Victim:

Kong Deyi, male, 38, a cadre at the political research institution of the Dongli District Committee in Harbin City, Heilongjiang Province

Location Of Torture and Death:

Changlinzi Labor Camp, Harbin City, Heilongjiang Province

Perpetrators:

1.      Yang Binying, Chief of the Changlingzi Labor Camp, Harbin City, Heilongjiang Province

2.      Shi Changjing, vice Director of Changlingzi Labor Camp, Harbin City, Heilongjiang Province

3.      Ma, prison doctor of the Changlingzi Labor Camp, Harbin City, Heilongjiang Province

4.      Yu Tao, captain of the 3rd team, Changlingzi Labor Camp, Harbin City, Heilongjiang Province

A Brief Report of the Incident:

Mr. Kong Deyi was sent to the Changlingzi Labor camp because he went to Beijing to appeal to the government for the right to practice Falun Gong. In the Changlingzi Labor camp, he was locked up in a small iron cage that was 1.5 meters high, 1.5 meters long and less than 1 meter wide, for 7 days. He was handcuffed to the top of the cage in a position where he could neither stand up nor squat down. His feet swelled up and developed two large blisters. After he was released from the cage, he could not even stand up. Even so he was forced to work or to be beaten.

Mr. Kong went on a hunger strike to protest the illegal detention and the harsh treatment he received there. As a result, he was force-fed with a tube inserted into his stomach through his nose. Prison doctor Ma repeatedly inserted the tube and pulled it out by force-an excruciating torture. After the first time he was force-fed, Mr. Kong coughed up blood. Yet, Shi Changjing ordered a second force-feeding. Then Mr. Kong was forced-fed in the same way for twenty minutes. Mr. Kong coughed and emitted blood constantly after this torture. He was so weak that he could not even sit up. He threw up a half basin of blood the next morning and had difficulty breathing. He died that afternoon. To cover up the torture, however, an officer gave Mr. Kong an injection and declared that he died from a heart attack.

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