The Facts of the Persecution of Falun Gong-- March 9, 2005

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• Dalian Falun Gong practitioner Wang Zhehao Persecuted to Death
• Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Yang Xuezhu Died as a Result of the Persecution
• Ms. Zhang Meilian from Jiangxi Province, Ms. Zhou Shuqing from Jilin Province and Ms. Zhou Qichun from Hebei Province Died from Persecution
• Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Wang Dongxia from Jiamusi City, Heilongjiang Province Tortured to Death
• Practitioner Ms. Xiao Yali Tortured to Death, Leaving behind Two Young Children
• The Cruel Tortures Administered at the Shandong Province No. 1 Women's Forced Labor Camp
• Brief News from China - February 23, 2005

Dalian Falun Gong practitioner Wang Zhehao Persecuted to Death

Mr. Wang Zhehao, 27, was a computer-aided designer at the Dalian Chemical Research & Design Institute in Dalian City, Liaoning Province. Wang had been repeatedly arrested and illegally detained for extended periods ever since the persecution against Falun Gong began on July 20, 1999. Both his body and mind were seriously damaged. Mr. Wang died as a result of persecution on December 25, 2004.

Photo of Mr. Wang Zhehao

Wang Zhehao began to cultivate Falun Dafa in 1995 and followed the principles of "Truthfulness, Compassion and Forbearance." He worked diligently and was praised by leaders and colleagues at his work place. While Jiang Zemin's corrupt regime persecuted Falun Gong over the past five years, Mr. Wang was illegally arrested six times.

Mr. Wang went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong on July 20, 1999. The police sent him back to Dalian and illegally detained him in the Yaojia Detention Center for ten days. In August 1999, the police arrested him again and detained him for nearly 20 days during Jiang's visit to Dalian to inspect the state of persecution against Falun Gong.

With local officials continually harassing him, Mr. Wang was forced to quit his job and move. In early October 1999, the police from Dalian May First Square went to his home to harass him. They claimed that they didn't find the person they wanted to arrest, so they arrested Mr. Wang and his mother and detained them for 15 days; then they sent Mr. Wang to a rehabilitation center to further persecute him. After one month, they sent him to Dalian Labor Reeducation Camp for a one-year term of forced labor. Mr. Wang's family managed to get him out of the labor camp through some social connections. The police demanded 10,000 yuan as a deposit but never returned the money.

Receipt for 10,000 yuan deposit

On April 24, 2001, several policemen, including Chen Xin from the first session of Dalian Police Department, suddenly broke into Mr. Wang's residence. They handcuffed him without any explanation and searched his home. Mr. Wang asked to see a search warrant. In response, the police slapped his face several times and claimed that was the search warrant.

Mr. Wang was sentenced to three years imprisonment in a forced labor camp. He was first imprisoned in Dalian Labor Reeducation Camp, then in Guanshan Labor Reeducation Camp, then in Benxi Labor Reeducation Camp, and lastly in Huludao Labor Reeducation Camp. He was subjected to brainwashing and physical abuse in the camps. His health was ruined. In Dalian Labor Reeducation Camp, he was put under close surveillance and tortured. The guards cuffed his hands and feet to a bed. At Benxi Labor Reeducation Camp, the guards beat him until his body was covered in blood. They locked him in a small solitary cell many times, restricted him from using the bathroom, and didn't give him any water to drink. Mr. Wang said, "Life in Guanshan Labor Reeducation Camp was very hard. First it was Mr. Zhu Xiaofei from Lushun City, (Liaoning Province). He didn't cooperate with the guards and refused to do the prison labor. The guards shocked him for a very long time with electric batons. Then it was Mr. Jiang Yunsong. He was locked in a small solitary cell. Several prisoners kicked him and beat him. When he came back, his face and his mouth were covered with bloody blisters from electric baton shocks. His hair was full of dirt. His leg was lame from being kicked."

In May 2003, Mr. Wang Zhehao went on a hunger strike to protest the unreasonable persecution in Huludao Labor Reeducation Camp. Guards Liu Guohua, Song Yuanbin, Qi Zhiping, Fan Yongjie, Wang Yongming, Wang Dazhu used six electric batons to shock his back and both sides of his chest until they were full of blisters. The guards didn't stop until they found that Mr. Wang's body temperature had increased to 38ºC (or 100.4ºF). Then they cuffed his hands to a bed, inserted a stomach tube and force-fed him with a lot of drugs and beer. On the third morning, Mr. Wang went into shock. After emergency treatment, the guards continued to force feed him through a tube inserted into his stomach. They took turns watching to make sure he didn't fall asleep.

