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

  • Exposing the Crimes of Wang Xiaofeng, Political Instructor at the Masanjia Forced Labour Camp in Liaoning Province

    Wang Xiaofeng, female, about 40, is the Political Instructor of the Third Division of the Masanjia Women's Forced Labour Camp in Liaoning Province. Wang has committed a lot of vicious crimes against Falun Gong practitioners. Wang Xiaofeng tortured practitioners by depriving them of sleep, handcuffing them to heating pipes, restraining their arms and legs, hanging them up, solitary confinement, tying them up, freezing them, etc. In December 2002, Wang Xiaofeng and female guard Xue Feng hung practitioner Ms. Wang Yulan to the heating pipe in the Division Head's office. Her right hand was burned so badly by the heat that the flesh rolled off.
  • Beijing Women's Forced Labour Camp Denies Family Visits for Ms. Zhang Lianying for Three Months; Unknown If She Is Alive

    Ms Zhang Lianying suffered the following mistreatment at Beijing Labour Camp Dispatch Division and the Beijing Women's Forced Labour Camp: (1) Beatings and injuries; (2) being tied up and deprived of sleep and of use of the toilet for long time periods including prohibited toilet use during her period; (3) mental insults and scolding; (4) Deprived of family communication for seven months; (5) Extortion of money from her family members, totalling 4,000 yuan. To protest, she started a hunger strike and refused to wear the labour camp uniform. The family has so far endured three months without making contact with Ms. Zhang.
  • Captain Zhang Xiurong Brutally Persecutes Falun Gong Practitioners at Masanjia Forced Labour Camp

    On May 27th, 2005, Captain Zhang Xiurong called practitioner Ms. Zhao Shuhuan to the office and ordered her to take her shoes and socks off and sit on the ground. Zhang shocked the soles of Ms. Zhao's feet, her legs, her upper body, and her lips and scalp with two electric batons. Then she threw down the electric batons and grabbed Ms. Zhao's hair, swinging her back and forth. Zhang slapped her violently in the face for more than forty minutes. Zhang punished Zhao Shuhuan by forcing her to bend over with her arms parallel to her legs. Ms. Zhao wasn't allowed to rest her hands on her knees or bend her legs. To increase her suffering, Zhang ordered her to touch the floor with her hands. Ms. Zhao was forced to stay in that position the whole morning.
  • Serious Crimes Committed at Changlinzi Forced Labour Camp in Harbin City, Heilongjiang Province

    One day guard Zhao Shuang started brutally beating practitioner Mr. Sun Hongda for his "wrong eye expression." Guard Wang Fuhai viciously shocked Sun Hongda on his head, mouth, back of his head, face, and neck, which badly burned Mr. Sun's tongue, and he had difficulty eating for several months. While Sun Hongda was held on the ground by five or six prisoners, guard Zhao Shuang rode on the top of Sun and tortured him, pushing and pulling him. This made Sun Hongda suffer extreme pain in all his joints, and he had difficulty moving around for several days. The deputy head of the labour camp witnessed the torture but walked away as if nothing had happened. Zhao Shuang also brutally slapped Sun Hongda's face, which caused Sun to lose hearing in his left ear for several days.
  • The Truth Behind the Pretty Gift Boxes

    One of my friends has been held at Shijiazhuang City Forced Labour Camp merely because of his belief in Falun Dafa and "Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance." The forced labour camp holds over twenty Falun Dafa practitioners. The guards force them to work intensively. They have to work about 13-14 hours per day, and then work overtime to earn money for the guards. The most frequent work is to process various boxes, cartons and containers, including the containers for the "Five-Ram Cake," gift boxes for the Jinyuan Hotel, gift boxes for the Hebei Hotel, sacks for "Three Deer Milk," napkins for "Five Grains Ritual Field," containers for "Huiyuan Juice," carry-out boxes, cartons for the drugs from Huabei Pharmaceutics and Shenwei Pharmacy, and lids for some oral medicines, etc.
  • Ms. Wang Yuhong Has Been Persecuted by Jiamusi City Forced Labour Camp in Heilongjiang Province for Six Years

    The forced labour camps use many persecution methods. The rooms are shared by four or five people and are very unpleasant. Only half of a wooden scoop of water is provided every morning. The toilet is inside the room and has no cover. The windows are kept shut even in the warm weather. The smell inside the rooms is terrible, and there is not enough oxygen. Everyday, some practitioner got fastened to the bedside, window, or metal chairs because she was caught doing the Falun Gong exercises. At the beginning, violence was used to make practitioners give up their beliefs. Later, they attempted to trick and deceive practitioners to achieve their purpose.
  • Exposing Crimes Committed by Officials at Changlinzi Forced Labour Camp in Heilongjiang Province

    On March 15th, 2004, more than ten Falun Gong practitioners were tortured in Changlinzi Forced Labour Camp. The Camp education office head tried to coerce the practitioners to write the three statements renouncing Falun Gong. After the practitioners refused, guards ordered inmates to torture them. The inmates immersed the practitioners in ice-cold water for a long time, forced them to squat on and between two stools, and pummelled and kicked them brutally when the stools shook.
  • Women Practitioners are Poorly Fed, Brainwashed and Cruelly Tortured in Wanjia Forced Labour Camp, Heilongjiang Province

