Exposing Crimes at the Liaoning Province Women's Prison

The brutal persecution of Falun Gong practitioners at the Liaoning Province Women's Prison has been exposed many times on the Minghui/Clearwisdom website. The Communist Party had awarded this prison the title of "Bureau-Level Prison" in late 2006 for its ruthless persecution of Falun Gong practitioners. Prison authorities devoted significant amounts of money and resources to decorate the prison and hide the facts, after which they invited visitors from inside and outside of China for an inspection, hoping these efforts would whitewash their crimes.

The Liaoning Province Women's Prison is the former Dabei Women's Prison of Shenyang City. Let us start by detailing some of this prison's history. Mentioned in the Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party ¹, during the Cultural Revolution, Zhang Zhixin, a loyal Party member, was gang-raped and physically and mentally tortured at this prison, then her throat was cut after she was driven insane. She was killed at the prison. We know from firsthand experience that the Communist Party has escalated its persecution of Falun Gong, and that the human rights situation in China has further deteriorated.

Prison Clinic Has a Falun Gong Practitioners Death Registration Book

Prison clinic head Wang Nina is personally responsible for the deaths of many Falun Gong practitioners at the prison. At least four practitioners have been confirmed to have died at the clinic since late 2002. The actual number is probably much higher. The clinic keeps what is called the "Falun Gong Practitioners Death Registration Book." This book remained initially with inmate Zhang Yuanyuan, who was assigned to give injections, but it was later transferred to another person. According to the book, more than four practitioners have died at the clinic, and an unknown number of practitioners have died in various other divisions at the prison.

Deceased practitioners Zhang Juxian from Yingkou City and Li Ling from Jinzhou City were held in Division 3.

Two other practitioners held at Division 8 died due to persecution between June 23rd, 2002 and early 2003. The bodies of practitioners who died after June 23rd, 2002 were carried out after the other inmates had left for work, when the cells were empty. Because the bodies were covered with white sheets, their physical condition was difficult to assess.

In 2003, one guard dragged a practitioner back and forth across the courtyard while throwing punches, kicks and verbal insults at her. She shouted over and over, "Falun Dafa is good!" She weighed less than 100 lbs. and passed away soon after this incident.

Guards Guo Haiyan and Zhao Xiumei from Division 3 tortured practitioner Ms. Zhang Juxian in mid June 2004 and took her to the prison clinic. Clinic head Wang Nina ordered inmates to immobilise Ms. Zhang's limbs in a specially made steel cot, and two inmates were assigned as monitors. One inmate was Zhu Qirong, who tortured Zhang Juxian to death but was later released. Guards Guo Haiyan and Zhao Xiumei ordered Zhu Qirong to tape Ms. Zhang Juxian's mouth and wrap her head with multiple layers of cotton sheets, with only her eyes and nose exposed. Ms. Zhang's body was black and blue from beatings. The inmates also force-fed Zhang Juxian many times each day and randomly jabbed her with the feeding tube. They were not medically trained for such a task, and Ms. Zhang's nasal septum was thus perforated. The inmates then had to insert the tube into her mouth and injured her throat. The tube was covered with blood when they pulled it out. One inmate said, "Zhang Juxian's nose, throat and stomach are ruined. She is beyond help now." Another inmate saw Zhang Juxian's hair being pulled out. After inmate Zhu Qirong whacked Zhang Juxian's face with a bamboo fan, Zhang Juxian's lips were so swollen she could not open her mouth.

Zhang Juxian was emaciated by mid August. The clinic officials informed Division 3 about her condition. Guard Zhao Xiumei sat in the hallway (to avoid the stench inside the room) and screamed at Zhang Juxian, "When are you going to die? I've already prepared your death gown and you can die right now! If you have anything to say, speak now!" She went inside and removed the tape from Zhang Juxian's mouth. Zhang Juxian mustered all of her strength and shouted, "Falun Dafa is good!" "Falun Dafa is righteous!" "Falun Gong practitioners are good people!" "Do not persecute Falun Gong practitioners!" Zhao Xiumei was furious and screamed, "Go ahead and die!" Inmate Zhu Qirong tortured Zhang Juxian again, and shortly afterwards, Zhang Juxian's body was secretly carried out during the night.

