The Facts of the Persecution of Falun Gong -- February 17, 2008

Issued by Clearwisdom Net

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Falun Gong practitioners Mr. Huang Fujun was tortured to death by the police in Harbin City, Heilongjiang Province. Ignoring the evidence, local CCP authorities claimed Mr. Huang died of suicide. His family tried to sue the police, but there is nowhere for them to find justice.

At Qianjing Forced Labor Camp in Harbin City, Falun Gong practitioners were enslaved to make product in horrible hygienic conditions from 6am and 8pm. Some of the product are output to overseas markets.

Mr. Huang Fujun Tortured to Death, His Family Seeks Justice to No Avail
 

Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Huang Fujun lived in Acheng District, Harbin City, Heilongjiang Province. On July 24, 2007, he was arrested by policemen from Songfengshan Town Station, and beaten until both of his feet were crushed and broken. The police detained him in Acheng District First Detention Center, deprived his right to be visited for three months until, on November 2, 2007, the police notified his family to visit him in the Acheng District Traditional Medicine Hospital, when he was dying.

He was unconscious, as thin as a skeleton, his face deformed from force-feeding tubes, which were still inserted in his nose. Dry blood filled his nostrils; no one was sure how long the tubes had been inserted. His buttocks were covered with terrible festering sores. Even in such a critical condition, guards still cuffed and shackled his wrists and ankles. His family repeatedly requested for him to be allowed to return home. The Detention Center Administration finally released him, out of fear that if they kept him they would be held responsible for his death.

Mr. Huang was picked up on November 4, 2007. A 44-year-old man was tortured to such a degree within only three months. He could not talk or recognize people. At around 8 p.m. on November 6, 2007, his face turned pale, and he died with his mouth and eyes open. He could not say one word to his family before his death.

After Mr. Huang died, the Acheng District 610 Office ordered his employer to take a look in his home. His family went to talk to the 610 Office Director Wang Xiaoguang. Wang promised that the funeral cost would be covered by Mr. Huang's employer, and his employer would give the immediate family a job since Mr. Huang was the main source of income for the household. Wang also promised that Mr. Huang's parents and child would receive some income security. Wang told them he would negotiate with Mr. Huang's employer to arrange all these matters until his family was satisfied. Believing the "promises" would be kept , Mr. Huang's family agreed to let them ship his body to a funeral home. But soon after, police officers from Acheng District Branch surrounded their home, and did not allow the family access to Mr. Huang's body. Nothing Wang promised actually happened; all of his promises were lies.

Under such terrible circumstances, Mr. Huang's family refused to sign on the cremation paperwork, and they continued to request to have an autopsy done. The police arranged the autopsy results to be issued after 45 days. During these 45 days, Mr. Huang's family hired a lawyer, requested to be compensated with 200, 000 yuan, and to bring the killers to justice.

The autopsy result said, his head had a mark caused by a metal object, his heart failed, throat was damaged, and cause of death was heart and lung failure. Even when presented with such evidence, the Acheng District 610 Office still claimed Mr. Huang died of suicide. They refused to admit responsibility for his death. The Acheng District Police Branch notified Mr. Huang's family that they will not be compensated for any loss from Mr. Huang's death.

Mr. Huang's family hired a lawyer and found the District 610 Office agents. One agent said viciously, "You are lucky we are meeting with you. Mr. Huang Fujun's death was a suicide." When Mr. Huang's family and their lawyer went to Acheng District Police Branch, the Legal Section Chief Xi Jinglong (male) took the lawyer to the side, and threatened him, "How come you dare to accept this case? Do you still want to keep your license? How can you win a case against the Communist Party?" The lawyer emphasized that there is a life involved in this case, heaven forbids the murder of any life. But they still found no results.

Mr. Huang's family could not bear the grief. They sued the police department, the detention center and the 610 Office. But to this day, there is still nowhere that they can find justice, and Mr. Huang's body is still being stored in the funeral home.

