Falun Gong Practitioners Beaten and Forced to Take Unknown Drugs in Jiangsu Women's Forced Labour Camp

I started practising Falun Gong in 1998. After the persecution started in 1999, my home was searched by police many times and I lost my job. In 2008, I was sentenced to Jiangsu Women's Forced Labour Camp and tortured there countless times. Jiangsu Women's Forced Labour Camp is organised into seven teams, and Falun Gong practitioners are detained in the Third Team. I have witnessed the cruelty and ruthlessness of the guards in that forced labour camp.

1. Guards Appoint Drug-addicted Prisoners and Prostitutes to Beat Falun Gong Practitioners

Team leader Chen and guard Hu secretly designated drug-addicted prisoners and prostitutes to beat and insult practitioners as they chose. They also allowed certain drug-addicted prisoners to control practitioners' funds and let them use the money to buy things for themselves. The guards would cover up for the drug offenders.

A practitioner in her sixties was not allowed to eat. Drug offender Zhu Guihong, encouraged by the guards, splashed porridge in her face and slapped her. The practitioner's face ended up full of visible scars. Zhu Guihong used a toilet brush to poke the private part of a practitioner. She persecuted practitioners, force-feeding them food or brine. She used inhuman techniques to persecute practitioners, hoping to shorten her own term in a deal with the guards and camp officials.

2. Forced to Take Unknown Drugs

Practitioner Ms. Zhang Fengying was healthy before the persecution. While she was in a forced labour camp, guards claimed she had high blood pressure and forced her to take drugs, which afterwards resulted in open sores on her skin. Other practitioners became swollen after taking the same drug. The guards still ordered the drug offenders to administer the drug.

3. Exposed to Sunlight, Forced to Stand, Beaten, "Flying the Airplane," etc.

Falun Gong practitioners are persecuted constantly at Jiangsu Women's Forced Labour Camp.

They were taken outside in summer and not allowed to sit down. They had to stand for days and nights, and were beaten up if they sat down. When the guards beat practitioner Ms. Hu Zhenru, they played recorded music at the highest volume. Female guard She Lili designated a drug offender, Yang Huarui, to distribute gloves, and eight people, including several collaborators¹, beat one practitioner at the same time.

Ms. Zhang Yuhua, a physician, was tortured with the "flying the airplane"² technique in the yard. They also grabbed her by her hair and hit her head on the floor, pinched her neck, and kicked her, resulting in many scars on her neck. She is now detained in the Seventh Team and suffering more persecution.

Ms. Kuang Shulan was detained in the same room with me, and her family members were also persecuted. A female corpse was found near a supermarket next to her home. Local police suggested her husband had committed the crime. Seven or eight police officers broke into her home many times and took her husband to test his blood. They later learned that the murderer was from Anhui Province and had already been executed. Her husband was beaten, which resulted in brain stem bleeding. The hospital issued a notice of critical condition. Their son could not take care of him and went to the forced labour camp to see his mother, but was not allowed to talk about the critical condition notice. Later on in a phone call, Kuang Shulan learned of her husband's condition. She asked camp officials to release her immediately to care for her husband. They verbally agreed to release her, but still detained her to the last day of her term.

Tang Guofang, of the Forced Labour Bureau in Jiangsu Province, leads the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners.

Additional people involved in the persecution:
Tang Guofang, a director at the Forced Labour Bureau in Jiangsu Province
Chen, a team leader at Jiangsu Women's Forced Labour Camp
Hu, an assistant at Jiangsu Women's Forced Labour Camp
She Lili, a guard at Jiangsu Women's Forced Labour Camp

Note

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

2. Flying the airplane - Criminal cell leaders often use this persecution and torture method on practitioners on the instigation of policemen and jail guards. This torture requires practitioners to bend over while holding the legs straight. Then, with the feet close together, the arms are lifted to the highest position possible, with the hands touching the wall. If practitioners can't bear it, the prisoners in the cells and designated torturers will gang up to beat them. See the illustration of this form of torture at http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2004/12/15/55600.html.

Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2010/3/6/219329.html