Inside the Labour Camps

  • Self-Confessed Evil Director of Dalian Re-education Camp Tortures Female Dafa Practitioner

    The police forced criminal inmates to torture practitioners on hunger strike. These criminals applied the so-called "hip splitting" torture which was a form of sexual torture. They would hang Dafa practitioners spread eagle by their four limbs, and then forcibly insert sticks into their vaginas, inject them with hot pepper oil and beat them severely. They poured boiling water on their bodies and limbs.
  • Bloody Violence in the Gaoyang Labour Camp

    On November 3, 2002, the eve of the "16th Party Congress," the No. 5 Team organized 13 brainwashing groups, with three Dafa practitioners in each. They then bought a pile of electric batons. At the time, the Gaoyang labour camp was full of the sounds of beating, cursing, and miserable cries from the practitioners. Terror overwhelmed the whole labour camp. Everyone had a heavy and depressed mood, and they all watched outside through a window trying to see where the cries came from. They saw where the sound came from, and they saw some practitioners being beaten to point that they lost consciousness.
  • Practitioners' Feet Burned with Cigarette Lighters and Electric Irons: The Atrocities at the Jiutai Forced Labour Camp

    In order to force Falun Gong practitioners to give up their beliefs, the demonic police of Group 1 in Jiutai Forced Labour Camp, Jilin Province, torment practitioners with wooden sticks, electric batons, straps, plastic tubes and other torture instruments. They have even used cigarette lighters and an electric iron to burn practitioner's feet, as well as subjected the entire group of practitioners to forcible "transformation."
  • Gruesome Scenes at the Baoding Forced Labour Camp: Piercing Flesh with Barbed Needles

    On April 3, 2003, Group One of the Baoding Labour Camp organized a group reading of a newspaper article called "People's Dignity." Practitioner Li Jianguo then said, "Where is there dignity for Falun Dafa practitioners?" When inmate Cao Xiaoping heard this he reported him to the police, and practitioner Li Jianguo was hung by his wrists for eight days.
  • Four Long Years of Relentless Persecution of Dafa Practitioners in the Changchun Chaoyanggou Forced Labour Camp

    In order to persecute Falun Gong, the Jiang Zemin regime spared no expense or human resources. It allocated four million Yuan [500 Yuan is the average monthly income for an urban worker in China.] to build the new Chaoyanggou Forced Labour Camp. On January 18, 2002, everyone was moved into the new site. At the original location, the number of Falun Gong practitioners in each team ranged from a few to over a dozen. At the new location Falun Gong practitioners from all over the province, who were illegally detained at forced labour camps were transferred to Chaoyanggou Forced Labour Camp.
  • Dalian Labour Camp Colludes with TV Stations to Contrive Propaganda Hiding the Truth About the Persecution

    The media videotaped and photographed practitioners who had been forced to engage in various sham activities to put on a show for the press and the provincial authorities. The TV stations and newspapers later broadcast stories about the labour camp, portraying the living hell of the Dalian Forced Labour Camp as if it were actually a luxury hotel or some kind of care centre for senior citizens!
  • The Dark Side of Daqing Forced Labour Camp Unveiled

    Sixty-eight-year-old Mr. Feng Guangyun and Mr. Huang Tairen in his fifties are both Dafa practitioners of noble character. The Labour camp police spared them from the cruel torture for fear of having to take responsibility in the event that they died from the torture. Instead, the police ordered them to work unendingly. Criminal prisoners were encouraged to physically and verbally abuse them. Each night, they were forced to sit on small plastic stools until 3 o'clock the next morning.
  • Burying Practitioners Alive and Throwing Live Snakes Inside Their Clothing Are Among the So-Called "Reforms" Practised In the Gaoyang Forced Labour Camp

