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Lawless officials in Beijing have been recruiting and mobilizing police from different areas in China to go to Beijing to aid in the persecution of practitioners that travel there to clarify the truth about Falun Gong. The local guards invented inhuman and cruel methods of torture for practitioners that are steadfast in their beliefs. They categorized the secret and vicious torture of practitioners as "education," "reformation," and "salvation." Every practitioner who has ever been detained in the labor camp has suffered under these repugnant tortures.
Below are some facts of what practitioners experienced and witnessed at Beijing Women's Labor Camp:
1. Social Segregation -- a Torture More Sadistic than Beating and Cursing
In modern medicine and psychology, an experiment has been performed in which a person's whole body was wrapped with cloth to effectively separate the person from the outside environment. It did not take long before that person exhibited a number of symptoms, including anxiety, depression, and ultimately - mental disorder. In psychology, this is called social segregation - cutting off all normal contact between a person and the environment and taking away the person's social rights and privileges.
The method detailed above is used to torture firm practitioners at Beijing Women's Labor Camp. In the No. 4 Group, under Director Li Jirong and Vice Director Li Ziping, firm practitioners are often isolated and deprived of sleep. They are forced to stand or squat facing a wall and systematically harassed by over 10 inmates. The monitoring never stops; the practitioners are monitored closely even when using restrooms. How much practitioners' eat and drink is recorded. The practitioners are not allowed to talk to anyone, including the guards. When they are forced to squat in a fixed position, they are not allowed to stand up except when using the restroom. They are forced to squat from 6 a.m. - 12 a.m. daily, even while eating. They are punished if they cry. When a graduate student arrived, the guards ordered the inmates to torture her mentally and physically. Besides the "squat" torture described above, all the inmates were ordered to torture and abuse her.
The brutal "social segregation" and physical punishments were called "improving the understanding" by the guards. This method caused many practitioners to be harmed in mind and body and made them lose their confidence and courage. The practitioner mentioned above, who used to be confident and have an excellent memory, changed completely after being tortured this way. After she was released, she did not have her period for 9 months and she could no longer remember even one phone number.
2. "Reformation" and Fabrication
"Reformation" harms practitioners more than beating, force-feeding or killing them. Many practitioners who share experiences after the fact say the same thing: "I would rather die than be reformed."
When practitioners enter the labor camp, they are not put in cells and treated as regular inmates unless they write all the following statements: guarantee statement (not to hurt oneself, not to hunger strike, not to practice exercises and not to teach Falun Gong to others); "guilty plea" (admitting one's action as a practitioner has harmed the society and violated the laws); and, "renuncation statement" (renouncing belief in Falun Gong). Practitioners who did not admit to violating any laws were brainwashed, and all of their rights were taken away (including the right to sleep). Many collaborators surrounded the practitioners all day long. In the beginning, the collaborators praised the practitioners with flattering words. When they discover the practitioners are firm in their belief, the collaborators beat and curse the practitioners and viciously attack Teacher and Falun Gong. If the practitioners refuse the write the aforementioned statements, the collaborators incessantly curse the practitioners, Falun Gong and Teacher. When practitioners are forced to listen to the curses, they suffer tremendously. The collaborators use all conceivable methods to destroy practitioners' willpower. When some practitioners exchange their conscience and sign something in order to gain some momentary reprieve from the torture, the collaborators then force the practitioner to admit that they are helping themselves by "reforming" and to "joyfully" tell the news of their "reformation" to their family members. This method is used by the collaborators to break down even more innocent practitioners. Being able to fake happiness is used as the criterion of a practitioner's complete "reformation."
When leaving the labor camp, a practitioner cried. When the inmates on duty asked her why, she said, "I think the labor camp is like a brothel: everyone here is selling and betraying different things." Labor camps controlled by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) are like mental brothels - forcing people to betray their souls with a fake smile on their faces. It is exactly like what was said in the "Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party." "When you are used as a means of attacking others, you need to thank the Party for appreciating your strength; when you are hurt, you have to thank the CCP for "teaching you a lesson"; when you are wrongfully discriminated against and the CCP later gives you redress, you have to thank the CCP for being generous, open-minded and able to correct its mistakes."