Torture Methods at the Liaoning Province Women's Prison

Numerous torture methods are used at Liaoning Province Women's Prison, and one of them is violent brainwashing. They tie the practitioner in a metal bed in what they call a "horseshoe knot," as the rope is tightened each time the practitioner struggles to free herself. The victim's wrists and ankles swell, and the rope cuts into the flesh. Additionally, the officials and inmates physically attack the practitioner until she is near death. They then blast audio recordings that slander Falun Gong and its founder into the victim's ears at a high volume for more than ten hours a day. The Communist Party knows its lies do not work on Falun Gong practitioners, but it employs torture simply out of spite and also to poison the minds of inmates. Many practitioners lost their hearing and suffered a mental collapse.

Another torture is the death bed. It is difficult to survive this torture. They tie the practitioner to a bed and force-feed her. They boast that Falun Gong practitioners who hold hunger strikes would be force-fed to save their lives, but it is actually a form of gross abuse. The officials order inmates to insert a plastic tube about one metre (3.3 ft.) in length and 5 mm (0.2 inch) in diameter into the victim's stomach through her nose. They feed the victim very thin and often raw corn porridge once or twice a day. The victim cannot change her clothes or wash herself while this is going on and is forced to relieve herself in the bed. The torture lasts weeks, months, and sometimes until the victim's death.

Practitioners Zhang Juxian and Li Ling were killed in the death bed. Inmate Zhu Qirong murdered Li Ling, who was barely hanging on to life by November 2004. She eventually died and suffered similar mistreatments as Zhang Juxian. Guards Zhu Naijuan and Xu Man ordered Zhu Qirong to put a heavy blanket over Li Ling's head. Zhu Qirong sat on the blanket for more than two hours and suffocated Li Ling to death.

Party officials also deprived Falun Gong practitioners of their right to life. They do not provide food or water for extended periods of time, and they deprive the practitioners of sleep, deprive them from using the restroom, and from performing simple hygiene, as well as communicating with their families and friends through letters, phone calls and family visits. They forbid the practitioners from looking at or talking to anyone except the inmates assigned to monitor them. They even order the practitioners to stop using daily necessities. When the practitioners protest such inhumane policies, the officials ruthlessly persecute them.

Ms. Li Fengmei Tied up and Hung up Naked

Practitioner Ms. Li Fengmei from Xiongyue was admitted to Division 10 on January 2nd, 2007. The first night, guard Sun Yan ordered inmates Chen Fengyun, Xiao Jinxin and Li Ping to drag Li Fengmei out of her bed and lock her in a storage room. They hung her from a metal bar and savagely beat her. Sun Yan shocked Ms. Li with electric baton(s) for a very long time. Li Fengmei's heart-wrenching screams could be heard throughout the building. Her body was covered in wounds, her right arm was broken and both legs were paralysed. She lost consciousness several times. The next day, inmates condemned the guards and the Communist regime for committing these murderous acts. Guards Yu Chengshui and Chen Haixin took Li Fengmei to the No. 739 Hospital. After they returned to the prison later that night they again locked Ms. Li in the storage room. Guards Yu Chengshui and Chen Haixin ordered inmates Chen Fengyun, Su Xiaodan and others to further torture Li Fengmei. They stripped Li Fengmei naked and hung her by her handcuffed hands. They degraded her using extremely base means. When Li Fengmei struggled, Chen Fengyun and Sun Xiaodan broke her right arm for the second time and never had the bones surgically set. She has lost all functions in her right arm. Li Fengmei was tortured for more than two months between January 2nd and mid March. She was later transferred to a warehouse near a workshop. It has been learned that the barbaric abuse continues unabated.

Note

1. Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party: Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party is a series of essays published in late 2004 that reveal the true nature of the Communist Party. The Nine Commentaries have led millions of people to renounce their membership in the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). "A book that has shocked all Chinese around the world. A book that is disintegrating the Communist Party." http://ninecommentaries.com

Chinese version available at http://minghui.org/mh/articles/2007/7/20/159228.html