Brainwashing, Illegal Detention and Imprisonment, Inside the Labour Camps, Individual Accounts, 6-10 Office

  • Ms. Dang Huiying Disabled from Persecution at the Balizhuang Forced Labour Camp in Baoding City

    Ms. Dang Huiying is in her fifties. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has persecuted her many times during the past eight years. The authorities sentenced her to three years of forced labour in 2004, to be served at the Baoding City Balizhuang Forced Labour Camp. Her prison term expired in May 2007, but the forced labour camp officials declared that Dang Huiying had not cooperated with them [because she refused to renounce Falun Gong] and thus extended her term for three more months and refused to release her. Now she has become disabled from torture and walks with a limp.
  • Ailing Mother-in-law of Practitioner Ms. Zhao Hong Pleads for Her Release from a Brainwashing Centre and Is Physically Pushed Out by the Guards

    On July 12th, 2007, Ms. Zhao Hong and fellow practitioner Xiong Anhua were arrested by Wuhan city State Security police. Xiong Anhua was released and is back at home, but Zhao Hong is still being held in the Erdaopeng brainwashing centre. Her mother-in-law, just out of hospital and badly in need of someone to care for her, went to seek Zhao Hong's release from the brainwashing centre on July 20th, despite her frail condition. However, the guard did not allow her to see Ms. Zhao. The guard even shouted at her to get out, and threatened to call the police to haul her away if she didn't leave. This 80-year-old woman in tears was physically pushed out by the guard, and she has been sick in bed since she returned home.
  • Mother and Son from Liaoning Province Arrested after Unfurling Banners on Tiananmen Square on July 20th, 2007

    On July 20th, 2007, Falun Dafa practitioners Ms. Xu Hui and her son, Mr. Cai Chao went to Beijing together to unfurl banners on Tiananmen Square. They were arrested by officers from the Tiananmen Police Department and are being detained in the Dongcheng District Detention Centre. The banners they held up read: "Heaven Will Destroy the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)" and "Stop the CCP's Atrocity of Harvesting Living Falun Gong Practitioners' Organs!" The Dongcheng District Detention Centre refused to allow the family to visit and only provided a photo for the family to identify them. In the photo, Ms. Xu's face was very red, as if she had been beaten.
  • Ms. Bai Jialing Persecuted in the Shibalihe Forced Labour Camp in Henan Province

    In spring of 2006, someone reported practitioner Ms. Bai Jialing to the authorities because she was clarifying the facts to people about the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) persecution of Falun Gong practitioners. As a result, she was sentenced to one year of forced labour and taken to the Shibalihe Forced Labour Camp in Henan Province. While detained, she suffered from both physical and mental torture. In the hot summer, Ms. Bai was handcuffed and her head was covered with a plastic bag with only the nose and mouth area cut open to allow her to breathe. She was only allowed a little water to drink in the evening. Within two days, her mouth was full of sores. After just two months of severe torture at the Shibalihe Forced Labour Camp, Ms. Bai Jialing's hair all turned white.
  • Eyewitness to the Brutal Treatment of Falun Gong Practitioner Ms. Li Xiuying at Heizuizi Forced Labour Camp in Changchun City

    I saw a woman lying on the ground. Her shirt was unbuttoned, and her bra was ripped loose and barely covering her breasts. Her trousers were also pulled loose, and she wore no shoes. It looked like she had been dragged on the ground for a long time. She was lying on her back, motionless, with her pale face turned to one side. Her hair was a mess. We could tell that she was still alive only from her slightly moving abdomen. Several guards were making dirty jokes and laughing at the practitioner on the ground. Liu Hu even kicked her and cursed, "Fake death." According to a prison guard, the woman was a Falun Gong practitioner from Tonghua City. I saw her name on a bulletin board: "Ms. Li Xiuying."
  • Falun Dafa Practitioner Ms. Zhao Meiling Tortured at the Wangcun Women's Forced Labour Camp in Shandong Province

    On September 30th, 2005, Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Zhao Meiling was taken to the Wangcui Women's Forced Labour Camp. From July 2006 to March 2007, Ms. Zhao Meiling was confined to a damp toilet that was less than 50 square feet in size. Camp officials ordered some of the inmates imprisoned for drug abuse to watch Falun Dafa practitioners day and night, slandering, cursing, and torturing practitioners. Ms. Zhao was constantly monitored by someone and was beaten by ward leader Zhao Wenhui. Ms. Zhao Meiling was tortured for a long time by having her arms stretched, her wrists tightly shackled, and her legs constrained in painful positions. She could only stand up or squat down. She was also tied to a metal pipe and force-fed. As a result, her health became very frail and she became hypertensive at times.
  • Falun Gong Practitioner Ms. Gong Xingcan, an Economist in Sichuan Province, Arrested Several Times for Practising Falun Gong

    Falun Gong practitioner and economist Ms. Gong Xingcan, who worked in the Deyang City Postal Bureau of Sichuan Province, has been arrested several times and sentenced to forced labour twice for practising Falun Gong. She was arrested again on April 26th, 2006 and has been imprisoned since then. She is now locked up in the notorious Nanmusi Forced Labour Camp in Zizhong, which is known for brutally persecuting Falun Gong practitioners. The persecution severely impacted Gong Xingcan's husband and parents. Her husband passed away under the huge mental pressure. The 610 Office fined and pressured her parents.
  • Jin Fanlong, a Practitioner of Korean Ethnicity, Died as a Result of Torture Received in the Jiutai Forced Labour Camp in Jilin Province

