Brainwashing in Sichuan Women’s Prison Aims to Force Detainees’ Allegiance to the Communist Party

(Minghui.org) In addition to brainwashing incarcerated Falun Dafa practitioners in an attempt to force them to renounce their faith, the guards in Sichuan Province Women’s Prison also subjected the non-practitioner inmates to regular brainwashing sessions, in order to maintain the inmates’ loyalty to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and have them side with the regime in persecuting Falun Dafa, a spiritual discipline under suppression since 1999. 

The brainwashing of the inmates includes forcing them to sing “red songs” to praise the CCP, to pledge absolute allegiance to the CCP, and to study the phony history that glorified the CCP. 

1. Sing Red Songs Whenever Possible 

Besides having to sing communist songs before the group brainwashing sessions twice a week, the inmates had to sing songs praising the CCP at least 12 times a day. The guards made them sing when they gathered in the lobby before work, before they left the ward, on their way to and back from the workshop, before they went back to their cells, and when they answered roll calls. 

When the guards tortured and ordered the practitioners of Falun Dafa to renounce their faith, they made the practitioners criticize the practice and sing two red songs until they were satisfied. 

2. Pledge Absolute Allegiance to the CCP

The guards make the inmates swear and pledge allegiance to the CCP on every holiday, such as the New Year, Dragon Festival, Moon Festival, National Day, and CCP anniversaries. The inmates had to raise their fists in front of the CCP red flag and swear that they’d “fight for communism all their lives,” or to “give their lives to the CCP.” These terms came from the oath the members of the CCP took when then joined the Party. 

3. Brainwash with Phony History to Glory the CCP

The guards held brainwashing sessions twice a week in the name of educating the inmates. On Tuesdays, they made the inmates study contents that glorified the CCP and covered up the CCP’s crimes. They called all opinions against the CCP attempts from overseas anti-Chinese forces to subvert the regime. 

The brainwashing sessions on Thursdays targeted specifically Falun Dafa practitioners. The guards slandered the practice and its founder, and coerced the practitioners to write “thought reports.” If the content in the reports did not please the guards, the practitioners would be subjected to torture.