Persecutors in the labor camp put in a lot of effort to cover up their crimes, including telling family members of the tortured practitioners that the tortures are good for them. A female practitioner had lived a harmonious family life. She was sent to the labor camp and tortured there for refusing to "reform." Persecutors in the labor camp told her husband, "This is because you have treated her too nicely and even supported her cultivation - see what happened now: She is in the labor camp and your family is torn apart. You should treat her a little more forcefully." When the practitioner was released after spending 18 months in the labor camp, the practitioner persisted in practicing the exercises, but her husband, remembering the "advice" from the labor camp staff, beat his wife and tried to get her to give up Falun Gong practice.
When anyone visits the labor camp intending to uncover the conditions to the outside world, the persecutors move all practitioners who have obvious torture wounds to another location. They also let practitioners under prolonged physical punishment rest for a while on a stool. To show their "democratic behavior," the persecutors also conduct anonymous surveys sometimes. The surveys ask questions such as: "is the food good?" or "have you been beaten or seen guards beating inmates?" However, the inmates surveyed are almost always the heads of the cell, who are all controlled by the guards. After one is "reformed," most people do not dare to write the truth on the survey, for if they are implicated for it, they would be tortured even more brutally and all inmates in the cell would be punished. The guards call telling the truth "damaging the reputation and image of the labor camp."
When international visitors come, the guards find some "reformed" practitioners who can speak English and have them memorize answers to possible questions. The guards also monitor the conversations between the visitors and the inmates. As a result, the foreign visitors cannot hear the truth. When some people dare to speak the truth, the guards force them to write a repentance statement and deprive them of sleep afterwards.
3. Rules and Regulations in the Labor Camp Violate Human Rights
The rules and regulations of Beijing Labor Camp are used as tools to torture practitioners, and make the tortures appear "legal." The guards use these rules to persecute practitioners consistently and continuously. Because a practitioner helped some other practitioners who refused to "reform," the practitioner was labeled as someone who "violated the rules of the labor camp." Much that she did was regarded as a "violation of the rules," although these things are ignored when other inmates do them. An inmate even wrote a poem to describe her situation, talking about the endless standing, admitting mistakes, writing repentance statements and crying. The guards torture practitioners using twisted and hypocritical logic.
The guards use the aforementioned method to torture practitioners because this method does not require any tools or torture instruments. Such torture can also be executed by inmates and collaborators when the guards are not present. Since officially, the labor camp prohibits inmates from hurting each other through any means, the guards always tell inspectors: "I did not torture them, neither am I aware of any tortures among the inmates." In fact, the guards patrol the cells at least once an hour and thus know everything that goes on in the cells. If they discover the inmates not executing the stipulated physical punishments on practitioners, they punish the inmates. Without secret orders from the guards, the inmates would never dare to torture practitioners.
The guards think that they can cover up their complicity in the crimes by avoiding physical evidence of the torture. They thus avoid leaving scars or marks on the practitioners' bodies. Instead, frequent symptoms are heart attacks or strokes, etc. In addition, the mental torture makes people depressed and stressed, causing them to lose proper judgment and suffer cognitive disorders. However, all such "rules" and "punishments" are unconstitutional and forbidden under Chinese criminal law. The labor camp guards cannot use the excuse that torturing detained practitioners is not against the law!
4. Various Methods of Physical Punishment
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(1) "Handcuffing Behind the Back"
The detention centers associated with the Tiananmen Branch of the Police Department, and other branches, often handcuff Falun Gong practitioners' hands behind their backs when they refuse to give their names, verbally defend the innocence of Falun Gong, or practice Falun Gong exercises.
The practitioner's arms are handcuffed behind the back, one from above and the other from below, which is extremely painful. Since it is difficult to handcuff the two arms like this, police often put the arms together suddenly and forcefully while the victim is unprepared, which can easily cause bone fractures.
