Xuan Chengxi 10.12.2000
He was honest and kind, and thus was held in high esteem in the village. The villagers were shocked by the news that he had been beaten to death. The village, in which XUAN Chengxi lived, is very close to that of CHEN Zixiu, another Dafa practitioner who was also beaten to death (Note: Her case was reported by the Wall Street Journal). Both of them belonged to the Beiguan area of the Weicheng District.
Yuhe Township is one of the seven "major transforming centers" in the Weicheng District of Weifang City, Shandong Province. After October 1, 2000, around twenty Falun Dafa practitioners were taken to the township government. Faced with such cruel beatings, one practitioner could not endure the suffering of the brutal torture any longer, so he disclosed that he obtained the materials used to clarifying the facts about Falun Gong from Falun Dafa practitioner, XUAN Chengxi. Thereby, XUAN Chengxi was dragged to the government of Yuhe Township on October 12, 2000.
Thugs including the Secretary of the Township’s Committee of Politics and Law, Chu Yongsheng, Director of the Township’s Administrative Office, Chen Yonghua, a township staff member, Chen Longshan, and the Head of the Township’s Armed Forces Department with the surname of Yang all took turns beating XUAN Chengxi. In order to protect the promotional materials of clarifying the facts about Falun Gong and the safety of other practitioners XUAN Chengxi would rather die than submit, so he kept silent. The township officials savagely beat and kicked XUAN Chengxi for forty minutes not only with their hands and feet, but also with wooden sticks and electric batons. As a result XUAN Chengxi died uncleared of a false charge.
XUAN Chengxi was a kind and honest person and was well-respected in the village. The villagers were very much shocked to learn the fact he was beaten to death. After XUAN Chengxi was beaten to death, the relevant departments and the Township Government tightly blocked the passage of information, closed the village where practitioner XUAN lived, and forbade villagers from coming or going in order to keep the news from leaking out. Without notifying his relatives, they secretly had his body cremated.
Reuters, AFP, the Central News Agency, World Times reported the news on October 18 or 19, 2000.
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