(Minghui.org) The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) began its suppression of Falun Gong in 1999. On the 23^rd anniversary of the suppression, Falun Gong practitioners in 38 countries submitted an updated list of perpetrators to their respective governments, urging that those on the list (and their family members) be barred from entry into their country, and their assets frozen.

The 38 countries are the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, France, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, Poland, Belgium, Sweden, Austria, Ireland, Denmark, Finland, Czechia, Portugal, Greece, Hungary, Slovakia, Luxembourg, Croatia, Slovenia, Latvia, Estonia, Cyprus, Malta, Japan, South Korea, Indonesia, Switzerland, Norway, Liechtenstein, Israel, Mexico, Chile, and Dominica.

Please refer to “ New List of Perpetrators Submitted to 38 Governments on the 23rd Anniversary of the Persecution of Falun Gong” for details.

Shao Lei, former director of the Prison Administration of the Ministry of Justice, is on the list.

In the persecution of Falun Gong, Shao has actively participated in it as deputy director and Director of the Prison Administration Bureau of the Ministry of Justice. Under his leadership, the Prison Administration Bureau and the prisons at all levels played a significant role in persecuting practitioners. Shao is responsible for crimes committed against Falun Gong practitioners. The persecution included being tortured, injured, maimed, killed, and/or even having their organs harvested while in prison.

Perpetrator Information

Full Name of Perpetrator: Shao (last name) Lei (first name) (邵雷)
Gender: Male
Country: China
Date/Year of Birth: Unknown
Place of Birth: Unknown

Shao Lei

Title and Position

January 2015 – Present: vice president of the Prison Work Association of the Ministry of Justice.
June 2005 – January 2015: director of the Prison Administration of the Ministry of Justice.
November 2002 – June 2005: deputy director of the Prison Administration of the Ministry of Justice.

The following are examples of crimes committed under Shao’s leadership.

Major Crimes Known to Have Been Committed

1. Torture and Brainwashing in the National Prison System

Since the CCP launched its persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in 1999, it turned the public security, judiciary branches, and prison systems into the known persecution pipeline.

During Shao Lei’s tenure as director of the Prison Administration of the Ministry of Justice from 2005 to 2015, he proactively carried out all orders given by his superior Wu Aiying.

To force Falun Gong practitioners to give up their belief and increase the so-called “transformation rate,” the prison implements a number of methods when torturing practitioners. The torture includes violent beatings, electric shocks, confinement, sexual abuse, force-feeding, slave labor, brainwashing and drug administration, which are commonly used.

According to the “Investigation Report on Torture and Killing of Falun Gong Practitioners by the CCP” by Minghui published in 2013, among the 3,653 confirmed death cases, 404 (11%) took place in 122 prisons across China.

The following contains examples of the torture methods used:

Violent beatings

Beating is one of the most common torture methods used in prison. About 21% of the death cases mentioned above were caused because of violent beatings carried out by prison staff and inmates.

In addition to beating practitioners with their bare hands, the guards also used their feet, knees, elbows, and other parts of their body. Some guards do not hesitate to beat practitioners with implements, such as sticks, iron tools, stools, whips, and glass bottles.

The beating can further be classified as slapping, pinching, chopping, grinding, stepping, pushing, dragging, pulling, and grasping. Torture victims are hit on the head, face, limbs, and sensitive areas such as the genitals.

Only six days after Mr. Guo Xiaowen was taken to Jinzhong Prison in Shanxi Province to serve a three-year term, he was beaten to death on March 12, 2013. He was only 40 and survived by his wife, a 10-year-old child, and parents in their 70s.

Torture Instruments

There are as many as 70 torture instruments used in prisons, such as handcuffs, shackles, compression belts, ropes, tiger bench, death bed, knives, fire, and others. Practitioners are hung by their wrists, restrained on tiger benches, shackled, and hung by ropes, which caused excruciating pain and often claimed lives.

Mr. Li Xiwang was taken to the Gangbei Prison (now known as Binhai Prison) in Tianjin on July 18, 2011, to serve an 8-year term. Mr. Li was subjected to the “ground anchors” on July 29. In the torture, the victim’s legs are kept straight and fixed, while his hands are shackled to the ground. His back is arched and his legs are immobile. While the maximum endurance for the inmates is two hours, Mr. Li Xiwang was anchored for over 10 hours, before he was found to have died by midnight. He was 49.

Torture illustration: “ground anchors”

Electric Shocks

High-voltage electric batons are commonly used in prisons and labor camps. The guards often simultaneously use several high-voltage batons to shock the practitioners on their genitals, face, limbs, head, breasts, neck, back, waist, ribs, and anus.

When Mr. Zhang Hui was held in Gongzhuling Prison in Jilin Province, the guards put him in solitary confinement and tied him to a bed. They shocked him with three electric batons until the batons ran out of battery charge. His anus and intestines were severely injured, and he died in April 2009.

Torture illustration: Shocked with multiple electric batons

Force-feeding

When Falun Gong practitioners go on hunger strikes to protest the persecution, the guards do not hesitate to force-feed them. The purpose of force-feeding is not to sustain the practitioners’ lives, but to torture them. The guards didn’t only use violence in the force-feeding but also increased the practitioners’ suffering by force-feeding them with brine, chili powder, mustard powder, mustard oil, raw corn powder, boiling water, and hot soup.

Mr. Qin Yueming, of Yichun City, Heilongjiang Province, who was sentenced to 10 years at Jiamusi Prison, was force-fed in the prison’s bathroom on February 25, 2011. Even though Mr. Qin told the prison doctor that the inmate inserted the feeding tube into his lung, the doctor didn’t do anything to treat him but carried him to an empty room at the end of the hallway. He died the following day. He was only 47 years old. His face showed he had been in excruciating pain. His lips were purple, and there was blood in his mouth and nose.

Torture illustration: force-feeding

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