Name: Lv Songming (吕松明 )
Gender: Male
Age: 30s
Address: Xiangtan City, Hunan Province
Occupation: History Teacher at the Middle School for Children of Employees of Xiangtan Electrical Machinery Plant
Date of Most Recent Arrest: February 4, 2007
Most Recent Place of Detention: Jinshi Prison, Changde City, Hunan Province (津市监狱 )
City: Changde
Province: Hunan
Persecution Suffered: Shocked with electric batons, sleep deprivation, forced labor, brainwashing, illegal sentencing, beatings, hung up by handcuffs, imprisonment, solitary confinement, torture, forced-feedings, physical restraint

(Clearwisdom.net) Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Lv Songming from Xiangtan continues to be tortured at Jinshi Prison in Changde City. He has suffered brutal beatings and forced-feeding of feces. He was sentenced twice to prison terms for a total of ten years.

Mr. Lv graduated from Hunan Normal University in Changsha City, Hunan Province. He majored in history. He started practicing Falun Gong in 1996. He is the father of a young man and had a harmonious family before the persecution. In 2000, he was fired from his school for practicing Falun Gong. To earn a living he shined shoes and later sold peanuts on the street. This way he could also tell people about Falun Dafa. He was detained multiple times and sentenced twice to prison terms.

On March 11, 2001, Mr. Lv was detained for distributing truth-clarification materials and later sentenced to five years in prison. He was brutally tortured at Chishan Prison in Yuanjiang City, Yiyang Region, Hunan Province; at Wuling Prison in Changde, and at Jinshi Prison. When he was released in 2006, his son couldn't recognize him and his wife divorced him. On February 4, 2007, Mr. Lv was arrested when telling people about Falun Dafa in Xingzipu Town, Shuangfeng County, Loudi City, Hunan Province. Without providing any reason or evidence, Mr. Lv was sentenced to a five-year prison term and taken to Jinshi Prison.

Tortured at Chishan Prison

In February 2002, prison guard He Yong tortured Mr. Lv for six days. He cuffed Mr. Lv's feet and hands to the bed at night and didn't allow him to sleep. He tortured Mr. Lv in an attempt to get him to write a guarantee statement. He also ordered inmates to beat Mr. Lv.

Torture demonstration: Death bed

In November 2002, Mr. Lv wrote out some short sentences from Falun Dafa's main book, Zhuan Falun, such as “Zhen-Shan-Ren [Truthfulness-Benevolence-Forbearance] is the Sole Criterion to Discern Good and Bad People” on a piece of paper. Guard Luo Lie saw it and ordered inmate Geng Tao to get the paper. Mr. Lv followed Luo to the soccer field, asking him to return the paper. Luo handed it over to guard He Yong. Mr. Lv approached He Yong to get it back. He Yong shouted, “Attacking police! Attacking police! Hold him down!” Inmates Geng Tao, Li Biao and others pushed Mr. Lv to the ground and beat him. Mr. Lv shouted, “I won't stop until you return the paper to me. Look at what I wrote. It is all from Falun Dafa scriptures, which teach people to cultivate Truthfulness-Benevolence-Forbearance and to be good people.” He Yong called guard Li Feiwen over. Li said viciously, “Why don't you die instead of harming us? You even dare to attack police.” Li told He, “Inform the Prison Management Section and handcuff him to a torture instrument.”

He Yong then dragged Mr. Lv to his metal bed and forced him to lie down. He Yong ordered inmate Liu Zijiang, “I have already received permission from the Prison Management Section to handcuff him for seven days and handcuff his hands tightly. Make him humble. Show us what you can do. You keep the key for the handcuffs. Only let him go to the bathroom and also open the handcuffs for eating... He just said that he will go on a hunger strike. So keep cuffing him except for bathroom visits!” There were three vertical steel bars at the head rail of the bed. Mr. Lv pulled his hands apart, so Liu couldn't handcuff them, but Liu pulled Mr. Lv's hands towards each other and managed to cuff them. Mr. Lv felt great pain in his hands and especially in his shoulders. Fellow practitioner Mr. Xiao Huisheng (in his thirties, from Xiangtan, a pharmacist) and Mr. Zeng Haiqi (in his thirties, from Zhuzhou City, Hunan Province, a technician expert at a machine plant) went on a hunger strike to support Mr. Lv. The brutal torture was stopped by the righteous thoughts and the cooperation among the three practitioners.

