(Clearwisdom.net)
Part 1: http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2004/12/19/55717.html
Since November 1999, Falun Gong practitioners from throughout Hebei Province were held at the Shijiazhuang City Forced Labor Camp. In the past five years, Hebei Province's 610 Office has directed the persecution. Countless practitioners were tortured, disabled and suffered severe mental trauma at the labor camp. Because of the strict information blockade, only a few cases have been exposed.
Torture-induced mental trauma
Under direct orders from Hebei Province's 610 Office, perpetrators at Shijiazhuang City's Forced Labor Camp used violence to "reform" Falun Gong practitioners. Some guards said, "In the end we'll make you go insane if we don't kill you outright!" According to a reliable source, 14 practitioners have suffered mental collapse at Shijiazhuang City's Forced Labor Camp, mostly in Divisions 4 and 5. Because of the severe information blockade, further investigation is required in order to find the actual number of practitioners who have been mentally traumatized.
Main perpetrators:
Zhao Yunlong, in charge of the persecution of Falun Gong
Wu Yuliang, former head of the Shijiazhuang City Forced Labor Camp
Wang Bingfang, former political secretary
Zhang Guojun, head of Hebei Province's 610 Office, now called "Hebei Province Office to Prevent and Deal With Evil [slanderous word omitted] Issues"
Wang Yongzhi, former head of Hebei Province's 610 Office
Below are detailed reports on 12 of the practitioners:
1. Ms. Xu Xiuju
Perpetrator: Li Ping, Division 5 guard
Practitioner Ms. Xu Xiuju is in her thirties and had worked at Jingxing Mine Industrial and Commercial Bank of China in Shijiazhuang City. After she began practicing Falun Gong, she conducted herself according to Truth, Compassion, Tolerance and experienced tremendous physical and mental changes. After the persecution began, she went to Beijing to validate Dafa and was arrested and detained many times by the local authorities. Her husband is paralyzed and her daughter is still young. Because of the persecution, life was very difficult, and she was often monitored and followed.
In the summer of 2001 Xu Xiuju again went to Beijing to validate Dafa. She was arrested and sent to the Shijiazhuang City Forced Labor Camp to serve a two-year sentence. The guards said, "We'll reform her in three days!" After suffering one night of unimaginable tortures, Xu Xiuju reluctantly renounced her belief, but the guards continued to torture her until she was mentally traumatized. Female guard Li Ping tied Xu Xiuju up with her hands cuffed, and her feet swelled so that she could not walk. Her heart-piercing screams and cries did not touch the guards' conscience. In November 2002, several labor camps exchanged determined practitioners to further persecute them, and Xu Xiuju was not spared.
2. Ms. Wang Xingmin
Perpetrators:
Chen Jie, Head of Division 3, later became the head of Division 1
Zhang Xuemin, Head of Group 304, later transferred to Division 1
Liu
Practitioner Ms. Wang Xingmin lived in Ningjin County, Hebei Province. In June 2001 she was subjected to brainwashing after she was sent to Shijiazhuang City's Forced Labor Camp. Several days later she reluctantly wrote a Guarantee Statement to renounce her belief after days of sleep deprivation, bombardment from collaborators and threats from the division head. Two collaborators monitored her around the clock and did not allow her to talk with others.
One morning in November, division head Liu called Ms. Wang to his office and verbally abused her. After she returned, the collaborators also verbally abused her and she defended herself. The next day, Wang Xingmin was called back to the office. Group head Zhang Xuemin ordered the division heads to beat and kick her and to slap her face until her face became swollen. When Ms. Wang went back to the brainwashing class, the collaborators attacked her. They tried to force her to curse Dafa but she refused. Two days later at night, Wang Xingmin was again called out and returned at midnight. Her body was covered with wounds and blisters from being shocked with electric batons. The collaborators again assailed her, and she was so traumatized that she suffered a mental collapse. She sometimes laughed and sometimes cried. The division head and the collaborators said, "She's faking it!" and continued to beat her. Collaborator Wang Xinfu slapped her face several times. After a few days, Wang Xingmin's condition grew worse. Zhang Xuemin also ordered Wang Xingmin to be handcuffed to a heating pipe. At night, Wang Xingmin cried and struggled against the pipe. The guards saw that her mind really had collapsed and said, "She had mental problems before she was sent here." Other Falun Gong practitioners who knew Wang Xingmin said, "She never had any mental problems! She was completely healthy." Her family took her home.
