Vicious Conduct of Officials at the Qinglongshan Brainwashing Centre in Jiansanjiang, Heilongjiang Province

Falun Gong practitioners Ms. Qi Chunxia, and Ms. Yu Guorong from Heilongjiang Province were recently detained in the Qinglongshan Brainwashing Centre.

Agents from the Chuangye Farm Police Department in Heilongjiang Province broke into Ms. Qi’s home in mid-June 2011, trying to seize her. She firmly resisted the arrest, but was still detained in the Brainwashing Centre at the Qinglongshan Farm. Ms. Qi had been arrested twice before, first in 2005 for distributing Falun Gong informational materials, and second to the Qinglongshan Brainwashing Centre on January 16th, 2011.

Police officer Lu Weibin suddenly broke into Ms. Yu Guorong’s residence with a few undercover 610 Office (an organisation of special agents just for persecuting Falun Gong) agents from the Jidong County 851 Farm Police Department at 9:00 a.m. on June 9th. They arrested her. They dragged her into the police vehicle without giving her time to put on her shoes and trousers and took her to the Jiansanjiang Brainwashing Centre. Before that, in 2001 Ms. Yu had been sentenced to two years of forced labour for going to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong. She suffered from various kinds of brutal tortures in the Wanjia Forced Labour Camp, including severe beatings, hanging up, and force-feeding.

Qianjin Farm Police Station agents arrested Mr. Yusongjiang, Ms. Pan Shurong, and Ms. Li Jingfen, all from Qianjin Farm, on April 23rd, and 24th. They were held at the Qinglongshan Farm Brainwashing Centre for over a hundred days. Mr. Yu was brutally beaten as soon as he arrived. At eight in the evening he was handcuffed onto the two beds, one on each side of him. He could neither sit nor stand up. He was handcuffed in that position until five the next morning. During the entire evening, the six guards beat him cruelly several times. The scars the handcuffs left on his wrists were still visible several months later.

Ms. Zhao Fengrong, Mr. Zhang Xizeng and Zheng Jie were arrested separately on August 22nd, 2010 and were detained in the Qinglongshan Brainwashing Centre. Mr. Zhang was arrested on August 22nd at work. Head Fang Yaochun ordered the guards to handcuff Mr. Zhang onto the two beds on each side of him. He could neither stand nor sit. He was handcuffed in that position for ten hours. Mr. Zhang’s wife and daughter went to the centre to see him, and his wife Zhang Lihua was also arrested.

Former Qinglongshan Brainwashing Centre head Sheng Shusen often pinched the faces, legs and other body parts of female practitioners in the center. He also used profane language to threaten them. He forced the practitioners to watch DVDs and read materials that slander Falun Gong. He threatened the practitioners that he would sentence them to forced labour or prison.

Persons responsible for the abuse and mistreatment:

Wang Xiaochun, Chinese Communist Party head from the Jiansanjiang Political and Law Bureau, 86-454-5791223(Office), 86-13352545555, (assumed the position in 2010)

Liu Bo, Chinese Communist Party deputy head from the Jiansanjiang Political and Law Bureau 86-454-5790507(Office), 86-454-5723687(Home), 86-454-5710669

Li Chunyao, Jiansanjiang 610 Office head, 86-454-5790624, 86-454-5725790(Home), 86-13039623223

Sheng Shusen, Qinglongshan Brainwashing Centre deputy head, 86-13054364958

Fang Yaochun, Chinese Communist Party head at the Qinglongshan Brainwashing Centre (also deputy head of the Qinglongshan Farm Police Station), 86-13846125557, 86-454-5716771

Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2011/7/8/243606.html