Former Political Section Chief of Liaozhong County Police Department Tortured to Death – Additional Information

Name: Han Qingcai
Gender: Male
Age: 62
Address: Unknown
Occupation: former Political Section Chief of Liaozhong County Police Department in the Liaoning Province Bureau
Date of Death: August 19th, 2003
Date of Most Recent Arrest: April 6th, 2002
Most Recent Place of Detention: Laiozhong County Detention Centre
City: Liaozhong County
Province: Liaoning
Persecution Suffered: Forced labour, brainwashing, imprisonment, home ransacking, interrogation, detention

Mr. Han Qingcai, 62, was the former Political Section Chief of the Liaozhong County Police Department in Liaoning Province. In 2001, he went to Beijing to appeal to the government for the right to practise Falun Gong and was arrested and sentenced to four years in prison. In the Liaozhong County Prison, he was persecuted almost to death before being released on August 8th, 2003. He died eleven days later on August 19th.

On evening of December 7th, 2001, nine practitioners in Liaozhong County took the train to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong. They were surrounded by the police midway to Beijing and were taken to the county public security office. Mr. Han and other practitioners were able to get away, but his wife, Ms. Liu Yuying, and others were taken to the Shenxing Brainwashing Centre.

Police officer Qin Mengzhi and several dozen officers from the Liaozhong Public Security Division broke into Mr. Han's home and ransacked it. They broke the lock on the door to get in and turned everything upside down. When they couldn't find Mr. Han, they went to harass his eldest son, Mr. Han Cheng, in an attempt to force him to tell them the whereabouts of his father. When Han Cheng did not tell them where his father was, the police threatened him, causing great mental distress, and he died on March 28th, 2007. The police went to the home of Han Qingcai's relative in the countryside to look for him. They searched without providing any legal documents. The police even claimed that they were friends of Mr. Han.

The police kept surveillance on Han Qingcai's home and monitored the family's phone. His relatives and friends were implicated. After ten days, the police captured Mr. Han and took him to the Shenxing Brainwashing Centre that very evening. The guards ordered other prisoners to watch him. They searched him thoroughly and kept him under surveillance even when he ate, slept, or used the toilet. In order to force him and his wife to give up practising Falun Gong, they sent them to the Zhangshi Correctional Centre to brainwash them. They were forced to pay four hundred yuan¹ per day in living expenses. The guards tortured the practitioners by depriving them of sleep for days and nights at a time. Nevertheless, they were unable to shake the couple's confidence and determination to practise. After two months, they were released, only after paying five thousand yuan in cash each.

But the persecution did not stop. Just two months after they returned home, police officer Wei Yunbai and several others arrested Mr. Han on the evening of April 6th, 2002, and took him to the Liaozhong County Detention Centre without a warrant. They deprived him of any personal freedom and denied him family visits. Mr. Han was then sentenced to four years in prison at the end of June 2002. He was also dismissed from public employment.

Later, the Liaozhong Detention Centre called his family to tell them that Mr Han wasn't eating, and his health had become very poor. When his family saw him, they were shocked. He was very weak and pale, spoke feebly, and was barely able to walk. They couldn’t even bear to look at him. At that time, two judges arrived and said angrily, “Han Qingcai has a bad attitude, and he has been sentenced to four years in prison.” After examining him in a hospital, the doctor in charge wanted to keep him in the hospital, but detention centre officials opposed his decision. They finally agreed only after some persuasion from the hospital, but he had to report to the detention centre every day. They sent two police officers to take turns watching him. Under such conditions, Mr. Han's health worsened and, after just one month, he couldn't even get out of bed. Even so, the authorities did not let up on the persecution. Only when they saw that he was dying did they let him go home. A few days later, Mr. Han Qingcai passed away at home on August 19th, 2003.

This good person, who insisted on upholding the truth and cultivating Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance, was persecuted to death by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

Related article: http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2003/10/21/41482.html

Note

1. "Yuan" is the Chinese currency; 500 yuan is equal to the average monthly income of an urban worker in China.

Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2011/1/30/235501.html