mr. Niu. They too were later replaced by yet another group of inmates and reassigned to other tasks.

From July to September 2022, the guards instructed inmates Xu Chao, Zhao Guoqiang and Liu Guishan to begin another round of transforming Mr. Niu. They forced him to get up 30 minutes before the other inmates did, and sit on a small stool all day until 11 p.m. They verbally abused him and forced him to watch videos smearing Falun Gong. After more than ten hours of sitting every day, Mr. Niu became extremely weak and often had to be rushed to the hospital. Both the doctors and the inmates who abused him said he wouldn’t walk out of the prison alive.

In August and September 2023, the guards ordered two former practitioners surnamed Li and Shi who gave up Falun Gong under pressure, to transform Mr. Niu. Inmate Qi, who was assigned to watch him around the clock at the time, often scolded him. In October that year, inmate Chen Shengsheng also joined the group in persecuting Mr. Niu.

The inmates forced Mr. Niu to clean the toilet even though he struggled with mobility issues and diabetes-induced vision problem.

The guards moved Mr. Niu to a regular division at the end of October 2023. Starting in the summer of 2024, his condition worsened. He developed a fever and was confused. He would get up in the middle of the night to fold his comforter and often put on the wrong shoes.

The guards gave him some medications but he later refused to take them as they made him feel worse.

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