{"id":136489,"date":"2012-05-17T23:43:53","date_gmt":"2012-05-18T06:43:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/?p=136489"},"modified":"2012-05-17T23:55:40","modified_gmt":"2012-05-18T06:55:40","slug":"chen-guangchengs-brother-describes-torture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2012\/05\/chen-guangchengs-brother-describes-torture\/","title":{"rendered":"Chen Guangcheng’s Brother Describes Torture"},"content":{"rendered":"

As activist Chen Guangcheng remains in Beijing’s Chaoyang Hospital awaiting a passport to travel to the U.S. with his wife and family, his family back home in Linyi, Shandong is suffering the brunt of local officials’ anger over his escape earlier this month<\/a>. His brother Chen Guangfu has told the media that he was tortured by security officers when he was detained for three days after his brother’s escape from de facto house arrest. Chen Guangfu spoke with isunaffairs magazine. From a BBC report on the interview<\/strong><\/a>:<\/p>\n

\n“They put me on a chair, bound my feet with iron chains and locked my hands with handcuffs behind my back,” he said. “They pulled my hands upwards forcefully. Then they slapped me in the face.”<\/p>\n

“They first asked me if I knew what this was about. I said ‘I don’t know’. So they beat me and slapped my face. Only on one side, not the other. And they trampled my feet with their leather shoes.”<\/p>\n

He told them it was him who had helped Mr Chen because he did not want to implicate others involved, but then realised they knew more details.<\/p>\n

”I resisted for a really long time,” he said. ”In the end I couldn’t hold out any more.”<\/p>\n

The officials also told Chen Guanfu that his son, Chen Kegui, had hacked and wounded officials. Chen Kegui has since been charged with “intentional homicide”, but his lawyer says he was acting in self-defence.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The full isunaffairs interview with Chen Guangfu is on YouTube and has been translated in full by a CNN reporter, Steven Jiang, on his blog<\/strong><\/a>:<\/p>\n