"Horror Could Be Felt Everywhere" - Exposing the Cruelties in Masanjia Labour Camp

Practitioner Panjing describes her own painful experience:

"Toward the end of 2002 in Masanjia's Second Women's Camp, the police were forcing Falun Dafa practitioners to renounce their belief, while horror could be felt everywhere. The police carried handcuffs and ropes with them. The authorities were going wild. Because of my refusal to comply with their demands, police officer Zhang Lei, collaborator Jiang Lei and seven or eight others forced my legs into the lotus position and tied them up. They cuffed my hands together and tied them behind my chair for several hours. I managed to untie myself sometime later, but collaborator Zhang Huaizhi tied me up again, this time so tightly that I could not move at all. I suffered tremendous pain. When the rope was finally loosened, my ankles were full of large blisters and my hands were numb. Even in this condition, my tormentor still forced me to remain in a squatting position for over two weeks and would not let me sleep. My toes became deformed. I have been confined in an isolation cell for over four months now for reciting Teacher's lectures. The abusive police denied me any outdoor activity or showers and force me to eat highly salted vegetables and corn cakes--for a while they even fed me uncooked corn cakes. I loudly recited Teacher's words which caused guard Zhang Huan to direct two collaborators, [former practitioners of Falun Dafa who renounced their belief under high pressure and torture and now are used to persecute fellow practitioners] Sun Xuejuan and Ma Xiaoli, to handcuff me to the bed, stuff rags into my mouth, and seal it with adhesive tape. When I practised the exercises, a few collaborators handcuffed me to the bed for over three weeks, allowing me to use the toilet only four times a day. Ma Dongmei hit my face with a metal ladle for no reason. I spoke loudly to other individually confined practitioners to expose their vicious acts, and guard Zhang Huan led two others (one of them was Chen Hongwei) to cover me with tape, including my whole face, so that I couldn't see. I refused to eat any food in protest of the treatment I received. That worried the guards so they altered the punishment from hanging me in handcuffs to handcuffing me to a bed. This lasted for over three weeks. They only let me use the toilet once a day, sometimes once every day and a half. Regardless of how cruelly the guards acted, they were unable to change determined practitioner's rock-solid minds, because Falun Dafa practitioners cannot be broken."

Falun Dafa practitioner Hu Ying persisted in studying the teachings and doing the exercises, so the guards used handcuffs, rope and other instruments of torture to restrain her for two long years. During those years, she was also confined in an isolation cell five times. The guards persecuted her both mentally and physically. When she was in the forced conversion unit, Wang Xiaofeng used an electric baton to shock her mouth so that she could no longer open it; her right hand was shocked until it bled. They took off her shoes and socks to shock the centre of her foot. She still did not yield, so the police locked her in an isolation cell to intensify the persecution. Initially they denied her food and water. They let her freeze by periodically leaving the window open in the freezing cold of December. The police made frequent attempts to force Dafa practitioners to condemn their belief in December when it was freezing cold. On the shady east side of the fourth floor of Masanjia Camp, Huying froze for twenty days. When she was released, she was skin and bones. She could not move her hands freely because they were swollen and dark purple. Her shoes would not fit because both feet were so swollen, and her toes had festered. Both of her knees were swollen and red. Today the police are still persecuting her. They force her to sit on a small, cold, plastic pedestal each day. She cannot go to sleep until 1:30 in the morning and she has to get up and be sitting on the pedestal by 4:00 in the morning. There is always someone watching her. Even so, she cannot be forced to renounce her firm, righteous belief in Dafa.

On behalf of all the named Falun Dafa practitioners, we call on all the good people around the world to pay attention to, to support, and to save the practitioners who are being persecuted in Masanjia. These are the bloody and tearful protests from the practitioners who are still being persecuted.

Every day when we practise our morning exercises, there are always practitioners who shout, "Falun Dafa is good!" The collaborators who have renounced their belief in Falun Dafa would always beat practitioners harshly, confine them in small cells, deny them sleep, and stuff rags into their mouths. The labour that we are assigned to do is toxic. Some Dafa practitioners who have been there for a long time have developed health problems - vomiting, losing consciousness, and fainting while they are at work. The director, Su Jing, told the people who were affected by the poison, "You'll be fine if you adjust your mental attitude." What nonsense! What kind of adjustment is this! It is obvious that it is poison. Sometimes we work overtime until 10:00 pm and they don't care about our lives. To raise the conversion rate percentage [refers to the number of practitioners they can force to sign a written statement renouncing their belief] in order to obtain a monetary reward, the prison personnel behave irresponsibly and secretly direct the collaborators to persecute practitioners using severe cruelty.