On October 19, 2003, Mr. Wang wrote an article upholding the reputation of Falun Dafa in his required "Reflections Report." Guard Liu Guohua was displeased, and locked Wang Zhehao in a small solitary cell to torture him. Mr. Wang went on a hunger strike again. He was too weak to urinate. After more than 20 hours of suffering, he was sent to a hospital where a doctor tried for over an hour to insert a urinary catheter. In the 38 days following that, Mr. Wang suffered greatly in the hospital with a stomach tube and urinary catheter left in his body. When his family was notified, Mr. Wang was found to have a urinary tract infection, and symptoms of arrhythmia and tachycardia. He was in critical condition. The guards demanded 5,000 yuan deposit from his family before they agreed to release him.

After Mr. Wang returned home, he attempted to go back to work, but was still unable to urinate normally. In early December 2004, he suffered dropsy. His stomach was bloated, and he spit out dark red fluids. He was sometimes clear and sometimes in a daze, while his blood pressure, pulse, breathing, and some other indices seemed normal. The doctor could not determine the cause of the abdominal distention and no diagnosis could be made. Mr. Wang passed away on December 25, 2004.

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Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Yang Xuezhu Died as a Result of the Persecution

Ms. Yang Xuezhu was a 78 year old resident of Hefei City, Anhui Province. In July 1999, she began to practice Falun Gong. After the persecution began in July of 1999, her grandson, who is also a practitioner, was arrested many times for validating Dafa. The elderly lady was deeply saddened because she missed her grandson so much. She was unable to overcome her grief and therefore became mentally disturbed. During wintertime, she walked barefoot on the concrete floor outside her home and wore only warm weather clothing. Soon her old illnesses returned.

On February 1, 2000, Ms. Yang's grandson was arrested again. The incident severely upset her and she died soon after.

Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2005/3/5/96522.html

Ms. Zhang Meilian from Jiangxi Province, Ms. Zhou Shuqing from Jilin Province and Ms. Zhou Qichun from Hebei Province Died from Persecution

Ms. Zhang Meilian, about 50 years old, was a retired teacher from Jiangxi Province Water and Electricity Engineering Staff College. She went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong after July 20, 1999, but was arrested and taken back to the local police station. She suffered a mental collapse due to the persecution and later died.

Ms. Zhou Shuqing, 66 years old, was a retired worker from Changchunling Town, Songyuan City, Jilin Province. She had several illnesses before she practiced Falun Gong. After beginning the practice, all her illnesses vanished and she enjoyed both physical and mental health.

Since July 20, 1999, the local police often searched her home, threatened, extorted money from her and harassed her, which made her unable to practice the exercises as usual. Her health deteriorated, returning to her past state. Even at that, the police still kept harassing her and extorting money from her. They claimed that they no longer had funding to arrest Falun Gong practitioners and forced her to give them money; otherwise they would detain her. Faced with such increased severe threats and tension, she could no longer endure it. Her illnesses recurred and she died on February 6, 2005.

Ms. Zhou Qichun, 75 years old, was a retired accountant from the Tanji Factory in Zhangjiakou City, Hebei Province. She obtained Dafa in 1996. After that, the high blood pressure and heart disease she had suffered from for many years disappeared very quickly. After July 20^th, 1999, personnel from the local street administration office, the police station and neighborhood committee went to her home and forcibly took away her Dafa books and threatened her not to practice Falun Gong any more. This led to the rapid deterioration of her health and her past illnesses recurred. Later, during a time when she was having her illness treated in Hebei Province Chemistry Geology Research Institute, the authorities went to her home many times to harass and threaten her. She died on July 15, 2000 in great stress.

Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2005/3/3/96525.html

Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Wang Dongxia from Jiamusi City, Heilongjiang Province Tortured to Death

Ms. Wang Dongxia was a 41-year-old Falun Gong practitioner in Jiamusi City, Heilongjiang Province. She had been detained three times after July 20, 1999, and twice sentenced to forced labor because she firmly cultivated Truth, Compassion, and Forbearance. Ms. Wang Dongxia was tortured in Jiamusi Labor Camp until she was severely ill and could not walk. She died on February 15, 2005.