On January 10, 2003, the three practitioners went on a hunger strike to protest having their heads shaved. On the third day, inmate Xiong Jian'gang and several other inmates force-fed them with rice soup in two cola bottles. They pulled Mr. Lv up, “Will you eat?” “No, thank you. I won't eat.” Before Mr. Lv could finish his sentence, Xiong punched his head. Mr. Lv turned before falling to the ground. “I ask you again. Will you eat?” Mr. Lv shook his head. “Feed him!” The inmates pressed Mr. Lv to the ground, stepped on his hands and feet, and pushed the cola bottle into his mouth. Medical assistant inmate Chen Lin said, “Pinch his nose, otherwise it will go into his trachea...” Xiong handed the bottle to Chen, “It's better for you to do it. I haven't done this before.” Seeing that Mr. Lv tried to move, Xiong sat down on Mr. Lv's stomach. Mr. Lv's vomited. Chen shouted, “Stand up quickly or he will die.” Xiong stood up and smiled, “You are against the government. The government asked me to torture you. I have no choice but to follow the order since I am an inmate. If you won't eat tomorrow, I will insert a bamboo tube into your throat to feed you. I will break your throat. I'll see if you dare not eat.” Chen continued force-feeding Mr. Lv.

After four hours, Mr. Lv went to the restroom for a bowel movement. He felt that he released warm water. Inmate Lv Xiaozong who was assigned to monitor him took a look and shouted, “Oh! You are defecating blood, just like spilling water.” Blood came out of Mr. Lv's bowels for two hours. This situation lasted for several days. Later Mr. Lv told practitioner Mr. Xiao Zhixiang, a retired manager from Xiangtan Gas Company, about what was done to him. Mr. Xiao went to see Chen Xionghui, an officer in the prison's Education Section, “He Yong has said he wanted Xiong Jian'gang to torture Mr. Lv Songming in revenge for reporting him. Are you trying to use Xiong to kill Mr. Lv?” Chen hesitated for a while, and then called Xiong Jian'gang to his office.

Xiong threatened to kill Mr. Lv several times. Once he fiercely hit Mr. Lv's head with a key chain hidden in his hand.

On the seventh day of the practitioners' hunger strike, the inmate on-duty shouted, “Lv Songming, get ready for a relative's visit.” Mr. Lv was very weak by then. He walked slowly to the door. Suddenly the on-duty guard Luo Lie's mobile phone rang. Guard Li Feiwen was calling him. After they talked for a while, Luo said, “Lv Songming, upper management will not allow you to meet your visitor. Why did you hold a hunger strike?” Mr. Lv protested, “Which law says that people on hunger strike can't see their relatives?” Luo kept silent for a while, “Let me go to the Prison Management Section to see who came to visit you.” After half an hour, Luo brought two bags of powdered milk back. “Your sister came. Cadres of the Prison Management Section talked to her and she went home in tears.” Mr. Lv said, “Practitioners are all kind and good people. Our hunger strike is to protest the persecution. For over a year, you saw how practitioners behaved. Why do you treat good people like this? The reason we resist the persecution is to help you to understand and not violate the law. Otherwise, you will accumulate bad debts for brutally persecuting practitioners. You will be unable to pay it off for eternity.”

Mr. Lv was forced to do heavy labor. Although he was weak, he was forced to stand for sixteen hours daily. His legs swelled and he couldn't work. To protest the forced labor, Mr. Lv, Mr. Xiao, and Mr. Zeng went again on a hunger strike. Deputy Warden Zi Wei said cunningly, “It's not my place to decide whether you committed a crime. You need to talk to the court. Since the court sent you here, you are a criminal. I have the right to follow Prison Law in how I treat you. If you don't work, you are violating the Prison Law.” Mr. Lv replied, “The fundamental spirit and goal of human law is to punish evil and praise the good and safeguard the just. We are not guilty under the law. It's the government who's controlling the court to wrongly sentence Falun Gong practitioners. Article Thirteen of the Prison Law tells you to follow the Constitution and enforce the law. But facing such a major miscarriage of justice, you deliberately treat us as criminals. You have already violated the Constitution and the fundamental spirit of law. How can you talk about law? You are playing tricks with the law.”

