Deyang (宜宾) is a prefecture-level city in Sichuan province, China. A prefecture-level city (地级市 Pinyin: d , literally region-level city) or prefecture-level municipality is an administrative division of the Peoples Republic of China. ... Sichuan (Chinese: 四川; pinyin: Sìchuān; Wade-Giles: Ssu-ch`uan; non-standard transliteration: Szechwan) is a province in central-western China with its capital at Chengdu. ... The Great Wall of China, stretching over 6,700 km, was erected beginning in the 3rd century BC to guard the north from raids by men on horses. ...
Deyand is mostly industrial city, with a big Erzhong Steel Industry.
Li Jianhou, a 67-year-old Falun Dafa practitioner from Nanchong City, Sichuan Province, was tortured to death in the Deyang Prison in Sichuan Province.
In June 2002, he was abducted by the "610 Office" and unjustly sentenced to 3 years in prison on December 23, 2002.
In order to force practitioners to give up their beliefs, the Deyang Jail instigated violent criminals to implement inhuman torture affecting both the mental and physical state of Falun Gong practitioners, and in exchange they shortened the criminals' sentences.
Because I refused to write the "guarantee statement" [A statement to declare that he or she is remorseful for practising Falun Gong and guarantees not to practise Falun Gong again, not to go to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong, and never again associate with any Falun Dafa practitioners.
To protest against all the persecution that was happening in Deyang Jail, I conducted a hunger strike for five days.