On December 13, 2002, Jiamusi City 610 Office agent Chen Wanyou and police from Qianjin Station, and Nan'gang Substation stormed into Ms. Wang Dongxia's home. They abducted her, and took eight hundred yuan in cash and a cell phone from her husband's pocket. Police beat her up in the Qianjin Station, forced her to stand on the cement floor in bare feet, deprived her of sleep and made her sit with her hands cuffed behind her all night. After this they sent her to the detention center.

On January 6, 2003, police from Qianjin Station sent Ms. Wang Dongxia and several other Falun Gong practitioners to Jiamusi Labor Camp. Upon arriving there, all Falun Gong practitioners were cuffed to their beds and forced to go through brainwashing sessions. Those involved were Deputy Ward Leader Zhang Xiaodan (female), uniformed guards Liu Yadong (female) and Li Yongbo (female).

Ms. Wang Dongjia endured numerous tortures inside the labor camp, such as being forced to sit on a cable spindle(1) for a long time. This torture made her very weak. She was sick with tuberculosis and so thin it was as if there were only skin and bone left. The labor camp was afraid of being responsible for her death so they had her family pick her up in September 2004. When her family went to pick her up, she could not walk. They had to carry her back home.

Ms. Wang Dongxia never recovered after returning home. She often had a fever, and was finally sent to a hospital at a cost one thousand yuan per day. She died on February 15, 2005.

(1) To force Falun Gong practitioners to give up their practice, Jiamusi Forced Labor Camp used cable spindles as instruments of torture and called it "sitting on a little stool." See photo and more explanation of cable spindle at http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2003/10/29/41751.html

Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2005/3/1/96378.html

Practitioner Ms. Xiao Yali Tortured to Death, Leaving behind Two Young Children

Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Xiao Yali used to live in Dongfa Village, Zhoujia Town, Shuangcheng City of Heilongjiang Province, China. On March 6, 2004, she died as a result of a violent forced-feeding while she was being detained at the Shuangcheng City No. 2 Detention Center. After being forcefully arrested, Ms. Xiao had to leave her twin children, a boy and a girl, behind. The boy is called Sun Ri and the girl is called Sun Yue. The young children cry for their mother every day. Currently, these two children are living with their grandparents. Ms. Xiao's husband, Sun Wancai, is in poor health and is suffering from pulmonary tuberculosis. He already owes a debt of more than 10,000 yuan due to his medical treatments

Ms. Xiao's two children, Sun Ri and Sun Yue

Around 4 p.m. on February 28, 2004, government official Li Yuesheng from Zhoujia Town and police officer Guo Fujun from the local public security station, together with some other people, broke into Ms. Xiao's house and ransacked it. Between 7 p.m. and 8 p.m., Zhoujia Town Judiciary Committee Secretary Gao Jinpeng, local public security station deputy director Bai, and town officials Li Yuesheng and Hu Zongshen and some other people broke into Ms. Xiao's house again, but this time they abducted Ms. Xiao from her home. Ms. Xiao was then sent to the public security station and later transferred to the Shuangcheng City No. 2 Detention Center. Around 6:40 p.m. on March 6, 2004, Ms. Xiao's family received a phone call from the detention center, asking the family to bring some money to the city emergency center where Ms. Xiao was being treated for an illness (Ms. Xiao had been very healthy; she didn't have any ailments at all before her detention)

Ten minutes later, the family received another call from the detention center, saying that the family could either go visit the emergency center that day or the next day (actually at that time, Ms. Xiao had already been tortured to death.) Over twenty family members and relatives visited the emergency center that same night; however, a certain officer refused to allow the family members see Ms. Xiao. The next day, the family and relatives learned that Ms. Xiao was already dead and they saw her body. There was an oval shaped scar on Ms. Xiao's forehead, the right side of Ms. Xiao's chest was swollen, both her hands were twisted and had turned purple, and her mouth was swollen as well. It was such a horrible and upsetting sight! When some public security staff requested that Ms. Xiao be cremated immediately (without receiving a memorial service), all the family members and relatives immediately protested strongly against such inhuman treatment. On March 13, 2004, Ms. Xiao was cremated against the family's will. Later on, it was learned from an inside source at the detention center that the primary culprit who was directly involved in Ms. Xiao's death was a physician called Wang Shiyuan from the No. 3 Clinical Center of Shuangcheng City People's Hospital.

