Details on the Persecution of Practitioners at Wuyuan Forced Labour Camp in Inner Mongolia

Wuyuan Forced Labour Camp in Inner Mongolia persecutes male practitioners. Since it began imprisoning Falun Gong practitioners in September 2000, and at the continued instigation of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), a myriad of inhumane and brutal tortures have been used against practitioners. The labour camp has committed and continues to commit countless heinous crimes against them.

Besides using forced labour to torture practitioners, they also force practitioners to attend "brainwashing sessions," where they use despicable, underhanded methods to persecute practitioners. Information about these crimes is tightly sealed, and even regular criminals or non-participating guards do not know what goes on inside. The more-than twenty practitioners imprisoned there are subjected to both physical and psychological tortures that are inhumane beyond words. Currently, three practitioners are still in isolation: Mr. Qi Rimailatu, Mr. Yang Yongqiang and Mr. Wang Yongquan. Each is monitored by two substance abuse convicts around the clock. Mr. Qi, who is already more than seventy years old, constantly suffers from beatings and harsh verbal abuse by convict Liu Zhengrong, and is often denied breakfast. Of course, the beatings and abuse of practitioners are all done by the criminals with the backing and encouragement of the guards. Zhao Naidong personally instructed Liu Zhengrong to beat Mr. Qi. Moreover, these monitoring criminals are rewarded with reduced sentences for their work. The other two younger practitioners have been subjected to even more physical torture. They have been beaten with electric batons after midnight so that their cries and shouts are not heard. The guards handcuff the practitioner, put a motorcycle helmet on his head, and then shock him with several electric batons. The only reason they put a helmet on the practitioner's head is because they are afraid that the victim might knock his head against the wall due to the pain.

For many years, they have tortured all new and unwavering practitioners who came to the labour camp. The chief methods they use are brutal beatings and shocking with electric batons. Practitioners have been taken to a lamb farm not far away or a cemetery, then handcuffed and shocked. Practitioners are also threatened with being buried alive. They have been beaten to unconsciousness or to the point of a mental collapse so that they would submit to the authorities' demands. Some practitioners have been beaten until they could not move at all. These practitioners are carried back, put into small cells, and released after they recuperated. They are then threatened never to reveal to outsiders the atrocities to which they were subjected. Mr. Zhao Guangjun was shocked with an electric baton until his entire chest and stomach were covered with injuries. They filled with pus and left lifetime scars on his body. The guards' deceptive tactics are beyond imagination. Their fake kindness has fooled many who do not know the truth about Falun Gong. These guards appear to be very calm and compassionate when they communicate with outsiders, and no one could imagine that they instantly transform into demons, torturing practitioners in the most horrible of ways.

In the winter of 2004, a so-called "transformation¹ centre" was set up in the labour camp in charge of persecuting Falun Gong practitioners. It was here that the persecution methods were perfected and became more professional. The professional "transformation" staff included Liu Baohua, deputy team leader Zhao Naidong, guard Yang Xiao (this person has already quit), management section leader Zhao Naiwei, education section leader Wei Yuzhi, and deputy leader of management section Liu Sizhe (also known as Liu Ming). Other people who participated included doctor Zou Yan, the so-called psychological counselling chief Liu Jun, and another person surnamed Yang. The head of the "transformation centre" is deputy camp leader Yang Furong, who instigated camp leader Wei Minxuan to beat practitioners with electric batons as a matter of course in the presence of Yang Furong himself, Liu Baohua, Wei Yuzhi, and Zou Yan.

Even though Wuyan Labour Camp keeps saying that it maintains "civilised management" in order to "build a harmonious labour camp," team leaders were made to study the six orders passed down by the Judicial Department repeatedly. The truth of the situation is that the electric shocks never stop and all the persecution methods are constantly implemented. They have been persecuting peaceful, nonviolent practitioners, who never rebut or hit back, without letup. They also defame Dafa and try to force practitioners to write statements according to their requirements, persecuting those who refuse.

We appeal to all practitioners worldwide and all righteous people to be concerned about these atrocities in Wuyuan Labour Camp and stop their crimes by contacting them by mail or calling them.

Another issue in Wuyuan Labour Camp is the water problem. The management staff knows that the well-water used by the labour camp contains large amount of harmful substances, and that long-term intake will result in kidney problems and many other diseases. The water tastes salty and there is always residual debris at the bottom of a bowl of soup. Even though the guards are able to drink water imported from outside or from another well hundreds of metres away, everyone else is required to drink the polluted water. The staff are only concerned with protecting themselves and do not regard anyone else as humans. Even though an unpolluted well exists only hundreds of metres away, they do not bother to solve the problem.

Wuyuan Labour Camp: 0478-5212343, 5558209

Du Xiangguang: 13847860059 (Mobile)

Mailing address: Wuyuan County Labour Camp, Inner Mongolia (or P.O. 1, Wuyuan County, Inner Mongolia)Zip Code 015112

Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Forced Labour Administration Bureau, Zip Code: 010050

Chief office: 0471-6934149

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")

Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2006/9/28/138861.html