Ms. Zhang Xiaoli Is Mentally Disordered As a Result of Torture at Baoding Forced Labour Camp in Hebei Province

Ms. Zhang Xiaoli is a practitioner from Nanwang Town of Donglu Village in Qingyuan County, Hebei Province. She is now mentally disordered due to torture during her detention in Baoding Forced Labour Camp. As of today, there are several practitioners who have been tortured to the point of mental collapse at Baoding Labour Camp. Ms. Zhang is only one of them.

Since April 2006, Baoding Labour Camp has escalated its persecution against those practitioners who refuse to be "brainwashed." They have forced practitioners to write the so called "four articles," which are similar to the three statements. If they do not cooperate, they are punished by being forced to stand for long periods and deprived of sleep for 24 hours. The labour camp even sent those people who previously practised Falun Gong and later stepped onto a deviated path from both the male team and female team to torture determined practitioners. At around 4:00 a.m. on June 14th, guard Bai Jie handcuffed Ms. Zhang Xiaoli to a bed frame and shocked her with electric batons. Her screams woke people both upstairs and downstairs. She was handcuffed to the bed frame for four days straight and not allowed to use the toilet. The wounds resulting from the electric shock did not heal for an extended period of time.

Because of her belief in "Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance," at around 9:00 p.m. on September 18th, 2004, Ms. Zhang was arrested at her home by the head of the Communist Party in Donglu Village and Director of the National People's Congress Fan Wenzhi. After failing to extort 10,000 yuan¹ from her husband, Fan Wenzhi sentenced Ms. Zhang to three years of forced labor. She was detained at Baoding City's Balizhuang Forced Labour Camp. At 10:00 p.m. on December 1st, Fan Wenzhi once again went to arrest Zhang Xiaoli's husband, Hu Xiaole, but he was not home. Fan Wenzhi then took their oldest son, Hu Shan, 16 years old, from his bed and interrogated him at the village government offices, where he was also beaten. At 4:00 p.m. on December 27th, Fan Wenzhi arrested and sentenced Zhang Xiaoli's husband to one and half years in prison without any legal procedures.

Both Ms. Zhang and her husband, Hu Xiaole, are detained at Balizhuang Forced Labour Camp. Their 16-year-old son, Hu Shan, was beaten by the staff of the local government and detained at Qingyuan Detention Centre for one year.

In Baoding Labour Camp, guards tried to force Ms. Zhang to slander Falun Gong, but she refused and shouted, "Falun Dafa is good!" As a result, the guards hung her up for ten days straight and did not allow her to close her eyes. Shei went on a hunger strike to protest, and guards then force-fed her faeces and kicked her about the head. The doctor pinched her with pliers because she refused to eat and be brainwashed. The guards also incited collaborators² to beat her.

Zhang Xiaoli was often hung up by her handcuffed wrists for over ten days at a time. Each time, the guards would not release her until she wrote statements denouncing Dafa. After a while, this was repeated. Ms. Zhang Xiaoli is now mentally traumatised due to these tortures.

When Ms. Zhang was clear-headed, she would scream, "Where is my son? My son has disappeared. My little son is at home. Where is my older son? Please release my son! The people's police love people. Which one of you love people? You only beat good people. Do you deserve to wear the national emblem in your hat?"

Guards who are involved in torturing Ms. Zhang Xiaoli in Baoding Forced Labour Camp include: Zhang Haoxin, Zhu Man (very vicious), and Chen Na.

Baoding Labour Camp officials also tried to force a practitioner over 60 years old to write articles denouncing Dafa and Teacher, but she refused. A collaborator wrote an article for her. This senior practitioner asked the guards, "What else can you do besides teach people to curse and insult others?" As a result, the guards handcuffed her for an entire day. She was not released until more than ten practitioners detained in the same room went on hunger strikes to protest.

Baoding Forced Labour Camp in Hebei Province has closely followed official policy to persecute Falun Gong and has brutally tortured practitioners since the Party started the persecution in 1999. The guards ruthlessly torture determined practitioners. The methods they use are despicable. These include electric shock, forced standing facing the wall, sleep deprivation, being hung by handcuffs and beaten, put in solitary confinement, being forced to sit on the edge of a chair for long periods, forced intensive labor, deceit, and forced brainwashing. Detained practitioners suffer unimaginable mental and physical tortures every day. Practitioner Ms. Li Xiufen from Baoding City was also tortured to the point of mental trauma. She is now unable to speak.

Baoding Labour Camp:

1995 Lianci South Ave., Baoding

Telephone: 86-312-5939039
Reception room: 86-312-5939048
Administrative office: 86-312-5939011, 86-312-593902
Women's team office: 86-312-5939048, 86-312-5939040, 86-312-5939021
Instructor of the women's team: Yan Qingfen
Commanders of the women's team: Zhang Guohong, Zhu Man (very vicious)
Leaders of the women's team: Dong Qing, Bai Jie, Wu Wenshuang, Liu Ziwei, Chen Na (guard), Zhang Haoxin (guard)
Instructor of the production team: Li Xiuqin
Head of the Party in Donglu Village and director of the National People's Congress Fan Wenzhi: 86-13513129818 (Cell), 86-312-8019319

Note

1. "Yuan" is the Chinese currency; 500 yuan is equal to the average monthly income of an urban worker in China.

2. "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/2006/9/16/137875.html