Torture, Brainwashing and Slave Labor at Nanmusi Women's Forced Labor Camp in Sichuan Province
 

The guards in the 7th Squadron, a team specifically created to abuse Falun Gong practitioners, planned a set of cruel "reform" methods prior to May 2007. The guards put each newly-arrived practitioner into a separate room to enforce one-on-one "reform", meaning one or more drug addict inmates would monitor one practitioner, from morning to the middle of the night, or even until 2:00 a.m. or 3:00 a.m. Sleep would be permitted only if one had agreed to give up practicing Falun Gong. If not, the drug addicts would determine one's fate. They forced the practitioners to stand still, sit still, and squat for a long time. They would drag practitioners out of bed, even if they had just gone to bed. Practitioners could not leave the cell; were forbidden to look out the window or talk with another practitioner; were not allowed to take anything with them to the cell, such a cup of water or a pen. Practitioners had to get permission from the drug addicts for everything.

Practitioners were not allowed to use the restroom, even when urgent, except for three set times a day from 5:30 a.m. to midnight. To reduce restroom use, practitioners were afraid to drink much water or eat. Some practitioners couldn't have bowel movements for nearly a month, causing abdominal bloating. The drug addicts never gave them enough them enough time in the restroom.

The cell door was always closed. No other people could be seen, aside from several members of the "help and education" (brainwashing) team. If a practitioner refused to give up her belief they would beat her. They also forced the practitioner to read books that slandered Falun Gong and Master. Some practitioners could not withstand these abuses and wrote the three statements against their will.

It happened frequently that officials in Nanmusi Forced Labor Camp forced practitioners to ingest unknown substances, or were force-fed or injected with unknown substances. Some perfectly healthy practitioners were forcibly injected with unknown substances, administered by the drug addicts.

At the end of April 2000, the 7th Squadron merged with the 5th Squadron and became the new 7th Squadron.

On August 27, 2007, several practitioners were transferred from Suining to the 7th Squadron. Three of them were not accepted because of poor health. One of the practitioners, Ms. Deng Li, over 50 years old, did not cooperate with the labor camp officials. They beat one of her legs so severely that they fractured a bone. Chen Yujun, Huang Lijun, and Deng Ying committed this horrible deed. These so-called "personal monitors" were drug addicts. The guards on duty that day included Wu Yuhui, Fu Meiling, and Yang Yizhi. When Ms. Deng Li was indeed unable to walk, Wu Yuhui claimed that she was lying and was trying not to walk. Only after the prison doctor verified that a bone was fractured and was unable to treat her was Ms. Deng Li's family informed to take her home.

Practitioner Ms. Zhou Rong, 50 years old, worked at the Kaijiang County material supplying chain. When her answer did not satisfy the branch section lead's question, the 7th Squadron head Ren Fongming ordered her to come "for a talk." Ms. Zhou told her the facts of about Falun Gong. Ren Fongming became severely irritated and brought in the "help and education" people to talk to her. They said to give her another chance and hoped she could change her mind and become part of their "help and education" team.

Ms. Zhou Rong did not comply. The guards again put her into a cell. They prolonged her stay in the labor camp and sent her on October 29, 2007, to the 4th Squadron, (telephone: 86-832-5212443) where the inmates were forced to do very heavy labor. They had to process pig hair all day long. The pig hair was soaked in a caustic solution. After a while the laborers' hands rotted from prolonged contact with this solution. Because Zhou Rong refused to write the so-called "ideological re-understanding" or to read slanderous books, Team leader Fang Xiaoqing and deputy team heads Chen Xiaoting and Wang Shan, and female guard Long Lan made her stand till late at night. Because there was no clock, no one was sure of the exact time. They also threatened to add more hours to her workload. Chen Xiaoting was the one who in particular attempted to brainwash practitioners.

Practitioner Ms. Wang Kaibi (from Cangxi County, tel: 86-839-5667502) was detained in December 2006. She was sent to Nanmusi Forced Labor Camp in January 2007. She was fine when she arrived, but became mentally ill from the tremendous pressure. The officials transferred her to the 4th Squadron in September 2007. By the evening of November 20, she had not fully recovered her mental faculties. She went to tell Fang Xiaoqing the facts about Falun Gong. Several drug addicts lifted her by her legs and arms and carried her away from Fang Xiaoqing. When they put her back on the ground, she was still saying, "Falun Dafa is good."

