(Minghui.org) A 21-year-old college student from Suining City, Sichuan Province, is serving a four-year term at the Jiazhou Prison because he practices Falun Gong, Minghui.org learned recently.
It is unclear when Mr. Gong Yongcheng was arrested, indicted, or sentenced. He was sent to prison in February 2024 and assigned to the new inmates’ team in the fourth division.
The prison guards, head inmate Li Shikuan, and others ordered Mr. Gong to write various statements to renounce Falun Gong. He replied “No” each time as no law in China criminalizes Falun Gong. He also refused to recite the prison rules.
The guards later moved Mr. Gong to the strict management team where he was forced to stand for long hours every day. He was given only half the amount of food the inmates received. Mr. Gong was already thin, and he soon became emaciated.
About four months later Mr. Gong was transferred back to the fourth division and placed in a team for the infirm and the elderly. As no other Falun Gong practitioners were held in that team, the guards felt “safe” that his steadfast faith in Falun Gong would not influence other jailed practitioners.
Mr. Gong’s term is expected to end in 2027.
Jiazhou Prison
Jiazhou Prison in Leshan City, Sichuan Province, was established after the merger of the Wumaping Forced Labor Camp and Shawan Prison. Known to the outside as the “Chenma Group Co., Ltd,” it’s a place where male Falun Gong practitioners from various parts of the province have been incarcerated since 2006.
While in the prison, Falun Gong practitioners are subjected various torture methods, including long hours of standing, electric shocks, beating, being forced to finish a meal within seconds, and unpaid labor. They are not allowed to talk with one another and are ordered to write thought reports and statements to renounce their faith. Those who refused are placed under strict management, sprayed with pepper water, or tortured by other inmates. Inmates involved in persecuting Falun Gong practitioners are rewarded with term reductions.
According to Minghui reports, at least 25 practitioners and one family member of a practitioner have died after they were tortured in prison. Some died in the prison, while some passed away after they were released and they were on the brink of death.
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