    They also tortured Dafa practitioners by shocking them with electric batons and a painful form of electric shock torture using rotary telephones to deliver the current. Practitioners were buried alive, until almost their last gasp. Policeman Zang Haili even put a live snake into a female practitioner's clothes.
  • Falun Gong Practitioners Detained in Changchun City's Chaoyanggou Labour Camp Are Cruelly Tortured

    Other than allowing for one short break to walk outside the cells during the SARS epidemic, the officials had not granted practitioners any outdoor activities. The meals offered lack of nutrition. Practitioners are given one small bowl of rice water, a small steamed bun, and a small pickled vegetable to be shared among four people. Carrot or cabbage soup without any oil or flavour is served for lunch and dinner. Many practitioners suffer from malnutrition as a result of living off these meals for a long time.
  • Disabled Man Who Lost Sight in Both Eyes Due to Persecution Wants to Bring Jiang Zemin to Justice

    My healthy body became very weak and I eventually lost my sight in both eyes. Due to my disability it was extremely difficult for me. However, when the "sensitive" days came, the policemen still came to my house often to harass me and brought great mental stress to my family members and me. During these four years, the persecution against Falun Gong practitioners conducted by Jiang Zemin's regime has been brutal. I'm accusing Jiang's political gang of inhuman persecution against Falun Dafa and Falun Dafa practitioners and I want to bring them to justice.
  • On the Verge of Death from Torture, Stony Hearted Jiamusi Forced Labour Camp Still Refuses to Release Female Dafa Practitioner

    Qiu Yuxia is so weak that she cannot care for herself. She has to be fed by others and carried to the toilet. The heartless camp policewoman, Chen Chunmei, still insists that Ms. Qiu is only pretending, and ordered her to go to work as usual. Since Ms. Qiu can't move, Chen orders four people to carry her to the garage and leave her lying there, and carry her back at night when they finish work. Qiu Yuxia's life is in grave danger.
  • Eyewitness Account of Persecution in the Masanjia Forced Labour Camp, and An Unforgettable Lesson Learned

    In front of the new practitioners, the policemen put on an air of being very friendly and considerate. They used polite words to persuade practitioners to give up the practice of Falun Gong. They used both vicious and manipulative methods, feigning kindness, toward determined practitioners. They fully exploited those who cooperated and gave up their practice. When the newly detained practitioners gave in to them, the police and collaborators sent them to brainwash the determined practitioners.
  • Carefully Staged Event at Tuanhe Forced Labour Camp Misleads and Deceives Chinese and Foreign Reporters

    The Tuanhe Labour Camp also set up a detention branch that did not use overt violence, and so could be used to showcase the "education through labour accomplishments" and a "civilized window" to deceive people. Mr. Yang Baoli, former branch lead, once proclaimed, "Branch 5 forbids physical punishment or any crude mistreatment!" Actually, this and the new branch dorm, built later for camp personnel, were just a show for outside visitors. Upon arriving at Branch 5, the two new practitioners were forbidden to talk to other detainees, and thus, they did not know what the actual situation was for other firm practitioners.
  • Photo Report From Yinmahe Forced Labour Camp at Jiutai, Changchun City, Jilin Province

    The labour camp's flowers and trees give people a first impression of a garden. This characteristic camouflage is common to jails and forced labour camps in Jilin Province. But the heavy iron gate, high walls, electrified fences and steel bars on the windows hint at what lies behind them. It is a world of brutality and torture, another world, a hell on earth.
  • 40 Dafa Practitioners Go Into Shock by Being Chained Together and Suspended from Ceiling in Baimacheng Forced Labour Camp

    For the last few years, to make Falun Gong practitioners give up their belief in "Truth, Compassion, Forbearance," the Baimacheng Forced Labour Camp formed a special team, made up of officers from the Military Force, Special Branch and inmates, to carry out the persecution work. They have used a variety of techniques to severely punish the practitioners. In June 2002, another special team called the "Will Breaker" was formed for the same purpose. Their strategy was to break the will of practitioners.