Facts That Expose the Atrocities at Heilongjiang Province Women's Prison

The following exposes some of the atrocities against Dafa practitioners in the No. 8 Ward of Heilongjiang Province Women's Prison from the year 2002 to 2004.

Dafa practitioner Ms. Wang Xiulan, 69 years old, has been imprisoned in the women's prison since July 18, 2002. She was first put in the concentration training team, where several guards and prisoners stripped her naked, and made her squat 5 times for inspection and humiliation. On September 3, 2002, the authorities tried to force practitioners to be "reformed" (1) by making them write the Four Statements (similar to the "Three Statements" (2)). Since Wang refused to write the statements, the guards first slapped her on the face and then forced her to squat on the cement floor outside the workshop door for 24 hours. Later the guards tricked her into putting her fingerprint on the Four Statements, which they had written. The prison also implemented what they refer to as "five people implication," which stipulates that four criminal inmates should monitor each practitioner.

In August 2003, the No.8 Ward held a brainwashing class. They put all the practitioners who they thought would not easily be "reformed" into small cells Other practitioners were locked in rooms where they were beaten by the prisoners. Even when they were outside these rooms, they were beaten by prisoners. The guards used electric batons and other torture instruments to beat practitioners. One of Wang Xiulan's fingers broke and bled profusely and her mouth was swollen due to a vicious beating. At night, guards would tie up all the practitioners with their hands tied behind the back, and not release them until the next morning. When practitioners used the toilet, a prisoner would strip practitioners' pants and not allow the practitioners to wipe themselves afterwards. The practitioners suffered the discomfort of being dirty for as long as 7 days at a time.

The practitioners in the No.8 Ward witnessed how the practitioners from the No.3 Division were forced into the yard and were made to endure tortures in the freezing cold for 5-6 days. They requested the prison to end this torture of these practitioners. After their request was denied, they went on hunger strike for up to 18 days to protest. Because practitioner Liu Yuping shouted, "Falun Dafa is good," a piece of heavy steel board was locked onto her feet shackles to increase her suffering. The board even damaged the cement floor when she walked.

Practitioner Ms. Qu Jie, 60 years old, was from Hegang. In the first half of 2004, the guards did not allow her to meet with her daughter when she came to visit. Then in July, they confiscated her and her cellmates' shopping cards, not allowing them to buy food and other daily consumables. Qu Jie, who suffered high blood pressure and could not bear the torture, died in the bathroom in July 2004.

Notes:

(1) "Reformed" refers to a practitioner having publicly renounced Falun Dafa.

(2) "Three Statements": Practitioners are coerced under brainwashing and torture to write "Repentance Statement," "Guarantee Statement" or 'Dissociation Statement" as proof that they have given up their belief. In the statement, the practitioner is forced to admit remorse for practising Falun Gong, promise to give up Falun Gong, and never again associate with other practitioners or go to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong.

Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2005/1/17/93658.html