Patients are "Purchased" and Enslaved for Profit at Gaoyang Forced Labour Camp

Gaoyang Forced Labour Camp enslaves Falun Dafa practitioners and others serving terms as patients in the forced labour camp in order to make more profit. Practitioners are also tortured there.

Policeman Li Xuejun, who is in his 30s, was a supervisor at the camp. He persecuted Falun Gong with much enthusiasm, and was therefore promoted to division head. For his own financial benefit, he resorted to all means to persecute Falun Dafa practitioners. As division head, he profited by frequently "buying" patients who were scheduled for release, or whose terms were cancelled due to illness, to enslave them and count them as additional labourers.

The first group of nineteen included four Falun Gong practitioners. The second group of forty also included four Falun Gong practitioners. All of them were patients that did not meet the physical requirements to work in the forced labour camp. Those responsible for buying and picking up the patients include Shi Jiangxia and Li Yanji, among others.

After these patients were bought back to the labour camp, the guards did not allow them to see a doctor or ask their relatives to send money. The patients were only given a little medicine, or if they did not have money, not even that. If they were able to do light work, they were forced to work in the carpet factory managed by the forced labour camp. Whether they could work or not, the prison gained by counting them as labourers. Many of the patients had infectious diseases such as syphilis and hepatitis.

As a rule, highly infectious patients were never allowed to go downstairs or stand close to guards in the labour camp. They had to stay three meters away from the guards when they talked to them. The labour camp officials required all of the infectious patients to stay with Falun Gong practitioners. Infectious patients were in every ward occupied by Falun Gong practitioners.

On around July 20th 2005, when supervisors were scheduled to inspect the forced labour camp, Gaoyang Forced Labour Camp officials hid their criminal activity by transforming the prison into a seemingly comfortable place, with sofas and flowers in the lobby, clean. white sheets on the beds, and no disabled or paralysed patients to be seen - they were all transferred to a big manure pit several hundred metres away

Division head Yang Zemin called all the Falun Gong practitioners and inmates together and threatened them so that they would cooperate when the supervisor came for the inspection. They were required to lie and say that the labour camp staff treated them very well. Practitioners who cooperated were told they would not suffer further efforts to "transform"¹them.

Yet that same day, the prison guards secretly dragged two practitioners very far away, where the ostriches are fed. One of the practitioners was brutally force-fed by labour camp medical staff Bai Helin and others. Another practitioner, Li Cuiping, was tortured by guards Chang Junliang and Fang Bao with a high voltage electric baton.

Such tragedies occur in Gaoyang Forced Labour Camp every day.

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")

Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2005/10/7/111859.html