Mr. Song Jianguo from Hebei Province Sent to Inner Mongolia Forced Labour Camp

Mr. Song Jianguo, a Falun Gong practitioner from Sanhe, Hebei Province, was reported to police on September 19th, 2007, when he was working in Beijing. Officers from the Haidian Police Department arrested him and took him to Tuanhe Forced Labour Camp in Beijing. He was persecuted there for several months. On January 26th, 2008, he and six other practitioners, who were not from Beijing, were secretly transferred to Wuyuan Forced Labour Camp in Inner Mongolia.

On March 6th, 2008, guards Zhao Naiwei, Li Haiying, Zhao Naidong, Du Xiangguang, Liu Jun, Suo Haipeng, Yan Wenbin, Bo Zhansheng, and Liu Sizhe brutally tortured Mr. Song Jianguo in the First Brigade office. They bound him with ropes, forced him to kneel, severely beat him, and shocked every part of him with six electric batons. His arms became swollen and numb and he could no longer move them. His whole body was bruised with rope scars. His ribs and feet were black and blue. His abdomen and neck were burned by the electric batons. This was physically and emotionally traumatic.

He was so severely tortured that his fingers are still numb, his joints hurt, he has frequent diarrhoea as a result of damage to his digestive system, and he is very weak. The director of the police department, Wei Minxuan, and officer Liu Baohua have threatened him several times, saying, "Sooner or later you have to be 'transformed¹.' Then we will decide where you get to stay."

Song Jianguo is 39 years old. He was a lecturer at the Sanhe City Communist Party School in Hebei Province. He began to practise Falun Gong. Because he was a young fellow in political circles, he became a primary target for Chinese Communist Party (CCP) persecution.

Wuyuan Forced Labour Camp has been singled out by the CCP to persecute practitioners in recent years. Many practitioners are detained there. Most of them are male practitioners from Inner Mongolia. Some are from other cities but were arrested in Beijing. Others were working in Inner Mongolia. Police and guards savagely beat and brainwash them and force them to do hard labour. Due to the decreased numbers of regular inmates, Wuyuan Forced Labour Camp "bought" inmates from the Beijing Forced Labour Dispatch Department to maintain its existence. Those in charge have tortured practitioners using electric batons and killing ropes. They have buried them alive, tied them to tombstones in cemeteries for as long as several days, locked them up in sheepfolds in wild areas, and viciously beaten them. Criminal inmates are often ordered to torture practitioners .

The CCP awards 10,000 yuan² to whoever successfully "transforms" a Falun Gong practitioner. Due to greed and valuing money more than human life, the inmates try every day to force practitioners to give up cultivation. They try to make practitioners swear at Falun Gong and to sign the Guarantee Statement³ or "Repentant Statement." In order to achieve their goal, they use every depraved method known to physically and mentally torment the practitioners. They bash them in their faces and kick their waists, backs, and stomachs. They even stomp on practitioners' heads with both feet. Some practitioners suffer from chronic headaches, tinnitus, and chest tightness as a result. They also force practitioners to take part in a type of military training. Even 70-year-old practitioners are stomped on and kicked fiercely.

In the forced labour camps, the inmates not only beat practitioners in offices but also in dark areas. They have dragged practitioners to an isolated cemetery in a remote area and viciously beaten them. In the cemetery, one very dedicated practitioner was bound with ropes and shocked with four electronic batons on every part of his body.

Because Mr. Song Jianguo didn't give up his belief, he was monitored and followed by inmates. The guards pressured and enticed inmates to swear at and beat him. They didn't allow him to write letters to his wife and also intercepted his wife's letters to him and didn't let him read them. They didn't give him the parcel sent by his family. He was not allowed to make phone calls to his family. He was not allowed to have a haircut or use the toilet. They extended his sentence by three months. They pressured him at every opportunity to try to force him give up his belief and write the three statements⁴.

Song Jianguo has been confined in a detention centre four times and in a forced labour camp twice. In every place he has been inhumanly tortured. In October 2000 his employer fired him for practising Falun Gong. Sanhe Police Station officers tried to locate him and arrest him. He had left his home town and gone elsewhere to avoid persecution.

On February 11th, 2003, officers from Sanhe Police Department arrested him when he was on a bus and secretly took him to Tuanhe Forced Labour Camp in Daxing County, Beijing. He was severely beaten and put on the death bed⁵. Tuanhe Forced Labour Camp officials then transferred him to Tangshan Forced Labour Camp. He was tortured there as well.

In July 2004, Mr. Song's father passed away, his youngest sister was seriously ill, and his mother was traumatized. His wife and another younger sister were allowed to bring Song Jianguo, who was on the brink of death, home from the forced labour camp.

After he recovered, Song Jianguo went everywhere trying to find a job to make a living. On September 19th, 2007, while he was working in Beijing, officers from the Haidian Police Department arrested him and sent him to Tuanhe Forced Labour Camp in Beijing. He was persecuted there for several months. On January 26th, 2008, he and six other practitioners not from Beijing were secretly transferred to Wuyuan Forced Labour Camp in Inner Mongolia.

Wuyuan Forced Labour Camp:
Wei Minxuan, Director, Secretary of the Party Committee: 86-478-5558200(Office), 86-13337036666(Mobile), 86-13304780666(Mobile)
Yang Furong, Deputy Director: 86-478-5558300(Office)
Mu Jianfeng, former Deputy Director (2002-2004), in charge of the persecution of Falun Gong, currently Political Commissar of Inner Mongolia Women's Forced Labour Camp.

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")

2. "Yuan" is the Chinese currency; 500 yuan is equal to the average monthly income of an urban worker in China.

3. "Guarantee Statement": A statement to declare that one is remorseful for practising Falun Gong and guarantees not to practise Falun Gong again, not to go to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong, and never again associate with any Falun Gong practitioners.

4. "Three Statements": Practitioners are coerced under brainwashing and torture to write "Repentance Statement," "Guarantee Statement" or 'Dissociation Statement" as proof that they have given up their belief. In the statement, the practitioner is forced to admit remorse for practising Falun Gong, promise to give up Falun Gong, and never again associate with other practitioners or go to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong.

5. "Death Bed" torture: A practitioner is tied to a bed with his hands handcuffed above his head to the bed rails, and his legs tied with thin nylon ropes. The rope is then tightly wrapped around the practitioner's body and the bed, from his legs to his chest. The rope is wrapped so tightly that the practitioner has difficulty breathing and eventually loses consciousness.

Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2008/12/18/191814.html