Ms. Wang Mingfang Tortured in Shanghai Women's Forced Labour Camp

Name: Wang Mingfang
Gender: Female
Age: 54
Address: Apt. 306, No. 2, 555 Lane, New Gonghe Road, Zhabei District, Shanghai
Occupation: Employee at a photo gallery

Date of Most Recent Arrest: September 2009
Most Recent Place of Detention: Shanghai Women's Forced Labour Camp
City: Shanghai
Persecution Suffered: Detention, torture, beatings.

Ms. Wang Mingfang was arrested while handing out Falun Gong leaflets exposing the persecution in September 2009. She was sent to a brainwashing centre in Shanghai and then was sentenced to Shanghai Women's Forced Labour Camp. Ms. Wang is now detained in the No. 5 Team at the camp.

As Ms. Wang would not renounce her belief in Falun Gong, guard Li Zhuolin and others ordered four inmates to torture her. As a result, the skin on Ms. Wang's buttocks was ripped apart and covered in pus and blood. She cannot sit down and has lost nearly half her body weight. But, Li Zhuolin still continued to order inmates to force her to sit on a stool for long periods of time to make her endure more pain. When Ms. Wang almost fainted, she was slapped across the face several times.

The guards used all kinds of incentives to get inmates to do evil deeds. Inmates that harassed and tortured practitioners could have their sentences reduced, live under more relaxed rules during their time at the camp, do less work and buy more food. To torment practitioners, the inmates would provide practitioners with the worst food at meal times, and would not allow practitioners to wash, change their clothes or use the toilet. They also verbally abused practitioners throughout the day.

Under such conditions, Ms. Wang's skin became infected and started to fester. Ms. Fan Guoping, a practitioner from Putuo District in Shanghai, also suffered severe persecution at the labour camp after being sent there in 2009.

Practitioners are constantly forced to watch videos slandering Falun Gong, and those who still refused to renounce their belief are forced to sit on a small stool from 5:30 a.m. until 11:00 p.m. They are only allowed to move at meal times or at toilet breaks. If they moved at any other times, they would be accused of not following the rules, and would be severely beaten. Up to three inmates are used to monitor each practitioner, and they do not allow practitioners to communicate with anyone.

Sometimes the guards would not allow practitioners to see their families during visiting times, and would tell lies to deceive them. The guards told Ms. Wang that her family did not want to see her, and then told her family that Ms. Wang did not want to see them. Ms. Wang's family did not get to see her from September 2009 until the beginning of July 2010. When they did get to meet, Ms. Wang was monitored by four guards. Her mother and child could hardly recognise her, and could not stop crying. Ms Wang could not sit down because of the pain in her buttocks, and had no expression on her face, as she just stared in to space. Her husband could not help but cry as well when he saw this. Her family members saw how badly she had been persecuted and demanded that she be released on bail to receive medical treatment. The guards said that they had reported Ms. Wang's condition to their superiors, but Ms. Wang has still not been able to receive any medical treatment.

Before Ms. Wang was sent to the labour camp, she was healthy and full of spirit. But within only a few months, she was tortured to the extent that she showed no resemblance of her former self.

Shanghai Women's Forced Labour Camp has adopted cruel torturous methods to persecute practitioners over the past 11 years, and hundreds have suffered both mentally and physically. Over 120 practitioners have been arrested and detained in the Shanghai region this year, in the name of ensuring security for the Shanghai World Expo.

Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2010/8/17/228467.html