(Clearwisdom.net) Guards at Masanjia Forced Labor Camp in Shenyang City of Liaoning Province routinely persecute and torture detained Falun Gong practitioners, and force them to manufacture all kinds of goods for factories and companies. The guards have also cheated factories and companies by substituting specified components with those of a poorer quality.
Below are some first hand details of recent persecution experienced by Falun Gong practitioners at the labor camp:
Case 1 (Physical Torture)
In July 2010, guards used torture devices on many practitioners to compel them to sign guarantee statements. For example, the guards used electric batons to administer electric shocks to practitioners, some for more than ten minutes. Two days later, they would hang the practitioner up in the air using handcuffs, lifting the practitioners' feet off the floor. The next day, they continued to compel practitioners to perform forced labor. Some practitioners remained handcuffed and were slapped with a fly catcher stick.
On July 27, 2010 practitioners Fang Xiaohui, Liang Yu, Chang Baohua, Li Shumei, and Gao Deying were physically assaulted by guards because they refused to sign the inspection evaluation form. On July 28, Li Chunhnog was also similarly persecuted by female guards Zhang Jun and Zhang Zouhui because she refused to sign the form.
Case 2 (Mental Torture)
(1) Forced to sing communist party songs before dinner. If practitioners did not sing the songs, they would not receive dinner.
(2) Forced to recite the thirty prison rules. If practitioners did not so so, they were physically assaulted.
(3) If the prison guards were not in a good mood, the practitioners were not allowed to go to the washroom.
Case 3 (Financial and Everyday Life Persecution)
The toiletries and food here were sold at high prices to make excessive profits. For example, the market price of sausages is four yuan, but they were sold for ten yuan in the labor camp. Instant noodles (with meat) are usually sold for four yuan outside, but in the labor camp, they are sold for eight yuan. The market price of ice-cream is about one yuan, but it is sold for one-and-a-half yuan in the labor camp.
The usual meals in the canteen of the forced labor camp are as follows: pieces of cucumber cooked in water, cauliflower with some salt and oil, and vegetable soup with worms floating on the surface. The corn noodles and bread is sour, smelly, hard, and difficult to digest. Under such circumstances, practitioners frequently had to go hungry and bear hunger pangs.
The reason the forced labor camp provided meals of such a poor quality was to compel practitioners to buy the high priced food items sold elsewhere in the forced labor camp in order to increase their profits.
Case 4 (Forced Labor)
Practitioners were compelled to perform at least thirteen hours of heavy duty labor every day, without any days off. The practitioners endure all kinds of torture along with the heavy labor. Practitioners who were aged, weak, or those who had fallen ill or hurt themselves were still forced to work.
In the past, the detainees made paper flowers that were used at funerals. They made little profit from these items. Recently they forced the healthier practitioners to make counterfeit brands of car mats for high class sedans. They also used cheap buckwheat husks to substitute for the chinese cassia tora seeds to cheat the factories, companies, and consumers.
Labor camp guards who participated in the persecution:
Zhang Huan: No. 3 division head, infamously known as Zhaozhe in the reformatory, police ID# 2108455
Zhan Jun: in his 50s, former No. 3 division head, was vicious in his physical assaults. He was usually the main participant in assaults against prisoners, police ID# 2108050.
Zhang Zuohui: the current warden, police ID# 2108469
Persons who assisted in the persecution:
Zhang Lei (team four, police ID# 2108456), Wang Guanyun (Team Three), Huang Haiyan, Dai Xuemei (team two), Wang Xueqiu (team one), Zhu Haijie (in charge of production)
No. 3 division on-duty phone: 86-24-89295020
Wang Naimin, head of Women's Camp in Masanjia: 86-24-89295001
