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

  • The World Psychiatric Association Will Investigate Psychiatric Abuse against Falun Gong Practitioners in China

    According to the message sent out through an NGO established last year in New York, China Psychiatric Watch, that Further to last month message, a plan for WPA and SP joint meeting (visit) in Beijing on April the 4th 2004 was accepted by the Chinese Minister of Health and the CSP for examining the records, interviewing patients and their families or doctors who were involved in the examination of those patients after obtaining their consent and access to what is required for those cases that allegedly were subjected to psychiatric abuse.
  • Practitioners Forced to Do Slave Labour and Exposed to Environmental Contamination at the Qingpu Female Forced Labour Camp

    During that time the work was to connect light bulbs. A practitioner had to link eighteen small light bulbs together with metal clamps, which meant connecting two wires for each section. The goal was one and a half bags, or connecting many sets of a total number of 4,800 light bulbs daily. Many people's hands became deformed, finger-nails broken and some suffered from stiff finger joints or tendonitis. The practitioners were not allowed to sleep until the goal was reached. Meanwhile, the captain and monitors accused them of being lazy.
  • The Unwarranted Persecution of Dafa Practitioners in the Female Prison in Heilongjiang Province

    The fourth team police deprived the practitioners' rights to phone calls, meet with visitors and purchase necessities. They forced all of the practitioners to refer to themselves in the third person as "criminals" when requesting to make phone calls, etc. But since Dafa practitioners are not criminals, they refused to do so, and in this way their requests were denied. When their families came to visit them, the police lied to them, telling them that the practitioners did not want to see them and sent them away.
  • Six Inner Mongolia Family Members Suffer Harrowing Persecution

    All six members of Mr. Tian Fujin's family from Tongliao City, Inner Mongolia, cultivate Falun Dafa and have become the main targets of persecution from the local lawless police. All six have been detained and sent to labour camps many times. Tian's wife, Liu Xiurong, filed an appeal against policeman Shao Jun for extorting money and harassment. Recently, Tian Fang, the eldest daughter of Mr. Tian, was arrested again when she went to prison to see her third sister and her father.
  • Exposing Shocking Slave Labour Practices Inside Chinese Labour Camps (Part II)

    Guard Shen Jianwei from the No. 3 Labour Camp often said, "A while back, when the labour camp was short on funds and was about to be shut down, many Falun Gong practitioners became available. The government allocated 20,000 yuan [$2,416 USD] to force each practitioner to renounce his belief in Falun Dafa." The labour camp spent eight million yuan [$966,561 USD] worth of government funding to construct residential buildings and encourages the guards to persecute these practitioners. Right now, the labour camp is "buying" Falun Gong practitioners from other places for 800 yuan each to use as slave labourers, to increase the volume of products for the labour camp.
  • Story Behind Making China's "Sanitary" Chopsticks -- Exposing Slave Labour Practices Inside Chinese Labour Camps (Part 1)

    We were escorted to the Department of Dispatch for Forced Labour Personnel in Beijing near the Tuanhe Forced Labour Camp in Daxing District. Several days later, we were asked to do the work of hand-wrapping disposable chopsticks. Although the packaging was labelled "sanitary" it was not sanitary at all. All the inmates including those who had hepatitis and sexually transmitted diseases had to do this job. We were not asked or allowed to wash our hands before working. In a room crowded with about 40 people, the chopsticks were piled all over the floor and on the beds. The room was filled with sawdust. The sanitary conditions in the Department of Dispatch were extremely poor. We were escorted to the Department of Dispatch for Forced Labour Personnel in Beijing near the Tuanhe Forced Labour Camp in Daxing District. Several days later, we were asked to do the work of hand-wrapping disposable chopsticks. Although the packaging was labelled "sanitary" it was not sanitary at all. All the inmates including those who had hepatitis and sexually transmitted diseases had to do this job. We were not asked or allowed to wash our hands before working. In a room crowded with about 40 people, the chopsticks were piled all over the floor and on the beds. The room was filled with sawdust. The sanitary conditions in the Department of Dispatch were extremely poor.
  • Xinjiang Tebian Electric Corporation Teams Up with Changji Forced Labour Camp to Make Products with Slave Labour

    This illegal TBEA workplace is poorly set up and thus the detainees are continuously exposed to dust and other pollutants. They produce the parts for the final products, but do not often have the tools or know-how to do it well. Thus the products would not pass quality control in a normal workplace, especially since the raw materials used are scraps and waste materials from TBEA. It is hard to imagine what kind of trouble products assembled under such conditions will bring the buyer. However, TBEA does not care about the suffering of the detainees, the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners, and the inferior quality of the products, they only wish to continue to increase production to receive more and larger orders and make big profits.
  • Laishui County Police Viciously Torture Practitioners; One Thousand Lengths of Rope Used up in a Few Days

