Inside the Labour Camps

  • Vile Torture Methods Used Against Falun Dafa Practitioners in the Shanghai Women's Labour Camp

    The law stipulates that labour camps should not accept people older than 50 years. However, in order to persecute Falun Gong practitioners and force them to renounce their beliefs, officials detained many elderly Falun Gong practitioners for prolonged periods of time and intensively tortured them both physically and mentally.
  • Steadfast Lady Practitioner Suffering Agonies in Shijiazhuang Forced Labour Camp Again

    Since July 20, 1999, Jiang's rogue regime has decimated the families of Dafa practitioners. The police tried to intimidate Tan Xiuying and told her that if she didn't stop practising Falun Dafa, she and her husband would be laid off, and their son wouldn't be able to go to college. Under such pressure, Tan Xiuying did not waver, but her husband was forced to divorce her in order to maintain his ability to make a living.
  • The Horrific Violence in Beijing Women's Forced Labour Camp

    She was locked in a dark room (the window of the door was covered with a thick layer of newspapers) and cruelly tortured. At noon one day, a scream suddenly came from the dark room when Zhang kicked He Hua's ribs of so hard that she couldn't bear it. The sudden scream scared a weakened practitioner, Ms. Qi, such that she had a mental breakdown and had to be taken to the hospital.
  • Expose the Hypocritical Mask of the Female Labour Camp of Sanshui City

    The police took determined Falun Gong practitioners individually to "teaching" buildings, hospitals, and other buildings outside which were so-called "Education Schools with Law," labour camp offices, etc. to brainwash practitioners. The means they used included sleep deprivation for several days and nights, handcuffing, torturing with electric batons, beating, cursing and not allowing practitioners to use the toilet, etc.
  • Horrors of Tianjin's Shuangkou Forced Labour Camp

    At that time my legs, chest, and hands were infected, but the camp still forced us to perform slave labour. Camp police arranged for me to pack chopsticks into paper envelopes or make vegetarian shish kebabs. In the food processing plant, many detained practitioners got scabies, and some even had yellowish pus oozing out of the blisters on their fingers. Without the use of gloves, the pus contaminated the food and the chopsticks.
  • Falun Gong Practitioners Barbarically Hung on Crosses for Days in Shandong Province 2nd Forced Labour Camp

    In this labour camp, the police often tortured Qian Fajun and Liu Jinhui. Policemen Li Gongming, Yue Linzhen, and Yang Peng beat them, and forced them into a cell where they were constantly monitored during the night. These vicious policemen beat the practitioners' chests with their fists until they were tired. They also handcuffed the practitioners with two sets of handcuffs and barbarically hung them on a cross. The practitioners were deprived of sleep for 4 days and nights. The practitioners' limbs were swollen and they were unable to grab onto anything or walk.
  • Falun Dafa Practitioners Perform Slave Labour to Earn Foreign Dollars for Shandong Province Labour Camp

    This labour camp mainly processes and sews quilts for the Lider General Corporation Ltd. in Changyi, Weifang City. The quilts are for export to more than ten countries, including Japan and South Korea. The labour camp forces practitioners to put name-brand labels on the quilts such as "Beijing Jiangyaling" and "Shuanghe."
  • Torment Beyond Imagination Endured by Female Dafa Practitioners in Beijing Women's Forced Labour Camp

    In 2002, after disappearing for quite a while, Zhang Yijie, a very dedicated practitioner finally reappeared. However, a large area of her body was badly bruised. A large portion of her face was dark purple and swollen. Her eyes were swollen shut. Prison police and some collaborators shamelessly yelled, "She has done plastic surgery on herself!"
  • Yinmahe Forced Labour Camp Maim Falun Gong Practitioners and Torture them to Death

    The camp conducted a frenzied persecution of Falun Dafa practitioners. Miserable cries from practitioners and the sound of electric shocks were heard throughout the camp all day long. The camp's Director Meng, Management Section Chief, Zheng Hailing, Education Team Instructor Gao Ke, Logistics Section Chief Lin, secretary Zhao Jiusheng, Police Team Leader Zhao Fengshan, Guo Yiping and Tang Bo were all malicious and used cruel methods to torture practitioners.
  • Atrocities Committed at the Yinmahe Labour Camp

    Practitioner Jiang Guilin from Jilin Province had a heartbeat of 260 beats per minute, but the authorities still refused to release him, and still forced him to do hard labour. It was learned that recently six Dafa practitioners attempted to escape while performing labour, but they didn't succeed. After they were caught and sent back, their sentences were extended, and they received barbaric electric shock torture.
  • Police Brutality at Xishanping Forced Labour Camp

    The next day, Political Instructor Xiao ordered two "assistants" to drag Cao into the courtyard. Cao' body was covered in wounds; the blood and mud mixed together and covered his whole body. The following day in the hospital he had to have 13 stitches. It took over a day to revive him. A police officer announced that Cao' sentence would be extended two months because his "behaviour is not good and he refuses to be reformed." Cao' sentence has been extended for a total of 11 months.
  • What Made the Gaoyang Forced Labour Camp "Number One" in the Nation? Force-Feeding with Faeces!

    On April 12, 2001, five Falun Gong practitioners began a hunger strike to protest the cruel torture. The policemen, having lost all shred of human conscience, responded by force-feeding the practitioners with faeces, which caused them serious stomach infections, high fevers of 104 degrees and low blood pressure, placing their lives in great danger. Since the beginning of 2003, the camp has made the force-feeding worse and worse. Each day they force-feed the practitioners twice and have increased the amount for each session. The practitioners constantly suffer from vomiting and diarrhoea.
  • An Account of Crimes Committed by the Police in the 2nd Labour Camp of Shandong Province

    These police, together with the 2nd Women's Labour Camp of Shandong Province knowingly violated the international regulations for export products. They knew that the Changhong and Haier television set brands were for export [note: prison labour is internationally unacceptable for exported products], but they still forced the practitioners in the camp to make the television coils for these plants.
  • Practitioners With Paraplegia and Other Disabilities Are Imprisoned at Masanjia Forced Labour Camp

    She has paraplegia [paralysis of the lower half of the body] and cannot work at all. She has been illegally detained in the Masanjia Forced Labour Camp. As indicated by the camp's name, one of the criteria for being detained there is the ability to perform manual labour. However, the Masanjia Woman's Second Centre (also known as the Liaoning Province Thought Education School) has been illegally detaining many female Falun Dafa practitioners who are completely unable to perform labour.
  • Masanjia Forced Labour Camp Initiates Terrifying Five-Stage Torture Programme for Steadfast Dafa Practitioners

    To deceive international human rights and other organisations, the authorities have renamed the Masanjia Labour Camp the "Ideology Training School of Liaoning Province." In the so-called school, more than 40 small cells are used for torture. Every small cell on the third floor is equipped with specially cast iron moulds, which are used to restrain the victim's body and limbs during torture.