Li Yinping 06.06.2001
On the morning of June 4, 2001, the police dragged 13 Falun Gong practitioners away while they were participating in a group Fa study (teachings of Falun Dafa) in Majia Village, Sunjiaji Township, Shouguang City. They were all sent to Shouguang Detention Center. In the afternoon of June 6 when Falun Gong practitioners reported to the authorities at the detention center that they had been detained for no reason and requested the info to be released, they were dragged into the corridor by the police and were kicked and punched. They were also badly beaten with rubber batons. After the beating, LI Yiping and five others were tied up to iron chairs, which was a very cruel torture instrument to deal with inmates.
In the evening, the policemen headed by the director of the detention center and the division leader, Wang inhumanly tortured the six practitioners while they were tied up. Five or six policemen armed with rubber or electric batons tortured one practitioner. They began with slapping the practitioners on their faces, and then one policeman twisted a practitioner’s arm to the back; some yanked the practitioners’ hair. The policemen took turns to beat the practitioners with the rubber batons. Three rubber batons were broken and the iron stick inside the baton came off. The policemen just changed rubber batons and continued to beat the practitioners. In addition, the policemen also used high-voltage electric batons to shock the practitioners. When the practitioners lost consciousness the policemen would pour cold water to bring them to, and then continued to beat them. The inhuman torture lasted for three or four hours.
One practitioner who was kept together with LI Yinping said, in the afternoon of June 5, LI Yinping began to spit blood. "I called the prison guards, but they turned a deaf ear. In the afternoon of June 6, we tried to hold a dialogue with the prison guards telling them we were not criminals; therefore, we should be released and go home. The prison guards still turned a deaf ear. We then knocked on the gates of the cells to voice our protest against the illegal detention. The prison guards separated us first and then whipped the practitioner who spat blood. At the time she had blood coming down from the corner of her mouth.
In the morning of June 7, practitioners WANG Guirong, LIU Aiqin and WANG Lanxiang who were tied up to the iron chairs as corporal punishment returned to their cells, but LI Yinping did not show up. I asked them, ‘What happened to LI Yinping?’ They said, ‘It was very vicious. We witnessed what we only heard of in the past. The evil perpetrators stripped off LI Yinping’s cloth and threaten to rape her. The diabolic police tortured her with an electric baton. The sadistic villains even inflicted electric shocks from the electric baton to her breasts and lower body region (implying her genitals). LI Yinping screamed for the whole night because of the pain. Other practitioners asked the prison guards to give her some water, but they said she would not die. When the dawn broke the prison guards planned to shock her with electric batons again and found she was dying. Then they hurriedly send her to the hospital.’" LI Yinping was tortured to death.
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