Falun Gong Practitioners Tortured in the Twelfth Division of Meizhou Prison, Guangzhou Province

Police at Meizhou Prison use various despicable methods to torture Falun Gong practitioners in attempts to force them to give up their beliefs.

The torture happens mostly in the Twelfth Division of the prison. The Twelfth Division is also called the "special division" or "special control place." Criminals are detained on the first, second, and third floors, while Falun Gong practitioners are detained on the fifth and sixth floors. Two persons from a local 610 Office (an organisation of special agents just for persecuting Falun Gong) whose family names are Wu and Ye are in charge of planning the persecution. Then prison police arrange for collaborators¹ to carry it out.

There are currently more than ten Falun Gong practitioners detained in the Twelfth Division. The practitioners who have given up their belief under pressure have been transferred to other divisions. Every practitioner there is detained in one cell, monitored by four or five collaborators around the clock. The inmates patrol the hallway in turns.

There are two heavy iron gates at the stairway entrance to both the fifth and sixth floors. Every cell has an iron door. All doors and windows are covered completely to hide the abuse taking place inside. Cameras in the cells monitor Falun Gong practitioner’s every movement.

Newly arrived Falun Gong practitioners are detained on the sixth floor. They are forced to sit on a small stool from 6:00 a.m. to 10:30 p.m. each day. They are not allow to move except for meal times, lest they be cursed or beaten. The collaborators can extend the sitting time as long as they wish. Sometimes, the practitioners are deprived of sleep. Some practitioner’s buttocks have developed injuries after sitting for such a long time. Some practitioners are locked in a strictly controlled cell for more brutal persecution.

If Falun Gong practitioners resist the torture, police and collaborators deny their rights to drinking water, use of the restroom, receiving letters, buying necessary commodities, or seeing visitors. Police instigate collaborators to torture, beat, curse, and frame Falun Gong practitioners. They then pretend they know nothing about it.

The collaborators do not need to perform slave labour as long as they finish the persecution tasks arranged by police. They are rewarded with reduced sentences if they make great efforts to torture Falun Gong practitioners. Some inmates even bribe prison police in order to transfer to this division.

The police monitor the visits of Falun Gong practitioner’s relatives. The visit is cancelled if any torture is mentioned, and practitioners and their families are then threatened.

Liu Liping from Haifeng, Xie Hanzhu from Meizhou, and a practitioner whose first name is Jie from Chaozhou are the only known practitioners detained in this division.

Personnel involved with the persecution:
Yao Zhiqin, head of the division
Liu, head of the division
Qiu Weiqing, guard

Collaborators participating in the persecution:
Lu fubo, Huang Shaopeng from Raoping, Xu MianYi, Huang Rongshui, Lin Liqun, Zhuo Yutian from Shanwei or Haifeng, Wang Dong from Hubei, Su Jintang from Gaoming in Guangdong Province, Huang Changquan, Lan Shengyin, Zhao Baogui from Sichuan, Zhao Zehua, Zheng Jinming, Chen Liming, Chen Zemin, Dadong from Chaoyang, Wang Juncong, Wang Jiangui, Zhuang Chulong, Chen Xiaochun, Rui Xiong, Wu Yaolong, Chen Jiarun, Zhang Shaonian from Puning in Guangdong, Wen Weichun, Huang Weizhi, Qiu Zhibin, Qiu Zhiping, Yu Daihuan from Meizhou in Guangdong, Zhou Qinzi from Yunan in Guangdong, Yang Weipeng from Chaoan in Guangdong, Li Lin from Chenghai in Guangdong, Lin Xiaopeng from Jieyang in Guangdong.

Guangdong Meizhou Prison
Address: 66 Meizhousan Road, Meizhou (Postcode 514035)
Tel: +86-753-2183488

Note

1. "Collaborators" (former practitioners, brainwashed against Falun Gong, made to assist in brainwashing and torturing practitioners)

Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2011/10/2/247411.html