Revealing the Torture of Dafa Practitioner's at the Masanjia Forced Labor Camp II

A Chinese Falun Gong practitioners’ experience in Masanjia Labour Camp

The reality of the bloody persecution towards Falun Dafa practitioners at the hands of guards in the Masanjia Forced Labour Camp in Shenyang City, Liaoning Province is in stark contrast to the lies broadcast on the television [Media were invited to Masanjia and given a ‘tour’. Chinese officials deny that Falun Gong practitioners are being treated inhumanely in Masanjia].

We hereby expose to the world the tortures that Dafa practitioners had endured during their illegal detention, because of their firm belief in "Truthfulness, Compassion and Tolerance." Due to the news blackout, the truth of what went on in that camp has been completely blocked. Very few people know about the viciousness of the guards at the Masanjia Forced Labour Camp.

Practitioners Lin Yan from Huanggu District, Shengyang City and Liu Fengmei from JinZhou City were physically abused and shocked with electric batons, together with her. The lawless police forced her to stand up for 4 or 5 days. After that they started to use electric batons to shock her. Everyday practitioners were forced to stand from 6:30 a.m. until 6:30 p.m. or to keep squatting for 18 hours without moving. Then the three were shocked, one by one, with electric batons. Other practitioners were forced to sit on a wooden stool from 6:30 am until 12:30 a.m. At that time, there were over 70 people in the team. Prison police officer Zhou Qian was the team leader. Wang Yanping, the division chief, Gu Quanyi, the political Instructor, Zhou Qin and Su Jing were the camp directors. They were the police officers that directly participated in persecuting practitioner Cui Yaning and many other practitioners.
Practitioner Liu Fengmei, about 30 years-old, from Jinzhou City, Liaoning Province, was illegally put into Masanjia Forced Labour Camp in November 1999. As she practised the exercises, staged a hunger strike and recited Teacher Li's articles, the vicious policemen often beat her, shocked her with an electric baton, physically abused her, forced her to stand in a snow field and to sit in the snow field while being electrically shocked. In November 1999, she was on a hunger strike over 20 days to protest the persecution. Once she was locked up and brutally beaten in a small room with the windows covered with newspaper. Hearing the screaming there, practitioners in our cell staged a hunger strike to request the release of the beaten practitioner. After a while director Su Jing dragged her out of the small room. She was thin and extremely weak. After undergoing a physical examination, her blood pressure was only 20mmHg [normal is 65 to 85mmHg]. Her bed was the upper berth. She could not even manage to get onto her bed and fainted in her attempt. Afterwards, she was still beaten up, even when she was force-fed and was receiving an intravenous infusion. Then she was transferred to the "extensive labour" brainwashing sub-unit.
In June 2000, she was brutally tortured again. In order to achieve the "brainwashed rate" quota, the vicious officials in the Masanjia Forced Labour Camp made her and some other practitioners their "examples." Initially they physically abused them by forcing them to stand 18 hours everyday. Later they shocked them with an electric baton for a long time. The skin on her neck was black from being electrically shocked and blisters appeared on both her neck and hands. On the second day, the police shocked her with two high-voltage electric batons. They stripped off her clothes, tied her two legs together and shocked her for a very long time. The skin on her neck was burnt darker, and large area of blisters appeared all over her neck. She had big blisters on her hands as well. It took a long time for the blisters to disappear.
When we asked her whether she was in pain she shook her head, her eyes full of tears. After she was electrically shocked she was confined in solitary compartment. Several days later when she came out, she had turned into an extremely thin state. When she was forced to work, she did not know how to do the work distributed to her by the team leader and thus could not finish, the team leader also abused her everyday. As her family was poor, she would not spend even one cent more than absolutely necessary. Because she worked slightly slower, the head of the common criminals often abused her. Her situation now is unknown. The vicious police who had electrically shocked her were Zhang X [middle name unknown] Rong (team leader), Wang Haimin (division chief), Zhou Qian (team leader), Wang Yanping (division chief), Gu Quanyi (political instructor). Director Zhou Qin and Su Jing supported and approved this criminal activity against the practitioner.

There are still many practitioners in the Masanjia Forced Labour Camp who firmly believe in Falun Dafa. Some of them had walked out of the labour camp openly and dignifiedly, and some have not yet done so. Among them are school principals, university lecturers, lawyers, university students, college students, those that are illiterate, entrepreneurs with assets of millions of Yuan and owners of factories. One of the incarcerated practitioners is a hairdresser who spent tens of thousands of Yuan to build a public bridge over a nearby river after she studied Falun Gong. In order to appeal against the persecution, they all came together and have spent two full years in Masanjia. Everyday, they eat bread made of maize (corn flour) with plain vegetable soup, enduring humiliation to their human dignity, physical tortures, mental abuses and the emotional pains of being separated from their families. But they firmly believe in the truth of universe, "Truth, Compassion and Tolerance," from the beginning to the end. […] No force, no menace could change their hearts.

