Ms. Sui Cun, age 44, is a resident of Heijinhe Township, Tangyuan County, Heilongjiang Province. On the night of January 14, 2001, eight people from the local police station and the “610 Office” broke into Ms. Sui’s home and took her to the police station. At the police station, policemen Zhou Tiegang and Deng Jian beat Ms. Sui in an attempt to force her to give up practicing Falun Gong. Policeman Ren Changjun also used an electric baton to shock her head and body. When the policemen were exhausted from beating Ms. Sui, they brought in two inmates from the detention center to continue the torture.

The police threatened to beat Ms. Sui’s two sons and to send her whole family to jail. Later, they detained her elder son for 24 hours and slapped the fifteen-year-old boy on his face over thirty times, causing his face to swell horribly.

Ms. Sui was held in custody for 5 days and 4 nights. Every night policemen beat and tortured her. At the end of each beating, they handcuffed her to the heating pipes in a standing position, so she could not sleep. The police also handcuffed her to a door handle, forced her to open the door each time they went through, and spat on her face each time they walked through. In April 2001, Ms. Sui was sentenced to one year of forced labor in the Jiamusi Forced Labor Camp.

type=Case, Children; type=Case, Family; type=Case, Torture; location=Heilongjiang, Tangyuan;