Ms. Zhang Xiaojing, MD, Brutally Treated at Forced Labour Camps in Gansu Province

Ms. Zhang Xiaojing, 47 years old, was a doctor at the faculty hospital of Tongdianlan Factory in Baiyin, Gansu Province. In August 1996, she began to practise Falun Dafa and benefited from it both mentally and physically. In 1999, when Jiang Zemin's [former leader of China and instigator of the persecution] regime began to persecute Falun Gong, she was dismissed by her work unit for practising it. She was sent to a forced labour camp twice and was detained several times. Her home was ransacked and she had money extorted from her. Ms. Zhang was nearly persecuted to death and her family has been torn apart.

From mid-June until December 2000, Dr. Zhang went to Beijing twice to appeal for Falun Gong. Because of that, she suffered three years of inhuman persecution in places such as Qinghe Detention Centre in a Beijing suburb, Lingyuan Detention Centre in Liaoning Province, Gansu Province Forced Labour Camp, and Pingantai Women's Forced Labour Camp in Gansu Province.

1. Unjust Detention for Appelaing for Falun Dafa in Beijing

In the middle of June of 2000, Zhang Xiaojing went to Beijing to appeal for Dafa in Tiananmen Square. She was detained at Qinghe Detention Centre in a Beijing suburb. Two days later, in the middle of the night, she was secretly transferred to a newly-built detention centre in Tianjin City. Later on she was sent to Baiyin City Detention Centre for 56 days. She had three thousand yuan extorted from her.

Near the end of December 2000, she went to Beijing to appeal again. She was detained at Lingyuan City Detention Centre in Liaoning Province for two months and was then transferred to a local detention centre, where she was detained for one month. She had nearly five thousand yuan¹ extorted from her.

2. Dr. Zhang Was Sent to Gansu Forced Labour Camp, Breaking up Her Family

On March 15th, 2001, Zhang Xiaojing was sentenced to one year of forced labour and was sent to Gansu Province Forced Labour Camp. Six months later, her husband believed the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) lies and was under all kinds of pressure from different directions. He could not endure it any more and asked for a divorce. The CCP had broken up her once happy and peaceful family.

When Dr. Zhang was first sent to the forced labour camp, she was forced to memorise the prison rules. She was made to stand for a long time and to watch fabricated TV programmes slandering Falun Gong. The guards forced her and other practitioners to do work counting chopsticks, whitening Baihe, cleaning cement bags, peeling soy beans, etc. The guards mistreated the practitioners with extended work hours.

The practitioners countered the persecution and shouted, "Falun Dafa is good!" The guards handcuffed all of them for two weeks or longer. Some practitioners' handcuffs penetrated into their skin and their bones were exposed. It was unbearable to see. The guards and others were used to it.

In April 2002, Ms. Zhang was released after her sentence was extended by a month.

3. Dr. Zhang Xiaojing Was Sentenced to Forced Labour for a Second Time

Three months after Dr. Zhang was released in the middle of July, she was reported and detained for over a month and then sentenced to two years of forced labour. She was sent to Pingan Women's Forced Labour Camp.

In the forced labour camp, she suffered countless acts of torture. In order to "transform²" the practitioners, the guards used electric batons and hung practitioners in various positions. The guards told some drug addict inmates to viciously torture them. They verbally abused practitioners using filthy language and tongue-lashings and brutally tortured them both physically and mentally.

The guards hung practitioners on the door frame using a rope that tied their hands behind their the backs. They stuffed smelly socks into the practitioners' mouths and tortured them like this for over four hours at a time.

Once, the guards forced practitioners to peel soy beans from 6 a.m. until after 10 p.m. The guards then complained that they had not finished the job after such a long day.

Once when they were peeling rouhuhu in the yard, Zhang Xiaojing saw a practitioner running away from the labour camp, unable to endure the abuse. Three days later, that practitioner was arrested and sent back to the camp. It was said that the police brutally beat that practitioner. Dr. Zhang saw that several people carried that practitioner out with his arms hanging limp. After returning to the cell, the practitioner was beaten again. The next day, he died with wounds all over his body.

The guards would not allow practitioners to use the toilet, even when working in the fields or when they were menstruating. Later, this forced labour camp was moved to Gansu Province Women's Forced Labour Camp. On the surface, it looked like a garden with nice facilities. However, inside the forced labour camp, it was terrifying and filled with murderous intentions. The guards often ordered practitioners to have physical checkups and to undergo lab tests and electrocardiograms. People realised why these tests were ordered after seeing the news of organ harvesting for profit.

After suffering three years of forced labour, Dr. Zhang was released. Looking back and thinking about those practitioners who had their organs harvested and those still being persecuted, we hope that all practitioners who have been persecuted can expose the atrocities and stop this persecution. All detained practitioners must be released!

Note

1. "Yuan" is the Chinese currency; 500 yuan is equal to the average monthly income of an urban worker in China.

2. "Reform or Transform" Implementation of brainwashing and torture in order to force a practitioner to renounce Falun Gong. (Variations: "reform", "transform", "reformed", "reforming", "transformed", "transforming", and "transformation")

Chinese version available at http://minghui.org/mh/articles/2007/11/30/167411.html