Brainwashing, Illegal Detention and Imprisonment, Inside the Labour Camps, Individual Accounts, 6-10 Office

  • Shibalihe Women's Forced Labour Camp in Henan Province Imprisons and Persecutes Falun Dafa Practitioners

    Since early June of 2007, the Shibalihe Women's Forced Labour Camp in Henan Province has imprisoned Falun Gong practitioners who refused to give up their beliefs. The practitioners were closely watched during mealtimes. Some were forced to hand copy ten sheets of writings required by policewoman Jia Meili, or they locked in confinement 24 hours a day and not allowed to even receive food. They were also not allowed to sleep until midnight or 2 a.m.
  • College Junior Zhang Kai Sentenced to Three-Year Prison Term

    In late April 2007, police arrested 21-year-old student, Mr. Zhang Kai, a Falun Dafa practitioner, and sentenced him to three years in prison simply because of an article on the Internet. We are unaware of any law that defines Internet articles that students are not permitted to publish. Police had earlier arrested Mr. Zhang's mother and sent her to a forced labour camp after a plainclothes agent reported her for distributing leaflets exposing the persecution. The details of her persecution soon appeared on the Internet. The police found a computer while they were at Mr. Zhang's home. Because the computer belonged to Mr. Zhang, they went to the University of International Trade in Qingdao City and arrested him.
  • Exposing the Zhongba Women's Forced Labour Camp's Cruel "Transformation" Methods in Guizhou Province

    I am a practitioner from Guizhou Province. During the eight years of persecution at the hands of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) I have been arrested and detained many times. When I was in the Zhongba Women's Forced Labour Camp, I was beaten to the point of being being severely injured and was black and blue all over my body. The perpetrators exploited my under-aged son to "transform" me. My son attempted suicide three times under such agony.
  • Practitioner Chen Xiaodong From Anhui Province Arrested Again Two Years After Serving a Five-Year Prison Term

    On June 12th, 2007, Hong Yang (male), a Fuyang City public security officer, arrested practitioner Mr. Chen Xiaodong, from Fuyang City, Anhui Province. Mr. Chen is detained in the Taihe County Detention Centre. "To undergo more severe persecution," sources said, "his case has been turned over to Taihe Prosecutor's Office." In 2000, Mr. Chen was sentenced to five years of imprisonment because of his steadfast belief in Falun Dafa. It has been only two years since he served his five-year prison term. His mother and grandmother could not endure the blow of his imprisonment, and they passed away one after the other.
  • The Crimes Committed in the Harbin Women's Forced Labour Camp

    In 2002, I was sentenced and detained in the Harbin Women's Forced Labour Camp of Heilongjiang Province. At the end of November 2002, the guards first shocked the practitioners with electric batons, which left them with blue and purple bruises on their bodies. They then started to punch and kick the practitioners. Many practitioners could not even stand up after the beating. The guards shut some practitioners into dark confinement rooms. The practitioners were only allowed to wear their underwear, and they were barefoot, with their hands tied behind their backs and crouched on the floor. Their entire face, including their mouths and eyes, were covered with yellow tape, exposing only the nose.
  • Police in Weifang City, Shandong Province Arrest Ms. Dai Zongzhen and Her Daughter; Their Family is Once Again Being Persecuted

    On April 18th, 2007, more than 20 plainclothes police officers went to a kindergarten run by practitioner Ms. Dai Zongzhen and took Ms. Dai by force, throwing her into a minibus. Ms. Dai shouted for help at the top of her lungs. The police officer in charge said viciously, "Stuff her underneath the seat." Then the police ransacked the kindergarten and took electronic equipment, Falun Dafa books and about 8,000 yuan in cash. Ms. Dai was held at the Weifang City Detention Centre. The police threatened to "bury her alive." Three days later she was transferred to an unknown location. Now, her whereabouts are still unknown.
  • Falun Gong Practitioner Mr. Zhang Weijie from Wuhan City, Hubei Province Recounts the Persecution He and His Family Members Have Suffered

    I was on my way to work early in the morning on March 21st, 2007, when several cars pulled up. Eight people jumped out, pinned me to the ground and punched and kicked me. Finally, they handcuffed me and put me in a car. I asked them, "Who are you?" One of them said, "I'll tell you when we get there." He never did. They tried to wrap my head in some clothes but failed because of my struggling. In the following month they tried to coerce me to "reform." Some read Falun Gong books to me out loud and deliberately twisted the teachings in an attempt to confuse me; some talked about various religions, some showed me official documents in an effort to prove the persecution of Falun Gong is based on the law, and some threatened to sentence me to a prison term from between five years and 20 years if I did not give up my belief.
  • Practitioners Zhang Hongying, Zhang Jiashuang, and Lu Tao from Miyi County, Sichuan Province Sentenced to Prison for Handing Out Informational Materials about Falun Gong

