With Righteous Thoughts and Righteous Actions Dafa Practitioners Resist Persecution in the First Forced Labour Camp of Guangzhou Province

I have been illegally detained in the vicious First Forced Labour Camp in Guangzhou Province for validating Dafa. During my incarceration, I experienced the evil persecution and witnessed many touching stories of steadfast Dafa practitioners who have let go of the attachment to life and death to assist Teacher in validating the Fa.

1. Dafa Practitioner Shan Jincheng Resisted Persecution and Clarified the Truth in Prison

Shan Jincheng, a former practise site assistant in Baiyun District, Guangzhou City, has gone to Beijing numerous times to validate Dafa. He was seized and sent back to Guangzhou where he received a one year sentence to the First Forced Labour Camp in Guangzhou (From March 2000 to April 2001). At the beginning he was placed in the Second Military Unit, which specialises in persecuting Falun Gong. Because of his steadfastness in Dafa he was transferred to The Third Military Unit where he experienced continued persecution. During his imprisonment, he made use of every opportunity to tell the truth and to spread Dafa to people around him. He has thus improved his cultivation environment.

His demeanour had convinced everyone around him that "Falun Dafa is good, Zhen (Truth) Shan (Compassion) Ren (Forbearance) is good, innocent Falun Dafa practitioners are unfairly persecuted by Jiang's political group. Dafa practitioners are good people." Some prisoners even said: "After release from prison, I will practise Falun Gong."

After his additional terms were up in the forced labour camp, his work unit, Yancheng Railroad Company, conspired with the Forced labour Camp to send him to Shenzun to continue their persecution. He was illegally detained in Shenzun and his whereabouts are unknown.

2. Challenging a Propaganda Photo Exhibition

In April of 2001, vicious people had organised a picture exhibition to smear Dafa. A Dafa practitioner stepped forward to tell the truth: "Dafa is innocent! Our Teacher is innocent!". He also spoke up loudly, "Falun Dafa is good!". At the same time, Shan Jincheng and a few practitioners used different methods to clarify the truth to the people there. The result of a few practitioners validating Dafa was very good. The picture exhibition closed after two days. The organisers took revenge on the practitioner who initially came forth, hanging the Dafa practitioner onto a basketball backboard for two days.

3. "Dafa Is Indestructible"

Li Zhousheng, Zhang Wenxue and four other practitioners who had gone astray have sent their solemn declarations to the Forced Labour Camp. The "Three letters [letter of guarantee, written statement of repentance, and letter of rupture] that they provided have been declared void. The prison guards relentlessly persecuted Li Zhoushen. One morning in December 2002, Dafa practitioners were summoned to court and made to listen to one of the presiding judges of the Huadu District Court House read out a so called "judicial explanation" from the highest supreme court and the highest procurator. Li Zhousheng was the first one to stand up to resist the evil, loudly announcing: "We firmly believe in Master, firmly believe in Dafa, and firmly resist evil." The enforcement officers immediately gripped his neck and covered his month. At the same time, a few steadfast Dafa practitioners came forth to suffocate evil together. At that time, Dafa practitioner Zhang Mengye was also present. Despite being held down by a policemen. He loudly clarified the truth of Dafa and exposed the head of evil for his persecution of Falun Gong. At last a few men overcame him and took him away. The scene of Dafa practitioners' righteous thoughts and actions was extremely spectacular. At the end the policemen did not achieve their goal and the presiding judge left sheepishly.

Zhang Wenxue is a native of Heilongjiang Province in North East China. He has his own business in the Zhuhai district of Guangzhou. He was detained in Guangzhou while doing Dafa work. At one time, the police threatened to send him to the northwest of China. We do not know of his whereabouts or if he is safe.

4. Holding Public Group practise

In the Mid August of 2001, He Jianhong, Lu Haiyun (the former Fan Yu County practise site assistant) and a few Dafa practitioners, in order to validate Dafa, openly practised the exercise in the exercise yard of the Second Military Unit [this unit specialising in persecuting Falun Gong]. This movement has shaken the entire Forced labour camp and the local "610 Office" [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]. It was said that the head of "610 Office" was deeply perturbed.

5. Zhang Mengye was Brutally Persecuted and Tortured

Zhang Mengye was an expert in his field at the engineering faculty of Qinghua University. He was a classmate of China's current Chairman Hu Jintao at Qinghua University and was formerly a professor at Guangdong Electrical College. In March of 2002, he was illegally sentenced to two years in the First Forced Labour Camp in Guangzhou by the Public Security Bureau of Guangzhou City. While he was detained, Zhang Mengye demanded his unconditional release and went on three hunger strikes. When he was released on February 10, 2002, Zhang Mengye had already been tortured to skin and bones and only weighed 80 lbs. After returning home, Zhang Mengye could not withstand the harassment and persecution, left his house and became homeless. Zhang Mengye has published articles on the Minghui website [a Falun Dafa website] about his experiences of persecution in the Forced Labour Camp. After these two articles were published, the "610 Office" of Guangdong Province put a lot of effort and manpower to search for him. On May 18, 2002, Zhang Mengye and his wife were forcibly kidnapped to Huangpu Brainwashing class. Zhang Mengye experienced all kinds of different inhuman torture, such as being force to drink dirty water used to wash wash the floor, having his head forcibly stuck into the toilet bowl, not being allowed to sleep for long periods of time, and many other horrible tortures. People from the "610 Office" and the police have viciously tortured him and broke his leg.

6. Epilogue

Dafa practitioners' righteous thoughts and actions in the vicious dark den of the Number One Forced Labour Camp, have effectively frightened the evil. We hope that practitioners can expose the vicious deeds committed here.

Partial List of Persecutors in Guangzhou First Forced Labour camp:

The Director of Guangzhou First Labour Camp, Secretary of Communist Committee: Zhang Yudong Cell Phone Number: 86-139-02391641

The Deputy Secretary of Communist Committee: Wu X

Education Department: Chen X (Female)

Deputy Forced Labour Camp Director (The former Number Nine Unit Education Instructor, has personally persecuted Dafa practitioner Zhong Yinghang. He was promoted to Deputy Director for relentlessly persecuting Dafa practitioners)

The Third Military Unit: Fax X Cell Phone number: 86-13902394919

The Third Military Unit: Zhang X

The Former The Third Military Unit Captain: Zhou Jianxiong (he is presently transferred to the Second Military Unit which specialising to persecute Falun Gong) Cell phone Number: 86-139-22355552

Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2003/6/8/51883.html