(2) "Squatting with Hands Holding the Head"
This is a posture Falun Gong practitioners are required to take while waiting to be registered after being sent to the Beijing Prisoner Dispatch Center for assignment to forced labor camps. This center was established specifically for persecuting practitioners.
After arriving there for registration, everyone must squat while holding the head with both hands. Their eyes are only allowed to look at their toes. If someone is discovered looking elsewhere, the prison guard or police officer would beat him or her on the head or neck. Prior to early 2001, people were even required to squat while raising their heels. If someone could not do it, they would be kicked in the buttocks.
Every Falun Gong practitioner taken there for illegal detention was required to write a "guarantee statement" at registration stating, "I was sent for forced-labor reform because I disturbed the stability of the social order. I guarantee that I will follow the rules and regulations of the forced labor camp." Basically, not one Falun Gong practitioner acknowledged that he or she had committed such unusual "crimes" or was "a prisoner for forced labor reform." Virtually nobody cooperated. As a result, the police used violent methods to force them to write the statements, so it took a long time to register each one. In the meantime, the rest have to wait for their turn in this posture. Many older practitioners and those who were very weak due to previous labor camp persecution collapsed or fainted but the police kicked them to make them stand up again.
(3) "Riding an Airplane"
This is the cruelest physical punishment and it is really too painful to describe. After Falun Gong practitioners are sent to the forced labor camps, they are not allowed to join the other "groups" for forced labor and sleep. Instead, they are required to stay in the corridor, the lobby, or the water-house and listen to collaborators brainwashing them with lies that slander Falun Gong. Those who refuse to write the three statements are not allowed to join the "group" and are deprived of sleep. Those who refuse to acknowledge that Falun Gong is [slanderous term omitted] are usually tortured with "riding an airplane."
This posture requires that one's head points downward, the back of the neck is against the wall, and the arms are raised with the hands touching the wall. Most people feel that their head will explode and cannot tolerate it for even ten minutes. However, Falun Gong practitioners have been forced to "ride an airplane" for at least one hour. In Beijing's Xinan Forced Labor Camp, one practitioner was forced to stay like this for a whole night simply because she refused to renounce her belief. The police even encouraged more prisoners to persecute her by threatening to deprive those in her group of sleep and secretly appointing a "monitor" to punish her. The next morning, this Falun Gong practitioner lost consciousness, fell down and rolled underneath the bed beside hers.
At the beginning of 2000, when the first Falun Gong practitioners who were sent to the forced-labor camp for "transformation" resisted it, the police asked the supervisors to force all the practitioners to "ride an airplane" at the same time in a corridor.
Since this torture could easily cause a person's death, the police used other methods to torture Falun Gong practitioners if they still persisted in their beliefs after being made to "ride an airplane." Tortures perpetrated on practitioners include sleep deprivation, forcing them to eat in painful postures, and continuously brainwashing them with slanderous lies about Master and Falun Gong to confuse them. Since practitioners had benefited both physically and spiritually from Falun Gong, these twisted lies were the most unbearable abuse. All of these tortures truly damaged them in mind and body.
(4) "Gecko Crawling on the Wall"
This posture requires a person to stand on one leg while lifting the other. The upper body is held against the wall, as are the two arms that slant to the side and cause an imbalance of the body. However, the upper body must always be kept straight.
(5) "Facing the Wall"
This is a common torture method in the forced labor camp, requiring one to stand facing the wall for up to 18 days and nights continuously. Practitioners' legs become swollen to the point of blistering and their feet begin to bleed as soon as they put on shoes. The more extreme form of "facing the wall" requires one to stand with both feet against the base of the wall, heel to heel forming a straight line with the toes facing outward. The whole body, from the head to the feet, must stick to the wall, including the tip of the nose, and the eyes must remain open, staring at the wall. At such a short distance this causes blurry vision and dizziness. If one closed the eyes, the police would hit them on the head since the bruises cannot be seen through the hair.
