Non-Practitioner's Eyewitness Account of the Atrocities Committed in the Jin City Prison

I hadn't yet started to practise Falun Gong when I was released from the Jin City Prison in Changde, Hunan Province, after having served a full term. I personally experienced the darkness and atrocities in the Chinese Communist Party's prison. There are no human rights in prison. Therefore, after my release, I planned to join several other released prisoners to retaliate against society for what we'd suffered in prison. We planned to take back all that the police and the judicial department had taken from us while we were in prison, including money and property.

At the beginning of this year, I went to an Internet bar, and I was lucky enough to browse through the Clearwisdom.net website. I read Teacher Li's articles and some articles exposing the persecution. I began to realise that being a good person would provide me with a good future. I decided to scrap my vengeful plan, and I began to understand why the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) was trying so hard to demolish Falun Dafa and persecute practitioners.

I remembered the practitioners I'd seen in prison who'd suffered even more than the real criminals. Outsiders wouldn't believe that in the twenty-first century these terrible and brutal things could happen on a daily basis, even in a prison controlled by the CCP.

Jin City Prison has more than ten sections. Each section has practitioners, several dozen all together. In the past there were cases where prisoners were beaten to death. Sometimes corrections officers did it themselves, other times they ordered criminal inmates to do it. Some criminal inmates went insane and lost their human nature under the devastating pressure of the CCP. The criminals would act as hatchet men for the prison authorities. Their treatment of practitioners was extremely brutal. They often verbally abused and assaulted practitioners. The practitioners often conducted hunger strikes against the persecution, so the prison guards ordered some of the most sadistic criminals to watch over the practitioners and force-feed them every two hours. They would continue the forced feedings even after the practitioners' stomachs were full. They used such methods to torture the practitioners until they were half dead.

Practitioner Mr. Lu Songming once broke the prison rules by sitting cross-legged. Three convicts who guard practitioners beat him and tortured him for two hours. Mr. Lu Songming didn't move. Then the three criminals poured urine into his mouth while many others stood by watching. At that moment, assistant director Xiao Jian, who was the prison official in charge of persecuting practitioners, and the prison's political instructor came into the room. We thought they might disapprove of the convicts' treatment of this practitioner, but they didn't. On the contrary, they condemned Mr. Lu for violating prison regulations and further punished him by extending his working hours. When the officials left, we all left. After a little while, I heard Lu Songming saying in a loud voice, "Falun Dafa is good!" We ran over for another look and saw that the three criminals were still beating Mr. Lu and pouring urine into his mouth, but he took no action against them. Those three criminals were Wei Yile, Song Fashui, and Mutong.

When Mr. Zhang Chunqiu, a practitioner, was held at the Jin City Prison, the guards tortured him by forcing him to stand with a very thick wooden board hanging from his neck. He was forced to stand for more than five hours, until he passed out. A few days later, they hung him by his wrists with the board around his neck.

While being held at Chishan Prison, Mr. Ma Junwen was tortured until he was extremely weak. He vomited blood. After his transfer to the Jin City prison, the guards punished him by forcing him to stand for 15 hours every day. Within a few days his feet were swollen and he couldn't put his shoes on, so he was forced to stand barefoot. Although he couldn't even stand, he was forced to do labour-intensive work for 14 hours. He wasn't even allowed to take a break after lunch.

Later on I asked a friend of mine who was one of the convicts assigned to persecute practitioners, "Why were you so cold hearted? Weren't you afraid you might kill one of them?"

He whispered, "Sometimes I can't stand doing these things. I am afraid of beating them to death, but the guards threaten us. One of them said, 'If you don't do this, you'll be the ones who are punished!' He told us not to be afraid, and that the regime would take responsibility if anything bad happened. He also said that the Falun Gong issue was decided by the country under the authority of the CCP."

Some of these practitioners were sentenced to several years in prison. They were persecuted until they became extremely weak. Some are at death's door, but they still aren't allowed bail for medical treatment. This is unbearable.

The things I described above are things I saw with my own eyes. The persecution that practitioners were subjected to was done secretly, and under strict supervision. Oftentimes, prison officials covered up the persecution so well that even the prisoners didn't know what was going on.

I wasn't a Dafa practitioner, but because I read articles on the Clearwisdom website my conscience awakened. Today I reveal what I saw to the world and hope everyone will pay more attention to this matter and help end the persecution.

Now I finally understand that this county, which claims to be a civilised nation ruled by law, is stained, sinister and violent, and I believe that such a society won't last long. The moment it is eliminated, the brighter future we will have.

Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2006/2/28/121779.html