    Jin Fanlong was persecuted for two years in the Yinmahe Forced Labour Camp. As a result he was bed-ridden. He passed away on May 11th, 2006. The methods used to torture Falun Gong practitioners in Yinmahe Forced Labour Camp include: deprivation of sleep, sitting straight on a plank for a lengthy period, lying on a bed with hands and feet handcuffed to the headboards, hands cuffed and hung up with feet off or barely touching the ground, inmates pinching practitioners' genitals and eyes, inmates pricking practitioners with needles, and the most often used, beating. Police and inmates forcibly tied determined practitioners to the bed with their hands and feet tied to the four corners of the bed using handcuffs and ropes. The practitioners' bodies were outstretched and they couldn't move. They were kept in this position for a long period and were in extreme pain.
  • Mr. Sun Yaoting Sentenced to Xinmi Men's Prison in Henan Province

    On May 8th, 2007, Mr. Sun Yaoting was secretly sent to Xinmi Men's Prison without his family being notified. The prison refused to take him since he could hardly breathe or walk, after he was tortured at a detention centre. His relatives were ordered to pay for a physical examination. A medical parole would be arranged through the courthouse if he was too sick, but he would be sent to Xinmi Men's Prison if his condition was not that bad. His family didn't have the money to pay for the exam, so the Yanshi City Political & Judiciary Committee found several so-called experts to examine him. They reported that his tuberculosis was negative and not contagious. On June 13th, 2007, Sun was sent to Xinmi Men's Prison. He had to be carried into the prison.
  • Authorities at Banqiao Women's Prison in Tianjin City Combine Hard Labour and Brainwashing in Attempts to Break Practitioners' Wills

    I am a researcher studying medical science and technology. I am a firm believer in Falun Dafa and was once detained in the Banqiao Women's Prison in Tianjin City. Practitioners there were not only tortured mentally through intense brainwashing, but were also tortured physically through hard labour. The prison officials forced the practitioners to pick beans, make car cushions, and to sew military uniforms and shirts. On average, they were forced to work over 18 hours per day, and often past 3:00 a.m. They had no rights and no labour law protection.
  • Mr. Bian Liangjing Arrested Again and Elderly Practitioner Ms. Liu Qiaohui Arrested

    On the morning of July 11th, 2007, police broke into the home of Ms. Liu Qiaohu, a sixty-seven-year-old Falun Dafa practitioner, ransacked it, confiscated personal property and arrested her. Ms. Liu told the police, "There is nothing wrong with practising Falun Gong. There is nothing wrong with cultivating Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance. Your action is against the law." The police did not listen to them and instead kicked Ms. Liu and her elderly sister. Her body was black and blue from being kicked. The police refused to let Ms. Liu's family members visit her.
  • Criminal Prisoners Incited to Brutally Torture Ms. Liu Dan in Heilongjiang Province Women's Forced Labour Camp

    Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Liu Dan is 29 years old and from Jixi City in Heilongjiang Province. She was arrested and sent to Heilongjiang Province Women's Forced Labour Camp on March 1st, 2006. At one time she went on a hunger strike for several months. On October 3rd, 2006, criminal inmate monitor Han Ying beat her brutally, so she went on a third hunger strike. She has resisted the persecution and suffered brutal torture at the hands of criminal inmates. Ms. Liu is now extremely thin and weak.
  • Exposing the Persecution in Temporary Female Unit at the Mudanjiang Forced Labour Camp in Heilongjiang Province

    The temporary female unit of Mudanjiang Forced Labour Camp in Heilongjiang Province is located at the west side of Sidao Village and is surrounded by high walls with electric barbwires on top. Beginning in June 2000, female Falun Gong practitioners were detained on the third level of the north building. The forced labour camp specifically purchased 20 "iron chairs", wide tape, shackles and other apparatuses for use to torture practitioners. Ms. Sheng Jin'e was detained in the Sidao Forced Labour Camp. After enduring three and a half years of torture and two months of being on a hunger strike, the forced labour camp sent her home in May of 2005. Ms. Sheng died on November 5th, 2006 at the age of 45.
  • Persecution Methods Used by Labour Camps in Harbin City, Heilongjiang Province

    All Dafa practitioners who are sent to the Harbin Drug Rehabilitation Centre, no matter what time they arrive, will be sent for inspection, have their hair cut, and immediately be summoned for interrogation until late at night. On the second day, practitioners would be awakened very early and labour camp personnel would talk to them, trying to use both hard and soft-handed approaches. The soft-handed approaches would be to use sentiments to confuse practitioners. If it failed, they would start bombarding practitioners with persuasion, indoctrination, and scoldings.
  • Practitioners Sentenced to Wangcun Forced Labour Camp in Shandong Province - Visiting Rights Denied

    On July 17th, 2007, practitioner Ms. Dai Zongzhen's relatives went to Wangcun Forced Labour Camp to visit Ms. Dai, her daughter, and Ms. Dai's brother. They asked the authorities to release the three Falun Gong practitioners unconditionally. But the guards refused to allow them to meet the detained practitioners with the excuse that they didn't bring all the required documents. They were told that they have to bring their personal identification, Permanent Resident Booklet, and a document signed by their local police. They were also told that only non-practitioner relatives would be allowed to meet with their detained relatives.