Shizishan Labour Camp for Drug Addicts in Hubei Province Stages TV Shows to Deceive the Public

One afternoon in May of 2001, a show was staged by the second section (where female Falun Gong practitioners were detained) of the Shizishan Labour Camp for Drug Addicts in Hubei Province. In a scene in a bedroom, Liu Shengli, who had given up her belief in Dafa under duress, was sitting on the edge of a bed, while a Dafa practitioner Deng Taoying was sitting on a small bench. Liu put on an act talking with Deng Taoying as if she was concerned about her. Then the cameraman came and recorded the scene. At the same time, in the telephone room, Yan Ting, who had also been forced to give up her belief in Dafa, was sitting by a telephone, and pretending to talk to her mother in Shandong Province. This scene was also videotaped by the cameraman. After editing and dubbing, the videotapes were made into a special TV news programme to show how Shizishan Labour Camp "cares, educates, helps and saves" Falun Gong practitioners. The trick successfully deceived the unwary, including some family members of Falun Gong practitioners who accepted the show as real.

Before the show was staged, in order not to have people know about it, the cadres drove all Dafa practitioners out of their bedrooms. In fact, all Dafa practitioners knew very well that the show was staged, and the drug addicts in the labour camp also said that such shows are very common in the labour camp. Afterwards Yan Ting admitted that she hadn't talked to her mother at all. She also said that she had been forced by cadres in the labour camp to do it and the only purpose was to make a TV programme. Before this event, the cadres in the labour camp had forced Liu Shengli and Yan Ting to do the so called "transformation" work. The two of them were uneasy, especially Yan Ting who often complained grudgingly: "It is so annoying! They always want us to do the "transformation" work, but we are not cut out for that." At the time there were more than 100 Falun Gong practitioners being held in the second section of the labour camp alone, all of whom were very firm in their belief in Dafa. Only Liu Shengli and Yan Ting were "transformed," and Yan Ting's transformation was not even genuine. Regardless of the tactics used, the labour camp failed to shake practitioners' faith in Dafa. In the end, on June 15 (the day of the Dragon Boat Festival), the police had to send the 40 unwavering Dafa practitioners to the evil Shayang Labour Camp, Hubei Province for further persecution.

The persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in the Shizishan Labour Camp for Drug Addicts was cruel and intense. Each Falun Gong practitioner was closely supervised 24 hours a day by at least two personal cangues (1) chosen from the drug addicts. All newly arrived Dafa practitioners would be stripped naked upon their arrival by the drug addicts and body searched for Dafa articles. The cadres instigated drug addicts to insult and cruelly beat Dafa practitioners with promises of reductions to their sentences. One Dafa practitioner, Guo Yanqiu from Xishui County, was cruelly beaten by the police and the criminals simply because she refused to take drugs when she had a little cough. One day, late at night, Guo Yanqiu was heard to let out a horrible shriek as she was viciously beaten and her left eye was seriously injured. Next day, her face was terribly swollen and deformed, and covered with bruises, and her left eye almost closed. Despite this, she was still forced to do the military drills. Another Dafa practitioner, Hu Jianzhen from Macheng City, was tortured with forced feeding even when she was in critical conditions after she went on a huger strike to protest the persecution. The labour camp police also forced Dafa practitioners to do intensive slave labour. For quite a long period the Dafa practitioners were forced to get up very early in the morning and stay up labouring deep into the night. When their superiors came to inspect the labour camp, they immediately suspended all the slave labour and even got rid of all worktables. Once the superiors left, they resumed the slave labour. The Falun Gong practitioners were forbidden to sleep, to speak to each other; otherwise they would be punished with prolonged standing against the wall or even cruel beatings. All the clothing and food that the family members of Dafa practitioners sent them were taken away by the criminal drug addicts.

Those of you who are still unclear about the reality of the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners, please open your eyes and not be deceived by the lies and propaganda on China's TV.

(1) "Personal cangues" (There were "open cangues" and "secret cangues") [Note: cangue, the name of an instrument of torture, is now used to indicate the person who is designated to supervise the behavior of practitioners.]

Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2004/6/13/76978.html