    On Sunday, June 17th, 2007, the Miyi County Court held a trial to prosecute practitioners Ms. Lu Tao, Ms. Zhang Hongying, and Ms. Zhang Jiashuang. The court didn't notify the families about the trial. The judge asked the practitioners if the charges read were true. Ms. Lu said that she distributed the leaflets exposing the persecution in order to dispel the state propaganda attacking the practice. Ms. Zhang said, "The truth about Falun Gong is to inspire people to develop kind hearts. It is not about guns or nuclear weapons." The judge didn't know what to say. Later the court secretly sentenced them to sentences of up to five years imprisonment.
  • Persecution of Falun Gong Practitioners at Qiqihar Forced Labour Camp in Heilongjiang Province

    I was arrested by officers from my local police station in the end of 2004 and was sent to the Qiqihar Forced Labour Camp. The practitioners who refused to be "transformed" were all forced to do the dirtiest and heaviest work. The labour camp forced me to package pesticide in the agricultural chemical factory. The strong pesticide smell in the air made it hard to breathe and caused my abdomen to swell. The work the labour camp assigned to us was hard to finish. Guards arbitrarily increased our workload and they inspected the practitioners' work very strictly. The labour camp also forced us to work in the corn-processing factory which caused our hands to become swollen. If we stopped to rest for a while, the officials yelled at us.
  • Falun Gong Practitioner Ms. Liu Gairong from Hebei Province Relates the Persecution She Experienced

    On September 9th, 1999, three practitioners and I went to Beijing to appeal for justice for Falun Gong. Since then I have been tortured on several occasions including with electric batons and force-feeding. The persecution that I suffered led to a loss of several hundred thousand yuan. The police arrested me numerous times, broke my door lock and tore up my clothes. My son was deeply traumatised. As a result, my son could not go to school and suspended his schooling for one year. My daughter was terrified many times. At present, she trembles when she encounters even insignificant incidents.
  • Police at Shengli Oil Field in Shandong Province Persecute Middle School Student in Brainwashing Centre to Locate and Arrest Her Father

    In order to locate Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Yue Guomin, who had left his home in order to avoid being persecuted by the authorities, police officer Dong Ning from the Binhai Police Station at Shengli Oil Field, in Shandong Province, arrested Mr. Yue's daughter, Yue Qun, a student from the No. 1 Middle School in Shengli Oil Field. The police took her to Jishu Company Brainwashing Centre, where she was persecuted for five days. The police coerced Yue Qun into divulging the whereabouts of her father.
  • I Have Been Persecuted for Seven Years, Ever Since I Returned to My Homeland in China

    In August 2002,police arrested me for distributing leaflets about the persecution of Falun Gong. I was sent to the local detention centre in Liaoning Province. I went on a hunger strike to protest the persecution and asked to be released with a not-guilty verdict. Several inmates held my head still while Doctor Qian Dapeng repeatedly force-fed me by sticking a tube through my nose. I almost suffocated. My throat and the tissue inside my nose was injured and bleeding. The pain was unbearable. Both sides of my face were pinched so hard by the inmates that it was extremely tender and the pain lasted almost two months. During my hunger strike I was taken to the district's public security bureau and interrogated. As soon as Sun Lizhong saw me, he said, "Lu Jianhua, I'm going to shoot you to death today." I ignored him.
  • Older Falun Gong Practitioner in Jimo City, Shandong Province Arrested

    on June 16th, 2007, police and several local officials climbed into the fenced yard of Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Zhang Xiuying's house. Ms. Zhang Xiuying stayed in the house with her door closed. When she asked what they were doing there, Dong Quanqi said, "Somebody reported that you had distributed flyers." The police kicked the door but failed to get in, and then called Chen Yucheng, the director of the Lingshan Police Station. Chen ordered them to smash down the door. They beat the old lady to the ground and dragged her to a police vehicle. Ms. Zhang kept shouting "Falun Dafa is good!" and was exposing the atrocity being perpetrated by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) regime. Later, the authorities searched Zhang's house and confiscated property, making a huge mess in her home. The kitchen range was destroyed and the windows were broken.
  • Sham Trial in Jilin City, Jilin Province Illustrates Lack of Justice for Falun Dafa Practitioners in China

    On July 10th, judge Hu Chunwei of the Chuanying District Court in Jilin City, Jilin Province, put five practitioners on trial. Under pressure, the lawyer employed by Ms. Wang Liqiu's family could not enter a plea of innocence; he had to defend Ms. Wang according to the orders of the court authorities. During the so-called court session, Ms. Zhao Yingjie pointed out that after she was arrested, the police officers pierced her lower body with sticks covered in nails. She showed the wounds on her legs as evidence. Mr. Zhao Guoxing brought to court as evidence his clothes soaked with blood and stained with mustard oil, which he vomited when he was being force-fed. The evidence that was preserved for 4 months under arduous conditions was snatched away by the police.
  • Ms. Cao Lijiao Sentenced to Forced Labour and Mr. Luo Xiangjiang's Term Extended in Xiangtan City, Hunan Province

    Kan Guilian (in her fifties) and Li Tiejun (in her sixties) were arrested by police on April 26th, 2007 while they were informing people about the persecution of Falun Gong, dispelling the state propaganda attacking the practice and urging them to withdraw from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Li Tiejun has now returned home. Cao Lijiao has since been sentenced to forced labour by agents from the city's 610 Office. At present, Cao Lijiao is imprisoned at the Baimalong Women's Labour Camp in Zhuzhou City.