This article describes the condition of a prisoner placed under 'block out' supervision.

Ms. Zhang Chenglan Persecuted in the 1st Women's Forced Labor Camp of Shandong Province

The 4th Ward of the 1st Women's Forced Labor Camp of Shandong Province now detains around thirty practitioners. Ms. Zhang Chenglan is under block-out supervision there.

Two drug criminals supervise her, and force Ms. Zhang stay awake until midnight and restrict her freedom of movement. We often see Ms. Zhang's face and mouth bleeding and swollen, even unable to eat. One night, the block-out room added an additional person. With the six beds full, Ms. Zhang couldn't sleep at midnight. When Ms. Zhang asked how she could sleep, the criminals beat her. Since Ms. Zhang was illegally detained at the Fourth Division, her family went to visit her. No matter who went to see and send clothes and money to her, the prison guards said they had never persecuted or beat her. However, they refused to allow Ms. Zhang to meet with her family members, and they didn't tell her who came to visit her. Even when Ms. Zhang's husband and son went to see and send clothes to her, the guards not only refused to let them see her, but also retained their letter to her. The guards and other prisoners block all news from the outside.

With this kind of block-out persecution, the guards utilize drug addicts to persecute and beat practitioners, while pulling strings and feigning innocence with smiles themselves. Two criminals savagely persecute a practitioner, forbid her from speaking, and beat her if she talks. Practitioners are coerced into sitting on a stool facing the wall until the middle of the night. Practitioners can't do anything and are restricted in all freedoms of movement, eating, and drinking. Using the washroom and buying necessities are also restricted, and even physiological needs are inhumanly controlled. Such savage torture is hard to bear, makes living seem worse than death, causes hopelessness, and compromises the person against their will when things seem unbearable.

The 1st Women's Forced Labor Camp of Shandong Province (also called "Jiangshuiquan Women's Forced Labor Camp of Jinan City)
Address: Jiangshuiquan Road 20, Jinan, Shandong. Postal code 250014