Victim:

Mr. Wu Xinming, who was in his forties, lived in Xuanwuo Town, Hanyin County, Shaanxi Province.

Location:

Zaozihe Forced Labor Camp, Shaanxi Province

Perpetrators:

1.Zhang Zhongyin, Hanyin County Party Political and Judiciary Committee secretary, Shaanxi Province

2.Xia Jinxiu, male, Domestic Security Division leader, Hanyin County, Shaanxi Province

3.Zhang Shusheng and Tan Pinghai, both male, policemen from the Domestic Security Division, Hanyin County, Shaanxi Province

4.Shao Xiangnong, male, Hanyin County Commissioner, phone: 86-13909150433 (Cell)

Description:

On June 15, 2006, Mr. Wu Xinming was arrested for a third time when talking about Falun Gong to people in the county. Once again the local police detained him and sent him to Zaozihe Forced Labor Camp. This time the guards at the labor camp tied him up with a rope. Mr. Wu went on a hunger strike to protest the detention, and the guards force-fed him with a highly concentrated salt solution, chili powder, water, and even laundry detergent. Mr. Wu still refused to give in, despite the fact that he was miserable. The guards tortured him by tying up his body, and then whipped him with wire, resulting in his whole body being covered with bruises.

Due to the inhuman torture, Mr. Wu began coughing and vomiting up blood, and looked emaciated. The camp authorities were afraid he would die there, and ordered the local police to pick him up. He was dying, but nonetheless on June 25, 2008, the town officials stormed into his home, and tried to get the dying Mr. Wu to write a guarantee statement, but he absolutely refused. Mr. Wu Xinming died in the early morning of June 26, 2008. He is survived by his wife, son and daughter, and his parents in their seventies.

Previous Persecution:

Mr. Wu was arrested in January 2001, for talking about Falun Gong to people. Officers from Xuanwuo Town Police Station detained him in the Hanyin County Detention Center. Zhang Zhengmin, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Political and Judiciary Committee secretary, threatened to dismiss him from his job if he didn't give up Falun Gong, but Mr. Wu refused. The CCP officials had him sentenced to two years of forced labor, and took him to Zaozihe Forced Labor Camp.

The labor camp guards encouraged drug-addict prisoners to take turns beating and cursing Mr. Wu. They tied him up in an office, and then beat him with a wooden bench. Several of Mr. Wu's front teeth were broken off, and his lower back was injured. Seeing that Mr. Wu still refused to renounce his faith, the guards tortured him using a variety of means, including locking him up in a small cell, depriving him of sleep, and depriving him use of the toilet, etc.

When Mr. Wu was released in 2003, he was dismissed by his employer. He made appeal to his employer, the police departments, the Justice Bureau, the County Party Committee, and the County People's Congress. He requested his job back, however no response. In October 2003, Zhang Zongyin, the 610 Office chair, Xia Jinxiu, the Domestic Security Division leader, along with officers Zhang Shusheng and Tan Pinghai, arrested Mr. Wu, fabricated some criminal charges, detained him again in the county detention center, and sentenced him to forced labor within only a few days.

Mr. Wu was for a second time detained in Zaozihe Forced Labor Camp. This time the guards had prisoners beat him with a two-inch-thick wooden club. They beat him so hard that the club broke in half. The beatings injured Mr. Wu's internal organs, and in dangerous situation. Instead of sending him to the hospital, the camp authorities notified the Hanyin County Police Department to pick him up. They ignored the fact that Mr. Wu's wife and son were living in a rental room near the city, but threw him out along the side of a road only half-way to his village home which is far in the mountain area. Mr. Wu almost died on the road.

Summary:

On June 15, 2006, Mr. Wu Xinming was arrested a third time when talking about Falun Gong to people in the county seat. The local police sent him to Zaozihe Forced Labor Camp. Due to the long-term inhuman torture, Mr. Wu began coughing and vomiting up blood, and looked emaciated. The camp authorities were afraid he would die there, and ordered the local police to pick him up. Mr. Wu Xinming died in the early morning of June 26, 2008. He is survived by his wife, son and daughter, and his parents in their seventies.

Posted on November 12, 2008