The Facts of the Persecution of Falun Gong  -- April 6, 2007

Issued by Clearwisdom Net

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  • The Recent Persecution of Falun Gong Practitioners at Masanjia Women's Forced Labor Camp

  • Changlinzi Forced Labor Camp in Harbin City, Heilongjiang Province Mistreats Falun Gong Practitioners



  • The Recent Persecution of Falun Gong Practitioners at Masanjia Women's Forced Labor Camp

    On January 30, 2007, Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Zhang Lirong was locked in the workshop of Masanjia Forceed Labor Camp by guard Pei Feng and a team leader for refusing to recite the 30 disciplinary rules that criminals were forced to recite. Later, political instructor Ren Huaiping from the 2nd Group and the group leader Wang Shuzheng locked her in an empty room and inserted high voltage electric batons into her underwear. They beat her breasts and chest, brutally torturing her.

    On January 29, practitioner Ms. Wang Xiaoyan was ordered to sign her name on the “Forced Labor Camp Inspection Sheet.” She refused to sign, and wrote “Falun Dafa is good” on the sheet. Guard Zhao Guorong slapped her face. The next day it snowed. Police Zhao Jinghua and two other criminals brutally beat Ms. Wang, causing her nose to bleed and her body to become very weak. She had a high fever and cough and had to have an intravenous drip for two days.

    Practitioners were forced to perform intensive labor at the Masanjia Forced Labor Camp. They were forced to work from 6:30 a.m. until 8:30 p.m. or even until 11:00 p.m. If the practitioners could not finish their work, they had to bring the work back to their sleeping rooms and finish it.

    Practitioner Ms. Zou Xiuju refused to do the forced labor. Guard Wang Shuzheng restrained her under the bed frame and did not allow her to use the restroom, change her position or have anything to eat. Practitioner Ms. Zhou Jing also refused to do the forced labor. Guards Zhang Jun, Li Mingdong, and Zhang Chunguang handcuffed her and brutally beat her. Deputy Director of Masanjia Forced Labor Camp Zhou Qin said, “You should treat her like this. Do not give her any food.”

    After Ms. Zhou Jing was locked up for an entire day, her hands and feet were swollen and very painful, and she could not walk.

    The guards strictly controlled the 4th Team of the 3rd Group where the Falun Gong practitioners were detained. They assigned the dirty and intensive work to practitioners. Practitioner Ms. Li Fengqiu was arrested by the Jinzhou City Police Department and sentenced to three years in Masanja Forced Labor Camp. She has a 10-year-old son who cannot go to school because the family now has no income. Ms. Li Fengqiu became mentally traumatized due to the persecution. Even after hospital tests showed that she had mental trauma, the forced labor camp still refused to release her. Practitioner Ms. Jiang Jie is from Benxi City. Her husband passed away a month ago. She was arrested and sentenced to three years in a forced labor camp. Since she refused to be “transformed,” she was brutally tortured and her wrists were seriously injured. She is currently suffering from mental trauma due to the persecution. She has a 15-year-old daughter at home who cannot go to middle school due to lack of funds, and there is no one taking care of her.

    Practitioner Ms. Li Xiulan had 2,400 yuan stolen by Liaoyang City Police Deprtment. She went there to ask for her money to be returned. The police refused to return her money. Not only that, they arrested her and sent her to Masanjia Forced Labor Camp. She was sentenced to two years in the forced labor camp. She was persecuted until she was in a vegetative state. She has been bedridden for three months, unable to move, eat, or drink. On September 5, 2006, prison doctor Ding Taiyong stuck a needle into her head and did not take it out. The needle was left there for a whole day until other practitioners found it. Even now, she still cannot walk or talk.

    Team leader Wang Xiaofeng frequently used her power to extend practitioners' periods of detention if she thought the practitioner wasn't brainwashed and “transformed.” She usually extended the practitioner's detention period for two weeks to two months. Moreover, she always communicated with the local “610 Office” to persecute Falun Gong practitioners.

    In November and December 2006, the 3rd Group forced practitioners to attend an exam and answer questions slandering the founder of Falun Gong. They used extending sentences, physical punishments, brainwashing, and threats to persecute the practitioners who refused to answer the questions. Moreover, they increased the workloads for the practitioners and forced those who could not finish the work to do overtime. The guards did not allow the practitioners to sleep until they finished their work. They used intensive forced labor to persecute practitioners.


    Changlinzi Forced Labor Camp in Harbin City, Heilongjiang Province Mistreats Falun Gong Practitioners

    Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Gong Wenyi, from the Daowai District of Harbin City, Heilongjiang Province has been on a hunger strike for more than three months, since December 13, 2006. On March 9, 2007, his esophagus was chapped from vomiting blood, and he weighs less than one hundred pounds. The Changlinzi Labor Camp Administration still won't release him, and they continue to mistreat him.

    Mr. Gong was arrested on August 10, 2006, in Harbin City and was later sentenced to forced labor.

    Practitioner Mr. Xu Qingshen of the Handian District, Shuangcheng City, was arrested on August 23, 2005, and sentenced to forced labor for two and a half years. He is detained in the Fourth Ward of the Changlinzi Labor Camp. He was forced to do exhausting physical labor such as picking up and moving food signs. Later he was forced to undergo blood tests. The nurse injected him with poisonous drugs. As a result, he is currently disabled and cannot take care of himself.

    Ding Hong (male), a guard in the Fourth Ward of Changlinzi Labor Camp, is the most vicious person there. He often verbally abuses practitioners for more than an hour at a time and claims that he is "taking care of them."

    The food in Changlinzi Forced Labor Camp is worse than pigs' food. The cooked food doesn't contain any sort of oil, and the rice is half-cooked. The forced labor camp treats all prisoners, including the elderly, disabled, and sick, inhumanely. People who cannot work are thrown outside to endure the freezing cold.

    Currently many practitioners are protesting the persecution by holding hunger strikes.