I Was Disabled by Torture at the Masanjia Forced Labour Camp

I began practising Falun Gong in 1997. Since then, my diseases have all disappeared and my character has improved.

In September 1999, not too long after the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) launched the persecution, I went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong. Afterward, I was taken into custody by the Beijing police, and brought back to the Yi County Detention Centre by the director of Security Team in Nanguan Village. I was detained for three days, and before I was released, 1,500 yuan¹ was extorted from my family.

In September, 2001, I was taken into custody by officers from the Yi County Police Department and sent to the Masanjia Forced Labour Camp for two years. During that period, I was never allowed to sleep on a bed.

While in the labour camp, I requested to practise the exercises. As a result, Wang Naimin, the director of the No. 1 Division, strapped me to a chair for about 10 days. Later, I was tied to some hooks that kept my arms outstretched for two months.

A new building was built, and, on every floor of that building there was a corner room with no windows. I was detained in such a room for eight months.

At the end of 2002, the so-called "helping and education team" came to the labour camp and schemed to "transform²" steadfast practitioners. In reality, they were there to cruelly torture practitioners. This time, my hands were hung up with my feet dangling below me. I was hung up for five days, then locked onto the heating pump in the hallway for about a month. This way I had to remain standing and could not fall asleep.

At the end of 2003, the "helping and education team" returned. This time my legs were bound with ropes, my hands were tied behind my back and my neck and legs were tied with ropes for about eight months. As a result, I could not walk.

All of my current physical problems are due to the brutal persecution by the authorities of the Yi County Police Department, the Political and Judiciary Committee, the 610 Office³, and especially the Masanjia Forced Labour Camp.

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")

3. "The 610 office" is an agency specifically created to persecute Falun Gong, with absolute power over each level of administration in the Party and all other political and judiciary systems.

Chinese version available at http://minghui.org/mh/articles/2008/1/28/171266.html