(Minghui.org) A Taikang County, Henan Province, man was recently subjected to strict management and involuntary drug administration while serving a five-year term for his faith in Falun Gong, a spiritual discipline that has been persecuted by the Chinese communist regime since 1999.
Mr. Xu Jianchao was arrested on March 29, 2023, for talking to people about Falun Gong. He was abused while he was being held in the Taikang County Detention Center. At one point he was only given one or two meals each day for 70 days straight. He soon became emaciated.
Mr. Xu was secretly sentenced to five years on October 12, 2023, and admitted toXinmi Prison in Zhengzhou, the capital of Henan Province, on an unknown date. He is being held in division 9 and subjected to strict management.
According to an insider, Mr. Xu refused to write a statement to renounce Falun Gong. Several guards held him down on the floor and took his blood pressure. Then they force-fed him unknown drugs, after which he had pain in the right side of his body. When his family learned about this and condemned the guards for abusing him, guard Lu Junyi said to the family, “We have all kinds of ways to make him take the medications.”