Ms. Fan Juncao, 65, is a resident of Guyu Village, Xinning Town, Ning County, Gansu Province. Because she persistently practises Falun Gong and follows the principles of "Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance," and exposes the persecution, she has been sentenced to forced labour twice in 2000 and 2005 by Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials. The second term was to end on May 11th, 2007, but the labour camp extended it four months using her practising exercises in the jail as an excuse. On September 11th, Fan Juncao's family was planning to pick her up, but the labour camp officials used her shouting slogans as an excuse to extend her term by 40 more days. Fan Juncao was released in late November.
Ms. Fan was deprived of sleep and subjected to all kinds of excruciating tortures. The following are the facts of her torture by guards in the labour camp.
On November 27th, 2005, Fan Juncao was sent to Gansu Women's Forced Labour Camp located in Heping Town, Yuzhong County. That night she was beaten by five guards in turn by order of the head guard name Wang. Wang didn't think the five guards beat her enough, so he used a baton and hit her on the head. She immediately lost consciousness. The guards poured cold water over her to revive her. The water froze on her clothes and she could not move her limbs. She nearly died that night.
One time she was dragged to a washroom and beaten by six inmates until she lost consciousness. They carried Ms. Fan onto a bed, and used a fan on her feet. As soon as she woke up, an inmate named Zheng Chunmei kicked her to the ground from the bed.
When Ms. Fan Juncao was sentenced to a labour camp the first time, she was detained in the Second Gansu Forced Labour Camp located in Anning District of Lanzhou City. She was forced to stand for great lengths of time during her six-month term. When she was detained in Gansu Women's Forced Labour Camp the second time, she was forced to stand for more than twenty days straight. Her legs became swollen and her feet were festered and bloody. It was difficult for her to walk.
While detained in the labour camp, Ms. Fan was put into a strict control group and six drug offenders were assigned to monitor her. The group leaders, Chai Lihong and Chen Xiaohong, deprived her of sleep and made her stand until 3:00 a.m., and sometimes all night. She was beaten if she attempted to take a nap.
In June 2006, Ms. Fan Juncao was sent to a small cell1 because she did the Falun Gong exercises while in the labour camp. She was taken to the fourth floor, where guards handcuffed her to a steel bed frame in such a way that she was suspended with the tips of her toes touching the ground. After five days of this torture, her wrists were bleeding and she was in a daze. An inmate found her like this and called the head guard Wang. They let her down just long enough for her to regain consciousness and then hung her up again.
After Fan Juncao had been hung up for six days, head guard Wang asked her to renounce Falun Gong, but Fan Juncao steadfastly refused. Wang left very angry. At dinner time that day, an inmate brought a half-bowl of noodles to feed Fan Juncao. The noodles were bitter and she immediately threw up. "What kind of poison did you put in this? Are you trying to kill me?" she asked. The inmate was embarrassed and immediately threw away the noodles. Fan Juncao wanted to remove the bitter taste in her mouth with a drink of water. The inmate brought her a cup of cool water, but just a sip of the water was even more bitter than the noodles. Her tongue became numb, and she felt a stabbing pain in her stomach. She could only exhale but not inhale.
During her second term at the Gansu Forced Labour Camp, guards tied Ms. Fan's hands behind her back and hung her up using a pulley. Her weight was felt at the shoulders and her bones made sounds under the strain. She was hung up for seven to eight hours a day for 12 days. The guards asked if she was ready to "confess". When she said "No," they released the tension on the rope, making her fall to the ground. Then they hung her up again. After five or six times of this up and down torture, she lost consciousness.
When she was sentenced to the labour camp the first time, Ms. Fan shouted slogans, and the guards shocked her with electric batons forty times non-stop. Her arms and hands were smoking from the shocking and smelled of charred flesh. Her body was covered with injuries, which took two months to heal.
In February 2007, Ms. Fan adamantly refused to cooperate with those who tortured her. She would not do the prison exercises, do manual labour, or recite the prison rules, so she was sent to a small cell with no light, bed, or quilt. She was left in this cold room during the winter for twelve days. Her body became hard and she could not stand up, nor could she open her eyes in bright light. It took her a week to recover.
In early July 2007, Ms. Fan Juncao thought that since Dafa practitioners have committed no crimes, wearing criminal clothes is an insult to Dafa. So she refused to wear prison clothes. The guards commanded five criminals to hold her down to the ground and stepped on her with leather shoes to force her to wear the prison clothes. But Ms. Fan immediately took the prison clothes off as soon as she got up. After several attempts, the clothes were torn, so the guards stopped.
Besides having them do labour for twelve hours per day, the guards also forced Dafa practitioners to be brainwashed for two or three hours every night. Songs were played that promoted the CCP and slandered Dafa. Ms. Fan Juncao did not cooperate with them, so she was beaten by the guards. Even when she was carried there, she refused to enter the "classroom."
The guards extend the terms of any practitioners who refused to give up Falun Gong. Fan Juncao's term was extended twice in the women's forced labour camp for a total of 170 days.
Note
1. Small cell - The detainee is locked up alone in a very small cell. The guards handcuff the practitioner's hands behind his back in a fixed position, in which the practitioner can neither move nor lie down. The small cell is very damp and no sunshine comes in. Detainees have to urinate and defecate in the cell. Only half of a regular meal is served to detainees locked up in a small cell during the daytime. During the night rats run about. The stench in the small cell is so bad that it is difficult to breathe.
Chinese version available at http://minghui.org/mh/articles/2007/11/19/166846.html
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