April 26, 2000
7:00am Practitioner A was made to stand still continuously as a punishment until noontime. No afternoon nap was allowed. He had to be the first one to get up at daybreak as the group chief Zhang Dianjun ordered.
7:30 pm
Li Puxuan, a section chief of administration, asked practitioner A: "Do you still want to go on practicing?" "I will be practicing with you in a moment."
8:00 pm
Practitioner A and Practitioner B were taken to the "official instruction room. Li Puxuan told practitioner A: "I used to practice martial arts, and you practice Falun Gong, so lets have a fight to see whose is better!" Practitioner A said: "Falun Gong is not used for fighting." Li Puxuan reacted angrily: "I am the one that tells you what to do!" At the same time, he took off his uniform, loosened his tie, stood face to face with practitioner A and started beating him up. Practitioner A felt a sharp pain in his lower abdomen, and his head was bashed against the wall. A feeling of dizziness came over him. Practitioner Bs lot was not any better. After all the beatings, Li Puxuan still felt that wasnt enough. He then ordered a warden to go and get an electric baton from Liu Mingjiang, a general group chief. Holding in hand the electric baton, he said: "Do you want to try this one?" Practitioner A stood silently; Li Puxuan said to practitioner B: "I think you must want to have a try, lift up your clothes!" Standing beside him, Liu Mingjiang said: "Dont try, there isnt much battery charge left in it. If the battery runs down, it will be hard to recharge it!" Warden Zhao Yong said: "No problem, it has just been charged today." While saying so, he tried the baton on the heating radiators, it immediately made a sizzling sound. Li Puxuan shouted to the practitioners: "If we can not keep you under control, wont we be too useless! Then what are we here for!" While cursing, he kept on beating them. When Li Puxuan was leaving at about 9:30, he said: "If you want to sue me, I will tell you where to go! (Just like an underworld thug).
April 27, 2000
7:30 am
Group chief Zhang Dianjun was assigning jobs at the work site: Each of the practitioners was assigned to a guard and he told the guards to be responsible for their jobs. Then he started to distribute the workload.
Practitioner A was given the job of carrying on his shoulder a big basket loaded with stones weighing over 50 kilograms. As he had never done any heavy labor, he could hardly walk with the heavy basket on his shoulder. To carry the stone to the other side, he had to walk for five meters on flat land and for 5 meters on a hillside; when reaching the top of the slope, he had to walk another 20 meters. When he came back, another full basket of stone was already waiting there. A warden shouted on the side: "Hurry up!" Once he slowed down, he would get verbal abuses and beatings. After a while, practitioner A was too tired to move. He endured with dogged will and moved on step by step. His legs trembled and cramped when it was near noon. His neck was pressed so hard by the basket that it got cut and leaked fat. As a result of the forced labor, practitioner A carried about 7500 kilogram of stones in the morning alone.
Practitioner D wasnt even as "lucky" as practitioner A. Convicts Li Baojin and Qiu Lipeng deliberately loaded the basket heavily on his shoulder and back while spinning the basket. It made it impossible for him to support the basket and he often fell to the ground as a result of the "tricky" loading. Stone was scattered everywhere. He then got severely beaten up for it. Li Baojin and Qiu Lipeng somehow found a stick and brutally beat practitioner D. Afterward Li thought that wasnt enough to gratify his animal desires, and he found a two-inch wide, one-foot long conveyer belt to slap his face with. D was hit to fall onto the ground many times. The basket was put on his head. He lay prone on the ground using both of his hands to support himself. As a result of the beating, blood came from the corner of his mouth and his legs could not move. Zhang Dianjun ordered the prisoners to drag D to a tool house, made him lean on the wall and stand in a posture of "plane" (a extremely cruel torture method used in the prison to physically punish prisoners); as soon as he did not do it up to the "standard", he got kicked.
Other practitioners E, F, G, and H also suffered similar kinds of torture. H, the strong man, suffered so much that he could not help moaning with pain. It was really heartrending.
1:00pm
The illtreatment continued. The practitioners were standing below the platform, waiting to take baskets of stones from people on the platform. Convict Ge Yajun stacked up two baskets of stones weighing about 90 kilograms and threw them from the platform onto the shoulder of practitioner E who was standing below the platform.. Almost at the same time as the basket fell onto his shoulder and back, he heard a big crack from his back. Practitioner E was immediately unable to move. He cried out: "Take the baskets off right away, my waist cannot support it." He shouted for a long time before someone removed the top basket. Practitioner E gritted his teeth and moved on step by step, sweat running down his face.
Practitioner G had been cursed and beaten up all morning long. In the afternoon, the basket was heavily loaded on his head. It was so heavy that he often lost his balance and his head bashed on the platform many times. As a result, his head was completely black and blue. Several days later, his back became festered. No one dared to stand close to him, as his infected area was emitting a strong smell of decay. A warden used a toothbrush with salty water and concentrated vinegar solution to clean the festered area for him. The festered flesh was brushed off layer by layer. The scar that formed later looked like old scarred bark, which was too horrible to look at.
For the whole working day, only half of the 60 people in the labor group actually worked, and most of them were Dafa practitioners. They were constantly pressed to work harder and were not allowed to drink any water when they were thirsty.
April 28 2000
7:30 am
The group arrived at the work site as usual waiting for "count off". Suddenly practitioner G ran fast toward a stone crusher, and bashed his head onto a big iron wheel of the machine. His body fell to the ground beside the stone crusher. Everyone on the spot was stunned. Guan Guocheng, who leaded the group, ordered several prisoners to drag G out. G gradually regained consciousness and stood up with faltering steps. He suddenly evaded the people around him and once again bashed his head against the iron wheel. It all happened so silently. Everyone knew that G had been enduring too much hardship. He could no longer take the brutal, inhuman torture in the labor camp. Two prisoners carried him back to the camp. G had already collapsed with no strength left. We started to carry the basket of stone again. No one was talking but our eyes were brimming with tears.
9:00am
Around 9:00 am, G came back. He didnt die. Later he told us: "It is not my time." He continued to carry the basket of stones.
In order to convert practitioners and meet the requirement of its superior, the labor camp gave the order that: "As long as it doesnt cause deaths, no measure is excessive." Under such an order, all the personnel of the labor camp unscrupulously indulged in wanton persecution
Dafa practitioners have been enduring silently the brutal and inhuman treatment even though they didnt break any laws. They have been punished just for saying from their heart that Falun Dafa is good. They have been sent into labor camps and detention centers just for going to Beijing to appeal in accordance with "the right to appeal" that is given to them by our Constitutional Law. Where are the human rights? Where is the justice? Where is the conscience? They are the kindest people in society. But they have been put into prison and suffered such brutal tortures. Is that the conduct of our beloved country? Is that the conduct of the civil servants? It breaks the hearts of the people deeply. It breaks the hearts of the families and relatives of the Dafa practitioners how can a government treat Falun Dafa practitioners like this? Even real murderers are not treated this way; how could they ill-treat our Dafa practitioners who have been the kindest, the best, and the most honest in society under any circumstances?
We hereby appeal to the international community and human rights groups to pay close attention to the gross human rights abuses suffered by the Dafa practitioners in China; to urge the Chinese government to observe international human rights conventions; to immediately stop the persecution of Falun Dafa practitioners; to immediately release all Dafa practitioners illegally put in custody and to rehabilitate Dafa s purity and our Teachers reputation.
Prepared by our Dafa practitioners
August 30, 2000