(6) "Squatting Like an Army Corps"
This is also a routine punishment involving squatting. The police are required by their superior officers to complete an annual drill, which requires them to squat in the sun for several hours with their body weight resting on one leg while their upper body is kept straight and their two hands are placed on their knees. Some policemen will faint on the spot. Knowing how painful this can be, the police modified it to torture Falun Gong practitioners. The practitioners are forced to squat like this for several days, some for more than 40 days without a break. Also, their hands could not be placed on the knees, but had to remain face up in front of them. This gave the police an excuse to beat the practitioners any time they stopped squatting. If a practitioner refused to squat, the police would order over ten people to get together to pull the practitioner's hair, press down on their shoulders, pull their arms and force them to squat.
5. The Guards are the Instigators of All Tortures
Stated in the Nine Commentaries: "According to modern medical studies, many victims of intense pressure and isolation fall prey to an abnormal sense of dependency on their captors known as the Stockholm Syndrome. The victims' moods--happiness or anger, joy or sorrow--would be dictated by those of their captors. The slightest favor for the victims will be received with deep gratitude. There are accounts in which the victims develop "love" for their captors. This psychological phenomenon has been long used successfully by the CCP both against its enemies and in controlling and remolding the minds of its citizens." Guards in labor camps in Beijing usually order inmates to beat and curse practitioners. They also reward those inmates who successfully "reform" practitioners through torture by reducing their terms. When practitioners are tortured to the point when they feel they are in a living hell, the guards would show up and hypocritically show the practitioners their "care and love." Frequently, the practitioners are moved and agree to "reform." In fact, the guards ordered the inmates to commit all the tortures.
In 2001, Guard Li Ziping from the No. 4 Group of the female labor camp ordered 9 inmates in a cell to torture the newly arrived Falun Gong practitioners. The guard threatened to take away the inmates' rights to buy things, see visitors and send out mail if they did not comply. On the next day, the practitioners (who had been sleep-deprived for over 10 days already) were ordered to stand still for a long time as a punishment. On the evening of the same day, seeing that the practitioners still refused to "reform," the inmates tortured them with "Riding an Airplane." When the practitioners lost consciousness, the inmates beat them up and forcibly stamped their fingerprints on the "renouncing statement."
In the labor camps, guards hold great power. Inmates are required to lower their heads and stand by a wall when the guards are around. Inmates have to follow the guards and pay their "respects," when walking together.
One of the criteria to judge if a practitioner has "reformed" is, whether he/she could beat up newly arrived practitioners.
In June 2001, guards in Tuanhe Men's Forced Labor Camp tortured all firm practitioners in the labor camp. On the same night, there was a thunder-storm, during which all trees in the labor camp were struck by lightning.
Freedom of belief is the fundamental core of any society. A person should not be forced to believe in anything, no matter the reason. Falun Gong practitioners lead normal lives as members of society. Falun Gong as a belief does not force or limit practitioners in their role as a member of society. Yet Jiang's regime has held many brainwashing classes and tried to force practitioners to give up their beliefs. No matter how "sincere" they may seem, the reality and the evil nature of their forceful brainwashing cannot be covered up. The "sincerity" only makes the evil nature of the brainwashing more obvious.
Inside Mudanjiang Prison, the guards are still persecuting Falun Gong practitioners. Mr. Jin Youfeng, a former teacher in the physical education department at Mudanjiang Normal College, refused to perform the forced labor on May 26, 2005 in protest. The next day Captain Luan Yu handcuffed Mr. Jin to the iron bars outside a window. Practitioner Shen Jinxiang was forced to work in a coalmine in the 2nd Branch of the 1st prison ward in Jixi Prison. The coalmine collapsed and Shen suffered a fractured right ankle.