Guard Zeng Juan put Ms. Wang Kaibi in handcuffs and shackles and left her in an area with lots of trash. Eventually they put Ms. Wang in a separate cell. After that she suffered a mental collapse. She began to mutter constantly. Criminal inmates Li Jinxing and Huang Jin willfully beat, scolded, and kicked her, and gagged her with a dirty sock. A guard named Li also incited other drug addicts to tape her mouth shut. They eventually put her in a small cell and watched her separately. Ms. Wang's labor camp sentence was up on December 13, 2007. People who primarily contributed to her deteriorating mental state are the 4th Squadron leader Fang Xiaoqing, female guard Zeng Juan, deputy leader Jiang Nan, and Duan Yuanyuan from the 7th Squadron, now a leader, and the local police.

On October 29, 2007, there was a hurried meeting made up of people from the education section leaders, the camp manager, the 7th Squadron officers, and a few others. People from the 7th Squadron and from the education section announced prolonged sentences for the following practitioners: Ms. Yan Zhongfang (over 60 years old from Guangyuan) and Ms. Xiao Guiying's (about 60 years old from Chengdu) had time added time because of their hunger strike; Ms. Zhou Yunyan because she tore slanderous books apart; Ms. Li Zefen because she orally declared that she withdrew her "three statements"; for Ms. He Junhua because he made a solemn declaration. Ms. Yan Zhongfang and Ms. Xiao Guiying are still on a hunger strike.

In May 2007 drug addict inmates Deng Qiaoling and Chen Jia tied Ms. Xiao Guiying's hands and feet until 4:00 a.m. for doing the exercises. Drug addicts also frequently dragged Ms. Xiao away for force-feeding with unknown substances.

Practitioner Ms. Guo Lijun, about 40 years old from Jinhua Township, Meishan City, was detained for appealing. In the summer of 2007, Ning Qinying, Lin Xiaohong, Zeng Yue and others frequently verbally abused and beat Ms. Guo mercilessly. They sometimes tore her clothes off when beating her. She suffered countless tortures. All those incidents happened under orders from 7th Squadron officers.

In the summer of 2007, when the temperature rose to 38 ⁰C (about 100 ⁰F), Xie Xiaowei and Chen Jia from the 7th Squadron sometimes did not let practitioners take a bath or wash their feet. They willfully decided the time to shut off the water supply and said people had 15 minutes to wash, but the actual time was only a few minutes. the 4th Squadron leader refused to let practitioners make phone calls but let others do so every day. The reason given: practitioners didn't cooperate with them, "to write their ideological re-education."

Once arriving in the camp, the practitioners were divided into these categories: One, the "reformed ones," who, under duress, had written something detrimental to their convictions; two, those who had resisted the persecution and negated it and endured many unimaginable tortures; and three, collaborators, who became the "help and education" personnel, aiding and abetting the regime to try to brainwash practitioners. Those in charge taught the drug addicts how to persecute the practitioners and force them to read slanderous books. They also held sham conversations with the practitioners to find out whether someone was really "reformed." The "help and education" group head makes note of the practitioners' state and gives it to the duty officer. The duty officer mainly read those notes to determine each practitioner's state of mind.

Presently, personnel in the 7th Squadron don't let practitioners know their release date. They stipulate that the local police unit handling the case must come to pick the practitioner up; otherwise, the labor camp will not release anyone. If a local police unit doesn't come on time to pick the practitioner up, the camp officials prolong her labor camp term.

Any person assisting the labor camp officials charges each practitioner several dozen yuan per month. Some practitioners are worried about this, because their families cannot afford extra expenses. Some unscrupulous individuals stole the practitioners' monthly 15 yuan spending money.

For a long time those in charge at Nanmusi Forced Labor Camp have treated the practitioners with absolute cruelty. The so-called goal to "influence, educate, and save" is all deceptive nonsense. Between 2004 and 2005, practitioners in the 3rd Squadron couldn't complete their work and were thus deprived of sleep for a whole week. The officials forced them to complete the hard labor. In 2007 the production team worked from 6:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m; some worked until 11:00 p.m. Anyone completing less work would have to work overtime again after others got off work, or their term was extended. The 3rd and 4th Squadrons constantly worked in the basement. The 4th Squadron in particular assigned practitioners to select wool under electric lights throughout the year, which severely hurt their eyes.

