(Minghui.org) A Yichun City, Heilongjiang Province, resident was recently sentenced to six years for practicing Falun Gong, a spiritual discipline that has been persecuted by the Chinese communist regime since 1999.

Mr. Feng Guoqing, around 59, was arrested on December 4, 2024 and his home was repeatedly ransacked. Over 200,000 yuan in cash was confiscated during the raids. Some of the money was imprinted with message about the persecution of Falun Gong, as a way to raise awareness given the strict censorship in China.

Xie Xueyi, head of the Jinlin District Police Department, and Zhou Cheng, head of the Jinlin District 610 Office, ordered the police to interrogate Mr. Feng through torture. He refused to answer their questions and went on a hunger strike for more than 40 days. The police removed his clothing, and restrained him on a bed in a spread eagle position. Then they force-fed him. He had no choice and relieved himself on the bed. He suffered failure in both kidneys as a result of the torture.

Torture reenactment: tied up in a spread eagle position

The Jinlin District Police Department submitted Mr. Feng’s case to the Nancha County Procuratorate, which then indicted him and moved his case to the Nancha County Court.

Mr. Feng appeared in court on June 20, 2025. His lawyer was informed on July 5 that he was sentenced to six yeas and fined 10,000 yuan. The paper currency printed with Falun Gong messages that was confiscated from him was expropriated.

Mr. Feng is still held at the Yichun City Detention Center while awaiting the result of his appeal.

Past Persecution

This isn’t the first time Mr. Feng was arrested after the Chinese communist regime ordered the persecution of Falun Gong in 1999.

Mr. Feng’s first arrest was on February 6, 2000, when he went to Beijing to appeal for the right to practice Falun Gong. The 345 yuan in cash he had with him was confiscated by police officer Xiao Jingyu. He was detained for two days in Beijing and then taken back to Yichun, where he was given three back-to-back 15-day detentions for a total of 45 days straight (the police did this to comply with the 15-day limit of administrative detention). They released him in mid-March 2000. The police extorted 1,000 yuan from his family.

Mr. Feng was arrested again in late April 2000 and detained for 54 days. Although he was given only very thin dumpling soup every day for two meals and was forced to work in the farm fields without pay, the detention center still required that he pay 500 yuan for the food (around 10 yuan each day). His monthly salary back then was only 173.9 yuan.

Mr. Feng’s third arrest was towards the end of 2000. He was held at a brainwashing center for 27 days and released the day before the eve of Chinese New Year.

His next arrest was on April 10, 2002. Officers Kang Kai, Zhang Yanbin and Qi You beat him in the police station. They handcuffed him, forced him to crawl on the floor and then placed a chair on him. While officer He Jingdong sat on the chair, the other officers took turns beating him with PVC pipes for hours.

Torture reenactment: being restrained under a chair

When the police finally stopped torturing him the evening, Mr. Feng had trouble breathing and was unable to walk. Officer He dragged him to the police car and took him to the local detention center. The officers returned three days later and dragged him to a room, as he was still unable to walk. They pinched him all over, causing him excruciating pain. They then tied his feet together and extended his arms, before restraining him on a wooden cross for 12 days. His hands gradually lost feeling and the police also injected him with unknown drugs.

The police arrived again on June 10, 2002. They tied him up tightly and then loosened the rope. They repeated the tying torture several times and they tied him tighter and tighter each time. His hands were injured and he was unable to hold anything for a year.

Mr. Feng was later sentenced to four years. He was first taken to the Xianglan Prison on December 6, 2002 and then transferred to the Jiamusi Prison on January 14, 2003. Each time his mother visited him, she was intimidated by prison guard Shi Junfeng. Succumbing to the mental distress, she died a year later.

Mr. Feng was subjected to constant torture in the prison, including forced-feeding, electric shocks, beatings, sleep deprivation and verbal abuse.

When he was released in 2006, his wife divorced him, and his employer, the Jinshantun Forest Survey and Design Team, also fired him.

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