Wang Aijuan 04.08.2001
At nightfall on April 3, 2001, when Ms. WANG Aijuan, Ms. Li Zhilian and Ms. Song Hongzhi went to distribute Falun Gong truth-clarifying materials in Qingchi Town, they were arrested by policemen from the Fangzi Branch of the Weifang Police Station, and savagely beaten.
Two days later, they were sent to Fangzi Detention Center illegally. The three of them refused to cooperate and started on a hunger strike as soon as they arrived at the detention center.
On the fourth day (April 6), Fangzi's National Security Team led by Wang Quanfeng (male, age around 38, the head of the Team) cruelly beat the three practitioners who were detained without due process. Wang Quanfeng and other policemen trampled on the practitioners' heads and kicked them.
The thugs led by Wang Quanfeng and Li Jinsheng (the head of the detention center, male, around 44) together with prisoners from the working units began to force-feed the practitioners. The practitioners resisted. The policemen then threw the practitioners to the ground and stepped on their temples not allowing them to move at all. If they did move, they were cruelly kicked in the breasts and groin area. Even though their bodies were covered with wounds, the practitioners did not give in.
On the fifth day (April 7), the torture intensified. Wang Quanfeng and Li Jinsheng gathered together a large number of prisoners to forcibly drag the three practitioners outside and tie them onto iron benches (a torture instrument). Li Jinsheng then assigned several people for each practitioner to proceed with the torture. Some would pull on someone's hair while others held their heads as the medical personnel pushed in the tubes. The practitioners struggled to resist. Each was force-fed two or three times before the thugs finally stopped. The practitioners who had no food-intake for 5 days were each force-fed one-kilogram of salt. Ms. WANG Aijuan was the last one to be force-fed.
Shortly after the force-feeding, the practitioners were in pain and started to vomit. Soon their clothing became saturated. Later the practitioners developed abdominal pain and needed to use the toilet, but Guo and others deliberately turned them down. WANG Aijuan cried after defecating in her pants. The thugs still would not release her from the bench. Her cellmates wanted to give her some water, but the police didn't even allow that.
On the morning of April 8, WANG Aijuan experienced severe pain in her groin area that immobilized her. The policemen on duty notified the prison doctor. They found WANG had also developed a high fever, so the practitioners were released from the benches at noontime. The doctor gave WANG Aijuan some medicine. When WANG went to the toilet, she collapsed in the washroom and had to be carried back to her room. Shortly after, WANG Aijuan was in shock. When the police found out that WANG Aijuan was dying, they put her in an ambulance and rushed her to the hospital. WANG Aijuan never came back. Later it was confirmed that she had died of the torture.
After WANG Aijuan died, individuals from the "610 Office" called her husband to attend the cremation of her body. WANG's husband knew that his wife had died because of the police's mistreatment, and he didn't give his consent to the cremation of her body. However the policemen beat him and then cremated WANG Aijuan's body without his consent.
After Li Zhilian and Song Zhihong returned from the hospital in Fangzi Town, the thugs from the "610 Office" illegally sentenced them to the labor camp to prevent the news that WANG Aijuan had died of torture from leaking out.
Agency France Press reported this on April 17, 2001.
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