Exposing the Persecution in the Prison Admission Section of Shandong Provincial Prison

The Shandong Provincial Prison is located on Industry Street South in Jinan City. Prisoners serving more than 5 years are kept here. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has kept Falun Gong practitioners here during these eight years of brutal persecution.

Even now there are still more than 100 male Falun Gong practitioners being detained in Shandong Province Prison. Sixty of the Falun Gong practitioners are now detained in the Prison Admission Section (No. 11 Section). Admissions is the first stop. Falun Gong practitioners detained here since 2004 have all resisted the persecution, keeping Admissions full.

Practitioners who refuse to give up their beliefs are deprived of sleep for very long periods of time. They are not allowed contact with anyone. Every day they are forced to write a report of their thoughts. If the reports do not meet the requirements of the prison administrations, the practitioners will be forced to write non-stop all day. If the reports still do not say what they want to hear, the practitioners are sent to disciplinary units. These units are designed to cause as much spiritual and physical torture necessary to force them to give up the practice of Falun Gong.

Falun Gong practitioners who finish their sentences are sent to Shandong Provincial Prison Admissions unit for 1-3 months of forced brainwashing on atheism and related subjects. They must write a summation that is read publicly. This is videotaped and made into VCDs for use in "transforming¹" Falun Gong practitioners newly brought into the prison.

Right now there are 18 teams altogether in the Prison Admission Section of Shandong Province Prison. Each dormitory of more than 10 practitioners forms one team. Every team has a team head and one to two deputy heads which the CCP prison system defines as members of the "Committee of Active Transformation" (herein referred to as "CAT"). Once a CAT member, one receives special privileges. They have more freedom to go to other areas, meet other people and buy items for personal use.

CAT members are selected by the prison guards. It needs to be pointed out that the Prison Admission Section does not need to participate in physical labour. CAT members pay off the prison guards regularly in order to stay in the Admission Section for as long as possible, to become CAT members or to remain CAT members. They are in charge of everyday life in the Admission Section and the "studies" that Falun Gong practitioners are forced to attend. Most of the studies are "ideology studies" in the brainwashing rooms. Practitioners who do not cooperate during the "ideology studies" are taken to the disciplinary units and isolation cells.

For all these years, the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in the Admission Section was directed by prison policemen Zhang Leiguang, Chen Yan and Li Wei. Their orders came from Qi Xiaoguang, who is the deputy director of the prison. Here special attention needs to be given to Li Wei, the front-line instructor. Every day Li looks for political capital through persecuting Falun Gong by any means. He appears nice and helpful on the surface, but is cold and cruel.

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://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2007/8/11/160631.html