Victim:

Mr. Liu Quan, 52 years of age, was a Falun Gong practitioner who lived in Benxi City, Liaoning Province. He was the head security officer employed by the Benxi City Telecommunications Company.

Location:

Nan'guanling Prison, Dalian City, Liaoning Province.

Perpetrators:

Police of the Nan'guanling Prison, Dalian City, Liaoning Province.

Description:

On the morning of May 4, 2008, the Nan'guanling Prison Administration in Dalian City called Mr. Liu Quan’s family, and told them that Mr. Liu had died at 2:00 a.m. due to a sudden heart attack. His family viewed his body on May 5, 2008. They found that his face was yellow, the flesh around his eyes and lips was purple, there were large purple bruises on his back, and his nose was filled with cotton balls.

The guards would not allow his family to take photos or have an autopsy carried out, and neither did they let them take Mr. Liu's body back to Benxi City. The guards closely watched the family, even while they changed his clothes. After Liu Quan's body was cremated, the family noticed that the ash of his body appeared very dark, suggesting that he may have been poisoned.

Previous Persecution:

Mr. Liu began cultivating Falun Gong in 1995, and subsequently became very healthy. The Chinese Communist Party secretly arrested him in May 2003, and secretly put him on trial in July 2003. The Pingshan District Court sentenced him to twelve years in prison, and his appeal was denied.

Mr. Liu was then detained in Dabailou Prison in Benxi City, Huaz Prison in Liaoyang City, and Nan'guanling Prison in Dalian City. During his detention in the Third Ward of Huazi Prison, guards had prisoners monitor him around the clock, and they beat and insulted him at will. On December 20, 2004, Warden Xu Changhai forced practitioners to perform military marching drills. Mr. Liu reported that he could not walk due to the amount of pain in his legs. Upon hearing this, Xu became furious, and beat Mr. Liu in front of 40 people. This beating injured Mr. Liu even more severely, causing him to be bed-ridden for a long time.

On April 7, 2006, a deputy prison director and several office workers arrived to examine the prison operations. Mr. Liu Quan told them how he was brutally beaten. Warden Xu Changhai said that there was no harm done, and that the guards only slapped him a few times. On April 10, 2006, Mr. Liu Quan and nine other detained practitioners were transferred to production wards, to be persecuted more severely with forced labor.

On December 19, 2007, Mr. Liu and several other practitioners were transferred to Nan'guanling Prison in Dalian City. Among them, Mr. Bai Heguo was beaten to death on January 5, 2008.

Summary:

On the morning of May 4, 2008, the Nan'guanling Prison Administration in Dalian City called Mr. Liu Quan’s family, and told them that Mr. Liu had died at 2:00 a.m. due to a sudden heart attack. His family viewed his body on May 5, 2008. They found that his face was yellow, the flesh around his eyes and lips was purple, there were large purple bruises on his back, and his nose was filled with cotton balls. After Liu Quan's body was cremated, the family noticed that the ash of his body appeared very dark, suggesting that he may have been poisoned.

Posted on November 12, 2008