Nearly 400 Falun Dafa Practitioners Tortured at the Second Women's Forced Labour Camp in Shandong Province

Around 2,000 practitioners are detained in Shandong Province, of which about 400 practitioners are imprisoned in the Shandong Second Women's Forced Labour Camp. The prison sentences are getting longer. All practitioners from Weihai were sentenced to three years of slave labour.

Practitioners imprisoned in the Second Women's Forced Labour Camp are tortured and forced to perform hard labour. There are four brigades in the camp. The majority of people in these brigades are practitioners, and the rest are drug abusers and religious believers. The torture practitioners suffer is getting worse and the time to do slave labour is getting longer. Practitioners are forced to get up at 4 a.m. and begin to work at 5 a.m. until 10 p.m. But, sometimes they have to work until midnight or 1 a.m. They eat breakfast at 7 a.m. and are given only 20 minutes to eat and clean up. Lunch is about 15 to 20 minutes and dinner is at 5:30 p.m. The skin on practitioners' bottoms often ruptures and becomes infected because of sitting on hard stools. Cushions are not allowed. Guards will confiscate it and berate practitioners if they find one. The food is awful. Drug abusers don't eat that food. Their families send money and the camp staff will prepare separate meals. Practitioners are fed a watery dish that is made from pumpkins which tastes bad. Practitioners used to be able to eat during family visits. But the visitors building was torn down in October 2006. Now, family visits only last half an hour and practitioners can't eat in the meeting room. All food from outside is prohibited, even sweets. Slave labour has become more backbreaking, practitioners lack nutritious food and there are many practitioners who faint. Sleeping is becoming more difficult. Sentences reductions used to be ten days, now they are only two days.

Chinese version available at http://minghui.org/mh/articles/2007/9/7/162255.html