In order to increase production, the camp introduced an incentive system: after completing an extra task, the practitioner would be given some incentive funds based on some percentage of the extra portion. When this was reached, the camp would stipulate a new rule to increase the workload. No matter how hard the practitioners worked, they couldn't get much money. The camp officials simply refused to treat people as human beings and considered them mainly as a tool to make money for themselves and the camp.
 

Falun Gong Practitioners Enslaved in Qianjin Forced Labor Camp in Harbin City
 

At Qianjin Forced Labor Camp in Harbin City, Heilongjiang Province, most of prisoners are Falun Gong practitioners, about 30 in the 1st Ward, 20 in the 2nd Ward. The guards at the camp recruit the criminal inmates to assist them in persecuting the practitioners.

Labor camp officials force practitioners to work overtime and give them excessive workloads. Practitioners are forced to get up at 5:30 a.m. and must work from 6:00 a.m. until 7:30 or 8:00 p.m. They get only 15 minutes for lunch and must work their entire shift without a break. Zhang Bo, Chief of the 1st Ward, personally monitors everyone's work. Anyone who does not finish the assigned quota has to take the work back to his or her cell and may not go to sleep until the work is done. Once, the inmates were tasked with stacking Popsicle sticks, and everyone was required to complete the same quota, from newcomers to seniors over the age of 70.

Huo Shuping, Chief of the 2nd Ward, often punches and kicks practitioners and abuses them physically. She also forces practitioners to work more than the regular quota. When inmates are tasked with making rice paper bags, she increases the quota in the 2nd Ward from 400 to 450 bags a day. Practitioners who cannot complete their quota must continue working until 8:30 or 9:00 p.m. If the quota still is not finished, the practitioner is forced to sit on a small stool until 11:00 p.m. or 12 midnight. Labor camp terms are extended for practitioners who cannot finish their quota every day for a month. Those who refuse to work also have their terms extended illegally. The terms of practitioners Ms. Qi Jinlin and Ms. Zhang Cuijuan were extended by 15 days, and the term of Ms. Du Xiuqin was extended by two days.

The current task in the labor camp is sorting and packing coffee stirrers and hot dog sticks, making rice paper bags, and packing toothpicks. The previous task was making shopping bags and pill boxes.

The coffee stirrers and hot dog sticks must be sorted into three categories and then packed into large bags. Each bag is about the size of a 50-pound rice bag. Practitioners under the age of 40 have to finish three bags each day. Those who are elderly or weak have to finish two bags. The process of making rice paper bags is very complicated, with a great deal of folding and gluing. Practitioners under 40 have to finish 450 bags a day, and others have to finish 300 to 400 bags, depending on their abilities. There are two kinds of toothpicks: round and flat. Practitioners have to pack the round toothpicks into bags, put the bags into boxes, and staple the boxes shut. Practitioners under 40 have to pack 1000 bags a day and put them into 20 large boxes; others have to pack 500 bags. When working with flat toothpicks, practitioners must glue the boxes, pack the toothpicks into the boxes, and wrap the boxes with plastic. Practitioners under 40 have to finish 500 boxes a day, and others have to finish 200 to 300 boxes.

There are no facilities, equipment, or process in place to disinfect the toothpicks. Wood dust from the toothpicks is all over the place, and practitioners frequently choke and sneeze from the particles. The yellowish glue has a very strong odor that causes headaches and eye-tearing.

Since hygienic conditions are so bad, rats and flies frequently enter the work area and come into contact with the toothpicks, rice bags, coffee stirrers, and hot dog sticks. There is certainly no guarantee of the sterility of these products!

The toothpicks are exported under the "Arpex" brand name.

Practitioners at this labor camp are routinely deprived of their basic human rights, their health, and their dignity. Practitioner Ms. Liu Xiuli once became so tired that she lost consciousness. Instead of calling for medical assistance, the guard on duty said she was pretending. Practitioner Ms. Zhang Cuijuan fainted a number of times while working, sometimes more than once in the same day. She was later diagnosed with poor circulation in her coronary arteries. Every day, she would pant heavily when she walked from her cell to the workshop. But the guards still forced her to work overtime. If she could not finish her quota, they forced her to work until 11:00 p.m. or 12 midnight. Practitioners are severely persecuted and enslaved, and they are not paid a penny for their work.