1. Mr. Jin Youfeng was tortured with force-feeding in the prison's "intensified physical training group" and hand-cuffed in the prison ward
Mr. Jin Youfeng was a teacher in the physical education department at Mudanjiang Normal College. He was imprisoned in the "intensified physical training group" in Mudanjiang Prison. The moment he entered the prison, he had to hold his arms around his head while squatting down facing a wall. All his belongings were taken away except sweaters, sweatpants and underwear. Jin couldn't wash his face or brush his teeth for the first few months, let alone take a shower. Zhou Shaokun is a janitor working in the 1st strict managing room and is a main participant in persecuting Falun Gong. Zhou takes orders from Zhuang (first name unknown), a prison guard. Falun Gong practitioners work in a sweatshop during the day and often have to work at night if they don't finish the assigned job. Jin often didn't finish his work and was punished with "riding an airplane" torture. Jin refused to cooperate and Zhou ordered Liu Daqing, a hired thug, to brutally beat Jin. Si Hongtao, a guard, also ordered Zhou to put pressure on Jin and Wu (first name unknown), trying to force them to renounce Falun Gong. Jin refused to renounce Falun Gong and was beaten by Zhou in front of Si Hongtao. Si would slap Mr. Jin if he refused to follow his orders to lower his head or squat down.
On September 4, 2004, the intensified training group isolated each Falun Gong practitioner and prevented them from sleeping, trying to "transform" them (i.e. make them renounce their belief in Falun Gong). Liu Jun and Wu Yuerong were each locked in rooms No. 1 and No. 2. Prisoners would take turns talking to Liu and Wu to prevent them from sleeping at night. Sometimes Mr. Liu was forced to stand overnight (sometimes on a stool) for 4 or 5 days in a row. The guards claimed they did this to all practitioners. To stop this persecution, practitioners went on a hunger strike on September 9. The next day Gao Yunxiang, Guan Lianbin, and Jin Youfeng, were locked in an isolated room. They had to wear about 40 lbs of shackles and cuffs with no space in between (which is worse than regular handcuffs because the wrists do not have the range of mobility). The guard connected the practitioners' shackles to a chain to immobilize them all together. This lasted 15 days. The second day after the practitioners were locked in the isolated room, they were force-fed with a larger than normal tube. The guards would torture the practitioners by randomly poking their throats to insert the tubes and continued pushing the tubes in even after the tubes reached their stomachs. The guards poured in a large amount of food and made it overflow and run into practitioners' tracheas. Practitioner Yao Guocai was tortured with this method. The food the guard used to force-feed practitioners was raw corn flour paste and hot chili powder. Practitioners always had diarrhea after the force-feedings. The second day of force-feeding, a guard who called himself "king of all demons" brought in 4 prisoners to torture Jin Youfeng by clamping Jin's nose and force- feeding him with water. Jin struggled to breathe while bottles of water were poured into his stomach. It was cold in the room and the guards wouldn't give Jin clothes and comforters. It was hard to fall asleep in the isolation room.
After being released from the isolation room, practitioners refused to cooperate with the evil and their forced labor activities. Mr. Jin and other practitioners were illegally imprisoned in the intensified physical training group for a year and two months.
On May 26, 2005, Mr. Jin and other practitioners were separated to prison wards No. 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9. Jin Youfeng was in the 1st Squadron in No. 7 ward. There, if he did not renounce Falun Gong, his sentence would not be reduced even he worked hard. To protest the persecution, Jin Youfeng still refused to join in forced labor. Captain Luan Yu of the 1st Squadron cuffed Mr. Jin to iron bars outside the window. This lasted until the morning of May 27. In the afternoon, Zhu Zailiang, a group leader, ordered prisoners to cuff Jin Youfeng to the corner of the guards' restroom. On May 28, Zhu ordered prisoners Han Baoren, Dai Qingmin, Liu Yong and Su Yupeng, to transform practitioners. The prisoners did not succeed and Zhu berated these prisoners and threatened to not reduce their sentences. Under Zhu's pressure, these prisoners took Jin Youfeng back to the guards' restroom and beat him on the face and lower back, twisting his arms and kicking his face. The main assailant was Han Baoren. Su Yupeng did not participate in the beating this time. After that, Liu Yong would watch Jin and not allow him to sit down. Liu even tortured Mr. Jin by shocking him with electric batons or hanging him up by his handcuffs.
2. Mr. Shen Jinxiang tortured in the Mudanjiang Prison and his left leg was broken due to torture
Liu Minghua, head of a prison ward, and Gao (first name unknown), a guard, beat and injured Mr. Shen Jinxiang's left leg. Mr. Shen couldn't walk for half a month and his leg had still not healed after a year.