3. Mr. Chu Zhongyong
Perpetrators:
Chen Jie, Head of Division 3, now head of Division 1
Wang Liqing, Head of Group 304
Practitioner Mr. Chu Zhongyong was a student at Cangzhou City's Institute of Chinese Medicine. He is a very kind person. After he was sent to Group 304 at Shijiazhuang City's Forced Labor Camp, the guards ordered criminal inmates to insult and abuse him on a daily basis. They used him as a sandbag at which they threw punches and kicks and tortured him fiendishly until he was mentally traumatized. The guards then claimed, "Chu Zhongyong is not completely reformed" and secretly isolated him. They hung him up for several months and carried out all kinds of torture on him. Inside sources claim that Wang Liqing and the other guards are responsible for Chu Zhongyong's condition, because they tortured him by hanging him up, tying him with ropes, shocking him with electric batons and other cruelties.
4. Ms. Zhou Ronghua
Perpetrators:
Shang Changming, Head of Division 4
Li Aiguo and Zhang Shuangqin, Political Secretary
Guards Cui Yanfang, Geng Xingjun, Zhou Yilin
Practitioner Ms. Zhou Ronghua was a head nurse at the Chinese Medicine Hospital in Dongguang County, Hebei Province. She went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong and was detained in the local detention center. She was savagely beaten and humiliated, including being whipped with a leather strap and forced to continuously squat, stand and run. She was also doused with cold water.
In the beginning of 2000 Ms. Zhou was sent to Shijiazhuang City's Forced Labor Camp for three years of forced labor. The labor camp guards shocked her with electric batons, beat her on her face with the soles of leather shoes, hit her with rubber and wooden batons, forced her to perform very heavy labor, and even tortured her by giving her forced injections that damaged her central nervous system. In the end Zhou Ronghua was tortured to the brink of a mental collapse. The Shijiazhuang City Forced Labor Camp did not release her until they had extorted over 10,000 yuan from Ms. Zhou's family, saying the money was needed to "treat her illness." She was not able to take care of herself at this point. Ms. Zhou's young child and elderly parents have no one to look after them and their lives are very difficult. Ms. Zhou Ronghua has been sent to the Baoding City Mental Hospital for treatment.
5. Ms. Zhao Meihua
Perpetrators: Shang Changming, Retired, former head of Division 4 Li Aiguo and Zhang Shuangqin, Political Secretaries Guards Cui Yanfang, Geng Xingjun and Zhou Yilin
Practitioner Ms. Zhao Meihua lived in Mengwu Village in the Fuxing District of Handan City. In October 2000 she was illegally arrested and held at Division 4 of Shijiazhuang City's Forced Labor Camp. She was detained in solitary confinement for doing the Falun Gong exercises. In April 2001, Zhao Meihua was detained for seven days. The head of the division hung her up on a heating pipe. She held a hunger strike in protest. Three days later the perpetrators force-fed her. They tortured her repeatedly until she became mentally traumatized. The authorities claimed she was pretending to be crazy, and sent inmate Yang to torture her. They often didn't give her enough food, and Yang often verbally and physically abused her, including yanking her hair. More than once they handcuffed Ms. Zhao to a heating pipe before beating her. Once, a perpetrator hit her with a stool until the leg of the stool broke. Zhao Meihua's body was covered with bruises and her condition worsened until she could no longer take care of herself.