    When I was in the 4th Division of the Gaoyang Labour Camp, I was forced into slave labour. Each day we got up before sunrise. Thirty people were responsible for 800 mu (130 acres) of cornfields. The guards carried sticks. If we slowed down in our work even a little bit, we would be struck by a large stick. We harvested the corn by hand. The work was so gruelling that our hands bled. Due to the suffering from the effects of the long-term persecution, my body became very weak, yet I still had to endure highly intensive physical labour. I lost more than 65 lbs. in three months. They did not allow us to take a rest at all. There are no human rights or laws here.
  • "610 Office" Personnel of Chongqing City Beat and Force-Feed a Thirteen-year-old Girl

    Dafa practitioner Chen Si is only 13 years old. Her family all live their lives according to the principles of Truthfulness - Compassion - Tolerance, yet because of this her family has been torn apart - Mother in a forced labour camp, Father in a brainwashing centre. Despite the trauma of the separation Chen Si has the courage to remain firm in her belief and to tell people how the authorities brutally mistreat practitioners. This young girl has now sadly also been a victim of the authorities' terrible abuse and has been barred from going to school.
  • Savage Torture Suffered by Falun Dafa Practitioner in Gangtun Town

    Zhao said they had the word from the higher authorities: "Death of Falun Gong practitioners from beating is nothing and shall be counted as suicide." We were not allowed to eat on a regular schedule, and only had 10 minutes for each meal. We had to eat in a squatting or kneeling position. At one point they fed us for many days in a row with small potatoes that were bitter and tart, causing us to throw up right after we ate.
  • Practitioners Forced to Package Contaminated "Sterile Chopsticks" in the Handan City First Detention Centre

    On January 16, 2003, the police guards brought us returned chopsticks that needed to be repacked. Once we opened the gunnysack, a foul odour came out of it, which made it hard for us to breathe. Those chopsticks had been packed, but due to the dirty and humid environment, they had become mildewed before they were shipped. Peeling off the moldy packaging made the conditions in the cell worse, as there were no sanitary equipment or procedures. Many people were allergic to it, with symptoms of a rash on their face and body that was too itchy not to scratch, but they could not stop working.
  • Masanjia Forced Labour Camp - Wrecking Lives and Destroying the Human Conscience (Part II)

    A female Falun Gong practitioner who survived life in Masanjia said, "In Masanjia, the most evil part is not the physical torture or humiliation -- people can easily tell that those are evil. The persecutors do not always use such overt tactics because they are also afraid (of being exposed, etc.), so they wait for the right time to do even worse things." "The most evil part is they use both persuasion and threats to destroy practitioners' minds and spirit.
  • Depraved and Immoral Places Seen in Broad Daylight: Exposing Prisons in Shenyang City that Persecute Falun Gong Practitioners (Photos)

    After holding hunger strikes some Falun Gong practitioners were sent to the Shenxin Prison to be force-fed. At the end of 2002, a Falun Gong practitioner named Ms. Jing Cai, 31, was brought there from the Shenyang City Detention Center to be force-fed. She almost died because the tube was pushed down her trachea and stopped her breathing causing her to almost suffocate to death.
  • Guangdong Province Undergraduate Student Forced to Leave School and Sentenced to Jail for Thirteen Years

    Chen Nianqiang is now the party secretary of Guangdong Industry College. Since July 20, 1999, he has closely followed the Jiang Zemin regime in slandering and attacking Falun Dafa in staff meetings, and in playing a role to brainwash Falun Dafa practitioners. In particular, the party secretary of the Navigation College at the university, Zhong Pan, had forced 11 students in his college who were Falun Dafa practitioners to go through brainwashing so that he could gain political capital.
  • Jilin Province Falun Dafa Practitioner Jiang Quande Had Arm Broken by Police and Sentenced to Eleven Years

    Jiang Quande's arm was broken by the police, and he was sentenced to 11 years. He is still has not recovered from his injuries. Before this, he was once persecuted at a labour camp in Changchun City. Because he refused to renounce Falun Gong, his term was extended. After his extended term expired, the authorities sent him to Fenjin Labour Camp, where he, along with other 35 practitioners firmly resisted and refused to give in no matter what kind of cruel persecution was forced upon them.