(Minghui.org) Mr. Chen Anjun, formerly an instructor at the Tuqiao Police Academy in Chengdu City, Sichuan Province, is currently incarcerated in Aba Prison, serving a 14 and a half year-term for his belief in Falun Dafa. According to people who were detained with Mr. Chen, the guards have brutally tortured him.

Because Mr. Chen refused to recite the prison regulations, the guards instructed several inmates to hold him down. They pulled off his pants and scrubbed his private parts with toothbrushes.

The guards often severely beat him, attempting to force him to give up his belief. They once slammed his head into a wall, causing serious injury. He was sent to the hospital for emergency treatment.

Attempting to "transform" Mr. Chen, the guards deprived him of sleep, and wouldn't let him use the restroom, bathe, or wash his clothes as needed. The guards also forced him to wear heavy clothes and a tight, thick cotton hat during the heat of summer. In addition to the physical abuse, the guards repeatedly threatened and pressured him, which has damaged his mind and body.

Most Recent Arrest

Mr. Chen noticed that he was being followed and monitored in June 2005, so he left home to avoid further persecution. However, the police found him and arrested him in late 2005. He was taken to the Shizhushan Detention Center and tortured until he was in critical condition.

He was sentenced to 14 and a half years by the Zhong District Court in Leshan City on May 18, 2006. He was first taken to Ya’an Prison and later transferred to Deyang Prison. The guards in Deyang Prison have also severely tortured him.

Most recently he has been held in Ward 7 in Aba Prison.

Previous Arrests

Mr. Chen was arrested in 2001 and sentenced to a year and a half in Xinhua Forced Labor Camp. While he was there he was fired from his job.

He was arrested again in mid-April 2003 and taken to the Pi County Brainwashing Center by agents from the Jinniu District 610 Office. He went on a hunger strike in protest. Mr. Chen's condition became critical and he was taken to the hospital. His family requested his release but to no avail.

Other Practitioners in Aba Prison

Other practitioners currently detained in Ward 7 of Aba Prison include Mr. Li Changli, an engineer from the Liaoyuan Factory in the Longquanyi District of Chengdu City, and Mr. Deng Xiaoming, a teacher from the Huayang Middle School in Chengdu City.

Mr. Li Changli was transferred from Deyang Prison, where the guards tortured him brutally to try to "transform" him. At one point the guards had inmate Wu Keming beat him in a room with no monitoring cameras. He was beaten so severely that his abdomen was seriously injured and he couldn’t stand up or walk.