My Experiences in Three Forced Labour Camps

On October 23, 2000, I went to Beijing to appeal to higher authorities on behalf of Falun Dafa with three other practitioners. At 10:00 p.m., we were arrested in a hotel and sent to the Shenyang City office in Beijing. Our cash was also confiscated. When one practitioner walked toward the doors to leave the lobby, police officer Feng and two other officers ran downstairs and caught him, pushing him to the ground and beating him. The practitioner's nose was bleeding, and his clothes were torn.

I was detained in Longshan Brainwashing Centre, while practitioner Feng Bo from Ningxia and another practitioner from Industrial University were detained in the regular educational section. The practitioners protested the detention. Officer Feng poured boiling water on them, and they were scalded badly.

Party officials transformed Longshan Brainwashing Centre into Longshan Forced Labour Camp to detain female practitioners, and sent the male practitioners to Shenxin Forced Labour Camp. When we arrived at Shenxin Forced Labour Camp, we saw practitioner Wang, about 30 years old, suspended on the east wall, his feet unable to touch the ground. He seemed to be in great pain. Later we heard that this practitioner was tortured because he studied the Falun Dafa teachings and did the Falun Gong exercises in the camp.

Later on we were detained in Zhangshi Forced Labour Camp. In the newcomers team, as many as 60 people had to sleep on a one-board bed during the night. Once you got up to go to the toilet, you could not find any place to sleep when you came back. We worked as slaves until 10:00 p.m. and sometimes until the early morning hours of the following day when there was a lot of work to be done. No matter what time we finished work, we still had to get up at 5:00 a.m. the next morning.

Officer Feng asked me questions and was not satisfied with my responses, so he threw a key-panel at my head. I saw stars. This officer often ordered criminals to wash clothes for him and put oil on his leather shoes. Sometimes he brought clothes from home and told criminals to wash them as well, ironing them with a canteen filled with hot water and folding them meticulously.

Zhangshi Forced Labour Camp did not allow practitioners to sleep during the night, in an attempt to force them to give up their belief. I was deceived by the collaborators¹. I stepped onto a wrong path by following them, and I wrote the Three Statements², which denounce Dafa, something which a practitioner should not do. I declare all my words against Dafa to be null and void (my solemn declaration has already been published) and that I will cultivate steadfastly and walk well on the road that remains.

Note

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

2. "Three Statements": Practitioners are coerced under brainwashing and torture to write "Repentance Statement," "Guarantee Statement" or 'Dissociation Statement" as proof that they have given up their belief. In the statement, the practitioner is forced to admit remorse for practising Falun Gong, promise to give up Falun Gong, and never again associate with other practitioners or go to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong.

Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2006/9/12/137623.html