Inhuman Abuses of Practitioners at Chongqing City Brainwashing Centres

As directed by Jiang's regime, the Chongqing City "610 Office"[1] conducts continual mental abuse of Falun Dafa practitioners.

During the past several years, many innocent Dafa practitioners were detained in the Geleshan Re-education Centre and the Jingkou Re-education Centre, thus being illegally deprived of their basic freedom. Each practitioner is imprisoned separately in a small cell and monitored by two people around the clock. The cells are extremely small and the doors are locked. The police guards forbid practitioners to study the Fa [the teachings of Falun Dafa] or practise the exercises; they also try to force practitioners to read articles slandering Dafa or watch TV programmes that slander Dafa. When practitioners held hunger strikes to protest the abuses, guards would tie their hands and feet, or send the practitioners to mental institutions for force-feeding. The "teachers" (the authorities at the Centre) squandered the money confiscated from Dafa practitioners on vacations, fine dining and gambling.

Practitioner Liu Zhaoshu was illegally sentenced to one-year in a forced labour camp, and was detained in Geleshan Re-education Centre after her one-year term. She suffered cruel mental abuse there for more than two years and is still being held. She was told she will never be released unless she writes the "Three Statements."[2] Liu's parents-in-law are both paralysed and her child is very young. Since she was illegally detained and her husband had to do extra work to support the family, no one could take care of her dependent family members, which caused extreme difficulties for her family.

We recently learned that there are two or three practitioners detained at the Jingkou Xianfeng Street Re-education Centre and about ten practitioners detained at the Geleshan Re-education Centre. Recently the Geleshan Centre intensified its persecution against practitioner Zhao Juanjuan by providing insufficient food, saying they would allow her to only barely survive as long as she does not cooperate.

[1] 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.

[2] The "Three Statements" (also called guarantee or repentance statements) are documents coerced under extreme pressure, torture and brainwashing, designed by Chinese authorities to ensure that detained Falun Gong practitioners be appropriately brainwashed. The statements consist of a letter of repentance, a guarantee to never again practise Falun Gong, and a list containing names and addresses of all family, friends and acquaintances of the detainee who practises Falun Gong. This system was concocted by the "610 Office."

Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2003/5/19/50661.html