How the Harbin Drug Rehabilitation Institute Persecutes Falun Dafa Practitioners

Written by Dafa practitioner in Mainland China

I am a determined cultivator of Falun Dafa. On April 23, 2001, the head of the Political Security Section, Sun Chengyi, who has lost all sense of decency, led a group of people to arrest me and I was detained for nearly one month. One day, when they interrogated me, Sun Chengyi ordered me to be beaten up. Under extreme duress, they interrogated me from morning until late into the middle of the night. On the second day, I was sent to the detention centre. Shortly afterwards, I was unjustly sentenced to one year in a forced-labour camp. The person who was in charge of the labour camp said, "You can go ahead and appeal, but it won't help you at all no matter where you appeal."

Dafa practitioners who firmly practise Dafa and refuse to renounce their belief receive even more brutal persecution in Harbin Drug Rehabilitation Institute.

(1) As soon as you are sent there, police try to force you to renounce your belief. Wicked police beat practitioners and forcibly press practitioners' hands to write a statement vowing to break away from Dafa. They also force practitioners to watch video programs defaming Dafa. Wei Jun from Daqing City, Heilongjiang Province, refused to watch the propaganda being shown. A group of savage guards pulled him out, and beat and kicked him, pulled his hair, and slammed his head against a wall in a terrifying frenzy. Then they locked him up in an iron cage, tied him to an iron chair, and forced him to watch programmes that defamed Falun Dafa.

(2) Police make use of pairs of criminals to monitor Dafa practitioners. These criminals then use the power given by the guards to do whatever they want. When criminals beat practitioners, guards don't stop them but instead, perversely, speak in favour of them and allow them to earn points to reduce their sentences.

(3) Dafa practitioners are not allowed to use the toilet and they have to use a container in their own cells. Sometimes even when the container in the cell is full, practitioners are not allowed to clean them. The foul smell in the room becomes intolerable. This is also another means of persecution police use to force practitioners to give in.

(4) Practitioners are closely monitored and not allowed to eat in the dining hall. I was kidnapped and forcibly taken to this Drug Rehabilitation Institution on July 17, 2001. At that time, a pile of vegetables only cost a few pence, but when we went to eat, we could only get a spoonful of food and sometimes even a spoonful of food shared between two practitioners.

(5)Inhuman Guards make use of criminals to beat practitioners.

In the September of 2001, I clarified the facts of the persecution of Falun Dafa to a collaborator [former practitioner who has stopped practising under high pressure like brainwashing and torture. They now assist in the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners]. Guard Du tried very hard to push me out the door. Later a group of ruthless guards came and pulled me downstairs. They dragged me into an office and handcuffed me behind my back. I refused to cooperate with them so the guards started to beat me, without restraint, and tightly sealed my mouth with adhesive tape. Later they called in some criminals and drug-addicts to beat and kick me. After they beat me, they put me on an iron chair with my hands handcuffed behind my back. In terrible pain, I was handcuffed and detained this way for an entire day.

(6) Police secretly injected psychotropic (mind-altering) drugs into a practitioner's body and also forced this practitioner to not tell anyone about it. They didn't stop using such bad means until they realised that the drugs didn't have any effect on this practitioner.

There are numerous cases of persecution like this, too many to list one by one. If I hadn't experienced the persecution first hand, I would never have imagined how rampant the evildoers have become.

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