After Ms. Xiao was tortured to death, the whole family was devastated. Not only did Ms. Xiao's family feel great sorrow, but her neighbors also mourned for her. They wept for having lost such a good person.

Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2005/2/21/95888.html

The Cruel Tortures Administered at the Shandong Province No. 1 Women's Forced Labor Camp

The Shandong Province No. 1 Women's Forced Labor Camp, also known among the locals as the Jiangshuiquan Forced Labor Camp, is located at 20 Jiangshuiquan Road, Lixia District of Jinan City, Shandong Province. The conditions are extremely harsh there. One cannot see anything when entering the building without turning on the lights. In the summer it is stuffy and swamped with mosquitoes. In the winter, ice-cold air blows through the hallway, piercing into one's bones.

Since July 1999, female Falun Gong practitioners have been held at this facility. It has turned into a concentration camp serving Jiang's regime in its suppression of Falun Gong. In the beginning of October 2000, a large number of practitioners who went to Beijing to peacefully appeal were taken to this labor camp. The total number detained there was more than 800. A fifth division was established in addition to the original four divisions, headed by the most brutal officers in the labor camp. For the past five years, labor camp officials, led by Jiang Lihang, the labor camp director, directly instigated prostitutes, drug addicts, inmates of theft and robbery offenses, and collaborators to engage in physical and mental abuses against practitioners. Officials who actively engaged in persecution include Wang Shuzhen, Sun Yuhua, Zhao Jie (the three of them all served as the heads of Division No. 1), Xu Ruiju, head of Division No. 2, Yang Anrong, head of Division No. 4, and Niu Xuelian, head of Division No. 5.

The following photos are a visual presentation of some of the torture conducted at the Shandong Province No. 1 Women's Labor Camp. These re-enactments are based on eyewitness accounts of the torture administered in the labor camp.

"Five Horses Splitting the Body"

Officers at the No. 1 Women's Labor Camp and inmates ordered by these officers forcibly stretch a practitioner's arms and tie them to the top bunk bed. Then the practitioner's legs would be split apart and her feet tied to the legs of the bed (over 6 feet apart). A sheet was tied around the practitioner's waist, pulled to and fixed at another bed across the room. This was similar to an ancient form of execution vividly named "five horses splitting the corpse." Sometimes the officers would order someone to sit on the lower bunk and push the practitioner's lower back forward with their feet. Some practitioners were tied up and stretched out in this position for over a dozen hours.

Burning the Back with Mosquito Incense

Criminals would forcibly strip off a practitioner's clothes and press burning mosquito incense into the practitioner's back. When smoke came up, the perpetrator would move on to a new spot. Some practitioners had several dozen burn wounds. After three years, their scars are still there.

Vicious Beatings

Officials at the labor camp would use reduction of labor camp terms as bait to drive inmates to monitor and torture Falun Gong students. These inmates had themselves been tortured and endured coercive interrogations, and were particularly keen in vicious beatings. They would slap the practitioner, kick her lower abdomen, strike her breasts, strike her head with their elbows, or step on the practitioners' bare feet while wearing heavy shoes to crush their toes. Sometimes eight or nine inmates took turns beating a practitioner throughout the night. Some whipped them with a bamboo strip, some struck them with shoes, and some pinched them with their fingernails or struck with their palm and fists. The heavier the beating, the more days would be reduced from the inmates' original forced labor terms.

"Riding an Airplane"

The practitioner would be forced to squat on a few pieces of string on a folding stool with her arms stretched out. If she started to fall through the string, the inmates would strike her wrist bones with the frames of bamboo brooms. Each strike would cause a dark lump, which caused excruciating pain as if the bones had been crushed.

Extensive Electric Shocks Applied from Multiple Electric Batons

Officers at the labor camp would frequently use several electric batons to apply electric shocks to a practitioner for an extended period of time. Niu Xuelian, head of Division No. 5, and the husband of Officer Zhang, who is also a labor camp officer, are most notorious for their brutality. They would apply electric batons to a practitioner's palm, arch of the foot and the top of skull. Many practitioners had blisters on their forearms as a result of the electric shocks. Infections from the blisters would cause excruciating pain. An elderly practitioner continued to suffer from an infection even six months after this torture.

