There are many Falun Dafa practitioners detained in this labor camp, some were deceived by police to go there and some were taken by force from their homes. They are forbidden to meet with their families and friends since July of this year. To our knowledge, four practitioners have held hunger strikes. The longest one lasted 30 days. Their lives were maintained only by force-feeding.
The practitioners on hunger strike are still not allowed to meet with their families and are totally isolated from the outside world. The prison staff also said that they were not responsible for all the accidents that occurred to practitioners. Further information is hard to obtain due to the communication blockade.
Strange things keep happening in Anqiu city. In order to suppress practitioners more effectively, more than 100 people including hospital staff, company employees, town and village commissioners were moved into the prison, which created a precedent in the judicial system in China. In order to prevent practitioners from petitioning in Beijing, right before July 20 (the first anniversary of the start of the Chinese government's crackdown on Falun Dafa), the police illegally detained more than 40 practitioners who were considered "hard to be taken care of" by their work units, towns or villages. These practitioners went on hunger strikes to protest the illegal detention and asked immediate and unconditional release. They showed their determination of cultivation of Falun Dafa and their boycott of the unlawful detention. Not only did the police refuse any request for release, but they also stepped up the persecution of the practitioners.
Several medical staff from Anqiu City Hospital were called in to give forced feedings and vein injections to practitioners. Due to the limited number of prison staff, and incapability of handling so many practitioners, the city police department ordered all of the working units, towns or villages where the practitioners came from to send people to live in the detention center. All of them were required to eat and sleep there. Four to five people were assigned to watch over one practitioner. Supported by police, the guards cursed and beat up practitioners whose health was already deteriorated from the detention. Practitioners were tied to chairs everyday while nurses injected tranquilizers and were given force-feedings or intravenous drips.
They forced a 40-year-old female practitioner to admit that she had an affair. Faced with such disrespect to a practitioner, she refuted it instantly, and with dignity, and this was followed by blows and kicks. Another practitioner was subject to excessive pressure in the course of force-feeding and fell into a coma. Rather than seek medical treatment, the guard instead carried him into a small room saying that it was to let him regain consciousness by himself. All sorts of inhumane tortures were used on these practitioners. The degree of brutality was unbelievable. Before their releases, the practitioners suffered over 10 days of intensive torture.
This is another case of crimes committed by a few law implementers with ulterior motives inside the Chinese government, who have disregarded the constitution and human lives.
Reported on August 20, 2000
