Shanghai City "Law Education School:" An Isolated Prison Used to Torture and Brainwash Falun Gong Practitioners

Although Shanghai City Law Education School is called "law education," all the means and tactics used there are unconstitutional and shameful. In actuality, it is a place used specifically to brainwash Falun Gong practitioners. So far, hundreds of Shanghai Falun Gong practitioners have been arbitrarily sent to this place for brainwashing in a completely isolated fashion.

1. Shanghai City Law Education School is essentially a "completely isolated brainwashing centre"

Shanghai City Law Education School was originally a sanatorium for police officers from the Shanghai Judicial Bureau. It is located at 7936 Waiqingsong Road, below the She Mountain in Qingpu District. The sanatorium underwent a change just prior to the 2001 Spring Festival, under orders from the Shanghai "610 Office," [1] the Judicial Bureau and the Political and Judiciary Committee. The sanatorium was converted into a place that is used specifically for detention and brainwashing of Falun Gong practitioners. Publicly, its name was changed to Shanghai City Law Education School. Presently, hundreds of Falun Gong practitioners who refuse to give up their faith have been sent to this place. The practitioners' ages range from seventeen-year-old students to the elderly and they are put there for brainwashing in a completely isolated fashion.

Each brainwashing class in this Law Education School usually lasts two to three months. Those Falun Gong practitioners who do not give up their faith will be detained indefinitely or sent directly to labour camps. Almost every class had practitioners who were directly sent to labour camps. Usually, each class is made up of 30-50 practitioners. A "military-style" management is enforced in the centre.

Holding each of the so-called "Law Education School classes" costs a large amount of money. The money came from two sources; some of it is directly from local and central government revenue, which is the people's tax money, and some comes from the employers of the practitioners. The employers are forced to pay the money.

2. Some persecution cases that have occurred in Shanghai Law Education School

The following are examples of Falun Gong practitioners who have been persecuted in the "school" and their brief personal information.

Mr. Lin Mingli was born in Shanghai in 1957. In January 2001 he was abducted and taken to the first session at the brainwashing center. Since he firmly refused to participate in the evil brainwashing and refused to be "reformed," his detention was extended by three more months. On April 23, the secret police arrested him again and sent him to a forced labour camp.

His wife still did not know what crimes he had been charged with after his almost one year stay in the labour camp since the police had never shown her any legal documents. It was already March 2002 when his wife received a photocopy of the so-called "Forced Labour Notice." The crime he was charged with was "disrupting the social order." His sentence: two years in a forced labour camp. He was detained in the Shanghai No. 3 Forced Labour Camp, where Lin staged a hunger strike to protest the kidnapping and the sentencing. He was force-fed. His oesophagus was ruptured from the force-feeding and he could not eat anything. With the help and appeals from the international community, Lin was released on March 26, 2003.

Ms. Luo Dan, 17 years old, is a student of a Polytechnic school. Both her father, Luo Wei and her mother, Chi Bo were employees of a petroleum company. After going to Beijing to appeal for Falun Dafa, Luo Wei (the father) was sentenced to one and a half years of forced labor. When Luo Dan (the daughter) composed an article in her school, she wrote down that Falun Dafa was framed, which shocked the local educational system in Shanghai. People from the Xujiahui Police Department arrested Luo Wei, Luo Dan. Mr. Luo Wei were later sent to forced labour camps, while seventeen-year-old Luo Dan was sent to the brainwashing centre.

3. The contact information of Shanghai Law Education School and a partial list of its staff members

Listed below are some of the persons who work in the facility to brainwash Falun Gong practitioners, the address, and other contact information. This information is provided and used to track down the prison's crimes and expose these crimes to the international community.

Shanghai City Law Education School address, 7936 Waiqingsong Road, Shanghai, zip code 201700

The school phone number, 86-21-69207773 ext.1310

Dong Naiqian, male, in his 60s, a Shanghai "610 Office" leading person stationed in the brainwashing center

Political Commissar, whose last name is Zhao, female, in her 60s

Chen Yingying, in 50s, a key staff member

Brainwashing assistants: Lu Ping (female, in her 30s), Yin Xinnian (female), Zhou Yun (female), Cui Shifeng (female), Xue Xinghuo (male), Wang Fanglue (male)

Dong Naiqian, a Shanghai "610 Office" leading person stationed in the brainwashing centre, has repeatedly slandered Dafa. He even clamoured, "I am just evil. I am living very well. You can do nothing to me." He wants to shake the faith of those detained practitioners who have not understood Falun Dafa very well.

Xue Xinghuo, Yin Xinnian, Wang Fanglue and others have deprived these Falun Gong practitioners of their freedom. They detain the Falun Gong practitioners in small rooms for a long time. They mentally torment the practitioners in a completely isolated fashion, which includes putting each practitioner in a single room and prohibiting the practitioner from having any contact with others. They force the practitioners to repeatedly watch the videos and materials that slander Dafa and its founder. They keep harassing them , exhausting them, both physically and mentally. They create a horrible environment and constantly threaten the practitioners with being sentenced to forced labour, savage tortures, misfortunes for their family members, their job, and other mental coercion. They have subjected these practitioners to huge psychological pressures.

The information mentioned above comes from various sources. Because of the severe information blockade in China, it was almost impossible for this report to be error-free or have no omissions. If you find that any part of the information is inaccurate, please correct it or add to it.

[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/2004/2/24/68377.html