Brutal Torture in the Judong Forced Labour Camp

After New Year's Day of 2001, more than one hundred female Falun Gong practitioners were sent to the Judong Women's Forced Labour Camp. In order to force practitioners to give up their beliefs, wardens tortured them with brutal methods including severe beatings and electric shocks.

1. Ms. Lu Yaqin Shocked by Multiple Electric Batons Until Blood Covered her Face

Lu Yaqin was an accountant from Changzhou City. She was 56 years old in 2001. She was beaten and shocked by five or six male wardens with electric batons simultaneously for over two hours. The wardens kept asking her if she was a Falun Gong practitioner. She always answered "yes," and the wardens continued torturing her. At the end of the torture session, her left foot was paralysed and she was unable to stand under her own power. The beating caused a large blister full of blood on her forehead. When the blister broke, her face was covered with blood.

A female warden said to Lu Yaqin, "I am asking you for the last time, are you a Falun Gong practitioner? We will let you go if you just shake your head." Lu Yaqin replied calmly, "I don't hate you, because you are deceived by lies." Upon saying that, she fell to the floor, into a puddle of her own blood. Her left foot was still crippled four months later.

2. Ms. Zhao Yu Shocked with Electric Batons Until She Lost Consciousness

Zhao Yu was also an accountant from Wuxi City. She was 38 years old in 2001. When she was detained in the Judong Forced Labour Camp, she didn't co-operate with the perpetrators. She refused to recite the camp's regulations, refused to crouch when her name was called, as required by the camp, and she did not participate in discipline training. She was therefore often forced to stand still for long periods of time. On cold winter days, she was placed in the shade outside in the snow, and on intensely hot summer days, she was placed under the scorching sun.

Because Zhao Yu didn't say something to satisfy a warden who tried to "transform" [forcibly renounce Falun Gong] her, the warden once kicked her brutally. But Zhao Yu still refused to write anything to renounce her belief.

Another time, Zhao Yu was locked in a small cell and tortured there for seven days and six nights. She was shocked with electric batons until she lost consciousness. Wardens forced her to "promise" she would not practise Falun Gong in the camp, and lied to inmates, telling them that Zhao Yu had been "transformed."

3. Ms. Chen Helian Tortured Severely by Electric Shock

Chen Helian was from Yancheng City. She was 37 years old in 2001. Because of her steadfast belief, she was forced to stand still for four days and three nights. In the fourth night, she was shocked by the wardens on duty with five electric batons simultaneously. The skin all over her body was injured, but on the morning after the night of torture, Chen Helian still did not give up. The wardens continued shocking her after pouring water over her.

Chen Helian refused to renounce her belief in Falun Gong. Upon seeing this, the wardens instructed two inmates, one who was a drug abuser and the other a prostitute, to move Chen Helian to a small cell to torture her by various means. The two inmates kicked her and beat her. They scratched her wounds and cut them with string. They also stuffed dirty things into Chen Helian's private areas, and further broke the skin on her chest with their fingernails. The two inmates later boasted about their actions loudly in public and laughed. Chen Helian protested such abuse by starting a hunger strike. Afterwards, she was punished with an extension of four months of imprisonment for holding the hunger strike.

There was another elderly practitioner in the Judong Forced Labour Camp. She was often forced to stand still by the door of the warden's office for long periods of time. Scars caused by electric shocks were visible on her neck. Other practitioners were also brutally tortured, and some were at the brink of death, including Ms. Chen Yujie from Nanjing City and Ms. Zhai.

In early 2001 in the camp, only a few practitioners had been forcibly "transformed." However, Tang Guofang, head of the 610 Office (an organisation of special agents just for persecuting Falun Gong) in Jiangsu Province, reported to his supervisor in Beijing that 90% of the practitioners in the camp had been "transformed." In order to reach the figure, wardens applied all kinds of torture methods on the practitioners in the camp to force them to give up their belief. In that period of time, shouts of "Falun Gong is good" could often be heard in the middle of the night. Others would then know that wardens were again torturing practitioners.

Chinese version available at http://minghui.org/mh/articles/2010/5/10/223255.html