Masanjia Labour Camp, also known as Masanjiazi Reform Centre, is located in Liaoning Province. Since October 1999, based on incomplete statistics, about 2,500 Falun Gong practitioners have been illegally sent to this labour camp, although they had committed no crimes.
There were about 30 male practitioners detained at Masanjia. In the beginning, they were kept together with the real criminal offenders, until one year later when they were segregated. Since they are very determined in Dafa cultivation, they suffered tremendous tortures, and are still being detained to this date.
From July 2000 to June 2001, this labour camp has released about 1,400 - 1,500 Dafa practitioners. Now there are still about 800 - 900 practitioners inside.
Determined practitioners remain incarcerated. The wardens there are very ruthless and they can casually prolong anyone's sentence by several months or half a year.
There is another major evil crime prevalent in Masanjia Labour Camp: It's called "Sealed education." The labour camp staff is directed to block all channels that may expose the truth to the outside world, and they put up a false appearance to deceive all visitors. In May of this year, the World Human Rights Organization sent a group to investigate the issue of Falun Gong practitioners detained inside Masanjia; however, what they saw there was a facade pre-arranged by the labour camp staff.
The authorities keep practitioners under constant surveillance and control their daily activities. Practitioners who have already been released from the labour camp, or are serving their sentences outside the labour camp, still have to report to the government periodically.
The practitioners in Masanjia Labour Camp are forced to do heavy work every day. The crafts made with their painstaking efforts are exported overseas in exchange for money. However, the money is grabbed by the greedy camp wardens, while the practitioners are only given preserved vegetables, corn-pancakes, and rice porridge made with just water and a bit of rice for their breakfast all year long. The sanitary conditions are also very poor; the practitioners are often poisoned by the substandard food and living conditions.
As of now, the wardens are still persecuting Dafa practitioner brutally. In the 2nd Female Section, they do not allow those determined Falun Dafa practitioners to sleep, and force them to squat until 2 to 3 o'clock in the morning every day. This kind of torture is very ruthless.
We strongly request that Masanjia Labour Camp release all Dafa practitioners immediately. We appeal to all countries in the world! Condemn these crimes against mankind committed in the Masanjia Labour Camp!
Phone # for Masanjia Labour Camp: 86-135-0499-1680 (The director's name is
Sun Fengwu.)
The 2nd Female Section: 86-024-8921-0567 (The director's name is Su Jing)
Source: http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2001/9/29/14240.html
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