Striking the Head with a Folding Stool while Gagging the Mouth with a Rope

Practitioner Ms. Yi Shuling was thrown into a cell in isolation in May 2003. Labor camp officers ordered inmates Sun Xun and Ren Fengxia to torture her, depriving her from drinking any water, and Liu Xiuyun struck her on the head with a folding stool. Her mouth was gagged with a rope and she could not brush her teeth. One night in July 2003, Ms. Yi Shuling was secretly sent to a mental hospital for further abuse.

Hanging Up with Arms and Legs Twisted behind the Back

The practitioner is pushed onto the lower bunk facing downward. Her hands and legs are pulled back and tied up together. She is then lifted and hung on to the top bunk. Only her chest and head touch the lower bunk, supporting the entire body weight. Under this torture, the practitioner's face would turn dark purple and she would have difficulty breathing. If kept in this position too long, the victim would face death by suffocation.

Pressing the Back against the Wall

The practitioner would be forced to stand on tiptoes, both arms raised upward with her back pressed against the wall. If she lost her balance or her back shifted away from the wall, criminals would kick or crush the practitioner's feet with plastic high-heeled shoes. The kicking lasted until the legs and feet of the practitioner turned dark purple and were terribly swollen. Some practitioners would not be able to walk, and their feet remained deformed for over half a year. On one occasion, all male officers were called in to torture all the practitioners in the labor camp with their backs pressed against the wall for a whole day. Some elderly practitioners who failed to last in this position were cursed at and beaten by inmates standing nearby, who kicked their legs and crushed their feet.

A partial list of officers at the Shandong Province No. 1 Women's Forced Labor Camp:

Jiang Lihang, Liu Yulan and Yang, directors of the labor camp
Yang Enwei, of the political section
Wang Xincai, of the propaganda section
Tian Wei and He Xufang, of the management section
Wang Shuzhen, Feng Yuzhen, Sun Xiufeng, of Division No. 1: 86-531-8191744
Xu Ruiju, Cao Dongyan, Yin Chuanfang, Xu Hong, Li Aisheng, Li Min, Sun Xia, Wang Xiaowei, Liu Fang, Chang, of Division No. 2
Liu Ruiqin, Wang Yueyao, Sun Qunli, Wang Yunyan, Xu Hua, Zhang Hongfen, Zhang Yawen, Shen Hongguang, Lu Ying, Kong Yanxia, of Division No. 3: 86-531-8191151, workshop extension: 86-531-8555040 ext. 8035
Niu Xuelian, Liang Qiaoling, Sun Juan, Li Chunhong, Kong Qinghua, Zhang Hong, Jiang, Wang, Ma, Nie, of Division 5
Address: No. 20 Jiangshuiquan Road, the Lixia District of Jinan City, Shandong Province, Postal Code: 250014

Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2004/12/25/92139.html

Brief News from China - February 23, 2005

1. [Guangshan County, Henan Province] Chen Yurong Detained for Distributing Falun Gong Truth-Clarifying Materials

Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Chen Yurong, 45, lives at Yangbang Lane, Luhe Village, Luocheng Township, Guangshan County. On January 1, 2005 she went to Yanhe Township to distribute truth-clarifying materials. Policemen from Yanhe Township arrested her and immediately took her to the county's detention center. Before the Chinese Lunar New Year she was detained in the backyard and her family was not allowed to visit her.

2. [Kashizepu County, Xinjiang AR] Falun Gong practitioner Chen Donghua and Others Arrested, Their Whereabouts are Unknown

On January 22, 2005, police from Hetian District arrested practitioners Chen Donghua, Li Haijuan, and Li Xulong from Kashizepu County, Xinjiang AR. Currently their whereabouts are unknown.

3. [Henan Province] Yan Xinliang Detained at the Xiping Police Precinct for Distributing Truth-Clarifying Materials

Practitioner Mr. Yan Xinliang, who is approximately 20 years old, is from Henan Province. He was detained at Xuchang City's Forced Labor Camp for three years and then released. In mid-February 2005, when he went to Xiping County to distribute truth-clarifying materials, personnel from Xiping County's Police Precinct detained him.

