Li Mingwei (male) was a middle school student at the Experimental Middle School, Anqiu City, Shandong Province.

One morning in early March 2001, while Mingwei was still sleeping, eight city officials and policemen broke into his home and arrested him and his mother, leaving his 12-year-old sister home alone. They were detained in Anqiu City. The Anqiu city official, Song Baojie, had allocated two houses there for the purpose of detaining and brainwashing Falun Gong practitioners.

Li Mingwei started a hunger strike to protest the illegal detention. Five days later he was sent back to school, where he was detained in a small room. Under orders from Wei, an Anqiu city official, and as punishment, the school sent him to the Anqiu City People’s Hospital for force-feeding. They injected him with an unknown drug that made his whole body numb. They tried to insert a tube into his nose and down to his stomach, but failed because the tube was too thick. They then used some equipment to force open his mouth so they could insert the tube into his stomach. His mouth bled profusely due to this torture.

The school officials tried to force Li Mingwei to write a statement saying he was not going to appeal to the government to stop persecuting Falun Gong. The told him that if he refused to write it, they would lock him up and not allow him to go back to class. A teacher closely watched him during the day while two students watched him at night. He was forced to watch brainwashing materials defaming and lying about Falun Gong.

In July 2001, Li Mingwei went to Beijing again to appeal to the government to stop the persecution. He was arrested and sent back to school, where he was detained for the whole summer. Li Mingwei started another hunger strike and was again released.

One day, he was called from his class to the school office. Several teachers surrounded him and attacked him verbally. One of the school directors, Jiang Dongpo, slapped him on his face more than ten times.

To avoid further persecution, he had to leave home and school, wandering about so that he could not be located. The latest information about Li Mingwei revealed that the police found and detained him in a forced brainwashing center in Anqiu. He was later sentenced to seven years in prison.

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