At 8 a.m. on January 20, 2004, Liu Minghua, head of the 14th prison ward of the Mudanjiang Prison, called Shen Jinxiang to his office and yelled at him, "We do not allow you to talk to anyone, watch TV or sit down. When you get back to your room, you should lie down immediately." Shen Jinxiang replied, "The Constitution allows freedom of speech, why don't you allow me to talk?" Liu yelled at Mr. Shen and ordered him to squat down, Shen Jinxiang refused. Liu grabbed Mr. Shen's collar and tried to throw him on the ground but did not succeed. Liu then kicked Mr. Shen on the back of his left knee and he fell. Liu continued to kick Shen Jinxiang on his back and head and yelled, "Bring me an electric baton!" Guard Gao Haimin brought in an electric baton and shocked Shen Jinxiang on his mouth, face, head and neck. Gao yelled, "I want you to scream!" Three more prisoners came in the office and one of them named Li Bo began to beat Shen. Mr. Shen told the prisoners, "This is none of your business. Don't participate in the persecution." During the Chinese New Year in 2004, there was a 16-day holiday break in the prison. Mr. Shen lay on his bed for 16 days. After the break, guard Liu Zunyun lied to Shen Jinxiang and took him to the workshop. Liu Zunyun made Mr. Shen work every day without rest.
On June 4, 2002, in the intensified physical training group in the Mudanjiang Prison, prisoner Peng Guanghua punched Shen Jinxiang on his chest three times and caused him to have chest pain for half a month. Prisoner Xie Shun used an 8-inch-wide, 67-inch-long, 1 inch thick wooden board to slap Mr. Shen on his buttocks. His buttocks were swollen as a result of the beating and he couldn't sit down for a while.
On August 10, 2002, Shen Jinxiang was forced to work in a coalmine under a well at the Jixi Prison for 20 hours. At 5 a.m., guards Wang Zhongjun and Han Xuzhong beat Shen Jinxiang in the dining hall until Shen fell to the floor. The guards then kicked Shen Jinxiang heavily with their hard leather shoes and yelled, "We'll kill you, Falun Gong practitioner!" Shen was hit five times and his left eye was swollen. After the beating, the guards made Shen to do "Body-folding," in front of three hundred prisoners. (a type of physical punishment, "Body-folding" refers to standing with two legs straight and close, and bending the head down as far as it will go toward the feet, in front of the knees. The fingers point to the ground, the head is upside down, making the body form a 90-degree angle.) Han Zuzhong even wiped his nose on Mr. Shen.
On July 19, 2002, in the 2nd Branch of the 1st prison ward in Jixi Prison, prisoner Bai Jinbao used a 40-inch-long, 2-inch-wide, and half-inch-thick wooden board to hack Shen Jinxiang on his rib cage, collar bone, and arms for an hour, and stomped on Shen's chest repeatedly.
On September 20, 2002, while Shen worked in a coalmine of the No. prison ward at the Jixi Prison, the roof of the coalmine collapsed because of the prison's illegal operating procedures. Mr. Shen was buried in a pile of rocks and his right ankle was fractured. After prisoners sent Mr. Shen out of the coalmine, guard Song Jian scolded, "Why did you bother to send a useless person up? Come out after you get your work all done!"
In mid November, 2002, Jiang Zhenying, head of the brainwashing section of Jixi Prison, and Nie Minghui, the secretary of education in the 1st prison ward, tried to force Shen to write four statements to renounce Falun Gong. Mr. Shen refused and thus Jiang and Nie took his cane away from him and made him stand on his left leg, since Shen's right ankle was fractured. They did this to humiliate Mr. Shen.
On November 23, 2002, Jiang and Nie took Shen Jinxiang to an office in the 1st prison ward. Jiang said, "I will ask a prisoner to break your legs and give you a month in which to do the Falun Gong exercises. If you can heal your legs back, from then on you'll be allowed to do the exercises." Shen asked, "Why would you ask a prisoner to break my legs? Why don't you do it?" Jiang replied, "Then I would be committing a crime." On Shen's way back to his room, while there was no one around, Jiang told Shen, "If you don't renounce Falun Gong, I will confiscate your cane and order prisoners to beat you." In fact, Jiang had already told prisoner Bai Jinbao to "strictly monitor" Shen. Every day Bai would beat Shen for no reason or curse him.
