Guards at Majialong Forced Labour Camp Torture Elderly Dafa Practitioner Ms Tian Jinzhi to Near Death

On January 30, 2002, when Falun Dafa practitioner Ms Tian Jinzhi, over 50 years old, from Jiujiang County, Jiangxi Province clarified the facts about Falun Gong in Ruichang City, police from the Ruichang "610 Office" abducted her and interrogated her for forty-eight hours. During this time, they did not allow her to eat, drink, or use the toilet. On February 2, 2002, they held Ms. Tian in the Detention Centre. After five months, they sent her to Majialong Forced Labour Camp. At these two places, Ms. Tian suffered from all kinds of tortures: merciless beatings, electric shock, forced bending from the waist, and prolonged standing with the front of her body pressed against a wall.

Because Ms. Tian persisted in her belief in Truthfulness, Compassion, and Tolerance, in September she was imprisoned in the Gongjian Room, a special room used to torture and "transform" Dafa practitioners who are steadfast in their belief. Two drug addicts took turns supervising and torturing her for days. They did not allow her to sleep or to use the toilet. Drug addicts also continuously berated her with vulgar insults. Finally, disoriented from the abuse, Ms. Tian submitted to the pressure and signed her name to the "Guarantee Statement" to renounce her belief. When Ms. Tian regained her composure, she collapsed in despair and declared, "I am not transformed! I am not transformed!"

In the forced labour camp, when guards forced her to listen to propaganda slandering Teacher Li and Falun Dafa, Ms. Tian became distressed and exclaimed, "It's not like that. It's not! My Teacher did not say that." For that, she was beaten. Later, they tortured Ms. Tian to a state of extreme weakness. She could not eat, sleep, or eliminate well. She was pale and had a constant cough.

The guards blocked information about Ms. Tian's condition from being released to her family. The police tied her up, forced her to take drugs, and gave her injections that did not bring about any improvement. Ms. Tian appeared to be dying. The police feared that she would die in prison, so on August 20, 2004, they directed her family to take her home.

The guards at the Majialong Forced Labour Camp have tortured many Dafa practitioners besides Ms. Tian to near death. They've used the drug-addicted inmates to abuse practitioners. Any prisoner who "transformed" a practitioner would have their sentence reduced by one month. They have persecuted all Dafa practitioners in Majialong Forced Labour Camp. We hope that Falun Dafa practitioners in Jiujiang City will research and post their addresses and telephone numbers in order to expose their crimes.

Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.ca/mh/articles/2004/9/30/85439.html