4. [Guang'an City, Sichuan Province] Chen Daiping and His Wife Zhang Rong Arrested for Distributing Truth-Clarifying Materials

On January 8, 2005 when Chen Daiping and his wife Zhang Rong from Fangping Village, Guang'an City, Sichuan Province, went to Hualong Village to distribute truth-clarifying materials, a group of policemen arrested the couple. Zhang Rong was beaten so brutally that she could not walk. Because the couple had three children under 10 years old at home, Zhang Rong was taken back home the second day while Chen Daiping was detained at Cell No. 4 in Guang'an City's Detention Center. On January 19, Chen Daiping's family went to see him and requested that the detention center release him, but their request was rejected. Chen Daiping's life is in peril due to brutal torture. He can not eat anything. During a medical check-up he was found to have ascites (abnormal accumulation of serous fluid).

5. [Chongqing] Lei Lichun's Life is in Peril

On June 19, 2004, a group of plainclothes policemen arrested practitioner Mr. Lei Lichun. Lei Lichun's wife, a non-practitioner, was also arrested at her workplace. The police confiscated 4,800 yuan in cash and all their personal belongings from their apartment. They dragged the couple for interrogation to a place where they keep demi-wolves. That same night they took Lei Lichun to the Pipashan Detention Center. The detention center refused to accept Lei Lichun because he was diagnosed with lung problems. Personnel were called in to take Lei Lichun back to Guang'an City.

Luo Cheng and other personnel from Guang'an City's National Security Team took Lei Lichun to the Chengbei District Police Department, put him in handcuffs and shackles, and deprived him of sleep for several days. Lei Lichun's non-practitioner wife was also sent to Guang'an City's Hua Brainwashing Class and detained there for several months. Lei Lichun's uncle was forced to write seven pages of "testimony." All the crimes he listed [against them] were completely fabricated.

Lei Lichun staged a hunger strike to protest the persecution. Later he showed symptoms of multiple diseases. The Hua Detention Center urged police to take Lei Lichun back, but Luo Cheng and others ignored the notice. Instead, they instigated Lei Lichun's wife to divorce him, claiming, "He would not make it" to Chinese New Year. Lei Lichun's parents demanded his release several times, but all in vain.

6. [Beijing] Chen Yuzhen Again Arrested

Practitioner Ms. Chen Yuzhen, 52, is from Wangjing Village, Zhoukoudian Town, Fangshan District, Beijing. She obtained the Fa in 1997 and cultivated steadily thereafter. In April 2002 he was sentenced to 18 months of forced labor. Since her release, personnel from the police station and 610 Office have been harassing her incessantly. In mid-January 2005, local police arrested Chen Yuzhen, ransacked her house, and confiscated many of the personal belongings. Right now, Chen Yuzhen is being held at the Fangshan District Detention Center.

7. [Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province] Jia Guojie and Peng Meizhi Arrested

Jia Guojie is from Yuncheng City, Shanxi Province. In 2001 he was arrested at Guangzhou City's First Military Medical University for distributing Dafa truth-clarifying materials. Later he was sentenced to three years of forced labor and was not released until the beginning of 2004. On around the New Year's Day of 2005, a railway policeman arrested Jia Guojie on a train in route from Guangzhou City to Taiyuan City while he was distributing truth-clarifying materials. Jia Guojie is now being held at Jishan County's Detention Center in Shanxi Province.

Peng Meizhi is from Zhaoqing City, Guangdong Province. Police from the Haizhu District arrested her during the 2005 Chinese Lunar New Year when she was visiting her relatives in Guangzhou City.

Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2005/2/23/95995.html

8. The Brutality at the Zibo Labor Camp in Shandong Province

Falun Gong practitioners were cruelly tortured by the police at the Zibo Labor Camp in Shandong Province. Their evil deeds are countless. The Labor Camp guard Liu Jicao fiercely pinched the neck of Falun Gong practitioner Shao Chengle at the labor camp hospital. Policeman Xu of the health section hit Shao Chengle's waist with his knee, and also used a pair of iron pliers to pry open Shao Chengle's mouth to force food down it, causing much bleeding. Another practitioner, Zhang Guangbao, was handcuffed for the whole summer and was often beaten and kicked. The prison guards handcuffed Chu Liwen to an iron bed and then instructed Yang Hongjun to tie up Chu's legs and brutally torture him.

Seven or eight collaborators were assigned to brainwash every newly abducted Falun Gong practitioner. They did not allow practitioners to sleep, but kept brainwashing and torturing them. As a result, many practitioners became muddle-headed and felt dizzy as they walked. In the coldest winter, the labor camp only allowed Falun Gong practitioners to wear light garments. The guards even used needles to stab practitioners' faces.