Henan Province: No. 3 Labour Camp Officials and Criminal Inmates Murder and Torture Practitioners

At 3 a.m. on April 25 2002, Li Jian, a young man who had worked as a lawyer for the Zhumadian City Procurement Office, was tortured to death. This occurred in the No. 3 Labour Camp in Henan Province where he had been illegally imprisoned. Many Falun Dafa practitioners protested the atrocities in this camp by conducting a hunger strike.

Zhang Kaiyun, Wang Mingyao, Hu Wenqing and other Falun Dafa practitioners appealed to the responsible department in the labour camp. Consequently, each of their detention sentences were extended by varying degrees. Practitioner Cai Guosheng protested Li Jian's torture and murder by conducting a hunger strike. He was force-fed many times. All the torments in the labour camp failed to make him submit. Eventually, he openly and righteously walked out of the camp.

Falun Dafa practitioner Yao Sanzhong from Luohe City was illegally arrested in August 2000. She has suffered from brutal torture, including being tied and shackled in excruciating positions. The bindings were tightened with a stick to cause further misery. This has been done because she insists on practising the Falun Gong exercises and resisting the evil persecution. Her illegal sentence has been extended for an additional six months.

Practitioners Wu Junqing and Shang Donglin have both been illegally imprisoned for a year in a labour camp. Unfortunately, the persecution continued. According to the information they provided, because they were not transformed the "610 Office" detained them after their release and sent them directly to the local brainwashing centre. [The "610 Office" is an agency specifically created by Jiang Zemin to persecute Falun Gong. It has absolute power over each level of administration in the Party and over all other political and judiciary systems in China.] The following three months of brainwashing failed to make the two practitioners renounce their belief, so the "610" officers sent them back to the labour camp. In the camp, their detention periods were extended without any legal basis. Wu Junqing and Shang Donglin had previously been illegally imprisoned for a year, and this time they were sentenced to three years and two years respectively. Some other Falun Dafa practitioners' detention periods were also arbitrarily extended without any legal procedure.

Practitioners are forced to do various kinds of heavy labour in the camp; sometimes they have to work until midnight or even all night. Nearly every Falun Dafa practitioner that remains steadfast in his or her belief of "Truth, Compassion and Forbearance" has been attacked with electric batons, beaten with fists, kicked severely, and has endured rope torture and various other abuses.

On March 21 2001, the labour camp officials ordered a meeting to persecute Dafa practitioners. Practitioners loudly shouted, "Falun Dafa is good" and "Falun Dafa is righteous" at the meeting. They were inhumanly tormented and tortured for supporting Falun Dafa. Together, policemen and criminals tortured these practitioners with electric batons and tied them up with ropes. The criminals' detention periods were reduced after they had tortured practitioners. However, those practitioners that resisted the persecution had their detention periods extended by either one year or half a year. Sadly and ridiculously, the government gave the Henan No. 3 Labour Camp an award of "Civilized Unit for Saving and Education".

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