    Practitioners held in the 7th and 12th groups were overloaded with labour every day. They were forced to make paper bags for packaging rice and paper and boxes for ice cream. The labour camp set a quota of 400 rice bags or 400 ice cream wrappers for people older than 55 and 500 rice bags or 450 ice cream wrappers for those younger than 55. After they got up at 4:30 in the morning, they were first forced to recite the prison rules. Then they worked from 5:30 a.m. to 9:00 p.m., with only three meals for breaks. They were forced to work for more than 13 hours each day except for the 10-minute break for each meal. Their backs ached and their hands became numb due to the long hours of tedious labour.
  • Ms. Lin Lixia from Hong Kong Arrested in Shenzhen City, Guangdong Province

    On September 24th, 2006, Ms. Lin Lixia, a Hong Kong resident, was arrested along with several other practitioners. Because of rescue efforts by fellow practitioners, and due to reports that exposed her arrest on the Internet, police called Ms. Lin's husband to come and get her from the police station. Without Ms. Lin's knowledge, her husband was forced to sign a guarantee statement stating that she would not leave the local area within a one year period. She was constantly harassed by police. On January 18th, 2007, she was coerced into going downstairs at home, after which she went missing for a period of time. Her husband finally discovered that she is being detained in the Futian District Detention Centre, where she is facing trial.
  • Brutal Persecution Leads to Hunger Strike at the Xindian Women's Forced Labour Camp in Shanxi Province

    Six Falun Dafa practitioners currently held in the Xindian Women's Forced Labour Camp in Shanxi Province have been resisting repeated attempts to brainwash them. The labour camp guards use a variety of methods to torture these practitioners, including confining them in wooden stocks, force-feeding them, and depriving them of sleep. The guards also use inmates who are drug addicts to monitor these practitioners. The guards typically feign kindness in an attempt to deceive practitioners when they first arrive at the labour camp. But within three days, the guards will not allow them to sleep if they refuse to renounce Falun Gong. They may sleep only after they have written the so-called "three statements" to renounce Falun Gong.
  • Exposing the Unsanitary Conditions of the Food Packing Processes at the Shanxi Province Women's Forced Labour Camp

    In the camp, the guards use extremely cruel methods to "reform" and persecute the Falun Gong practitioners who firmly believe in "Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance." They instigate the drug addict inmates to monitor the practitioners all day. They brutally beat the practitioners and frequently don’t allow the practitioners to go to the toilet or have any rest for 24 hours. The camp is well aware that some of the practitioners have various female diseases and infectious diseases due to the long-term persecution. However, the camp still forces the practitioners to work overtime. The practitioners have to work over ten hours per day.
  • Falun Dafa Practitioners in Hainan Province Subjected to Brutal Brainwashing

    "I was arrested and taken to a brainwashing class. Dafa practitioners were constantly beaten, insulted and deprived of sleep. Those who were tortured would keep going until they became absent-minded or lost consciousness. The policemen then took advantage of their confused state of mind to force them to sign the guarantee statement to renounce Falun Dafa. The policemen used all kinds of torture methods on practitioners. On five occasions, I suffered brutal abuse for more than forty days. They placed handcuffs and foot shackles on me most of the time. One time both of my hands and feet were handcuffed to the window bars for 24 hours, and my hands became completely bruised."
  • Mr. Gu Xianglin Brutally Persecuted at Xishanping Forced Labour Camp in Chongqing City

    Falun Dafa practitioners are brutally persecuted in the Xishanping Forced Labour Camp. Every practitioner imprisoned there that is steadfast in their belief in Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance and persists in practising Falun Dafa suffers from miserable torture. Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Gu Xianglin was one of them. In December 2005, the weather was very cold. Drug addict inmates poured cold tap water over Mr. Gu's head over and over again. In March 2006, when drug addict Hu Fei (male) was on his night shift, he scooped up urine from the chamberpot in the toilet and poured the urine into Mr. Gu's mouth while he was sleeping.
  • The Defence Statement of Ms. Wang Bo's Father, Wang Xinzhong

    Ms. Wang Bo has suffered from persecution and forcible brainwashing at a young age for practising Falun Dafa. She was arrested and sent to forced labour again and again, with her parents, and her family suffered numerous separations. In April 2004, Wang Bo's family appeared in the CCTV programme, "Focal Point," and was set up by the CCP as a "model" for "reformation through education." In 2005, the family broke away from the control of the 610 Office. They told the outside world how the CCTV tarnished Falun Gong by editing and distorting what they had said. Because they spoke the truth, they left their home and started a life in exile. They were arrested again on July 27th, 2006, and were charged with fabricated accusations
  • Two Practitioners Tortured to the Point of Mental Collapse at the Shuanghe Forced Labour Camp in Qiqihar City, Heilongjiang Province

    Being a Falun Dafa practitioner, I have gone to Beijing to appeal to the central government to stop the persecution and to distribute leaflets exposing the persecution. Consequently, I have been put in prison five times and sent to forced labour camp three times. During the time I was in the Shuanghe Forced Labour Camp, I witnessed two Falun Gong practitioners tortured to the point of mental collapse. One practitioner, Kong Linghua, could not bear the physical and mental torture. She was mentally traumatised and cried hysterically. Police injected her with some unknown drugs that made her sleep all the time.