Li Zhongmin 04.03.2003
In 2001, LI Zhongmin was arrested illegally by the Kaifa District Public Security Office of Dalian City, Liaoning Province and brutally tortured by LIU Wei and other policemen with high voltage electric-shock batons. LIU Wei ordered a couple of police to force LI Zhongmin against a brick on the ground and then used his foot to step on LI Zhongmin’s head very forcefully. LI Zhongmin's forehead was gashed open at several locations and his jacket was torn into pieces, but he escaped that night.
He was again arrested illegally by the Dalian City Police Department on January 12, 2002. His hands and feet were shackled, and he was held in the No. 7 cell, Yaojia Detention Center, Dalian City, Liaoning Province. He was tortured while in detention, and this was reported earlier on the Clearwisdom.net website. Later he was secretly and illegally sentenced to 15 years in jail. He was transferred to Dabei Prison in Shenyang City and subjected to constant torture until his death on March 4, 2003.
When he died, some witnesses saw numerous wounds on his body, with bloodstains on the back of his head and a big area of bruises on his inner thighs. There were many red marks on his back, and his eye sockets were deeply sunken in. After being arrested, LI Zhongmin refused to cooperate with the police’s demands. Over the course of more than one year of detention, he went on hunger strikes to protest his illegal arrest and persecution. He suffered horrendous abuse and mistreatment, and as a result, at the age of 31, he looked like an old man.
The police department had all along regarded him as a "key person," and several police units had asked the higher authorities to reward their "achievements" in arresting him. The higher authorities they had petitioned included Dalian City Police Department, Jinzhou District Police Department, Wafangdian Police Department, Pulandian Police Department, among others.
Zhongmin’s brother, LI Zhongke, also a Falun Gong practitioner, is being held and abused in Dalian City Labor Camp. Not long after hearing of LI Zhongmin’s death, his maternal grandmother was burdened with extreme sorrow and passed away as a result.
In the Kaifa District Public Security Office, LIU Wei (over forty years old), Vice Director of the "610 Office," SUN Deshun, Director of the "610 Office," and several other police officers are the main people responsible for persecuting practitioners. LIU Wei is especially cruel. He brutally tortured practitioners regardless of their ages and gender, and because of his brutality towards practitioners he was recognized and awarded by his superiors with a "Third Place Award."
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