On the morning of March 23, 2003, Jiang went to the 2nd Branch of the 1st prison ward and told Shen, "From now on, we will strictly manage you, because you are an 'anti-reform member'." Jiang ordered prisoner Bai, "Don't allow Shen to eat in the dining hall. Give him a steamed bun each meal, don't allow him to talk to anyone, and make him sit and stay awake until midnight every day." Prisoners in Jixi Prison woke up at 4:30 a.m. every day. Shen sat till midnight for 4 days. Liu Yajie, head of a sub-prison ward, told Shen, "I am a weapon of the Chinese Communist Party. If you don't transform, we will take action. You know how it works in the legal system. We will put you under a 200-watt light bulb and not let you sleep. We're not doing it now but we'll make you squat on a tile floor barefoot from 4:30 a.m. to 2 a.m. the next day. Let's see how long you can sustain yourself." Liu Yajie made a mentally retarded prisoner named Yin Shouzhi watch Shen. Yin often kicked Mr. Shen and pushed him under the TV while the prisoners watched TV at night. Liu often told the prisoners they were not allowed to bring Mr. Shen food. Liu told a prisoner not to give practitioners food but starve them. However, this prisoner sneaked Shen two sesame seed cakes and told him, "Don't tell anyone. Liu told me not to give you food."
The torture continued until April 15, 2003, and then Jixi prison transferred Shen Jinxiang to the Mudanjiang Prison to continue his persecution.
3. Practitioner Huang Guodong beaten in the 8th Prison Ward
On September 20, 2004, Zhang Jiaguang, deputy head of the 8th prison ward, Wang Guang, Zhao Minghui, Wang Jijun, and Yan Jiang, beat practitioner Huang Guodong with three electric batons and hung Huang on the iron fence near the workshop.
On March 8, 2005, guards Yu Fugang, Wu Xuejun, He Guangsheng, Li Jun, and Pei Shenglie in the 8th prison ward, beat practitioner Huang.
Hezhuzhi Woman's Labor Camp forces the practitioners to get up at 5:30 a.m., go to work right after breakfast and work until 8:00 p.m. They are forced to work for nearly 13 hours a day. Because there are 200 to 300 practitioners that need to eat in a certain time period, the majority are not able to get enough food. The labor time is long and intense. Everyone is forced to work like a machine. Because things are done manually, the practitioners are very close to the product and the materials. There are feathers floating in the air everywhere. The material is absorbed into the lungs and damages their health. The poisonous fumes given off from the glue make it difficult to breathe and are damaging to their health. It is devastating to each one's life.
The new building is decorated to look very attractive. However, the monitor room is totally different. There are 12 bunk beds in each room and it is quite crowded. The heat to warm the room is not provided until the middle of December and even then the heat is very limited and the room temperature remains very low.
For those that are detained in the No.7 group, other than the "helpers" and the "personal cangues" (persons designated to supervise practitioners' behavior) the rest are all practitioners. The majority of them are practitioners who resist "transformation." Every moment is used to try to brainwash these practitioners. They force the practitioners to review and listen to materials that defame Falun Gong. They torture them both physically and spiritually, especially those who are firm in their belief. They take advantage of the "helpers" (the practitioners that are transformed or the forced labor personnel) as "personal cangues" to persecute the firm practitioners. The "personal cangues" follow practitioners all the time, do not allow them have any breaks, and curse and beat them as well. Even worse, the "helpers" often assist the prison authorities to cruelly torture the practitioners. In order to reach the goal of transforming the practitioners, they sometimes torture them to the point where they would rather die than go on living.
