(Clearwisdom.net)
- Electric Batons:
Almost every Falun Dafa practitioner is brutalized
with shocks from electric batons. Some women are shocked multiple times, and
the sadistic guards increase the voltage each time a baton is used.
Practitioners are shocked on the necks, arms and legs. They are often shocked
until their legs become paralyzed. Due to the severe damage resulting from the
shocks, some practitioners have lost control of their bladders.
- Death Bed:
The four limbs of each practitioner are stretched out and
tied to the corners of an icy-cold metal slab. The women cannot move at all.
Nor are they allowed to get up to eat, drink, or go to the bathroom. This
torture lasts periods of time ranging several hours to more than a month. This
type of cruel torture has severely damaged practitioners, both mentally and
physically.
- Verbal Abuse:
As soon as practitioners are imprisoned at the labor
camp, they are abused by guards and other people enlisted to help in an
attempt to brainwash them. These scoundrels continually curse our Teacher and
Falun Dafa repeatedly around the clock, attempting to weaken practitioner's
determination, causing them to become disoriented and pressuring them to
renounce their belief. The most vicious scoundrels are chosen to spread lies
among groups of practitioners.
- Standing Punishment:
In Heizuizi Forced Labor Camp, standing
punishment is the most common form of physical torture. These women
practitioners are forced to stand continuously barefoot on the icy-cold cement
floor for several days and nights. While standing, practitioners are also
verbally and physically abused.
- Solitary Confinement:
When electric batons, verbal abuse, and standing
punishment fail to make Falun Dafa practitioners renounce their belief, the
guards put practitioners in solitary confinement. The rooms are cramped and
dark, and practitioners are handcuffed.
- Sleep Deprivation:
Every practitioner has been deprived of sleep at
least once, some for several days. Some have gone several months with only a
few hours of sleep per day.
- Slanderous Signs:
Falun Dafa practitioners who do not cooperate with
the persecutors by refusing to read brainwashing materials are forced to carry
or wear signs that slander Falun Dafa. In addition, signs cursing Teacher and
Dafa are placed around practitioners' beds.
- Long Labor Hours:
The forced labor camp has two schedules--a fake one
and a real one. The phony one, for public records and show, includes short
labor hours, exercise periods, breaks and leisure activities. The actual
schedule consists of long labor hours with limited bathroom breaks. These
female practitioners are forced to work 12 to 17 hours each day.
- Heavy Labor:
Female Falun Dafa practitioners are assigned the most
arduous tasks, such as digging up tree roots, delivering coal, carrying sacks
of beans and building sewers. Practitioners are given more work than other
inmates. For example, digging up tree roots: three or four other inmates were
assigned one tree, but one Falun Dafa practitioner, alone, had to do the same
amount of work. In one case, while removing tree roots, four Falun Dafa
practitioners, including a 60-year-old woman and a weakened, thin woman, were
forced to carry the heaviest tree roots. It was midday and the sun was
scorching hot. With the heavy tree roots on their backs, the practitioners
laboriously kept moving. Regardless of how practitioners endure their heavy
loads, guards keep yelling, "Hurry up! Hurry up!" This horrible
situation is no different from the contents of slave movies we have seen in
the past. Additionally, guards commonly assign practitioners to carry bean
sacks as heavy as 60 kg up and down five flights of stairs. Even an emaciated
female schoolteacher was forced to do so. In one instance a guard forced a
sick practitioner to carry a heavy sack. Later that evening, the practitioner
became unconscious. Another practitioner spoke out on her behalf , but the
guards slapped her in the face.
- Second-Class Prisoners:
In this labor camp, Dafa practitioners are
subjected to all sorts of torture. The abuse is also perpetrated in subtler
ways. For instance, other inmates are allowed to bully Falun Dafa
practitioners at will. Elderly women practitioners are purposely humiliated.
One elderly woman practitioner had to wear the same pair of worn cotton shoes
throughout the year. In addition, she was not allowed to exchange daily
supplies with other practitioners when she needed to, nor was she allowed to
see her family. She was monitored even in the bathroom. When the guards needed
to use the toilet, she had to leave it immediately. Failing to do so meant
another round of verbal abuse. Furthermore, Falun Dafa practitioners are not
allowed to ask questions about their work assignments. They are vehemently
reprimanded if they do, but other inmates can speak freely and joke.
The above are only some of the crimes committed by the policemen in Heizuizi
Women Forced Labor Camp in Changchun City, Jilin province.
We appeal to the kindhearted people to help stop this brutal and inhuman
persecution of Falun Dafa practitioners in China.