Women Dafa Practitioners Tortured to Disability in No. 8 Women's Labour Camp,Guizhou Province

In order to fulfill the so-called "Transformation Quota," the No. 8 Women's Labour Camp in Guizhou Province not only abuses the practitioners who firmly cultivate Falun Dafa, but also arbitrarily and illegally extends the terms of their forced labour "reeducation." Ms. Wu Mingju, an English teacher at the school in Guiyang Special Steel Limited Corp., has been illegally detained for three years. Her term should have ended by July 11 of this year. However, the police have illegally extended the term for another four months beyond that, which has left her young son without his mother's care for a long time now.

Ms. Duan Tianpei, a Falun Dafa practitioner in Guiyang, Guizhou province, was illegally sentenced to three years' forced labour education in the No. 8 Labour Camp because she once went to a police station to tell them the facts about Falun Dafa. After she was released, in order to resist the vicious policemen's persecution, she became destitute and homeless in order to avoid being unlawfully arrested at her home. In May 2003, she went back home to take care of her 90-year-old mother and her daughter. Her home was then broken into by the police and she was illegally abducted and directly sent to the No. 8 Labour Camp.

In order to fill the "Transformation Quota" 100%, both the men's centre and the women's centre of the No. 8 Labour Camp in Guizhou province formed "assault groups" which specifically terrorize Falun Dafa practitioners. The members of these groups are for the most part made up of drug users, prostitutes, etc. Under the police's instigation, and in order to decrease their own terms, these hired thugs used extremely indecent and impudent means to persecute Falun Gong practitioners. The private parts of female Falun Dafa practitioners, including Xu Xueying, were lacerated by the hired persecutors and made to bleed and fester.

Falun Dafa practitioners Mr. Gong Xueshun, 60, once walked to Beijing in order to appeal against the injustice of the persecution. He was illegally sentenced to three years' forced labour education in the No. 8 Labour Camp. The police sent him to the "assault group," made him stand for days on end as punishment, and only gave him a little bit of food. They terrorized him for a total of 18 days. In a half-conscious state, the police had him write the so-called "I will not practise [Falun Gong]" guarantee statement. However, as soon as he became clear-headed, he immediately announced that the written guarantee statement was null and void.

Ms. Zhang Juying, age 50, is a Falun Dafa practitioner in Guiyang. She was a worker in the Guiyang Electrical Factory. In 2001, she was illegally and directly abducted from her workplace and sent to the No.8 Labour Camp for three years' of forced labour "reeducation." When she entered the Camp, she firmly resisted all persecution from the police. She did not attend all the activities assigned by the police and went on hunger strikes to protest the persecution many times. She has become the focal point of the police's persecution. Now, she is only skin and bones. Her father saw this and then died, heartbroken.

Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Zhan Yi'an, age 56, is a retired doctor in the Guiyang Medical School. In August 2002, she went back to Shanghai to visit her family. When she clarified the truth, she was unlawfully arrested by the Shanghai police and directly sent under the escort of the Guiyang police to the No. 8 Labour Camp. She has gone on hunger strikes to resist the persecution. Now, she has already resisted for almost a year. She is now in a state of paralysis. Her life is in danger as she is only kept alive by receiving daily intravenous injections.

Ms. Zhou Guangfen, 57, was in Shibanpo, Guiyang. Now she has been detained in the No. 8 Labour Camp for a year. Because she firmly believes in "Truthfulness, Compassion, Tolerance," she has been persecuted and left crippled. All of her muscles have atrophied. Also, her family cannot visit her.

In the end, no matter how the malicious police torture and use vicious means to persecute Falun Dafa practitioners who believe in "Truthfulness, Compassion, Tolerance, " they fail. Now 98% of those who were forced to compromise against their will in the No. 8 Labour Camp or the brainwashing class have already published solemn declarations [saying that they will continue practising Falun Dafa] on Clearwisdom.net. The facts reveal that the so-called "transformation" efforts of the lawless persons in Guizhou on Falun Dafa practitioners have completely failed.

Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.cc/mh/articles/2003/8/31/56560.html