Authorities Viciously Torture Falun Gong Practitioners in Shandong Province No. 1 Women's Forced Labour Camp

I am a Falun Gong practitioner from Shandong Province. Because of my persistent belief in "Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance". I have been unjustly imprisoned in the Shandong Province No. 1 Women's Labour Camp (Jiangshuiquan Forced Labour Camp in Jinan City) and seriously tortured by the guards.

1. Serious torture in the second group of the Jiangshuiquan Forced Labour Camp

In the beginning, I was forced to sit on a small stool. Because I still refused to give up my belief, I was forced stand for a long time, from 5:40 in the morning until midnight, and sometimes until 1 a.m. or 3 a.m. I was not allowed to brush my teeth, eat, or even drink water. Therefore, I started a hunger strike. After one month of standing, my body was very weak. The guards started to force-feed me.

The long-term torture and violent force-feedings seriously harmed my trachea and lungs. I was constantly coughing up dense phlegm. In order to persecute me more, the guards forbade me to empty my toilet basin, which made the smell unbearable. They also forbade me to use tissues or even to spit out the phlegm. When they saw that I was almost choking by my own phlegm, they hid outside of the door and laughed at me.

The guards tried to force me to watch the videos defaming Falun Gong. After my refusal, they tied me to a death bed¹ for eight days while I was on the verge of death. Because of the force-feedings, deterioration of my body, and the dense phlegm, I almost suffocated to death. In such a condition, they still tightly stretched my wrists, which prevented blood circulation. At the same time, they forbade me to urinate, which caused extreme pain. Group head Sun said cruelly to me, "This method is from Masanjia Forced Labour Camp. It is very effective on stubborn Falun Gong practitioners."

Guard Niu Xuelian and group head Sun threatened me to prevent me from screaming. Two perpetrators berated me in numerous ways.

In order to protest the persecution, I went on a hunger strike for seven months.

2. Seriously tortured in the fifth group, the "discipline group"

As soon as I arrived in the fifth group, Wang Suzhen hit my head with his fist, said angrily, "I really want to kick you to death," and threw all my belongings out the door, including my clothing, bed cover, toothbrush, and basin. It was in the summer and very hot. Wang Suzhen imprisoned several fellow practitioners and me in a small confined compartment. We were not allowed to wash our faces, brush our teeth, or change clothes. We were slapped if we talked. The dead skin of my emaciated body peeled off layer by layer.

During a force-feeding session, Wang Suzhen directed a group of death-row prisoners to tightly close my mouth and shove the feeding tube into my nose. I almost choked and was struggling to breathe. Suddenly, I found that I escaped from their clutches and took a breath with a loud shout. Then I noticed that blood trickled down the side of my face. In the hands of guard Wang Suzhen, there was not only a large clump of my hair, but also a large piece of skin from my head. Even a couple months later there was a large bald spot on my head.

Claiming that it was for a physical exam, labour camp authorities extorted 6000 yuan² from my family.

Since July 20th, 1999, the methods to persecute Falun Gong practitioners in the Shandong Province No. 1 Women's Forced Labour Camp have been brutal and cruel. The evilness of Chinese Communist Party can not be covered up. Several methods have been disclosed by witnesses or victims including, electric shocking, beating, force-feeding, long term hanging-up, burning with mosquito incense, hair pulling, face slapping, and long term slave labour. Some other torture methods by guards are extremely vicious and beyond the description of words. Falun Gong practitioners are deprived of their freedom and suffer from terrible beatings, humiliation, torture and torment.

Note

1. "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.

2. "Yuan" is the Chinese currency; 500 yuan is equal to the average monthly income of an urban worker in China.

Chinese version available at http://minghui.org/mh/articles/2006/1/13/118532.html