Dafa Practitioners Held Indefinitely by Shibalihe Women's Labour Camp

Recently, the Shibalihe Women's Labour Camp, located in the urban area of Zhengzhou city, Henan province, prolonged the illegal detention of Falun Gong practitioners to further persecute them. While other non-practitioner detainees in the labour camp were widely praised or received reduced detention sentences for guarding or persecuting Falun Gong practitioners, the Falun Gong practitioners received extended terms of detention. The labour camp generally asks for one month extension of practitioners' terms from the Labour Education Bureau, but the latter usually gives at least three months extension or even longer. Many Falun Gong practitioners have had their terms extended from three to eight months simply because they refused to take part in exams aiming at attacking and defaming Dafa. There were many excuses for such extensions, for instance, the practitioners were found to have Dafa articles, or they refused to follow the labour camp rules, etc. In fact, there is no rule for such extensions at all; the labour camp simply did it at will using any random excuse.

In a brainwashing class the labour camp officials threatened, "Nobody will be released if you don't change your stance!" Su Er, who was originally illegally sentenced to 1.5 years of forced labour, has received continuous extensions totaling one year and eight months (according to the rules of the labour camp, the longest extension cannot exceed one year or half of the original term).

The Falun Gong practitioners are not allowed to go home even when they are "released" by the Shibalihe Women's Labour Camp. Instead, they are directly sent to local brainwashing classes, detention centres or sentenced to forced labour once again. This absolutely is a serious invasion of the human rights of citizens, and is a serious persecution against Falun Gong practitioners.

[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

Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2003/11/6/60141.html