Practitioners from Shun-yi County were brutally tortured for attempting to exercise their legal right to audit the trial of four former contact people

January 8th, 2000 Two practitioners were detained in the 3rd cell of Ni-he detention center of Shun-yi county of Beijing. They had attempted to audit the trial of the former four major contact people of Falun Gong on December 26.

Five practitioners including Ms. Cheng Feng-rong, 42 years old, were arrested by Shun-yi police department for the same reason. Police slapped Ms. Cheng while handcuffing her to a tree. She was later brutally beaten up by police using a broom. The broom was even broken into two pieces. After she was beaten up, she was forced to stand on the snow barefooted. She was handcuffed to the tree and forced to half squat down. She would be punched and kicked once she could not stand firm. Police also poured two basins of cold water on her back neck. The cold water frozen into ice under her feet. Up to now, black and purple spots could be found on her legs. Some other fellow practitioners who had attempted to audit the trial together with her also suffered physical tortures of various degrees. They were forced to take medicines after they were tortured.

A 52-year-old practitioner had also been detained in the 3rd cell for going to appeal on December 14. She showed us the bruises due to police torture. She told us that a police officer had used a string of keys to scratch back and forth on the bridge of her nose. The bruises on her face were very obvious when she was sent to the detention center.

Another fellow practitioner was detained there on December 7 for going to appeal. In detention center, police filled her with medicines, salt water and food during her hunger strike. The male criminals pushed her down on the ground and plugged a pipe in her nose, which made her nose bleeding for half a day. Later she was put on shackles and nailed to the hardwood bed. Now she has been released after a month of detention.