My Experience in Changchun City's Chaoyanggou Forced Labour Camp

[Changchun City, Jilin Province]

I am a Falun Dafa practitioner from Siping City. On December 24, 2001, the last term of my detention, practitioners detained in the Liaoyuan, Tonghua, and Baishan Districts were transferred to Changchun City's Chaoyanggou Forced Labour Camp. After entering the labour camp we were searched three times. Some of our bedding quilts were torn apart. After we were put into cells, the head of the cell, a criminal inmate and other criminals forced us to hold the position called "riding an airplane" (In this torture, the head is bent down until it cannot go down any further, while the hands are pulled up and held up to the highest point. The hips have to point up.) They forced me to only wear pants and beat my buttocks with a bed board, which made me scream in pain. I could hear screaming upstairs and downstairs. They stuffed my mouth with socks, as they feared my shouting. They beat, kicked, and abused me while forcing me to write the "repentance statement." My left ear was beaten so severely that my hearing was impaired. They said, "You knew you would be dead when you entered the cell. We just torture you. There is an order from the higher authorities that you can be beaten to your last breath and then revived. Your death will be like nothing happened. Our Chaoyanggou Labour Camp authority has a good relationship with the funeral home. It costs nothing for cremation. Furthermore, there are dogs behind the building."

In this labour camp, criminals are ordered to monitor practitioners around the clock. The wardens said, "After the New Year's Day, all the practitioners from Heilongjiang Province, Jilin Province and Liaoning Province will be transferred here. The labour camp will be a base for persecuting Falun Gong. The new building is being set up out back."

Source: http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2002/1/12/17600.html