Exposing the Persecution of Falun Dafa Practitioners in Guangdong Province

Sihui Prison is the main prison in Guangdong Province where male Falun Gong practitioners are held. Right now, dozens of practitioners are being detained there. Also, more than twenty Dafa practitioners are being held at the Yangjiang Prison in Guangdong Province.

The No. 3 Prison in Guangdong Province is also called the Meizhou Prison, and holds practitioners as well.

Practitioners are illegally held at the Beijiang Prison in Shaoguan.

On March 21st, 2003, an article on the Minghui website (Chinese version of Clearwisdom.net) reported that some practitioners from Tsinghua University had been sentenced to prison and were held at the Shaoguan Prison in Guangdong Province. It is thought that male practitioners are held at Beijiang Prison, and female practitioners are held at the former Shaoguan Women's Prison. On August 13th, 2005, articles exposing the crimes at the Beijiang Prison in Guangdong Province were published on the Minghui website.

It is unknown how many female practitioners from Guangdong Province are held at the Guangzhou Women's Prison. This prison was originally located in Shaoguan and was moved to Guangzhou City a few years ago.

The Sanshui Forced Labour Camp in Guangdong Province is where male practitioners from Guangdong Province (except Guangzhou City and Shenzhen City) are incarcerated. Currently, more than 60 practitioners are held there, and it has been said that there used to be more than 200 practitioners held there.

In fact, more practitioners are being illegally arrested than before, and the perpetrators sentence practitioners to heavy prison terms and send them to prisons in different cities, so there is no way to know how many practitioners are incarcerated.

The Guangzhou Forced Labour Camp and the No. 2 Forced Labour Camp in Shenzhen City also hold male practitioners. The Sanshui Women's Labour Camp in Guangdong Province and the Chatou Forced Labour Camp in Guangzhou City also hold female practitioners.

Dafa practitioners are also detained at brainwashing centres. The practitioners are arrested and sent for brainwashing without any due process, and the police never present warrants to justify the arrests. Many practitioners have been tortured to death at the brainwashing centres.

The Sanshui Brainwashing Centre in Guangdong Province is a provincial brainwashing centre. The usual session is three months, and practitioners who refuse to "reform¹" after three months are held for another three months until they give up their beliefs. Some practitioners have been held there for several years. Practitioner Xia Xianqiang from Mei County was first held at the Sanshui Forced Labour Camp and then sent to the Sanshui Brainwashing Centre where he held a hunger strike in protest and was force-fed. Practitioner Wen Fenhua from Jieyang was tortured at the brainwashing centre and released when she was at the brink of death. Practitioner Mo Yimei from Yangchun was sent to the Sanshui Brainwashing Centre in May 2005, and is still being held because she refuses to give up her belief.

In September 2005, several practitioners were arrested in Guangzhou City, and several of them were sent to the Chatou Brainwashing Centre in Guangzhou City.

There are long-term brainwashing centres in various parts of Guangdong Province, including the Maoming Brainwashing Centre, the Fumin Brainwashing Centre in Zhuhai City and the Meizhou Brainwashing Centre. Others include the Shantou Brainwashing Centre, the Zhaoqing Brainwashing Centre, the Huanggang Brainwashing Centre in Shaoguan, and the Qingyuan Drumming Training Ground Brainwashing Centre in Qingyuan City.

The prisons holding Dafa practitioners are under the authority of the Guangdong Province Prison Administration Bureau, which is under the authority of the Guangdong Province Judicial Department. The labour camps that hold Dafa practitioners are under the authority of the Guangdong Province Labour Reeducation Bureau, which is also under the authority of the Guangdong Province Judicial Department. The Guangdong Province Judicial Department is under the jurisdiction of the Guangdong Province Political and Judiciary Committee and the Guangdong Province 610 Office². The Guangdong Province Political and Judiciary Committee and the Guangdong Province 610 Office are directly or indirectly involved in the arrests of Dafa practitioners who are sent to brainwashing classes, as they often direct local 610 Office personnel who then instruct local police to arrest the practitioners. The central 610 Office controls the provincial 610 Office. As the just-cited chain of command describes, the Chinese Communist Party persecutes Dafa practitioners in a planned and systemic manner.

We are not doing enough to expose the persecution of Dafa practitioners. Between January 5th, 2004 and February 5th, 2004, Shenzhen City authorities sentenced sixteen practitioners to prison. It is unknown where they are being held, and we don't have any follow-up reports on practitioners illegally sentenced to prison in other areas.

Work units and perpetrators:

Guangzhou Women's Prison in Guangdong Province
Office: 86-20-87413120, 86-20-87413069
Prison Politics Section: 86-20-87413186

Sihui Prison
Address: Jiguangtang Town, Sihui City, Guangdong Province
Zip code: 526237
Phone: 86-758-3301012

Yangjiang Prison
Address: Yangjiang Prison, Box 135, Nalong Town, Yangdong County, Yangjiang City, Guangdong Province
Zip code: 529935
Cai Xipeng, prison director
Ruan Shihai, head of the Education Section
Rao Wulie, deputy secretary of the Disciplinary Committee and head of the Supervision Office

Meizhou Prison
Address: No 3 Meizhou Road, Meijiang District, Meizhou City

Guangdong Province Prison Bureau
Office: 86-20-83830247

Guangdong Province Judicial Department
Address: No 51 Zhengmin Road, Guangzhou City
Zip code: 510405
Fax: 86-20-86378752
Office: 86-20-86375465, 86-20-86378751

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")

2. "The 610 office" is an agency specifically created to persecute Falun Gong, with absolute power over each level of administration in the Party and all other political and judiciary systems.

Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2005/11/3/113641.html