Those sly police with deceptive smiles on their faces lie to the newly arrived practitioners saying, "You'll save your whole family if you renounce." But after seven or eight days, when they cannot make them sign the statements, the labour camp personnel reveal their true evil nature and begin the torture. If a practitioner does not submit to their demand to renounce Falun Dafa within three months, their camp stay is extended for an extra month.

At present, Dafa practitioners in Masanjia are in poor health due to the brutal persecution they are facing. When an inspector visits, the police hide the sick and those who cannot walk so the inspector will not see them.

I now stay on the first floor. This is the floor where the tortures take place. Observing the unwavering Dafa practitioners being persecuted until their last, weak breaths and until they are mentally unstable is horrifying to watch.

On the surface, Masanjia Forced Labour Camp appears to be civilized, when in truth it is actually a place that specializes in persecuting Dafa practitioners! Every year between October and December, the labour camp personnel gear up for a long fight. In the name of "social re-education," a large number of police are sent from other places. They are in fact a group of cruel oppressors who torment Dafa practitioners. The group punishes practitioners who do not submit to "transformation" by beating, punching, kicking, and hitting them in the face, denying them sleep, and tying their legs in the lotus position with rope. These are tactics used to torture Dafa practitioners in order to force them to give up their belief.

We are calling all the good people in the world to empathize with the oppressed Dafa practitioners in Masanjia. It is best to organize a special task force to do in-depth internal investigations to expose the evil and cruel things happening there. We'd like to apprehend Jiang Zemin's entire criminal group and make sure they are brought to justice for the crimes they have committed.

There are eighteen divisions for the three units of the Second Women's Camp in Masanjia:

First unit commander - Wang Xiaofeng
Division managers:

First division - Xue Feng
Second division - Shi Yu
Third division - Huang Haiyan
Fourth division - Cui Hong
Fifth division - Zhang Chunguang
Sixth division - Ren Hongzhan

Second unit commander - Zhang Xiurong
Division managers:

First division - Wang Xiaofeng
Second division - Zhang Zhuohui
Third division - Qi Fuying

Fourth division - Wang Xiuju
Fifth division - Wang Zhengli

Third unit commander - Li Yuming
Division managers:

First division - Zhao Jinghua
Second division - Zhang Lei
Third division - Dong Suxia
Fourth division - Zhang Huan
Fifth division - Guan Liying
Sixth division - Pei Feng

Direct subordinate unit:

(The direct subordinate unit is the most vicious unit.)

Independent unit commander - Lu Yueqin
Platoon commander - Wang Xueqiu

A former third unit commander who has been reassigned to a subordinate unit-Qiuping
On-duty commander, second unit - Dai Yuhong (very bad)
Broadcast room - Xiang Bofeng (specializes in broadcasting defamatory Falun Dafa articles)

"Teaching faculty":

Director-Fang Yehong
Specialists in converting practitioners-Zhao Yonghua, Yuan Shuzhen
Camp director - Su Jing (female),
Assistant directors - Wang Naimin (female), Zhao Laixi (male)

The so-called Psychological Recovery Centre on the fourth floor of the camp
is equipped with:
1. Two high-pressured static electricity meters, one of them with a range of 60 kV (a thousand volts).
2. Three muscle-electrode biofeedback meters
3. One high-quality computerized electric needle meter

The second floor is equipped with noise and light therapy equipment (it plays music that paralyzes human will power and hypnotizes).

The third floor is called the "Emotional Tuning Room." This small room is padded with sponges over ten centimeters thick. It lacks oxygen for the air cannot penetrate the sponges. This room is used to lock up those practitioners who shout positive messages about Falun Dafa. One can see the handprints, all over the sponges, of those who have struggled while being suffocated.

On the afternoon of March 18, 2004 at 1:15 pm, in the third unit of the camp, a Falun Dafa practitioner whose mouth was taped shut, hands handcuffed, and covered with a cotton jacket was dragged by the unit commander and two others for treatment.

A Falun Dafa practitioner named Li Hong, who was hung with hands handcuffed, was beaten for two days and nights. Some were beaten hanging upside down. This kind of brutality cannot be described in human terms. The direct subordinate unit (also called the industrious labour unit) is the most cruel. Beatings and forcing conversions are regular occurrences. It is in total darkness with absolutely no light.

Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2003/3/9/46104.html