Practitioners Emaciated Due to Persecution at Masanjia Forced Labour Camp

During the last ten days of February 2006, all the steadfast Falun Dafa practitioners detained in the Masanjia Forced Labour Camp were persecuted insanely for refusing to be "transformed¹." They were forced to wear the prison uniform, sit in a chair and call out numbers. They were abused with physical punishment, handcuffs, beating and scolding by the chief of the Masanjia Forced Labour Camp, Zhang Mingqiang, Deputy Chief Wang Wei, Chief of the Administration Section Ma Jishan, superintendent of the Second Women's Section of Masanjia (so-called the "Mental Education School"), Su Jing, Commissar Wang Naimin, Chief of the First Team Li Mingyu, Deputy Chief Xie Chengdong and Li Mingyu's husband Liu Yong, who is also the chief of the security section at Masanjia. Every practitioner persecuted was forced by three, four or more policemen to wear a uniform, and was beaten if he or she would not cooperate.

Many practitioners were all beaten. Some of them were each confined to a small compartment. In order to protest the persecution, Qiu Li and Liu Guiyuan went on a hunger strike. On March 22nd, 2006, Qiu Li, Liu Guiyuan and Huang Sumei were brought back from the small compartments and detained in spare rooms in the First Team separately. Other practitioners who were detained in the spare rooms include Zhou Hua, Meng Guiqiu, Yuan Shuzhe, Xie Xinying and others. They all went on a hunger strike to resist the persecution.

The guards shackled the practitioners with handcuffs and forced them to squat nearly every day from 6:00 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. Sometimes their arms were stretched to the maximum point and shackled to bed rails until they were numb and swollen; some people's hands were paralyzed from this torture.

Qiu Li, Liu Guiyuan, Huang Sumei, Meng Guiqiu and Zhou Hua were not allowed to wash, rinse their mouths or change their underwear for more than one month. They wore handcuffs every day, and both hands were even cuffed to the bed railings during the night. On April 10th, the practitioners were transferred to the third group of the First Team in the First Women's Section of Masanjia Forced Labour Camp. Because they refused to wear the prison uniforms, they were beaten many times by criminal inmate Wang Liying and others, and a large amount their hair was pulled out. At that time, the team leader, Sun Mei was present, but she turned her back on the abuse.

Ms. Qiu Li is still on a hunger strike to resist the persecution. She was given forced infusions every day. The "cost" of the infusion is charged at a rate of 20 yuan² for one bottle each time. The practitioners were also force-fed corn porridge, salt, one egg and a little sugar, and the cost was also as high as 20 yuan. Other practitioners who also went on a hunger strike to protest include Jiang Chunxia from Dalian. Currently, Jiang Chunxia cannot walk, Qiu Li staggers when walking, and both practitioners are emaciated.

Chief of the First Team at Masanjia Forced Labour Camp: Sun Mei
Director: Zhang Jun
Branch chief in charge of detaining Ms. Qiu Li: Chen Qiumei

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://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2006/5/14/127667.html