(Minghui.org)
Name: Li Chang’anChinese Name: 李长安Gender: MaleAge: 53City: FangzhengProvince: HeilongjiangOccupation: Truck driverDate of Death: September 24, 2023Date of Most Recent Arrest: May 21, 2015Most Recent Place of Detention: Hulan Prison
A 53-year-old resident of Fangzheng County, Heilongjiang Province, died in a hospital on September 24, 2023, while serving a 12-year term for practicing Falun Gong.
Mr. Li Chang’an, a truck driver, was repeatedly targeted for his faith after the Chinese Communist Party ordered the persecution of Falun Gong in July 1999. Following his last arrest on May 21, 2015, he was sentenced to 12 years on October 28, 2015, and admitted to the Hulan Prison.
Because Mr. Li refused to wear the prisoners’ uniform or answer roll calls on May 23, 2016, he was beaten and put in solitary confinement for 13 days. He was only given one streamed bun every day and subjected to continued abuse. See the first related report below for details of this persecution.
Captain Xu Wenlong directed team lead Zhang Dongsheng and a few guards to beat Mr. Li in July 2018 because he refused to put on the inmates’ uniform. They placed him in solitary confinement and didn’t let him out until he became critically ill from a hunger strike.
During the following year, Xu put Mr. Li in solitary confinement five more times on the grounds that he refused to wear prisoners’ uniform or do hard labor. Once he was beaten by a guard so badly that his face was covered in blood. The guards also instigated the inmates to beat him, and they knocked out one of his teeth. The guards didn’t do anything to punish the inmates, who then beat Mr. Li even more savagely.
At the end of 2022, the prison did a reorganization and put Mr. Li under the management of a newly formed “anti-riot” team. He refused to comply with the new team’s orders and was repeatedly put in solitary confinement by division head Zhang Xianfeng. He went on a hunger strike in protest and was repeatedly force-fed.
Mr. Li suffered declining health as a result of the long-term force-feeding and abuse. Around November 2022, he was found to have general edema, abdominal fluid accumulation, and liver cirrhosis. Instead of holding his persecutors responsible, the prison extorted 50,000 yuan from his family to cover his “medical expenses.”
Mr. Li fell into a coma and was sent to a hospital, where he died one week later, on September 24, 2023. According to insiders, at least 16 other Falun Gong practitioners also died after they were abused in Hulan Prison, which was designed as a high-security prison to hold death-row prisoners and inmates with at least 15-year prison sentences. After the persecution began in 1999, it became the main facility where Falun Gong practitioners in Heilongjiang Province were detained.
Related Reports:
Truck Driver Sentenced to 12 Years and Severely Persecuted in Hulan Prison
Falun Gong Practitioner Faces Heavy Sentencing Based on Falsified Evidence
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