The Persecution of Practitioners in the Yunnan Second Labour Camp

After 2004, the authorities at the Yunnan Second Labour Camp implemented unscrupulous persecution against the Falun Dafa practitioners detained there. Many of them were tortured, and those who refused to accept brainwashing had their sentences extended for more than half a year. The villains at the labour camp are represented by Ban Zhigang, the head of the labour camp; Qu Kaiming. administration department leader; Chen Huanbing, education department leader; Yang Yongguang and Liang Jialiang, instructors of the Second and Fifth Teams, respectively; and the henchman Luo Zhongwu. They also used a heavy workload to persecute the detained practitioners, forcing them to do hard labour more than 15 hours a day, working them beyond human capacity. As a result, many practitioners’ hands and feet were terribly swollen.

Under these circumstances, many practitioners have become disabled, and some have even been persecuted to death. The Second Team’s work schedule is from 7:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m., and the First, Third, and Fifth Teams’ schedule is from 7:00 a.m. to 11:00 p.m.. The Fourth Team runs a brick kiln which requires extremely heavy labour.

The following is information available about some of the practitioners detained in the Yunnan Second Labour Camp:

Mr. Guan Chengcai, 58, is from Sijie Town, Tonghai County. He was arrested when he and another practitioner, Bi Chaoqing, went to explain the true situation about Falun Gong at the local police station in July 2004. He was sent to this forced labour camp without trial after being held in a detention centre for a long time.

Zhang Hong, detained in the Second Team, was forced to renounce his belief in Dafa under the persecution. He was pressured into writing such statements due to the inhumane persecution in the labour camp. Later he came to his senses and wrote a solemn statement to nullify his previous statements on April 17th, 2005. Unfortunately, the subsequent torture rendered him unable to stand up to his belief and he once again wrote statements to denounce Falun Gong.

Su Kun, another practitioner who continues to resist the persecution, is being denied visitation by his relatives. Anyone who practises Falun Gong in his family is not allowed to visit him, including his parents.
According to reliable sources, the practitioners who were sent to this forced labour camp for the second time include Li Zheng, an employee of the 14th Bureau of Forestry in Kunming; Chen Jinwu from Kunming; Deng Hui from Jianshui County; Wu Guiyou from Songming County; and Ye Baofu, formerly the leader of a hospital. They were arrested by the 610 Office¹ and sent directly to the labour camp for persecution.

Note

1. "The 610 office" is an agency specifically created to persecute Falun Gong, with absolute power over each level of administration in the Party and all other political and judiciary systems.

Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2006/5/31/129252.html