Inside the Labour Camps
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Changlinzi Forced Labour Camp of Harbin City, Heilongjiang Province Mistreats Falun Dafa Practitioners
2007-04-10
Practitioner Mr. Xu Qingshen was arrested on August 23rd, 2005, and sentenced to forced labour for two and a half years. He is detained in the Fourth Ward of the Changlinzi Labour Camp. He was forced to do exhausting physical labour such as picking up and moving food signs. Later he was forced to undergo blood tests. The nurse injected him with poisonous drugs. As a result, he is currently disabled and cannot take care of himself. The food in Changlinzi Forced Labour Camp is worse than pigs' food. The cooked food doesn't contain any sort of oil, and the rice is half-cooked. -
Practitioners Tortured with "Stretch Torture Chamber" at Weiningying Forced Labour Camp in Liaoning Province
2007-04-07Since the persecution began on July 20th, 1999, about 1,000 Falun Dafa practitioners have been detained in Weiningying Forced Labour Camp. From 2005 to 2006, a special building was built to persecute practitioners, and thousands upon thousands of yuan went towards persecuting Falun Gong. Now about 18 to 19 practitioners are detained there and are monitored every day. The guards refuse to allow family members to meet with the steadfast practitioners. Heavy labour and starvation, plus torture, make it feel as though one day is one year. There is a small solitary cell called the "Stretch Torture Chamber," used to torture practitioners who have not been "transformed." One practitioner was stretched for over 100 days, and his face was swollen very large. When released, he was close to death and so was sent away. -
Persecution of Falun Gong Practitioners in Xinhua Forced Labour Camp, Mianyang City, Sichuan Province
2007-04-07Dafa practitioner Mr. Lu Chunbin, is in his forties. He has been arrested and detained in Xinhua Forced Labour Camp twice and the second time, he was fired from his job. During the long period that he has been detained, Mr. Lu firmly resisted the persecution. He uses all kinds of opportunities to inform the criminal prisoners who monitor him about the true nature of Falun Gong, teaches them the principles of proper conduct, and answers their questions about different aspects of life. The criminal prisoners have come to truly respect and admire Lu Chunbin. He has been tied up, hung up with his arms behind his back, and brutally beaten. However, none of the methods and tactics used have worked against him. Thus, he was put in isolation and was detained there alone for a long time. -
Ms. Meng Hulun and Ms. Jia Haiying Brutalised in an Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Forced Labour Camp
2007-04-04Falun Dafa practitioners Ms. Meng Hulun and Ms. Jia Haiying have been brutally tortured during their recent imprisonment because of informing people about the true nature of Falun Dafa. Currently, Ms. Meng Hulun and Ms. Jia Haiying are being held separately in the camp. Their health has seriously deteriorated over the last few weeks. Ms. Meng Hulun has been tortured so much that she frequently shakes with fear, has convulsions, and faints. Ms. Jia Haiying was bedridden from February 9th to 24th, 2007, with heavy bleeding. She can no longer walk on her own. -
My Experience of Being Persecuted at a Rehabilitation Centre and Forced Labour Camp in Heilongjiang Province
2007-04-04In November 2002, the authorities carried out an attempt to "reform" practitioners. It was extremely cold in winter in Northeast China. The guards ordered us to strip down to our pyjamas. All the windows were opened, and the piercing wind blew in. The guards couldn't help shivering in their overcoats. We were then forced to squat barefoot in the freezing cold, trembling all over. Some of us were chained to the ground with fixed cuffs. The guards put basins of cold water under our buttocks. Each guard also carried an electric baton and continuously applied shocks to practitioners. The crackling sound from the electric batons never stopped, and the strong smell of burning skin permeated the air. Some guards let out wild, evil bursts of laughter while swearing at Dafa nonstop. -
The Persecution at Kaiping Women's Forced Labour Camp in Tangshan City, Hebei Province
2007-04-02I am a Falun Gong practitioner and I was arrested by the police and sentenced to three years forced labour. To protest the unjust persecution I started a hunger strike. Six days after I started the hunger strike, I was force-fed with heavily salted water. Every time they did it, I threw up. It was so salty and painful. On the ninth day, I was force-fed twice and threw it all up. After I threw up the first time, Yan Hongli said "It doesn't matter if you do it again, the camp has enough salt for you!" and she told a criminal prisoner to seal my mouth with her hand. But after the next force feeding, the brine still came out from between her fingers. They were scared and kept far away, and didn't try it again until my lips turned black and my face turned pale. -
Exposing the Persecution in the Xinhua Forced Labour Camp in Sichuan Province
2007-04-01The police hate the firm and resolute practitioners. The police adopted various torture methods like chopping at the face with iron spikes or pen tips, forcing practitioners to kneel down, spitting at them, hitting their faces, burning, handcuffing, and tying them up, hitting practitioners with a spiked baton, and shocking them with an electric baton. The chief of the prison, Su Xin, policemen Zhang Xiaoming, Pu Jing and Shen Rui were the vanguard of persecution. They abused the practitioners and declared, "I am beating you, but so what? The more you appeal, the higher will be my post and my salary." -
I Was Brutally Tortured in the Gansu Province Women's Forced Labour Camp