Ms. Hou Leying, 68, was from Chongqing City. On November 24, 2005, when she was explaining the truth about Falun Gong to customers in the Yonghui Supermarket, in Jiangbei District, she was reported, and was arrested by the Jiangbei District Sub-Police Bureau. She was subjected to several hours' persecution before she was released. The villains' wicked deeds traumatized her immensely. Ms. Hou Leying passed away on December 1, 2005.
Not long before, Ms. Wang Kaiping, a retired worker from the Institute of Chemical Engineering of Jiangbei District, Chongqing City, a Falun Gong practitioner, was severely persecuted. She was as thin as a stick and often vomited blood. In June 2005, she was released for medical treatment through requests by her family members. She had been vomiting blood since she was released. In spite of this, Ms. Wang Kaiping was arrested in her home in August by the District Police Department and was illegally sentenced to a forced labor camp. She passed away in the middle of the night on August 21, 2005.
1. [Changsha City, Hunan Province] Practitioner Mr. Xiong's Life in Peril
On December 20, 2005, the police arrested Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Xiong from the renovation site where he worked. Xiong was on a hunger strike for 13 days at the Changqiao Detention Center and has suffered excruciating torture. His life is now in peril. Xiong's wife is nine-months pregnant and is going to deliver a baby in January.
Telephone numbers for the Hunan Province Procurator Bureau: 86-731-4732000, 4712000.
2. [Tianjin] Liu Shuping's Term Extended After being Detained for Five and a Half Years at the Banqiao Women's Forced Labor Camp
Banqiao Women's Forced Labor Camp in the Dagang District of Tianjin has illegally detained Ms. Liu Shuping for five and a half years and extended her term twice already. The second time, she was scheduled to be released on January 1, 2006, but her term was extended by six months. When her family came from 200 miles away to pick her up they were told Liu Shuping's term was extended by four more months because Liu Shuping staged a hunger strike to protest.
3. [Baotou City, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region] Hao Wanru and Others Detained
On December 25, 2005, Ms. Hao Wanru (34 years old) and Ms. Liu Yan (26 years old), from Baotou City, were reported to the police while distributing truth-clarifying materials in the Jiuyuan District of Baotou City. Personnel from the District Chengguan Police Station and the District National Security Team detained them. When Mr. Chen Jianyong, Ms. Tao Wenhong and Ms. Tao Wenyan heard about the "illegal arrests" they went to the police station to inquire and were also detained.
4. [Jinan City, Shandong Province] Wang Housheng Arrested Again
Mr. Wang Housheng is an employee of the Dazhong Daily in Jinan City. He has been illegally sentenced to three years of forced labor for clarifying the truth and served the term between 2001 and 2003. He returned to work in 2003 but was demoted to work in a garden team.
At about 3:30 p.m. on December 30, 2005, three persons from the Yucheng City Police Department, including a deputy administrator surnamed Yang, went to Wang Housheng's work place. Because they said they were from Wang Housheng's hometown, Mr. Wang trusted them. After they came into Mr. Wang's home, they showed their true purpose and attempted to take him away immediately. With the aid of his family, Mr. Wang ran away from home but was captured by the lawless policemen waiting at the gate. Two strong men beat him to the ground, handcuffed him and pushed him into a police car. It was reported that Wang Housheng is currently being detained at the Yucheng City Police Department.
5. [Liuan Area, Anhui Province] Sun Yufeng Arrested from Home
On December 20, 2005, policeman Wang Anhua and others from Shou County, Liu'an Area, climbed over a wall, broke into a house and arrested Mr. Sun Yufeng, from Shuangqiao Town, Shou County.
6. [Hulin City, Heilongjiang Province] Li Shuxiang and Her Husband Suffer Brutal Torture
Practitioners Ms. Li Shuxiang, and her husband Mr. Ni Decai, are from Hulin City No.856 Farm in Heilongjiang Province. During the early morning on October 9, 2005, the farm's police department illegally arrested them for posting Falun Gong truth-clarifying fliers. Li Shuxiang went on a hunger strike for 21 days to protest the illegal detention. Not until her life was at stake did the detention center of the farm police department in Mudanjiang City inform her family to bail her out for treatment. Currently, Li Shuxiang is extremely weak, too weak to even talk.