What I Know about the Persecution at the No. 2 Women's Camp in the Masanjia Forced Labour Camp

The No. 2 Women's Camp of Masanjia Forced Labour Camp is divided into three groups. Wang Namin is the political head that actively persecutes practitioners. Guan Lin is the head of Group 4, and Ren Hongzan is the head of Group 6.

Group 1, also called the Strictly Controlled Team, is located on the second floor. Determined practitioners are detained here. They refuse to wear the prison uniforms and refuse to work. They have to sit in the room all day, from 6:00 a.m. until 9 p.m. They are forbidden to move and are made to sit in military posture. The guards and criminal inmates watch the practitioners and record their actions. They don't even allow the practitioners to close their eyes, turn their heads or shift their bodies. Surveillance cameras installed in the room capture everything on film 24 hours a day. The surveillance camera is covered up with an electronic clock. The windows and doors are covered with plastic sheets. The jailers made a hole in the door or in the window to peep inside. They constantly scrutinise the practitioners to prevent them from reading Dafa articles or doing the Dafa exercises. They send practitioners to solitary confinement cells and torture them if they see the practitioners do these things.

Sometimes the group heads intentionally stir up trouble. They force the practitioners to stand, deprive them of sleep, or send them to a solitary confinement cell if the practitioners say something they don't like or if they don't walk at a 90-degree angle when making a turn. They arbitrarily decide the length of time a practitioner is held in solitary confinement, which varies from 10 to 15 days up to a month. They extend a practitioner's term by one month for saying "Falun Dafa is good" and three months for shouting "Falun Dafa is good" on the drill ground or in the cafeteria. They claimed the practitioners damaged the labour camp's reputation by shouting "Falun Dafa is good."

They also casually use other corporal punishment, extend the practitioners' terms, and send them to solitary confinement depending on their mood. They prevent the practitioners from eating in the cafeteria if they don't wear the prison uniform and don't allow them to get hot water from the boiler room. Practitioners in Group 1 are forced to eat inside their rooms. Guards and inmates deliver their food. The practitioners are given only five minutes to wash and brush their teeth, and they have to wash their clothes in secret after the allotted five minutes. Inmates or group heads throw away any wet clothing practitioners hang on the line outside the window. The practitioners are mostly given coarse grain for food. Rice is given only on Wednesdays and Saturdays. The practitioners drink tap water even though most tap water in China is not drinkable before boiling it. The inmates and guards refuse to let the practitioners drink hot water, even if they have too much hot water and pour it down the drain.

Each team takes turn using the toilet. The practitioners in different teams cannot see each other. The inmates and guards keep a close eye on the practitioners who are required to make 90-degree angle turns and are not allowed to look at or talk to each other. The inmates watch the practitioners using the toilet. Some inmates even frame practitioners in order to get sentence reductions.

Group 2 is located on the third floor. Falun Gong practitioners who refuse to "reform¹" are illegally held there. They are forced to wear the prison uniform so they are allowed to eat in the cafeteria. At first they were forced to work and do the camp morning exercises. The work mostly consists of peeling onions, cleaning up, cooking in the cafeteria, and working outside. Later the practitioners refused to work and their noon nap was cancelled. They were forced to sit on small stools while watching and listening to slanderous attacks against Dafa and were compelled to recite 30 labour camp rules. They were forced to sit until 11:30 p.m. and later to 9:30 p.m. If they removed the prison uniform, their sentence would be extended by one month and male group leaders would beat them, followed by detention in a solitary confinement cell for one week to 30 days. In the end they would be sent to Division 1 and placed under Strict Control.

Practitioner Ms. Yan Chunjiao was forbidden to wash herself in the solitary confinement cell, and she had to eat, drink, relieve herself and sleep inside the confinement cell. There is only a broken grass pad in the small room with no other bedding, yet this is considered to be well equipped among the solitary confinement cells.

Group 3 is located on the fourth floor. It is made up primarily of former practitioners who renounced Dafa under pressure, torture and brainwashing, and of some newly arrived practitioners who were brought in to be "reformed." Most of these people know that Dafa is good, but they renounced Dafa under duress to get sentence reductions and go home. They suffer from guilt because they did something they knew they shouldn't.

Some slanderous propaganda pictures hang in the large hall on the first floor. The storage room is located on the right side of the hall. It was used for work tools and later used to hold newly arrested practitioners. Determined practitioners are given IV infusions and force-fed here, and those who refuse to cooperate are handcuffed to a bed or a radiator pipe. A corner called "the metal gate" on the left side of the hall has always been a place where determined practitioners are grossly abused. Practitioner Ms. Zhu Yun was tied to a bed at "the metal gate" and force-fed for one year. Sometimes practitioners held here are forbidden to use the toilet, and some practitioners had to relieve themselves in their pants. The abuse is most severe at this corner.

The headquarters faces the front gate and this is where Su Jing, Wang Naimin and other guards live and work.

Liu Chunjie and his wife, Pei Feng, used to savagely beat the practitioners holding hunger strikes in solitary confinement cells. Cao Yujie and Chen Bing are doctors. They insert the force-feeding tubes and do other things to inflict pain on practitioners who are hunger striking. They grab the practitioner's hair or strike or trip her so she falls to the ground. Several people pin the practitioner down while the doctor(s) inserts the tube. Sometimes they pour things directly into the practitioner's mouth, which causes choking. Some practitioners have lost consciousness on the spot. Sun Chunqiu is an officer in Division 1 and is in charge of extending or reducing the practitioners' terms. She has conspired with division head Xie and arbitrarily extended the terms of determined practitioners.

Information about practitioner Ms. Dong Jingya

On April 27th, 2005, Ms. Dong Jingya and I were held in Team 1 of Division 1, the Strictly Controlled Team. Xie and Li Mingyu are the heads of Division 1, and Wang Shuzheng is the deputy division head. Ren Hongzan, Pei Feng, and Tu are the team heads. Because Ms. Dong Jingya resisted the persecution and refused to wear the prison uniform, they handcuffed her to the radiator pipe inside the team heads' office. She was forced to stand from 8:00 a.m. until past 9:00 p.m., during which time she was not allowed to use the toilet. Ren Hongzan also beat her and watched her after sending her back at night. She didn't allow Ms. Dong to talk about the abuses she had endured. Ms. Dong went on a hunger strike to resist the persecution, and the jailers force-fed her. They intentionally left the feeding tube in her stomach, and doctors Cao Yujie and Chen Bing pulled out and re-inserted the tube many times to inflict pain. They forced her to wear a prison uniform and handcuffed her to a chair. At other times they forced her to sit on the concrete floor in the storage room. She was weak from the hunger strike. They put the uniform on her against her will. She removed it after returning in the evening. She was taken to another room about one month later, and I haven't seen her since.

Information about practitioner Ms. Cong Aidong from Yingkou City

In April 2005, Ms. Cong Aidong became mentally disordered after the guards savagely force-fed her. She accidentally swallowed two metal clips, which caused excruciating pain. She was sent to the hospital a few times but her condition didn't improve after nearly 1,000 yuan² was spent on medical examinations. The labour camp authorities hid the truth and prevented her from receiving medical further treatment. She lived in agony. Zhang Lei handcuffed Ms. Cong to the radiator pipe for more than 10 hours, during which time she was not allowed to use the toilet. Su Jing, Xie, Ren Hongzan, Pei Feng, Liu Hua, Xie Jiachuan and Zhang Lei cruelly abused her.

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. "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.ca/mh/articles/2006/2/27/121731.html