Yu Shufen, Who Almost Lost Her Eyesight, Suspects She Was Injected with Harmful Drugs in Jilin Forced Labour Camp

Dehui City Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Yu Shufen used to sell fruit at Dehui City Fruits Wholesale Market. She was arrested at the market by local police from the Domestic Security Division Bureau on July 8th, 2006, and taken to a second floor room in a hotel (name unknown) that was originally a passenger depot. It was used by staff members from the Dehui City 610 Office (an organisation of special agents just for persecuting Falun Gong) and the Domestic Security Division of the Public Security Bureau to persecute Falun Gong practitioners.

After 8 p.m. that night, police from the Domestic Security Division began to interrogate her using torture. They tried to force her to do the "flying airplane" (head down, hands raised up behind the back) and then to "squat" ( hands raised up, the legs widely spread in a half squat position), but she refused to comply. The police then handcuffed her behind her back, put her hands behind the chair back, forced her arms downward, and cuffed them to the chair.

They hit her head, shoulders, and arms with frozen water bottles, causing her whole head to swell and leaving bruises on her shoulders and arms. After 8 p.m. on July 9th, Ms. Yu Shufen was sent to Dehui Detention Centre. Since this severe torture, she has not been well. Half her head is numb, she suffers memory loss, she has constant humming in her right ear and cannot hear out of her left at all, she has difficulty walking, and she has no strength.

Ms. Yu was then taken to Changchun Heizuizi Forced Labour Camp (Jilin Province Women's Forced Labour Camp). In April 2008, her vision became very blurry as a result of torture. Brigade chief Yan Lifeng and guard Wang Li of the No. 1 squad "let" her see a doctor at the clinic. The clinic manager, Guo Wei, said she needed injections. Yu Shufen did not want them, but Guo Wei said, "You have to, otherwise you will go blind." As a result, Guo Wei forced her to have one (500 gram) injection every day.

Ms. Yu Shufen had injections for 14 days. Afterwards, she had trouble controlling her arms and legs, she was partially paralysed, her lips turned blue and purple, and she felt flustered and trembled. Her vision was very blurry, and she almost went blind. She had no strength and was bedridden for over a month. She suspected the staff at the forced labour camp gave her unknown harmful drugs.

After this incident, Ms. Yu refused to have injections no matter what. No. 1 brigade chief Yan Lifeng forced her to sign a paper absolving the labour camp of all responsibility for her health issues because she refused all treatments. Yan Lifeng also forced a member of Ms. Yu's family to sign the paper.

Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2010/7/7/226632.html