The Masanjia Forced Labour Camp is a living hell. We practitioners illegally detained there were forced to work over 16 hours everyday. Sometimes we had to work 18 or 19 hours, and once, even up to 36 hours in a row. That was from March 7 to 12, 2000, when we were forced to make some products for export. That batch of products was waiting to be shipped overseas right away because the customer needed them in a hurry. The director ordered us to work overtime. So from 6:30 a.m. on March 11 to 4 p.m. on March 12, we worked nearly 36 hours and were not given a meal for overtime, but were still served bread made of maize. On the contrary, at noon on March 12, they did not even distribute meals to those practitioners who had not finished their work. As the schedule was tight, they did not deliver meals and we did not have time to go for a meal, either. The team leaders often shocked practitioners with electric batons who did not finish their work and otherwise abused them. Those who renounced Falun Gong only worked half of the day and "studied" [materials that slandered Falun Gong] half of the day. They did not have a fixed workload.

Practitioners who firmly believe in "Truth, Compassion and Tolerance" were forced to endure long overtime work loads in the extensive labour brainwashing sub-unit and also the mental pains of not being allowed to be visited by their families. What's more, they had to endure the 24 hours "closely monitoring" everyday. Some common criminals were specially assigned to watch practitioners, meaning we were watched all the time, whenever we were having meals, sleeping or going to the bathroom. Practitioners were not allowed to talk with each other, write anything or spread "Truth, Compassion and Tolerance." If any common criminals did not work hard in monitoring to achieve what the authorities required, the vicious team leaders would extend the common criminals' detention term. Therefore, the common criminals monitored us very tightly, and the atmosphere was both horrible and depressing.

I was the one who came out from this labour camp. Many of my neighbours and acquaintances asked me about the situation there; whether I was beaten, electrically shocked or tortured, and whether there were female practitioners being thrown into male cells, which was exposed in our Dafa truth-clarifying flyers. To these questions, let me give some comments. Any practitioner who firmly practices Dafa and "Truth, Compassion and Tolerance" would have suffered a lot in the labour camp. This is definitely true. As long as we practised the exercise, studied the Fa or refused to write the "three statements," to promise to give up Falun Dafa, we would be tortured and given a lot of mental pressure. I was in the first group of practitioners illegally sent into the labour camp, and that was on October 29, 1999. I was beaten up, electrically shocked, confined in a solitary compartment, and physically tortured. We had no rights to speak of. The vicious team leader forced us to give up the belief in "Truth, Compassion and Tolerance," otherwise he would torture us. As long as I went on a hunger strike, these vicious police forced me to sit on a chair and step my foot on two electric batons. Two persons sat on my two legs to push down. They would not stop shocking me unless I would agree to write the "guarantee" to give up my belief in Falun Dafa. When I was beaten and shocked with electric batons because I practised the exercises, the vicious police would drag me to an empty cell first and keep beating and electrically shocking me and would not let any one know. But even after we practitioners were beaten and shocked, we had no place to speak out. If I told the director and division chief, they would say, "You deserve it. Why did you practise the Falun Dafa exercises?" When I told them I would invite a lawyer to sue them of violating the law, they laughed at me, "Who saw you being beaten and electrically shocked? Where is the violation of the law? Power is the law!"

I spent two years in that labour camp. Some vicious policemen wanted to be promoted by persecuting Falun Gong and get an "award." Some wanted to get an increased bonus with the higher "brainwashed rate." The team leaders also intrigued against each other. They applied all kinds of means to force practitioners to write the "three statements" to give up Falun Dafa in order to show their "contribution" in the persecution. They did not casually tell other guards, team leaders or directors and labour camp head what methods they had used to torture practitioners. The higher-level officials claimed that secret orders were issued by top government entities to persecute practitioners, which had been forwarded to all the lower level authorities. Whatever contemptible methods the vicious guards used, as long as practitioners gave up their beliefs or wrote the "three statements," the higher authorities would reward the officers for their contribution. Though I did not witness the tragedy of the 18 female practitioners thrown into male criminal cells to be abused at will, I am absolutely certain that some guards at Masanjia were capable of doing it.
In present-day history, Dafa is enduring injustices that never happened before. […]

Source: http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2001/12/6/16559.html