Two Hundred Falun Dafa Practitioners Still Illegally Imprisoned in Shandong No. 2 Forced Labour Camp

Two hundred male Falun Dafa practitioners are still imprisoned in Shandong No. 2 Forced Labour Camp located in Zibo City, Shandong Province. The torture methods used there are ruthless. Dafa practitioners who dare to say "Falun Dafa is great!" are tortured with electric batons, deprived of sleep, hung up by their handcuffs, beaten with iron and wooden tools, stripped and exposed to the cold, or scratched, imprisoned in solitary confinement, forced to stand for extended periods, denied use of the toilet, given extensions to their prison terms, etc. Young and old, practitioners are ruthlessly persecuted mentally, physically, and financially.

In the autumn of 2003, around ten imprisoned practitioners persisted in doing the Falun Gong exercises. The labour camp officials would not tolerate this. The Department of Justice ordered the formation of a so-called "assaulting fortitude group" and deployed "spring thunder action." They imprisoned Dafa practitioners in a room on the first floor where they cruelly persecuted them for two months.

Just a few days after his father passed away, Dafa practitioner Yang Shaofan was sentenced and imprisoned in Shandong No. 2 Labour Camp. His mother, an older woman who had never travelled far from home, missed her son and went to a lot of effort traveling a great distance to go to the labour camp with some of his clothes. Her health was not good, and since she had just lost her husband, the pain of her son's absence was very hard on her. She was so anxious to see her son, but when she arrived at the labour camp, they shut her out, claiming, "Your son has not been "transformed." (1) You may not visit each other! This is an order from our supervisors." She fell to the ground with a broken heart and wept . Nobody could walk by without sympathizing with her. More and more people gathered to watch. Knowing that they were in the wrong, the labour camp had no choice but to let her visit her son.

This incident was not forgotten by the labour camp and brought shame to the officials. Seeking revenge, director Han (who still serves in this position) went into the arena himself and tortured Yang Shaofan continuously. Initially he deprived Yang of sleep for one month, allowing him no more than an hour's sleep per day. At the same time, he constantly cursed at Mr. Yang and beat him every day. Mr. Yang was so sleepy that he could barely walk. Director Han and guard Wang used two electric batons to shock Yang Shaofan on his head and the soles of his feet. Finally, they stripped off Yang's pants and shocked his penis. Yang cried out in great pain, dripping with sweat and tears during this horrific torture.

Dafa practitioner Zhao Kegui is fifty years old this year. Because he wrote "Falun Dafa is great," the guards handcuffed him between the upper and lower bunk. They handcuffed one of his hands on the upper bunk and the other hand on the lower bunk so that he could neither stand nor sit. He was tortured for the whole night like this and his legs became so painful and numb that he could barely stand. The next day, guard Sun Fengjun, who lives in Zhangqiu City, violently pounded on Zhao's head with a one-foot board. A big cluster of Zhao's hair fell out. The skin on his head was broken and the flesh was exposed. Blood ran down his face. When his family was informed, his daughter in college was frightened for her father, and cried helplessly.

The labour camp guards also tortured practitioners by scratching them violently. They hung the practitioner on iron bars with their hands pulled out in opposite directions and feet pulled down diagonally. They stripped the practitioner to expose his chest and lower body. Then four or five guards began simultaneously using both hands to wantonly scratch the practitioner on the legs, under the arm, in the crotch area, between the legs, on the lower abdomen, and on the bottom of the feet. They scratched fiercely, back and forth, again and again. The practitioner's chest and abdomen twitched uncontrollably. The practitioner would become out of breath and be covered in sweat. His arms handcuffed to the iron bar were pulled with so much force that the handcuff cut into the flesh, causing excruciating pain. This torture would go on for several hours. Some victims became incontinent and it took a long time for them to recover both mentally and physically. Guard Captain Jing Jisheng and his several attendants often use this torture method.

One 62-year-old practitioner suffered from high blood pressure. The guards made him stand with his face against the wall for over three months. The old man was steadfast and refused to be "transformed." Eventually his calves and ankles suffered severe edema. The skin was shiny where it bulged out, and it would break with the slightest hit. Even though they persecuted practitioners like this, the guards still could not force them to renounce their belief.

All the practitioners suffered ruthless persecution. Guards forced them to work overtime from 5:00 a.m. until after midnight, sometimes even until 2:00 a.m. Though they worked more than eighteen hours a day, the workload was increased rather than reduced.

Guard Sun Junfeng yelled barbarically in the conference, "Jiang Zemin stepped off the stage, so what? Hu Jintao is even crueller." Vice president Xin Xiuzhong said in a conference attended by hundreds of people: "Listen to me, and I won't attack you. Don't listen to me, and I will attack you." They also used criminal prisoners and drug offenders to monitor and torture Dafa practitioners. In 2004, the officials invited guards from other prisons to visit their labour camp in order to teach them their methods of persecuting Dafa practitioners.

Note:

(1) "Reform or Transform" Implementation of brainwashing and torture in order to force a practitioner to renounce Falun Gong. (Variations: "reform", "transform", "reformed", "reforming", "transformed", "transforming", and "transformation")

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