Mr. Lv continued, “Even when following your logic, you have violated Article Seventy-One of the Prison Law by forcing practitioners to work fifteen hours daily, including the weekend. You give practitioners only one day of rest a month. We resist labor persecution. Even if you use the Prison Law to punish us, Article Fifty-Eight says to warn, record demerits, or put in confinement. But you hung up practitioners with handcuffs and beat practitioners. You have already violated Article Fourteen, which prohibits torture interrogation, abuse, or beating. Mr. Zhang Peng from the Second Division, Chen Yang and Ma Junwen from the Third Division, and Jia Zhefa from the Fourth Division were all put in confinement. You ordered inmates to torture them. They were forced to stand against a wall for eighteen hours a day. You let mice run unchecked in the confinement cell. They chewed pieces off the quilt. There are many mosquitoes in the confinement cell in summer, but you don't apply any anti-mosquito pills or install a screen window.”

Zi Wei became irritated and yelled, “Hang him up immediately.” Mr. Lv and other practitioners were hung up from the window frames. Inmate Xu Shenjun kept beating them. The practitioners were so weak that as they shouted phrases in protest, their voices could only be heard by the inmates who were beating them.

Torture reenactment: Forced-feeding

Seven days after they went on a hunger strike, Chen Lin and two other prisoners who were medical doctors force-fed Mr. Lv, Mr. Xiao, and Mr. Zeng. They inserted a plastic tube into Mr. Lv's stomach and caused a spasm in his stomach. His face turned purple because he could not breathe properly. A few minutes later, the pressure of regurgitation pushed the rice water out of Mr. Lv's stomach. The rice water ran through the plastic tube and splashed on the prisoners. They then gave up force-feeding him.

On the eighth day, when Mr. Lv was standing and shouting phrases supporting Falun Dafa, prisoner Xiong Jian'gang disrobed him despite the cold weather. Xiong began to laugh. The prison guards were standing and watching, as if it was none of their business. Xiong dragged Mr. Lv to the front door of the workshop of the fifth ward. He then kicked Mr. Lv's ribs in the area of the liver. The excruciating pain almost caused Mr. Lv to faint and stop breathing. Xiong continued to drag Mr. Lv around. The ground abraded Mr. Lv's bare skin, leaving blood on the ground. Xiong then handcuffed Mr. Lv and hung him up. Other practitioners tried to tell guards Wang Xianghui and Li Feiwen about Mr. Lv's injury, but they ignored it. Mr. Lv was left hanging for ten days until after the New Year.

At 8 o'clock on May 5, 2003, shuttles were ready to transfer prisoners to the workshops. Practitioner Mr. Zeng Haiqi refused to stay in line, squat down and report his number. The special force led by deputy warden Zi Wei beat Mr. Zeng twice. Mr. Zeng still refused to follow orders. The guards from the special force took out electric batons. When the batons touched Mr. Zeng, a large electric arc emerged from his body. He collapsed on the ground immediately. The guards continued to use the batons on him. It looked like Mr. Zeng's body was on fire. The electric arcs and sparks were all over his body.

At the time, Mr. Lv's shuttle drove by. He saw the electric arcs from afar. Seeing the guards continuing to hit Mr. Zeng with the electric batons, Mr. Lv broke away from the prisoners who were holding him and yelled, “Falun Dafa is good! Do not torture practitioners!” Zi Wei and the guards turned and rushed toward Mr. Lv. As an electric baton touched Mr. Lv's head, he fell down and hit his head on a concrete block. His head was bleeding but the guards kept shocking his temples with the batons. He passed out. After he woke up, he still refused to follow orders. Deputy warden Zi Wei scolded guard Li Feiwen and said, “Call a meeting in the fifth ward immediately!” Over a hundred prisoners from the fifth ward gathered at the basketball court. Li shouted, “Get these guys up to the podium and have them kneel down!” Mr. Lv and Mr. Zeng refused to kneel down. Li ordered several prisoners to pull their arms to their backs and hold their heads down. The prisoners stepped on the practitioners' lower legs so they could not get up. Li then said, “Everyone applaud and welcome Warden Li!” Li slandered Falun Dafa and the practitioners and said, “For the prisoners who dared to struggle with practitioners tonight, we will commend their work and plentifully reward them. Write down their names and I will announce their merits tomorrow. As for how to punish practitioners who fight the government, we will execute the laws and I hope the fifth ward office will denounce and educate them. The meeting is adjourned.”

