Practitioner Finally Released from Tuanhe Labour Camp after undergoing Inhuman Tortures

Gong Chengxi is a 24 year-old male university student who is in his 4th year at the Beijing University of Political Science and Law, in the administration management department at the Changping branch.

He was kidnapped to Tuanhe Labour Camp in Beijing and has been detained in the "training unit" without cause.

Every brigade in Tuanhe Labour Camp uses an "intensified class" as a method to forcefully brainwash Falun Gong practitioners. Practitioners are sent to a building in the west compound and are accompanied by collaborators [ former Falun Gong practitioners who have now assist in the persecution because of torture and brainwashing.] They are closely monitored even when they go to the toilet. They separate the firm practitioners into "special" classes and collaborators assist in trying to "reform" them through different techniques. Every day practitioners are surrounded and deprived of sleep. They are tormented until midnight, and at times even until 2 or 3 am.

In order to compromise the integrity of some practitioners, the deceptive policemen first make up some excuses, then arrange for a few collaborators to surround practitioners in a circle, and in turn read articles and materials that slander Falun Gong and Teacher Li. When it was Gong Chengxi's turn, he sternly refused to read the slandering materials. The "intensified classes" use many vicious forms of torture to persecute practitioners, including tying them to beds at night for weeks or months on end, and confining them in cramped metal cages. This is exceptionally uncomfortable in the summer, due to the fact that one cannot stand up straight, there is very poor ventilation and the mosquitoes are almost unbearable. Practitioners are also cuffed and hung up, tortured with electric batons, and forced to stand for long periods of time. The practitioners are tortured to the limits of their endurance.

Physical punishments that each brigade uses include squatting and/or standing for long periods of time facing a wall. This often exhausts people. They are also deprived of sleep for 10 days or longer at a time and forced to run around a large field again and again.

The final method used on practitioners, who refuse to renounce Falun Gong, is to extend their already illegal terms.

Policemen also try to intimidate practitioners using their families. Gong Chengxi was one practitioner who reversed this situation and used it to expose the evil persecution to his parents. The scars on his body powerfully explained the viciousness and hypocrisy of the so-called "assistance and education" and "reform," and inspired his family to not listen to the polices' lies.

Gong Chengxi actions and steadfast actions have helped many other persecuted practitioners to strengthen their courage and find the confidence to resist the persecution. As a result of his righteous actions, Gong Chengxi has recently been released from the labour camp.

Falun Gong practitioners and kind-hearted people around the world will pay close attention to Gong Chengxi's situation in order to help him avoid further persecution.

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