Brutal Torture of Falun Gong Practitioners at the Wangchun Brainwashing Class: Authorities Force Practitioners to Give up Their Belief

The Wangchun "Legal Education Centre" in Zibo City, which is actually a brainwashing class represented as something "legal" to the outside world, holds around 30 to 40 Dafa practitioners per session. The average length of a session is one month. Class supervisors also extort a 5,000-Yuan [average monthly income of local people is about 200-300 Yuan] "brainwashing fee" from the family of each Dafa practitioner.

Dafa practitioners arrested and detained in this Wangchun brainwashing class are first sent by vehicle to the Wangchun Forced Labour Camp, and forced to attend brainwashing sessions, day and night. The police give each arrested Dafa practitioner a small stool, then get those whom they have successfully brainwashed to take turns to infuse the newly arrived practitioners with self-deceiving lies. If practitioners do not compromise they are deprived of sleep. This method of persecution lasts around 10 days. If this method does not work, the police then start to brutally beat practitioners. They hang Dafa practitioners up, use leather belts, electric batons and so on to torture them, and employ every violent approach to force practitioners to write the "three documents." [Letters promising to give up practising Falun Gong, never again to associate with other practitioners and never again go to Beijing to appeal] What's more, they send Dafa practitioners directly to the mental hospital and inject them with medicine that damages their central nervous system.

In this forced labour camp, the police treat those practitioners who go on a hunger strike even more cruelly. When force-feeding practitioners, they insert the plastic feeding tube into practitioners' oesophagus, first yanking it back and forth until the mucous membrane breaks and bleeds, and then commencing the force-feeding while the practitioner is in severe pain. A Dafa practitioner from Jiaozhou City fainted several times during force-feeding. The vicious police almost seriously injured that practitioner's stomach. The police claim that the practitioners will not be released if they did not give up practising; otherwise they would die there.

Those who write the "three documents" against their will are sent to the Wangchun brainwashing class again for further brainwashing. They are forced to watch TV programmes that defame Dafa daily and then are forced to write articles criticizing Falun Gong. From about 8:30 a.m. until 9:00 p.m., they keep practitioners busy all the time. There are only seven guards in the "Legal Education Centre" who are in charge of brainwashing; they carry out the so-called duty of "strengthening." [To prevent practitioners from practising Falun Gong again]. A sincere and kind village woman was sent to the forced labour camp for forced brainwashing, simply because she couldn't understand why "Truth, Compassion, Forbearance" was not good. Due to constant sleep deprivation she had no choice but to compromise. After she came back, the vicious authorities asked her again if "Truth, Compassion, Forbearance" was good or not. She replied, "Good." Simply because of this word "good" she was considered not thoroughly brainwashed and was sent to the forced labour camp on the second day, to be further brainwashed. This is the absurd situation that happened in Wangchun.

All these mental "infusions" are fruitless. During the last Chinese New Year, quite a few practitioners immediately became clear-headed only several days after they were forced to compromise. I helped several people from my hometown that have been arrested and held at Wangchun for brainwashing to publish solemn statements on Minghui Net to declare the invalidity of such brainwashing, and come back to practice.

The guards in this particular brainwashing class usually asked, "What kind of person do you want to be after you go back?" If the answer is "to be a good person," they would classify this person as having further need of brainwashing. Their logic was, "Practising Falun Gong first requires one to be a good person. If you say you want to be a good person after you go back, this proves that you still want to practise Falun Gong." However, if you say you want to be a bad person, the ruffians will not bother you after all.

How sad! In China these days, people don't even have the right to be good people. In fact, Dafa practitioners who behave as good people are being tortured brutally for it.