Guizhou Women's Forced Labour Camp Uses Prisoners to Persecute Falun Gong Practitioners

I was detained in the Guizhou Women's Forced Labour Camp and personally witnessed the brutal persecution of Falun Gong practitioners instigated by camp personnel following orders from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

To force Falun Gong practitioners to give up their belief in Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance, the labour camp uses a variety of rogue tactics while boasting of "civilised management." All the torture perpetrated by prisoners at the camp was secretly ordered or instigated by camp guards.

Falun Gong practitioners who arrive at the labour camp are detained in a specific detention group. The first step in this group is to perform a "security check," done on a patio or hallway by cell heads and guards. They force the practitioners to take off all of their clothes and debase them. The cell heads take advantage of this "security check" to steal personal items from practitioners. They then claim that everything brought into the camp will be confiscated and detainees can only use merchandise bought in the camp.

After the "security check," the labour camp arranges for six prisoners to monitor and torture practitioners around the clock. These prisoners are called "collaborators." They take practitioners to cells and force them to stand like soldiers, with both hands tightly touching the trousers, the body straight, and heels touching each other. Practitioners can only look forward and they are not allowed to talk or move any part of their body. If practitioners even look in another direction once, they are denigrated by the collaborators. These collaborators continuously slander Falun Gong. Some practitioners pass out during this torture. The doors and windows of the cells are covered with paper so that people outside can't see what is happening inside. The cell doors are locked and can't be casually opened.

At night, collaborators force practitioners to memorise the labour camp regulations. If practitioners refuse to do so, they are denied sleep and made to stand in a military posture. Several times I was not allowed to sleep for more than 40 hours. I fell into a trance-like state and suffered dizziness. My limbs swelled with oedema and I experienced high blood pressure.

At 6:00 a.m. on the second morning, the collaborators forced practitioners to go through military training in the cell. They forced practitioners to raise their right arms in front of their chests, with the left arms held straight behind their backs, and the right foot lifted one foot off the ground. Practitioners were forced to stay like this without moving. Some collaborators placed practitioners' toothpaste under their feet. If practitioners let down their legs, they would step on and break the toothpaste tubes.

The labour camp allows inmates to use the toilet only three times per day. Collaborators forced practitioners to read books that slandered Falun Gong. The practitioners who refused to read the books were not allowed to use the toilet. With excrement in their trousers, they were not allowed to change clothes. If they were allowed to use the toilet, they would be ordered out by collaborators before they were finished. Collaborators used these rogue approaches to break the will of practitioners and force them to give up Falun Gong cultivation practice.

Camp officials do not allow practitioners to wash their clothes, wash their hair, or take baths for long periods of time. Some practitioners are not allowed to wash their hair for six months. They are forced to ask collaborators if they can drink water. If the collaborators refuse, they cannot drink. The collaborators also restricted areas where the practitioners were allowed to move around.

The money sent by practitioners' families was changed to a money card to be used in the labour camp. However, practitioners could not use the card themselves. They had to ask collaborators to buy daily necessities for them (they were not allowed to buy anything else). Some practitioners bought very little, but their money disappeared. During family visits, several guards would monitor and record the conversation because they were afraid their crimes would be exposed.

Yan Fang, a guard in the Guizhou Women's Forced Labour Camp, is a hatchet woman who persecutes practitioners. She also trained Bao Jia to use very malicious means to torture practitioners into giving up their beliefs. Even collaborators would avoid working at her site.

Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2010/9/24/230093.html