My Experience in the Masanjia Forced Labour Camp in Liaoning Province

In the summer of 2002, I was reported to the police for telling the facts of Falun Dafa to people who had been misled by the government propaganda and exposing the persecution. The local security office sentenced me to three years of forced labour and then sent me to the Masanjia Forced Labour Camp. During the three years I was tortured at the Masanjia Labour Camp, my husband also suffered tremendously at home. I have now completed this sentence and have been released.
During the three years of detention in Masanjia I suffered every day under intense labour and was only served stale and mouldy food. The guards allowed collaborators¹ to do less work and were more lenient with them. They treated the determined practitioners very harshly.

During one period of time the guards and collaborators said to me, "If you still refuse to write the "Guarantee Statement²" we will not allow you to sleep. You will be handcuffed and forced to stand all day and night facing the wall." I was unable to endure the tremendous pressure and wrote the Guarantee Statement against my will.

I regretted what I did. Before I practised Dafa, I suffered from various diseases such as dizziness, stomach problems and mammary gland proliferation. All these illnesses were cured after I practised Falun Gong. I once again began studying the Falun Dafa books and practising the exercises every day and evaluated myself according to the universal principle of Truthfulness, Compassion and Forbearance. I then realised that my writing the Guarantee Statement was cooperating with the evildoers. It was disrespectful to Teacher Li and Dafa. I then wrote a "Solemn Declaration" and submitted it to the guards. I told them, "I will rise from wherever I fall. Falun Dafa is good. Falun Dafa is righteous. There is nothing wrong with being Truthful, Compassionate and Forbearing. I will be unmoved and determined in practising Dafa."

The guards said nothing.

I calmed down after submitting the declaration. When guards tried to persuade me to change my mind, I told the facts of Falun Dafa to them.
At the Masanjia Labour Camp, when anyone shouts, "Falun Dafa is good," he is sent to solitary confinement or his term is extended. The screaming from solitary confinement can be heard at all times. The physical torture equipment includes items like the "iron plane," a "death bed³" and the tiger bench⁴, among others. There have been countless practitioners sent to solitary confinement or whose terms have been extended. On Teacher's birthday, practitioners together shouted, "Falun Dafa is good!" All practitioners involved had their term extended.

Ms. Liu Yinfeng, a 50-year-old practitioner from Dandong City, was detained under the division led by guard Shi Yu. One day in early February of 2005, she shouted, "Falun Dafa is good." As a result, her term was extended for three months.

The labour camp guards use various means to torture practitioners, causing severe damage to their health and their bodies. Ms. Zhao Caihua from Chaoyang was also from Shi Yu's division. She went on hunger strike and was repeatedly force-fed. As a result of this brutal torture she was unable to swallow and became very thin. Her life was in great danger. She was finally released in late 2003.

Ms. Chen Hong suffered a great deal in guard Cui Ji's division. She was handcuffed and forced to stay outside on extremely cold, wintry days.

The guards and collaborators press practitioners who are on a hunger strike to the ground and force-feed them. They use various means to torture practitioners, humiliate, and abuse them.

Although information about these vicious deeds that the guards in the labour camp commit has been strictly blocked, many people outside the prison know all about them.

Dafa practitioners did not have any diseases when they were initially detained as everyone passed the physical exam and the labour camp would not accept any person with a serious health problem. However, after a certain period of detainment many people developed serious health problems or were crippled. Some are unable to care for themselves and others are in critical condition. Many practitioners released from solitary confinement are unable to keep their backs straight. Their legs are crippled and their hands cannot hold anything. Sometimes a person will just disappear after being sent to solitary confinement and no one knows where they were taken. Under the orders of the labour camp director Su Jing, the guards and collaborators have committed serious crimes.

At the Masanjia Labour Camp the TV always broadcasts the fabricated materials made up by fake scientists or "Qigong experts." They try to brainwash practitioners. They also invite so-called "experts and professors" from outside to confuse practitioners.

Note

1. "Collaborators": Former practitioners who have turned against Falun Gong under brainwashing and torture. They are then made to assist in brainwashing and torturing practitioners.

2. "Guarantee Statement": A statement to declare that one is remorseful for practising Falun Gong and guarantees not to practise Falun Gong again, not to go to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong, and never again associate with any Falun Dafa practitioners.

3. "Death Bed" torture: A practitioner is tied to a bed with his hands handcuffed above his head to the bed rails, and his legs tied with thin nylon ropes. The rope is then tightly wrapped around the practitioner's body and the bed, from his legs to his chest. The rope is wrapped so tightly that the practitioner has difficulty breathing and eventually loses consciousness.

4. "Tiger Bench": Prisoners are forced to sit on a small iron bench that is approximately 20 cm (6 inches) tall with their knees tied together. With their hands tied behind their backs or sometimes placed on their knees, they are forced to sit straight up and look straight ahead without movement for long periods of time.

Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.ca/mh/articles/2005/11/25/115178.html