Ms. Mu Chunmei Has Been Detained in Masanjia Forced Labour Camp for Nearly Two Years

On December 19th, 2007, Ms. Mu Chunmei's family went to Masanjia Forced Labour Camp to visit her but they were repeatedly refused. The forced labour camp guards claimed, "Mu Chunmei did not behave well. You are not allowed to see her. Her term ends on January 13th, 2008. You can come back then."

Practitioners Liu Mingwei, Ms. Mu Chunmei, and Hao Yunfeng, all from Jilin City, went to Dalian Development Zone on March 1st, 2006, to visit Hao Yunfeng's father, Mr. Hao Fukui, who had been imprisoned. These practitioners were arrested by the police and sentenced to two years of forced labour at Masanjia Forced Labour Camp in Shenyang City, Liaoning Province. Their families went to Masanjia Forced Labour Camp four times, on April 8th, April 25th, May 8th, and May 22nd, 2006, to visit them and to ask for their release. The head of the labour camp, Su Jing; political head Wang Naimin; and other personnel instigated subordinates to skirt their responsibilities and to create obstacles to deny for the family members' requests. This included threatening them, which brought enormous pain and pressure to bear on the family members.

On September 21st, 2006, the family went to Masanjia Forced Labour Camp and asked to see Mu Chunmei and Liu Mingwei. The visitation receptionist did not give any clear answers and only asked them to wait. A team head with the last name of Yin asked the family members, "Do you practise Falun Gong? What do you think of Falun Gong?" A family member replied, "This question has nothing to do with our visiting our relative." Subsequently, no matter what the family members said, they were not allowed to visit.

According to sources, Ms. Mu Chunmei was tortured during a hunger strike protesting the persecution. The guards and the labour camp doctors injured her teeth by prying her mouth open. For the more than 50 days she was on the hunger strike, the guards continued this brutal torture, trying to force her to give up her belief in Falun Gong. When her family came to visit her, they were usually not allowed to see her. When they sometimes actually got to see her, they were only allowed to visit for a few minutes.

On August 23rd, 2007, Mu Chunmei's mother took a night long train ride and arrived at Masanjia Forced Labour Camp at eight o'clock in the morning. The personnel at the reception office told her that visitation was after 11:00 a.m. When it was near 10:00, the head of the 1st Division, Zhang Lirong, came in and asked her about her attitude toward Falun Gong. Ms. Mu's mother asked why her attitude toward Falun Gong had anything to do with visiting her daughter. Zhang Lirong then refused to let her see her daughter. The mother then went to look for the head of the camp, but she was prevented from doing so by the guard at the door. An officer came out and said that it was the rule and that she could not see her daughter. This poor woman had to leave with tears running down her face.

Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2008/1/12/170122.html