2007-03-31The guards in the forced labour camp wanted to put on the statement that I “admit” practising Falun Gong was wrong. The captain then pressured the drug offender to put words that slandered Falun Dafa at the end of my statement and read it in public.I strongly protested and asked them to give me the statement, and went on a hunger strike. Captain Fan ordered 4 or 5 drug offenders to pin me to the ground and cuff my hands behind my back, with one of my arm up and the other down. I screamed from the pain. They then cuffed me to the bed frame. I was locked in a position in which I couldn't stand, kneel down or squat. I was forced to change my body position and reposition my legs constantly. Even the drug offenders felt sorry for me and shed tears. -
The Abuse of Practitioners at the Chongqing City Women's Forced Labour Camp: A Personal Account
2007-03-29Between August 2005 and July 2006 I was detained in the Chongqing Women's Forced Labour Camp. They immediately tell new detainees the camp rules, which are implemented right away. One is given a deadline to memorise the rules and regulations, and has to read and memorise the regulation books. They call it "Militarised Management." One has to pass a three-month-long "discipline" probation period; otherwise they will extend the lock-up time and intensify the discipline. During those three-months, one has to get up at 5:30 a.m., spend not more than 10 minutes on personal hygiene and then commence with the "discipline," which lasts until midnight. -
Exposing the Crimes Committed by Prison Guards in Nanhu Forced Labour Camp in Anhui Province
2007-03-28The Jiaozhi Division of Nanhu Forced Labour Camp in Anhui Province is detaining more than 30 Falun Gong practitioners. The officials of the labour camp have one guard to watch over each practitioner, putting practitioners under surveillance 24 hours a day. The practitioners are beaten, deprived of sleep, forced to stand for long periods, confined in a solitary compartment, and made to put on tightened hats. The prison guards recently organised "helpers" to forcefully brainwash and "transform" practitioners, using extreme pressure, and completely isolate and watch over them. Practitioner Mr. Lu Qinghai was confined in a solitary compartment and forced to put on the tightened hat for a long time because he firmly believes in Falun Dafa and refused to cooperate with the unreasonable demands of the guards. -
Elderly Practitioner Ms. Zhang Wenrong Is Once Again Detained in Banqiao Women's Forced Labour Camp in Tianjin
2007-03-24On June 10th, 2006, 62-year-old Ms. Zhang Wenrong was arrested while distributing leaflets exposing the persecution. She was sentenced to one year and three months of forced labour and detained in the Banqiao Women's Forced Labour Camp where she was compelled to perform over ten hours of hard labour every day, picking beans, pasting boxes, and making clothes, etc. She was frequently made to work for the entire night without sleep. When she was not working, she was forced to sit on a tiny stool for the whole day and was forced to read articles that slandered Falun Dafa. -
Crimes Committed inside Nanmusi Women's Forced Labour Camp in Zizhong City, Sichuan Province
2007-03-18There are five types of labour practitioners are forced to do: embroidering flowers on fabric (such as bedsheets, curtains, and table cloths); b. making toys; making ornamental items for clothes; making artificial pig hairs; and carrying and transporting goods (to and from the trucks). Every person has a fixed amount of labour they must perform, and they are not allowed to stop or sleep until it is finished. If they finish early, they must help those who are slower. Works starts at 7:30 a.m., and finishes at 11:00 p.m. (in 2005 it was even worse - they got off work every day at 2:00 a.m.). Even taking out an hour and a half for the three daily meals, the amount of time worked each day is as many as 13.5 to 15 hours. -
Additional Evidence of Crimes that Jinzhou Forced Labour Camp (Liaoning Province) Officials Have Committed against Practitioners
2007-03-16The Jinzhou Forced Labour Camp clinic has for several years been used by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials for persecuting Falun Dafa practitioners. The clinic's medical staff cooperates with the guards and participates in the persecution of practitioners. They use cruel methods in force-feeding practitioners that are beyond imagination. Practitioner Shi Zhongyan died in April 2003 as a result of force-feeding. In 2005, in order to resist the force-feeding, practitioner Mr. Qi Mingli bit the feeding tube. Guard Shi Zhenshan pulled the tube back and forth repeatedly in and out of Mr. Qi's nose and beat him on the head. If a practitioner starts bleeding from the nose, the guards continue their rough handling while verbally abusing the practitioner. -
Crimes Committed by Authorities at the Wangcun No. 2 Forced Labour Camp, Zibo City, Shandong Province
2007-03-15The Wangcun No. 2 Forced Labour Camp has a total of eight teams. The Falun Dafa practitioners are concentrated in the seventh and eighth teams. The police intentionally isolate these two teams from the others over the long-term. They use all kinds of brutal ways to persecute Falun Dafa practitioners including electric shocks, hanging them up, locking them on the bed with their arms crossed, forcing them to sit on a small stool and facing the wall for a long time, not allowing them to sleep, forcing them to stand for a long time, brutally beating them, locking them in the solitary compartment, deceiving them, inciting them to be against each other, and so on. -
Practitioners Tortured at the Wuyuan Forced Labour Camp in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region
2007-03-13In the summer of 2004, policeman Sha Huimin led several inmates to beat practitioner Mr. Cheng Guangxing. They punched Mr. Cheng and shocked him using electric batons. They kicked Mr. Cheng onto the ground and stomped on his chest. They hit Mr. Cheng's legs with a pickax handle so viciously that it disabled Mr. Cheng. More than six months later, Mr. Cheng still had trouble walking. Detainees in the labour camp were forced to work on farms during the busy farming seasons. During the slack season, they usually had to work from 7 am to 2 am to make fake diamonds for the labour camp to sell to foreign countries. Every practitioner detained in Wuyuan Forced Labour Camp has suffered all kinds of tortures.
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