After Mr. Lv returned to his cell, he fainted when he tried to take his clothes off. A prisoner next to him told him, “The back of your head is covered with blood and your back is soaked with blood. You should see a prison doctor.” Mr. Lv found it difficult to speak. He couldn't think straight or remember anything, and he was very dizzy. Later, after his symptoms subsided, he wrote letters to the prison guards and warden to tell them the facts of the persecution.

Persecution in Jinshi Prison in Changde City

There are over ten wards in Jinshi Prison and there are Falun Gong practitioners in every one of them. It's estimated that there are dozens of practitioners in the prison. In past years, prisoners have died as a result of beatings.

After years of being rewarded and brainwashed, some prisoners became hit men for the guards, and were especially cruel toward Falun Gong practitioners. These prisoners often beat practitioners, handcuffed them and hung them up from the handcuffs. The practitioners went on hunger strikes to protest the torture. The guards then ordered prisoners to force-feed them every two hours. These people had no medical training and continued to feed the practitioners even when their abdomens were protruding.

Once in Jinshi Prison, Mr. Lv crossed his legs as if he was meditating. Three prisoners attacked him, punched him and stomped on him for two hours. Because Mr. Lv resisted, they force-fed him urine. Xiao Jian and another guard walked by. Instead of stopping the beating, they scolded Mr. Lv for “disturbing prison order” and extended his term. Mr. Lv refused to comply and shouted “Falun Dafa is good.” Prisoners Wei Yile, Song Shuifa, and Mu Tong beat him and shoved excrement in his mouth.

The guards often order prisoners to torture Mr. Lv. He is always in handcuffs and shackles, and the guards frequently force-feed him. In 2009, the guards ordered several prisoners to hold him down and force-feed him with excrement. He has become severely underweight.

To receive rewards, the prison guards used all kinds of means to force practitioners to renounce Falun Dafa. In 2011, the prison guards in Jinshi Prison demanded that Mr. Lv's family convince him to give up Falun Dafa. Mr. Lv firmly refused.

Relevant persecutors and phone numbers:

Hunan Province Prison Administration Bureau

Address: 81 Road, Furong District, Changsha City, Hunan Province, postal code: 410001.

Fax: +86-736-84462819

Appeal Office: +86-736-84592622

Bureau chief Liu Wanqing: +86-736-84592781 (office), 1+86-3707319173, 13974980688

Political commissioner Zhang Shiming: +86-736-84592782 (office), 4592438 (home), +86-13607480928

Secretary of discipline inspection Li Shaowu: +86-736-84592786, 88143108, +86-13808466496

Deputy bureau chief: +86-736-84592780, 84592784, 84592689 (office)

Jinshi Prison in Changde City, Hunan Province

Address: No. 1, Box 330, Jinshi City, Changde City, Hunan Province, postal code: 415400

Phone numbers: +86-736-4298199, 4298113, 4298608, 4298220

Second Detention and Dispatch Center in Jinshi Prison: +86-736- 4243120

Education Division: director Song Jianping: +86-13875097871 (mobile); division head Luo Hua: +86-13975600521 (mobile); deputy division head: Guo Huifedng

Warden Wang Jinsha: +86-736-4298138 (office)

Deputy warden Cai Fulin: +86-13907369439, +86-736-4298588, +86-736-4298122 (home)

Deputy warden Hu (first name unknown): +86-13973603110

The 610 Office of Hunan Province (area code: +86-731)

Fax: 82219674

Address: No. 1, Shaoshan Road, Changsha City, Hunan Province. Postal code: 410011

Director Shen Yu: 82219065

Deputy director Jiang Heping: 82215011

Deputy director Liu Daolong: 82215271

Assistant patrol staff Jiang Yongzhong: 82219459

Director of the Secretariat Office He Xi: 82215161