Inside the Labour Camps
-
Falun Gong Practitioners Subjected to Torture at the Suihua Forced Labour Camp, Heilongjiang Province
2007-12-14
In August 2007, in the No. 2 Division, practitioner Mr. Xu Yushan was on a hunger strike for over 10 days to protest the brutal treatment. In the beginning, the guards threatened, cursed, beat, and force-fed him. Afterwards, other guards to tortured Mr. Xu with the so-called "big hang up" method. They used tape to fasten a radio on top of his head, turned the radio to the highest volume, inserted earphones into his ears, and wrapped them tightly with the tape. They used cigarettes to burn his fingernails and electric batons to shock and beat him. Even after a whole day's torture, Xu Yushan did not give up. They then applied white sugar to the tip of his private part and put ants on it. -
Practitioners Tortured and Forced to Do Slave Labour at Masanjia Forced Labour Camp
2007-12-13There are a few Falun Gong practitioners assigned to the general ward at the Masanjia Women's Second Forced Labour Camp who are made to do sewing work. They are forced to get up at 5:00 a.m. and are not allowed to finish working until after 11:00 p.m., without being allowed a rest at noon. They only get to eat carrot and cabbage soup. Guards use extremely cruel means to force the newly arrived Falun Gong practitioners to write the "three statements" to renounce Falun Gong. Wardens can be found sitting in the corridor and the only thing they can hear are the screams of Falun Gong practitioners being tortured. -
Masanjia Forced Labour Camp Guards Order Prisoners to Continuously Torture Practitioner Mr. Zhao Jian
2007-12-06On September 21st, 2007, thirteen practitioners were sent to the Masanjia Forced Labour Camp in Liaoning Province. On October 12th, practitioner Mr. Zhao Jian refused to work as a slave labourer. Zhang (male), one of the camp supervisors ordered two prisoners to trample on his legs in order to force him to kneel, but Mr. Zhao firmly resisted. The same scenario was repeated four or five times and finally, some of the guards told other prisoners to take away most of Mr. Zhao's clothes, leaving only one outer garment. Mr. Zhao was forced to work in a corn field without appropriate clothing, although it was extremely cold. At night, the guards told thirty prisoners to make sure Mr. Zhao would give up his belief in Falun Dafa. He was forced to work until midnight for two days. -
Inmates in Sichuan Women's Forced Labour Camp Beat Deng Li and Broke Her Left Hip
2007-12-04Ms. Deng Li, a forty-six-year-old Falun Gong practitioner, was arrested by police and taken to Sichuan Women's Forced Labour Camp on August 27th, 2007. In the camp Ms. Deng was ordered to write a guarantee statement to renounce Falun Gong, but Ms. Deng refused. An inmate then pulled Deng Li upstairs and proceeded to kick her in the hips. Guards again ordered her to write the statement. As she refused inmates violently slapped and punched Ms. Deng left eye causing her vision to blur, and her face and mouth became distorted from the beating. Then they beat her until she became unconscious. -
Jiang Jianxue Injured as a Result of Persecution at the Beijing Women's Forced Labour Camp
2007-12-03Dafa practitioner Jiang Jianxue from Beijing has suffered intensified persecution at the Beijing Women's Labour Camp for refusing to give up Falun Gong. She was forced to sit on high benches for long periods of time, until both her legs were numb and she could not walk properly and subjected to sleep deprivation. After a period of time, Ms. Jiang started to feel numbness and pain below her chest. Her buttocks festered and oozed pus, and she could not stand up straight. It was clear that she was badly injured. Under the prolonged physical and mental torture, Ms. Jiang developed insomnia and signs of delirium. She could only sleep after being injected with drugs and she appeared to show signs of an impending collapse. -
Criminal Actions of Commander Wang Kai in the Changlinzi Forced Labour Camp's Fifth Battalion
2007-11-22Wang Kai, an official of the fifth battalion in Changlinzi Forced Labour Camp, Harbin City, Heilongjiang Province, has actively followed the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) policy of persecuting Falun Dafa practitioners since he was promoted from instructor to the post of commander. In order to protest the persecution, Yu Huai, a practitioner, went on a hunger strike. Wang ordered criminals to force-feed him with a tube. Mr. Yu was slapped twice for not cooperating. Even when Mr. Yu became extremely weak and was in critical condition, he wasn't released. He died in April 2007 as a result of this persecution. -
Recent Account of Persecution at the Xindian Women's Forced Labour Camp in Taiyuan City, Shanxi Province
2007-11-20Due to the recent 17th Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Congress, the visitation schedule at Xindian Women's Forced Labour Camp was disrupted. The guards have been harassing the visiting family members and turned them away without granting visitation. There were practitioners on long term hunger strikes and in critical condition in the labour camp. The labour camp authorities forced their family members to come from far away to help persuade the practitioners to stop their hunger strikes and give up Falun Gong. If the family members failed in their efforts, the labour camp continued to imprison the practitioners. Furthermore, they denied family visits the next day, which was an official visiting day. -
Guards from the Second Unit of the Heizuizi Forced Labour Camp Continue to Torture Dafa Practitioners
