Qiu Zhiyan ..2000
QIU Zhiyan, male, age 35, was a resident of Benxi City, Liaoning Province. He was an employee of Benxi City General Steel and Iron Factory. He had a B.S. degree.
QIU went to Beijing to appeal on behalf of Falun Gong seven times. In September 1999, he was escorted back to Benxi and again unlawfully detained. He began practicing the Falun Gong exercises right after he was sent to the detention center. When a policeman named JING Shanhu found out about this, he hung QIU up in the "stretching room", a place where archaic torture methods are used. (The "stretching rooms" were built imitating an ancient, cruel torture in which the prisoner’s body was pulled and torn into pieces by five horses that went off in different directions.) QIU was "stretched" repeatedly, three times on each occasion, totaling 25 days. Most of QIU’s time in the detention center was spent enduring the agonizing torture of being stretched.
October 29, 1999, QIU was unlawfully sentenced to three years in Benxi City’s Weiningying Forced Labor Camp. He insisted on practicing Falun Gong in the labor camp. Political Secretary CHEN Zhongwei and Deputy Labor Camp Director WU Gang personally organized the torture of QIU. They took turns torturing QIU with the aid of more than ten other men. They tortured him in all kinds of cruel ways including beatings with electric batons and rubber clubs, tying him up with rope, and other means. They tortured QIU until he passed out and then threw him into a tiny, solitary cell. The police were unable to make him give up his belief, so they exhausted all means to torture him.
Since the winter temperature in northern China was lower than -30ºC (-22ºF), the lengthy working hours outside caused frostbite on QIU's hands. All of his fingers were swollen, black and blue and oozing pus.
To protest this cruel persecution at Weiningying Forced Labor Camp, QIU started a hunger strike. The police cuffed his hands and feet to the bed, hit him with seven to eight electric batons that were tied together in a bundle, and tortured him through brutal force-feeding. No matter how violent the police were, QIU's eyes were always slightly closed and he said nothing, from the beginning to the end. No matter how the policemen beat or tortured him, he never even moaned. Tired from the beating, the policemen panted and said, "This person is impervious to pain. Beating him does not work". In this way, QIU successfully protested for ten days with a hunger strike by sitting on his bed, not even making the slightest movement. On the last day, the police could not go on anymore and they completely collapsed. After obtaining approval from the higher authorities, the police falsely declared QIU as "psychotic" and then sent him to a mental hospital. At the mental hospital, QIU was injected with drugs, but this fact was concealed from people outside the hospital. QIU held another ten-day hunger strike. Finally in February 2000, he walked out of the mental hospital in a dignified manner.
After his incarceration in the labor camp, QIU went to Beijing for the eighth time. When he walked to Jinzhou City on foot, his elderly father took him back home, so this trip could not be completed.
In October 2000, because of his family’s unwillingness to help and the government’s curtailing of Falun Gong practitioners’ finances, QIU began his ninth trip to Beijing barefoot and with only 5 yuan (less than US$1.00] in his pocket. When he finally arrived at Xingcheng City (part of Beijing), the local police arrested him and tortured him to death.
QIU went to Beijing to appeal on behalf of Falun Gong seven times. In September 1999, he was escorted back to Benxi and again unlawfully detained. He began practicing the Falun Gong exercises right after he was sent to the detention center. When a policeman named JING Shanhu found out about this, he hung QIU up in the "stretching room", a place where archaic torture methods are used. (The "stretching rooms" were built imitating an ancient, cruel torture in which the prisoner’s body was pulled and torn into pieces by five horses that went off in different directions.) QIU was "stretched" repeatedly, three times on each occasion, totaling 25 days. Most of QIU’s time in the detention center was spent enduring the agonizing torture of being stretched.
October 29, 1999, QIU was unlawfully sentenced to three years in Benxi City’s Weiningying Forced Labor Camp. He insisted on practicing Falun Gong in the labor camp. Political Secretary CHEN Zhongwei and Deputy Labor Camp Director WU Gang personally organized the torture of QIU. They took turns torturing QIU with the aid of more than ten other men. They tortured him in all kinds of cruel ways including beatings with electric batons and rubber clubs, tying him up with rope, and other means. They tortured QIU until he passed out and then threw him into a tiny, solitary cell. The police were unable to make him give up his belief, so they exhausted all means to torture him.
Since the winter temperature in northern China was lower than -30ºC (-22ºF), the lengthy working hours outside caused frostbite on QIU's hands. All of his fingers were swollen, black and blue and oozing pus.
To protest this cruel persecution at Weiningying Forced Labor Camp, QIU started a hunger strike. The police cuffed his hands and feet to the bed, hit him with seven to eight electric batons that were tied together in a bundle, and tortured him through brutal force-feeding. No matter how violent the police were, QIU's eyes were always slightly closed and he said nothing, from the beginning to the end. No matter how the policemen beat or tortured him, he never even moaned. Tired from the beating, the policemen panted and said, "This person is impervious to pain. Beating him does not work". In this way, QIU successfully protested for ten days with a hunger strike by sitting on his bed, not even making the slightest movement. On the last day, the police could not go on anymore and they completely collapsed. After obtaining approval from the higher authorities, the police falsely declared QIU as "psychotic" and then sent him to a mental hospital. At the mental hospital, QIU was injected with drugs, but this fact was concealed from people outside the hospital. QIU held another ten-day hunger strike. Finally in February 2000, he walked out of the mental hospital in a dignified manner.
After his incarceration in the labor camp, QIU went to Beijing for the eighth time. When he walked to Jinzhou City on foot, his elderly father took him back home, so this trip could not be completed.
In October 2000, because of his family’s unwillingness to help and the government’s curtailing of Falun Gong practitioners’ finances, QIU began his ninth trip to Beijing barefoot and with only 5 yuan (less than US$1.00] in his pocket. When he finally arrived at Xingcheng City (part of Beijing), the local police arrested him and tortured him to death.
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