Exposing The Persecution Against Dafa Practitioners Detained at Chongqing City's Xishanping and Maojiashan Forced Labour Camps

At the Xishanping and Maojiashan labour camps of the city of Chongqing, the guards brutally persecute practitioners that believe in the principles of "Truth, Compassion and Forbearance." As a result of the torture and beatings, some of the practitioners have been seriously hurt, become handicapped, or even killed.

After the practitioners have been kidnapped to the labour camps, the guards do not allow the practitioners to have pens or paper. It is very hard to contact their relatives, and they also deprive those determined practitioners of the right to appeal. At the Xishanping Labour Camp there was an incident that was known by a lot of people. One practitioner's jail term was completed, but the jail's police still did not want to release the practitioner. Therefore, that practitioner wrote an appeal letter, which also talked about how the jail's police used the sentence to extort money. After the head of the jail's police found out about the appeal letter, he was furious. He confiscated the appeal letter and punished a drug addict detainee who was assigned to monitor the practitioner.

If the police are doing nothing wrong, why would they deprive citizens of the right to follow the law to appeal and why do they punish people that get involved? According to the law, after practitioners finish their jail terms, their local police departments should send police to take them home. However, some local police departments have not sent anyone to take the practitioners back. Therefore, Labour Camps are arbitrarily keeping practitioners and not releasing them.

The objective of the forced labour camps is to "transform" practitioners, and they go to great lengths to try to accomplish this goal. First, they target practitioners with deception. To those practitioners that initially have written the so-called guarantee letters to disassociate with Falun Gong, but later declare the letters null and void, the jail's police use violence against them. For example, the "610 Office"[1] was not satisfied with the "transformation" results of the brainwashing class before the year 2001. Then at the end of 2001, the head of the central "610 Office" visited the Xipingsha Labour Camp and reprimanded the jail's police for their poor performance. After that, the camp was reinforced with more than ten additional police to severely punish ten determined practitioners. The labour camp then claimed that they had a high transformation rate and ranked among the top. Not long before, a practitioner who had made a statement against his own wish, later declared that this statement was null and void, in front of hundreds of people.

The determined practitioners were not allowed to see or receive anything from their relatives. The labour camp also formed a group to strictly monitor and brutally torture practitioners. In this special group, the amount of food practitioners could have was severely restricted. Moreover, the police did not allow the practitioners to sleep. They also handcuffed them to the top of the windows or applied arbitrarily physical punishment. Some practitioners were beaten up and became handicapped. In the Xishanping Labour Camp, a practitioner Chen Changjun was brutally persecuted and later needed crutches to help him walk out of the camp. The jail's police put a faeces-filled bucket on the neck of practitioner Li Zetao to persecute him. Sadly, he eventually died as a result of this treatment.

In the Maojiashan Labour Camp, there was a female practitioner who was handcuffed to the window and not allowed to sleep for a month. She was brutally beaten all over her body. Other practitioners had broken spines due to the persecution. In addition, Zhou Chengyu, Mo Shuijin, Long Gang, Peng Dongjun and several other female practitioners have been brutally tortured to death in this labour camp.

We are trying to collect information and evidence about the officials responsible for these crimes at the Xishanping Labour Camp such as Long Fuchang, Tan Xin, Liu Hua, Xiao Shunmin, Li Qiwei, Wang Cheng, Wang Jing, and Li Yong.

We should also bring charges against those officials at the Maojiashan Labour Camp such as Gao Ding, Diao Xiaolan (the head of the labour camp), Zhao Xiaoyun (the discipline section supervisor), and Luo Chuanmei (the person in charge of the brainwashing class).

[1] "610 Office" This 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.

Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2003/10/20/59146.html