2007-11-19Practitioner Ms. Zhang Guizhi is 62 years old. Around 4:00 a.m., a guard found Ms. Zhang reading Dafa articles in her bedroom. Later that morning Guard Jia Hongyan continuously shocked Ms. Zhang with an electric baton for an extended period of time. Practitioner Ms. Xu Mingying is 50 years old. In August, 2007, a prisoner reported that Ms. Xu had Falun Dafa materials. Guard Yang Liqiu (female) hit Ms. Xu's mouth and shocked her with an electric baton. Ms. Xu's teeth were knocked loose and she now has difficulty eating. -
Exposing the Crimes Committed at Shanxi Women's Forced Labour Camp
2007-11-16Situated near a small shopping centre in Taiyuan City, Shanxi Province, is a forced labour camp for women. This is a sinister place where over 46 Falun Dafa practitioners are held in confinement. On October 15th, 2006, Ms. Liu Taojiang was beaten so badly by warden Hong Yuanqu that she was sent home immediately by the guards, who wanted to avoid responsibility for her death. A month later, just when Liu was well enough to get out of bed, she was again taken back to Shanxi Forced Labour Camp. Liu went on a hunger strike to protest. Seeing that Liu was dying, the camp officials quickly ordered her family to take her home. Liu slowly recovered two weeks later. Again, the camp officers came and took her away. She has not been seen since. -
Practitioners Tortured and Forced to Do Hard Labour at Heizuizi Women's Forced Labour Camp in Changchun City, Jilin Province
2007-11-11Practitioners have been forced to work from 7:00 a.m. to 7:30 p.m., or even 10:00 p.m. if more work needed to be done. Qiang Tongqin is the production captain in this brigade. In his labour record book, he wrote down that every Wednesday is his interview day, that Saturdays and Sundays are rest days, and that labour is done only five to six hours each day with rest breaks taken at noon. But these records do not reflect the true situation at all. -
Persecution of Falun Gong Practitioners in Harbin City's Changlinzi Forced Labour Camp
2007-11-10Practitioner Qiao Zengyi was tortured to skin and bones in Changlinzi Forced Labour Camp, and he was on the verge of death. In June 2007, he was sent to hospital for emergency treatment. On July 4th, his family was ordered to bring medicine for a lung infection. When the family saw how emaciated he was, they asked the camp authorities to hospitalise him for further treatment, but their request was denied. They did not take Mr. Qiao to the First Hospital of Harbin Medical University until July 11th. Mr. Qiao died two months later. -
Veteran Medical Officer from Beijing Suffers Brutal Torture in Wuyuan Forced Labour Camp in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region
2007-11-07Mr. Gao Liangui, 69 years old, was arrested because he is a Falun Gong practitioner and sent to Wuyuan Forced Labour Camp. The most common methods of torture used in Wuyuan Forced Labour Camp include the following: being confined in a solitary cell for more than a month at a time; being forced to attend brainwashing sessions run by a group of collaborators, former practitioners who have turned against Dafa; being shocked with electric batons, immobilised with handcuffs, forced to wear a motorcycle helmet for extended periods of time. The guards told Mr. Gao to participate in a "formation drill" in the afternoon. Mr. Gao talked to the division head and asked to rest because he was not feeling well. As a result he was brutally beaten. -
Yanji City Practitioner Zhang Xingcai Brutally Persecuted in Jiutai Forced Labour Camp
2007-11-06Yanbian and Jiutai labour camps resorted to various inhumane torture methods to reform practitioners. One of the torture methods used was to wake the practitioners up as early as 4:30 a.m. and make them sit on plastic backless stools for up to 15 hours a day. The practitioners had to sit upright and straight, at a 90-degree angle, with both hands placed in front of the knees and eyes staring straight at the blackboard in front. This prolonged sitting caused some of the practitioners' buttocks to become inflamed and eventually infected. Their oozing wounds would stick to their clothing, causing them extreme pain and itchiness. The suffering was unbearable. They were not allowed to move or turn their heads while sitting. They were not allowed to utter a word. Young or old, healthy or sick, failure to comply would be met with severe punishment such as kicks and punches. -
Falun Gong Practitioner Ms. Dai Zongzhen on the Brink of Death from Abuse at the Wangcun Forced Labour Camp, Shandong Province
2007-11-0552-year-old Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Dai Zongzhen from Weifang City, Shandong Province was arrested on April 18th, 2007. She was sent to the Wangcun Forced Labour Camp where she has been severely abused. One source indicated that due to the mistreatment she had to endure, her previous illnesses such as heart disease recurred, and she is on the brink of death. While incarcerated at the labour camp, Ms. Dai's family tried to visit her five times, but their requests were rudely denied. -
Persecution at the No. 7 Division of Shandong Province No. 2 Forced Labour Camp
2007-11-04Practitioner Li Baolin, who is in his sixties, was assaulted in the guards' toilet because he refused to report his presence at night in September of 2007. He was handcuffed to a bed for over a month. Later, he was sent to the fifth section and forced to sit on the bench everyday. In February of 2007, Wu Kejian was physically abused for several months because he refused to do forced labour. Later, he was sent to the fifth section to sit on the bench everyday. In September of 2007, practitioner Guo Wenxue was handcuffed by Li Gongmin to a bed in the captain's toilet from around 9 p.m. to 2 a.m. the next morning.
more ...
World
Falun Dafa Day
Falun Dafa Day
Newsletter
Photo Exhibition
Papers from Europe
Fa conferences
Fa conferences
Special Topics
Press Releases