Torture Methods Used in the Shayang Forced Labour Camp in Hubei Province

Many Falun Gong practitioners who were "illegally detained¹" in Shayang Forced Labour Camp in Hubei Province wrote articles to expose the evilness horrible things taking place there, helping people to realise the iniquity of this forced labour camp. Today I would like to share some additional information about this labour camp.

Shayang Forced Labour Camp has eight brigades, and most of the Falun Gong practitioners are detained in the third brigade. Practitioners are also detained in the fifth and eighth brigades. The second brigade is for detaining female practitioners.

Behind the Shayang Forced Labour Camp Hospital is a tall building, which is used especially to torture female practitioners. Many female practitioners have been detained inside this building. The agonising cries of badly persecuted practitioners were often heard outside this building.

The practitioners detained in Shayang Forced Labour Camp came from different areas throughout Hubei Province. The torture methods used in Shayang Forced Labour Camp are listed below.

1. Immediately after the practitioners arrived, the police guards in the Shayang Forced Labour Camp attempted to force them to write the three statements, i.e. a repentance letter, a letter of renouncement, and a letter of condemnation of Falun Gong. If the practitioners refused to write them, they would be shocked by several high-voltage electric batons at the same time.

2. The guards stomped on practitioners who were pushed down to the ground. They used several high-voltage electric batons at the same time to shock the practitioners and gagged their mouths with filthy pieces of cloth in order to prevent them from crying out.

3. The guards tied practitioners' whole bodies tightly with ropes, pinched their pressure points, viciously beat and kicked them, and shocked them with several electric batons at the same time. Some practitioners could not stand up for two months after they were tortured this way.

4. "Carrying a Sword on the Back:" The guards handcuffed the practitioner behind his/her back with one hand pulled over the shoulder and the other pulled up from the lower back. Dafa practitioners who were tortured this way could still not stand up two months later.

5. The guards forced practitioners to squat or run for extended periods of time and deprived them of both sleep and use of the toilet for long periods of time.

6. The officers inundated practitioners with sayings that slandered Falun Gong.

The forced labour camp often went on tours all over the country to study methods for persecuting practitioners. The practitioners detained at the third brigade were classified as two kinds: Those detained upstairs were called "transformed²." Among them, some became collaborators³ and were used to transform other practitioners.. These are the ones especially shown to visitors from other places or inspectors. Those detained downstairs were practitioners who had recently arrived after being arrested from other places. Among them were criminal prisoners who were used to monitor and torture the practitioners.

Beside the third brigade there is a strict control team, with a special police squad and all kinds of torture instruments. It is a special place for torturing practitioners.

Fanjiatai Forced Labour Farm is ten kilometres away from the third brigade. Many practitioners were detained there. The torture methods there are also very cruel.

Note

1. Illegally arrested: Contrary to what former Chinese leader Jiang Zemin, who initiated the persecution, and the Chinese Communist Party would like the world to believe, practising Falun Gong is NOT illegal in China. Although the Public Security Department issued an unconstitutional set of restraints on the practice at the onset of the persecution in 1999, no laws have been passed by the only legislative body in China, the People's Congress, banning Falun Gong or granting the police the authority to arrest Falun Gong practitioners for practising the exercises or distributing flyers. For a more complete discussion of the illegality of the persecution of Falun Gong, please refer to the article "The Ban on Falun Gong—A Dictator's Whim, Not the Rule of Law". (Variation: "illegally sentenced")

2. "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")

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

Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2006/5/8/127141.html