6. Ms. Li Mei
Perpetrators: Shang Changming, Head of Division 4 Li Aiguo and Zhang Shuangqin, Political Secretaries Guards Cui Yanfang, Geng Xingjun and Zhou Yilin
Practitioner Ms. Li Mei is around 30 years of age. She was held in Division 4 and tortured four times. Afterwards, one of her hips became swollen and developed two large abscesses filled with pus and blisters. Six months later, Li Mei stopped talking and showed symptoms of a nervous breakdown. Her young daughter is only three years old. Another practitioner confronted Cui Yanfang, the guard responsible for persecuting Li Mei, saying, "How can you live with the fact that you destroyed a good person like Li Mei?" Cui Yanfang laughed and replied, "Li Mei snapped. If you don't reform, you'll receive the same treatment she did!" Cui Yanfang was praised and rewarded many times by her superiors. She was mentioned in part of the Wang Bo incident during a Focal Point Interview program CCTV aired on April 7 and April 8, 2002.
7. Ms. Zhang Yunxi
Perpetrator: Qin Fengchun, former head of Division 5; he has since been arrested on an unrelated criminal charge
Practitioner Ms. Zhang Yunxi is 36 years old. She lived in Jiuzhai Village, Tianzhuang Town, Xinji City, and was illegally sentenced to two years in a labor camp because she did not give up Falun Dafa practice. The guards stripped her down to her underpants and tortured and repeatedly beat her. Once, after being tortured with "Tying the Ropes" (1), Zhang Yunxi began speaking incoherently. She cried and screamed and was incontinent. She had a blank stare and had no control of her hands and feet. In just two months after her arrival at the labor camp, she had become mentally traumatized. The inmates in charge of watching her often took her to isolated places where they beat and cursed her to entertain themselves. The guards refused to release Ms. Zhang despite her condition. Later the perpetrators locked her in a warehouse. The next morning, they saw food, water and feces all over the floor. Only then did they tell Ms. Zhang's family to take her home.
8. Mr. Liu Shuangfeng
Perpetrator: Qin Fengchun, former head of Division 5; he has since been arrested on an unrelated criminal charge
Practitioner Mr. Liu Shuangfeng sustained severe injuries from torture. He often collapses to the ground and convulses. Each episode lasts for quite a while. He is very weak and his mind is not clear. The guards refused to release him on medical bail and tried to force him to write a Guarantee Statement.
9. Mr. Liu Jianming
Perpetrators:
Li Yong, former head of Division 1
Wang Xiaofeng, guard
Practitioner Mr. Liu Jianming lived in Cangzhou City, Hebei Province. The perpetrators in Division 1 formed a special group to closely monitor and torture practitioners. The practitioners are not allowed to talk to each other and they cannot go to the toilet except at set times. In the daytime, the guards brainwash practitioners with Falun Gong-attacking propaganda, and at night the collaborators attack them and don't allow them to sleep. The collaborators report back to the labor camp authorities. Because of being mentally abused for a long time, Liu Jianming suffered a mental collapse in October 2001. Guard Wang Xiaofeng ordered inmates Liu Changsheng, Li Jianhua, and collaborator Li Yaocai to beat and kick Liu Jianming, up until the time that he was finally released.
10. Ms. Fan Qiuqin
Perpetrator:
Qin Fengchun, Former head of Division 5; arrested on criminal charges
Practitioner Ms. Fan Qiuqin was held at Division 5. She was mentally traumatized from torture. She no longer feels any pain although she has large wounds on her feet. She walks in circles all day long.
11. Ms. Nie Shuxia
The perpetrators responsible for her persecution are being investigated
Practitioner Ms. Nie Shuxia appealed for Falun Gong and was sentenced to forced labor by perpetrators from Hao Village's Police Station in Handan City, Hebei Province. She became mentally traumatized from torture at Shijiazhuang City's Forced Labor Camp.
12. Ms. Wu Zhaobin
Perpetrators responsible for her persecution are being investigated.
Practitioner Ms. Wu Zhaobin lived in Cang County, Hebei Province. She suffered a mental collapse due to torture at Shijiazhuang City's Forced Labor Camp.
Note:
(1)"Tying the Ropes." The police tie up the practitioner with a thin rope, circle the rope around his neck, and tie his hands behind his back. Then the police would use all the force they can muster to tighten the rope. The rope becomes tighter and tighter around the body of the practitioner and makes it more and more difficult for him to breathe. The pain is so intense that the practitioner sometimes loses control of his bladder. There are instances when the rope was tightened enough to break a practitioner's arm