Experiences of Enslavement, Abuse and Torture in Xinhua Forced Labour Camp

Several fellow practitioners and I were kidnapped and sent to the Xinhua Forced Labour Camp located in Mianyang City. Because we refused to recite slogans that slandered Dafa, Zhao Yongming and Wu Zhengjun, guards from the Entry Division, forced us to stand in the "army corps" posture [Practitioners are exposed under the scorching sun with their bare feet standing on the hot ground; the skin on their faces peels off from sunburn] during lunch break, and did not give us any water to drink. In the evening, when we would get up to practise the exercises, the guards instigated other inmates to hold down our hands and feet. When we recited Teacher's Hong Yin [poems] together out loud, the guards covered our mouths. Failing to make us renounce our faith, a couple of days later they sent us to the 4th Division to do heavy physical labour.

The 4th Division was assigned to produce bricks. It operates three kilns with an annual production of more than one hundred million batches of bricks. The slavedriver guard Wu Hao from the 4th Division forced us to work for at least 13 to 14 hours a day, even on national holidays and weekends. Only for important, traditional holidays such as the Chinese Spring Festival were we allowed to rest for a half-day or an entire day, depending upon the team leader's mood.

At the forced labour camp, the guards did whatever they wanted. Dafa practitioners were forced to do all kinds of heavy and enslaving labour. The guards assigned other inmates to follow and monitor Dafa practitioners' every move. Some of these inmates would be rewarded with reduced prison terms for a special service. Those inmates were called "package clamps." Usually it amounted to "three clamping one," but there were also occasions where "four clamping one" or "five clamping one" would be applied, and it meant that several "package clamps" monitored one Dafa practitioner. They accompanied practitioners when eating, sleeping, working, and doing other activities, even when using the toilet and taking showers. In March of 2002, under the ruse of "taking immunisation pills," the guards instructed the "package clamps" to forcefully hold down practitioners' hands and feet, then pry open practitioners' mouths and pour the pills down their throats. We also experienced forcible injections of medication while the "package clamps" held down our hands and feet, and being dragged away by the "package clamps" to watch TV programmes that slandered Teacher and Dafa.

A three-month period in summer of 2002 was the peak time when these debased guards tried all means to forcibly brainwash Dafa practitioners. Practitioners in the Entry Division were allowed only two hours of sleep each day, no shower, and the number of times practitioners could use the toilet was also limited. Practitioners were either forced to attend military training, or to stand like the "army corps." The police also forced us to continuously run, squat, or stand on one leg for a very long time. At night, we were forced to stand in the "army corps" posture until three o'clock in the morning. We were allowed only two hours of sleep, and were forced to stand in "army corps" posture again at 5:00 a.m. Such high-pressure abuse and mistreatment caused great mental and physical damage to every practitioner. Guards in the 4th Division forced practitioners to do heavy slave labour every day, and also forced practitioners to do military training during work breaks. I witnessed one practitioner being beaten and kicked by policemen Peng Yun, Yu Xingtai, and Tan Wei because he refused to do the slave labour. They slammed the practitioner on the floor, tied him up with rope and shocked him with electric batons. Yu Xingtai hit the practitioner in the nose, causing him a terrible nosebleed. Led by chief director Jia Mingwan and deputy director Zhao Zeyou, a team of police including Yu Xincai, from Administrative Section, and Wang Kejing (female), from the Education Section held a so-called "criticism meeting" after they forced some practitioners to give in to the evildoers. During the meeting, they forced the transformed practitioners to read their statements about giving up practising and criticising Dafa. When a practitioner refused to cooperate, wicked police from the security team would immediately surround him, push him down to the ground, tie him with a rope, and shock him with electric batons.

Phone number of Administrative Section: 86- 816 -- 2280410

Phone number of 5th Division: 86- 816 -- 2830117

Phone number of 1st Division: 86- 816 - 283008

List of evil police: Zhang Bolin, Qiu Tianming, Tian Ping, He Wei, Wu Dong, Zhou Lijun

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